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Characters: SCP Foundation
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     The Foundation itself 

     Foundation personnel 

General Tropes

Dr. Clef, SCP number pending

Dr. Gears

Dr. Kondraki
  • Badass Bookworm
  • Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Known to pull pranks causing death or serious injury to others on a whim, shoot at people for no apparent reason, and otherwise engage in violence when bored. Also drove one of his assistants to a psychotic break.
  • Indy Ploy: Absolute. Freaking. MASTER.
  • Karma Houdini: Of a sort. He was cleared of all responsibility after he broke Dr. Clef's neck. Probably because the overseers thought that Clef deserved it, or that they would have done the same.
  • Must Have Caffeine
  • Perma Stubble
  • Pet the Dog: His efforts to save 239 from the frantically homicidal Clef.
  • Villainous Breakdown: A truly epic one in "The King Is Dead".
  • What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: The reason he wants SCP-239 to be spared. At least, that was what Dr. Clef thought his motives were. It turns out that Kondraki's original motive was actually just stopping Clef from causing more chaos for the foundation. At most, Kondraki was psychically manipulated by 239 without realizing it, as he discusses in an after-action interview log with an overseer.

Dr. Rights

Dr. Bright

Prof. Crow

Dr. Snorlison

Fat Ghost

Dr. Glass

Dr. Iceberg

Agent Strelkinov

Agent Yoric

Secretary Break

Dr. Sorts
  • Brown Note: His specialty.
  • It's Personal: He really, really doesn't like artists, having seen the trade from inside.
  • Mad Artist: His other, frequently coinciding specialty.

Dr. Mann

Dr. "Doc" Burns

Dr. Gnosis

Agent Diogenes

Dr. Gerald

Agent Lombardi
  • After Action Report
  • More Dakka: "...that's when you pull out your gun and you shoot the fucker. If that don't work, you shoot it again, because ninety-nine times outta a hundred, shootin' will work if you do enough of it."
  • No OSHA Compliance: Subverted. "Who here is willin' to die rather than give up on the mission? One, two, three, four… Okay, you five fail. Counter to what some dingbats will tell you, the latter is actually the preferred option."
  • Sergeant Rock

     Select SCP# 

Plenty of SCPs are embodiments of tropes:

SCP-040 ("Evolution's Child")

SCP-042 ("The Formerly-Winged Horse")

SCP-049 ("Plague Doctor")

SCP-053 ("The Young Girl")
  • Abusive Parents: Her mother's journal reveals that even her parents were consumed by her Hate Plague and wanted her dead.
  • Admiring the Abomination: Has become very fond of SCP-682, even crying when they were separated. When photographed with a camera that would show what she wished she was doing at that exact moment, it showed her riding on his back through the countryside.
  • Berserk Button: Anybody older than three who make eye contact with, physically touch, or remain around SCP-053 for longer than 10 minutes will attempt to kill her, after killing or driving off everybody visible to them.
  • Creepy Child: See Humanoid Abomination below.
  • The Diaper Change: Certain unruly foot soldiers were once threatened to be put on diaper duty for her.
  • Fluffy Tamer: An experiment placing 053 in contact with 682 ended with 682 being drawn on with crayons.
  • Good Thing You Can Heal: SCP-053 will regenerate almost instantaneously from any wound, regardless of severity.
  • Hate Plague: See Berserk Button above.
  • Humanoid Abomination: 053 is actually a sweet child, but with her power and fact that 682 is docile toward her, it's clear that there's something really wrong here.
  • Morality Pet: She's more or less this to SCP-682.
  • No Name Given: Actually, her name is mentioned in this recovery log. It's "Abby".
  • Would Hurt a Child: Anyone over 10 except SCP-682 who spends 10 minutes with here will want to kill her. Unfortunatly, anyone who does harm her is killed near-instantly & she will heal off the injuries inflicted to her.

SCP-054 ("Water Nymph")

SCP-058 ("Heart of Darkness")

SCP-073 AKA Cain

SCP-076-2 AKA Able
  • Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: "SCP-076-2 has however, shown that it has great knowledge of human anatomy (although in a highly violent context), military tactics of open warfare, metallurgy, and, strangely enough, the care of livestock."
  • Ax Crazy: If Able is bored (which is often), he'll entertain himself by going on homicidal rampages.
  • Berserk Button: Presumably, exposure to a picture of the symbol on SCP-073's forehead (SCP-073 is Cain.)
  • The Berserker
  • Blood Knight: He considers the battle against 682 "the best fight he had had in ages". So good that he wanted to celebrate with his team.
  • Blue and Orange Morality: This is the result of the psychological testing done on him.
  • Cain and Abel: He's the Abel. Notably, 6,000 years of undeath has reversed his role; he's now more of a Cain than Cain himself (who is also an SCP; see above).
  • Canon Sue: Invoked. Able is explicitly the most sue-ish you can go, and you are not allowed to add an SCP more sue-ish than him. It's called the "Able line".
  • Deconstruction / Fridge Brilliance: Able has no interests beyond killing people, is perpetually bored, can summon weapons out of an apparently unlimited space and respawns upon death. He is a videogame player character.
  • Divide by Zero : Able was once tasked (though as a separate incident/story, its canonical status is iffy) with trying to kill 682 listed below. In an archived incident, they tore each other to ribbons but neither quite get the job done, took a break, went back into it, and fought so hard that they caused a [DATA EXPUNGED] event, implied to have been a hole they broke in the universe. Which means that one or the others powers went off the scale, or that they're both such insane Human / Eldritch abominations that their co-presence messed up the laws of physics.
  • Hyperspace Arsenal
  • Implacable Man: It takes a lot to even stagger Able, let alone incapacitate him.
  • Lightning Bruiser
  • Muscles Are Meaningless
  • One-Man Army
  • Overshadowed by Awesome: The old guide to write humanoid SCP lampshaded this. Dangerous as he is, Able has been killed several times. At least in the Foundation's eyes, he's more of a product of SCP-076-1. Yet people tend to pay more attention to Able.
  • Pet the Pigs: It's in Project Crossover, but Able seem to be at peace when tending to his pig farm. "He loved to spoil the little guys."
  • Resurrective Immortality: If he's killed (which is really hard to do by the way), his corpse will disintergrate and 076-1 (A giant stone box with a coffin inside it) will slam shut and he'll be "respawned" as it were.
  • Retcon: The main 076 article was rewritten to remove the Mobile Task Force Omega-7 stuff, and make Able less "lolawesome". He's less of a Wolverine expy now and more of a humanoid bundle of murder. He is also now completely hostile towards the Foundation; no longer is he working for any side.
  • Sealed Badass in a Can: 076-1 is the can.
  • Spell My Name with an S: Proper spelling, as listed on the main article and by Word Of God, is Able. Too many people misspell it using the Biblical spelling, though.
  • Worthy Opponent: SCP-076-2 lamented the loss of an SCP agent who was able to match him in combat. Partly because said agent killed as collateral damage in an airstrike (to stop another SCP) instead of in combat (as 076-2 thought a Worthy Opponent deserved) and partly because fighting the Foundation was really boring without said agent there to make it challenging.

SCP-079 ("The Old AI")

SCP-082 ("Fernand")

SCP-085 ("Cassy")

SCP-087-1 ("The Face")

SCP-096 ("The Shy Guy")
  • Berserk Button: Looking at its face will send it into a rage. Hell, one of SCP-096's most damaging escapes was because a guy accidentally caught it in a picture, the creature's face only being represented by four pixels total.
    • Interestingly, the effect doesn't work with artistic renderings.
  • Creepily Long Arms
  • Don't Look at Me
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Dr. Dan had decided that 096 would inevitably cause a catastrophe, thinking that any introduction to a major population center might mean the whole world would be hunted. If any major or minor news network manages to get 096 onscreen, then it would hunt down every single person that catches a glimpse of it. Dr. Dan decided that he would purposefully construct a faulty method of looking at its face, just so that the Overseers would approve speedy termination of it... but Dr. Dan will be executed after due to his "mistake."
  • Humanoid Abomination
  • The Juggernaut: Once someone looks at its face, nothing will stop it from killing them, not even a GUA-19. The Foundation put someone in a bathysphere eleven kilometres underwater in a deep-sea trench hundreds of kilometres away from SCP-096's containment site with a photograph and a sketch pad to get an artist's impression. It bought them an hour.
  • Lean and Mean
  • Muscles Are Meaningless: It has very little muscle mass yet can smash its way through virtually anything.
  • Perpetual Motion Monster
  • Schmuck Bait: Fulfills this role in Containment Breach. Just look at its face in its containment cell, I dare you.
  • Super Persistent Predator: Not only does it know when someone is looking at it, be it through video feed or even just a photograph, but it knows the location of that person and will charge towards them regardless of their distance or how difficult it is to reach them.
  • Troubled Fetal Position: After its twenty-seven hour battle with 682, the poor thing was left in this position for awhile (although, to be fair, 682 didn't turn out so hot either).
  • Unstoppable Force Meets Immovable Object: It was one of the SCPs that the Foundation tried to kill SCP-682 with. After 27 HOURS of the two of them fighting, they suddenly stopped and just stared at each other until they were recontained.
  • Volumetric Mouth: Its mouth is 4x larger than a normal humans and it screams when someone looks at it.

SCP-105 aka Iris Thompson

SCP-106 ("The Old Man")

SCP-127 ("The Living Gun")

SCP-131 ("The Eye Pods")

SCP-134 ("Stella")
  • Black Eyes of Evil: Averted
  • Creepy Child
  • My Name Is Not Durwood: The name "Stella" was given by a childhood development specialist, who suggested that proper childhood development requires a personal name. However, 134 is high-functioning autistic child, with patterned behavior and resistance to change, and already learned to associate being referred to by her SCP number. So she becomes upset when called with that name.
  • Stealth Pun: She literally has stars in her eyes.

SCP-140 ("A Chronicle of the Daevas")
  • Artifact of Doom: It will use blood as ink if it has to.
  • End of the World as We Know It: Capable of causing an CK-Class restructuring of society. The Daevas are a separate subspecies of human who could take over the world if people keep giving it liquids.
  • Fling A Light Into The Future: What it seems to be at first.
  • Human Sacrifice: The Daevas loved it.
  • Reality Writing Book: It is a book that chronicles the history of Daevite culture. Every time it gets more ink it will continue the history of the Daevas. New archaeological sites that correspond to this new history appear every time this happens. It is hypothesized if it gets enough ink, the book will manifest the Daevas into our current time.
  • Sinister Minister: The Daevite theocracy indulged in cannibalism.

SCP-173 ("The Sculpture")

SCP-191 ("Cyborg Child")
  • Adult Fear: She was abducted normal girl.
  • And I Must Scream: She can't talk, unless linked to computer.
  • Back from the Dead: Her lungs, heart, and major blood vessels have been replaced with mechanical parts that can "restart" her bodily system after death.
  • Cyborg
  • Flawed Prototype: It's believe that she's simply a testbed for other subjects. Some of her modifications seem to be pointless. She's susceptible to injury and infection, and the modification leave her with impaired motor skills.
  • The Grotesque
  • Shrinking Violet: The experiment log hint that she's this.
  • Sole Survivor: Other subjects were destroyed during the raid on the laboratory of her creator Mad Scientist.
  • Techno Wizard: Can perform some amazing feat when linked to computer. Drawing perfect copies of photographs with MS Paint using only pencil tool, reading broken game disc and made a perfect run-through, and perform impossible video-enhancement techniques using normal program. The last ones aren't perfect, but they're good enough that many on-site personnel unable to tell they were the forgeries.

SCP-217 ("The Clockwork Virus")

SCP-231-7

SCP-239 ("Sigurrós")

SCP-261 ("Pan-Dimensional Vending")
  • Alien Lunch: The things dispensed by SCP-261 are presumably snack foods from various other universes and dimensions. Most of them are edible, but some of them have horrifying effects on human beings.
  • Berserk Button: Don't give it counterfeit money. It always knows, even when the forgery is perfect.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Some of its outputs can be considered this.
  • Flipping the Bird: Giving it fake money resulted in it dispensing gummy hands with this gesture. They were poisoned.
  • No Snack For You: Subverted. If you put in Japanese yen, it will always give you something. That something, however, is not always safe to eat, or safe, period.
  • Vengeful Vending Machine: While not vengeful, per se, it gets very passive-aggresive if you try to give it something that isn't genuine Japanese currency. For example, one experiment involved giving it a counterfeit 500-yen coin. SCP-261 responded with gummi-bears shaped like a human hand with middle finger extended. They also happen to be extremely toxic.

SCP-343 ("God")
  • Affably Evil: One perspective of him, anyway.
  • All-Powerful Bystander: This is actually one of the reasons why the article hasn't been deleted, as- unlike the aggressive, demanding Marty Stu reality warpers like 531-d- "God" makes no demands of the staff and poses no threat to the world at large.
  • Cool Old Guy
  • Enemy Mine: Teams up with Clef to stop 239 in "Unfinished Business."
  • Friendly Enemy: With Clef, in one of the Foundation Tales.
  • God: What he claims to be, at least.
  • A God Am I: A fairly benevolent example of this trope.
  • Grandpa God: If he really is God.
  • Might As Well Not Be In Prison At All: It is absolutely impossible to contain 343; in fact, the only reason he remains in captivity is because he seems to like the Foundation.
  • My Species Doth Protest Too Much: In "Unfinished Business", it's revealed that he's a Type Green, like 239 and 531-d; however, he's also one of the rare few who was able to stop himself from descending into destructive megalomaia, hence the reason why Clef hasn't recommended his termination or revealed his true nature. Of course, since there is no canon, how valid this story is up to you.
  • The Omnipotent
  • Reality Warper
  • The Trickster: Though generally benign, he did once delete a doctor's orders just to annoy him.

SCP-346 ("Pterry")

SCP-352 ("Baba Yaga")

SCP-353 ("Vector")

SCP-372 ("The Peripheral Jumper")
  • Big Creepy Crawlies: Implied to be this.
  • Bizarre Alien Biology: See Spider-Sense.
  • Don't Look at Me: Although it's not hostile about it.
  • Gaslighting: It was first discovered hanging around a patient complaining of hallucinations. Unfortunately, SCP-372 wasn't a hallucination, and thus the patient wasn't helped by any sort of treatment. By the time SCP-372 was captured, the patient had actually gone insane due to stress.
  • He Who Must Not Be Seen: It constantly moves out of line of sight.
  • Spider-Sense: In place of eyes and ears, it has a sensory organ that allows it to predict where a person is going to look so it can move out of the way.
  • Super Reflexes

Me, SCP-426 ("I am a Toaster")

SCP-457 ("Burning Man")

SCP-458 ("The Never-Ending Pizza Box")
  • Exactly What It Says on the Tin: It's literally a Little Caesar's pizza box (large size) that always has pizza in it. Always.
  • Infinite Supplies: Nobody knows where the heck the pizza inside comes from. Thankfully, there seem to be no harmful effects from eating it (aside from the usual obesity that comes from eating large amounts of normal pizza).
  • Made of Indestructium: All attempts to dismantle or destroy it have failed. Attempts were eventually discontinued when it was realized no-one actually understood why they were trying to destroy a box that produces infinite pizza with no abnormal side effects.
  • Mundane Utility: Currently "contained" in the staff break room, free for anyone who's hungry for some pizza.
  • One Note Cook: Can make pizza from any chain, with any topping, including homemade pizzas. However, it can only make pizza, and can not use ingredients that would be indigesible by a normal human being.
  • Your Favorite: Tests show that it seems to read the mind of whoever touches it to create their "perfect pizza", using the toppings, crust, sauce and cheese they would enjoy eating most. This even works on other SCPs. For example: Able's favorite pizza is apparently a large pizza with meatballs, pepperoni, bacon, Canadian bacon, sausage, hamburger, and thick crust.

SCP-469 ("The Many-Winged Angel")

SCP-507 ("The Reluctant Dimension Hopper")

SCP-524 ("Walter")
  • Extreme Omnivore: He will eat absolutely anything.
  • Killer Rabbit: Although he's a relatively benign example.
    • It still says something that even 682 didn't try to attack it, instead just running away up the wall.
  • Somewhere A Mammalogist Is Crying: He's either this trope, or it's just another, less noteworthy odd trait. Despite looking like a pet rabbit Walter is apparently a brush rabbit - a species that hasn't been domesticated (pet rabbits are all descended from European rabbits).
  • Unexplained Recovery: He'll literally just reappear in the spot he ate himself in.

SCP-529 ("Josie")

SCP-530 ("Carl")

SCP-579 ("[DATA EXPUNGED]")

SCP-582 ("Bundle")

SCP-590 ("TJ")

SCP-607 ("Dorian")
  • Cats Are Mean: Maybe, maybe not. It's hard to tell
  • Driven to Suicide: It's always trying to kill itself, whether it's "bonded" to someone or not.
    • Death Is Cheap: It reanimates later on if it succeeds though and goes on to bond with someone else.
  • Empathy Pet: Inverted and Deconstructed.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: though it's not proven, the Foundation speculates that the cat's suicidal tendencies just may be due to their extensive testing on it. If that is the case, that would mean they turned an already dangerous SCP downright vicious. Wouldn't be the first time, too.
  • Synchronization: When it bonds with someone, anything that happens to it (physical or emotional) will also happen to that person.

SCP-610 ("The Flesh that Hates")

SCP-661 ("Salesman, Too Good To Be True")
Requests not processed by Dr. ██████
-One (1) Leather Jacket (Denied. Subject placed into Restraint Jacket instead.)
-"Tacos". (Denied. Subject given burrito instead.)
-One (1) CD of "The Best of Led Zeppelin" (Denied. Subject given a CD of The Monkees.)
-"████. It ███████ reeks in here. Open a god████ window or something". (Denied. Officer ██████ passed flatulence in cell instead.)
"A spot of sun". (Denied. Officer ██████ shined a flashlight in his face for 10 minutes.)
One (1) Baconator cheeseburger from Wendy's (Denied. Subject was given one (1) Boca brand soy burger instead.)
One (1) pair of Aviator-brand Sunglasses (Denied. Lights turned off in room.)
One (1) 'Pepsi' brand soft drink (Denied. Given one (1) can of 'Coca-Cola' brand soft drink as a suitable replacement. After recovering from concussion, Dr. █████ was reassigned to a non-sentient SCP.)
Gentlemen, seriously. As abrasive and rude as SCP-661 is, he is still a sentient SCP and should be afforded some level of respect. I don't care what he does, events like the above will not be tolerated.
Dr. ███████

SCP-662 ("Mr. Deeds")
  • Battle Butler: Well, Deeds is a butler... and you can send him to kill people.
  • Death Is a Slap on the Wrist: Whenever Deeds is killed, no matter how severe his injuries, he comes right back once his corpse is out of sight and the bell is rung.
  • Genie in a Bottle: Deeds, with the bell serving as his bottle.
  • Offscreen Teleportation: He needs to be unobserved to bring back items, and knows if he is being observed. If there are cameras, they simply malfunction for a minute or two, with Deeds not knowing or caring how he got the item.
  • A Wizard Did It: Not even Deeds himself is quite sure how he's able to do what he does. Thinking about it too much seems to distress him.

SCP-682 ("The Hard-to-Destroy Reptile")
  • Absolute Xenophobe: toward nearly all Earth life.
  • Adaptive Ability: Fortunately, the adaptations wear off eventually and it can always be at least incapacitated by heavy physical damage.
    • You know 173 right up there? They put 173 in 682's chamber. 682 GREW MORE EYES.
  • Berserk Button: Earth life, with rare exceptions.
  • Boastful Rap: Its communication with SCP-1548.
  • Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit": It only looks like a reptile.
  • Cluster F-Bomb: He's capable of human speech, although much of it is quite angry and profane.
  • Creepy Monotone: In the audio version of its interview, it speaks in a scary, almost robotic sounding voice.
  • Eldritch Abomination: When brought in to terminate 682, SCP-343, who is thought to be God, refuses and remarks "He's not one of mine. Deal with him yourself." Hoo boy.
    • Made all the more explicit by the fact that the two can neither see nor interact with each other.
  • Everything Alive Through Alien Eyes: One possible explanation for why it always tries to kill everything except SCP-053. It's not evil, it's just that everything alive in our world except SCP-053 is so horribly, gut-wrenchingly disgusting and wrong that SCP-682 can't help reacting by trying to make us all stop existing ASAP. It also didn't try to kill Dr. Clef for some reason. It just stared at him. It's anyone's guess what this means.
  • Exactly What It Says on the Tin: SCP-682 really is a Hard-To-Destroy-Reptile. Although the picture used in the article is of "The Moscow Monster", which was really just the corpse of a beluga whale.
  • Extreme Omnivore: It gains energy from anything it ingests, even the acid used to contain it.
  • Flowery Insults / Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: It calls SCP-999 a "feculent little snot wad" and invites it to "[DATA EXPUNGED] and die", and generally gets pretty vicious verbally if it's restrained physically.
  • Godzilla Threshold: "Special Containment Procedures: SCP-682 must be destroyed as soon as possible."
  • Good Counterpart: SCP-1364: 682 is an unidentifiable "reptile" that adapts to survive and hates everything while 1364 is an anteater that, despite being harmed by bright lights, still wants a hug.
  • Good Thing You Can Heal: Actually, no, it really isn't in this case.
  • Half The Lizard He Used To Be: They cut him in half with a high-powered laser. Each half grew back into a full-size 682. Thankfully, once 682-B was incapacitated and 682-A was cornered, 682-A ate 682-B in an attempt to invoke Heal Thyself.
  • Healing Factor
  • Infernal Retaliation: The Foundation once attempted to launch SCP-682 into the sun with a very large cannon. It came back ON FIRE. Of course, this was only mentioned in the joke SCP entry for said very large cannon, so it is not canon by virtue of the 1543-j not existing within SCP canon (nebulous and ill-defined as it is). Just cannon. It also had wings that launched razor-sharp feathers.
  • Nigh Invulnerable: This is its main trait. This and...
  • No Sell: Even to the most consistently fatal SCPs. Not to mention...
  • Nuke 'em: One of the proposed ways to end it, was by using a 60 MT thermonuclear bomb. Ultimately decided against.
    O5-█: Yes, it's a goddamn nuke, but if 682 survives and adapts we'd be boned beyond belief.
  • Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Its fifth containment breach, the Sole Survivor who captured it back is Personnel D-221. Yes, a D-class. And no, there is no detail how he did it.
  • Omnicidal Maniac: SCP-682 doesn't want to set the world on fire, but does want to destroy every living thing in it except for SCP-053, which is close enough.
    • Dr. Clef also doesn't seem to trigger its murder-death-kill reflex, whatever that means...
  • Pet the Dog: SCP-053 is possibly the only living thing that 682 didn't immediately try to kill - in fact, 053 played with it. Did we mention that this is the opposite of what usually happens, given that 053's main power seems to be to make people inexplicably and violently hate her after some time?
    • Went into Papa Wolf and Even Evil Has Loved Ones territory when 682 attacked the personnel sent to retrieve 053, presumably believing they'd harm 053. Then again, it may have just been doing what it usually does, mauling anything in sight.
    • 053's other power is that anyone or anything that causes her harm dies. It's possible that 682 could sense this power and was merely adapting as it always does.
    • SCP-682 didn't mind having SCP-999 around, at least they were in the cell together. In fact, 682 seemed to be genuinely happy, even during his containment breach that followed immediately during their contact. Once seperated, however, SCP-682 declared "That feculant little snot wad can [DATA EXPUNGED] and die."
  • Unstoppable Rage: It's not as popular as its other traits, but SCP-682 has episodes that are hard to describe as anything else, where it seems to lose control and become even more aggressive and even harder to incapacitate than usual. The abovementioned incident with the personnel trying to remove SCP-053 is a good example.
  • Why Did It Have To Be SCP-173?: Perhaps the only thing that SCP-682 is completely terrified of.
    • There's also SCP-524, the omnivorous (as in will eat everything, including itself) rabbit. When put together, 524 started chewing on 682's leg, and chased 682 around the testing chamber for two minutes before 682 ran four meters up the wall and out of 524's reach.
  • Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: To a certain degree.

SCP-735 ("The Insult Box")

SCP-811 ("Aé")

SCP-835 ("Expunged Data Released")
  • Starfish Alien: Borderline Eldritch Abomination.
  • Censor Bar: Subverted. It is the only article on the site whose expunged data you can read.
  • Baleful Polymorph: It can turn you into another instance of itself.
  • Body Horror: It eats humans, then uses them to grow. It is composed entirely of human material, and it uses human semen to reproduce.
  • Nothing Is Scarier: Rather than being a direct example, like most other SCPs, it helps reinforce the trope for the others — if this nightmare was hiding behind what seemed to be a relatively benign entry until you read the expunged data, imagine what the ones that are already horrible are hiding.

SCP-914 ("The Clockworks")
  • Black Box
  • Clock Punk
  • Combinatorial Explosion
  • For the Lulz: One theory to its purpose
  • Insufferable Genius: Its "personality", if it even has one, seems to resemble this
  • Literal Genie: At times.
  • Mad Artist: If it is truly sentient, then is is probably the best way to describe what it does. In the words of Dr. Gears:
    "After extended time spent in research on and with SCP-914, the following proposal regarding its nature may be made with a significant degree of certainty: SCP-914 was not designed as an industrial device. Nor was it primarily a scientific device. Its primary function appears to be as a form of entertainment. After review of the recovery notes, and evaluation of the test logs, it appears that SCP-914 was designed to create the most “novel” items possible, with no regard for practicality or function."
    • If you decide to accept this tale into your headcanon, then SCP-914 certainly takes after its creator.
    • Likewise for this tale, where it tells the Church of the Broken God to take a hike because the Foundation lets it make stuff its owners never did.
  • Smart People Play Chess
    Professor "Q": Yes, I've been playing chess with 914. …Yes, I'm aware it's supposed to be non-sentient, but that hardly explains why it's winning.
  • Troll: Definitely shows more than a few shades of this. Apparently one of those shades is pink.
    I hate [EXPLETIVES REDACTED] pink! -Dr. Hale

SCP-939 ("Of Many Voices")

SCP-953 ("The Polymorphic Humanoid")

SCP-959 ("The Bogeyman")

SCP-966 ("Sleep Killer")

SCP-973 ("Smokey")

SCP-993 ("Bobble the Clown")

SCP-999 ("The Tickle Monster")

SCP-1000 ("Bigfoot")
  • Ancient Conspiracy: "You think Bigfoot is funny because we want you to think Bigfoot is funny." - Director Jones
  • Bigfoot, Sasquatch and Yeti
  • Blatant Lies: The description mention that Yetis are hugely dangerous beings with "death auras": whoever sees SCP-1000, directly or indirectly, has a chance of being instantly killed via permanent cessation of brain function. The level 3 documentation at the end states that it's just an over-the-top cover story.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: Nocturnal? Check. Being the victims of Fantastic Racism and no morally different from humans? Check.
  • Humans Are Bastards: "Then their civilization fell. And we did it. By 'we' I don't mean the Foundation. By 'we', I mean humanity."
  • Laser-Guided Amnesia: "We left no traces. Not even our own memory. We turned one of the ["yetis'"] weapons on ourselves, wiped out any knowledge of SCP-1000 and the greatest civilization the planet had ever seen."
  • Laser-Guided Karma: "They fenced off our dwindling wild populations in conservatories, outlawed poaching but in the underground consumed our bones as aphrodisiacs."
  • Not So Different: "SCP-1000 are just like us. That's what makes them so dangerous. We wiped them from history and memory. We dissolved their civilization and we slaughtered most of their species. Just ask yourselves: If they got the chance, what more would they do to us?"
    • Fortunately they forgive us, as long as we let them "back in". However, their forgiveness depends on how soon we allow them "back", and since they are just like us, who knows if it isn't just Blatant Lies?
  • Woobies Destroyers of Worlds: ALL OF THEM are this. After what we as a species did to them, is it any wonder that they hate us? Interestingly, the inversion is also true. WE ARE THIS TO THEM. After what they did to us (consumed our bones as aphrodisiacs), is it any wonder that we destroyed them?

SCP-1048 ("Builder Bear")

SCP-1055 ("Mikey /Bugsy")

SCP-1156 ("Wellington G. Wonderhorse")

SCP-1348 ("Inner Sanctum")
  • Our Angels Are Different: The being initially found inside may have been one.
  • God: Heavily implied to he the Almighty.
  • God Needs Prayer Badly: The being behind the shroud was apparently hurt by some other beings for creating humanity. The ritual seems to be needed to keep them from finding him again.

SCP-1364 ("Ultra-Vulnerable Mammal")

SCP-1370 ("Pesterbot")

SCP-1425 ("Star Signals")
  • Blatant Lies: The article claims that the Serpentarius Protocol wiped all public knowledge of the SCP... except not. In fact, not only was it a complete disaster, the addendum makes it very clear the Foundation only won because of dumb luck.
  • Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: The book appears to be a New Age spiritual self-help book... and then you get to chapter 9, named "Do Not Look Away From This Book", containing some disturbing "advice". By chapter 10 (entitled "You Cannot Wake Up") it's devolved into some vile alien tongue. The article expunged almost all of the sample.
  • Brown Note
  • Church of Happyology: The Fifth Church, who wrote this book.
  • Driven to Madness: What the book does to you, among other horrible things.
  • Godzilla Threshold: Operation LETHE. Memory-wiping the entire earth via Laser-Guided Amnesia was the only way they could stop 1425.
  • From Bad to Worse: The Foundation thought they were just dealing with a containment breach when it got out. They were very, very wrong.
  • The Mole: The Fifthists planted them into the Foundation itself, to thwart their protocol of suppressing the SCP. It's implied that they've been doing this for years.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: One of the main reasons the Foundation won. The Fifth Church was basically covering themselves up, and the artifact itself appears to be memetically self-censoring - no one who's read it discusses its actual contents.
    ...their secrecy did half our work for us.
  • Not-So-Harmless Villain: The Fifth Church. Who knew some crazy new-age group could almost destroy all of reality?
  • Reality Warper: A nasty one.
  • The End of the World as We Know It: Very nearly and surreptitiously averted.

SCP-1440 ("The Old Man From Nowhere")

SCP-1502 ("The Feeny Stitcher)"

SCP-1522 ("Ships That Pass In The Night")

SCP-1548 ("The Hateful Star")
  • Colony Drop: one thing that may happen when it eventually arrives.
  • Husky Russkie: for some reason it apparently broadcasts its Morse messages in Russian. (Either that or the agent who received it happened to be Russian and the star adapted its message in consequence).
  • Lampshade Hanging: the star is thousands of light-years away, but it still manages to communicate directly with people observing it from Earth. What this means is that the star must know that it's going to be observed thousands of years before it actually happens, and time its messages so that the pulses reach us exactly on time. The Foundation actually aknowledges this, and admits they have no idea how the star is able to do that.
  • Omnicidal Maniac: if its wrathful messages are anything to go by. Fortunately, it's so far away in space that it will probably not reach us yet for about five thousand years. Unfortunately, when it does, there's probably not much we'll be able to do about it, assuming one of the other more immediate threats won't have wiped us out by then.
  • The Omniscient: though at first it mostly broadcasted threats, later transmissions revealed that it knows a lot about us. Everything about the top-secret Foundation itself, even the personal information of the leaders. It can apparently also see into the future.
  • The Rival: To 682.
  • Very Loosely Based on a True Story: while it's not actually careening towards Earth at near-light speeds nor broadcasting messages of impending doom, the pulsar in question actually exists. It's at the heart of the Crab Nebula.
  • Weird Sun: well, technically more of a Weird Star.
    • It also seems to regularly broadcast messages after solar flares. If that means it is connected to the solar flares (as in causing them), then we may be doomed long before it actually reaches us.

SCP-1616 ("Nibbles")

SCP-1867 ("Lord Blackwood")

     Groups of Interest 

Alexylva University
  • Academy of Evil: And of strange artifacts, apparently.
  • Alternate History: It exists in a world where the Roman Empire has endured to the present day, is somehow flavored with Greek influences, and also has a heavy influence of Cherokee.
    • Note that because of this, their morality is completely different from our world's; as many of the prominent European philosophers were absent, they see little ethical or moral concern in reprogramming people's minds, removing their ability to speak in movie theatres, or manipulating people's emotions as a toy.
  • For Want of a Nail: SCP-961 implies that the only reason our world hasn't ended up the same way as theirs is because of a mysterious... someone influencing historical events.
  • ALL UPPERCASE LETTERS: Just like ancient Rome, that universe apparently has no lowercase letters.
  • Giving Radio To The Romans: At least one SCP is being deliberately sent by someone at the University in order to make an inter-universal black market; their SC Ps are but toys to them.
  • Magic from Technology: All their SCP items seem to be just very advanced technology, and in fact the only reason they appear in our universe at all is because of a faulty teleporter at a Tennessee university.

Are We Cool Yet?
  • Attention Whore: of a sort. Their "installations" are placed for maximum exposure. "Exposure" in this context is often synonymous with "casualties".
  • Dada: if AWCY? has any consistent philosophy, Dadaism is it.
  • Mad Artist: The one attribute shared by their dozens of contradictory manifestos is a dedication to the creation of "art reality"
  • Terrorists Without a Cause: Depending on whether or not the reader considers "art" a cause. Some members are political radicals - the people who unleashed one SCP on an art gallery that was hosting a fundraiser for drought-afflicted children were anarchists, and they were involved in the Occupy Wall Street movement, using a gold urinal that interfered with the police. Others want to "inspire the masses" with usage of anomalous objects. Others are basically David Lynch, if David Lynch was psychotic, narcissistic, and viewed people dying horribly as art.
  • True Art Is Incomprehensible: In-universe.

The Chaos Insurgency

The Church of the Broken God

Dr. Wondertainment

The Factory
  • Bigger Bad: is one of the proposals for SCP 1 and as such may be responsible for the SCP foundation and several other groups of interest.
  • Hufflepuff House: In a "mysterious" way, not a "who cares?" way like the Insurgency.
  • Mad Artist
  • Power at a Price: some of their items at first are helpful, but then turn nasty. Some others only APPEAR to be helpful, but are only nasty. Few are purely helpful with no drawback (even then they're usually shady, and even if they don't harm the user, they do harm others).
  • Those Two Bad Guys: Employed some to distribute SCP-195.

The Fifth Church

The Global Occult Coalition

Horizon Initiative
  • Church Militant
  • Enemy Mine: They appear interested in working with the Foundation against other religious groups of interest such the Church of the Broken God and the Fifthists. The HI itself is a coalition of people from the three Abrahamic religions.
    • Two of their point of view characters are an American veteran of Afghanistan and a Pakistani who wanted to be a suicide bomber in his youth. They get along famously.
  • The Fundamentalist
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist

Manna Charitable Foundation
  • Actual Pacifist: Although objects they've utilized such as SCP-1176 turn out to be harmful to people, the MCF have a strict policy of never trying to hurt anyone, even their enemies.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: Unlike other groups, the MCF uses anomalous objects for the express purpose of helping people. It's just that their lack of rigor or cautiousness leads to such objects disrupting the established normalcy of the world even when nobody actually gets hurt by their work.

Marshall, Carter and Dark Ltd.

Office for the Reclamation of Islamic Artifacts
  • Expy: Of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, a real-life group
  • Persians With Pistols
  • Qurac: They've recently expanded operations across most of the Middle East
  • We ARE Struggling Together: Theorized to be an intentional feature of the organization to prevent any one person from gaining too much power

The Serpent's Hand

The Unusual Incidents Unit (FBI)

     Individuals of interest 

Eric

He-Who-Made-Dark, He-Who-Made-Light

Nobody

Mary-Ann Lewitt and Salah Zairi

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