History SCPFoundation / TropesNToR

* RockOfLimitlessWater: Inverted with SCP-402, which absorbs limitless water.
** SCP-045 is a straight example, producing water when exposed to nitrogen in an environment with less than 380 atmospheres of pressure.

%%* OurHumansAreDifferent: Many [=SCP=]s (such as [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-516925/scp-1788 1788]]) imply humanity has a radically different origin and/or true nature in the Foundationverse. Of particular note are [[RealityWarper Type-Greens]]; humans who spontaneously develop the ability to alter reality to varying extents.

* RockOfLimitlessWater: Inverted with [=SCP=]-402, which absorbs limitless water.
** [=SCP=]-045 is a straight example, producing water when exposed to nitrogen in an environment with less than 380 atmospheres of pressure.

* {{Room 101}}: The [[[[https://scpclassic.wikidot.com/scp-100 old SCP-100 entry]] was a porta-john that performs {{Mind Rape}} on anyone inside as soon as the door shuts. All the researchers could get from D-Class victims was that it grows enormous when the door is closed.

* OurGhoulsAreCreepier: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6387 SCP-6387]] offers a unique variation on the ghoul. [[spoiler: Turns out this one isn't malicious, and was in fact trying to save someone who was accidentally buried alive.]]

%%* OurMermaidsAreDifferent:
%%** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-327 SCP-327]]

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/marysuewho The tale starring "Agent Doctor Merry Sue"]] initially reads as a textbook example, with only a few hints that things aren't as they seem, until it's finally revealed that [[spoiler: she's a literal RealityWarper trying to beat the Foundation by joining them. She was fed to 682.]]

** One of the researchers involved takes 2422-C under her wing once she realizes what's involved with them. [[spoiler: She goes on to pass on the "duty" of protecting as much of their human dignity as possible to a successor she trusts.]]

* PlayingWithFire: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2814 SCP-2814]] can give people this power, plus [[AGodAmI very delusional thoughts]] (or are they?). Its creator's true intention was [[spoiler: to use the mask's victims to feed the sun ("Our Radiant Father"), but three other stars ("Father's brothers") are stealing the energy away -- and the victims aren't quite dead, including the mask's creator (who realizes this probably wasn't the best way to help "father")]].

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1514 SCP-1514]] [[spoiler: "Are the stars pretty"]]

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2591 SCP-2591]]'s way of speaking. His side of an interview tends to end with [redacted for brevity]. It turns out [[spoiler: he's from the world of an unfinished opera whose author quit after Music/GiuseppeVerdi said even he couldn't help his writing]].

** According to [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/code-name-the-truth CODE NAME: The Truth]], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-184 SCP-184]] is responsible for [[spoiler: the ''expansion of the universe.'' Beyond GN-Z11, there's nothing but defective copies of the Milky Way being repeated over and over.]]

* RedStringOfFate: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2203 SCP-2203]], a carnival "love machine" that can make perfect matches (it can even account for the subject being aromantic and asexual and match them up with perfect friends). As long as you follow it's hints on how to get close to your match and don't, for example, get matched with someone who's already happy with their partner or [[spoiler: attack your match's current partner and get demoted to D-class]] everything will be just fine.

* ReplacementGoldfish: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1976 SCP-1976]] was made by a man to be this for his family after he died of a brain tumor. He thought its powers would make his family see it as their husband and father, instead it [[spoiler: caused his wife to think it was ''her'' father while his children weren't old enough for its powers to work]]. It currently causes anyone within its activation criteria who looks at it to think its their father while their real father becomes a stranger.

** O5-13, Clearance Level O5: ''[=sIERRa tANGo CASpER 3CH0.=]'' (averted entirely), plus an additional short paragraph that has to be typed down to the exact letter within 60 seconds.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: A group calling itself "The Chaos Insurgency" cannot possibly be up to any good. Neither can the Church of the Broken God. Or the Sarckic Cults and their "fleshcrafters".
** [[CharacterizationMarchesOn The Church has since]] [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] [[CharacterizationMarchesOn this trope.]] While the name can and likely means to inspire wariness or fear, the Church [[GodIsGood (or rather, MEKHANE Themselves)]] are firmly for humanity.

%%* ResetButton: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2000 SCP-2000]]. The article massively [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerates]] the trope with relentless, non-stop technobabble and a very convoluted activation process, but is none the less played straight. It has definitely been used multiple times, but right now it's broken.

* PerverseSexualLust: Parodied in the [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/taboo/offset/3 third offset of SCP-4000]] where "to yiff the rabbit" is one of the counter responses, and the general guidelines for exploration under 4000-SEP-1 are: "For the love of Broken God, do not yiff the rabbit." Interviewer Dr. Eugene Jaspers visits the rabbit-like humanoid as usual, but after having a cup of tea with him, they have sex.

* OriginStory: Some of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-001 SCP-001]] proposals are about how the Foundation and sometimes how many groups of interest are formed.

** Played Straight, though, with [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-469 SCP-469]]. Disturbingly straight.
** Your mileage may vary with [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-861 SCP-861]].

* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: The [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2900 SCP-2900]] effect sometimes generates awards for these. Other times, it generates [[MedalOfDishonor awards for actions that people want to forget]].

* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: The [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2900 SCP-2900]] effect sometimes generates awards for these. Other times, it generates [[MedalOfDishonor awards for actions that people want to forget]].

** From [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-507 SCP-507s file]]: "I don’t care how much he grumbles about it; SCP-507 is not to be cleared for challenging [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-076 SCP-076-2]] to fifty rounds of Tic-Tac-Toe. Just… no."

* NoodleIncident: Every single time you see "[DATA EXPUNGED]" or "[REDACTED]"; it seems like the whole idea is to have at least one such incident per SCP. The unspecified reason why [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-447 SCP-447]] must ''never'' come into contact with dead bodies is especially noodly and is occasionally referred to elsewhere (as seen below, it scares O5-2 shitless).
** [[invoked]]SCP-231 is essentially a NoodleIncident played for {{Squick}} and horror rather than laughs. Whatever you think the notorious "Procedure 110-Montauk" is, it's much, MUCH worse... [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe_Boll and even then, it's much worse than that]]. Speculation on what Procedure 110-Montauk is at times gets comparable to TheAristocrats — a FAQ had a bunch of [DATA REDACTED]s interspersed with mentions of an elephant, a bed of live cobras, Barbara Streisand's Greatest Hits, something that is over seventeen feet long, a staple remover, a feather boa that absolutely ''must'' be black (and not dark blue), and "plutonium splitting the atom." [[note]]Of course, TheAristocrats is only "[[BlackComedy funny]]" if you're not [[ColdBloodedTorture on the literal ass end of it...]][[/note]]

** [[invoked]]SCP-231 is essentially a NoodleIncident played for {{Squick}}} and horror rather than laughs. Whatever you think the notorious "Procedure 110-Montauk" is, it's much, MUCH worse... [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe_Boll and even then, it's much worse than that]]. Speculation on what Procedure 110-Montauk is at times gets comparable to TheAristocrats — a FAQ had a bunch of [DATA REDACTED]s interspersed with mentions of an elephant, a bed of live cobras, Barbara Streisand's Greatest Hits, something that is over seventeen feet long, a staple remover, a feather boa that absolutely ''must'' be black (and not dark blue), and "plutonium splitting the atom." [[note]]Of course, TheAristocrats is only "[[BlackComedy funny]]" if you're not [[ColdBloodedTorture on the literal ass end of it...]][[/note]]

* {{Precursors}}: Going into the very distant past, you get [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6204 Sapiensaurus]], a species of intelligent theropods that developed an advanced civilization over 100 million years ago. It's safe to say the Foundationverse has ancient advanced civilizations coming out the wazoo.
%%** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1000 SCP-1000]] (Bigfoot) and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4000 SCP-4000]] (the Fae).

!!''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' provides examples of the following tropes:

* NecessaryWeasel: The Foundation uses ordinary (that is, not paranormal) drugs which can [[LaserGuidedAmnesia erase memories]]. Nothing like that actually exists, but they're necessary to maintain TheMasquerade, which is itself necessary for PlausibleDeniability.
** One short story posits that instead of drugs, Class A Amnestics are good old-fashioned [[TwoPlusTortureEqualsFive psychological torture and brainwashing]].
** SCP-3000 explains the existence of Amnestics by [[spoiler:introducing a giant sea serpent that excretes it after a human sacrifice]].

* OminousMessageFromTheFuture: While it is unclear exactly who or what is responsible for its creation, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6135 SCP-6135]], an anomalous recording of Billy Joel's ''We Didn't Start the Fire'', contains several additional verses which appear to predict future events (of course, the documentation in question was written in 1991, so many of these events will be familiar to modern readers). The real kicker comes at the end, when it's revealed that "Research into the identities of Tim [[RougeAnglesOfSatin McVay]] and Harry Potter is ongoing."

* OminousMessageFromTheFuture: While it is unclear exactly who or what is responsible for its creation, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6135 SCP-5135]], an anomalous recording of Billy Joel's ''We Didn't Start the Fire'', contains several additional verses which appear to predict future events (of course, the article in question was written during the 1990s, many of these events will be familiar to modern readers).

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: A group calling itself "The Chaos Insurgency" cannot possibly be up to any good. Neither can the Church of the Broken God.

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1000 SCP-1000]] (Bigfoot) and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4000 SCP-4000]] (the Fae).

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1004 SCP-1004]] is this in its purest form.

%%**[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1000 SCP-1000]] (Bigfoot) and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4000 SCP-4000]] (the Fae).

** To make things even more confusing, since the numbers for RetGone [=SCPs=] were freed up, the wiki wound up with new [=SCPs=] under old numbers. The weirdest case being SCP-098, which is mentioned in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/dr-clef-s-proposal Dr Clef's SCP-001 proposal]] because it [[https://scpclassic.wikidot.com/scp-098 was]] a HellGate, but now the number is used for [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-098 crabs]]. ("[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scpfmmdbc-hub Truly these are the crabs]] [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-gate-opens that bring about the apocalypse.]]")

* {{Room 101}}: The old SCP-100 entry is a port-a-potty that performs {{Mind Rape}} on anyone inside as soon as the door shuts. All the researchers could get from D-Class victims was that it grows enormous when the door is closed.

* RuleThirtyFour: SCP-914 has frequently made this of an anthropomorphic female version of itself called Clockwork-Chan, at one point even rewriting it’s own file into what is basically a hentai fanfic.
%%** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1004 SCP-1004]] is this in its purest form.

* PowerLevels: [=SCPs=] are classified with an "object class" that, in a {{subversion}} of this trope, is not a measure of how dangerous an SCP is, but rather, how difficult it is to keep in containment: perfectly harmless [=SCPs=] can still be difficult to contain, while an SCP that can be easily contained can still be dangerous. Object classes consist of the following levels:
** "Safe": Easily contained and not liable to escape.
** "Euclid": Requires a significant amount of resources to contain, and containment may not be reliable. By default, any SCP that exhibits sentience is classified as Euclid due to the inherent unpredictability of entities capable of independent thought and action.
** "Keter": Highly difficult to contain, often requiring vast amounts of resources and complex containment procedures. Also highly liable to escaping.
** "Thaumiel": An SCP that is specifically used to contain other [=SCPs=].
** "Neutralized": [=SCPs=] that are no longer anomalous due to being disabled or destroyed.