History TearJerker / SCPFoundation

* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/peace-i-would-settle-for-that This]] decidedly non-canon tale provides an interesting take on SCP-173's origins and motivations. In this particular tale, he's actually ''Ted'' from Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream in one of the various mouthless forms that AM has transformed him into over the centuries to torment him. The reason he kills the people who avert their gaze is a mix of a desperate need to remove anything that could keep him immobilized and a desperate desire to [[SuicideByCop finally be put out of his misery.]] He doesn't even have the one comfort he thinks he has of being free of AM, because the tale also reveals that AM transferred himself into a new body after Ted vanished into the SCP world so he could kill the humans he despised so much all over again. The powerful, nigh-indestructible, infinitely adaptable body we know as ''SCP-682''. One particular part of the tale shows just how deep AM's cruelty goes towards Ted, considering that in this new form, he still has a stomach and can feel hunger, but has no mouth to eat with. It's somehow ''even crueler'' than its book counterpart.

* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1841-ex SCP-1841-EX]]: Listzomania was once considered an SCP, and thanks to one overzealous researcher's fears of it reappearing, the SCP Foundation was responsible for a number of deaths in the music industry, including those in The Day That The Music Died, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Tupac Shakur. A bunch of singers died just because one guy in the Foundation thought fans were going too wild for them.

* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5000 SCP-5000]], Why? The SCP itself is a mobile suit that acts as a powerful PerceptionFilter for the pilot, allowing them to remain undetected by their surroundings. The suit's recording archives reveal that it came from an AlternateTimeline where the Foundation inexplicably declares that they have gone back on their mission of securing and containing anomalous objects to protect humanity, and now intend to ''[[KillAllHumans exterminate humanity]]''. Pietro Wilson, a Foundation employee who piloted the suit, is just as shocked as the reader likely is, trying to gather information on ''why'' the Foundation suddenly turned its back on humankind (hence the title of the SCP), while reading about the Foundation intentionally releasing hazardous [=SCPs=] to aid in their genocidal directive; conversely, human and human-sympathetic skips are terminated, and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2000 SCP-2000 "Deus Ex Machina"]], the SCP that can rebuild human civilization, is destroyed when the Foundation intentionally blows up Yellowstone. Wilson then digs into the vote leading up to this catastrophe, and sees that countless Foundation employees either [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere resigned]] or [[DrivenToSuicide committed suicide]] out of protest and/or [[DespairEventHorizon despair]]. Wilson and the reader never quite learn the purpose of such a horrific mass-murder act, but it's implied that the Foundation discovered that ''human emotion itself'' is an anomaly.

* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/lily-s-proposal The World's Gone Beautiful]], Lily's SCP-001 proposal, is an event recorded from several parallel universes, and may well take place in our own, in which unusually beautiful and vibrant flowers will spontaneously bloom across 90% of the world's surface. Air pollution will clear up, the weather will become pleasant, and every person in the world will know that [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt all life on the planet will end in 24 hours]], resulting in an immense sense of calm. The containment procedures note that when this event takes place, all Foundation employees (including D-class) shall be honorably discharged and left to do whatever they want with their remaining time, and any sapient, non-aggressive [=SCPs=] will also be allowed to walk free. The world will be beautiful one last time before it all ends.
** Its subtitle references an environmental folk song from 1971 by Malvina Reynolds; when put in the context of the incident, the lyrics become all the more apt - here's the first verse, for example:

* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-191 SCP-191]], the Cyborg Child, was just a normal little girl (''younger than 10'') until a MadScientist abducted and turned her into a cyborg. [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/experiment-log-191 Her Experiment Log]], especially the second and third experiment[[note]]the license plates she generated can be read as "I AM 191. 191 IS A GOOD MACHINE."[[/note]], and fact that she never requests anything, including the information of her relative, hints that she has already accepted her fate and is trying her best to please the Foundation.
** One of the modifications was removing her ovaries and uterus to "provide extra space by removing ''non-vital components''." Several of the modifications to her seem to have been done [[ForScience just to see if they were possible.]]

** Ultimately, the reason for 096 breaking out (and thus needing re-containment in the first place) was a completely tragic set of happenstance that borders on NightmareFuel and ParanoiaFuel: It was a single digital photo, taken by a hiker somewhere in the Himalayas, which just so happened to capture 096 in the background. Thing is, it wasn't even a ''clear'' picture (said to only be ''two pixels wide'') and the hiker likely never even realized what he saw. Then the poor guy just happened to notice one day that this ''one'' particular picture had this ''one'' small, oddly covered patch against the snow on a mountain literally ''miles'' behind him--and this was enough to doom him and ''thousands'' others to a gristly death.