For those of us in the work force we hold a special place for fictional companies because we can relate to them. Everyone works with a guy like Dwight, or has a boss like Bill Lumbergh, or knows a guy who looks like the comic book guy from The Simpsons. Or sometimes our company is so evil it feels like we are working for Lex Luthor in LexCorp or are producing vioxx and now you need a vioxx attorney.

Today we are taking a look at the best 25 fictional companies of all time. An incredible task that spans TV shows, movies, comic books, video games and more. Take a look and let us know if we left anything off - at this point I probably wont care what you have to say but it couldn’t hurt to send an email.

25. Strickland Propane - King of the Hill

Wiki: The family patriarch is Hank Hill, assistant manager of Strickland Propane, and salesman of “propane and propane accessories,” who is obsessed with his lawn, propane, the Texas Longhorns, and the Dallas Cowboys. He is uncomfortable with intimacy and sexuality but has a healthy relationship with his wife, as well as the rest of his family. Hank’s trademark sigh in times of discomfort or exasperation, his scream of “Bwah!” when startled, his whispered “Ugh” when disgusted, the phrase “I tell you what!” are running gags on the series; additionally, when someone angers him, he tends to respond with, “I’m gonna kick your ass!” though, he rarely resorts to this. In contrast to his emotional distance from members of his family, he dotes unashamedly on his aging Bloodhound, Ladybird.

24. Sirius Cybernetics Corporation - The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Wiki: Most of the technology mentioned in the series are products of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, a decidedly inept company responsible for the design and creation of a wide range of robots and labour-saving devices, such as lifts, automatic doors, ventilation systems, and the infamous Nutrimatic Drink Dispenser. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy defines the Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as “a bunch of mindless jerks who’ll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.” It is notable that a future edition of The Encyclopedia Galactica fell through a wormhole in time, and its entry for the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is “a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came.”

23. Oceanic Airlines - Lost

Wiki: Oceanic Airlines’ most repeated appearances are in the TV series Lost. The show explores the aftermath of the crash of Oceanic Flight 815 from Sydney to Los Angeles. The producers of Lost also created a website for the fictional airline, including clues and references to the show’s plot. In flashforwards, a group of the characters that survive the crash are nicknamed the “Oceanic Six” (Hurley, Kate, Jack, Sayid, Sun, and Aaron). In January 2008, viral marketing billboards for Oceanic Airlines were placed by ABC in various large cities around the world as part of the Find 815 alternate reality game. Fictitious TV advertisements for the company also aired on ABC and the Internet, including one advertisement that apparently airs in an alternate universe where flight 815 did not crash and Oceanic has a “perfect safety record.”

22. Springfield Nuclear Power Plant -  The Simpsons

Wiki: The Springfield Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant in Springfield owned by Montgomery Burns. The plant has the monopoly on the city of Springfield’s energy supply, and the carelessness of Mr. Burns and the plant’s employees (like Homer, who is employed at Sector 7G) often endangers the residents and natural environment of Springfield. The core of the plant is a Fissionator 1952 Slow-Fission Reactor, operating in spite of more than 342 safety violations. The plant has come close to a meltdown several times, and blown up at least once. There is an unseen crow or raven that lives near the Power Plant, that caws whenever an establishing shot of the Power Plant is on screen. Mutated fish with more than two eyes have been seen in the lake behind the power plant, which has a large pipe pumping nuclear waste into it.

The design and folly of Springfield Nuclear Power Plant is often rumored to be based on the troubled Trojan Nuclear Power Plant (closed in 1993 due to defects) near Matt Groening’s home town of Portland, Oregon, or the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington. However, Antonia Coffman, Groening’s publicist, has said that the Springfield plant’s design is generic and that “the Springfield Nuclear Power plant was not based on the Trojan Plant or any other power plant in the country.”

21. The Hanso Foundation - Lost

Wiki: According to a mission statement on the Hanso website, “The Hanso Foundation stands at the vanguard of social and scientific research for the advancement of the human race. For forty years, the foundation has offered grants to worthy experiments designed to further the evolution of the human race and provide technological solutions to the most pressing problems of our time. The Hanso Foundation: a commitment to encouraging greatness in science and technology and furthering the cause of human development.”

Hanso, The foundations CEO, said in the 6th season of lost a clue to The end of lost was “Goodness gracious great balls of fire.” The Foundation funded many projects, including the Educational Outreach Imperative, Institute for Genomic Advancement, Mathematical Forecasting Initiative, Worldwide Wellness and Prevention Development Program, and the Life-Extension Project. The Life-Extension Project worked on initiatives such as the life-extension of an orangutan named “Joop” celebrating its 105th birthday. It also provided financial backing for the Dharma Initiative on islands in the South Pacific. (”Joop” is the name of an orangutan appearing in the Jules Verne novel The Mysterious Island, which is about a group of castaways on a strange Pacific island.)

20.MomCorp (Mom’s Friendly Robot Company) - Futurama

Wiki: Mom manages and owns 99.7% of MomCorp, a large, multi-billion dollar industrial complex with numerous subsidiaries and a monopoly on robot production. Publicly, she retains the corporate image of a sweet, bustling old woman who often slips into the stereotype of a Deep South grandmother (she wears antiquated clothes that greatly accentuate her bust and general figure, while using rustic metaphors such as ’squeaking like an old screen door’).

Behind the scenes, however, Mom is a thin, malevolent, foul-mouthed, chain-smoking, deeply bitter, cruel and narcissistic gravel-voiced crow, who routinely abuses her terrified sons (see below) into submission, treating them like gofers. In the episode “Mother’s Day”, it is heavily implied that at least some of her bitterness originates from an ill-fated romance with Professor Farnsworth who, while reformatting the basic robot design, terminated their affair following savage rows about his work. According to Bender’s Game, this happened three consecutive times (due to Farnsworth’s increasing senility, he would forget why they originally broke up or that they had even broken up in the first place).

19. Omni Consumer Products (OCP) - RoboCop

Wiki: Omni Consumer Products (OCP) is a fictional megacorporation in the RoboCop franchise. It creates products for virtually every consumer need, has entered into endeavors normally deemed non-profit, and even manufactured an entire city to be maintained exclusively by the corporation.[1][2] In the RoboCop films, OCP is used to illustrate the dangers of corporatism replacing traditional government, how the profit motive will always come before people in a corporate government.

18. DHARMA Initiative, The - Lost

Wiki: The Dharma Initiative and its origins are first explored in the episode “Orientation” by an orientation film in the Swan Station. Dr. Marvin Candle (Francois Chau), explains that the project began in 1970, created by two doctoral candidates from the University of Michigan, Gerald and Karen DeGroot (Michael Gilday and Courtney Lavigne), and was funded by Alvar Hanso (Ian Patrick Williams) of the Hanso Foundation. They imagined a “large-scale communal research compound”, where scientists and free thinkers from around the globe could research meteorology, psychology, parapsychology, zoology, electromagnetism, and a sixth discipline that the film begins to identify as “utopian social-” before being cut off.

17. Sheinhardt Wig Company - 30 Rock

Wiki: 30 Rock is an American television comedy series created by Tina Fey that airs on NBC. The series is largely based on Fey’s experiences as head writer for Saturday Night Live. 30 Rock takes place behind the scenes of a fictional live sketch comedy series depicted as airing on NBC; the name “30 Rock” refers to the address of the GE Building where NBC Studios is located, 30 Rockefeller Plaza. This series is produced by Broadway Video and Little Stranger, Inc., in association with NBC Universal.

16. Weyland-Yutani - Alien

Wiki: Weyland-Yutani is a fictional corporation in the motion picture Alien and its sequels, often referred to simply as “The Company”. It is one of the corporations that runs the human colonies outside the solar system through the Extrasolar Colonization Administration, has a seat in the Interstellar Commerce Commission’s Company Review Board, and also has a large presence on Earth.

Weyland-Yutani is consistently portrayed as exhibiting the worst aspects of corporate profiteering, willing to sacrifice decency and human life in the pursuit of profit. In various portrayals of the Aliens universe, the corporation has its hands in all aspects of space colonization and research. The corporation has consistently ordered its employees and agents to attempt to obtain living xenomorphs so that they can be exploited as a biological weapon, without regard for their obtainers’ lives. Weyland-Yutani is a modern example of the longstanding trope of the evil megacorporation in science fiction.

15. The Android’s Dungeon -  The Simpsons

Wiki: Comic Book Guy is the owner of The Android’s Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop, a local comic book store. Many of the comics and toys he sells are of poor quality and often have very high prices (for example, “The Ultimate Pog”, $500). His store is his sanctuary, where he holds some level of self-esteem, imperiously lording over pre-teen kids, like Bart Simpson and Milhouse Van Houten, using a heavily sarcastic tone and often banning certain customers for minor infractions. His store contains a lower level full of illegal videos (which include Mr. Rogers drunk, Alien Autopsy, Illegal Alien Autopsy, a “good version” of The Godfather Part III, and Kent Brockman picking his nose).

14. Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC) - Doom

Wiki: The Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC) is a fictional conglomerate focused on military-industrial research in id Software’s science fiction video game series Doom. The corporation is depicted to be involved in advanced weapons development, biological research, space exploration and teleportation, the company employs private military contractors for sercurity. Set in the 22nd century, the UAC is shown to have access to research facilities on other planets and moons within the Solar System, such as Mars, Phobos and Io. In the video games, the UAC’s research into teleportation unwittingly allows for the forces of Hell to invade from their realm and attempt to take over humanity.

13. Umbrella Corporation - Resident Evil

Wiki: The Umbrella Corporation was founded in 1968 by Lord Ozwell E. Spencer, Sir Edward Ashford and Dr. James Marcus  at the corporation’s Raccoon City facilities while Spencer maintained control over the company for the next thirty years. Soon Umbrella had multiple research facilities and various research being done on various viruses - G-virus, T-virus, Nemesis parasite, etc. - but it was the Arklay Research Facility that became the most prominent together with nearby Arklayonnel and also contained a cutting-edge laboratory installation. However, it was noted by researcher Albert Wesker that the military potential of the T-virus would never make up for the cost of research and production, and that the Arklay facility seemed to be deliberately placed in an area where any leak would cause an uncontrollable outbreak.

12. Binford Tools -  Home Improvement

Wiki: Tim is a stereotypical American male, who loves power tools, cars and sports. He is a former salesman for the fictional Binford Tool company, and is very much an overconfident know-it-all. Witty but flippant, Tim jokes around a lot, even at inopportune times. Family life was boisterous, with the two oldest children, Brad and Randy, tormenting the much younger, Mark, while continually testing and pestering each other. This rough by-play happened especially throughout the first four seasons, and was revisited occasionally until Jonathan Taylor Thomas left at the beginning of the eighth season.

11. OsCorp - Spiderman

marvelanimated.wikia.com: Oscorp Industries, often called simply Oscorp, is a weapons manufacturer based in New York near New York City. Oscorp was founded by the Osborn family and was eventually run by Norman Osborn who wanted to pass it onto his son Harry. Oscorp was destroyed during the battle between Spider-Man and the Black Widow. The Black Widow had captured Flash Thompson who it thought was the hero.

The real one arrived and a battle ensued. Osborn activated a Spider Seeker to destroy the hero but instead started a fire. He then made Spencer Smythe stay to defeat the hero. The robot was destroyed and Spencer was seemingly caught in the explosion. Afterwards Spencer’s son Alistair looked over the smoking ruins as he was recruited by Kingpin. Following the disappearance of Norman and the incarceration of Harry it is unknown just what became of Oscorp.

10. Biffco -  Back to the Future II

bttf.wikia.com: BiffCo Enterprises, or Biffco Enterprises, was the enterprise founded by Biff Tannen after making millions betting on horse races with help of the Grays Sports Almanac in the Biffhorrific timeline. He invested in toxic waste reclamation and other heavy polluting industries with the company. Biff’s position in the company gave him great influence over political leaders and law enforcement.

9. Acme Corporation - Looney Tunes Cartoons

Wiki: The Acme Corporation is a fictional corporation that exists in several cartoons, films and TV series, most significantly in the Looney Tunes universe. It appeared most prominently in the Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote cartoons, which made Acme famous for outlandish and downright dangerous products that fail catastrophically at the worst possible times. In the 1920s, when categorized (and, more importantly, alphabetized) business telephone directories (such as the Yellow Pages) began to be popular, there was a flood of businesses named Ace or Acme (some of these still survive); it only increased in popularity in the 1950s for businesses in the United States. The Acme name was so heavily used that it became something of a joke.

8. Dunder Mifflin — The Office

Wiki: Dunder Mifflin Paper Company, Inc. is a fictional paper sales company featured in the United States television series The Office. Until 2009, it supposedly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol DMI,; in early 2010 it was absorbed by the (fictional) Tallahassee, Florida-based electronics conglomerate Sabre, and is now known as “Dunder Mifflin Paper Company, Inc. - A Division of Sabre”.

7. InGen - Jurassic Park

Wiki: InGen (International Genetic Technologies, Incorporated) is a fictional genetic engineering company appearing in the Jurassic Park series of novels,  films and real world attractions. The company is based in Palo Alto, California, and has one location in Europe. Nevertheless, most of InGen’s research took place on both the islands of Isla Sorna and Isla Nublar.

While official records indicated InGen was just one of any number of small 1980’s genetic engineering start-ups the events of the Novel and Film revealed to a select group that InGen had discovered a method of cloning dinosaurs and other animals (including a quagga) using blood extracted from mosquitoes trapped in amber during various periods in time, ranging from the Mezosoic era to the 1800’s.

6. LexCorp - Superman

Wiki: Originally organized as an aerospace engineering firm, LexCorp has become one of the world’s largest, most diversified multinational corporations. Under the astute - some would say, ruthless - management of its founder, Lex Luthor, LexCorp grew and prospered, absorbing scores of smaller businesses.

While still in its original offices on the top floor of Metropolis’ famed Daily Planet building, LexCorp made its first acquisitions of two then-struggling airlines, Inter-Continental Airlines and Atlantic Coast Air Systems (since renamed LexAir). As LexCorp subsidiaries, the airlines began to prosper and when rising profits were threatened by fuel shortages, LexCorp bought out Southwestern Petroleum, now known as LexOil.

5. Bluth Company - Arrested Development

Wiki: The Bluth Company is a real estate development firm. The chief executive officer was George Sr. At his retirement party, he announced that his wife, Lucille Bluth, would be the new CEO of the company, surprising his son Michael Bluth, who had expected to take his father’s place as head of the company. Just after this announcement, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission boarded the boat upon which the party was being held and arrested George for defrauding customers and spending the company’s money on “personal expenses.” (His family, with the exception of Michael, was also using the company’s money for personal expenses).

Lucille places her favored son Byron “Buster” Bluth in charge of managing the company, but he soon shows himself to be completely incompetent, and the family asks the departing Michael to return and act as CEO. Most of the action in the series comes from Michael’s futile attempts to try to get the company back on track, while the family continues to take money from it, and hide their activities.

4. Initech - Office Space

Wiki: The film is centered on a group of software engineers working at Initech, a company plagued by excessive management. Much of the film’s plot involves everyday annoyances of office work in a cube farm  setting evocative of the Dilbert  comic strip.

Peter Gibbons is a disgruntled programmer at Initech. Peter spends his days “staring at his desk” instead of reprogramming bank software for the then-expected Y2K disaster. His co-workers include Samir Nagheenanajar, who is annoyed by the fact that nobody can pronounce his last name correctly; Michael Bolton, who loathes having the same name as the famous singer, whom he hates; and Milton Waddams, a meek, fixated collator who constantly mumbles to himself (most notably about his workmates borrowing his favorite red Swingline stapler). All four are repeatedly bullied and harassed by management, especially Initech’s callous vice president, Bill Lumbergh. The staff are further agitated by the arrival of two consultants, informally known as “The Bobs,” since they share the same first name, who are brought in to help with cutting expenses, mainly through downsizing.

3. Wayne Enterprises - Batman

dc.wikia.com: The history of Wayne Enterprises is longer than the history of Gotham City. Wayne Enterprises was founded in the 17th century and thus is one of the oldest companies in the world. Along the years it has evolved from a merchant house to a large multinational conglomerate company that can go up against its bigger competitor LexCorp.

2. U.S. Robotics (USR) - I, Robot

Wiki: The story takes place in 2035 Chicago, in a world in which robots are commonly seen and used as servants. Del Spooner (Smith) is a Chicago police detective who dislikes the rapid advancement of technology, including robots. This is due to a robot saving Spooner from an automobile accident during which a girl in another car drowned; the robot saved him instead of the girl because it had computed that he had the better probability of surviving. Left with survivor’s guilt and a mechanical arm from the accident, Spooner is asked to investigate the death of Alfred Lanning (Cromwell), a robotics scientist and founder of U.S. Robotics (USR), who fell out of his window.

Spooner suspects that Lanning was murdered and, with the reluctant help of USR robopsychologist Susan Calvin (Moynahan), seeks answers to the mystery. Unlike older models, USR’s new NS-5 robots are controlled from the company’s supercomputer VIKI (Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence); Spooner believes that an independent, experimental, and more human-like NS-5 unit, Sonny (Tudyk), killed Lanning. If true, the robot broke the Three Laws of Robotics and may presage other dangerous robots, which would be a disaster for USR’s business. Spooner informs the head of USR, Lawrence Robertson (Greenwood); he orders Calvin to deactivate Sonny. During Spooner’s investigation, however, several attempts on his life are made by USR robots and equipment.

1. Cyberdyne Systems Corporation - The Terminator

Wiki: As depicted in the films The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Cyberdyne is initially a beginning manufacturing corporation in Sunnyvale, California, although its products are not specified in the films; its CEO at the time was Thomas A. Weed. After a T-800 series Terminator, Cyberdyne Systems Model 101— a cyborg designed to kill humans that was sent from the future — is crushed in one of the company’s hydraulic presses, the company secretly begins manufacturing technological devices based on the reverse engineering of the crushed Terminator’s remains. By studying the recovered CPU from the destroyed cyborg, Cyberdyne creates a powerful new microprocessor for weapons systems and eventually becomes a major contractor for the US military.

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