brazwen That's true... the only exception being if there is a dystopia where the government is run by a greedy corporation... which would be interesting to watch.
to me, the umbrella corporation was the number 1 evil corporation, weyland-yutani might have wanted xenomorphs as weapons but umbrella, even after it literally turned the world to hell and turned 99.9999% of all life on Earth into monsters, still want to play god with the remnants and they didn't have the option of doing it off world to do it either like weylund-yutani did
So happy to see Lunar Industries in there, Moon really is a fantastic film, and Rockwell deserved a lot more credit for his performance, i mean not even an Oscar nomination.
They monopolized everything and operated completely on self interest, so they were still terrible, regardless of whether or not they actually wanted to destroy the planet.
James Liston not true since they were in the resident evil movies and almost destroyed humanity through a zombie apocalypse. Weyland Yutani might be evil for sacrificing people to get a hold of the xenomorph but umbrella basically caused an apocalypse to happen
What happened to Blue Sun from Serenity? They killed 90% of a planet and turned the other 10% into fast, terrifying, raping, cannibalistic space zombies. And that's just scratching the surface.
well there are a few errors with the umbrella corp description but basically yeah, the only major difference between the first and second position is scale.
Aperture Science. "Please note that we have added a consequence for failure. Any contact with the chamber floor will result in an unsatisfactory mark on your official testing record, followed by death."
Lunar Industries didn't seem so bad, MNU didn't seem that bad either, and Umbrella seemed to me to be by far the worse they actually caused an apocalypse what other corporation caused the decimation of the human race?
Thomas Fredrickson You are a disgrace to video game lovers everywhere. EA has had some moments where they excel such as when they created Dead Space and published Mass Effect (except for the ending to 3) but all in all they suck dude. Innovation and the improvement of their games is not something that they're too keen on doing. --see Battlefield 4 servers, SimCity servers, Madden etc.
Okay, EA has made some screw-ups. But seriously, see my previous post about the kind of shit BP has done... and then think about this: Last year, some people nominated EA for the Golden Poo award *solely* for having homosexual characters in their games. Meanwhile, BP rapes the environment, banks rape anyone who takes out a home loan, and a *game company* wins the award for "worst company of the year". Nice to see you've got your priorities straight. (That was sarcasm, in case you missed it.)
Skynet wasn't that evil. After all, the founder in T2 wanted to destroy all traces of it after he found out what it would do in the future. Or was that Cyberdyne? Wait, Skynet was an AI, wasn't it?
Skynet was the program, not the company. And the company that developed it, Cyberdyne Systems, were more of an incompetent corporation than an evil one. Yes, they did reverse-engineer the Terminator CPU, but they are still better described as a company with no foresight as opposed to no morals.
yeah the skynet program actually surpassed its intellectual capabilities which enabled it to make its own decisions, so it chose to obliterate the human race on its own.
Izon from the Cube movies. They imprison people in a giant Cube made of cube-shaped cells, some of which contain traps. Not being fed, the prisoners' only means of survival is to find the right way out of the Cube.
I can also come up with HORZINE from Killing Floor, the Combine from Half Life 2, the Corpus from Warframe, Hyperion from Borderlands 2, and if you count intergalactic empires, the Strogg from Quake 2, 3, and 4.
I know "The Order" from Silent Hill movies isn't technically a "corporation", but I think it deserves a number 1 on this list having the fact that its held under demonic evil.
Psuedoxym I think because people dont agree with there children fighting to the death with others and even if they do win there now cold blooded killers but would that really stop people from rebeling sounds like a reason to to me
oh my god if your going to be a nerd, know your nerd logic. Stop saying what about Sky Net?? That's like saying what about Windows. Cyberdyne is the name of the company!!
Plus Cyberdyne wasn't even evil, since they weren't aware of the consequences of their research. Heck, when their lead programmer (Miles Dyson) learns what will come from his projects, he sacrifices himself to destroy it all.
What about the Elite Hunting Club (EHC) from the Hostel franchise? I mean, the organization allows its wealthy clients to perform any sick/sadistic act on their victims that they desire. EHC also uses the hostel in Slovakia as a means to capture visitors and take them to their deranged clients at the creepy factory. That is undeniably THE ultimate "tourist trap". Still a pretty good list, though.
Ok, Wayland co. is bad but I think Umbrella should be first and Wayland second. Wayland was okay with off-ing a few people to get Xenomorphs, but umbrellla was okay with nuking cities to cover mistakes, expirementing on anyone, even their own workers and had no sense of human life in the games or movie.
What amazes me most is these huge security forces all companies in Movies have. Earlier I worked on a big transport and storing Company we had one securitychief and that was it.
BlockingTheDoors Also, I don't think the creation was really meant to be evil. It was just another piece of software for the US military. It was more of an accident, or rather, technoterror/technophobia and fear of that which is unknown.
Great list except for no cyberdine systems (skynet-terminator series), biffco (back to the future series), Recall (from total recall). That's all i can think of that were really left out from the list.
Beta Wolf Not true at all. If you recall the Road Runner is never caught by Wile E. Coyote because of the faulty and unsafe Acme Corporation products. Wile E. Coyote needed to sue and receive damages from the unsafe products, false advertisements and the emotional distress caused from not catching that damn Road Runner.
If this were remade today, do you think "Octan", from the Lego Movie, would make the list? President Business had pretty evil motives with the Kragle!! :-D
Think it is funny how many comments there are on here about companies that made mistakes and didn't initially have evil intentions. I do agree Cyberdine not Skynet which is their computer system is awesome but would make a list of movie companies that made the biggest mistakes or errors. Umbrella is for sure worthy of mention but was accidental not intentional and was in the most part into containment of the issue until it got out of control. Wayland should absolutely be #1 because they did destroy worlds, had no respect for life and were about the bottom dollar while doing so. Also there is a big difference between a corporation which is what the clip was about, a government or a guild/order. You must produce a product and earn profits to be a corporation.
Seriously? The Umbrella Corporation is a "textbook example of the evils of capitalism"? It's fictitious and futuristic. It's not a textbook example of anything. That's like saying Alien is a textbook example of NASA.
It's fictitious? Well colour me surprised I couldn't really tell from it apart from all the other corporations which are not fictitious? In all seriousness, the 'evils of capitalism' as Umbrella represents them is the willingness to make money no matter the cost to human life or entire nations. Umbrella could have conducted their biotech research outside of the cities, so in the event of an outbreak there could have been proper containment/self destruct mechanisms in place. Instead they build their research lab under a populated city, opened it back up after a massive outbreak, abandoned their own military services, tested bioweapons on law enforcement personnel who were attempting to survive and protect civilians and then as a grand finale, nuked an entire city filled with an unknown number of still living civilians and military personnel all so that they didn't have to 'explain it' to the government. That's pretty evil, and all that evil came from a desire to make money.
Kynmarcher5000 "That's pretty evil, and all that evil came from a desire to make money.". And how exactly are they making money killing millions of people and detonating nuclear weapons?
Easily actually. Umbrella relies on the public for a large portion of their cash flow. As it is presented in the first movie, nine out of ten american homes contain their products and that in itself implies that Umbrella is one of the most trusted corporations in the known world at this time. Resident Evil: Extinction backs up their 'global' reach by clearly showing that they have large corporate headquarters in every major country. If it were to ever come to light that Umbrella was responsible for the events at Raccoon City, public opinion would erode quickly. Umbrella would lose billions of dollars to public boycott. On top of that, any military contracts that they had would also dry up, because no government would want to be connected to a company which was so irresponsible with containment procedures. The nuke and the millions of lives lost when that nuke went off was a way for Umbrella to cover their own asses and remain blameless. Raccoon City was wiped off the map, leaving no trace that Umbrella was involved in any way in the outbreak, or that there even was an outbreak. The cost of sending that nuke paled in comparison to the amount of money they gained because public opinion of Umbrella remained high. Also I highly doubt the footage of what happened in Raccoon City, captured by all the surveillance cameras was simply destroyed. No doubt it was used as a demo reel of sorts to show off exactly how powerful their creations are to the right buyer.
Kynmarcher5000 The desire to make money is not exclusive to capitalism. You may as well say that a thief is a capitalist because he has a desire to make money, no matter how evil he is. Fiction or fact, a corporation is an organization that is heavily protected and often subsidized by the state. It's about as capitalist a concept as a soldier is a pacifist. And you still, despite all that rather useless movie background bullshit, haven't refuted my claim that this made up corporation couldn't have made money on the destruction of millions of people. You said it yourself, "it was to protect them". Well okay. That doesn't mean they made money of it, does it? No it doesn't.
Okay, not sure how you missed it.. The nuclear explosion protected their company. They didn't lose any money because of public backlash or loss of military contracts, which they would have gotten if the disaster at Raccoon City could have been tied to them in any way. They continued to make profit as a company after dropping a nuke and killing millions of people as a result. Also, if you research umbrella on the internet (specifically movie-verse umbrella, since it is different from the game-verse umbrella) it is revealed that they make the bulk of their profits from the sale of their viruses and bioweapons. Surveillance footage from Raccoon City would have been very valuable in that regard, to show potential buyers of the viruses what they were purchasing. All of that however is speculation. End of the day, Umbrella only cares about their bottom line. They don't care about the people, they don't care about the damage they cause, they only care about the money they can earn from their creations. That is the 'evil' of capitalism as the movie states.
Hey Mojo. Since people keep suggesting Cyberdyne Systems, maybe you should do a list of the top ten incompetent movie corporations to go with this one.
***** /Agree with Jay Wizzle. Cyberdyne actually had good intentions with the development of their technology. They didn't anticipate Skynet to go haywire.
ASleepySmurf Exactly! They didnt mean to destroy all of humanity and turn the earth into a nuclear wasteland devoid of wildlife or natural beauty! It was an accident! They were the friendly military contractor designing nuclear weapons systems that unleash an apocalypse instantly if their country is attacked! Cut Cyberdyne some slack! I have stocks in it!
Cyberdyne wasn't evil though, they were conducting legitimate research for AI. Cyberdyne is an example of the trope "AI is a Crapshoot" They never expected their research would end up causing a nuclear apocalypse.
Beta Wolf If you are referencing the movies, yes I have. My statement stands Cyberdyne was not trying to end the world. Perhaps you need to rewatch the movies?
My original comment was in response to ChrisCa1601 stating that Cyberdyne should be on the list of 'Top 10 Evil Movie Corprorations' I've been stating that they do not belong on the list because Cyberdyne was not inherently evil. Yeah terrible things happened due to their research but they never had evil intent. They simply didn't fully realize what they had made when it came to Skynet or the consequences of it.
Jacob Egierd So? Being a nerd isn't a bad thing. I'm probably just smarter than you, and will live a more lavish life. Think before you speak, rock-for-brains.
JalapenoPopcorn Just because you know about Team Rocket and pride yourself upon being a nerd doesn't magically grant you the greater intelligence that is necessary to succeed. I've met plenty of smart people who thought that Pokemon is for nerds and plenty dumb fans of Pokemon.
There are 2 that I think should have made at least a reference too. 1.) Union Aerospace Corporation - UAC from DOOM, and 2 the Chronos Corporation from The Guyver and Guyver: Dark Hero
I'm surprised Blue Sun isn't on here. Now whether or not Blue Sun owns the Alliance government in the Firefly 'Verse is uncertain, but torturing kids to turn them into living weapons and the big reveal in Serenity, makes me think they belong somewhere on this list.
but you could argue skynet just wants it's race (machines) to rule the world. the people at skynet weren't evil, they just wanted progress in the world not death
Skynet are a program ran by Cyberdyne. Besides, the Terminaors are not evil nor Cyberdyne but in fact a loophole was created. Their purpose was to stop humans fighting each other. They did this by killing every human, 'cause hey, if there is no humans they can't kill each other.
AwkwardTurtle And it is perfectly ok to kill them themselves XD Awesome loophole, whoever programmed skynet probably did it after reading a Programming for Dummies book.
