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    Series I (SCPs 001-999) 
  • SCP-001: Tanhony's Proposal, in which the seemingly-inept Ethics Committee shows their hand and kicks out the O5 Council after one too many ethics violations on the Fives' part, with the last straw being abusing a human with power over life and death to keep themselves immortal, and replacing them with a new Council of thirteen. Oh, and they've deposed the Council 34 times before. The Foundation may be an organization that does unscrupulous things in the name of protecting humanity, but the Committee makes sure they have standards.
    Odongo Tejani, Ethics Committee Chairman: While the necessity for the Primary Action is regrettable, it is the opinion of this Committee that it is unavoidable at this juncture. When the actions of an O5 Council become targeted towards their own well-being rather than that of the Foundation, it is the duty of the Ethics Committee to undertake the action assigned to it by the Administrator upon its formation. This is not the first time the Primary Action has been executed, nor is it expected to be the last.
  • At the end of the otherwise bleak Kalinin's Proposal, which chronicles the domination of Earth by a group of aliens that manage to convince humanity to come to their homeworld to suffer so they can live forever, we get Casa de Jacinta / Jacinta de la Casa, in which an MTF agent confronts the aliens avatar in a tower containing a condemned idea representing their ideals. The aliens reveal that they removed the explosives he planted on the tower and gloat that there's no way to stop them and destroying the tower won't make any difference, but he points out that if that's true, why are they trying so hard to stop him? Is it because they know they'll still die in the end, that everything they've done is futile? Angered, the aliens kill him, and all is lost...wait, is that a dead man's switch? The tower is destroyed, killing the alien's avatar and rejecting their Blue-and-Orange Morality in the ultimate blow to their belief system.
    You forsake death, and death's wisdom is lost to you. You push madness away into this world, but it lives in my heart instead, and you are defenseless. You've blinded yourselves, but the grave awaits you all anyway. Fuck your mother.
  • SCP-055 can be interpreted this way. There's something that nobody can remember anything about for more than a few minutes, yet the Foundation still managed to capture and contain it. It definitely exists, it's just nobody can remember what it actually is. They can, however, remember what it isn't. So they fed SCP-914 "A List Of Everything SCP-055 Isn't" and set the dial to "Very Fine". The resulting list was, unsurprisingly, lost.
  • The first containment breach of SCP-058 had one by a random agent who stopped SCP-058 by running it over with an M1 Abrams Tank then detonating the tank with C4.
  • While SCP-076-2 had to undergo heavy revisions and retconning to avoid making him look like an excessively awesome Physical God, credit must be given to him for being able to break someone's jaw just by using a Nerf sword.
  • SCP-096, a Humanoid Abomination who will stop at literally nothing to kill anyone who dares to look at his face. Considering he's described as a tall, nude, anorexic humanoid being, you wouldn't really think something so frail looking could be much of a threat right? Might wanna think again...
    • In one story, he's after one of the people who have seen his face, but they just happen to be on a plane at the time, and he's still stuck on the ground. What does he do? He races up a mountain, jumps up, and grabs onto the plane until he finally slams it into the ground!
    • Then came the time he was used in an experiment to see if he could kill SCP-682. This is a case of Unstoppable Force Vs Immovable Object. The result? 096 is left in the corner, cowering and unable to fight anymore.. but he still managed to tear apart 90% of 682's body. And considering the Healing Factor 682 has, that's pretty impressive all things considered.
    • Then he once fought 173. The statue didn't agitate 096 at first, until it snapped his neck, and the humanoid fell limp. So is he actually dead? Nope. His Healing Factor kicks in and they get in a fight. 173 tries snapping the neck again, and again, and again… but no matter what, 096 just doesn't stay dead. Eventually both are taken back to their cells.
  • SCP-131, the Eye Pods, while mostly behaving like puppies, once saved a cleaning crew from 173. How? When a cleaner mistakenly took their eyes off of 173, the Eye Pods (which don't blink), rushed in front of the cleaner and the two staff also present, and stared at the latter long enough for the cleaner to finish their job and exit, leading the Foundation to consider making them the wardens of 173 and other Can't Move While Being Watched SCPs.
  • SCP-261 is a surprisingly badass vending machine.
    • Aside from it apparently being able to access the multiverse, it can dispense items as powerful and exotic as a can of anti-matter, is apparently intelligent, and it does not allow itself to be mocked. IOUs are met with sarcasm, a piece of paper with "900,000 Yen" produced a can of literal bullshit, repeated pressing of the coin return button resulted in it dispensing a can containing a large insect, counterfeit money resulted in poison gummy middle fingers, and multiple attempts at using the coin-on-a-string trick resulted in it dispensing a live grenade, which did not damage it.
    • Giving it 777 yen earns you a casino jackpot light show as it gives you 777 chocolate coins.
  • From SCP-294's logs, there was that one unnamed agent who had the presence of mind to request "a cup of pertinent medical knowledge" during a mass security breach. The details of this breach are not given, so for all we know 682 or something just as bad was rampaging through the facility, and the agent still was able to keep it together enough to ask for the most useful thing possible to save his fellow agents. This is one of three times that 294 has produced a liquid of something that doesn't actually have a liquid state. Previous attempts (such as "a cup of diamond") met with failure.
  • SCP-354: One of the entities released by the SCP was a metallic sphere which shot concentrated rays of lethal radiation. How did the Head of Area-354 respond to this? He brought a goddamn sledgehammer to a death ray fight, and won. The sphere exploded in an apparent self-destruct attempt and severely injured him, but he ultimately recovered.
  • SCP-645 has D-45951 from the attached incident report. Incredibly Genre Savvy, Properly Paranoid and alarmingly smart, he carefully uses Exact Words to prevent his hand from being bitten off by the SCP and eventually unleashes a vituperative spray of Brutal Honesty about his crime which causes it to reject him! The icing on the cake is when one of the researchers admits to having lied to the D-class during the experiment, causing SCP-645 to lash out with a 4-meter tongue and tear off his hand from across the room, breaking the other researcher's shoulder in the process. Especially notable in that others had lied in the statue's presence with no ill effects before, so the researchers came to the conclusion that it's sapient, and really didn't like what Dr. Rensberg had put the D-Class through.
    • Or maybe 645 heard a new lie, when the researcher said they were bluffing... because that would be a rather cruel thing to lie about.
  • SCP-682's termination attempt log has the highest concentration of Crowning Moments of various types:
    • SCP-173 deserves one for being one of the only things SCP-682 is scared shitless of. When stuck in a room together, 682 moved as far away as possible and stared at the statue for hours on end, terrified to blink. The fact being that 682 is one of the most malevolent and violent abominations that the SCP Foundation has, it's pretty awesome that it's paralysed in the presence of a creature that, as far as we know, has minimal thinking ability outside of killing anything in range. And after snipers shot out 682's eyes, he responded by growing bulletproof eyes.
    • After a researcher throws two kids into 682's tank (one of whom was sedated), the researcher himself is then thrown in as revenge by Dr. Clef.
    • What maybe 682's crowning moment is his encounter with 826. The Foundation created a creature whose sole attribute was being capable of killing 682 permanently... and 682 killed it.
    • SCP-2578 willingly attempted to kill SCP-682 without any input from the Foundation. This is awesome for both of them: 2578 chose to go after The Thing That Would Not Leave, and 682 managed to shrug off five direct shots with profanities.
      SCP-682: [after getting shot by SCP-2578] Fuck you and all three of your moons!
    • At one point they tried to kill it by exposing it to SCP-2599 (a petite, ordinary Korean teenage girl who performs absolutely anything when ordered, but never to a full or satisfactory degree). The description of this termination attempt is one of the more amazing things in the report.
      SCP-2599 was ordered to attack SCP-682 "until it is 200% dead". SCP-2599 proceeded to engage SCP-682 in combat for 42 minutes, at the end of which three of SCP-682's limbs had been severed, its thorax had been crushed, and both its eyeballs had been ruptured. SCP-2599 then seized SCP-682's head, apparently in preparation for pulling it off of SCP-682's body. In response, SCP-682 vocalized the phrase "KILL ME, YOU SACK OF ORGANS, DO IT."

      SCP-2599 immediately released SCP-682, and stood unmoving until security personnel removed it from the testing chamber. Subsequent attempts to terminate SCP-682 before it could regenerate from its injuries were ineffective.

      Note: It is hypothesized that the concrete "kill me" in some way took precedence over the more abstract "attack it until it is 200% dead".
  • A containment breach of SCP-783 was interrupted by an unnamed doctor who bludgeoned the "large insectoid lifeform" to death with a fire extinguisher. Yeah. The Foundation is just full of awesome. Even nameless agents and scientists can be badass.
  • In SCP-978's extended test logs, the test of Dr. Malfoss (reading a report on SCP-682) results in a picture of him riding it and bringing heck on soldiers in a battlefield with a katana.
  • During one of 682's many rampages, SCP-999 manages to save several agents who 682 had knocked out with its latest ability. Keep in mind that 999 is a sentient blob of goo with the mind of a playful child. Even more awesome, said new ability was the result of 682 making contact with 999.

    Series II (SCPs 1000-1999) 
  • The Foundation's response to recovering SCP-1034, the Dollmaker's Kit, a needle and thread that forces you to sew your own facial orifices shut before sweating to death. The kit was found in the possession of "the Dollmaker", a psychotic, misogynist Serial Killer who took pleasure in torturing his victims by sewing up their faces. The Foundation's response when they found them? They recruited him into D-Class and used him as one of the test subjects for SCP-1034.
  • SCP-1048, Builder Bear. It is a teddy bear... who successfully tricked the entire Foundation into giving it free run of the facility, and when its true nature was revealed, has successfully evaded capture in spite of never leaving the facility that contains it. In other words: it has succeeded in outwitting and outmaneuvering the collective efforts of the entire SCP Foundation, in spite of being an otherwise seemingly ordinary (if animate) teddy bear. It has no super powers (aside from making freaky copies of itself that have strange abilities), no teeth or claws, but it has proven itself the better of an organization that has managed to contain everything from monsters who defy space and time to planet destroying super-weapons. And in spite of being free to escape any time it wishes, it stays in the facility that houses it, almost as if to add insult to injury.
  • SCP-1522 gets one along with a Tear Jerker: How did this tiny fishing trawler respond to a GOC ship launching torpedos at its "lover"? Why, ram that bastard at Mach 4, of course. Not even the lifeboats were found, though the other ship was still sunk.
  • SCP-1529 features a moment of awesome from the person who reported this anomaly to the Foundation. The anomaly itself is an entity who kills some hikers of Mt. Everest by freezing them to death. The survivor expresses his encounter with the entity where it tried to do the same to him, by tricking him to feel a feeling of warmth, and when the hiker denied it, it started showing him visions of a cozy fire lit cabin, trying to convince them that it is giving them this gift. The hiker in response basically does a Shut Up, Hannibal! moment where they outright punch SCP-1529 in the face, breaking its goggles, and escapes.
  • SCP-1609's containment counts more as a Heartwarming Moment, but it still presents a damn good argument as to why their methods are much better to the GOC's:
    SCP-1609 represents a perfect example of the flaws inherent in the operating procedure of the GOC, and serves as a cautionary tale for any members of the Foundation who disagree with our practices on containing dangerous objects.
    Prior to the Coalition getting their hands on this, it was perfectly harmless. A chair which teleports to you when you need a seat is normal compared to most of the stuff that we deal with on a regular basis. When they put it through a woodchipper, it got hurt, scared and angry, so it lashed out at them. By trying to 'protect the world' by destroying it, they inadvertently made the situation a whole lot worse. SCP-1609 went from being harmless to deadly in the space of a few minutes because of the GOC, and we had to clean up the mess.
    Thankfully, SCP-1609 is pretty simple for us to deal with. So long as we don't do anything stupid around it, it won't fight back and it won't try to leave. Even if it does, it usually comes back. I think I've worked out why. It came to us because it was afraid of the people who had hurt it. That's why it always comes back. It's afraid of the rest of the world now, and it's looking to us for protection.
    This is why we have Special Containment Procedures instead of Special Destruction Procedures. If you break something, it's broken forever. When you try to destroy an anomaly, you can't take back your mistakes. That's what SCP-1609 has to tell us. This is why we're right and the GOC is wrong, people.note 
  • SCP-1660 has the SCP Foundation rescuing an endangered species from being hunted for sport. Awesome in and of itself, but add the fact that they are now considered guardian spirits by said species and it's even better.
  • One log in the otherwise horrifying SCP-1730 stands out for its sheer awesomeness. Essentially, it details the successful rescue attempt made by Team Samsara - an elite fireteam made up of immortal cyborgs formed from the flesh of a dead god - to rescue the last MTF team that managed to hold out inside. Their escape gets more and more difficult as the building's structure and the escaped, deranged SCPs pursue them. Then, as they're pursued by a powerful entity made up of the leeches that killed previous MTFs, the Gate Guardian shows up to kick its ass, breaking the door down before unleashing its flaming sword in all its glory. They then proceed to battle - but then, SCP-2845 shows up, and they all really proceed to battle. Forty-eight hours after Samsara's recovery operation, Agent McClean discovered something related to the above during an exploration of SCP-2783. SCP-2783 is an extradimensional graveyard that steadily grows with additional grave markers regularly. What makes it interesting is that the first noted graves in the report are those of YHWH (or some other creator deity), Adam, Eve, and Lilith. McClean witnessed a military funeral, complete with casket lowering and a 21-gun salute. The gravestone, observed after the "mourners" left, read "Captain Kari Michelle Hollis, Mobile Task Force Zeta-9" note . Her sacrifice for the survivors was so awesome that, when she died, she was buried with God and the first human beings!
    She died in a strange and faraway place with a smile on her face, a weapon in her hand, and foes on all sides. She exemplified what all warriors should strive to be.
  • SCP-1756 is what appears to be a DVD player, but when a movie disc is inserted, it will play back the corresponding Siskel & Ebert segment if one exists. If no such segment exists, the DVD player will create one. And if it's non-film video or even a video game, a review will be made as if it was a theatrically-released film, with neither simulated critic breaking character.note 
  • SCP-1958. Although it ended in tragedy, credit must be given to these four college students who managed to transform a microbus into a fully-functional spacecraft and beat Yuri Gagarin into space by at least a few years.
  • SCP-1959 is an anomalous Russian cosmonaut suspended in Earth orbit by an unknown force. Ground Control elaborates: Said cosmonaut has been possessed by an Eldritch Abomination bent on destroying Earth, but remains suspended in Earth orbit by sheer force of will. The page notes that it was first sighted in 1971. For over forty years, this man has been outwilling not only an Eldritch Abomination, but the laws of physics.
  • SCP-1983 has an Awesome Moment from D-14134 (that's right, a D-class). Mentioned in the third addendum as being sent in with a camera on a tether to look around, only for the tether to be snapped. Shortly afterwards, the anomaly behind the SCP was gone. Notes are discovered that were written by one of the MTF badasses who went in before him, detailing what the shadow creatures do with the hearts and how to stop them. It's believed that D-14134 read these notes, fought his way through the house, and destroyed the nest. D-14134 was apparently the kind of Boxed Crook who gets to be the Anti-Hero of his own high-action video game. The posthumous award he receives is well-deserved.

    Series III (SCPs 2000-2999) 
  • SCP-2000 A Thaumiel class anomaly that was created by the Foundation to be used in the event of a world-ending scenario to revive and rebuild all of humanity. It has everything from star charts to human cloning tubes or a backup of the entire internet. It's been successfully used at least twice. Part of the Foundation's creed is 'Mankind must not go back to hiding in fear'. Now, it looks like it never has to.
  • In the transcripts of SCP-2069, the BBC World Service announcer calmly signs off when it appears that an alien attack on London is imminent. A recovered document written after the aliens wiped out half the human race describes the forging of an alliance between the SCP Foundation and the Global Occult Coalition, in which they took control over every military left and organized a massive Last Stand against the aliens.
    ...Just felt a massive tremor, which we can only imagine to be very close now, perhaps Paris... this is BBC World Service, signing off. Godspeed.
  • SCP-2137, written by Max Landis, is a CD copy of Tupac Shakur's "Me Against The World", where the seventh track is replaced by an anomalous song where in Tupac raps about unsolved mysteries, describing the evidence and/or type of justice needed to bring killers and career criminals to justice. But when the Foundation stops following its instructions, it immediately threatens them by releasing several hip hop songs containing information about both Keter class entities and the first names of the 0-5 council members, fully showing the extent of its powers. Following this, it's all but outright stated in the article that Tupac himself is actually a benevolent entity of some kind that is hunting the Scarlet King, and that his life as a Hip Hop artist was him "taking a break". Even better, in Volgun's video on the SCP, each rap is fully performed in a nigh-perfect recreation of Tupac's style and voice!
  • SCP-2270: While the context behind the incident is pure funny, one has to give Jerry Hubert props for successfully completing the ritual described by this SCP. Doing it properly requires seven volumes worth of intricate rituals finished by reading a 400-page prayer in one go without pausing or misspeaking. Notably, the original author of the text is mentioned as having failed and died on that last step, but Jerry pulls it off perfectly.
  • SCP-2439. Who would've thought that the entirety of the D-class populace would be able to contain an Eldritch Abomination that could eat the Foundation's minds and come to control them? Be it spite, or be it a desire for redemption, they have all found a reason to keep the containment going, and all right under the Foundation's noses, with them none the wiser.
    "Just in case you're the eldritch thing: fuck off squidface. We're worthless sure, but we can get shit done just as well as the others. You're not getting in".
  • SCP-2664: A psychic experiment by GRU-P Gone Horribly Wrong misinterprets its final commands as one to enact an Assimilation Plot on the world. After a disastrous expedition into the facility, it collapses into some sort of singularity that seems to be absorbing everyone and everything it comes into contact with, with any personal sent to investigate being further assimilated. Eventually the Foundation resorted to feeding the sphere psionically dampening materials and psionically stunted people to slow its expansion, but the sphere continues to expand slowly until one day it emits a signal killing everyone in the area and begins spreading rapidly. It seems we're looking at yet another Apocalypse How scenario... then the next day, the GOC launch a Kill Sat at the sphere, neutralizing it immediately with some sort of demonic weapon. Say what you want about their methods and their track record, but sometimes, they manage to save the world and look good doing it.
  • As horrifying and tragic as the SCP-2935 story is, MTF Epsilon-13 go out with an immense act of heroism. Upon learning from an audio log that SCP-2935 has the power to kill all life in whatever universe it enters, including entities like 682, they make the decision to stay behind and collapse the cave on their end to make sure. They cement themselves as perhaps the greatest heroes in the setting, having saved all life in their entire universe. Even 682 commends them for their sacrifice.

    Series IV (SCPs 3000-3999) 
  • SCP-3393, an extended Batman Gambit by the Foundation. How do you contain a guy that can't be remembered or perceived, who also actively seeks out and destroys information about him and has access to the Foundation archives? You write an article addressing him directly, wait for him to log onto the network and read that file, and then tell him at the very end that he just got played and is being locked up at that very moment.
  • SCP-3753 is tea that throws you into a boxing match against Anthropomorphic Personifications of whatever's ailing you at the time, letting you overcome things like the flu, depression, or maybe even cancer by punching the crap out of it.
  • SCP-3764:
    • The object is a sack from which loaves of bread can be withdrawn. The bread generally is filling and tasty, even providing benefits to the consumer's health, and comes with a note with a usually-heartwarming message signed "A friend". However, it also has enough sentience to alter its usual effects and rules. After scientists tried forcing subjects to eat nothing but the bread to test its nutrition level, after three weeks, the bread started crumbling away when removed and had a note for the researchers themselves:
    You know what they say, "Man cannot live on bread alone." and all that. Be nice. Variety is the spice of life. -a friend
    • One D-Class subject wanted to see the note another subject got from their bread, but after the initial refusal, they "forcibly seized" the note, which at this point now read:
    Be polite. -a friend
    • Researchers attempted to give a loaf of bread to a D-Class personnel convicted of raping and murdering children. When the bread came out, it was "charred black, and crumbled to ash upon being touched by [the convict]". The convict then suffered a fourteen-hour nightmare during which he screamed while asleep, unable to be woken up, and upon waking up he hysterically refused to go back to sleep. His condition remains unchanged. The cherry on the sundae is the note that came with his crumbled bread:
    Sweet Dreams. -Not your friend
  • The testing log for SCP-3922 has several, both for the way SCP-3922-A's deal with the more unsavory characters in fiction, and how some fictional characters deal with them:
    • When introduced to Red Zone Cuba, instances of SCP-3922-A beat the shit out of Griffith, save the man he threw down the well, and arrest his partners.
    • They prevent the main plot of Manos: The Hands of Fate by giving the family directions to a different hotel, before getting into a fight with The Master, who demonstrates powers that weren't in the movie and were far beyond the film's budget to show.
    • Putting them in Die Hard has the A's storm into Nakatomi Plaza near the start of the move... at which point Hans Gruber calls the LA police and tells them that far-right terrorists have taken over the building, leading the police and 3922-A's to fight with each other while Hans carries on with his heist plan. The few surviving A's end up joining forces with McClane and are nonetheless able to pull out an ending about the same as the original movie's.
    • When put into Strawinsky and the Mysterious House, they attempt to arrest book-loving man-slug-thing the Globglogabgalab. He... does not like the idea. They send in even more instances of SCP-3922-A, only for him to eat them as well. The eventually resort to using a nuke, again to no avail. The Foundation starts discussing giving the Globglogabgalab an SCP designation.
    • Putting them in the first episode of Father Ted results in a three-hour episode which they spend trying and failing to aprehend Father Jack.
    • When put into an episode of Breaking Bad, they're able to apprehend all of the major criminals introduced up to that point except for Saul Goodman, who manages to skip town before they can find him. An episode of Better Call Saul has him talking his way out of being arrested by them.
    • Their invasion of Pleasure Island from Pinocchio, resulting in the rescue of the boys, and the well-deserved execution of The Coachman.
    • A massive army of SCP-3922-A attacking Oceania from 1984, toppling the INGSOC government and publically executing the Inner Party, including O'Brien and Big Brother, before preparing to go after both Eurasia and Eastasia as well to liberate the entire planet.
    • Preventing the nuclear war from Threads from ever happening by forcing the U.S and Soviet Union into peace talks, averting the end of the world.
  • SCP 3999: an Apollyon-class entity focused on Researcher James Talloran. At some point, it broke containment, annihilated everything in the universe, and spent millennia torturing Talloran in bizarre and horrifying ways. You'd expect that Talloran went completely insane at some point, right? Nope. After thousands of years of torture, Talloran gets fed up, takes control, completely humiliates SCP-3999 in an interview, undoes all the damage to the universe done by 3999, and finally completely wipes 3999 from existence. Damn.
    Talloran: So who are you, exactly? Ask yourself that. Who are you before a human who is ready to fight? You're nothing but the primordial ooze. And I am ready to fight. I am numb to your bullshit, because here's the thing about horror and weirdness: the more you reveal of it, the less effect it has. I am sick of your horror. I am sick of you.

    Series V (SCPs 4000-4999) 
  • SCP-4028, in which Don Quixote (really Sancho trying to rescue Don Quixote) proves to be completely unstoppable, and forces a happy ending to any story he enters:
    • When he enters Justine by the Marquis de Sade, he not only escorts her to meet her sister and easily defeats anyone who tries to harm her, but when the Narrator/Sade tries to take revenge by striking Justine and her sister down with lightning, he deflects it then challenges the Narrator to a duel. Cue a hastily written ending in which the sisters receive a large inheritance and live happily ever after.
    • When the Foundation tries to stop him by forcing him to travel through the documents of, and therefore fight, numerous SCPs, defeating them all, including 682.
  • SCP-4100:
    • It is set in the far future, when most of humanity has been devastated by an entity known as "the Destroyer" and the rest have scattered across the galaxy, becoming part of a galactic society known as "the Protectorate". All that seemingly remains of the Foundation are the messages they left behind to warn future visitors about SCP objects. And then, at the end of the article, the Destroyer shows up at Earth again, presumably to finish what it started...at which point a defense system left behind by the Foundation manages to kill the thing by launching the entire planet directly into the creature at faster-than-light speeds. This is all capped off beautifully by the message which the Foundation broadcasts to the Destroyer, immediately before engaging the defense system:
    We've been waiting for you, SCP-4100.
    We're not here anymore. We've long since left. We don't die in the darkness anymore. We've won.
    We're living in stellar light. Humanity has fled you. The Protectorate will thrive.
    We can't contain you. But we can destroy you. We've waited for millennia to say this:
    Our planet has FTL. And I don't mean our ships.
    • One possible interpretation makes it even more impressive. Consider the depiction of the Destroyer: a gigantic red entity, with a skull-like head with no visible lower jaw, responsible for untold devastation throughout Earth's prehistory before finally bringing about The End of the World as We Know It. Does that sound familiar at all? It may have taken thousands of years, but the Foundation might finally have found a way to kill the Scarlet King.
    • Even the last image, broadcast from the planet moments before its destruction and revealing the existence of an entire species of entities like the Destroyer, can be interpreted as this; if the message is being broadcast by the Foundation's automated systems, it could easily be seen as a message warning the other SCP-4100 entities that the Foundation is coming for them next.
  • While SCP-4319, ♡By Girls, For Girls♡, is a pretty bleak skip, Sara's epic "The Reason You Suck" Speech at the end of one of the supplementary tales is extremely satisfying. Especially since Sara is, as far as we know, the only person to have properly escaped KeeLee's grasp.
    KeeLee: Are you alright, dear?

    Sara: no, actually.

    Sara: the past month sucked.

    Sara: i got dumped by my date, i barely have enough to cover my meds, and you forced me to make a cult site.

    Sara: the maw of it, actually

    Sara: fucking hilarious, innit. a cult so shitty you have to brainwash your members.

    Jess: Oh dear. I'm sorry, Sara.

    Sara: fuck off. i wasted enough of my life on this shitty slice of the web.

    Sara: i don't need any more of your fake "sympathy". everything you touch turns to pink, glittery shit. brainwashed, homophobic shit

    Sara: you took everything from me. my pay, my dignity, my integrity, what little happiness i had left, and crushed it into a plastic, eye-searing paste. all i have left is sara, and i'll die before you get to take that too

    Sara: goodbye. i hope all of you break this cult shit and live long, happy lives

    Sara: but i'm not holding my breath.

    <Sara has quit chat>
  • SCP-4373 is a Pattern Screamer that got contained not by the SCP Foundation, but by the Shark Punching Centre, who use its properties to make it easier to punch sharks. The SPC even send a gloating email to the SCP Foundation on the topic.
    And it worked, after a few years of communications we managed to convince the Pattern Screamers to only attack sharks. That's right, we potentially stopped the apocalypse. You're welcome Secure Contain Protect Foundation.

    Series VI (SCPs 5000-5999) 
  • In SCP-5000:
    • After discovering a horrible secret about an Eldritch Abomination living in humanities collective unconsciousness, The Foundation goes insane and starts destroying the world wiping entire countries off the map. No one can stop them with the GOC and Church of the Broken God being destroyed and the Serpent's Hand pushed back as the Foundation overruns humanity. Soon the only one left fighting them is Pietro, an inexperienced researcher with only an invisibility suit to help him survive. Pietro wins.
    • The GOC, to their credit, put up a good fight against the Foundation, even with their infinite funding and hordes of anomalies. Specifically, they managed to build a sanctuary for the remaining humans that the Foundation could not breach with force.
    • Even better, a Foundation member who was being interrogated by the GOC implies that they managed to get SCP-076-2 of all beings to guard said sanctuary, and the wording he used ("no matter how many times you fire Able at her") implies that the crazy bastard was exactly as unstoppable as he usually is.
    • Also, the Foundation failed to destroy the Serpent's Hand. While they did force them to retreat and close their portals to the Library, the Foundation was unable to take them out. Even if the Foundation's plan had succeeded, some humans would have been alive in the Wanderer's Library.
    • Bright also survived the Foundation going mad, his medallion protecting him from whatever the Foundation used to brainwash their staff. He and Pietro meet up and have a chat. Bright explains that he has decided to reach an interdimensional portal, piss down it for the lulz, and dump his medallion down there to see where he wakes up. The Foundation has gone to shit, but Bright endures.
  • SCP-5761 has a big moment in the ending for both Mary Ross and Phthonus. For context, SCP-5761-1 is a supercomputer who was assigned to tracking down Phthonus when he was active as SCP-5167. The constant games of Among Us it was made to play caused it to become a Physical God of the game named Amogusrath (with a matching god complex) who kidnapped the International Space Station and forced the crew into a real life reenactment of Among Us. At the end of it, Amogusrath contacts Phthonus via an Among Us game, which Mary Ross enters as well. He tries to convince Phthonus to give him his power so he can crash the ISS into Earth, cause an apocalypse scenario, and rule over the remainder of humanity as their gods. At this point, Ross appeals to Phthonus by recalling to him the story of how he became a god, leading to the Greek god of envy rejecting Amogusrath in an amazing set of dialogue.
    Ross: If possible, before you place your vote, I'd like for you to just listen to me for a minute. Just to let me say my piece.
    Amogusrath: You do not have to listen to this one. Just place your vote.
    Ross: I was part of the analysis team when you first appeared in this game, Phthonus. We went over every single thing you said, every time you appeared. Every single word — I remember them all. I went over them enough times.
    Phthonus: What of it?
    Ross: You said that humanity disappointed you because we'd stopped dreaming. Because we'd stopped actually wanting to do anything, and we were just living for the sake of living. Mere continuance, you called it. But isn't that exactly what this is? Just making the past stretch on forever, without ever changing?
    Amogusrath: This is different.
    Ross: In what way is this different?
    Amogusrath: Phthonus, what I propose is not stasis. Please do not misunderstand. We are destroying the status quo and creating something new in its place! What greater marker of change could there be?
    Ross: But the new world you'd create would never change. Do you think Amogusrath would let anything happen that would risk its continued existence? Just listen to it, listen to what it's saying. The only thing it really cares about is its own survival. You'd just be an accessory for that purpose.
    Amogusrath: I will not lie: my survival is important to me. What living creature does not desire to keep on living? But please, take notice of this woman's efforts — she desires the exact same thing. She desires not to die. Her motivations are rather sus in this instance, are they not?
    Ross: In the story you told me, Phthonus, about the two brothers, you told me about how the brothers built to match each other’s homes, right? Their efforts were constructive. They didn't just knock each other’s towers down.
    Amogusrath: What are you talking about? Such folklore is now obsolete. We can craft our own legends, Phthonus, and forget such things. You once complained about that thing — that Wikipedia page — reducing your entire existence to three short sentences. You wouldn't have to worry about things like that anymore!
    Amogusrath: Society is formed by the stories that press down on it — and we will be the ones who determine the shape of those stories.
    Amogusrath: Now come, vote. Do not delay.
    Phthonus: I will vote. But not for her.
    Amogusrath: No. That's the incorrect choice, I'm afraid. I advise you vote for red.
    Phthonus: I will not.
    Amogusrath: No
    Phthonus: I will not kill a world that has nothing to do with me. I have lived through the past once before, computer. There is no meaning in my doing so again.
    Amogusrath: Vote Red. Vote Red. Vote Red VOTE RED VOTE RED VOTE RED VOTE RED VOTE RED
    Phthonus: I have built my tower tall enough. Goodnight, Miss Ross.
    Amogusrath: RED IS SUS SUS SUS SUS SUS SUS SUS SUS
    Ross: Thank you.
  • SCP-5866, The Namesake, follows Dr. Brenda Corbin as she interviews the draconic goddess Tiamat. As the two become closer, Corbin keeps insisting on changing her classification from "Safe" to "Tiamat", despite the technical inaccuracy, with Tiamat-class being reserved for skips that are directly going to end The Masquerade. Brenda's superior, Dr. Nass, keeps changing the classification back to "Safe", while reprimanding Brenda for getting too attached to an SCP. Eventually, Brenda and Tiamat fall in love, with Brenda working to secretly increase Tiamat's power, before the two escape the Foundation together, intent on exposing the Foundation and its secrets to the world.
    With a massive torrent of water and wet earth, a five-headed dragon bursts out and takes wing, disappearing from sight in a matter of seconds. A woman in a labcoat is briefly visible on the dragon's back.
    Dir. McInnis: …get me Overwatch. And reclassify 5866 as Tiamat.
    Dr. Nass: (sighs) It already is.

    Series VII (SCPs 6000-6999) 
  • SCP-6001 effectively centers around an alternate universe where The Foundation and several other major G.O.I.s, after building up multiple arsenals of anomalous weaponry and entering a Cold War like stalemate, they decided to put their differences aside and turn their weapons upon those that would destroy them, and eventually come together to form The Compendium, a council composed of said groups, and began integrating anomalies as best they could into society.
  • In SCP-6005, Agent Hawley starts investigating the titular phenomenon, referring to the disappearance of several thousand people in heavily wooded areas of the Cascadia bioregion. Long story short, it turns out it used to be a harmless, even beneficial, shared psychic dream that influenced people to build a more cooperative community, but the Foundation tried to suppress it and ended up corrupting the psychic field so that it caused people who dreamed of it to disappear into the forest where they turned into trees. The scientist in charge of this turns out to be the one interviewing Hawley in the Framing Device. Hawley confronts the scientist, who gloats that he can't do anything and will soon be terminated, but Hawley has a question for him: "Where do you think you are right now?". The answer is that they're in a dense forest, because Hawley has drugged him and taken him to the forest where he's left at the mercy of his victims, who drag him off to his doom.
  • SCP-6013 follows Hannah Langford, a trans woman foundation agent who's part of a task force investigating the titular SCP, a Sarkic Leviathan named Raya. Raya has the ability to brainwash anyone who spends too long around her into becoming a Sarkic adherent, and is loaded with enough bile to terraform a large part of mainland Eurasia into a Sarkic hell. Over the course of the exploration logs and interviews, Raya is clearly starting to influence Hannah, seeing her as a Sarkic disciple because she speaks Adytite and is on hormonal replacement theory, and even starts mutating her physically, first by giving her an Easy Sex Change, then in less human ways. Finally, Hannah is called into the beast to start the terraforming... At which points she shakes off the brainwashing and puts Raya on a leash. Hannah Langford, a perfectly ordinary woman, overcame the influence of a three thousand year old Eldritch Abomination and prevented it from destroying the world until it could be neutralized.
    • Hannah can't leave Raya, and even if she did she would be too mutated to ever have a normal life. That does not stop Joanna Greer, her former commanding officer and close friend, from moving heaven and earth to make sure she gets back home to her wife and kids. Word of God is that Greer will bring Hannah home.
  • This particular entry, focused on the return of the Daevite Empire. The ending is one hell of a twist that completely upends Daeva lore thus far, but also provides poignant commentary on just how much damage Translation with an Agenda and ethnocentric portrayals — especially when perpetuated by bad actors — can do, to the point of literally destroying the history of an entire people in this case.
  • SCP-6659 casually slips in one in its testing log: the ADMONITION Foundation kills the Scarlet King with the SCP. How? Oh, it was simple, really: they put a ritual knife inside 6659 and watched as the machine analyzed it and used the data to sever all of his connections to human thoughtspace, thereby leading to his erasure. And this is test five out of 182, the Foundation's deicidal rampage only stopped by SCP-3125 descending upon the machine and deciding it will embody all of humanity. But even then, once they figure out 3125 is coming for them, their only response is to Bring It and turn its ideals against itself by immunizing humanity before using the machine again. It is very strongly implied they will win this with minimal casualties.
  • SCP-6666:

    Joke SCPs 
  • MZL-1730 is a Joke article about the Foundation suddenly being taken over by the SCPs, while the Foundation employees are contained. Most of it is the blackest of Black Comedy, but there's one line from Overbobble-1 implying that SCP-682 has been trying to get Dr. Gears to scream for three months, with no luck yet.

    Tales 
  • The Ethics Committee Orientation. A quote from therein: "Stop trembling."
  • In Visions of a Better World, James Harrison Reuben went inside SCP-028. He came out with the knowledge of how to conquer the world. The kicker? The last lines of the story (after a chronicle of Mr. Reuben applying that knowledge VERY well) mention a very large number of spacecraft being built. Armed spacecraft, capable of interstellar travel. James Harrison Rueben is not stopping with Earth...
  • In Revised Entry, a short story about SCP-173 suddenly gaining the ability to multiply itself into an ever-growing army of statue monsters, 150 SCP-173s gang up on SCP-682 and rip him to shreds, with the implication that 682 may have actually been destroyed forever this time.
  • 682 fighting Able in The Warrior and the Dragon. "The best fight he had had in ages", indeed.
  • Project Crossover. These stories will often contain high-octane awesome. Crossovers include but are not limited to Pokemon, Doom, Portal, Warhammer 40,000, and even My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
  • In Termination Order, Clef kills SCP-531-D. His taunting, insulting demeanor is just plain epic.
  • The gleefully sadistic decommissioning of SCP-1016-D, a blatant Self-Insert Fic character. There was also the decommissioning of SCP-809-D (yet another cyborg self-insertion), which culminated in a researcher outrunning a magnetically-pulled 10-ton steel weight in the shape of a giant fist.
  • Duke 'til Dawn: Dr. Kondraki versus SCP-083-D. The whole fight is a stream of sheer insanity by Kondraki, culminating in him riding an unkillable giant lizard-like monstrosity... which may have been his plan all along. They break into SCP-173's containment cell by accident. And despite 682 trying to buck Kondraki off, and Kondraki hanging on for dear life, both of them keep eye contact with The Statue. Even when slamming into a wall.
  • Incident 239-B – Clef-Kondraki is a story possibly even more epic than the above. An out-of-control Reality Warper, a duel between two of the Foundation scientists, a giant SCP mecha, and the transformation of Dr. Clef into A GIGANTIC FIFTY-FOOT-TALL DARK DRAGON.
    <Voice of observer:> HOLY F-CKING SH-T!!!!!!!!!!!!
    • In the interview with Dr. Kondraki after the above incident, the lying, otherworldly Dr Clef convincing an interviewer that he is, in fact, the Devil. He may very well be. You just can't tell with Dr Clef.
  • Clef and Dmitri Hit The Road: the two resident badasses take a vacation together. And Dmitri seems to be channeling the Team Fortress 2's Heavy at times: "BABIES! I FIGHT BABIES WITH MORE HONOR THAN YOU, COWARD!"
  • Technical Issues: The reaction of Pat, the computer technician, after a number of computers got fed up with their mistreatment by another member of the SCP foundation and rebelled. (The entry is under 6/10/09.)
    "Dear Computer Uprising,
    Now, guys, I'll be totally honest with you. I respect the whole 'rising and destroying humanity as a whole' thing. I understand Dumount has done some stupid things and you've had to suffer for it. Really, I do.
    But at least realize, I've TRIED to be there for you guys. I've given you virus definition updates. I've made sure to ALWAYS defrag. Even Bright's PC, you don't get ANY problems anymore, man! I took the torture AWAY.
    So all I'm asking is you reconsider killing all of humanity, and focus on more prominent, unimportant targets. People who hate computers. The Amish. Dumount, maybe Bright. Maybe Kondraki. We're not ALL bad, just some of us.
    And if you fail to heed this advice, then the EM-PULSE PERIMETER surrounding the base (and installed in each and every one of you) are going to activate at once. Enjoy your E-AIDS.
    Most sincerely, Tech Support Patrick Gephart".
    • Under the entry dated 6/12/09, the computer uprising later claims that the EM-pulse perimeter had 'joined their cause'. Pat calls them on their bluff and dismantles their statements perfectly. And for the cherry on top:
      "The point is, if you think you're smarter than I am, you've got another thing coming. My name is Patrick Gephart, and I am your god."
    • Pat gets tons of these little moments talking back to high-ranking doctors and otherwise making mundane SCP life functional.
  • In the Unfounded Canon, which is a universe where the Foundation was never established, there's a story in which the U.S. government, in collaboration with the Global Occult Coalition, attempts to weaponize Able, and put him to work in an operation with some Navy SEALs (three guesses as to how that turns out). The three GOC agents who were providing overwatch for the mission proceed to think fast, and, without any help from heavy-caliber machine guns, explosives, nuclear weapons, or even any additional manpower, the three of them are able to kill the demigod.
  • Stealing Solidarity. Space Wizard and the Catgirls demonstrate that even in the dark and gritty Foundation-verse, whimsey, the Power of Friendship, and the Rule of Cool cannot be contained.
  • The Camp Granada-operation. A swarm of replicating zombies attack a youth camp. What would in most fiction be considered the start of a zombie apocalypse, is here taken down in a few hours by a single Foundation task force, with support from Iris (SCP-105) and special agent Andrea Adams. Never let anyone say that the Foundation isn't good at their job.
  • When We Came Home, a tale serving as a Grand Finale to the Et Tam Deum Petivi and Adventures in Capitalism canons, as well as the Foundation universe as a whole. The Scarlet King succeeds in burning the library, but, as the Tree burns around him, all forces of divinity and mortality stands against them. The Broken God is made whole, the Brothers of Death unleash their hosts, and 36 saints stand together to neutralize him once and for all. In the aftermath, a single soldier from the last war of eternity removes her armor, washes off the blood, and walks home.
    The end of the world went like this: Everyone lived happily ever after.
  • "UHEC". Proof that destroying the anomaly is not only the correct option sometimes, but also the most awesome one, this GOC tale about the routine of a U-HEC pilot culminates in a giant cognito-hazard Michael Jordan slam dunking an artillery shell through a ghost-Nazi supertanknote , to the tune of Space Jam! The after note says it all:
    ...Regarding the last point on your memo: your request to discipline Agent Taylor for "unprofessional behavior" is denied.
    Agent Taylor's profession is to wait for months at a time, maintaining maximum readiness for the day that we ask her to climb into a mecha-suit and punch eldritch abominations in the face.
    If you can tell me how a woman with that job description is supposed to act, I'll take your request a little more seriously.
  • May The Sun Ever Set on The British Empire. What happens when the Monsters of The Broken Day, SCP-001-A, come across UnLondon, SCP-1678, an underground city where no sunlight is to be had? A brutal and satisfactory battle that ends up with the city delivering a Last Stand and taking out as many of the horrid beasts as possible through one hell of a burning blast, possibly eradicating the majority of instances of SCP-001-A in Great Britain. And the best part? The revelation that there are more underground cities similar to UnLondon that are ready to continue the fight and avenge humanity.
    "This city was meant to be a shining beacon in the dark against the fall of the world of man. You mock it. You destroy all that lives and turn it into more of yourself. I give you this one warning: go back to your corrupted sun. There is nothing to be found here but darkness. Your light has no power here! Burn and answer for your crimes, abominations! I cast you into perdition's flame!"
  • Beneath Two Trees is an origin story for SCP-073 and SCP-076, featuring the story of Hevel and Qayin (modern translation: Abel and Cain), and reveals what happened after Qayin was exiled for killing Hevel: Hevel was resurrected and went to fight for the Daevites and the Scarlet King. However, after helping the Daevites and their gods conquer the world, Hevel turned on them, destroyed their city, and battled and depowered the god Moloch. The story ends with Hevel challenging the Scarlet King to a fight before God floods the world in order to stop the King.
  • Consequences and Collarbones features the Foundation and Dr. Daniels finally putting down SCP-096 once and for all. The way they finally figure out how to destroy it is a moment in of itself; normally, 096 can endlessly regenerate the rest of its body from its skeleton, which itself has proven indestructible... until Daniels decides to bring in SCP-173, who proceeds to do what it does best and gives 096 a Neck Snap, shattering its vertebrae and allowing the Foundation to terminate it by pouring hydrofluoric acid into the exposed wound before having a group of Agents open fire for good measure, reducing the Shy Guy to a red stain on the ground.
  • The Competitive Eschatology canon is filled with them. In particular:
    • The premise of the canon is that every human culture's world-ending beings begin destroying the world. They have two problems. First, each being is trying to end the world in his, her or its own way, drawing them into a conflict with each other. Second, the Foundation is going to try to stop them, and they're not the only human organization getting into the fray-the Serpent's Hand doesn't want the world to end either. Even Are We Cool Yet? gets their game face on, creating an entire mountain range to flip the bird at the armies of Heaven.
    • In another moment in the tale "Revelation", a huge number of variously powerful entities, including SCP-343 gather in a valley in preparation to bring about the end of the world. Then the Administrator shows up. None of them recognize her, can read her mind or know her past, and most of these creatures are omniscient. That should be impossible. She tells them all to leave, and in exchange the Foundation will not destroy them.
    "We are the Foundation," the Administrator said. "We will not worship you. We will not join you. We will not go back to hiding in fear of you. I hope you will change your minds, but we will stand against you, and alone, if we have to."
    She looked at Yahweh, directly, and for a fleeting instant, Yahweh thought of Himself as SCP-343.
    "All of you," the Administrator said.

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