''Macho Women with Guns'' (MWWG) is a

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originally created by

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and published by

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(BTRC). Nominally a science-fiction game, it parodies action films, how "strong female characters" are depicted in such films, and the tropes of popular violence-heavy role-playing games.

Setting

''Macho Women with Guns'' is set in a near-future America where society has collapsed due to the misdeeds of the

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. Taking advantage of the earthly chaos,

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has dispatched her female minions, the Batwinged Bimbos From Hell, to rebuild society in a form she approves of. The

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has responded to Satan's plans by dispatching its elite group of warrior nuns, The Sisters of Our Lady of Harley-Davidson to combat the bimbos. The two groups of women compete (sometimes violently) to rebuild civilization by vanquishing post-apocalyptic menaces and

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. Dimensional warps caused by the conflict have opened connections to a series of parallel universes, each of which represents a different genre environment such as

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. These universes, along with Earth, constitute a

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that ''Macho Women with Guns'' calls The Machoverse.

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s in ''Macho Women with Guns'' are

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