Oddbean

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 @2d6fed24 Doesn't he just work for The Company, though? He never actually mentions WY

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 @173c3287 WY is The Company though? 

AVP wiki cites Cameron:
 https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Carter_Burke

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 @2d6fed24 it is, but I thought it was kept Deliberately Vague for Reasons

I think @c3187b80 probably has Opinions on this

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 @173c3287 "The Company"  (but yeah, probably W-Y), but then W-Y could just as easily be Yoyodyne, or OCP.

@2d6fed24

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 @c3187b80 @173c3287 but there are W-Y logos on offices doors, etc so they're not exactly a generic company in the film

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 @2d6fed24 true, but it is a generic combination of an "old world" British name and an "exotic" Japanese name as part of an overall anxiety that the US wasn't always going to be the "top nation" (which was a big concern for USians in the 1980s) @173c3287

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 @c3187b80 @173c3287 Yep

https://alienanthology.fandom.com/wiki/Weyland-Yutani#:~:text=In%20coming%20up%20with%20a,a%20Japanese%20neighbor%20of%20mine.%22&text=The%20original%20spelling%20of%20the,no%20D%20in%20the%20name).