Mutant Chronicles is a pen-and-paper role-playing movie set in a post-apocalyptic world, originally published in 1993. It has spawned a franchise of card movies, miniature warmovies, computer video movies, novels, and comic books. A movie based on the movie world is currently in development and a collectible miniatures movie by Fantasy Flight movies is due for release in June 2008.

Mutant Chronicles was developed by the Swedish company Target movies as a successor of their earlier Mutant RPG series. The rights to the movie are now owned by Paradox Entertainment.

In 2006, the Swedish movie company COG movies secured the license rights to publish a new edition of the role-playing movie, for which there currently is no release date.
The movie takes place in a distant future, where the Earth is a long since plundered desert, and humanity has spread to the worlds of Venus, Mars, Mercury, Luna (the first settlement following the exodus from Earth), and the Asteroid Belt.

Over the centuries, the traditional nation-states of the world have merged into huge corporations, of which five are large enough to be called megacorporations: Bauhaus, styled after the culture of continental Europe, the American-influenced Capitol, the Japanese-themed Mishima, the British-inspired Imperial, and Cybertronic, all of whom use private military forces to fight for resources. Luna itself is considered to be neutral ground and is home to the massive city-state known as Luna City. The other major power of this universe is the Brotherhood, a fanatical religious organization formed to meet the threat of the Dark Legion, an ancient evil comprised of five "Dark Apostles" and their horde of hideous mutants.

The reign of the Dark Legion began as mankind set foot on Nero, a fictional 10th planet beyond the orbit of Pluto, where they discovered a citadel. As they entered, the Imperial Conquistadors – a group of interplanetary explorers – accidentally broke the First Seal Of Repulsion, a thin ring of salt spread around the citadel. Inside, a mysterious iron plate was found, and as it was touched, the Dark Legion was brought to our dimension, and along with it, the Dark Symmetry.

The Dark Symmetry prevents computers and other electronic devices from functioning reliably, if at all, and initially caused complete chaos, and then a forced adaptation of the technology used by mankind. The Dark Legion is capable of faster than light-travel, utilizing certain points in space, much like wormholes.

The Dark Legion is the enemy of all mankind and commands the most powerful armies of the solar system, including Legionnaires, resurrected corpses of fallen Megacorp heroes; Necromutants, hideously modified humanoids; Centurions, the lethal lieutenants of the Dark Legion; and Nepharites, fearsome, towering behemoths of unimaginable power.