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The 25 Largest Fictional Companies

forbes.com — Our very first ranking of the largest fictional companies in the universe has been a mammoth undertaking. Dozens of reporters have spent countless hours poring over financial documents, our far-flung network of correspondents has traveled much of the space-time continuum, and sophisticated algorithms have been perfected to...

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  • nofaith, on 04/05/2009, -0/+71From 1-25. I was surprised that LexCorp didn't make the list.

    Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles (CHOAM) [Dune]
    Acme Corp. [Looney Tunes]
    Sirius Cybernetics Corp. [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]
    MomCorp [Futurama]
    Rich Industries [Richie Rich]
    Soylent Corp. [Soylent Green]
    The Very Big Corporation of America [Monty Python's The Meaning of Life]
    Frobozz Magic Co. [Zork]
    Warbucks Industries [Lil' Orphan Annie]
    Tyrell Corp. [Bladerunner]
    Wayne Enterprises [Batman]
    Virtucon [Austin Powers]
    Globex [The Simpsons]
    Umbrella Corp. [Resident Evil]
    Wonka Industries [Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]
    Stark Industries [Iron Man]
    Clampett Oil [The Beverly Hillbillies]
    Oceanic Airlines [Lost]
    Yoyodyne Propulsion System [The Crying of Lot 49]
    Cyberdyne Systems Corp. [Terminator]
    d'Anconia Copper [Atlas Shrugged]
    Gringotts [Harry Potter]
    Oscorp [Spider-Man]
    Nakatomi Trading Corp. [Die Hard]
    Spacely Space Sprockets [The Jetsons]
  • anliath, on 04/05/2009, -0/+581 - think of fictional companies
    2 - have intern write summaries and make up arbitrary figure
    3 - Buck convention by putting them in non-reverse order...
    4 - on separate pages....
    5 - with a timer....

    oh i give up...
  • JoshDaFink, on 04/05/2009, -1/+52What about...
    Buy n Large [Wall-E] ?
  • tofur, on 04/05/2009, -1/+34What? No Weyland-Yutani?
  • Stormwern, on 04/05/2009, -0/+29Howcome they have 2007 figures for Mom's when it doesn't exist for another 1000 years.
  • amabaie, on 04/05/2009, -1/+24I only checked this one out to make sure that Sirius Cybernetics Corp was on the list. After all, they were the biggest company in the Universe, right?
  • chessthecat, on 04/05/2009, -5/+28Wonka's not fictional. I've been enjoying their products for 20 years.

    And no Scrooge Enterprises? Not one Star Wars company? Where is Kuat Drive Yards? Where's Veidt's company?

    This list is a FARCE! It's a ***** DISGRACE!
  • macpwner, on 04/05/2009, -2/+23where the hell is Vandelay Industries?

    they specialize in latex products
  • kingmanic, on 04/05/2009, -0/+18CHAOM ought to be worth significantly more than 1.7 trillion. After all it's a majority share holder in the majority of planets in the Dune universe. At the height of CHAOM there should be several thousand worlds. Many almost as developed as earth and CHAOM would skim off a percentage from all of them. Earth has a GDP around 70 trillion so CHAOM ought to have a GDP of 70,000 Trillion o so.
  • XenoSNK, on 04/05/2009, -0/+16Conglom-o from Rocko's Modern Life?

    They own everything! Even city hall! And you know what they say about that...
  • derekivey, on 04/05/2009, -4/+19No Dunder Mifflin Paper Company? :(
  • TheXuu, on 04/05/2009, -0/+14***** FORBES.COM
  • Runegod, on 04/05/2009, -0/+13where is Black Mesa ? seriously.
  • shakabrah, on 04/05/2009, -0/+12i can think of a place or two i'd want to use a latex product
    http://tinyurl.com/c5dhek
  • Tanktunker, on 04/05/2009, -0/+12A sprocket company got onto that list?

    Also, you know what I love, when the website changes the page for me, so that if I need to do something else, it can go about 10 pages forward and I have to backspace a bunch of times to get back to where I was.
    EVEN IF YOU PRESS THE STOP BUTTON.
  • jimdog1231, on 04/05/2009, -2/+14Fail. Dethklok is the 12th largest economy in the world.
  • PhairOh, on 04/05/2009, -0/+11If there is something on the internet worse than a Forbes slide show, I don't know what it is.

    But yay Dune, even though their description of CHOAM isn't really accurate.
  • feezus, on 04/05/2009, -1/+12ZORG?
  • GlitchEnzo, on 04/05/2009, -0/+10Skynet wasn't a company, it was a software program developed by Cyberdyne, who is on the list.
  • TwoKill, on 04/05/2009, -0/+10What about Veidts company from Watchmen.
  • Nore, on 04/05/2009, -0/+9SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!

    BOYCOTT THEM!
  • lucfreder, on 04/05/2009, -0/+9I called CHOAM for number 1 - great book
  • gader, on 04/05/2009, -0/+8Omni Consumer Products (OCP)?
  • ColdChillin, on 04/05/2009, -1/+9What about Brawndo? It has what plants need.
  • johnwc, on 04/05/2009, -0/+6I guess the Bluth Company can't compete.
  • Falldog, on 04/05/2009, -0/+6Globex? Globex was in like one episode! What about Kwik-E-Mart or Duff?
  • nick041, on 04/05/2009, -1/+7I'm surprised LexCorp, from Superman, didn't make the list.
  • KaiUno, on 04/05/2009, -0/+6No Wayland Yutani either.
  • centran, on 04/05/2009, -0/+5I heard their stocks took a huge hit after a small problem with a resonance cascade at one of the complexes in New Mexico.
  • Prometeus, on 04/05/2009, -0/+5What a ***** site.
  • crugg, on 04/05/2009, -0/+5Weyland-Yutani? And this is from Forbes? They should be ashamed.
  • rm249, on 04/05/2009, -0/+5Aw, no Massive Dynamic?
  • GalacticRerun, on 04/05/2009, -0/+4Biffco must have made a bit of cash no?
  • PhairOh, on 04/05/2009, -0/+4You know so much, except the proper order of the initials :)

    But I agree with your assessment.
  • GalacticRerun, on 04/05/2009, -0/+4I didn't think the one page per paragraph system couldn't be any more awesome!
  • kristoaster, on 04/05/2009, -0/+47th.
  • aznchristmas, on 04/05/2009, -0/+4or initech and initrode haha
  • bobdigi, on 04/05/2009, -1/+5*****, its a Forbes link.
  • alagusis, on 04/05/2009, -0/+4no taco bell from demolition man?
  • Squeetard, on 04/05/2009, -1/+5Weyland yutani owned the whole frikkin universe. That article is fail.
  • Anachronus, on 04/05/2009, -0/+4Where is General Products?
  • jawni, on 04/05/2009, -0/+3Same. (and Veidt)
  • gmiley, on 04/05/2009, -0/+3I thought I would have at least seen mention of ShinRa, even more so after seeing Umbrella Corp.
  • SDM187, on 04/05/2009, -0/+3First i thought of: Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg. nothin
  • LucidHawk, on 04/05/2009, -0/+3McDuck Enterprises should be the winner Scrooge has over a zillion dollars
    (A zillion is not even a real number meaning it's so high it hasn't been made up yet obviously.. ^_^)
  • LucasVB, on 04/05/2009, -0/+3Wow, what a pathetic list. "Spacely Space Sprockets" makes it but no OCP from Robocop? No Zorc Corp. from Fifth Element?
  • alexhouse, on 04/05/2009, -0/+3*crave
  • mr0nine2five, on 04/05/2009, -0/+3I guess they missed Stephen King's North Central Positronics. It must be one of the largest and most evil corporations in all of the multi-verse.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Central_Positro ...

    edit: forgot about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sombra_Corporation
  • Stormwern, on 04/05/2009, -1/+4They don't fictitiously exist yet.
  • TdotFUNK, on 04/05/2009, -0/+2Me too. They are the biggest. Well for humans.
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