Uploaded April 2012 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Wayne Enterprises : Everything Everywhere Everyday
It's no secret that Batman is funded and equipped via Bruce Wayne's multi-billion dollar fortune and through his ownership of Wayne Enterprises. What you might not know is that Wayne Enterprises is a massive company of truly Orwellian proportions. If the corporation actually existed it would most likely be the largest, most powerful company on the planet -- bigger than General Electric, Boeing, Chevron and Lockheed Martin combined.
Although primarily known as a military defense contractor, Wayne Enterprises is also comprised of dozens of subsidiaries involved in all sectors of the economy both in Gotham City and around the world (operating in 190 countries). The Wayne family corporation literally built most of Gotham over the years and still owns a good chunk of the city today. Based on the official DC and Batman wikis the company includes the following divisions:
Wayne Electronics
Wayne Technologies
Wayne Biotech
Wayne Medical
Wayne Healthcare (which runs Gotham Cities healthcare system)
Wayne Pharmaceuticals
Wayne Foods
Wayne Shipping
Wayne Steel
Wayne Automotive
Wayne Shipbuilders
Wayne Aerospace
Wayne Weapons
Wayne Aviation
Wayne Airlines
Wayne Chemicals
Wayne Industries
Wayne Oil
Wayne Botanical
Wayne Mining
Wayne Manufacturing
Wayne Research Institute
Wayne Energy
Wayne Electric
Wayne Studios
Wayne Entertainment (including ownership of The Daily Planet newspaper)
Wayne Records
Wayne Stage
Wayne Television
Wayne Retail
Based on this extensive list of properties and holdings, Forbes' magazine seems to have severely underestimated the value of the company in their 2007 list of the "25 Largest Fictional Companies". Forbes estimated Wayne Enterprises sales at only $31.3 billion which is a ludicrously low figure for such an omnipresent multinational corporation.
CREDITS:
Producer/Editor: Jonathan McIntosh
Voice Actor: Paul Silverman
Logo After Effects: Greg Dorsainville - @sciencelifeny
SOURCE FOOTAGE:
The clips used in this video were appropriated from dozens of TV ads for real-life corporations (like Siemens, Boeing, GM, Virgin, Chevron and Lockheed Martin) with operations or products similar to Wayne Enterprises subsidiaries. General Electric ads were used as a template for the basic structure of the commercial. Additionally footage from Batman & Robin, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises trailer and Atlas Shrugged Part 1 were used.
FAIR USE NOTICE:
This transformative remix work constitutes a fair use of any copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US copyright law. "Wayne Enterprises TV Commercial" was remixed by Jonathan McIntosh and is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 License permitting only non-commercial sharing and remix with attribution.
Wayne Enterprises : Everything Everywhere Everyday
It's no secret that Batman is funded and equipped via Bruce Wayne's multi-billion dollar fortune and through his ownership of Wayne Enterprises. What you might not know is that Wayne Enterprises is a massive company of truly Orwellian proportions. If the corporation actually existed it would most likely be the largest, most powerful company on the planet -- bigger than General Electric, Boeing, Chevron and Lockheed Martin combined.
Although primarily known as a military defense contractor, Wayne Enterprises is also comprised of dozens of subsidiaries involved in all sectors of the economy both in Gotham City and around the world (operating in 190 countries). The Wayne family corporation literally built most of Gotham over the years and still owns a good chunk of the city today. Based on the official DC and Batman wikis the company includes the following divisions:
Wayne Electronics
Wayne Technologies
Wayne Biotech
Wayne Medical
Wayne Healthcare (which runs Gotham Cities healthcare system)
Wayne Pharmaceuticals
Wayne Foods
Wayne Shipping
Wayne Steel
Wayne Automotive
Wayne Shipbuilders
Wayne Aerospace
Wayne Weapons
Wayne Aviation
Wayne Airlines
Wayne Chemicals
Wayne Industries
Wayne Oil
Wayne Botanical
Wayne Mining
Wayne Manufacturing
Wayne Research Institute
Wayne Energy
Wayne Electric
Wayne Studios
Wayne Entertainment (including ownership of The Daily Planet newspaper)
Wayne Records
Wayne Stage
Wayne Television
Wayne Retail
Based on this extensive list of properties and holdings, Forbes' magazine seems to have severely underestimated the value of the company in their 2007 list of the "25 Largest Fictional Companies". Forbes estimated Wayne Enterprises sales at only $31.3 billion which is a ludicrously low figure for such an omnipresent multinational corporation.
CREDITS:
Producer/Editor: Jonathan McIntosh
Voice Actor: Paul Silverman
Logo After Effects: Greg Dorsainville - @sciencelifeny
SOURCE FOOTAGE:
The clips used in this video were appropriated from dozens of TV ads for real-life corporations (like Siemens, Boeing, GM, Virgin, Chevron and Lockheed Martin) with operations or products similar to Wayne Enterprises subsidiaries. General Electric ads were used as a template for the basic structure of the commercial. Additionally footage from Batman & Robin, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises trailer and Atlas Shrugged Part 1 were used.
FAIR USE NOTICE:
This transformative remix work constitutes a fair use of any copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US copyright law. "Wayne Enterprises TV Commercial" was remixed by Jonathan McIntosh and is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 License permitting only non-commercial sharing and remix with attribution.
