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[[File:mutchron.jpg|frame|The first boxed set]]
''Mutant Chronicles'' is a post-apocalyptic role playing game created by the Swedish company Target Games. It also spawned a semi-successful franchise: two [[Collectible Card Game|Collectible Card Games]] ([[Doom Trooper]] and [[Darkeden]]), three [[Board Game|Board Games]] (Fury of the Clansmen, Blood Berets and Doom Troopers: Siege of the Citadel) two tabletop wargames (War Zone and Mutant Chronicles: Collectible Miniatures Game), a [[Video Game]] (''[[
What's it all about? Earth gets too tight for the [[Mega Corp|MegaCorps]], so after battling for quite a time, they go and colonize the whole inner Solar System (and a few outposts beyond), since [[All Planets Are Earthlike]] (MASSIVE terraforming). Sadly, [[The British Empire|Imperial]] colonizers go a planet too far, reaching the mysterious Tenth Planet (named Nero) and unleashing the [[Cosmic Horror]] - The Dark Soul along with its [[Humanoid Abomination|Apostles]] and their [[The Legions of Hell|Dark Legion]]. People go nuts and form [[Religion of Evil|evil cults]], the Dark Symmetry makes [[AI Is a Crapshoot|all sufficiently powerful computers go evil]], [[Demonic Invaders|Demonic]] [[Alien Invaders]] expand their ranks with [[Squick|Squicky]] [[Body Horror]] Shop creations from cybernetic [[The Undead|zombies]] and [[Mutants]] of different kinds to [[Godzilla]]-sized zombies to biomechanical [[Spider Tank|Spider Tanks]]. In short: [[The End of the World
Of course, the [[Mega Corp|MegaCorps]] try to stop them, get their asses handed to them a couple of times, and if not for a [[Church Militant]] called the Brotherhood, they'd [[Memetic Mutation|fail forever]]. With the Brotherhood's help, the bigger part of humanity repents (mainly because the [[Knight Templar|Brotherhood's]] [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|methods are brutal,]] [[The Extremist Was Right|but work for humanity's good]]), leveling the playing field. On the other hand, [[We ARE Struggling Together!|corporate rivalries aren't forgotten]]; if the Corporations aren't kicking Legion ass, they're most probably butting heads over resources. If the [[United Nations|Cartel]], a body formed especially to mediate among the [[Mega Corp|MegaCorps]], allows it. Most of the time, it does.
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* [[Abnormal Ammo]] - some Dark Legion guns use it: black holes, corrosive chemicals, bullets that [[Face Heel Turn|turn you into]] [[The Dark Side|a Heretic]] and energy drained from ''[[Fetus Terrible|demonic fetuses]]''. Squicky.
* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]] - played straight in the backstory, adjusted for the [[Rule of Fun]] in the game itself. Cybertronic is a [[Exactly What It Says
** Double-subverted in that {{spoiler|1=Cybertronic's supposed AIs are actually wetware/hardware interfaces (i.e. the main component is always a cybernetically-enhanced [[Brain In
* [[Aliens and Monsters]] - the Dark Legion. Part this, part that. And [[Mutants]] and [[The Legions of Hell|demons]] too.
* [[All There in the Manual]] - see above. ''Warzone: Universe Under Siege'' manual serves backstories by the bucketload, not mentioning the comic book series starring signature characters.
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** [[Badass Biker]] - Imperial Fenris Bikes and Necromowers, though the latter are more like Badass Quads.
** [[Badass Grandpa]] - Jake Kramer, Brotherhood personalities Cardinal Dominic, Inquisitor Nicodemus and Sebastian Crenshaw. To name a few.
** [[Badass in
** [[Badass Longcoat]] - Jake Kramer.
** [[Badass Long Robe]] - Brotherhood elite units, like Inquisitors.
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* [[Bilingual Bonus]] - In the film, [[Ron Perlman]] says the Our Father in Irish.
* [[Black Magic]] - Dark Symmetry. Duh.
* [[Blade
* [[Bling of War]] - Mishima with their samurai-styled armors, Brotherhood with [[Badass Long Robe|Badass Long Robes]] and Imperial Wolf Packs to name a few.
* [[Body Horror]] - Dark Legion is rife with this. Heretic Corruptors, Metropolitan Prophets and Cairaths to name a few. And if you're a Heretic, pray your Apostle you don't start succumbing to [[The Corruption]].
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* [[Cosmic Horror Story]] - Not mandatory, but it's easy for the [[Game Master]] to make any campaign into this. It's just as easy to make it one flavor or another of [[Lovecraft Lite]], though.
* [[Creepy Child]] - Voice of Demnogonis. Looks like a perfectly normal child and drains life from your troops pretty quickly. Also the Children of Ilian (see [[Child Soldiers]] above).
* [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]] - that's what The Brotherhood thinks about Cybertronic. They just wait for a bigger screw-up to round up the whole corporation and [[Kill It
* [[The Dark Side]] - Dark Symmetry.
* [[Deadly Decadent Court]] - Any of the three nobility-styled [[Mega Corp|MegaCorps]] can have some aspects of this among its constituent noble houses, but the courts of Overlord Mishima and his three heirs are the best example.
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** Cybertronic - multinational corporate hive.
** Imperial - United Kingdom, mostly with an Elisabethan/Victorian feel. Some of the units are [[Violent Glaswegian|violent]] [[Scotireland|Scotirish]] Highlanders with a berserk streak and love for facepaint.
** Mishima - Mostly Edo Japan, with [[Samurai]], [[Ninja|ninjas]] and warrior monks. A few bits and pieces of other asian cultures are present, such as [[The Triads and
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]] - being processed into any of the Legionnaire or Necromutant variants. Or even "reanimated" into Cybertronic service... when your original Corporation manages to capture you alive.
* [[Five-Bad Band]] - The Dark Soul and its Apostles fit pretty well.
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* [[Gatling Good]] - a lot of heavy machine guns are those. Amount of barrels may vary, from three to [[More Dakka|shitload]].
* [[Geo Effects]] - In the tabletop wargames, pieces of terrain provide cover, concealment, the usual blah.
* [[Girl
* [[Golem]] - Dark Legion creations (hence the full name being 'Golem of Darkness').
* [[Gratuitous German]] - the names of some Bauhaus units and characters.
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* [[Hell Gate]] - Nero.
* [[Humongous Mecha]] - Imperial Hurricane Walkers. Not as humongous as Praetorian Behemoths, but still pretty big.
** Cybertronic's Eradicator Deathdroids approach this scale; however, the absolute king of this trope in-universe is (unsurprisingly) Mishima, ranging from the 8-10 ft. [[Powered Armor|Shoa Ace custom battle armor]] to the 100-ft. [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Interservice Rivalry]] - introduced in ''Warzone: Universe Under Siege'', where each faction has units divided between separate "services" that usually don't mix up.
* [[The Juggernaut]] - Dark Legion has a good few of'em, size XXXL. The Mercurian Maculator and Praetorian Behemoth, for instance. The biggest of all though is the [[Our Giants Are Bigger|Bio-Giant]].
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* [[No One Gets Left Behind]] - Capitol sergeants get PAID for this.
* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]] - Cartel, some Megacorp officers as well.
* [[Officer and
* [[One-Winged Angel]] - Stahler from Dark Legion. When you shoot him for the first time, the fun is only starting.
* [[Organic Technology]] - Dark Legion Necrotech. Part organic, part demonic, all squicky.
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* [[Samurai]] - Mishima's nobles and military, of course. They recently integrated ashigaru commoner-soldier units into the military, though, due to growing manpower needs and changing times. The enticement of escaping second-class citizen status (i.e. become a samurai yourself) if you perform well enough makes recruitment easy.
* [[Scary Black Man]] - Big Bob Watts. Imagine [[Michael Clarke Duncan]] with two freaking [[BFG|CANNONS]] on his shoulders. Yeah. There.
* [[Sealed Evil in
* [[Shoulders of Doom]] - old Capitol figures are most probably one of the biggest offenders. If we count Stahler out, that is.
* [[Sinister Scythe]] - some Dark Legion units wield those.
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* [[Sword and Gun]] - depends on the unit. Brotherhood infantry is usually the embodiment of this trope.
* [[Take Cover]] - it helps. See "Geo Effects" above.
* [[Taking You
* [[Torture Technician]] - in the fluff, Inquisitors. In Warzone, and very squickily, Eonian Justifiers. To name a few.
* [[Turn
* [[Ubermensch]] - Vince Diamond. In short: bleached [[Cyborg]] [[Vin Diesel]]. Some other Cybertronic troops also qualify.
* [[Undead Child]] - Children of Ilian. They beat the crap out of your units with rattles and slingshots.
* [[War for Fun
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]] - Legionnaires aplenty. Those guys are zombies WITH GUNS. Also, painfully literal in [[The Movie]].
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