Beyond Corporation©

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The Beyond Corporation© is a fictional multinational corporation that appears in the comic books published by Marvel Comics. The corporation acts as a recurring antagonist in the Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. series, appearing in every story arc.

The corporation is controlled by robotic C.E.O. Number None and is based on a massive "floating terror factory", State 51, concealed high above Nevada.

[edit] Publication history

Beyond Corporation© is always written with a © to help emphasize its corporate inhumanity and overzealous copyright lawyers.

[edit] Fictional organisation history

What is now the Beyond Corporation© was once a high-tech terrorist cell known as S.I.L.E.N.T. (the acronym of which has not as of yet been explained). At some point before the beginning of the Nextwave series, S.I.L.E.N.T. legitmized itself into the Beyond Corporation©, yet did not abandon their ulterior motive—the location, activation, distribution and testing of various Unusual Weapons of Mass Destruction at various points throughout the United States of America. Also, through "faith-based bidding," the Beyond Corporation© became the sole financial backer of the Highest Anti-Terrorism Effort, providing them with extremely advanced technology, at the cost of needing to ignore the Beyond Corporation©'s actions; a deal that does not bother H.A.T.E. leader Dirk Anger at all.

The human resources department of Beyond Corporation© is staffed primarily by Broccoli Men, automatons made of genetically modified broccoli with software that barely passes as personality.

The Beyond Corporation© is led by Number None, an entity who bears a resemblance to the Broccoli Men, aside for two main reasons - one, he has a greater capacity for rational thought, and a snappy white tuxedo.

The Beyond Corporation© employs its own private army of previously unseen super-teams, including The Surgery, the Vestry, the New Paramounts, and, though yet to be seen, The Homosexuality. Most if not all of these superhumans are actually enhanced versions of the Broccoli Men.

Number None is not actually the founder of the company, Devil Dinosaur is. In the series, it is revealed that he actually has the power of speech and a hatred for hominids. He founded the company to test out weapon designs because he didn't want to spend time killing each "monkey" himself.

[edit] Trivia

Beyond Corporation is also the (new) name of an actual company, who may just not have known about the literary allusion they were making.