If you need a simple villain for a fictional environment, there are few more reliable candidates than giant evil companies.
Whether the whole company is rotten all the time or whether its actions stem primarily from the immoral mind of a single CEO, it is the same basic concept. It is to use the power and coercion of money to sacrifice and enrich everyone and everything around them.
It’s fun to make a company your bad guy Unless you’re a stubborn co-op, you probably won’t oppose them taking off the pegs.
Naturally, companies of various sizes and occupations play hostile roles in video games, with the hero fighting directly or indirectly with swords and guns. If you like to see corporate stock tickers in a hurry, these are the best games that can do a bit of a must-have restructuring.
For the purposes of this list, we define “beating a company” in one of three ways. The entire company will either go bankrupt/business or it will be devastating and debilitating blows by its operation.
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Border Zone 2
Hyperion
In the original border area, Hyperion is just one of many weapon brands that hook deadly things across Pandora Alongside things like Dahl, Atlas, Jacobs and more. The gun is fantasy, but there’s not much else to note about it. The change in Borderlands 2 comes when Handsome Jack became the company’s new CEO following a violent internal acquisition.
Jack has more or less direct control over Pandora, harvesting a wealth of Elysium supply, harassing the local population, and killing people who even smell like a vault hunter. With Hyperion’s vast resources, he has an unlimited supply of loaderbots and weapons to make all this happen.
Of course, Borderlands 2 ends with Jack getting a bullet in his head and cutting the proverb Dragon’s head. Hyperion still exists in Borderlands 3, but it’s back to the almost faceless weapons maker. I think Jack’s rise offers an interesting hypothesis that, especially if any of these manufacturers, are large enough to set the stage for similar acquisitions, if the CEO feels that way.
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Eternal destiny
Union Aerospace Corporation
Prior to the events of Doom 2016, Union Aerospace Society, better known as the UAC, was the interplanetary megacorp that led humanity’s first major departure to Mars.
The UAC effort discovered the Hellgate on Mars, and it was discovered that humanity adopted Argent Energy. Of course, it’s not surprising when your company repeatedly sticks your head to literally Helmasu, it comes back at the corner.
The UAC’s demonic bonds are more subtle and secretive in Doom in 2016, but by the time the Doom Eternal Roll was turned, they had run through the full mask. The bodies of the company and many automated factories on Earth are clearly lined up in hell thanks to the coordination of the hell priest Deag Ranak.
Throughout the game you can basically find holographic ads from the UAC saying, “Hell is going to eat everyone, that’s great.”
Unfortunately for UAC, They broke the basic rules of reality: Don’t anger the Slayer. I remember once when I completely dropped the pretending that these holographic ads were scary or cult-like late in the game. Of course, that doesn’t stop him.
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Final Fantasy 7
Shinra Electric Power Company
Final Fantasy 7 Starting City of Midgar, Shinra Electric Power Company thanked Mako Energy’s exclusive, primarily for its important monopoly..
Shinra provides power throughout the city, offering a variety of other pursuits in the world, such as weapons and mechanical development.
Operating as an avalanche, Cloud and the company have proven to be a lasting thorn on Shinra’s part, but things don’t actually start escalating until Sephiroth assassinates President Shinra. His son Rufus takes over, but at that point Sephiroth is already a much more pressing concern.
Shinra is a typical evil corporation. Because no matter how many people present them with empirical evidence that what they’re doing is wrong and stupid, they’ll go with it anyway. Who cares if the world burns, money! Yeeee, money!
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The outside world
Halcyon Holdings Corporation
The central hostile force of the Outer World is Halcyon Holdings Corporation, an intergalactic conglomerate that owns all the planets of the Halcyon System.
The HHC is formed when the board of directors purchases the system’s settlement rights and is intended to be a kind of hybrid company town and manufacturing plant. In typical Corpopo fashion, the whole scheme was lifted toes before awakening from stasis.
Despite being the de facto government of the entire Halcyon system, Everything the board is in charge of is on the verge of a complete collapse.. The food runs out, no one can get a decent job, and the rest of the wealth and power is integrated by the board and the upper class. Even if they literally did nothing, the HHC probably would have collapsed on its own sooner or later.
Whether that collapse is swift and controlled is up to you, and the colonists will pick up fragments, slowly and meaninglessly make everything but the upper crust is placed in absurd settlements and resources, consolidated into some wealthy settlements. Frankly, there is no reason to choose the latter.
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Resident Evil 2
Umbrella Corporation
Umbrella Corporation is a huge multinational conglomerate and a major antagonist of the original Resident Evil trilogy.
Umbrellas have fingers in pies all over the world, from machinery to transport, but their true bread and butter are medicines. The reason for this is that the Umbrella Executive Committee wanted ways to become an immortal superhuman through genetic and viral research. To do that.
The impact of Umbrella has been introduced in the original Resident Evil, but it becomes much more clear in Resident Evil 2 following the outbreak of Raccoon City. Due to an internal cleavage between the large umbrella and researcher William Birkin, the T-virus tainted the urban drinking water, causing the emergence of the undead and subsequent military intervention.
If you want to acquire the skill about it, neither Leon nor Claire’s actions in the story directly resulted in the downfall of the umbrella. However, the company went bankrupt completely after its involvement was revealed, and Leon’s impressive survival led to a recruitment for anti-invasion forces destroying the company’s international branch. It’s a long-term case, but I think it’s still important.
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Hi-fi Rush
Vandelay Technologies
At Hi-Fi Rush, Vandelay Technologies is one of the world’s outstanding technological development companies solving problems for today’s future. Or at least when former CEO Roxanne Vanderey was in charge, but things became cheap and shady after his son Kale and his minions took over.
Kale’s evil plan is to remind anyone who uses his homemade spectrum AI to sign up for the Armstrong Cybernetics program Through a secret backdoor. But not a global conquest, he doesn’t have to strive to develop decent products along the way, he just wants to force everyone to buy what all SLOP VANDELAY put out. How local.
What I find interesting about this is that Chai and the company are repeatedly doing lampshades. If Kale had not created an overly enthusiastic scheme, but simply maintained the company’s course, he would probably have done well for himself. However, he had to bring his own cake and eat it. So he turned his guitar upside down and exploded, leaving Roxanne to get the company back on track.
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Kirby: Planet Robobot
Haltmann Works Company
If you had a game hero, you never expected to go toe toe with corporate cheating, then it would be a lovable little Kirby. Still, that’s exactly what happened when Haltmann Works Company arrived a great deal at Planet Popstar: Planet Robobot in Kirby.
Haltmann Works’ “The main mission statement is “eternal prosperity.” How do you achieve eternal prosperity? Simple: Force conquer all the planets of the universe and mechanize their inhabitants against their will. It feels like a “Phase 3: Profit” situation for me, but it seems that the company has shareholders so I think someone is hooked on this.
In fact, Max Haltmann, the company’s president, has little to say about his goal. More than that, the Star Dream, a half-sensory supercomputer who wants to mechanize everything and judge organic life as “responsible.” Let’s make this a lesson for you all. If you put the entire company into the hands of half-hearted artificial intelligence, you will get Skynet. you everytime Get Skynet.
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Sunset Overdrive
Fizzco
Sunset Overdrive is a very stupid game, so it’s right that its comprehensive antagonists are just as stupid. This is the Corporation Fizuco, a food and drink. Despite it only makes drinks and snacks, Fizco is clearly a multi-million dollar superpower and is abundant enough to have its own city-state in the form of Sunset City.
It appears to be rich enough to avoid the health code completely and release energy drinks with untested ingredients. I said Untested ingredients turn everyone who consumes that drink into a horrible mutant monsterforces the entire city to isolate. Oops. I think that’s why they say health and safety standards are written in blood.
Fizco’s own headquarters is located in the city, so there are not many plans other than inserting the proverbs’ ears and saying, “La la la la la I can’t hear you.” That final move is to turn headquarters into giant robots, destroy the city and wipe out the evidence, but thanks to you, it doesn’t actually pan.
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Titanfall 2
Interstellar Manufacturing Corporation
Interstellar Manufacturing Corporation is the comprehensive hostile force of the Titanfall game. Originally it was merely an engineering and mining concern, but as it grew, it became a powerful megacorp for its own civilian military.
Those who fought in that army were given Frontier Wild land as a retirement package; As resources began to dry out near the earth, the IMC saw the long, abundant frontier and said, “Yeah, this has always been ours, give it.”
The original Titanfall premise is a continuing war between the First Nations of the Frontier and the IMC’s army, but by the time of Titanfall 2, the IMC side had lost most of the soldiers, victims and exiles. The subsequent battle on the planet Typhon will result in the complete destruction of the Earth, including the extremely expensive IMC scientific equipment and personnel.
The IMC is still standing and fighting as far as we know, but given the trajectory of the war at that point, its final decisive victory could very well be the final claw of the co. But we can’t say for us, I certainly can’t I don’t have Titanfall 3, EA yet.
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Pokemon X and Y
Lysandre Labs
Most of the hostile factions throughout the Pokemon series are blatantly villain organizations. Team Rocket is full of thieves, Team Aqua/Magma is an eco-terrorist, Team Galactic is… Space Terrorist, I guess, etc. An interesting exception to this is Team Flare for Pokemon X and Y.
The team itself is certainly a villain, but unlike the other teams, they are far less public. This is because Team Flare is backed by Lysandre Labs, Kalos’ largest tech company.
As the company that created Holo Caster, Lysandre Labs is a very popular and profitable brand in Kalos, and Lysandre itself is generally well known by the people of Lumiose City. but, All of the company’s works are the forefront of Team Flare’s Xerneas/yveltal pursuit And the power to activate the ancient superwarepon, which destroys civilization.
When Lysandre becomes a full villain, he broadcasts intentions throughout the region via Holo Caster. I don’t see any stock tickers or anything following the collapse of Lysandre Labs, but if the company has a holding still, I can’t imagine them becoming a much hotter ticket investment after Lysandre broadcasts his intentions to kill literally everyone.
