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Here, you can find all of the delightfully vile tools you could ever need as a Big Bad. Need a Death Trap? We carry them all, from Acid Pools to Trap Doors! Looking to make your Mooks more reliable? You can trade in the standard issue variety for top-of-the-line Evil, Inc.. Mecha-Mooks! Want to build a new Supervillain Lair or Den of Iniquity? We offer not only the materials, but some of the finest dark and foreboding real estate around!

So, what will it be today?

Not to be confused with Predatory Business, which is about corporations that are seen as evil due to unsavory business practices.

Examples:

The underworld black magic market seen in one episode of Charmed.
The villainous grocery store in Codename: Kids Next Door.
Knockturn Alley in Harry Potter (Evil Counterpart to Diagon Alley).
The Octopus in Golden Eye Rogue Agent
Arguably, these exist in Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines for the Player Character, though some may consider them to be anti-hero mart. These black-market dealers include- in order of severity: a pawnshop owner selling knives and 38. calibre pistols without a license; a bored clerk at a 7-11 offloading firearms to supplement meagre pay; a Chinese ex-military herbalist with several "remedies" that can only be bought with cash; a black-market dealer with more than a few ties to organised crime, working from the back of his truck; finally, there's Mercurio, a Ghoul arms dealer working for Prince Lacroix, capable of finding just about anything for anyone. A borderline case may be found in the form of Pisha the Nagrajara, a flesh-eating immortal lurking in the basement of a condemned hospital, who'll happily hand over some very useful items- provided you can find the occult items she's been searching for.
An episode of The Unusuals featured a store that sold murder equipment.
The Champions supplement Gadgets! mentioned two organizations that sold weapons and other equipment to super villains: the West German KRONOS and Japanese ISE (International Scientific Elite).
The webcomic Evil Inc. is all about one of these.
HenchCo in Kim Possible. Equipment and minions.
Despicable Me has the Bank Of Evil (formerly Lehman Brothers).
Men in Black. Jack Jeebs provided exotic weaponry to alien criminals, such as the "reverberating carbonizer with mutate capacity" he sold to an unlicensed Cephalopoid assassin.
Megamind subverts this: he builds all his gadgets himself and he gets all his decorative stuff ("computers" that consist of nothing but flashing lights) from a small outlet in Romania.
In the second Hellboy film there is the troll market.
Several Marvel villains made careers out of this: Arcade used to make money by producing robotic "heroes" for the villains to practice on while Taskmaster made money by providing training for Mooks.
In the Cold Opening of Tomorrow Never Dies, James Bond infiltrates one of these. Cue Stuff Blowing Up and an escape in a fighter jet.
In Real Life, there's the black market where you can get things you're not supposed to be legally getting.
The entire country of Malaria in Igor, though it's less "buy our evil stuff" and more "pay us to not sell it".
Shadowrun. Fixers sell illegal equipment (including weapons and ammunition) to shadowrunners.

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 ''[[Gratuitous Japanese|Evil Mart he youkoso!]]''
-Here, you can find all of the delightfully vile tools you could ever need as a [[Big Bad]]. Need a [[Death Trap]]? We carry them all, from [[Acid Pool|Acid Pools]] to [[Trap Door|Trap Doors]]! Looking to make your [[Mooks]] more reliable? You can trade in the standard issue variety for top-of-the-line [[Evil, Inc.]]. [[Mecha Mooks]]! Want to build a new [[Supervillain Lair]] or [[Den of Iniquity]]? We offer not only the materials, but some of the finest dark and foreboding real estate around!
+Here, you can find all of the delightfully vile tools you could ever need as a [[Big Bad]]. Need a [[Death Trap]]? We carry them all, from [[Acid Pool|Acid Pools]] to [[Trap Door|Trap Doors]]! Looking to make your [[Mooks]] more reliable? You can trade in the standard issue variety for top-of-the-line [[Evil, Inc.]]. [[Mecha-Mooks]]! Want to build a new [[Supervillain Lair]] or [[Den of Iniquity]]? We offer not only the materials, but some of the finest dark and foreboding real estate around!
 So, what will it be today?
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 {{examples|Examples: }}
-* The underworld black magic market seen in one episode of ''[[Charmed (TV)|Charmed]]''.
+* The underworld black magic market seen in one episode of ''[[Charmed]]''.
-* The villainous grocery store in ''[[Codename Kids Next Door]]''.
+* The villainous grocery store in ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]''.
 * Knockturn Alley in ''[[Harry Potter]]'' ([[Evil Counterpart]] to Diagon Alley).
-* The Octopus in ''[[Golden Eye Rogue Agent (Video Game)|Golden Eye Rogue Agent]]''
+* The Octopus in ''[[GoldenEye: Rogue Agent|Golden Eye Rogue Agent]]''
 * Arguably, these exist in ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines]]'' for the [[Player Character]], though some may consider them to be anti-hero mart. These black-market dealers include- in order of severity: a pawnshop owner selling knives and 38. calibre pistols without a license; a bored clerk at a 7-11 offloading firearms to supplement meagre pay; a Chinese ex-military herbalist with several "[[Deadly Euphemism|remedies]]" that can only be bought with cash; a black-market dealer with more than a few ties to organised crime, working from the back of his truck; finally, there's Mercurio, a Ghoul arms dealer working for Prince Lacroix, capable of finding just about anything for anyone. A borderline case may be found in the form of Pisha the Nagrajara, a flesh-eating immortal lurking in the basement of a [[Abandoned Hospital|condemned hospital]], who'll happily hand over some very useful items- provided you can find the occult items she's been searching for.
 * An episode of ''[[The Unusuals]]'' featured a store that sold murder equipment.
 * The ''[[Champions]]'' supplement ''Gadgets!'' mentioned two organizations that sold weapons and other equipment to super villains: the West German KRONOS and Japanese ISE (International Scientific Elite).
-* The webcomic ''[[Evil Inc (Webcomic)|Evil Inc]].'' is all about one of these.
+* The webcomic ''[[Evil Inc.|Evil Inc]].'' is all about one of these.
 * HenchCo in [[Kim Possible]]. Equipment and minions.
 * ''[[Despicable Me]]'' has the Bank Of Evil (formerly Lehman Brothers).
-* ''[[Men in Black (Film)|Men in Black]]''. Jack Jeebs provided exotic weaponry to alien criminals, such as the "reverberating carbonizer with mutate capacity" he sold to an unlicensed Cephalopoid assassin.
+* ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]''. Jack Jeebs provided exotic weaponry to alien criminals, such as the "reverberating carbonizer with mutate capacity" he sold to an unlicensed Cephalopoid assassin.
 * [[Megamind]] subverts this: he builds all his gadgets himself and he gets all his decorative stuff ("computers" that consist of nothing but flashing lights) from a small outlet in Romania.
-* In the second ''[[Hellboy (Film)|Hellboy]]'' film there is the troll market.
+* In the second ''[[Hellboy (film)|Hellboy]]'' film there is the troll market.
 * Several [[Marvel]] villains made careers out of this: Arcade used to make money by producing robotic "heroes" for the villains to practice on while Taskmaster made money by providing training for [[Mooks]].
-* In the [[Cold Opening]] of ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies (Film)|Tomorrow Never Dies]]'', [[James Bond (Film)|James Bond]] infiltrates one of these. Cue [[Stuff Blowing Up]] and an escape in a fighter jet.
+* In the [[Cold Opening]] of ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies]]'', [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] infiltrates one of these. Cue [[Stuff Blowing Up]] and an escape in a fighter jet.
 * In [[Real Life]], there's the black market where you can get things you're not supposed to be legally getting.
 * The entire country of Malaria in ''[[Igor]]'', though it's less "buy our evil stuff" and more "pay us to not ''sell'' it".