Line #20 HeadScratchers/SCPFoundation


1	For reference, the FAQ is [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/faq here]], and "The Leak", a thread where authors reveal secrets about their [=SCPs=] that they didn't put in the articles, is [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-561991/the-leak here]].
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3	* So, anyone got an official explanation of why My Little Pony is forbidden? I'm just wondering, because I had a funny idea about adding Pinkie Pie as a SCP, as seen here: [[https://www.deviantart.com/sayer09/art/SCP-2378-Pinkie-Pie-358164908 SCP - 2378]]
4	** Because it isn't scary, funny, or clever. Most importantly, it's not original.
5	** The reason is probably twofold. One, the fanbase is notorious for their [[MemeticMutation memes]], with unregulated topical discussions often devolving into those. And two, the hate is similarly crazy and will be sparked if any MLP material shows up. Think of it as another thing to secure, contain, and protect us from.
6	** Very defensive fandom, very offensive hatedom. Not a very good combination.
7	** Also, creating an SCP that's obviously something from another show is generally frowned upon.
8	** SCP derived from pop culture are ''strongly'' frowned upon. Even as -J, with one notable exception.
9	*** Three notable exceptions now: A wheelchair that turns its user into Charles Xavier and the foundation into his school of superheroes, the cast of Stranger Things, and the Kool-Aid Man.
10	** Ponies are one of several subjects not allowed in the main site19 chat because they reliably derail the conversation away from SCP stuff. Attempting to make an SCP of a character or object from a work of fiction you don't own ''will'' get your article deleted with no grace period for plagiarism.
11	* Why hasn't anyone tried showing a picture of 096 to 053?
12	** Maybe they don't want to risk another breach. Besides, this proposed experiment becomes a problem when you realize that 096 and 053 are basically both a HandWave (096 can become invincible, 053 can cause death in anything) so... Maybe they don't WANT to know what would happen.
13	** It really depends on how 096 actually works. Is its invincibility an anomalous property, or are its bones just ''really'' durable? If it's the latter, 053's effect would certainly kill it. If it's the former, then the question is still up in the air.
14	** "Okay, so basically you managed to kill every single person on the site because you tried some weird test which was based around killing something we don't want dead by making a highly dangerous skip breach containment? Yeah, you're fired," is my guess as to why nobody's tried it.
15	* Couldn't they just feed the really dangerous ones to 682?
16	** They might make it stronger.
17	** If that's the case, why not 096 or 173 instead?
18	** They secure, contain, and protect. They don't destroy, destroy, and destroy. That's the Global Occult Coalition's job.
19	*** And mind you, they have a history of making things worse by trying to destroy them.
20	** They try to destroy stuff with conventional weapons first, see the Anamolous Items log for all the harmless things destroyed by the foundation like the Slow-motion Mouse or Steve Jobs' Horcrux.
21	** Also, as the GOC tends to show, "destroying" a SCP typically makes the thing even ''more'' dangerous.
22	* Things like [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1958 SCP-1958]] are articles which only seem to be there for tear jerker or nightmare fuel effects. That said, what exactly IS its anomalous property? It's just sad as hell, but nothing about it is that odd (other than it being a space bus).
23	** How the hell is a ''spaceship bus'' not anomalous?
24	*** To me, it seems like classifying a space shuttle as an SCP.
25	*** One could argue that the microbus being launched in 1958 with technology based on theories not developed until many decades after the launch date is what makes it anomalous.
26	*** The Foundation doesn't only secure and protect the human race's continued existence, they also protect the human perception of what the world is, i. e. a place without flying buses.
27	*** It was likely made from anomalous materials or science.
28	*** A space shuttle is ''supposed'' to fly in space. It's designed, built and used for that very purpose. It's not anomalous to encounter a space shuttle in space because, well, that's where you'd expect to find one. A 1958 Volkswagen bus, however, is ''not'' any of those things by any stretch of the imagination. There are, to date, no known methods of converting an otherwise ordinary Volkswagen to enable it to achieve orbit and enable its passengers to survive in the vacuum without modifying it to the point where it is essentially not a Volkswagen anymore, and there certainly weren't any such methods in the 1950s. The spaceship bus is anomalous because the Foundation have no idea what the people who modified it did to it, how they managed to launch it, how they managed to survive in it for as long as they did, and how they managed to do all of this while being beatnik dropouts in the 1950s. In short, it's anomalous because everything about it goes against all reasonable knowledge, understanding and expectation -- or, in other words, it's an ''anomaly''.
29	*** The confusion is understandable, given that a Volkswagen Bus being in space does not inherently defy the laws of physics (it's not like the things perish when exposed to vacuum or anything). But there are two major problems. First of all is that there are very few circumstances by which a Volkswagen Bus would end up in space, let alone on a trajectory that would lead toward Alpha Centauri, and most plausible scenarios are the sort of thing you would expect to be in the news, not something we'd only find out about once astronomers found the thing in space. Second is that the bus contains advanced technology which shouldn't have been possible in the 1950s, when all evidence points to it having been launched, and some of which we ''still'' don't fully understand. It ''certainly'' shouldn't have been within the capability of four beatniks to make something like this on their own without even alerting anyone. Plus they apparently had ties to the Fifth Church, so that's another issue.
30	* I know that they discontinued further testing between 173 and 682, but...why? It's clearly been shown that 682 will do ANYTHING it can to keep its eyes on 173, and 173 obviously can't move if being watched. Why don't they just keep 682 and 173 in the same room? It would prevent further breaches of either SCP, so...why not?
31	** There isn't a canon, and it's not a particularly interesting conclusion to the story. Plus, cross-testing is dumb.
32	*** I know that neutralizing 682 and 173 would be impractical article-wise, I mean practically, if the SCP foundation was real.
33	*** Cross-testing isn't "dumb", it's disliked by the majority of the regular userbase. Partly because it's been overused, partly because it's disliked by several visible and highly-placed users/admins and thus it's considered wise to echo the sentiment. There's a difference between something being unpopular and/or not a wise idea for various reasons and it being "dumb".
34	*** The first part is agreeable, Cross-testing has been used improperly for a while in various [=SCPs=] (682 and 914 being egregious examples) but it is dumb not because people dislike it, but because it goes against everything the Foundation stands for. The Foundation secures, contains, and protects. Part of that job is leaving stuff alone if you can properly contain it because messing with it might make it worse (and from the perspective of a fandom who's looking for things to GO from bad to worse...) sure, studying the things in order to understand the phenomena better is a point, but sticking it into another room to watch what the reaction is is about as dumb as a regular person playing with combining explosive materials. Just look at all the cleanups the Foundation makes for the GOC on a regular basis. All you have to do is look at SCP-1609 to see why this is a bad idea.
35	** Given how 682's schtick is adapting to survive anything, it's possible they're afraid it will eventually figure out a way to adapt to ''destroy'' 173 or something similar. And while yes, that would mean that 173 isn't around anymore to be dangerous, I doubt having a 682 that is now powerful enough to kill 173 is much better.
36	** Who says 682 would use the eye trick once more only? Maybe after a couple days of this treatment it gets tired, and adapts by creating a wave that turns the walls transparent, showing the researches to 173 who then breaches containment.
37	*** Wouldn't transparent walls work against 173?
38	** It's the same reason that they don't keep 682 and 53 together. In the words of the researcher who did the notes on the 53 experiment,
39	-> ''"It has provided a possible solution to long-term containment. However, approval for the mutual containment of two highly dangerous SCP items in a single containment unit is not likely."''
40	* Speaking of things that would be practical in real life but not so in the story, has anyone ever thought about telling/convincing 239 that she has no powers? If she believes them, then in theory, her powers would either disappear or be disabled because [[RealityWarper reality would correct itself according to her beliefs]].
41	** Well, they already told her her powers were limited to a certain number of spells. Besides, according to the page, reality bends according to her ''desires'', not her ''beliefs'', something that seemingly nobody ever gets correct.
42	*** Well then, considering what the Foundation [[TheChessmaster is like]], why don't they manipulate things so that 239 unwittingly does something to make her no longer ''want'' her powers? It worked for getting the overseers to terminate 096, after all.
43	*** She's contained, and not currently a threat. There's no reason to go through the effort and expense.
44	* Why is 087 classified as Euclid? It can't escape, can't directly hurt anyone, and can't move. It's a freakin' stairwell.
45	** The answer to that lies within the Exploration IV document, which is expunged.
46	** It's not so much the fact that it's a stairwell, so much as the fact of the ''thing'' that lives there. And as above, why that thing is dangerous has been expunged.
47	** It's something that they don't completely understand that harmed a person that went down. Euclid can also include items that they are unpredictably dangerous.
48	** The classification is based on a combination of how dangerous it is and how difficult it is to contain. It's still in the building where they found it and the knocking from inside the door after Exploration IV suggests it could be harder to contain than they originally thought.
49	** Locked box test. "If you lock it in a box and leave it alone and nothing happens, it's Safe. If you lock it in a box and who knows what will happen, it's Euclid. If you lock it in a box and leave it alone and all hell breaks loose, it's Keter." It fits the criteria for Euclid, not Safe, thanks to the previously discussed entity.
50	* The way they terminate D-Class personnel at the end of each month seems kind of stupid and malicious on the Foundation's part. You'd think given the high turnover rate they wouldn't want to do away with whatever D-Class personnel they have left at the end of each month. The near sociopathy of the Foundation aside, it just seems incredibly wasteful.
51	** If there was any possible way for D-class to survive their encounter with the foundation, it might hesitate to kill them as necessary. And since this CrapsackWorld apparently has a near-infinite supply of capital criminals to sacrifice for the greater good. . .
52	*** But the problem is they're explicitly doing away with these guys at the end of the month, so that implies there must at least ''occasionally'' be some left at the end of the month. I can't really think of a reason they'd want to do something like that, it serves no purpose aside from forcing them to "recruit" just a little bit more D-Class personnel each month.
53	*** They don't always terminate them. If they offer a D-Class a pardon for helping they will probably get the pardon. If they survive. The reason they don't keep them is because of the potential for cross-contamination.
54	*** To quote the FAQ guide:
55	---> Do all D-class really get terminated at the end of the month? Are they really all death row inmates? Isn't that canon? Not quite. Yes, writers agree that in-universe, these beliefs are standard. However, many writers believe that this is just a "party line" told to researchers so they don't object to subjecting these people to horrible things. Many believe that D-class are not killed at the end of the month, but instead mind-wiped and reassigned to another site. Or that the Foundation clones them using [=SCPs=]. Or that the Foundation adds political dissidents, homeless people, or people from third-world countries to the ranks of D-Class.
56	*** One article posits that particularly useful D-class with uncommon skillsets that turn out to be useful in dealing with one or more [=SCPs=] are upgraded to "B-class"... they're basically still considered expendable like D-class, but they're exempt from end-of-month termination. It'd be a nice thing to catch on.
57	*** ...B-class? What happened to C-Class?
58	*** D-class personnel are an escape risk, especially if they hang around long enough to learn things. Plus, they might have to schedule new recruits in advance and so any unexpectedly left over put them over capacity and increases the risk of a riot or escape. Also, they interact directly with poorly-understood [=SCPs=], so they're at significant risk of memetic contamination and buildup of long-term effects. Most articles involving studying long-term effects specifically mention that the test subjects have been granted a stay of execution. I'm fairly dubious that they actually pardon the D-class personnel who are offered pardons, although generally they only offer them to incentivize people to participate in the latest round of "Expose D-class personnel to the SCP in order to study how they die" and thus the question of whether to follow through rarely comes up. They probably do transfer any of them who survives doing something especially spectacular to site security or being a bottom-level research assistant, though.
59	*** If the problem is them "learning things," why not just amnestic them? Murdering thousands of people every month is a complete waste of time, effort, and resources, not to mention a horrific ethical violation. Anyway, what nation would knowingly give prisoners over to a company that will kill them anyway? Wouldn't people get extremely suspicious? There's a reason why pretty much nobody at the site really takes this idea seriously any more.
60	** What if all the psychological damage from the non-lethal tests is why they are terminated?
61	* With how focused they are on killing 682, why don't they have SCP-294, which can dispense any liquid, dispense something that will kill 682?
62	** They did, it had the same effect as a nuclear bomb.
63	** (OP) Yeah, I noticed that when I read over SCP-294 in detail instead of just skimming. However, couldn't they specify something along the lines of "kills 682, while having no ill effect on anything or anyone else" ?
64	*** No, because there isn't something that kills 682 without being incredibly dangerous. (That or a new SCP would be made)
65	*** Or they don't want SCP-294 to become a LiteralGenie that finds a way to cause the end of the world anyway but make sure everybody is "unharmed."
66	*** Or they'd get an out or range error. As for killing 682, the first thing that could 'kill 682' that they asked for created a massive explosion. And just because you get something that can kill 682, doesn't mean the foundation knows how to use it (if I asked for something that can kill a human, and was given a gun, doesn't mean I have the ammunition). Or that it wouldn't cause another mega-explosion like the first time they asked for it. Or maybe it can kill 682, but only if it doesn't use it's adaptation ability. There's always a reason why it wouldn't work.
67	*** Uhhhmmmm, you can't cause the end of the world without harming at least a good number of people.
68	*** This is the SCP Foundation setting in which evil memes from another universe area serious threat to humanity. Destroying the world without technically hurting anyone would be normal compared to a lot of skips.
69	*** Perhaps 294 would produce a liquid that consumes non-biological material (Since 682 is implied to not be "alive" in any reasonable sense of the word). Humans would be unharmed, but the Earth would be completely consumed and everyone on Earth would die soon after from lack of oxygen.
70	*** Hence the "or anything" part. And that would ''still'' harm a lot of people.
71	*** Prior experience with other reality-altering or wish-granting [=SCPs=] indicates that it's fairly likely doing that would either simply fail or generate something that does not kill SCP-682.
72	*** Actually, in ''[[VideoGame/SCPContainmentBreach SCP: Containment Breach]]'', you can literally order something to destroy SCP-682, and it vaporizes ''the entire site'' (including SCP-682, presumably) except for SCP-294 and the five meters of area surrounding the SCP for some reason.
73	* How ''do'' you pronounce the word "Keter"?
74	** Rhyming with 'heater', apparently.
75	** Some authors seem to think so. Others rhyme it with 'better', which is compatible with [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Keter.ogg the original Hebrew]].
76	* On SCP-173, there is the following line: "The reddish brown substance on the floor is a combination of feces and blood. Origin of these materials is unknown. The enclosure must be cleaned on a bi-weekly basis." Its that last sentence that makes me puzzled: why is it necessary to clean the room? The room is completely sealed, so the smell can't be a problem and I doubt the SCP itself would be adversely affected by getting left in the uncleaned room. It seems like a unnecessary thing to risk a breach over...
77	** The SCP produces the substance. What do you think the SCP does if there's ''enough'' of the substance around?
78	** Hm, I never actually thought about that, but now [[FridgeLogic it seems obvious]]: if the substance fills the room, no one can see 173. Not even the cameras.
79	*** it's probably cleaned for sanitation reasons; the cleaning would probably be done by automatic showers. How exactly you jumped from something as ordinary as "shit must be cleaned off the floor" to "It wants to cover the world in shit" is beyond my comprehension.
80	* SCP-343 (fairly certain that's the correct number) is...well, basically, ''God''. Why not just ask if he/she/it can destroy SCP-682?
81	** They did. He said that since he didn't create it, it's not his problem.
82	*** OH, AndThatsTerrible once you consider the implications.
83	* Why don't they try telling SCP-239 that SCP-682 is dead?
84	** It's possible that they did, but either her powers didn't work or SCP-682 is not even biologically alive in the first place.
85	*** Several experiments on 682 do seem to indicate its status as "living", by humans' understanding of the condition, is ambiguous at best.
86	** Plus they'd have to explain to her that SCP-682 exists and what it is. What if she asks where it came from? What if she thinks there is a planet it came from? What if she thinks the planet's inhabitants are preparing to invade Earth?
87	** They want to limit interaction between 239 and other researchers as possible, in case she perceives them as a friend.
88	** 239's powers aren't based on what she believes, they're based on what she ''wants'', something that seemingly nobody ever gets correct. Furthermore, it can only affect what she sees, meaning that they'd have to get the two in the same room, where 682 can easily just kill her.
89	*** If her powers are based on wants and not beliefs, then why does Clef want to kill her? Does she /want/ him to kill her? Or is it because she believes he wants to kill her?
90	*** She doesn't know Clef wants to kill her. Presumably she has to be consciously aware that she wants reality to be altered in some way. Not that it matters seeing as how Clef can't be affected by reality-warping.
91	*** Clef is immune to reality-warping powers, for unknown reasons.
92	* Is there any part of the site that identifies where the pictures for the articles come from? I can recognize some, but I'm curious as to where a few others are from.
93	** You could always use Google's "search by image" function.
94	*** That works great! Thanks!
95	** Or, if you're looking for the original pic of 682, try typing "Moscow Monster" into google images.
96	* When agents encounter an SCP that's human, they seem to leave him or her in what is essentially solitary confinement for life. Even accomodating everything the Foundation can do to keep them satisfied, the fact that they're by themselves could cause all sorts of psychological problems. There are at least a few people who have potentially world-ending powers they'd never use because they're so nice. The last thing you want to do is turn them psychotic enough to apply said world-ending powers. If the primary purpose is to prevent the outside world of knowing of what they're capable of, then among the ones with enough control to maintain a normal appearance, wouldn't it be better to let them travel about and socialize, as long as they remain monitored and never let anyone know of the Foundation or their abilities? In other words, why doesn't the Foundation have some counterpart to probation? The clairvoyants would appreciate it very much, for instance, or the super-lucky guy, though I'd understand that cases like the cell-shedding baby or the cyborg girl require total solitary confinement.
97	** Sooner or later somebody would get hit by a bus or something and things might begin to go very, very wrong.
98	** Super Lucky Guy can't be released because according to Addendum 1-A-07X█, his (involuntary) power isn't just being lucky, it's like he leeches the luck out of everyone around him.
99	** Also, read the [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/so-you-want-to-write-a-humanoid-scp-object article]] on humanoid [=SCPs=]. Secure, Contain, Protect. Nothing about comfort. Containment procedures are usually about how to keep the subjects contained and unable to use their powers, so that's covered.
100	** Plus, just because an SCP ''appears'' safe doesn't mean it is. Just look at 1048, it was thought to be a harmless teddy bear until they found out it kills people and makes new teddy bears out of their bodies.
101	** They do allow certain [=SCPs=] to request reasonable items, so the less dangerous humanoid [=SCPs=] aren't treated completely awfully. SCP-507 has even been granted a hug after a particularly traumatizing warp.
102	** There's a difference between being "cruel" and being "apathetic"; the Foundation does its best to act cold and uncaring toward humanoid [=SCPs=], but aside from ''very'' specific situations (SCP-231-7 and Procedure 110-Montauk, for instance) they take care to at least be humane about their treatment of the [=SCPs=]. They do so because they see a pragmatic value in "dehumanizing" the SCP; if a situation comes up where they suddenly need to kill or harm a humanoid SCP in order to avert a crisis of some kind, it's a lot easier to do so when you're harming "an anomalous object that just happens to be a living creature" than it would be to harm "the little girl who's so sweet and kind."
103	* They can already contain 682 pretty well. Why not just duplicate the containment chamber, launch 682 towards the nearest black hole, and be done with him? He may be able to escape and evolve solar sails, but he wouldn't be able to catch up to the Earth and it's natural momentum. Furthermore, if it doesn't escape, then it would be functionally destroyed upon reaching a black hole. Even something as bizarre as 682 still seems to be bound to the rules of physics, unlike other [=SCPs=]. This is even mentioned in the experiment log with SCP-123, but discarded because of some nebulous concerns.
104	** When they hurled it into the sun, it came back on fire. I don't think anyone wants to find out what would happen if it returned after being exposed to something that can absorb light itself.
105	*** That is actually a SCP story joke, that doesn't count as canon!
106	*** The only canon is there is no canon.
107	** 682 mostly sneers at the laws of physics, as demonstrated by the cross-test with SCP-536. 682 will definitely survive the black hole, and will most likely eventually find its way back to Earth. Also, even the current containment is imperfect and requires constant monitoring and maintenance. Launching the whole chamber in space, with 682 not breaking free during any of the intermittent steps, like transportation and what not, is next to impossible.
108	** What if it evolves capacity for FasterThanLightTravel? Then we're ''really'' fucked.
109	* How is it that seeing a photograph where SCP-096 takes up all of 4 pixels on it is enough to get it to target you, yet blurring it's face a little on bigger pictures is just fine and dandy? Also, how did any pictures where SCP-096 get censored anyways? You have to be looking at his face to block it out.
110	** Facial recognition software. Program that to blur out its face and Bob's your uncle.
111	** In my experience, applying FridgeLogic to an SCP and pointing out holes in their abilities [[NightmareRetardant is a good way to make them less scary]].
112	** It's the exact same thing as why blinking with one eye doesn't stop 173 - the Foundation has no idea why. As for the censoring, presumably they're having D-Classes surf Google Images with the SCRAMBLE goggles in a room right next to 096's. Or something along those lines.
113	*** Actually, it's explicitly stated that the problem with this is that you ''can't'' keep it up for a long time. Try it; it's not easy.
114	** When you're seeing those pixels, you're seeing its face uninterrupted, even if it's not enough to realize what it is. The blur is deliberately interrupting being able to see its face. That's apparently the important difference.
115	* So what is the difference between a memetic hazard and a cognitohazard, exactly? This has puzzled me for quite some time.
116	** In order to be a memetic hazard, the negative effect has to be caused by a certain piece of anomalous information (e.g. a certain phrase or image) that causes what's basically an anomaous glitch in the brain, and can thus be passed from person to person by that information. That's why a lot of memetic effects can be cured with amnestics. A cognitohazard is just a thing what screws with you head wthout you having to know a specific thing, and thus can't usually be cured by wiping the memory of it. An infohazard is an anomalous piece of information that, if known, doesn't screw with you brain, but causes something else bad to happen.
117	** For an example of the difference, a telepathic signal that causes someone to attempt to release an SCP object would be a cognitohazard. If showing the message to someone else without using telepathy causes them to attempt to release the SCP object, then it would also be memetic. Otherwise it would not be.
118	** Specifically, a cognitohazard is anything that screws with your brain when you perceive it with your senses. In the most mundane example, LSD is a common, non-anomalous cognitohazard; a statue that makes you hear voices when you look at it and compels you to touch it is an anomalous cognitohazard. A memetic hazard is a specific type of cognitohazard, in that it's not a specific object but rather a pattern of information that can be replicated at any place or time. A picture of a cognitohazard statue won't be a cognitohazard, a picture of a memetic hazard pattern will still be a memetic hazard. Finally, infohazards are anything that knowledge of in and of itself is cognition-altering: mundane example, "The Game," which you just lost; alternatively you are now conscious of your breathing.
119	* Why doesn't the foundation just have SCP-076-2 attack SCP-682? Supposedly SCP-076-2 is the most powerful being in the foundation.
120	** They already tried that. SCP-076-2 considered it the best fight he had had in ages.
121	** 682 has already fought Able, and won. Also, it's not the most powerful being. It's the most powerful ''human'' in containment, but there's a ton of beings that are way, way more powerful (For starters, 343, 239, 682, 017, most versions of 001, etc.)
122	* If 173 is basically living concrete, then what's keeping someone in the program from, say, grabbing a pickaxe and going Minecraft on its ass?
123	** Because it's very rare for the Foundation to actively try to destroy something. 173 is in the category of "dangerous but containable."
124	** Also they had the example of SCP-1609, a friendly sentinent chair that was smashed by the GOC and now exists as a mass of angry wood and metal splinters that can only be calmed by using it in a flowerbed as mulch and having people commenting on the prettiness of the site. Do you really want to know what could do the cement powder of SCP-173 if it was destroyed?
125	** Imagine if you broke it into pieces, and now you need to watch every individual piece all the time. If you stop looking at even one piece for a moment, it jumps up smashes your skull at the same speeds that -173 would move around normally.
126	* A thought this troper has is, which SCP is overall the most dangerous? In terms of how hard it is to contain, incapacitate, what it can do, etc?
127	** That question is impossible to answer. All SCP's have the potential for disaster if things go out of hand. Yes, even SCP-458. Many people believe it's SCP-682, but he's actually pretty easy to contain. Same rule applies to SCP-173; it can't do jack if a lot of people look at it at once. SCP-076-2 is incredibly powerful, but it is possible to kill him, and he's pretty friendly when he's calm. SCP-343 is literally God, but enjoys being in the foundation. It is impossible to know what SCP-055 is. SCP-507 is an incredibly NiceGuy, but you do ''not'' want to touch him for possibility of falling into another dimension. SCP-1548 is a sapient star that wants to perform a ColonyDrop on Earth. Even SCP-427, which is meant to heal and strengthen anyone who uses it, will turn you into a flesh beast if it's abused. A popular theory is that SCP-001 is the most dangerous, but since no one knows what it is, it's impossible to tell. Again, your question cannot possibly be answered.
128	** The Hateful Star stands out as being particularly bad news. It seems to be a sentient, mobile, really angry star. It has made its intention to come to Earth and kill everybody pretty clear, and is moving in our direction very fast. Even if it has no anomalous methods of attack, it could easily destroy the planet just by getting close enough. But wait, there's more! The Hateful Star also somehow has tremendous knowledge of apparently the entire Foundation. Worst of all is what is revealed by the fact that its flashes (in Morse code) take several thousand years to arrive. It can somehow see thousands of years into the future and know exactly when particular researchers are going to be observing it!
129	** The only one I can think of who isn't dangerous would be Cassy, and it's implied that she's only in containment because the Foundation didn't know what else to do with her.
130	*** There are plenty of harmless [=SCPs=]. For example, the guy with an Abdominal Planet, A Formerly-Winged Horse, "The World's Best [=TothBrush=]", Iris, the sideways-falling rock, the Brittle Boy (well, he's harmless to others), Eye Pods, the Star-Eyed Child, the living paper crane, Josie the half-cat...
131	*** The World's Best [=TothBrush=] is harmless? A toothbrush that can ''erase from existence'' any solid it comes into contact with isn't dangerous?
132	** The answer might be [[spoiler:[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2317 SCP-2317, the sixth tab.]]]]
133	*** That, however, is [[spoiler:the version specifically for O5's.]] Since all other entries are [[spoiler:written for lower-level employees]], we really can't know how many others are [[spoiler:secretly]] equally dangerous.
134	* About Code Brown AKA Bright Family reunion... A reunion with ''[[FridgeHorror whom?]]'' SCP-321, SCP-590 and Dr. Bright AKA SCP-963?
135	** Thanks to WordOfGod, you can throw in a [[{{Cult}} Serpent's Hand operative]] and ''two'' [[OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness O5s]]. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And a Foundation medical assistant.]]
136	* If the [=SCPs=] are numbered in order of discovery, then why is Cassy listed before 914 when 914 created Cassy?
137	** Both in and out of universe, if a number becomes available, an SCP can be added there. So, if the previous 085 was deleted out of universe/decommissioned in-universe, then any new SCP could be put there in its place.
138	*** Which, by the way, would probably lead to horrible confusion in-universe when reading old reports or containment procedures.
139	*** This is one of the more pragmatic reasons cross-testing is discouraged; especially early on in the site's history, making a reference to another SCP could backfire easily if that SCP was deleted or rewritten. If, for some reason, 914 was ever deleted, then all the references to it in 085's article would make no sense.
140	* Minor one but [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/experiment-log-914 one experiment with SCP-914]] (feeding in IRS forms) resulted in "pages filled with imprecations against the IRS and taxation in general in the following languages" inculding [[Creator/JRRTolkien Quenya]], which "had its cursing of the IRS interspersed with vituperation of someone or something called "Morgoth". Question: How come you have someone who can translate Quenya, but who doesn't know what Morgoth is?
141	** Does the learning of Quenya necessarily require the reading of ''Literature/TheSilmarillion''?
142	** Most likely someone other than the researcher writing the report identified the Quenya and perhaps translated it, but explaining Morgoth would be irrelevant once the gist of the message was clear. If someone's cursing the IRS by Morgoth, you don't need to know he's the Black Foe of the World
143	* Couldn't the Foundation contain SCP-096 in some way that covered up its mask, like making it wear a mask or burlap sack?
144	** The main problem is that if it breaks out, and some poor sop takes a picture, there is a chance anyone seeing the picture will die. They're not sure if they caught everything, so masks would only prevent future breakout incidents assuming it even survives or stays on 096's head when it runs after someone.
145	*** Why not put some thick layers of paint on 096, then? We know the Foundation has some pretty advanced technology and probably computers that automatically blur 096's face, so why not make some kind of robot to use paint to blur its facial features enough that directly viewing its face in real-time doesn't set it off?
146	** This does at least get a LampshadeHanging in the interview log, were Major Wilford chews out the containment staff for not doing exactly as you said. The actual reason is that [[spoiler:the researchers purposely let 096 breach containment so it would be terminated.]]
147	** SCP-096 claws at its own face whenever it's weeping, which it does often. It'd tear any sort of facial covering apart.
148	* What would happen if they put SCP-173 in front of a mirror?
149	** Depends. Can 173 "see"?
150	** Considering that the 173s didn't lock each other in place in the tale when there were multiple 173s, I'd imagine not. Still, headcanons...
151	* Why don't they use 999 on the suicidal cat bonded to a human?
152	** Probably because tickling doesn't really accomplish anything.
153	** No, OP has a point. SCP-999's secretions are very potent and quite effective at functioning as a contact-induced antidepressant. Its document states that they're considering bottling it to profit funds.
154	* Why do people say it's implied that the mountain climber who escaped SCP-1529 became a second creature of the same sort? All the article says is that he died on XX/XX/20XX and that the second creature was first seen on XX/XX/20XX. Those could be the same date or dates near to each other in time, but they could also be any other dates anytime in the 21st century.
155	** Well, that's what an implication ''is'', really. It's raising an indirect suggestion or inference without confirming it concretely. Like you yourself say, the dates ''could'' be far apart, or they ''could'' be quite close together; hence, there's nothing to stop anyone who wants to draw a connection between the death of the climber and the appearance of the second creature from doing so. In any case, the very fact that we have a second creature appearing at some point after a significant character to the narrative dies as a result of an encounter with the first creature, coupled with the fact that the narrative suggests that the creature does ''something'' to those it catches, clearly allows the reader to draw such a conclusion.
156	* What exactly is [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1057 SCP-1057]]?
157	** A shark-shaped vacuum.
158	* SCP-2317-A to G are the pillars above ground and chains below it. -H is the underground prison, -K is the abomination held inside it. Why the hell are -I and -J missing?
159	** The abomination is called "-K" because it's a Keter-class entity (well, actually "[[spoiler:Apollyon]]", but that's basically just "[[spoiler:world-ending Keter that we have no way of stopping]]").
160	** I already thought that, but given the Foundation rarely skips letters while labeling SCP sub-items (at most they redact the components' descriptions)...
161	* Could 169 & 1128 be the same creature?
162	** ...Well now I'm thinking they could...
163	* SCP-014 wants to be able to be a normal human, right? So why didn't his photo change during the SCP-978 experiments?
164	* Shouldn't 682 have adapted to that acid by now?
165	** ComicBookTime.
166	** Maybe acid happena to be the one thing it can't adapt to?
167	** [[FridgeBrilliance More like that's how it adapts to acid]].
168	* I know, by the site's democratized nature, it's fairly relative, but how can anyone justify a toy train that eats people as Safe, but self-replicating old ladies who never amass more than 30, and never attempt direct violence as Euclid?
169	** I'm rather new to SCP, but as I understand it, Safe/Euclid/Keter don't refer to how dangerous the SCP is, but how likely it is to get out. Say, if you have a ring that instantly kills anyone and anything it touches, but can't move by itself, it'd be safe since you can just lock it somewhere and it won't bother anybody. An adorable puppy teleporting to the nearest city whenever it wants human affection, on the other hand, would probably be Euclid or Keter because it is very easy for said puppy to get out of the Foundation (and then people will see a teleporting puppy and start wondering...)
170	*** Correct, the classifications are based on how easy it is to contain the anomaly, not how dangerous it is. If it can be put in its containment and cannot break out on its own, it's Safe. If it has the capacity to do so, it's Euclid (pretty much all intelligent/humanoid [=SCPs=] are Euclid as a minimum as a result.) If it's very difficult to contain and/or is actively trying to escape containment, it's Keter. One of my favorite examples of this is SCP-609. It's basically a pool ball that can be psychically controlled so long as someone read the manual on how to do so and even amnestics can't get rid of it entirely. It's effectively completely harmless as it doesn't "exist" in the same way an actual physical object does but at the same time since it can be literally anywhere ever so long as the person controlling it imagines it there, you can imagine the possibilities. This is compounded by the fact that if multiple people read the manual, you have multiple pool balls with no real way of tracking down who knows how to control these things or how many there are. Hence: Keter class object despite being perfectly harmless.
171	* There's a palm tree that's a secret agent and a spider-colony that's communist, but Cacti that sing is a Joke SCP?
172	** Yes.
173	** Mainlisters can be humorous or ridiculous. I find that Joke [=SCPs=] generally have a slightly more "meta" humor, such as the punchline being a pun.
174	** I don't see what's confusing about this idea. Just because something seems silly doesn't mean it's automatically made for comedy.
175	* Since when did we have a SCP-055?
176	** What are you talking about? We've never had a SCP-055.
177	* Ok, I might be missing something here, but I just don't get the full [[NothingIsScarier "Nothing is scarier"]] context of the picture in 823, the one that seems to just be a mannequin in a power line. (For anyone who needs to find it, look for the picture with the description, "Unable to determine context or content of above photograph." ) Am I missing a jumpscare, or is there something I don't fully understand that is hidden in the picture? Or am I just that dumb?
178	** From the discussion for that SCP: "It's a bit of random creepy imagery that the author liked but couldn't figure out how to relate to the article, so he stuck it in anyway and labeled it "unknown". The tactic is a bit cheap, but I for one found it quite effectively creepy."
179	* I was reading through the experiment logs of SCP-261, got to the one with Mr Q's Cumbersome Soda Bottle, and upon reading that it took someone an hour to figure out how to drink it, my immediate question was "Did no-one consider using a straw?"
180	** How do you know that they didn't try that already? Besides, it said that "Through an hour of testing, the stopper is discovered to only to work when the bottle is tilted at a right angle while being rotated from the bottom of the bottle and shaken slightly. Soda was described as refreshing and abnormally tasty."
181	* what anomalous property's does 082/Fernand have? sure hes not a normal human, physically or mentally, and while a human mutating in such a way is improbable its not impossible and nothing seems to indicate these mutations are anomalous in nature any more then Andre the Giant or The Elephant Man.
182	** Possibly it is because there is no known disease or artificial modification (genetic or otherwise) that allows these modifications or alterations.
183	* The brown stains on 173's butt has been stated to be excrement, but doesn't that imply that it eats? What DOES it eat anyway?
184	** According to one joke article, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-666-and-a-half-j SCP-666 1/2-J]]. Which is also the reason it wants to kill everyone.
185	* We know that the Scarlet King is locked up in 2317. But how did he get there in the first place? Who locked him up?
186	** My guess? 343. One is creation, the other is destruction. They were bound to cross paths at some point and I'm guessing it wasn't pretty.
187	** In fact, the creator of SCP 2317 himself said that he never intended to associate it with SCP-231; and in fact in the story [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/dust-and-blood dust and blood]] , it implies that the one who is locked up is not the Scarlet King, but Yaldabaoth
188	* So, the corpse of a dead 3008-2 will attract more 3008-2 to it. After each attack, the people of Exchange have to haul the corpses away to Pickup to prevent more 3008-2 from attacking Exchange. My question is, why are they still attacking Exchange instead of being drawn to the huge pile of corpses at Pickup?
189	** There probably is a bunch at Pickup. We just don't see them at Pickup because no one is crazy enough to go out there and see if there is any of them there at night or not.
190	* According to the Factory, Anderson is long dead. But for whatever reason, there are a bunch of robots being made by Anderson long after the incident at the Factory. What gives?
191	** its a different Anderson.
192	* SCP-2718 established that there is no afterlife in the SCP-verse and yet SCP-343 is God himself. Huh?
193	** There's another SCP article, I can't remember which one, but in it they managed to communicate with someone in the afterlife. 2718 could be a lot of things really. It could be a cognitohazard. It could only have affected Roger Sheldon. 2718 is a bit of an AmbiguousSituation.
194	** This contradicts the existence of the three death brothers, in charge of taking the souls of the deceased to the hereafter; Remember: the only canon in the SCP Foundation [[UnreliableCanon is that there is no canon]].
195	* So SCP-4703's anomaly that despite its deadly and unethical business practices it's perfectly legal, thank you very much, means the Foundation can't legally act against them. But why doesn't the Foundation ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight and chose to illegally act against it? The Foundation does illegal things on a daily basis to protect from greater threats, so why not here? Even 4703's consequences for breaking it's laws, manifesting hungry lions, seems minor compared to what they normally deal with or are willing to do.
196	** The anomaly that makes its practices legal might also have some effect that renders the Foundation unable to take illegal actions against them in order to contain the anomaly. Maybe an attempt to illegally interfere with 4073's business would cause law enforcement of some kind to step in and stop them despite the Foundation's best efforts, or doing so would require acting in a way that would risk even greater SCP exposure to the general public.
197	* Why hasn't the Foundation asked SCP-073 to take blood samples from himself? That could circumvent how injuries to his person are transferred to the person who inflicts them.
198	* Are there restroom facilities inside SCP-3008? Because normally those would be along the walls of an IKEA, and there aren't any walls. Also, what do the inhabitants of the improvised forts do with the body, if one of their number gets killed in a Staff attack? There's no place to bury them, and AFAIK the store doesn't stock coffins.
199	** Possibly no one has died in the 3 years that the person has been trapped [[labelnote:or at least]] nobody died when being present [[/labelnote]], and surely there are bathrooms, but nothing interesting has ever happened in them.
200	* If SCP-4666 has been active for over 2000 years, and it originates in Europe, shouldn't its activities follow the Julien calendar rather than the Georgian (which it predates)?
201	** It could be that SCP-4666 is active when it is due to some other factor, like belief in Christmas or a similar festival, rather than it being purely time-based.
202	* If the SCP Foundation in the SCP-5000 [[BadFuture timeline]] want to wipe out humanity how come they don't use much faster/sudden apocalyptic [=SCPs=], like getting someone to go into and return from SCP-2935? Even if [[EvenEvilHasStandards they only want to destroy humanity and not the rest of the universe]], surely there are swifter and more absolute anomalies to get the job done (eg: take [[GreyGoo SCP-009]] and drop it in the ocean).
203	** Possibly they don't want to wipe out ''themselves'', either at all or at least not until they're ''sure'' all non-Foundation humans are dead.
204	** They wanted to exterminate only humanity, not all life on earth.
205	* [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-5935 SCP-5935]] "Blood and the Breaking of my Heart" is one of my favourites for its tone and story, but some things about it don't add up. The article starts by stating that Pandaemonium is a real place accesible through a dimensional rift, but at the end it actually exists inside the Overseer's head? Also, how did the Overseer manage to recreate SCP-184 (The Architect) inside his head, including perfectly recreating its anomalous properties?
206	* In SCP-5952, the titular monster turns out to be GoodAllAlong where the kids it kidnaps get smuggled out of the SuckySchool and sent to live with new families and memories, while the administration "helping" the Foundation contain it uses violence and the Hierophant Accord to cover up the abuses in the building and call all effective investigative efforts an act of war. Nothing too unusual; the human element ''is'' often the most dangerous part of anomalies that otherwise mean no harm. But here's the problem: Why is the Foundation so eager to bend the knee to a group actively hindering its mission, who lack in munitions compared to task forces and often have to use the written word to tell them "no?" Moreover, the Hierophant Accord is based on a treaty connected to ''MC&D'' which only made sense to follow because it was last used to secure an SCP from ''them'' -- so what's stopping them from disposing of all formalities and just rushing in to probe the school and 5952 with a hefty dose of amnestics? Even if what happens in the light is none of the Foundation's business, the school's admin lost that pedestal the moment they signed a treaty related to the anomalous. [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight Perhaps it's time they learn what it means to be in the dark]].
207	* Why does 096's article have a word which contextually is highly unlikely to be anything but "eat" redacted? Seems kind of redundant, unless the implication is supposed to be something else, but what, if so? Does it punch people hard enough to vapourise them?
208	* Is it just me or does the description of 173 sound a lot like the [[Characters/DoctorWhoWeepingAngels Weeping Angels]]? I know that 173 has not demonstrated the ability to send its victims into the past to feed on their time energy, but the Angels ''have'' been shown to be able to kill via NeckSnap when they don't need to feed.

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