History TabletopGame / MutantChronicles

''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}}s (''TabletopGame/DoomTrooper'' and ''TabletopGame/DarkEden''), three {{Board Game}}s (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 VideoGame (''VideoGame/DoomTroopers'', the second one planned to be a RTS in the vein of ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'' was canned), a novel trilogy, a short ComicBook series and a film whose writers apparently just didn't know or didn't care, not to say it wasn't still good on its own.

* HumansAreWarriors: [[spoilers:Why the Ancients decided to make humanity their plan to repulse the Dark Soul forever-we're naturally more violent, which means naturally more ''ambitious and determined'' then they were.]]

* KillItWithFire: What's a dark sci-fantasy game without a flamethrower and Mutant Chronicles is no exception. For those creatures that resist heavy machine guns, the Cartel can burn them with the Gehenna Puker and every faction has their own flamethrower.

** Mishima - Mostly Edo Japan, with {{samurai}}, {{ninja}}s and warrior monks. A few bits and pieces of other asian cultures are present, such as TheTriadsAndTheTongs as the main criminal organisation, and the city of Fukido, which is basically Hong Kong (it's on lease to Imperial for 99 years following a lost war, natch).

* ShoddyKnockoffProduct: This is Mishima's economic niche. Barring a few items (such as swords), the Mishima corporation mass produces poor quality goods. They still profit heavily as these goods are cheap to manufacture and are highly affordable to the masses.

* GermanicEfficiency: Bauhaus. In spades.

* CompleteMonster: A given for the Dark Legion, but many of Capitol's Free Marines are this. Crimes that they have been charged with while on duty, include rape and cannibalism.

* AbnormalAmmo: Some Dark Legion guns use it: black holes, corrosive chemicals, bullets that [[FaceHeelTurn turn you into]] [[TheDarkSide a Heretic]] and energy drained from ''[[FetusTerrible demonic fetuses]]''. Squicky.

* CoolTank: Many examples such as Cybertronic's Armadillo twin-cannon hovertank and most famously, the Bauhaus Grizzly. More of a mobile fortress than a standard tank. The Grizzly boasts enough armour to withstand most anti-armour weapons, a 180mm anti-tank cannon to kill other tanks and a 230mm mortar plus a number of 40mm cannons and heavy machine guns for dealing with smaller prey. On the other hand, it's so big that it burns 31 gallons of diesel per kilometre traveled.

** Whitestar, introduced in 3E, is far more openly based on Russia (with shades of the Soviet Union) than Bauhaus, though [[fridgebrilliance it is noted]] that some Russians defected to Bauhaus in the "old days" (and there is bad blood between the two factions over it).

* CoolTank: The Bauhaus Grizzly. More of a mobile fortress than a standard tank. The Grizzly boasts enough armour to withstand most anti-armour weapons, a 180mm anti-tank cannon and a 230mm mortar plus a number of smaller cannons and machine guns for dealing with smaller prey. On the other hand, it's so big that it burns 31 gallons of diesel per kilometre traveled.

* ShoddyKnockoffProduct: This is Mishima's economic niche. Barring a few items (such as swords), the Mishima corporation mass produces poor quality goods. They still profit heavily as these goods are cheap to manufacture and are highly affordable.

* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Brotherhood Crucifiers, these are Brotherhood soldiers in special powered armour with four arms to carry more weapons. [[spoiler:Ancients had this naturally.]]

** For humanity, the Pulse Rifle (a high end gun used most often by the Doomtroopers) uses highly-explosive plasma shells for taking down small numbers of Dark Legionaires per shot.
* TheAgeless: Whoever is currently the Cardinal and his brothers are eternally young due to their unique Art.

* DarkSecret: The Cardinal and his brothers have unique supernatural techniques that make them almost immortal. They take turns becoming the next Cardinal after the previous one "dies", so there's actually no chance that anyone else can lead the Brotherhood.

* InhumanlyBeautifulRace: In the 3rd edition of Mutant Chronicles RPG from Modiphius, the Dr. Diana clones have been engineered to be so beautiful that they have a rule where enemies attacking them must roll or else they avoid harming such a beautiful woman.

* KillItWithFire: What's a dark sci-fantasy game without a flamethrower and Mutant Chronicles is no exception. For those creatures that resist heavy machine guns, the Cartel can burn them with the Gehenna Puker.

* CoolTank: The Bauhaus Grizzly. More of a mobile fortress than a standard tank. The Grizzly boasts enough armour to withstand most anti-armour weapons, a 180mm anti-tank cannon and a 230mm mortar plus a number of smaller cannons and machine guns for dealing with smaller prey. On the other hand, it's so big that burns 31 gallons of diesel per kilometre traveled.

** Imperial guns aren't the best made or fanciest, but they're the most expensive on the market because they're the ones that hit the hardest because of their greater than average size.

* {{Raygun}}: As of 3rd edition, Cybertronic is starting to field laser rifles as move to going more high tech for firearms.

* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Brotherhood Crucifiers. [[spoiler:Ancients had this naturally.]]

* TheAtoner: The entire Imperial corporation. It was Imperial explorers who broke the Seal of Repulsion, and released the Dark Soul. Imperial has done everything in its power to make up for their great shame since.

* AuthorityInNameOnly: Lord Mishima is in theory the head of Mishima, and as such one of the six most powerful people alive. In practice, the only people who obey him are his ten thousand or so retainers and his only duties are to represent Mishima in the Cartel, but everyone knows that all negotiations of weight with Mishima need to be done directly with one of the High Lords.

%%* BadassGrandpa: Jake Kramer, Brotherhood personalities Cardinal Dominic, Inquisitor Nicodemus and Sebastian Crenshaw. To name a few.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Cartel Field Agents from the original ''Warzone'' sported suits, and the heretic corporate raider John Baptiste from ''Warzone: Resurrection'' wears one as well.

%%* {{BFS}}: Dark Legion Nepharites love them. Imperial Wolf Packs too (if they don't have AnAxeToGrind, of course).