MefaTilter™ — Your Favorite Fictional Brand Sucks!

July 22, 2024 9:54 PM

The Fictional Brands Archive's searchable index—clickable through to any entry. Some research behind it. And finally the info page: where you can/will submit those fictional brands you know are not yet represented in the archive.
posted by not_on_display (24 comments total)

[via the venerable Everlasting Blort]
posted by not_on_display at 9:55 PM on July 22

Ooh, Tyrell Corporation! My favorite techno-dystopian-creepy-but-cool branding!

Also, for Acme fans, Wile E. Coyote vs. Acme - the Products, a video compilation of "virtually every single Acme product used by Wile E. Coyote in his attempts to catch the Road Runner."

(also, btw, this post has been added to the sidebar and Best Of blog!)
posted by taz at 4:12 AM on July 23 [5 favorites]

Far be it for me to pick a fight with Star Wars fandom, but is the Rebel Alliance really a brand, exactly?

Otherwise some really great stuff in here, and more than a few that I can see which still need to be added. Lots of nerdy fun to be had!
posted by Smedly, Butlerian jihadi at 4:31 AM on July 23

[Cracks fingers, pulls out the rule 34 handbook]

No, seriously, this is cool. Thank you for posting it.
posted by Tell Me No Lies at 5:02 AM on July 23 [1 favorite]

let us stand to attention for the corporate anthem (slyt)
posted by are-coral-made at 5:24 AM on July 23 [2 favorites]

Hmmm…No Spacely Space Sprockets? No Cogswell Cogs?
Their suggestion form requires a Google login, so, nope.
posted by Thorzdad at 7:52 AM on July 23 [2 favorites]

And if you haven't seen it before, check out Nestflix, listing TV shows and movies that only exist in TV shows and movies.
posted by adamrice at 7:52 AM on July 23 [5 favorites]

One of my favorite throwaway gags in the Thursday Next series is about the Goliath megacorporation, which manufactures everything imaginable and is constantly evil. At one point a character essentially asks if Goliath exists in the real world, the readers' world, and is told, 'yes, but it has a different name.'
posted by one for the books at 8:28 AM on July 23 [1 favorite]

Yea the suggestion form has too many required fields (e.g. you have to upload the brand's logo) for this to be fun.
posted by achrise at 9:40 AM on July 23 [2 favorites]

Obligatory, "Omni Consumer Products, but no SUX 6000?"
posted by Chuffy at 10:04 AM on July 23

there is a real and fictitious parallax corporation.

Blue Ant.

Frohike Electronic corp.
posted by clavdivs at 10:52 AM on July 23 [3 favorites]

No MomCorp
posted by yyz at 11:25 AM on July 23

No Slurm
posted by mbd1mbd1 at 11:44 AM on July 23 [1 favorite]

No Blammo logs.
posted by Hairy Lobster at 11:49 AM on July 23

This webpage doesn't look compatible with the LCARS system I have running on my Ono-Sendai. Maybe the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation can hook me up with something better.
posted by Avelwood at 11:49 AM on July 23 [4 favorites]

Helping Hand Acceptance Corp; I don't think I've seen a logo for them, but they are a fictional brand.
posted by ovvl at 12:29 PM on July 23

Ctrl+F Veridian Dynamics .. YAY!
posted by Faintdreams at 2:14 PM on July 23 [1 favorite]

^lol, first one I tried, then Yoyodyne (yup), then Hudsucker (nope)
posted by Iris Gambol at 2:34 PM on July 23 [1 favorite]

My fave always the Major Good Vibes cannabis cigarettes from 1990's Hardware.
posted by Catblack at 2:43 PM on July 23

No Heisler
posted by mhum at 2:56 PM on July 23

No Drax Industries.
posted by mazola at 4:48 PM on July 23

Needs Brawndo, it’s what plants crave.
posted by naoko at 5:03 PM on July 23 [1 favorite]

No UAC, no Silph Co., missing a handful of others I can think of, including several defense contractors in the Front Mission JRPG series alone. Not a bad start, though.
posted by May Kasahara at 7:21 PM on July 23

Brawndo, and probably some of these others, does appear on the competing Fictional Companies Wiki.
posted by one for the books at 9:46 PM on July 23 [1 favorite]