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Research, Inc.

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56 feature instances
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Research, Inc.	comment	Research Inc. is a company that serves as the birthplace of technology and innovation. Generally, for technology that doesn't yet exist in the real world. It may be a whole company dedicated to one aspect of science, or an independent contractor, or just one part of a larger MegaCorp, but in any case, they're usually in it for a profit or new toys. Think tanks, policy institutes, research laboratories, military bases, secret facilities; there are many locations a scientist (mad or otherwise) can get a decent salary (plus benefits) and never have to worry about ethical problems. The actual facilities very likely double as a modern Mad Scientist Laboratory, but could also be found abandoned. Actual research may occur or it could just be there For Science! Often they're run by a Corrupt Corporate Executive. Compare with Cut Lex Luthor a Check. Contrast with For Science!, as this tends to be For Money!
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Research, Inc. / int_14494034	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_14494034	comment	Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Apex Cybernetics are this; printing blueprints for protective suits and vehicles designed to enable soldiers to survive amidst Titans in mind.
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Research, Inc. / int_1beda93b	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_1beda93b	comment	Hereti-Corp from Sluggy Freelance even programs their muffins to self-destruct lest they fall into the hands of a competitor.
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Research, Inc. / int_21ec74db	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_21ec74db	comment	Better Off Ted takes place in the R&D section of Viridian Dynamics, and they develop everything from artificial meat to killer cyborgs.
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Research, Inc. / int_227117b7	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_227117b7	comment	In Helix, Arctic Biosystems is a private company staffed by over a hundred Morally Ambiguous Doctorates who specifically come to the base, stationed in international territory, to exploit the opportunity to perform research unburdened by regulatory agencies. Its problems begin when a Synthetic Plague it's been developing gets out of control, and results in an outbreak of The Virus amongst its research scientists.
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Research, Inc. / int_27777760	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_27777760	comment	Eureka has Global Dynamics, which isn't a true MegaCorp as it only does R&D with government supervision.
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Research, Inc. / int_28b53408	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_28b53408	comment	A central element of First Encounter Assault Recon is the Armacham Technology Corporation (ATC), which is almost entirely responsible for all the problems in the game.
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Research, Inc. / int_28fba44c	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_28fba44c	comment	In Urinetown, this is supposedly one of the primary missions of the UGC (Urine Good Company), the company that owns and operates the public toilets. It's mentioned mainly in passing in a musical number:
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Research, Inc. / int_28fe1376	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_28fe1376	comment	Fringe's Massive Dynamic specializes in biotech.
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Research, Inc. / int_2b70efd4	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_2b70efd4	comment	The Old World of Darkness has a few: Mage: The Ascension has groups within the Technocracy — Iteration X and the Progenitors — responsible for futuristic technology, but theyâ€™re conspiracies, not companies; front companies operated by the Syndicate, the branch of the Technocracy responsible for economics, may appear to fill this role. The trope is subverted in Werewolf: The Apocalypse, where Pentex and its subsidiaries are all just a front for an Eldritch Abomination, lying about their curses coming from research when it's really magic.
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Research, Inc. / int_30450a9a	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_30450a9a	comment	Alien: Isolation: Gemini Exoplanet Solutions, a research and development company specializing in mineral extraction. It operated a laboratory on Sevastopol from which it ran Project KG-348.
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Research, Inc. / int_332e25e8	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_332e25e8	comment	Venom (2018): The Life Foundation is a multibillion-dollar corporation that's investigating everything from cancer treatments to space exploration. Unfortunately, its founder is mostly concerned with surviving any sort of global crisis the future might hold, and is willing to chew through any number of human test subjects to do so.
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Research, Inc. / int_383c39a5	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_383c39a5	comment	With This Ring: Paul would prefer to work through LexCorp, since Lex is an excellent manager, but since Lex remains involved in supervillainy, Paul instead funnels ideas through Ted Kord and his company KordTech. Weather control drones based on Professor Morrow's robots (including Red Tornado), arcane metals like orichalcum based on Themyscira's expertise, the Thinking Cap that grants telepathy and telekinesis...
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Research, Inc. / int_3b7abee2	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_3b7abee2	comment	Black Mesa Research Facility from Half-Life.
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Research, Inc. / int_3caeeb6f	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_3caeeb6f	comment	The Cities of Tomorrow expansion pack for SimCity introduces "The Academy", a super-advanced facility full of science gurus that lets mayors research expensive, but very useful additions to their cities/region.
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Research, Inc. / int_42ffb88e	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_42ffb88e	comment	The SCP Foundation has a dedicated research staff who study the paranormal, primarily to figure out how to track down, capture and safely contain the things they've already encountered, secondarily to try to figure out how the paranormal in general works, and thirdly to figure out how to use the paranormal to create resources the Foundation can use (which is part of the reason the Foundation is an Organization with Unlimited Funding). Played even straighter with Prometheus Labs, one of the groups of interest tracked by the Foundation. This GOI is a rather sketchy research group with a great track record on figuring out how to turn anomalous effects into even more anomalous devices... and not such a great track record on things like remembering to add an off switch to an infinite power source.
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Research, Inc. / int_474c18c1	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_474c18c1	comment	BioShock Infinite also features Fink Industries, but it's eventually revealed that their "research" amounts mostly to stealing secrets from other timelines.
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Research, Inc. / int_482ba098	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_482ba098	comment	PandoraHearts has a Gaslamp Fantasy variation of this: the organization Pandora (unrelated to that from Darker than Black) was made for the express purpose of studying the Abyss, the Chains, the Will of the Abyss, and their impact on the real world. The true object of their research is kept secret from the general public, and the main character only learns the truth after getting thrown into the Abyss himself and being forced to join the organization.
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Research, Inc. / int_57ad0c07	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_57ad0c07	comment	Resident Evil initially features the Umbrella Corporation and later TRICELL, which were both into pharmaceutical R&D.
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Research, Inc. / int_5916ae31	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_5916ae31	comment	Bradford Labs in Inspector Gadget (1999).
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Research, Inc. / int_59f30a41	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_59f30a41	comment	Ghost Hound has a research facility in the hills just outside town, Dai-Nippon Bio.
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Research, Inc. / int_60156176	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_60156176	comment	In the Vorkosigan Saga, the Durona Group was set up by Miles' brother Mark (using some of the millions he got at Jackson's Whole) to research life-extension techniques that will help put an end to the morally repugnant Jacksonian clone-and-brain-swap business.
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Research, Inc. / int_6196490	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_6196490	comment	Ghost in the Shell has a lot of these: Derumo, Kenbishi Heavy Industries, Kyo-Re, Locus-Solus, Meditech Corp, Hanka Precision Instruments, Poseidon Industrial Co., Serano Genomics, Tokura Electronics, and likely others; all do commercial R&D.
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Research, Inc. / int_62570927	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_62570927	comment	In the Marvel Universe, Stark Industries often seems to fill this role, getting the credit for any real fancy tech that needs explaining, although it's primarily an armaments manufacturer thatâ€™s diversified. A.I.M. (Advanced Ideas Mechanics) is more of a criminal conspiracy with a heavy super-science bent, but it may sometimes work through front companies.
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Research, Inc. / int_69071a1b	comment	Mutants & Masterminds: Freedom City has The Foundry. Lead by the ancient android Talos, they are often hired by other supervillains and crime syndicates to provide research and technical expertise. Its west coast rival, Ghostworks, does much the same in Emerald City.
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Research, Inc. / int_69d15cc0	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_69d15cc0	comment	Stark Industries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe seems to be responsible for just about all technology more advanced than what is actually available in the present day — except when their competitor Justin Hammer gets the blame. Hammer's stuff is often grossly unreliable and/or salvaged alien tech (or a bad copy of a Stark development).
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Research, Inc. / int_747d9a6f	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_747d9a6f	comment	[PROTOTYPE] and [PROTOTYPE 2] have GenTek, a genetics company that seems to be a front for the shadowy military agency Blackwatch. They claim to be researching ways to cure diseases, disfigurement, and death, but in practice they're more like a mob of Sociopathic Soldiers and Mad Scientists interested mainly in terrorizing the citizens of New York. In the second game, you can find GenTek loudspeakers broadcasting messages telling citizens to "ignore the rumors" and trying to hit them up for money.
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Research, Inc. / int_76686539	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_76686539	comment	A villainous example from Mass Effect: Binary Helix, a corporation primarily owned by Saren, invests heavily in (as the name implies) genetics research — meaning that it's the source of the entire incident on Noveria with the rachni, Saren's genophage cure, and most of his Offscreen Villain Dark Matter.
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Research, Inc. / int_771fc130	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_771fc130	comment	In Delta Green, the most prominent is March Industries. Originally started as a front company of MAJESTIC-12 for advanced research, but after their collapse many ex-MAJESTIC personnel went to work at March (Including four former members of the MJ-12's Steering Committee). The reformed Delta Green can't shut down March since it's a major part of the Military-Industrial complex and are the only ones with know-how to research alien technologies and the paranormal. So the Program made an alliance (or better said, an uneasy truce) to have March make research for them, while March executives abuse that position to profit and maybe take their position back in the future. The real-life RAND Corporation and Lockheed Martin appear as possible options of employers for player characters in the sourcebook The Complex.
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Research, Inc. / int_7785278d	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_7785278d	comment	BioShock: Fontaine Industries, Ryan Industries and Sinclair Solutions are among the Mega Corps who heavily and agresively invested in research, whether in ADAM or other fields. BioShock 2: Minervas Den feature very advanced artificial intelligences, even compared to the ones available on 2022. BioShock Infinite also features Fink Industries, but it's eventually revealed that their "research" amounts mostly to stealing secrets from other timelines.
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Research, Inc. / int_7e054f71	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_7e054f71	comment	The Murkoff Corporation from Outlast is a highly immoral research organization holding incredibly dangerous technologies that they use to perform experiments on humans. The company apparently has multiple research projects at multiple locations, with Mount Massive Asylum being the grounds for their Walrider Project.
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Research, Inc. / int_8c075344	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_8c075344	comment	Cassie's workplace in Times Like This is TerCon Technologies, a nanotech laboratory. The products that she says "may happen in the future" at the conventions are generally ones she's actually witnessed while time-tripping in the future.
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Research, Inc. / int_8d817ccb	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_8d817ccb	comment	The Hanso Foundation from Lost has the motto "Reach Out to a Better Tomorrow" and financed the DHARMA Initiative. Mittelos Bioscience doesn't count as it's just a front the Others use for recruitment.
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Research, Inc. / int_8eda89ef	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_8eda89ef	comment	PANDORA from Darker than Black does research on Hell's Gate and may or may not develop technology based on its properties.
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Research, Inc. / int_974f7efb	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_974f7efb	comment	When The Drew Carey Show gang infiltrates Lewis's workplace of DrugCo, we see things like gigantic insects and interchangeable heads. They also offered large amounts of money for a man to test breast implants. Double if they pose for the calendar.
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Research, Inc. / int_976efc02	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_976efc02	comment	Gizmonic Institute in Mystery Science Theater 3000. We don't get a clear picture of what they do (Science things? Joel mentions cleaning up a Flubber spill in the subbasement), but even a low-level janitor like Joel is a skilled, if eccentric, inventor.
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Research, Inc. / int_9838249c	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_9838249c	comment	In Transhuman Space, pretty much any company that's worth mentioning in the game supplements ends up playing this part to some extent; it's a near-future SF setting with the technology jammed on fast forward, after all. But especially notable examples would include Biotech Euphrates, a major biotech company with a sometimes shaky grasp of ethics, Omokage Laboratories, another biotech outfit with no detectable ethics at all, and Exogenesis, a corporate research division who, after they were bought out, came under armed assault from their own management because their idea of science seemed to come with the mandatory prefix "mad". The latter two are based in the asteroid belt, where supervision is harder.
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Research, Inc. / int_9a0c0ffa	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_9a0c0ffa	comment	Galactic Cybersystems Corporation in The History of the Galaxy had a planet dedicated to R&D.
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Research, Inc. / int_9df1f45c	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_9df1f45c	comment	Bartok Industries starts up where Seth Brundle left off in The Fly II.
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Research, Inc. / int_a03824e8	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_a03824e8	comment	The DCU: S.T.A.R. Labs (Scientific and Technological Advanced Research) is an independent group of research laboratories throughout the U.S. It has a long history of coming up with high technology and new inventions, and has also regularly gotten involved in superheroic activities. Project Cadmus was into genetic engineering; its abandoned laboratories are in some caverns near Metropolis. The most famous results of their work are Superboy/Kon-El — or S-13 as they labeled him — and Golden Guardian.
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Research, Inc. / int_a659470e	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_a659470e	comment	Vector Thrust has Sigsawa Heavy Industries, who specialize completely in research and development of new heavy industry and force-application technology to sell to nations and manufacturers.
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Research, Inc. / int_ac8b90f5	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_ac8b90f5	comment	Mage: The Ascension has groups within the Technocracy — Iteration X and the Progenitors — responsible for futuristic technology, but theyâ€™re conspiracies, not companies; front companies operated by the Syndicate, the branch of the Technocracy responsible for economics, may appear to fill this role.
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Research, Inc. / int_b9419bd1	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_b9419bd1	comment	Deus Ex: Human Revolution has an entire field of biotech corporations specializing in researching and developing new mechanical augmentations, the most prominent of which are Sarif Industries, Tai Yong Medical and Darrow Industries, the latter of which has shifted to geoengineering to combat global warming.
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Research, Inc. / int_babeae6a	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_babeae6a	comment	Godzilla vs. Kong: Apex Cybernetics are highly invested in the fields of robotics, A.I. and neurology, and it's overall implied that humanity's technological progress has sped up in response to the Titans' mere existence. Apex's inventions include maglev (magnetic levitation) underground trains, Mechagodzilla, Electronic Telepathy, and HEAVs built to survive planetary gravity inversions.
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Research, Inc. / int_c0869433	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_c0869433	comment	Yoglabs from Yogscast is mod testing disguised as this.
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Research, Inc. / int_c3e7ab30	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_c3e7ab30	comment	Perfect Dark concerns a shadow conflict between two of these. The dataDyne corporation is a US defense contractor — in an early level you can find a prototype rifle the NSA forces use in a later mission — but is secretly conspiring to overthrow the government on behalf of the reptilians. Its rival the Carrington Institute presents itself as a private R&D center, and helped develop the setting's Flying Cars, but is secretly a Spy School that runs covert operations against corporations and even the US government, and is allied with The Greys.
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Research, Inc. / int_c43df4d8	type	Research, Inc.
Research, Inc. / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who, being a Long Runner, has quite a few: Cybus Industries made the Cybermen (mostly) and earpiece communicator thingies (that double as Mind Control Devices).
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Research, Inc. / int_e02d5288	comment	Invincible (2021): The Global Defense Agency specifically have access to technology and research that the public has no access to or even knowledge of, including but not limited to a chemical that inhibits the ability to see certain frequencies of light and renders rooms' contents completely invisible.
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Research, Inc. / int_ee04f49a	comment	Deus Ex Universe: Deus Ex has pharmaceutical giant Versalife, which even has secret underground labs. Deus Ex: Human Revolution has an entire field of biotech corporations specializing in researching and developing new mechanical augmentations, the most prominent of which are Sarif Industries, Tai Yong Medical and Darrow Industries, the latter of which has shifted to geoengineering to combat global warming.
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Research, Inc. / int_f7d93e4a	comment	Abstergo in Assassin's Creed. It also helps make money to keep a secret society going strong.
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