Cyberpunk Tropes - Evil Corporations
So I thought it was about time that I started to flood the forums with a series of threads like these. The idea I kinda sorta stole from a geeky forum called pammhg.com that I used to visit... and this game was the biggest reason that drove me there: we called it "Un, dos, tres... pammhgee otra vez", which is a title deeply rooted in Spanish TV culture.
The idea of the game was to give examples of a particular, let's say, character trope or other: characters in tv, comics, movies... popular culture that worked a particular job, had secret identities, had nasty superpowers, had alliterative names, smoked, went pregnant, were twins, were members of the Avengers at some point... you name it. The thread would start with a question or challenge, with users being able to only give one consecutive answer, having to wait for another one to answer, then at the end of the week we would coult the answers and make someone the winner. Seeing the activity of the forums and my ulterior motives, I'm not going to gamify this thread that much (we'll see in the future).
Instead, in this forum I'm going to ask you to give examples of the cyberpunk trope of Evil Corporations that will include:
1. The name of the thing/character (in this case of the corporation) and where it originally appeared.
2. An illustrative picture and/or video of the thing.
3. A brief overview of the thing.
4. How and why it should inspire Cyberpunk 2077.
Let's do this. Here's an example:
OCP - Robocop
Founded and headed by the character only known as "The Old Man", more than being an overt antagonist in the Robocop movieseries and TV series its corporate attitude is the source of a lot of evil things happening. They develop everything from consumer products to military hardware and their gentrification plans include the creation of the modern Delta City in what used to be the run down Old Detroit through the creation of "the future of law enforcement" through the prototypes of robotic and cyborg police that we see in the movies movie... and through backing a criminal gang as deniable assets for the ultimate downfall of Old Detroit and facilitating the raw materials for Robocop.
How and why it should inspire CP2077: OCP is engrained in 80s corporate culture and laissez fare market politics. The satire surrounding it is strong from the very beginning of the movie right to the final act. The way the boardroom at the beginning acts around the fuckup with ED-209 is itself a case study. Also lots of coke, bitches leave... the whole thing. Cyberpunk 2077 should also use some of the TV commercials played for fun thing. If you believe the myth that there was a Robocop 3 in which a japanese corporation with cyborg samurais tried to absorb it it also has all that trope going for it too.
Okay, so, what other Evil Corporations... in fiction? should inspire 2077 in your opinion (leaving aside the fact that Cyberpunk 2020 has its own canon).
So I thought it was about time that I started to flood the forums with a series of threads like these. The idea I kinda sorta stole from a geeky forum called pammhg.com that I used to visit... and this game was the biggest reason that drove me there: we called it "Un, dos, tres... pammhgee otra vez", which is a title deeply rooted in Spanish TV culture.
The idea of the game was to give examples of a particular, let's say, character trope or other: characters in tv, comics, movies... popular culture that worked a particular job, had secret identities, had nasty superpowers, had alliterative names, smoked, went pregnant, were twins, were members of the Avengers at some point... you name it. The thread would start with a question or challenge, with users being able to only give one consecutive answer, having to wait for another one to answer, then at the end of the week we would coult the answers and make someone the winner. Seeing the activity of the forums and my ulterior motives, I'm not going to gamify this thread that much (we'll see in the future).
Instead, in this forum I'm going to ask you to give examples of the cyberpunk trope of Evil Corporations that will include:
1. The name of the thing/character (in this case of the corporation) and where it originally appeared.
2. An illustrative picture and/or video of the thing.
3. A brief overview of the thing.
4. How and why it should inspire Cyberpunk 2077.
Let's do this. Here's an example:
OCP - Robocop
Founded and headed by the character only known as "The Old Man", more than being an overt antagonist in the Robocop movie
How and why it should inspire CP2077: OCP is engrained in 80s corporate culture and laissez fare market politics. The satire surrounding it is strong from the very beginning of the movie right to the final act. The way the boardroom at the beginning acts around the fuckup with ED-209 is itself a case study. Also lots of coke, bitches leave... the whole thing. Cyberpunk 2077 should also use some of the TV commercials played for fun thing. If you believe the myth that there was a Robocop 3 in which a japanese corporation with cyborg samurais tried to absorb it it also has all that trope going for it too.
Okay, so, what other Evil Corporations... in fiction? should inspire 2077 in your opinion (leaving aside the fact that Cyberpunk 2020 has its own canon).