Talk:Megacorporation

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Drat, I forgot why I was watching this page! Mathiastck 17:39, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

In both the movie Blade Runner and the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the Tyrell Corporation is hardly a megacorp controlling the world government, flouting laws. It's just a company that makes robots, neither publication implies anything more. I removed it. (God, I'm a loser for arguing about something so menial.) Sloverlord 01:37, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

In I, Robot.... isn't it just plain old US Robotics, just exactly like US Robotics, which really exists? I'll check it out later in the book, and return with results. Sharprs 03:56, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] megacorporations list

Whose the monkey who went nuts with the list of megacorporations? 99% of everything mentioned on the list isn't a megacorporation. They just made a list of every corporation, fictional or actual. For the record, just because it's a business does not make it a megacorporation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.172.198.145 (talk) 07:13, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Agreed...that list needs to be trimmed. It's just a list of fictional corporations, many of which definitely do not play a role in their fictional work that makes them fit the definition of megacorporation. —Lowellian (reply) 01:56, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

I know Arasaka, Swars corporate sector authority, pentex (to some degree), Tyrell Corp, and Weyland-Yutani are considered megacorps (by the various books they pop up in), im not familiar with the rest, care to help? Alidcat

One possible solution would be to require references that identify the entry as a megacorporation. Without an independent reference, it becomes arguable whether a fictional company belongs in this list or not. However, I don't think this list is at all nessisary. I'd rather replace it with a lovely prose article that sites it's references describing particularly notable megacorporations, but don't have the references (or to be honest, the interest) to do so. -Verdatum (talk) 16:54, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Trade Federation

I find it interesting that Czerka from KOTOR is here, but the Trade Federation from the movies is not. Is there some reason for this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.67.142.56 (talk) 14:19, 17 December 2007 (UTC)