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Your one-stop shop for a variety of products which may or may not function exactly as advertised. Renowned for express shipping that has FedEx drooling in jealousy. For this wiki's purposes, an Acme Corporation is any generic corporation that seems to supply everything a character, or entire cast, uses. These supplies are, of course, Acme products. Not to be confused with any of the myriad non-fictional objects and entities bearing the moniker (which is what our Trope Namer was making fun of at the time). The eponymous example appears most famously in classic Warner Brothers cartoons featuring Wile E. Coyote (hinted to be the company's QA tester), whose more elaborate plans involved Acme catapults, earthquake pills, bat suits, spring shoes, Plunger Detonators, and so on; the Coyote's undying faith in Acme Corp, despite the endemic flaws and defects, is one of the mysteries of this series. Bugs Bunny and other characters made use of their services as well, with better results. See also MegaCorp, Mail-Order Novelty, Trope Co., and We Sell Everything. |
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The novel The Quillan Games in the Pendragon series features the territory of Quillan, in which the Blok corporation, which started as a general store, evolved until it completely controlled the territory, and produce everything, from food to buildings to artwork, on the planet. If it doesn't have the name "Blok" on it, it probably doesn't exist or is boarded up underground with a factory or concentration camp built over it. | |
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Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series has the Goliath Corporation. Its motto is "For all you'll ever need." In One of Our Thursdays is Missing, Thursday has a sort-of part-time job in a carpet fitting company which is called Acme. |
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An awful lot of products in the Nancy Drew games, from antique ham radios to modern office equipment, were made by Krolmeister. In Secret of the Old Clock, you even get to go there, delivering telegrams to the Krolmeister nail factory. It's lampshaded in Danger by Design, in which a newspaper article announces that Krolmeister has just bought the Acme Corporation! Trail of the Twister introduces Mr. Krolmeister himself, as a phone-voice. You get to ask him how many products his company actually makes; he muses about it, mentioning some examples (salad dressing, industrial equipment...), before admitting he has no idea. |
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Grocery products featured on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood were typically of the made-up "Neighborhood" brand (for example, Neighborhood Cat Food◊). | |
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The Jetsons has, in one episode, Nebulous Nifty, who make a lot of interesting, useful products, that promptly self-destruct. Spacely, George Jetson's employer, merges his company with them, and the sign goes up on the company building, only for George to warn him that their products self-destruct, much like the building eventually did. | |
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At the end of the adaptation to Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, Demons have "ACME 666" sledge hammers for Details Nomolos and the robot Bill and Ted to break rocks with for all eternity. | |
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The gun shop in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly sells Acme gunpowder. | |
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Veridian Dynamics not only designs and makes anything you can imagine but finds some sort of evil use for all of it. | |
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On Cheers Norm has a home decorating business which he names "AAAAAAAAAAA" in order to be listed first in the phone book. | |
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Invoked with Krusty Brand products in The Simpsons, though the reason tends to be Krusty the Clown's willingness to approve every license handed to him. He doesn't seem to care that Krusty Brand products are universally poorly-made, dangerous and in some cases, cursed. There are also the Li'l Bastard products. Referenced in "Lard of the Dance" with the Black Market thugs who siphon the grease Homer's attempting to sell out of his car and steal his shovel, claiming they run rackets for both. Their truck is labeled "Acne Grease and Shovel". |
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Parodied in the mini-series Fresno, where the Acme Toxic Waste Company is owned by... Mr Acme. | |
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HoneyWorks' music videos mix this with Creator Cameo, with the band's name (or their associated number 828) showing up on a wide range of products their characters use. Some things, like the recurring makeup brand HoneyCos, are even based on products the band owns in real life. | |
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In the movie Braindead uncle Les uses an Acme brand clothes mangle. | |
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In the film of The Losers, the team has to hack into a hard drive from Goliath International, which makes "pretty much everything." | |
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Birch Street Gym: The gym is inside a warehouse for "Acme Wiping Materials". | |
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Mr. Show has GloboChem, one of the few recurring aspects in the Sketch Comedy show. Their motto is even "We Own Everything So You Don't Have To." | |
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The Weyland-Yutani company from the Alien series of films seems to be one of these, being involved in government, interstellar shipping, attempts at biological weaponry, colonization of planets, and warfare. As of the fourth movie, they have been bought up by Wal-Mart. | |
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Paranoia: Everything that Alpha Complex citizens need is manufactured by PLC (Production, Logistics, and Commissary). Multiple "competing" front companies do the actual production and sales to create the illusion of a free market. They're all PLC. | |
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Saikou Corporation in Yandere Simulator is an electronics company which has created most of the products found in the game; the radio has the Saikou logo on it, the phones and laptops the characters use are also made by Saikou, the metal detectors and security cameras in Mission Mode, or when a member of the Student Council dies in Story Mode, belong to Saikou, the cameras that The Photography Club wears are also made by Saikou, heck! even Akademi High School itself is being bankrolled by Saikou ever since it was founded in 1985. | |
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The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: The Serious Group is the series' equivalent to Acme. Among their products are the Serious Onsen, whose various baths include showers with the power of fire hoses, a bath that increases the bust size of any women who enter, and the "Serious Paradise Bath", which very nearly sends the entire cast to Paradise. A later chapter features their "Addictive Cabbages", which is Exactly What It Says on the Tin: cabbage so good it overrides everyones' desire for yakiniku that everyone had gone out to eat originally. Rentarou has to exploit his girlfriends' even greater addiction to kissing him to overcome it. | |
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The Ultor Corporation in several Volition-made games (i.e. Saints Row, Red Faction) are a clothing label, a mining company, and invest in extensive city redevelopment and Law Enforcement, Inc.. | |
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Conglom-O from Rocko's Modern Life was either this, or a corrupt MegaCorp, depending on episode needs. | |
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In Sesame Street, the brand name on many products, from electronics to diapers, is Nologo, which is of course a gag on the fact the brand exists so as not to show actual logos. | |
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In the Discworld novels, CMOT Dibbler Enterprises, while mostly associated with meat pies and sausage in a bun, will sell pretty much anything, as long as it isn't something where actual functionality is a concern. In the business directory section of The Compleat Ankh-Morpork City Guide, the Dibbler name is attached to beauty products, patent medicines, spirits, shampoos, and adult magazines, as well as the famous pies and such services as taking bets, offering loans and flyposting. | |
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BioShock Infinite continues the proud tradition - everything in Columbia is made by "Fink Mfg.", owned by one Mr. Jeremiah Fink. | |
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MADtv (1995) had the company Spishak, which made everything from cleaning products to medicine. The products ranged from useless to having unfortunate side effects. | |
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A short on Oh Yeah! Cartoons had a company called "Apex" that specialized in cartoon props and gadgets; the plot of the cartoon revolved around a fox and a weasel sneaking along on a tour of their factory to get their hands on some of these gadgets. | |
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In Yumi's Cells and Daily JoJo, almost every significant product is branded Jullie (the author's wife). | |
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In Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Nancy's doctors use Acme Medical Supplies to get everything they need to keep her sedated and restrained. The deliveryman is incredulous at the order, which includes morphine and plasma by the gallon, an elephant syringe, and lengths of heavy chain and meat hooks. | |
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A close up of one of the speakers in Frank's lab in The Rocky Horror Picture Show shows that it has "ACME SOUND" stencilled inside it. | |
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Toon: The Cartoon RPG has the Ace Company, purveyor of all sorts of crazy props for Toon characters. | |
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Penumbra: Yort Industries has its name plastered on everything in the Shelter, from Big Electric Switches to the cereal the staff eats, called "Mr. Yort's Tastyflakes". | |
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In Who Framed Roger Rabbit the president of the Acme Corporation is a nice chap, Marvin Acme, whose lost will becomes the MacGuffin. | |
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Top Secret!: On one of the walls of Dr. Paul Flammond's cell/laboratory in the east german prison, there is a sensual calendar of "Acme Lab Equipment". | |
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There was also Fontaine Futuristics, the company that Frank Fontaine owned before Ryan took it over. In the original it was established that it was the second most successful brand in Rapture, but it wasn't until BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea that we learned they made everything; toys, clothes, jewelry, weapons, genetic wonder drugs. | |
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Umbrella Corporation from the Resident Evil series. | |
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In Undertale, Mettaton's MTT brand includes various beauty products, stoves, a fancy hotel, a hamburger place, all of Mettaton's shows (including MTT News) and Canned-Human-Soul-Flavor-Substitute. | |
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In Jorel's Brother, Shostners & Shostners is a company composed almost entirely of identical bureaucrats that seems to own and produce almost everything in the show. According to Perdigoto, the company is the largest communication and food conglomerate in the world, owning almost everything people touch, see, wear, eat and throw away (including their dreams). | |
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Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! features Cinco, which produces a wide variety of questionable products, from Cinco Candy Tails (candy-coated horse hair) to the Cinco Sleep-Watching Chair (now you can watch your friends sleep in comfort!) to the Cinco Eye Tanning System (which works great, though you do have to have your teeth removed before the procedure. Nobody likes brown teeth.) | |
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Characters from Inanimate Insanity get anything they need from WalMart, including a time machine. | |
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The Farscape episode "Revenging Angel"(which was one long love letter to Looney Tunes cartoons), had Ozme products. The series was produced in Australia, the "Land of Oz". | |
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Bounty Hamster spoofed this, by having an unnamed coyote recommend that Marion get a better catalogue. | |
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Elite Beat Agents: The ABCD sporting goods company ranges from footballs to Olympic athlete's track suits. | |
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CHOAM (Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles) is a massive entity in Dune which, more or less, controls the sale of everything - essentially a mass amalgamation of craft and guilds. To a lesser extent the Spacing Guild, who are a strangulatory monopoly (and own about a third of CHOAM's stock) as the only entity capable of space travel and the only owners of interstellar ships - all of CHOAM's goods require them, and they take a hefty cut of profit, as well as all transport or movement - without the Guild, the Empire, and CHOAM, collapses. |
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Precocious has Chrispco, which makes tablets, children's toys, and soft drinks. | |
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While on Illium in Mass Effect 2, listen closely to the advertisements in the background. Nearly all of them, regardless of the product (snacks, asari beauty products, experimental medical treatments) end with the phrase "a division of Elkoss Combine". | |
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BioShock: BioShock: The fact that Andrew Ryan has his name plastered all over products and establishments in Rapture (Ryan Industries) could be considered an example. There was also Fontaine Futuristics, the company that Frank Fontaine owned before Ryan took it over. In the original it was established that it was the second most successful brand in Rapture, but it wasn't until BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea that we learned they made everything; toys, clothes, jewelry, weapons, genetic wonder drugs. BioShock 2 introduces Sinclair Solutions, which actually manufactured many of products that Ryan and Fontaine sold. Sinclair also had hundreds of unrelated establishments such as hotels, booze shops, and prisons. BioShock Infinite continues the proud tradition - everything in Columbia is made by "Fink Mfg.", owned by one Mr. Jeremiah Fink. |
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Pinky and the Brain live at Acme Labs. We don't see them making a ton of bizarre roadrunner-busting products, but turning lab animals into evil geniuses who want to Take Over the World...sounds about right. | |
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BioShock: The fact that Andrew Ryan has his name plastered all over products and establishments in Rapture (Ryan Industries) could be considered an example. There was also Fontaine Futuristics, the company that Frank Fontaine owned before Ryan took it over. In the original it was established that it was the second most successful brand in Rapture, but it wasn't until BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea that we learned they made everything; toys, clothes, jewelry, weapons, genetic wonder drugs. |
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BioShock 2 introduces Sinclair Solutions, which actually manufactured many of products that Ryan and Fontaine sold. Sinclair also had hundreds of unrelated establishments such as hotels, booze shops, and prisons. | |
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The Lezareno company from Tales of Symphonia which handles everything in Tethe'alla, from mining operations to making incredibly bad-smelling perfume (which the president of the company, Regal Bryant, deeply apologises for and immediatley stops the production of when smelling it for the first time). | |
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The Prescott group, fictional sponsor of The Colbert Report, has a branch in every industry. | |
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The Goodies of course given that it's often compared to a live-action Looney Tunes. For instance in the "Clown Virus" episode, the Goodies attempt to use Graeme Garden's "Acme Giant Soup-Can Flipper" to throw the giant can of tomato soup out to sea (there's even a "beep-beep!" heard) that ends up with Graeme getting an Anvil on Head. | |
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The Aquabats! Super Show! has Gloopy Products (P). A (fake) commercial for each of their products is shown Once per Episode. | |
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The Acme Corp. for Garfield and Friends was Schlocko, purveyor of various Ron Popeil-type novelty items. Little Gem was also used a few times. |
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Roy and Simon use Acme products several times during their cartoon battles in The Cartoon Man and its sequel. | |
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The unnamed online company that the characters of Kaeloo buy stuff from. They sell everything. Including weapons, time machines and Love Potion. | |
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The Room (Mobile Game) has the Talisman company that appeared to have built all the boxes and other intricate contraptions you're manipulating in-game, if the presence of their maker's mark on all of them is any guide. The third installment reveals that The Craftsman began and owned this company, and one of the locations you get to explore is a workshop where it all started. | |
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In Lost, every type of food and drink employed by the DHARMA Initiative is DHARMA-brand food. There's also the Widmore Corporation and its subsidiaries (Widmore Labs, Widmore Construction, Widmore Industries) |
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Omni Consumer Products (OCP) from RoboCop also produces everything from weapons, to simple consumer products, to the eponymous hero. | |
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The Pink Panther uses Acme products on several occasions. | |
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Smarty Mart in Kim Possible stocks everything from clothing to livestock. | |
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In James Pond: Underwater Agent, Dr. Maybe's Evil, Inc. is called "ACME Oil". This is only in the first game, as his organization is known as J.A.W.S. in James Pond 3. | |
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Dinosaurs has Wesayso, which seems to be mostly in construction, but is also used as the go-to company whenever a MegaCorp is needed. | |
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Everything humanity uses in WALL•E is produced by Buy n Large. Which is apparently also the government. | |
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Ratchet & Clank has Gadgetron, which supplies the hero's weapons and equipment. He actually gets to save it from an attack in the first game. Future games introduce Megacorp, Vox Industries and GrummelNet. | |
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In The DCU, Lexcorp tends to be one of these, especially during the periods that Lex Luthor has been a Villain with Good Publicity. | |
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A somewhat odd example in Bachelor Mother, in which Acme isn't making products. When Polly gets fired from her Christmas seasonal job, the temp agency she returns to is called Acme Employment Services. | |
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The Shutsu Tonka Unitocracy in DAAS Kapital. | |
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Max Headroom had Zik Zak. Motto: "We make everything you need, and you need everything we make." | |
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The Orochi Group of The Secret World sells just about anything, thanks to its eight daughter corporations. Among other things, it's been known to provide pharmaceuticals, electrical power, packaged food, soft drinks, experimental weaponry, satellites, passenger jets, computers, multimedia players, gaming consoles, banking services, investment, insurance, stock market trading, TV channels, movie studios, SFX production houses, books, magazines, newspapers, theme parks, pesticides, and agricultural biotechnology. At one point, faction contact Bong Cha notes that the keypad she types on is an Orochi product - and that it scans her fingerprints over a thousand times a day. And there's a whole lot more going on behind the scenes... | |
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Leesburg, the primary setting of The Millers, has various establishments that all have the same owner: a person/family/company by the name of McGee. These places range from yogurt stands to restaurants (including a Irish-Chinese fusion restaurant) to a strip club. | |
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The Pixler corporation in Abarat doesn't have a monopoly, but it likes to say in its marketing copy that it will provide for you from cradle to grave—which it very well may, given that it runs both hospitals and funeral centers. In between, it provides everything from food to education. (And yes, these people are evil.) | |
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The Peanuts universe uses "Ace" as the go-to company name. | |
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The Excalibur Corporation in Arthur, King of Time and Space seems to make everything, including cars, computers and more esoteric things. It also has a media arm. | |
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In the "first in the phone book" category (see Real Life examples), in the Duckman episode "Haunted Society Plumbers" Duckman and Cornfed use "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA1 Plumbing" as a cover business. That's 25 "A"s, though in a gag to draw out the joke as long as possible, some characters use the "A" only 24 or 21 times in spite of it. There are also too many to fit on the van (not sure offhand how many). | |
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In The Proud Family they have Wizard Kelly products. Most everything is sold under the name of Wizard Kelly or Wiz. Which was a gag about basketball legend and successful businessman Magic Johnson, who owns everything from theaters to restaurants to a line of hair care products in the black community. He single-handedly convinced major corporations that there was money to be made targeting the black community. |
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Tiny Toon Adventures is set in a town called Acme Acres. Guess what product brand is always used. | |
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In Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, most products and businesses have a sign or logo for AOL Time Warner, the actual parent company of Turner Broadcasting at the time. Additionally, almost every store and service has the ending -lux (Javalux coffee, etc.) | |
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Team Fortress 2, or more accurately, its expanded universe, features Mann Co., with the slogan "We Sell Products And Get In Fights". Mann Co. is actually a subsidiary of the even larger TF Industries, which also owns RED and BLU and all of their subsidiaries. | |
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Ground Control had the MegaCorp Crayven which produced food (such as the "Crayven Crunchbars"), combat armour, starships, had a military force, sponsored several frontier colonies and owned a multitude of TV channels. Oddly, Crayven did not produce Crayven brand weapons. Its armaments came from a sister-corporation called Wellby-Simms instead. | |
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SynTek Megacorporation from Alien Swarm. Everything from drinks to weaponry to medicine and synthetic drugs is made by them. | |
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On Jimmy Two-Shoes, everything is made by Misery Inc...unfortunately. | |
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The Outfoxies sees the titular group of seven hitmen working for a Mr. Acme (or rather, Mrs. Acme), who himself is a wealthy executive with a large mansion. | |
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Deadlands: Smith & Robards has everything a player character will ever need, all the way to customized submarines. And for the cash-strapped, there's always El Cheapo, which is similar but far less reliable. | |
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In The Replacements, everything is made by Fleemco, with the main characters making most use of the company's "replacement service" that can replace anybody that a person wants with someone more to their liking. The person that gets replaced usually gets sent off on a nice vacation by "some weirdos in jumpsuits" for a couple of weeks before returning, assuming that they aren't legitimately awful people. | |
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The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy produces most of the sentient robots, sentient computers, and sentient elevators (It Makes Sense in Contextnote Not really, but it's that kind of book anyway.) seen in the series. They have a very poor reputation and at one point it's mentioned that their complaints division is the only part of the company that turns a profit (and that seems to be true because of the SCC's motto "Share and Enjoy"). | |
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In The Great Santa Claus Caper, The Big Bad Wolf (whose real name is revealed as "Alexander Graham Wolf") has invented a substance called "gloopstik" and even created a company to manufacture it. However, his business card reveals that the Gloopstik Corporation is owned by Acme, making gloopstik an Acme product. Guess who made this cartoon? | |
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Mickey Mouse cartoons from the '30s, '40s, 90s, and early 2000s often featured a similar company called Ajax, although this varied between being an actual Acme-style corporation and being Mickey's rink-a-dink entrepreneurial outfits ("Ajax Clock Cleaners, we clean clocks!" "Ajax Ghost Hunters, we hunt ghosts!" etc.) However, the Donald Duck short Cured Duck featured an "Acme Garage". However, the Wile E. Coyote short "Rushing Roulette" involved the Coyote using an Ajax product. As he does in this 1968 commercial for the Plymouth Road Runner automobile. |
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Aperture Science from Portal. Every single element, item or device used in the countless tests is Aperture-branded product, and that includes the sentient computer running the place. Not bad for a company that started out designing parts for shower curtains. | |
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In The John Dredge Nothing To Do With Anything Show, K-Tel is this, with their products ranging from simple matches to giant catapults and BuffaLocators (for when you've misplaced your buffalos). | |
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The world of The LEGO Movie controlled by the Octan Corporation, whose president is the President, and has ambitions for complete perfection. This is a Mythology Gag, as Octan is a fictional oil company whose logo appeared on several LEGO City sets. | |
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Cheap as Free in Homestar Runner (with a few exceptions: Compy computers, Videlectrix video games, and Cold Ones beer). | |
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In Quest for Camelot Ruber has a potion that turns his minions into metal monsters, and its labeled ACME on it. | |
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In Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Acme is headed by a Corrupt Corporate Executive, the movie's Big Bad, who, not coincidentally, counts Wile E. Coyote among his hired goons. | |
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Acme products are very common in several shorts and movies of The Three Stooges (as are Ace and Excelsior products). | |
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The Frobozz Magic Company in Zork, with amusing subdivision names like Frobozz Exploding Paper Company and Frobozz Wizard Slaying Nasal Spray Company. Also a MegaCorp, since at the end of the reign of Dimwit Flathead, 100% of all commerce in Quendor was owned by FrobozzCo. | |
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1941 (1979) briefly featured an Acme Turpentine warehouse before it got wrecked. | |
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Everything in The Demon Girl Next Door is Kirara-branded: from alcopop to hotplate to video games. | |
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In the movie Spaceballs all products seen are Spaceballs brand, due to Yogurt's ownership of the film's own merchandising rights. | |
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A Disney's Doug (actually Quailman) episode features S.T.U.A.R.T., a company that makes all sorts of products which malfunction and fail on purpose just to annoy their users as much as possible. | |
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Madagascar has a few ACME products, mainly a cardboard box which you use to sneak past people as the Penguins. | |
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MSF High: Miss Fenris runs one of these, with lots of fine print. | |
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In the I Love Lucy episode "The French Revue", the only words Fred can read on a French restaurant's menu is 'Acme Printing Service'. | |
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Hitman 2 has Kronstadt products littered throughout the levels, and the company is known for making friendly home products like vacuum cleaners, as well as lifesaving medical tech, but also cutting-edge AI and war tech. Eventually, of course, the founder and CEO becomes a target for Agent 47. | |
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Even Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers had an Acme product: the Acme Majestic Ultra-light All-Weather Fiberglass Volcano as shown in the episode "Gadget Goes Hawaiian". | |
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