Are corporations in animation usually portrayed as postive or a negative force?

[The Overlord]

Are corporations in animation usually portrayed as postive or a negative force? How evil corporations have there been in animation, as opposed to how many have been good?

[Scirel]

the only time a corporation is good in a cartoon is when the MC/SC's family owns it.

[Aldrius]

Both at different times, generally speaking they're portrayed as evil, though.

[Rook]

Starc enterprise?
Wayne enterprise?

[Hordesman]

KaibaCorp. Gotta respect it when the CEO(?) switches the company focus away from military contracts.

[HellCat]

Corporations and governments are usually portrayed in a negative light, likely because they have countless resources and certain details will always be kept secret from the public. There's also the notion that if you have drive enough to build a multi million company, why stop there?

[tb4000]

The only ones that are deemed good are Bruce Wayne's(even though there are characters that are against his whole corporate thing), and Scrooge McDuck, while money hungry, usually treated his workers well for the most part, except for times he had to be talked into it at episode end.

[The Weed Of Cri]

The left-wing politics that runs rampant in the entertainment industry is very anti-capilist, even as the production teams that make the cartoons, and the networks and distribution companies that deliver them to the public, profit hugely from the very free market system they criticize (hypocracy is pretty pervasive in the entertainment world, too). Corporations, and wealthy people in general, are seen as inherently corrupt, and sometimes outright evil. There are some exceptions, of course, but they are few and far between.

[Elven Moon]

Off the top of my head, I can think of:

Sheck, from the Hey Arnold movie. He was 100% evil, threatening kids, burning up a historical monument deed, etc.

Also, I think business people in Tiny Toons were portrayed mostly as evil or really stupid.

Scrooge McDuck, for the "good" side. Sick rich but not about to tear down someone's home to build a resort.

If 2 out of 3 are evil, that I can think of, I would say mostly negative.

[Anthonynotes]

Think it depends on the plot requirements whether corporations are "bad" or "good", though I'd say what's more prevalent is the heavy use of the stereotypical mean-spirited Scrooge-like boss (Mr. Burns, Mr. Spacely, Mom, etc. etc.) who's ready to fire their workers for so much as glancing at them the wrong way and apparently never heard of modern labor laws/worker's rights... :-p

[Bubblegum Girl]

Most of the cartoons I've seen, corporations are portrayed as "evil". Um...I'm sure that there are some that are good but I just probably haven't seen them or remember any...

[Kitschensyngk]

Tak:
The great thing about your people, Dib, is that most of them don't notice. All they see is another faceless corporate venture, not a plan for world conquest.

Dib:
Wait, is there really a difference?



--Invader Zim, "Tak: The Hideous New Girl"

[Crash]

Negative. Definately. Evne when the corporation is owned by the main character, there's usually an episode or two where someone from within the corporation tries an underhanded hostile takeover for some sinister means....

Positive? I'd wager you'll find more instances of them played as inept for comedic effect than you'll find them portrayed in a straight positive light.

And speaking of Scrooge McDuck, one episode that sticks out in my mind was one where he got amnesia, and ended up working for his own company, and tried to organized his fellow employees against...well, himself. An amusing take on it.

[Kuro-Neko]

Rocko's Modern Life:

Con-glom-O- "We own you"

[stephane dumas]

the South Park episode "Gnomes", described Hardbucks (spoof of Starbucks) as a evil corporation but at the end, the boy tells then some corporations once beginned into a small shop once.

[Khurath]

Usually negative, I'd say. Shouldn't be too much of a surprise, remember that everybody loves an underdog. It would be pretty hard to garner sympathy from the audience for a big organization because they're already huge and powerful.

[tb4000]

Usually negative, I'd say. Shouldn't be too much of a surprise, remember that everybody loves an underdog. It would be pretty hard to garner sympathy from the audience for a big organization because they're already huge and powerful.
If they built themselves from the ground up as Scrooge did, and even Bruce Wayne to an extent, you have to respect that.

[cyde]

Cosmo Spacely's an evil devil, just like W.C. Cogswell. Why doesn't George works someplace else other than for an evil Danny Devitoesque crook?

Oh, and let's not forget G.I. Joe's Extensive Enterprises. and Scrooge's evil counterpart, Glumgold.

[Hordesman]

I think a big part of it is this: A hero or villain has to have resources in order to fight. The simplest source is superpowers but a shrewd individual with enough money can compete as well. And having a corporation helps with that- because it's a source of income and, more often than not, also developing technology that helps its owner's real goals. Company ownership, or even access, is its own superpower if you will.