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10.Biffco, Back to the Future 2: In an alternate timeline created by Marty’s disregard for the space-time continuum, Biff Tannen manages to build a nuclear plant and toxic waste disposal service from his ill-gotten gambling gains. He also turns Hill Valley into a sleazier version of Atlantic City, kills George McFly without even being named as a suspect and has Doc Brown Committed.
9. InGen, Jurassic Park series: The road to Hell is paved in good intentions. InGen just wanted to bring back an extinct species and build an amusement park, but chaos theory reared its ugly head (in the form of a Velociraptor) and turned an unassuming caribbean island into a dinosaur paradise. Corporate responsibility goes completely out the window when we realise that nature as subverted all the failsafes built into the dinos.
8. U.S. Robotics and Mechanical Men, I, Robot: Funny thing about U.S. Robotics: they know the robots are going to go bad and that their 3 laws are frequently inadequite, but they keep making machines hoping that they’ll one day create a robot that won’t go nuts. Good luck, guys.
7. Shinra Electric Power Company, Final Fantasy VII: Shinra is the first company on our list fulfilling that distopic facist nightmare plot device. It may be more powerful than some of the other evil corporations on the list, but loses ground for helping AVALANCHE to defeat Sephiroth and ultimately reforming.
6. Blue Sun, Firefly: Blue Sun is definitely an evil corporation and shows remarkable precision when it comes to turning bright girls into deadly semi-mute assassins. The one thing they’re lacking, however is absolute control. At the end of the day, Blue Sun has a lot of contacts in the Alliance, but it has yet to perform a hostile takeover and assimilate the Alliance. Another season or so, and anything could have happened, but we’ll probably never know.
