History Main / MegaCorp

** To be fair, corporate greed in general is [[OnlyInAmerica more emphasized in the United States]].

** Mentioning this to some of those StrawmanPolitical types against labour laws and they'll tell you that that'll ''never'' happen.

** The Steamwheedle cartel is the largest of the goblin cartels, and has a huge monopoly on goblin business.

In the United States, the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was enacted to curb the growth and influence of cartels and monopolies. However, despite what [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacorporation The Other Wiki]] says, there ''are'' several Mega Corps (and monopolies) in the real world, making this TruthInTelevision.

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Perhaps there is one company [[AcmeProducts that produces * everything* ]]. This goes beyond the definition of "monopoly."

* Paradias in ''[[{{Yu-Gi-Oh}} Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', which possessed shares in every company on the planet and even held sway over world governments in addition to being a front for the {{Cult}} and its [[AncientConspiracy Ancient Conspiracy]]

** Yiliaster from ''YuGiOh5Ds'' is even closer to this, considering they have so much technology and money that they can actually [[spoiler:manipulate the time stream.]]

* Czerka Corporation from ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''.

* G-Corp from ''GaiaOnline''. Founded by death-fearing megalomaniac Johnny Gambino, and BadassGrandpa Edmund, G-Corp was responsible for a majority of Gaia's technological, scientific, and medical advances. Unfortunately, when Edmund left the company, things took a turn for the worse. Now everything G-Corp makes (from pet dinosaurs to hair growth formulas) has a penchant to [[GoneHorriblyWrong go horribly, horribly wrong]]. (To put this in perspective, G-Corp has caused the ZombieApocalypse ''twice''. In fact, zombies seem to be their chief product). Ironically, G-Corp is actually the ''good'' company. [[spoiler:The evil company is NeXus, run by [[BigBad Labtech X]]. NeXus's sole purpose is to provide X with the means to take over the world. Their most famous achievement is using [[AppliedPhlebotinum G'hi]] to create a self-replicating, almost invincible army of [[EverythingTryingToKillYou Animated]]. They also build a cool UnderwaterBase, a HumongousMecha, and a ScarfOfAssKicking.]] G-Corp also has a copy in S-Corp, which consists of "Elftechs," and is owned by the Claus family.

* The BigBad in RepoTheGeneticOpera, GeneCo, definitely counts, what with the selling you organs which will be repossessed if you don't make payments for 90 days (which is common in the future), getting you hooked on drugs, and generally being jerks. But they did save the world at one point, SoYeah.

In the United States, the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was enacted to curb the growth and influence of cartels and monopolies. However, despite what [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacorporation The Other Wiki]] says, there ''are'' several Mega Corps in the real world, making this TruthInTelevision.

** To be more specific, in most Feudal Futures a house owns a planet or an area on a planet, in this game houses only rule planets if they enter the Politics sphere and have one of their members (or more often hired retainers) run for senate. In addition houses can build facilities on any planet within range of their homeworld. When you add that TheEmperor is an elected position the titular imperium sounds more and more like a Federation run by corporations, like the U.S. except the [=CEOs=] have titles like "Duke" or "Marquis" and are allowed private armies.

* SynTek Megacorporation Incorporated from Alien Swarm. They own an entire star system, including several mining colonies, a penal colony, and a space station. They also own several planets and mining colonies outside their star system and several fleets of starships used to transport employees (dubbed colonists) and materials to and from their colonies. Ontop of that, they make everything from medical supplies, to food and drink, to weapons. There is also United Industries and the Telic Corporation, both of which are just as big as SynTek.

* Costco has become a variant of the "makes everything" in that it sells almost every single thing a human being needs to live, from cradle to [[http://www.costco.com/Common/Category.aspx?cat=20595&eCat=BC|20595〈=en-US&whse=BC grave]]. One could theoretically go one's entire life on Costco-sold products except for the textbooks you take to school and the tux/dress you are married in.

* Costco has become a variant of the "makes everything" in that it sells almost every single thing a human being needs to live, from [[http://www.costco.com/Common/Search.aspx?whse=BC&topnav=&search=cradle&N=0&Ntt=cradle&cm_re=1_en-_-Top_Left_Nav-_-Top_search&lang=en-US cradle]] to [[http://www.costco.com/Common/Category.aspx?cat=20595&eCat=BC|20595&lang=en-US&whse=BC grave]]. One could theoretically go one's entire life on Costco-sold products except for the textbooks you take to school and the tux/dress you are married in.

*The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben IG Farben corporation] was a German chemical conglomerate that consisted of such present day firms as Bayer and BASF to name a few. By the 1930's it had grown to become the 4th largest corporation in the world behind Standard Oil, GM and US Steel, but more importantly for the trope it had become intimately involved with the Nazi party providing much of the German economy's exports as well as a sizable amount of its domestic industrial base. This economic importance buttressed the Nazi party through taxes, jobs and war material and IG Farben worked hand in hand with the Whermacht taking over the chemical industries of conquored territories, becoming one of the largest users of slave labour in the process. Some of IG Farben's wartime low-lights were the construction of a synthetic rubber plant next to the Auschwitz concentration camp making use of over 80,000 slave labourers and the patent on the zkylon B poison gas that killed millions at the same. After the war the company was deemed to be too corrupt due to the high number of war crimes that it committed and was broken up into its constituent firms.
*The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit United Fruit Corporation] came to dominate the economies of several Central American countries in the early 20th century due to its near monopoly in the Caribbean fruit trade. At one point United Fruit took effective control of the entire nation of Guatemala, giving meaning to the term Banana Republic in the process.

* It's not what most people think of as a megacorp, but the Soviet Union met most of the definitions. Yes, it was a nation recognised by many others, but it had an internally planned economy controlled by its leadership just like any large corporation... a flag is a logotype by another name, its own territory (like some of the other real life examples - the East India Companies, for example), obviously its own military, etc.