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Originally Posted by salty-horse
That's not an uncommon nickname for companies. Kage Baker's time travel series, the CIA...
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A nickname, sure. The CIA is a good example. The CIA isn't literally called The Company.
Featuring a villainous company in a story and having it named The Company (or The Corporation, The Corp, etc.) is a trope that comes off as lazy and unrealistic to me.
Any nefarious company is going to have an army of highly paid advertisers and spin doctors working for it and is going to have a name, logo and mascot to hang their brand on.
Evil company? Sure.
Evil company that calls itself The Company? Come on man.