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Secure, Contain, Protect.

The SCP Foundation, more commonly called simply "the Foundation", is an international covert non-governmental organization responsible for the containment of anomalous objects that behave against natural scientific laws. Their operational ability is expansive, covering scientific and military fields. Their command hierarchy is headed by the Overseer Council, an enigmatic council consisting of 13 members with classified identities.

Here is a link to a useful guide to SCP Foundation characters. See these links for information on Foundation departments: click here for a list of notable departments, here for an unoficial list of departments, and here for a semi-comprehensive List of Departments.

NOTE: Due to the ambiguous canonicity of member pages, please only include notable characters found in actual Wiki works here. Characters that are also Author Avatars can have the member pages as their reference links. Simply being an Author Avatar in a member page, however, does not mean that they can be included here.


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General

    Tropes about the Foundation 
  • Anti-Hero: The Foundation does very morally and ethically questionable things regularly, from helping fascist groups commit genocide to perpetuating oppressive dictatorships, not to mention their treatment of humanoid SCPs. They are incredibly ruthless, all for the sake of "the greater good". In some cases, like SCP-1310 or SCP-1337, the horror isn't what the Foundation is keeping, it's just the horrible, horrible people that it has in its ranks.
  • Arch-Enemy: To the Chaos Insurgency, a Renegade Splinter Faction of the Foundation that has since split off and regularly targets Foundation Sites and personnel.
  • Artifact Collection Agency: It's a worldwide organization collecting artifacts to study them, to protect humans from the artifacts, and to protect normalcy.
  • Badass Army: The Foundation has "Mobile Task Forces", which serve as its private army. Their size and purpose vary, but they're trained and equipped to deal with everything from contagions to deep-sea combat to ghosts. While the various Mobile Task Forces, Security Teams, and their agents have high degrees of training and equipment, their status as Badass Normal should not be overlooked either. For example, SCP-076-2 is an extremely dangerous entity due to it's abilities, and has killed countless people; however, one unnamed agent was able to defeat him several times. When SCP-076-2 learned the agent was killed as collateral damage in an air strike, he was greatly upset, as a man like that deserved to die like a warrior, in his mind. This agent likely was one of many exceptionally skilled soldiers in the Foundation's forces, fighting against the most horrifying, unnatural forces in the universe, and winning.
  • Benevolent Conspiracy: The Foundation isolates and contains threats to "normalcy".
  • Conspiracy Placement: Many of the front companies for the Foundation have initials that spell out "SCP", like "Soap from Corpses Products, Inc".
  • Conveniently Interrupted Document: Many SCP tales, in addition to redacted or expunged portions, will have important documents that are faded, burned, cut off, or otherwise obscured right before some big twist.
  • Covert Group: The Foundation's very existence needs to be kept secret because they are upholding the Masquerade. Note that despite heavily cooperating with governments, they are not a Government Agency of Fiction, and are instead a N.G.O. Superpower.
  • Covert Group with Mundane Front: While most of the time the Foundation operates under the guise of local governments and militaries, sometimes they will handle things with their front companies.
  • Crazy-Prepared: Aside from the incredibly detailed containment procedures for every SCP, the Foundation has task forces, protocols, and warning labels for every situation.
  • Depending on the Writer: Even for an Unreliable Canon, the Foundation itself is quite possibly one of the most diversely portrayed parts of said canon. Practically the only thing that is bolted down is the style of the documents, but even that gets thrown out of the window at times.
  • The Dreaded: Depending on the Writer, but individual anomalous people who know of their existence and aren't part of a larger group to support them are terrified of the Foundation, often with good reason. Even some groups of interest would rather pack their bags and leave town at the mere mention of the Foundation, rather than risk being caught.
  • Fun with Acronyms: The Foundation uses numerous companies and organizations as fronts, many of which contain "SCP" somewhere in their name.
  • Godzilla Threshold: Usually Nuclear Option and Self-Destruct Mechanism. The Foundation has a ten megaton nuclear warhead located under each one of their containment Sites. This is justified because if whatever they were containing got out, it'd typically be a Fate Worse than Death for humanity as a whole.
  • The Group: Most of the time, the SCP Foundation is referred to as "The Foundation". The full name is rarely used. The GOC seem to only know it by this name.
  • Hollywood Science: While most of the science on the site is very well-researched, attention to the scientific method is far looser, especially in earlier articles. The experimental procedures and resultant logs in many SCPs (e.g. SCP-914) are enough to make any scientist cringe. A lot of them barely follow the scientific method, with the hypothesis usually being "If we poke it, something anomalous will happen". Harder articles tend to forgo the silly experiments entirely and just talk about the observations.
  • Hunter of Their Own Kind: In Scantron's Proposal of SCP-001, the Foundation is an anomalous organization that hunts down and contains other anomalies. One commenter even described them as a counter-anomaly.
  • In-Series Nickname: Several.
    • Both the Unusual Incidents Unit and the Global Occult Coalition call the Foundation "Skippers", derived from the fact that "SCP" can be pronounced as "skip".
    • The Serpent's Hand calls them "Jailors."
    • In recent times, a few characters (Mainly in Herman Fuller's Circus) have referred to the Foundation as the "Essie P" or "Essie".
    • In the S & C Plastics canon, they're referred to as "Plastics People".
    • Wilson's Wildlife Solutions refers to them as "The Supervisors".
    • Gamers Against Weed calls them "janitors."
  • "It" Is Dehumanizing: All SCPs are supposed to be referred to as such in official paperwork, including sapient SCPs and ones which aside from whatever anomalous trait they have are biologically human, in keeping with their ostensibly detached, scientific and clinical manner. However, some human(oid) SCPs, like 239 or 2599, are referred to with gendered pronouns, which can be seen as a form of Early-Installment Weirdness for cases like the former and attempts by Foundation staff to both prevent escape attempts and keep the subjects psychologically stable for the latter.
  • Liberty Over Prosperity: Inverted. The Foundation's mission is to safeguard humanity against the supernatural and knowledge of the supernatural. To do so, they imprison anything and everything that is even remotely abnormal. This puts them at odds with groups like the Serpent's Hand, who don't see the supernatural as an inherent threat and aren't even entirely comprised of humans.
  • Masquerade: The Foundation enforces it (which they internally refer to as the "Veil Protocol") as part of their mandate to protect the world from the abnormal. To aid in this, witnesses are usually dosed with amnestics that wipe out selected portions of memory, in varying classes. The strength is somewhat Depending on the Author, but in general, Class C and B are relatively weak but when someone needs a Class A it's enough to require long-term therapy to make sure they can return to a somewhat normal state of mind.
  • Memory-Wiping Crew: They have entire containment teams solely dedicated to this.
  • Multiple-Choice Past: Just how did the Foundation came to be depends on how the author wants it to be. Some authors had suggested esoteric origins and relations to powers far more advanced than humans, while others proposed more grounded origins with an "origin anomaly" or the union between many precursor anomaly-dealing organizations.
  • Necessarily Evil: The Foundation is, at best, cavalier with human life, but they do what they do so they can better contain what they find.
  • N.G.O. Superpower: They may complain about money occasionally, but they have the cooperation of pretty much every major power. The only major exception to this is with Iran, which has its organization that's grown to cover much of the Middle East.
  • Nominal Hero: On a bad day, the SCP Foundation is a horrendously corrupt and even inefficient organization who don't care for humanity in anything but the abstract and that can even escalate the threats they create, but still work to prevent humanity from being destroyed.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: SCP-066 used to be a harmless ball of yarn that, when certain threads were plucked, made nice, happy things happen. Then the Foundation had to go and ruin it by trying to cut off a piece to study its composition, and it's become openly hostile ever since.
  • Organization with Unlimited Funding: Don't be surprised to see budgets for a single SCP going into the millions. A greater complaint in most cases is the loss of personnel. They have plenty of money — people, especially paid staff, are harder to come by.
    • Every so often, however, this is averted. The best example would be SCP-4456-D, which resulted in the creation of the modern Decommisioning Department, as the sheer cost of providing it with around half-a-million dollars worth of silver daily to keep it contained was part of why it was decommisioned.
  • Pragmatic Hero: The Foundation is nothing if not pragmatic, and whenever an object is scheduled for destruction it's more often than not caused by the Foundation being pragmatic than anything else. The standout example is 682, which they are trying to kill not because it's so dangerous (the Foundation has plenty of more dangerous objects in containment), but because it's so damn difficult to contain reliably that it's not worth the effort.
  • Properly Paranoid: They rarely allow O5 Council members near SCP objects, never underestimate the abilities of SCPs, never allow potentially dangerous individuals to go free because of the value of human life, never take chances with security, train the hell out of their employees, the list goes on. Given that it isn't always enough...
  • Redshirt Army: The Class Ds and agents who are regularly killed in action. In a joke article, Dr. Bright tried to dress the Class Ds in red shirts.
  • Restart the World: In the worst case scenarios, the Foundation has had to break The Masquerade to clean up whatever is threatening the world, before restoring it as best as they can and wiping everyone's memories. Several authors interpret this as having gone on for an unknown number of iterations.
  • Right Hand Versus Left Hand: Given the sheer number of secret departments which exist within the Foundation this is an inevitability. For example, the SCP-2111 documentation reveals that not only does the Foundation have two separate secret divisions dedicated to dealing with antimemetic anomalies, they've both managed to completely erase evidence of their existence from everyone in the Foundation including each other. This means that while the Antimemetics Division has adapted SCP-2111 to generate cognitohazads for the Memetics Division, the Counterconceptual Division thinks that the hostile entity behind SCP-2111 has somehow compromised the Memetics Division into helping it spread cognitohazards and is currently in the process of conducting secret operations against the Memetics Division in an attempt to root out the enemy agents. Meanwhile, both divisions are oblivious to the existence of MTF Omega-Zero, the third Foundation conceptual warfare group which is the actual source of SCP-2111 due to being composed entirely of data ghosts in the likeness of deceased foundation personnel. Some tales have depicted the O5s and Ethics Committee having a relation like this, though the Ethics Committee usually has the upper hand. Whether the O5s know about it or not. Tanhony's 001 proposal even gave the Committee a personal mobile task force called Omega-1 Law's Left Hand, meant to parallel Alpha-1 Red Right Hand.
  • Secret Government Warehouse: Many of them, all over the world.
  • Tailor-Made Prison: For almost every SCP in their possession. If they can't move it to a prison, they'll turn its current location into a prison. In extreme cases where they can't do either, they'll at least figure out how to keep it secret while limiting the damage it causes.
  • Tomato in the Mirror: In Scantron's Proposal of SCP-001, the Foundation is either the product of some sort of anomaly or an anomaly itself. They took control of a high school, remodeling it into their first site, then began expanding worldwide.
  • The Unfettered: Although some voice their disapproval of certain methods, collectively the Foundation will stop at nothing to prevent the destruction of humanity and the spread of SCP objects.
  • Unscrupulous Hero: On a good day, the SCP Foundation is a group of individuals willing to go to extreme lengths to protect the human race, and despite their coldness can show kindness to many of the sentient anomalous objects.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: The Foundation has to take bold and quite often unethical steps to protect the world from the anomalies.
  • The Worf Effect: Although the Foundation is depicted as an organization with immense power to contain anomalous entities, there're so many objects that they simply can't do anything other than cover their existence.
    • Because of its immense size, the Foundation can't do anything if SCP-169 wakes up.
    • The only reason SCP-343 remains in captivity is because he seems to like the Foundation.
    • They can't contain SCP-1233, and the best they can do is observe it and clean up its mess.
    • They can't contain SCP-1959 since it will ram through any obstacle it encounters.
    • They can't stop SCP-008-J and SCP-999-J from showing up.
  • Would Hurt a Child: Several SCPs are children, most notably 239, who is being kept in an artificial coma (this does have limits, however, given the way Dr. Clef often reacts to it).
  • You Are Number 6: Sapient SCPs are referred to by their database designation by Foundation staff, even when talking directly to them, to avoid growing any attachment or sympathy for them.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: SCP-6630 proposes a terrifying inversion: when valued Foundation workers call it quits, they will try every trick in the book to get them to stay — deleting all of their bank accounts and job opportunities by illegally declaring the former scrip and flat-out "disappearing" the latter, using benefits to try and foster dependencies, outright assault, etc. — then go for the anomalous torture methods. There are deliberate parallels to actual Financial Abuse if not Domestic Abuse as a whole, and the Foundation will gladly play the long con of torment for upwards of fourty years just to keep the world's talent to themselves.

    General Foundation Personnel 
  • Anti-Hero: As explained here. To put it succinctly, the Foundation is mostly written to be "cold, not cruel."
  • Ascended Extra: Some of the characters that are neither Author Avatars nor planned characters are more like recurring names that grew a personality out of a reused character name originally intended for one-off use.
  • Author Avatar: Several Foundation Personnel created before about 2010 are this, including Dr. Clef, Dr. Gears, Kain Pathos Crow, Dr. Bright, Dr. Kondraki, Dr. Rights, Dr. Light... most of them share their name with the username of their creator. Also, most writers who have pages listing their work make their author page a personnel file, with all the works they write being supposedly cataloged by a Foundation researcher that shares their username to a degree. This habit has grown generally unpopular since the days of the Mass Edit, with the vast majority of newer characters often created no longer as Author Avatars and instead be naturally introduced in various stories/articles.
  • Depending on the Writer: Hundreds of various interpretations exists for most of the characters listed here, especially the likes of Bright and Clef.
  • He Who Fights Monsters:
    • In a meta way, the older authors realized that in their enthusiasm to decommission bland inserts, they had turned their avatars into exactly the same thing, most notably in Incident 239-B-Clef-Kondraki. This has been toned down and removed from older pieces in some cases.
    • Thomas Graham and his underlings constantly engage in unethical experimentation and inhospitality that the Ethics Committee normally balks at, but it is strongly implied they genuinely believe this is in line with the Foundation's creed. It's also suggested SCP-4755 may have been eating away at their free will, though this doesn't excuse their decision to destroy the concept of ethics entirely late in the Site-17 Deepwell Catalogue canon's plot.
  • Mad Scientist: Characterization Marches On. In the site's early days, when the rules were laxer and people's tastes were more comedic, almost every single researcher that works for the Foundation were characterized as mad scientists (the Running Gag of comedic addenda didn't help). After the site realized that they went over-the-top with the Clef-Kondraki incident, things were toned down significantly, and most modern-age Foundation scientists are down-to-earth scientists with occasional quirks.
  • Psycho for Hire: The Foundation needs to hire them; they must do some pretty horrible things for the sake of humanity.
  • Theme Naming: Unintentional, but at least three Foundation senior researchers have last names containing some variation of "-ight(s)". Jack Bright, Agatha Rights, and Sophia Light.
  • Undying Loyalty: With a few noteworthy exceptions, virtually all Foundation personnel seen across multiple canons are near-fanatically loyal to the organization and its goals of preserving normalcy.
  • What You Are in the Dark: There's a lot of twisted goings-on and other secrets behind the walls of the Foundation that most of its personnel either choose to willfully ignore or to investigate.

Foundation Leadership

    The Administrator 
The Administrator is a mysterious figure that holds a key role in the history of the Foundation. Rarely seen except in works that explore the fundamentals of the Foundation, different authors have their own interpretations of the character, but most consider him to be the true founder of the Foundation. Despite the little knowledge most have about him, the name "Fritz Williams" or a variation of it is commonly applied to him.

A list of his appearances can be found here.
  • Anthropomorphic Personification: If the Ouroboros Cycle is to be believed, he's this for the Foundation itself, or rather, the idea of it.
  • Arc Words: Here, it's more Arc Letters. No matter what their real name is, you can be sure that the letters "F. W." will be in said name, somewhere (though, there's exceptions).
  • As Long as There Is Evil: In djkaktus's third 001 proposal, the Administrator is in fact, not Frederick Williams or any other similarly named person at all. The Administrator is SCP-001 — the idea of the Foundation, borne when the first man beheld the first anomaly, and is the real reason that reality is being overrun by anomalies (since the Foundation would not exist without anomalies).
  • Author Avatar: The character is based on and named after actual (though inactive) wiki administrator FritzWillie (and his second account The Administrator), who was one of the key architects in the early history of the SCP Wiki. Because he has two accounts, he has two author pages, though both are largely ignored in-canon.note 
  • Charm Person: The Ethan Horovitz version of the Administrator (from the Site-17 canon) is said to constantly be "youthful, optimistic, charismatic and charming".
  • The Constant: The O5 Command Dossier notes that they always managed to play a role in the creation of the Foundation, no matter how. Their association with SCP-262 is also something consistent with them.
  • Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: In SCP-001 "The Black Moon", he manages to trick the Black Moon, entropy itself, into human(-ish) form by luring it through the path of least resistance. He then shoots it in the face with a shotgun, ends up in a barfight with it, and finally kills it by hitting it in the head with an ashtray.
  • Dimensional Traveler: In Dr. Mackenzie's Proposal of SCP-001, The Administrator has the device that allows a dimension hop. There is an implication that using the thing also destroys the reality where it was activated.
  • Expy: The version of the Administrator seen in SCP-001 "The Way It Ends" resembles The Eye from The Magnus Archives. An Eldritch Abomination created from humanity's subconscious that serves as the patron of an organization dedicated to studying the abnormal.
  • Greed: In an Alternate Universe seemingly put out of its misery by the Three Moons Initiative, the Administrator is a man overindulgent in this, inventing the fictional anomaly SCP-4839 and using FAFNIR-class infohazards to keep the Foundation in line so that he may have the entire world to himself.
  • Last of His Kind: In Dr. Mackenzie's Proposal of SCP-001, The Administrator is the only survivor from an alternate reality. He is tasked with spreading their final legacy to other universes, equations and technology that could stop the Corruption that caused the anomalies if they are completed.
  • Mysterious Backer: As the founder of the Foundation, his motive for founding the Foundation is completely unknown (generally speaking).
  • Unperson: In the From 120's Archives canon, this is what happens to its version of the Administrator. Being manipulated, murdered and having your name stolen by Queen Mab will do that to you.
  • Who Wants to Live Forever?:
    • In Tanhony's 001 proposal, the O5 Council keeps him alive against his will. He gets out of it by tipping the Ethics Committee of to the O5s' crimes and letting them take the Council out, so he can kill himself in peace.
    • In Rounderhouse's 001 proposal, the Administrator doesn't necessarily want to die, but he does feel incredibly guilty watching some of the most iconic Foundation personnel become Overseers... only for all of them to die because of who they were. The article is set some time in the 22nd century, and he can't help but miss all of his dear friends from the distant past.

    Overseer Council 
The Overseer Council, alternatively known as the O5 Council, is the highest administrative council of the Foundation, with O5 referring to their security clearance, the highest in the Foundation. A council consisting of 13 (or 12, or 14) members of fully classified identities (designated O5-1 through -13), the decisions of these people influence all aspects of the Foundation.
  • Ambiguous Gender Identity: Some of the O5s, such as O5-3, O5-7, and O5-13, are suggested to be non-binary, agender or gender-fluid.
  • Ambiguously Human: Whether or not the members of the O5 Council are human beings or something else depends on who's writing the story. In Dr. Eates' proposal of SCP-001, they're a joint hivemind with more power over the Foundation and that world's version of the Administrator. In contrast, in WJS's SCP-001 proposal, they're regular people trying to do their best. While in the story of the Ouroboros Cycle, they're a mix of ordinary people and the strange. Anything goes when penning about the Council.
  • Classified Information: In Captain Kirby's proposal of SCP-001, the previous O5 Council was killed by O5-1 in a mental breakdown. Only O5-13, the Administrator, and the Ethics Committee are in the know.
  • The Constant: All the versions of O5-2 shown in the O5 Command Dossier are related, in one way or another, to Sophia Light. Several of them are her alternate selves and "He Who Waits", from Wrong's Proposal, is a distant ancestor.
  • Determinator: One of the reasons of why the "Dead Man" version of O5-1 doesn't die, despite being a mummified corpse that should be brain-dead, is because of the immense willpower he has.
  • The Dividual: Of the "Twindividual" variety: One version of O5-9 is a collective designation given to two men who appear to be lovers and are referred to as such.
  • Everyone Has Standards: O5s-4 and -7 are genuinely displeased with the way SCP-2241 (a seven year old abuse survivor with superpowers) is being treated, and try to cancel the tests he’s being put through twice.
    This is too far. We can not let this stand as precedent. This is but one step removed from child soldiers and even less removed from militarising an SCP-level object. - O5-4.
  • Hypocrite:
    • In Captain Kirby's proposal of SCP-001, the previous O5-1 considers the other overseers this, since they're essentially anomalies themselves.
    • Official policy mandates that they not be allowed to come into contact with anomalous objects. However, SCP-006 and SCP-2718 imply that the O5s use anomalous methods and substances to extend their lifespans well beyond human expectations.
  • Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Depending on the canon, they can be either an omniscient council of vagueness or a bunch of normal people trying their best to keep the Foundation running. O5-13 gets hit with this even more so than the rest, as they've been depicted as anything from an extra vote given to another council member to a random guy from the street giving a different perspective to an emisarry of the Afterlife itself.
  • Multiple-Choice Past: The O5 Dossier deliberately keeps their backstories and identities as vague as possible, with multiple conflicting depictions that may or may not contain any false information.
  • Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering:
    • Works that actually explore them as characters make them come off as people just doing their jobs, sometimes even joking with one another. This is a given, since who they are is Depending on the Writer.
    • From 120's Archives makes this a bit more literal, as O5-9 disappears partway into the canon (it's a long story involving illegitimacy, a gestalt being, and a case of Love Redeems) and is indefinitely replaced by 150 Foundation staff known as the O4 council. As you can probably expect, it's a lot of deliberation and arguing to try and fill in one spot on the highest level of authority.
  • Older Than They Look: One version of O5-3 looks 17-19, but is clearly older than that.
  • Omniscient Council of Vagueness: The Overseers know everything, yet every one of them is a total unknown: their names, genders, locations, and history are all blank, with some even suspecting about their humanity. Their occasional appearance on documentations often goes so far as to censor even their ID number, so that while it can be seen that an O5 member made the entry, it is unknown which one made the entry.
  • Original Man: A proposed origin for O5-1 is that she's actually Eve, the first woman.
  • Really 700 Years Old: The O5s are sometimes portrayed as having artificially extended lifespans, with ages in the triple digits.
  • Secret-Keeper: Much of the time, certain information on various SCPs is only accessible to the O5s themselves. The true nature of SCP-2317, for instance, can only be accessed by an Overseer, and O5-6 specifically is the only one that knows what SCP-2950 actually is.
  • The Spook: Almost nothing is known for sure about the Overseers. Not their numbers, not their identities, not their pasts, and in many cases, not even if they actually exist; indeed, Foundation personnel with low security clearances don't know about them at all.
  • Team Normal: O5-13 In Captain Kirby's proposal of SCP-001. Unlike the other previous O5s, he was a normal guy with no anomalous properties, giving him an unique perspective.
  • 13 Is Unlucky: The morally-ambiguous Foundation is headed by 13 people, and O5-13 is portrayed as a tiebreaking wild card in some works. Works focusing on them often have themselves lampshading the associations of the number 13. According to Ouroboros, O5-13 is Death itself.
  • Unholy Matrimony: Downplayed as the O5 Council is more morally grey than outright evil, but one incarnation of O5-9 is represented by two characters who are speculated to be in a romantic relationship.
  • You Are Number 6: For security reasons, the thirteen members of the Foundation's governing council are only known to the rest of the Foundation as O5-1 through O5-13.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: Obviously, they are part of the Foundation after all. However, according to Ouroboros, they fulfill this trope even more than the rest of the foundation. Everything they do is to contain the Administrator, and the Foundation is merely a means to an end.

    Ethics Committee 
Perhaps the second most powerful group inside the Foundation (or the most powerful, Depending on the Writer), the Ethics Committee acts as the ethical overseer of all Foundation activities, and works to ensure that the Foundation's unethical acts are all truly necessary and required for the greater good.

A list of their appearances can be found here.


  • Beware the Nice Ones: They are the nice ones compared to the rest of the foundation, actually giving a damn about the value of human life and the mental health of sapient SCPs, and they are definitely to be bewared. The few times they feel the O5 Council have crossed the line, their go-to reaction is to dispose them by force.
  • Beyond Redemption: According to Tanhony's SCP-001 Proposal, if they deem the current O5 Council to be too morally transgressive despite the Committee's presence, they will conduct "Primary Action": MTF Alpha-1 "Law's Left Hand" arrests the O5s, killing them if need be, and the Committee appoints a new Council.
    Chairman Tejani: 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.
  • Big Good: They're implied to have more power than anyone else except for maybe the O5 council (with that being a really big "maybe"), and their job is to keep the Foundation as close to being "the good guys" as they can without seriously jeopardizing the survival of the universe.
  • Deadly Euphemism: Subverted. Unlike the rest of the Foundation, the Ethics Committee hates codes and euphemisms and doesn't use them; they don't say "terminated", they say "killed", so if someone (or you) is going to die, they won't beat around the bush. Tanhony's SCP-001 Proposal features a notable exception to this rule: "Primary Action" is an awfully nice way to say "Arrest, demote, and possibly kill the current O5 Council (because they have become irredeemable) and replace them with a new one."
  • Depending on the Writer: Their authority in the Foundation depends solely on how the writer views them. They could simply be a joke, the second-in-command of the O5s, to even being more powerful than the O5s themselves.
  • Deus Exit Machina: The in-universe explanation for why they do not appear in the Site-17 Deepwell Catalogue (a canon about the titular Site and its management repeatedly crossing the line in their treatment of others) is because Thomas Graham has a secret stash of amnestic gas and cognitohazards that he uses to cleanly wipe any outgoing complaints from the grid. Site-17 also later kills the essophysical being responsible for maintaining the concept of ethics, rendering it physically impossible for the Ethics Committee to have a purpose.
  • Everyone Has Standards: They exist to enforce this trope in the Foundation, acting as their moral compass in their mission to contain unnatural beings from the rest of the world because God forbid what would happen if they didn't have one. A terrifying example of this possibility is SCP-1730. In that reality, the SCP Foundation was merged into the Global Occult Coalition and began a series of horrible and cruel experiments on any anomalous humanoids and entities at Site 13. Some got lucky as they were interred into cells and experimented with; others were not so lucky as they were killed and had their bodies destroyed in a massive incinerator.
  • For the Greater Good: Discussed. As they put it if there's a "greater" good, then it implies a lesser good. And it also implies that there are multiple distinct goods, and that these can be quantified and compared. And it's their job to balance the moral costs of everything the Foundation does. And in order to balance those costs, they must know those costs.
  • He Who Fights Monsters: Their job is to prevent this from happening to the Foundation by identifying the Lesser of Two Evils in every situation and ensuring that its staff doesn't succumb to For the Evulz in the process of doing the horribly necessary things they have to do.
  • I Did What I Had to Do: Every horrifying thing the Foundation does, up to and including the infamous Procedure 110-Montauk, is something the ethics committee has signed off on because they've deemed the consequences of not doing it to be even worse.
  • Lesser of Two Evils: It is the job of the Ethics Committee to identify what the lesser of two evils (or, as they put it, the greater of goods) in any given situation actually is, in order to enable the Foundation to effectively operate while at the same time ensuring that their actions remain as morally justifiable as possible.
    Regardless of what the general population might think it wants, what we do, what the Foundation does, is in the overall best interests of that general population. Yes, I'm sure you did realize that already... but you haven't thought of the deeper implications. You've consoled yourself by thinking that all the torture and murder is for the greater good. This implies that there is a greater good... and a lesser good. It implies that there are multiple distinct goods, and that these can be quantified and compared. This is what we on the Ethics Committee do [...] We are the ones who balance the moral costs of everything the Foundation does. And in order to balance those costs, we must know those costs.
  • A Lighter Shade of Grey: What they tend to be compared to the O5 Council, depending on the writer. While the O5s are focused on maintaining normalcy no matter the cost, the Ethics Committee are the ones making sure that cost never crosses the line.
  • The Man Behind the Man: Even more so than the O5 Council. Some canons depict them as the real ones in charge of the Foundation, with the O5 acting as both their face and dealing with the bureaucracy.
  • Morality Chain: While some argue that the Ethics Committee gets in the way of progress in the SCP Foundation, giving yourself wholly to the mission without any ethical safeguards is a thin line to walk. Without the Committee to reign in the Foundation, what's separating them from other extreme groups of interest like the Global Occult Coalition or the Chaos Insurgency?
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: The Committee encourages the perception that they're ineffective, because they don't want people to know just how much power they really wield.
  • The Omniscient Council of Vagueness: Despite their previous claim to not use euphemisms, they come across as even more vague than the O5 council, mainly due to their aforementioned Obfuscating Stupidity. Even for those of us that know they're the most powerful group in the Foundation, very little about them is clear. Hell, we don't even know how many members the Committee has, something we at least know about the O5 council.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: Whenever an Ethics Committee member is involved, expect this trope to be averted, as their actual name will be what's written narratively, or within documentation.
  • Pet the Dog: When they are mentioned in an article that doesn't focus on them, they tend to do something to this effect. When some more pragmatic elements of the Foundation suggested using an SCP that creates clones of random people for infinite D-class, the Committee shut the suggestion down for being inhumane.
  • Right Hand Versus Left Hand: They exist to keep the Foundation in check and make sure it doesn't go from Well-Intentioned Extremist to not-so. This means that sometimes, they end up butting heads with the O5s, up to and including flushing out the existing O5 council and appointing a new one in its place if needed. The trope name is reflected in the names of their personal Mobile Task Forces: The O5 Council has MTF Alpha-1 "Red Right Hand", and the Ethics Committee has MTF Omega-1 "Law's Left hand".
  • Secret-Keeper: If the Foundation has a secret, the Ethics Committee knows it. In some canons they are even privvy to information that not even the O5 Council are aware of.

Foundation Departments and Other Sub-Groups

    Alchemy Department 

Alchemy Department

Studies and wields the elemental forces of reality. See here for the hub page and here for a list of their appearances.
  • Alchemy Is Magic: It is stated that alchemy is not the same thing as thaumaturgy, though it is able to do a lot of magic-like things.
  • Power Limiter: Alchemy doesn't work as great as the Foundation-verse would suggest because of a seal placed on the Earth and everything in a two-lightyear radius centuries ago to block off some unknown threat. The ongoing narrative with the Department revolves around having to contend with that ghost of the past as it slowly catches up to the present day.

    Antimemetics Division 

Antimemetics Division

A branch of the Foundation that deals with self-censoring information. Was headed by Marion Wheeler until she died fighting SCP-3125. See here for their hub page.
  • Amnesia Loop: Because of the nature of 3125, anyone who DOES know about it will either a. trigger its defense mechanism and get wiped off the face of the planet (along with their mental bystanders [coworkers, family, friends]) or b. wipe their own memory of it with amnestics in order to not get obliterated by the starfish. Either outcome gives a desirable result for 3125: Nobody knows what it is, nobody knows how to beat it. And thus, the Division is back to square one, time and time again, with a dwindling personnel count each time someone (and by proxy, anyone close to them) gets attacked and deleted by the antimeme.
  • Memory Gambit: Because they are fighting against enemies that often cannot be remembered, members of the Antimemetics Division must make plans for losing memories and be able to remain calm and know what to do even when they have lost their memories. One of their main enemies is SCP-3125, an entity that kills anyone who learns that it exists along with their family and coworkers unless they are in a chamber shielded from its influence, and so they have to spend most of their time unaware of 3125.
  • No Such Agency: Taken up to eleven; the antimemetics division is this to the Foundation at large, requiring special pills for anyone to even remember about them.
  • Our Ghosts Are Different: A side effect of taking mnestic drugs is that people who were known well by those who took them are able to linger as ghostly entities after death for as long as that mnestic user is alive. These beings compose the secret MTF Omega-Zero.
  • Unperson: The Antimemetics Division is itself antimemetic. Most of the Foundation is unable to remember that there even is an Antimemetics Division. It also turns out that their is, or at least was, more than one organization in the Foundation that deals with antimemetics but they all forgot about each other's existence.

    Department of Abnormalities 

Department of Abnormalities

Apparently a defunct branch of The Foundation which does not exist in the Foundation's records. The only evidence that it ever existed is a series of strange facilities as well as Secret Rooms and Missing Floors hidden in other Foundation sites in which unknown anomalies are sealed away. The Foundation seems to have an uncharacteristic lack of interest in investigating the Department of Abnormalities beyond locking its facilities away and forgetting them. The author who first wrote about the department has implied that somebody high up in the Foundation wants to keep it buried. One of the few things that has been revealed is that it was lead by Doctor Shaw's father, Ansel Shaw.

A list of their appearances can be found here.


  • Arc Number: SCP-3790 has six accessible floors, with a seventh that cannot be reached; groups of seven, with the last of them in some way set apart or inaccessible, is characteristic of several SCPs, including SCP-2747 and SCP-231.
  • Depending on the Writer: Because the author who originally came up with the concept left a ton of ambiguity in it, many other authors have written their own articles with radically different ideas about what exactly was the Department of Abnormalities. It may have existed to seal away things that were better off forgotten, or perhaps preserve and keep safe forgotten things.
  • I Hate Past Me: One interpretation is that the Department is an allegory for the moral that ignoring your past is a half-assed way of making amends for it, a memo that the Foundation has clearly missed.
  • Leaning on the Fourth Wall:
    • One of their old sites is an Egyptian-style mausoleum full of tombs to various anomalies. Every single one the Foundation has discovered corresponds a prominent SCP that was later deleted or rewritten at some point in the wiki's history (for example, "the Curse" refers to the previous occupants of the "cursed" SCP number 048, and "Hell" is the old 098, still referenced in Clef's 001 Proposal.)
    • The same SCP implies author Fishmonger, who deleted all of his works threatening legal action, is an actual fish person in the Department's custody who kicked the bucket. His supposed burial chamber smells of the appropriate odor, but there's absolutely nothing inside.
    • The only active character that maintains a link to the Department is the version of Jesus Christ referred to in "The Milkssiah." The burial chamber is empty because it was deleted and then written back in as SCP-6542-A, which can be interpreted as "Milk Jesus" dying and rising again.
  • Posthumous Character: Whatever the reason, the Department isn't around any more.
  • Riddle for the Ages: What exactly was the Department of Abnormalities? Why is there no record of its existence? And why is the modern Foundation so uncharacteristically opposed to uncovering the truth?
  • Sealed Room in the Middle of Nowhere: Most of the anomalies associated with the Department of Abnormalities are permanently sealed away in forgotten locations and are never meant to be released. Although the Foundation has rediscovered many of them, they have chosen to leave them undisturbed.
  • Unperson: The Foundation has no record of ever having a Department of Abnormalities. One of the anomalies sealed away in SCP-3790 is Mister Silence, a creation of Doctor Wondertainment that the Doctor wanted to be forgotten and never found, unlike the rest of the Little Mister series.
  • Would Hurt a Child: One of the anomalies that they sealed away was a mausoleum that resurrected dead children. The children brought back were all killed using flamethrowers.

    Department of Miscommunications 

Department of Miscommunications

The Department of Miscommunications is branch of the Foundation that deals with anomalies that affect the transfer of information. See here for their hub page and here for a list of their appearances.
  • Accidental Murder: Their failure to recognize the true nature of SCP-4773, an anomaly that should have been contained by the Antimemetics Division, is implied to have caused the death of an innocent child when they left them locked up in a room where they died of dehydration because they could not see that there was a child.

    Department of Unreality 

Department of Unreality

The Department of Unreality is a branch of the Foundation that does not appear to actually exist. It is staffed almost entirely by personnel who do not exist and is headed by John Doe, who also does not exist. Most stories about the Department of Unreality are told from the perspective of Alex Thorley, a newly recruited member who is very confused about what their job is supposed to be since nobody showed up to their orientation. See here for the Department of Unreality hub page.
  • Ambiguously Human: It is repeatedly implied their members have strange abilities that would interfere with a normal workplace environment and call their humanity into question. In SCP-7591, it is implied Alex Thorley's job is changing them somehow, and may not even be the original anymore.
  • Depending on the Writer: Defied; articles in the Department have a stricter standard of continuity than other department articles. This also applies to Alex Thorley's characterization.
  • Power of the Void: Most of the department doesn't exist and it seems that their job is to protect reality from other things that do not exist. Although this also means that their ability to affect reality or even communicate with the rest of the Foundation is very limited.

    Fire Suppression Department 
The Fire Suppression Department is a branch of the Foundation tasked with the containment of fire-based anomalies. They do their job just fine, but corruption and Domestic Abuse runs rampant in their ranks to the point where they have a reputation for being the most morally bankrupt Foundation department in the entire mythos — their leadership has a keen interest in enslaving and exploiting as many employees and anomalies as possible under the guise of Vetinari Job Security.
  • Above Good and Evil: How they justify their actions. The Foundation does not exist to much of the world, therefore things like morals don't apply to the FSD.
  • Arc Words: "We know how to find you."
  • Bad Boss: Their leadership is filled with scum who can't use peaceful retention techniques to save a life and spend every waking moment in all documents featuring them dehumanizing their employees and anomalies under their care.
  • Domestic Abuse: The FSD's leadership is basically this personified, treating their employees like shit using actual abuse tactics for the sole purpose of retention. Their treatment of benevolent anomalies is equally pitiful as well.
  • Double-Meaning Title: "Fire suppression" could also be used to describe the means by which the term "Gaslighting" came about, from a scene in Gaslight where the protagonist thinks they have gone mad after seeing the titular gaslights dim from the fuel being rerouted (and thus suppressing their flames.) The original article used it as a metaphor for smothering the human spirit by keeping them stuck in a job they hate.
  • Early-Installment Weirdness: In their initial appearance, the Fire Suppression Department was implied to be the entire Foundation's employee-retention wing, preventing ''anyone'' from leaving that they deemed too much of a security risk or too good at their job to let go, with authority that went all the way up to the O-5s. They also employed a carrot rather than a stick to start with, and only pulled out the "Black Playbook" when it failed. And they didn't have any special authority over fire-based anomalies; Boone just happened to be suffering from intense survivor's guilt after sacrificing a bunch of people to contain a fire-based anomaly, as part of a general metaphor for working a soul-crushing dead-end job that smothers the human spirit.
  • Eviler than Thou: To Site-17, the other main morally-bankrupt Foundation group. While they both treat everyone around them like crap and have to resort to force to keep dissidents in line, Site-17 at least has the decency to use methods (like Laser-Guided Amnesia) that aren't nearly as painful as what the FSD tries to inflict.
  • Financial Abuse: They have the ability to rescind anyone's life savings at the press of a button by illegally declaring it scrip, and use this to drag vagrants back into their ranks.
  • Gaslighting: The entire theme of the Department is that they incorporate this into all of their protocols.
  • Karma Houdini: They spend two SCPs and two tales taking out their wrath on innocent people and face no accountability for their actions. The end of SCP-6630 implies even the Overseers are in on it, as they stop registering Boone's existence as soon as she presses the issue to them.
  • The Lopsided Arm of the Law: The Ethics Committee and Law's Left Hand are conspicuously absent from every article they appear in, and the FSD's actions are filed off as disciplining their subordinates.
  • Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: The FSD seemingly does what it does because of a serious case of Vetinari Job Security, but there are numerous signs they'd be more productive and less problematic if they didn't resort to abuse tactics to keep those people in line in the first place. They also do not actually care about SCP-6856's idealism (having created that themselves) and just want him for his powers so that they can keep the lights on, even though the Foundation likely already has access to highly-efficient energy resources.
  • Survivor's Guilt: One thing they know how to "cure." They do this by sending a gun that always jams due to probabilistic anomalies to suicidal personnel suffering from this and make them keep trying until they see how "fortunate" they are to live.
  • Token Evil Teammate: By far the most unapologetically evil division of the Foundation to date, not even bothering to cower behind the Knight Templar excuse like some of the Foundation's alternate counterparts.
  • Vetinari Job Security: A lot of the people under their care are irreplaceable in expertise and abilities, meaning that the FSD finds itself in a pickle whenever they leave or get antsy because of certain objections to the Department's behavior. However, instead of simply aiding them or desperately appealing to them, the FSD declares themselves Above Good and Evil and uses known abuse tactics to rein them back in by force, deconstructing a typical interaction in media that arises from this trope.
  • Would Hurt a Child:
    • They once kidnapped a baby and replaced them with a diseased substitute just because it didn't align with a narrative they set up for their dad.
    • SCP-6856 is a person with heat powers who was secretly indoctrinated from birth by the FSD. Ostensibly, it was to prevent him from turning the Earth into slag, but they're far more interested in enslaving him as a living power core.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Inverted; if the FSD likes you, you're never free of them. All that violence, all that manipulation, all those things they'll take away from you once you're no longer of use to them, it's because they want to make you useful again.

    Pataphysics Department 
The Foundation department in charge of managing anomalies that manipulate narratives. Including their own.

Led by Dr. Placeholder McDoctorate in the Foundation's world, and by Dr. Pierre Maynard (aka the original Don Quixote) within the realm of narratives.
  • Adaptation Backstory Change: Their research and fundamental understandings of the narrative are very different in the Chinese branch, being tied to the Tactical Theology department due to the branch's Big Bads (plus some neutral entities) gaining access to pataphysical abilities and a number of implications that all foreign pataphysical SCPs are merely extensions of their will.
  • Ambiguous Situation: It's left unclear to what extent the department actually exists in reality. In SCP-5317, Menard's intervention is the supposed containment protocol to prevent the D-Class in the experiment from unleashing the true wrath of SCP-2747/the anafabula and erasing The Multiverse... but since Menard is the other half of SCP-4023 (the other being his former squire Sancho), did he actually succeed in protecting the seal by manifesting his words into reality? Or is it just False Reassurance before the Scarlet King is once again tricked into turning the Foundation-verse into another target?
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: They're led by the original Don Quixote. While he's since put his centuries-old past aside, the end of SCP-4023 shows he still lapses into his old habits at times.
  • Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp":
  • The Fatalist: SCP-6747 implies in a footnote that they do not believe in any concept of free will, and that even if the universe were not to be fictional, it is still wholly predetermined.
  • Foil: Placeholder McDoctorate is a regular human (barring his name), but has plenty of eccentricities that show through and is more than a little selfish depending on how his author of the same name decides to write him. Pierre Maynard, on the other hand, is a fictional construct in the form of a Dumbass No More Don Quixote who put his past behind him and became a hardened researcher who's always taken his work seriously.
  • Late-Arrival Spoiler: Most mentions of their existence require knowledge of the main twist in S. Andrew Swann's SCP-001 proposal (or just SCP-001-SWN in modern articles), namely that the Foundation knows they are fictional and is prepared to deal with that revelation.
  • Rage Against the Author:
    • The department loves toying with the Real Life authors to make them do the Foundation's dirty work for them, though this sometimes has unintended consequences.
    • Their current understanding of the Foundation universe is that it is partially real, with the other part being fictional. This translates to the mythos's tendency to subvert and deconstruct tropes, which the Pataphysics Department uses as evidence for this framework.
  • Sad Clown:
    • Although they represent some of the Foundation's wackier antics, the Pataphysics Department also carries the very heavy burden of knowing the truth about how fate in their universe actually works. Everything they do is because an author tells them to, and if it wasn't an author, it was the half of the universe's chronology that is predetermined regardless. They know this, and are forced to bear with it despite their outward appearances.
    • On top of this, both department leads are emotionally unwell, with Menard still feeling the guilt of his time as Don Quixote centuries after the end of the book and Place Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life at his most unscrupulous. While Menard gets better, The Multiverse shows there's not much reprieve for Place in comparison.
  • This Is Reality: Well, only part of it is, according to the department. But that part is why narrative causality is so unreliable in the Foundation's universe.

    Surrealistics Department 
This is a section of the Foundation that deals with anomalies that completely defy all logic and are simply too strange to understand with normal thinking. A list of their appearances can be found here.

    Mobile Task Forces 
Elite units of Foundation employees, drawn from many branches of specialization and expertise, mobilized to do field work when normal staff won't cut it. A non-exhaustive list of the various MTF divisions and the works each one appears in can be found here.
  • Badass Normal: Most MTF units are just groups of well-trained people; the closest they usually ever get to being empowered tends to be what's strictly necessary for their job, like Brown Note-censoring equipment.
  • Breaking the Fellowship: As a large number of Mobile Task Forces are constructed for very specific jobs, they tend to be deactivated once their role is played, unless the unit's continued activity would serve a better purpose over returning its personnel to their original positions.
  • Elite Army: The Mobile Task Forces are the closest thing that the Foundation has to soldiers, and in many situations are only ever deployed in small squads. The main exceptions to this are MTF Nu-7 "Hammer Down", an MTF unit described to be of battalion strength and deployed when anything but sheer force won't work, such as large-scale containment breach, and MTF Xi-8 "Last to Fall", another battalion strength unit dedicated to the acquisition or termination of Sarkic entities and artifacts across the globe, even being able to call in naval support if needed.
  • The Lancer:
    • Or The Dragon, depending on how moral the O5 Council is: MTF Alpha-1 "Red Right Hand" answers directly to the O5 Council, and operates strictly in situations that require utmost secrecy.
    • MTF Omega-1 "Law's Left Hand" likewise are employed by the Ethics Committee, and specialize in dealing with unethical Foundation personnel.
  • Meaningful Name: Each unit has a nickname that suggests their specialty, such as Lambda-12 "Pest Control" dealing with vermin or Zeta-9 "Mole Rats" operating in underground or enclosed areas.
  • Men of Sherwood: MTF members sent in to explore, contain, and retrieve anomalies often face a grisly demise against things they do not fully understand and are ill-equipped to fight, but most of the time, they pull through.
  • Mundane Made Awesome: Normal IT support just not enough for you? Try MTF Rho-9, the IT Security specialists for the Foundation, who have to regularly deal with the Brown Note-laden database that it has.
  • Resurrective Immortality: MTF Tau-5 is comprised of just four members described as "immortal cyborg clones created from the flesh of a dead god" by their overview. During the containment of SCP-1730 for example, one of them got caught at ground zero of a Negative Space Wedgie and recovered perfectly fine after the fact.
  • Shout-Out: A few of the nicknames given to Mobile Task Forces are references to popular media. These include ones such as "The Bigger Boat" and "Evolved From Naturally Occurring Gears, Levers, and Pulleys."
  • Takes One to Kill One: Prior to its decommissioning, one of the units, MTF Omega-7 "Pandora's Box", employed anomalous entities to contain other anomalies. SCP-076, Able, is one of its more prominent members.
  • This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Some MTF units have broadly-applicable domains, such as Pi-1 "City Slickers" working in urban environments. Others have insanely specialized focuses, such as Edna-84 "And Thus Upon His Crucible" who work specifically to contain anomalies within video games, one example being SCP-4335.
  • The Worf Effect: MTF troopers tend to get killed in exploration logs to establish the danger of the anomaly. Several squads may be lost before the Foundation is able to find out enough to contain it.

Directors

    Director Jean Karlyle Aktus 
  • Author Avatar: Of user djkaktus.
  • Back from the Dead: He supposedly died when he was in his thirties from complications with leukemia. He was resurrected by the O5 Council due to his Vetinari Job Security.
  • Came Back Wrong: It's mentioned in his personnel file that he has to regularly disappear for several weeks at a time to undergo a treatment that keeps him alive. Furthermore, he's described as coming back each time "looking a little less like himself."
  • Driven to Suicide: Cuts off the Foundation and his life support tech in Rounderhouse's 001 proposal to die alone after deciding he's had enough.
  • Punny Name: Combined with his director title, his name can be written as: D. J. K. Aktus, i.e. djkaktus.

    Sheldon Katz, Esq. 

Sheldon Katz, Esq.

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Senior counsel with the Foundation's legal department. What Dr. Clef is to reality benders, Mr. Katz is to Occult Law Firms. Often associated with the SCP's Tactical Theology department's demonology division, due to his extensive experience with negotiating with demonic entities such as SCP-738.


  • Badass Bureaucrat: Whether successfully intimidating a sentient network of legal precepts or holding his own in negotiations with a literal demon, Katz is a legend in his own right.
  • Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: Basically his job description. Notable cases include SCP-6607, in which he works together with Primrose to re-negotiate terms of an oppressive debt.
  • Omnidisciplinary Lawyer: Downplayed. As one might expect from the head of the Foundation's legal department, he's got a wide field of expertise, but he specializes in contracts and negotiations, and explicitly is backed by the Foundation's Army of Lawyers.
  • Worthy Opponent: After Katz collapsed forty-one hours and nine hundred pages into a negotiation with SCP-738, the entity left him with a handwritten note.
    Please come back any time. I haven't had so much fun in years.

    Director Kate Mc Tiriss 

Regional Director Kate McTiriss

  • Dating Catwoman: In the Dixieland Nightmare Magic series of tales, she falls in love with an operative for Marshall, Carter & Dark.
  • Death Faked for You: Formerly a press officer for the UIU, until a mistake leads to a dead journalist and Kate having her death faked, leaving her fiancée behind in DC.
  • Lady Swearsalot: Nearly every time she speaks, especially when nervous.
  • Southern Gothic: The world she works in. It's not called Dixieland Nightmare Magic for nothing.
  • Token Religious Teammate: Deeply Catholic, a standout compared to the usually skeptical and cynical Foundation staff. Nearly all of the objects her Local Mobile Task forces contain are of religious significance, with many connected to the mysterious Catholic group The Order of the Hyacinth.

    Marion Wheeler 

Marion Wheeler

Marion Wheeler is the head of the mostly unknown and covert Antimemetic Division, a division of the SCP Foundation that deals with antimemes. Antimemes are entities that are the exact opposite of regular memes: you can't remember them or record them.


  • Abstract Apotheosis: Returns as a concept thanks to the efforts of her husband and Hughes, being the concept of the Foundation and its ideas to protect, contain and secure anything that may endanger humanity. Cue her beating the Fives out of 3125 and reducing it to nothing.
  • Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: The Foundation researcher Bart Hughes turns her into a living idea like SCP-3125 so she can fight it on equal terms.
  • Back from the Dead: Her husband brings her mental form back to life by using a Class Z mnestic so she can destroy SCP-3125.
  • Badass Normal: She's like the rest of the Foundation, and is a normal human being like most of them. However, due to the nature of her work, she finds herself fighting entities that she can't even remember. She eventually falls at the might of SCP-3125, a higher-dimensional antimeme that will bring about the end of the world by causing us to forget about our own humanity. She comes back later thanks to The Power of Love and her husband's Heroic Sacrifice.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: After she becomes an abstract concept representing the protective ideals of the Foundation and her belief in its cause, SCP-3125 is completely helpless against her counterattack.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending. Not completely, as she is trapped in the ideatic space forever. But becoming an entity like SCP-3125 and saving the world is still a much nicer fate than what she originally seemed to get.
  • Empowered Badass Normal: After being brought back to life she becomes a living idea like SCP-3125.
  • Happily Married: Marion is lovingly married to her husband, the violin player Adam Wheeler. This saves her in the end as Adam understands her so well he can use a Class Z mnestic to remember her fully and recreate her mental self.
  • Made of Good: As the WILD LIGHT Countermeme she is the living idea of the Foundation's ideals of protecting humanity.
  • Was Once A Person: After reaching the ideatic space she ceases being human. To the Foundation she seems like a star in the conceptual world.
  • You Can't Fight Fate: Despite her quick thinking and lateral skills, she and her department end up like the hundreds of other Antimemetics Divisions, and ends up erasing the division out of existence due to SCP-3125.
  • You Can't Go Home Again: After ascending to ideatic space as the WILD LIGHT countermeme, she's stuck in the idea world forever.

Doctors

    Dr. Daniel Asheworth 

Dr. Daniel Asheworth

One of the protagonists of From 120's Archives, Asheworth is a thaumaturge and one of the few humans whose life is able to be extended through magic without complications. Once a traitor serving under the canon's Arc Villain Damien Nowak, the death of O5-9 convinced him to return to the Foundation and has been in permanent service of them since.

A list of his appearances can be found here.


  • Adaptational Badass: In the NIGHTFALL canon, Asheworth returns as an Expy of Dante from Devil May Cry who gets to live out his own monster-slaying adventures.
  • I Just Want to Be Special: Well, the problem is that he is, but somehow all of his other Alternate Universe counterparts still have it better in some way. SCP-7120 forces him to realize he suffers from clinical depression because of how much he pines over this and wonders where he went wrong.
  • Older Than They Look: Lives to be chronologically 100, but it's constantly implied that he's always biologically somewhat younger due to magic.

    Doctors Thomas, Trevor and Tristan Bailey 

Drs. Tristan, Thomas and Trevor Bailey

Three triplets in the Foundation, heavily involved in the Department of Multiuniversal Affairs (or Multi-U for short). Tristan Bailey and his brother Trevor works as diplomats making trade deals with other universes; Trevor used to be the head of the Multi-U department, but something happened that got him knocked down a few dozen pegs. Tristan works at Site-87 in Sloth's Pit, Wisconsin, while Trevor is stuck at Site-19. Tom, meanwhile, is currently an envoy to the Third Antarctic Empire, located in another universe. Their father, Tyler Bailey, invented the means to transverse alternate universes.

A list of their appearances can be found here.


  • Always Identical Twins: All three of them are identical to the point that they can pass for Alternate-Universe counterparts of one another.
  • Bold Explorer: Tom Bailey is pretty much always the first one on the ground when exploring a new universe.
  • Christmas Episode: A Very Bailey Christmas, which shows Tristan going to see his dad during a break from work around Christmastime. As it turns out, his dad has been dead since 1997. He and his brothers have been going to see an alternate universe version of him around Christmas since about 2005.
  • Embarrassing Nickname: Tristan and Trevor both call Tom "Tom Bombadill".
  • Humans Are Diplomats: Tristan and Trevor are both part of the diplomatic division of Multi-U, neither of their own volition. Their job is to make trade deals with other universes.
  • Noodle Incident: It's implied that the thing that got Trevor knocked out of his position as head of Multi-U involved him throwing a Keter-class anomaly into a pocket dimension and slamming the door. Which Keter is unknown.
  • Rank Up: In the aftermath of Black Autumn IV, Tristan Bailey is promoted to Director of Site-87, after the previous director steps down.
  • Reassigned to Antarctica: Subverted; Tom is currently working with SCP-1483, which is literally an Alternate-Universe Antarctica. He seems happy with the job, too.
  • Shout-Out: The Multi-Universal Transit Array their father invented is, at one point, referred to as the Bailey-King MUTA.
  • Sleeping with the Boss: Tristan is sleeping with Claire Hennessy, the current head of the Multi-U Department. Pretty much everyone knows about it.
  • The Smart Guy: Trevor is stated to be the smartest of the Bailey Brothers, and wanted to become part of the theoretical division of the Multi-U department. Unfortunately, he got assigned to diplomacy instead.
  • Vague Age: Due to travelling across universal barriers, their bodies age oddly. They're still identical triplets who are at least thirty to forty years old, but apparently they can pass for teenagers at times, and their birth date is apparently Classified at O5 Level. As one member of Site-87's staff puts it:
    Montgomery Reynolds: ...[T]hey have a whiteboard here at Site-87, trying to document their own timelines. From 2005 to now, they have a gigantic space that just reads 'weird temporal bullshit'.

    Dr. Jack Bright 

Dr. Jack Bright

Dr. Jack Bright is one member of the Big, Screwed-Up Family that are the Brights. In the Foundation universe, there are at least eight known members of the Bright family, including a member of O5 Command, several researchers, a member of the Serpent's Hand, a new iteration of Nobody, and three anomalies in containment; Dr. Bright falls into both the second and final categories.

Jack Bright died following a containment breach of SCP-076-2, and just happened to have the misfortune of holding SCP-963, which copied his soul as he died and has since led to him possessing several other human beings and more inhuman creatures.

Thanks in large part to invoked the real-life controversy around AdminBright and them being banned from the wiki, the character of Jack Bright is now also referred to as "Elias Shaw". For the sake of brevity, Dr. Shaw will still be referred to as Dr. Bright on this page, though it is important to note they are functionally the same exact character, complete with the same backstory and (broad) characterization. A list of his appearances can be found here (as Bright) and here (as Shaw).


    Dr. Alto Clef 

Dr. Alto Clef

A lot of the Foundation canon varies Depending on the Writer, but a few things remain consistent about Alto Clef: He is often seen with a ukelele and a wide-brimmed hat, he's a high-ranking researcher at the Foundation, and he has several characteristics of a Type-Green individual — in Tropespeak, a Reality Warper.

The author Dr. Clef has confirmed some things: for one, he used to be a member of the Global Occult Coalition before joining the Foundation, and was the leader of a strike team that took out a minor nature goddess who attempted to perform a magical working that would erase ten thousand years of human history and return it to a pre-industrial state, but couldn't bear to kill her daughter, because it was also his own. In the GOC, he went by the name Agent Ukulele. His backstory was revealed in SCP-4231, although that was written by a different author who took significant liberties.

A list of his appearances can be found here.


  • Author Avatar: Of the writer DrClef.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: If he wasn't so good at his job (and high enough to silence anyone who says otherwise), Clef would have been designated an SCP ID by virtue of being supernaturally WEIRD. He puts cinnamon twists in his nostrils. Of course, if SCP-4231 is accepted, he already has SCP ID. 2, in fact: SCP-4231-B and SCP-231-1. Even though the Foundation believes that Lily is 231-1, Clef fits the description much better.
  • Breakout Character: He's easily one of the most notorious recurring major characters of the Foundation's mythos, and his popularity has ensured he makes all sorts of constant reappearances in the stories, usually in significant roles or at least as a cameo of sorts. Whenever Foundation personnel is discussed, you can always expect someone to recognize Clef before all the other staff members.
  • Cheshire Cat Grin: Lampshaded.
    A large grin resembling that of Felis cheshiricus, the only known specimen of which was captured by [DATA EXPUNGED] during Operation Liddell.
  • Consummate Liar: It's impossible to know whether or not he's lying or even if he's lying about lying.
  • Deadpan Snarker: He has his moments, such as his conversation with 343 in SCP-6666, in which he has no patience for 343's delusions of grandeur and constantly responds to 343's claims with dry snarking.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending: Years later, after the "Quiet Days" event, where all anomalous phenomena ceased to exist, there's a family seen enjoying a day at the beach. It heavily hints that the man and daughter are Clef and SCP-166, finally living out normalcy in peace.
    The Girl / SCP-166: Would you please put that thing away, Dad? It's driving me insane.
    The Old, Ugly Man / Clef: I've carried this ukelele around all my life. I think I should finally learn to play it.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: If you can believe SCP-166 is his daughter, then this certainly counts, considering his (possible) heartfelt birthday letter to her.
    Clef (?): I love you. I wish I could have done more for you. The best I could do was leave you in the hands of kind and loving people and hope they would raise you in my place. From what I've seen, they did well. I'm sorry you couldn't stay with them. I'm sorry they've brought you to this place. I promise to do my best to make sure your stay here is pleasant. I promise to keep you safe.

    Happy sixteenth birthday, honey.
  • Even Evil Has Standards:
    • He did not take well to Dr. W's experimenting on human children. With SCP-682.
    • Dr. Clef is also very unsympathetic to attempts to Mind Rape himself or his colleagues. When one particularly-obnoxious decommissioned SCP abused his powers to literally rape the female researchers assigned to it, Clef killed it through explosive decompression. Though cruelly insulting one of the victims of said rape apparently isn't off the menu.
  • Extra Eyes: As described in his personnel file, he has three eyes - one blue, one green, and one hazel. It adds to his Humanoid Abomination status, but isn't nearly the weirdest thing about him. Interestingly, the document seems to immediately forget this by using the word "both" instead of saying "all three" while continuing to describe his eyes, implying that some anomalous effect keeps people from fully noticing that there are three.
  • The Faceless: Any footage of him will have his face replaced with something else (in his character page, a spider; when SCP-978 took a picture of him, it was a giant hand Flipping the Bird).
  • Freudian Excuse: He was in an abusive relationship with 231-1 and if SCP-4231 is to believed, was constantly mistreated and sexually assaulted by her.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: In SCP-001: Memento Mori, where he and many of the wiki's more prominent figures become Overseers, he is universally treated with scorn by the rest of the Council and the Administrator, as he was an emergency promotion. Clef eventually mellows out from his usual self after learning the job's not all it's cracked up to be and does his work well enough to not be replaced, but constantly itches for a fight regardless and ultimately dies in one, the Administrator ensuring he remains forgotten as anything but a smug asshole.
  • Genius Slob: he's often described as scruffily dressed with anywhere he lives or works being messy and disorganised, and he's mentioned to smell of cigarettes and alcohol. According to Word of God of his creator on Tumblr, his labcoat is heavily stained with tattered cuffs, he talks with his mouth full, and doesn't use cologne. (His creator did say he does shower, but not necessarily very frequently.) He also has doctorates in biology and psychology and is an expert on the various anomalous objects and creatures the Foundation deals with.
  • Glamour Failure: Unless covered with a hat, his head won't show up in photos, and is instead replaced with a random animal's (or a middle finger).
  • He-Man Woman Hater: He used to be extremely mysoginistic, and his creepy behavior made the hatred mutual. This likely stems from bad experiences he had with his previous girlfriends. This trait has however mellowed out and he is now no more rude to women than he is to anyone else.
  • Humanoid Abomination: Well, there's the aforementioned Glamour Failure, the fact that he is a Reality Warper, and his long history means that whatever he is, he isn't human.
  • Hunter of His Own Kind: Dr. Clef is pretty much confirmed to be some sort of SCP Reality Warper himself, hence his immunity to most Reality Warper effects (and being caught on camera). He's dedicated his life to catching, imprisoning, and — if necessary — terminating more dangerous Reality Warper specimens. SCP-4231 confirms that he is in fact a reality warper, and that he was part of a GOC campaign to exterminate reality warpers, keeping his own abilities secret.
  • It Amused Me:
    • His true motivations are obviously hidden and in the zone of ambiguous canon, but this is the story he's sticking with.
    O5-██: [DATA EXPUNGED]
    Clef: Is this the part where I'm supposed to give some cryptic answer about my reasons for delving into the unknown? Some statement about how and why I think these things exist? Some kind of reason for coming to work in a job as maddeningly bizarre and dangerous as this?
    O5-██: [DATA EXPUNGED]
    Clef: Because it's fun.
    O5-██: [DATA EXPUNGED]
    Clef: Well, it's the only answer you're ever going to get.
    • During the SCP-4498 incident, it turns out Clef wasn't affected. He stopped by McDonald's on his way to work that day and arrived late, which is how he avoided getting possessed. Clef pretended to be one of the Brights and rampaged the site with them because he thought it was fun.
    Clef: (Laughs) Christ, I love the SCP Foundation.
  • Loophole Abuse: He's resistant to Reality Warpers most of the time. Incident 239-B shows that in very special cases, he is not so immune: the titular SCP-239, an innocent Reality Warper, is becoming afraid that Clef will come to kill her. Being a Hunter of His Own Kind, Clef always had thoughts to euthanize her, which 239's fear emphasized. Clef does notice this Reality Shift, but is too late to prevent it.
  • Mage Killer: Dr. Clef is almost totally immune to the powers of Type Greens, and has helped to decommision a few of them.
  • Man of Wealth and Taste: Once used to describe himself. However, he's normally portrayed as scruffy and crude, though he has on occasion shown an appreciation for good steak, alcohol (with a very specific martini order in one story), and cigars.
  • Multiple-Choice Past: He's claimed to be The Devil, for one thing.
  • Musical Theme Naming: Alto Clef (source of the user's avatar), who while with the GOC was known as Agent Ukelele.
  • Noodle Incident: "By no means should Dr. Clef be allowed to consume an entire tin of Altoids mints in one sitting."
  • No-Sell: He's resistant to Reality Warpers.
  • Perverse Sexual Lust: In Incident 239-B, he claims to have had a crush on Maleficent, although this may not be true, as he's implied numerous times he's not to be trusted.
  • Pet the Dog: As big of a cold-hearted asshole as he is, according to Dr. Clef the writer, the character of Clef is the father of SCP-166, and wrote the letter she received on her sixteenth birthday. The article also includes a disciplinary interview where dr. Light chews out someone implied to be Clef for being too lenient with 166.
  • Phrase Catcher: "Genre-savvy and enigmatic".
  • Pretentious Pronunciation: Well, it's not pronounced at all, but in his evaluation with Dr. Glass, Dr. Glass calls him Dr. Clef, only to have Clef hand him an ukulele.
  • Punny Name: It's not his real name, but he often goes by Alto Clef.
  • Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: As mentioned above, when one decommissioned SCP used his powers to rape the female researchers assigned to him, Clef killed him with explosive decompression. Given that SCP-4321 says that he was sexually assaulted.....
  • Reality Warper: Or so he claims.
  • Really 700 Years Old: Word of God is that he was the one who cast humanity out of the Garden of Eden.
  • Satan: Maybe. Or not... probably, and as the leak states, he cast humanity out of Eden, which is ambiguous and could either mean that he's the serpent or Archangel Jophiel (in which case he's his own SCP-001 Proposal). Word of God is that he is not the devil in the classical sense, but he did indeed rebel against God in the past. So, he's likely a demon, or probably even Adam, considering his relationship with Lilith.
  • Scaled Up: Combining the above examples of Loophole Abuse and Perverse Sexual Lust, SCP-239 turned Clef into a dragon during that incident (it helps that the small "witch" had recently seen Sleeping Beauty).
  • Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Is caught in one of these with SCP-239; Dr. Clef always considered euthanizing her because of her Reality Warper powers, but didn't try to act on it until her fear of him coming to kill her ended up amplifying his murderous urges. If he hadn't convinced her that he was a threat to her life, he likely never would've become one.
  • Staring Down Cthulhu: When someone introduced Omnicidal Maniac extraordinaire SCP-682 to Dr. Clef, it just stared at him until he managed to escape its holding cell. Just stared at him. No fear (like what happened with SCP-173) or delight (like with SCP-053), just a blank stare.
  • Stout Strength: Clef has frequently been described as overweight. He's also shown a lot of skill in hand-to-hand combat and with a sword, and despite being 5ft3 manages to pick up a (presumably taller) man and run off with him over his shoulder at one point. (The trope is played slightly more realistically than some examples as he is shown to get out of breath quickly, though that's likely just as much down to him being a heavy smoker.)
  • The Unpronounceable: He claims his name is the sound of an A-major chord played on a ukulele.
  • Token Evil Teammate: The most unambiguously amoral member of the Foundation personnel.
  • Was Once a Man: In at least one interpretation, he started life as Francis Wojciechoski, who happened to have latent reality-altering capabilities manifest on the job in the early days of the Foundation. He played alto sax and ukulele; the former became the namesake of his Alto Clef persona, the latter, Agent Ukulele.
  • We Used to Be Friends: With SCP-231-1, which turned into an abusive relationship when they grew up (with him as the victim and her as the abuser). Its only saving grace was that SCP-166 was born from it. Ultimately, Clef elected to shoot SCP-231-1 after SCP-166 was born, which coincided with the Cornwall Incident, in which the town of North Access was literally boiled alive.
  • White Sheep: Weirdly enough, he still counts as this despite being the Foundation's Token Evil Teammate. To clarify, virtually all known Type-Greens are typically condemned to a lifestyle of inflicting abuse and conning others due to them having Gone Mad from the Revelation}} as a result of their Reality Warping. While Clef certainly isn't one to pull his punches, there's no doubt that he works for the greater good of the world. This goes double when you consider his abusive girlfriend was SCP-231-1.
  • Would Hurt a Child: Despite being appalled with the guest researcher who fed two children to 682, he develops a paranoid obsession with killing SCP-239, a little girl with Reality Warper powers like his own. This is due to 239 herself being afraid of him and correspondingly altering reality to give him this obsession.

    Dr. Kain "Pathos" Crow 

Dr. Kain "Pathos" Crow

A brilliant researcher who somehow got himself transformed into a dog.

A list of his appearances can be found here.


  • Animorphism: An experiment went wrong and transformed him into a dog.
  • Hates Being Touched: According to the official SCP Twitter account, Dr. Crow doesn't enjoy being pet and finds it very humiliating. Keep in mind, he's a grown man in a dog's body with three different PhDs and outranks a large chunk of the Foundation's members, so it's easy to understand why he finds it degrading.
  • Informed Attribute: Despite his title of professor, there aren't any stories of him actually teaching anything; a few mention that he had a background working at a college, however.
  • Mad Scientist: Which caused the aforementioned Animorphism. He is also the one behind Project Olympia.
  • Noodle Incident: How Dr. Kain Pathos Crow became a dog is a mystery, as the Foundation redacted the event that turned him into one.
  • Parental Substitute: Subject Zero considers him a father figure.
  • Powered Armor: He uses an SCP to aid his "biological disabilities".
  • Rapid Aging: Relative to a human, Crow now ages much faster than normal people due to being a dog. In Rounderhouse's SCP-001 proposal, he's long dead because of this and has a lot of unfinished business (including, among other things, an attempt to restore his humanity) despite becoming an Overseer with access to life-extending technology.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: With Gears; Kain being red and Cog being blue.

    Dr. Dan ███████ 
A researcher of the Foundation. Doctor Dan has an acute hatred toward SCP-096 and believes it's too dangerous to be kept alive. He's willing to do anything to kill the Shy Guy, and we mean anything.

A list of his appearances can be found here.
  • Arch-Enemy: Dr. Dan sees SCP-096 both as his archenemy and a threat to humanity as a whole.
  • Ascended Extra: Originally known from his involvement with SCP-096, he's since become a regular in the Resurrection: Old Foes canon.
  • Batman Gambit: Doctors Dan and Olekski planted a hiking photo, with 096's face in the background, into a random civilian's home, knowing that the Shy Guy would "breach containment" and go on a rampage, killing dozens of innocent people to get to the poor guy who looked at its face. The two doctors then took things further by sabotaging MTF Tau-1's equipment, getting most of them killed too when they tried to recapture 096. With the ensuing massacre, the two would finally prove to the O5 Council how dangerous SCP-096 is and authorize its termination.
  • Be Careful What You Wish For: Dr. Dan finally got the go-ahead from the O5 Council to kill SCP-096 after he escaped and went on a rampage. However, because Dr. Dan orchestrated the breach and got several Foundation personnel and innocent people killed, the Council sentenced him to death for crimes against humanity. They'll still support 096's termination, but as soon as Dr. Dan finds a way to kill the Shy Guy, he's getting the death penalty.
  • The Bus Came Back: Of a sorts. Long after he's since been written off as a dead man walking in SCP-096's incident log, he became a regular in the Resurrection: Old Foes canon, ten years later.
  • Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Deliberately caused a containment breach of SCP-096 in order to prove that it was too dangerous to be allowed to live. The Foundation secretly decided to keep him around because he was too useful to execute.
  • Character Death: The Foundation put Dr. Olekski to death offscreen for his part in Incident 096-1-A, and Dr. Dan isn't far behind once everything is said and done.
  • I Did What I Had to Do: Dr. Dan cites the ends justify the means when O5-1 sentences him for his crime, pointing out that he and the rest of the O5 Council aren't above doing similar acts for the greater good. While he isn't wrong, Dr. Dan crossed too many lines, even for them.
  • Face Death with Dignity: While he grumbles a little about it at first, Dr. Dan ultimately seems to accept that the termination of SCP-096 will lead to his own execution, just as long as he can take 096 down with him.
  • Master Actor: Downplayed. Dan and Olekski did a decent job hiding the fact they're the masterminds behind Incident 096-1-A. Unfortunately, the holes in their cover stories did them in.
  • No Full Name Given: The SCP-096 file initially redacted his name until the Incident 096-1-A file revealed what his first name was.
  • Repetitive Name: One of the final jokes in SCP-7000 is Dan being forced to reveal his full, unredacted name, Dr. Daniel Daniels. He's clearly very embarrassed about it, although how much of that is because of the name and how much is because of the circumstances (being outsmarted by Dr. Wettle) is debatable.
  • The Reveal: With some help from Dr. Olekski, Dr. Dan orchestrated Incident 096-1-A. By letting SCP-096 "breach containment," Dr. Dan would finally prove to the O5 Council how dangerous SCP-096 was and that it needed to die.
  • Spotting the Thread: Dr. Dan and Olekski probably would have gotten away with their plan if they had better alibis. The Foundation interviewers noticed the holes in their stories, and the jig was up when Olekski confessed under pressure.
    Dr. Olekski: So are we finished here?
    Interviewer: One last question, doctor. Or, statement, as it seems. We find it interesting that there was no break room at Research Site ██. Or coffee.
    Interviewer: We think it would be best if you begin talking.
  • Was It Really Worth It?: Dr. Dan may have finally gotten the go-ahead to kill SCP-096, but it came with a heavy price: dozens of lives dead and nearly exposing the existence of SCPs to the world, not to mention he got the death penalty for starting the mess in the first place.
    Dan: It worked. There was only a matter of time until that happened in a major population center, and its face spread over the world news. I can kill 096, but I’ve killed myself in the process.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: Dr. Dan caused a horrific containment breach just so that the O5 Council would take SCP-096 more seriously and finally order its termination. Granted, 096 is dangerous and probably better off dead, but that came at the cost of dozens of people and almost revealing the existence of SCPs to the public.

    Dr. Michael Edison 

Dr. Michael Edison

A Level-3 researcher in charge of the Metafiction department (and the only member). Has a loose grip on reality and likes to imagine himself as the star of an epic movie. He's been reprimanded several times for associated "incidents".

A list of his appearances can be found here.


  • Epic Fail: Pretty much all of his behaviour during the Tempest Night incident, but especially the end.
  • I Just Want to Be Badass: His file indicates that he desperately wants to be a badass "like Dr. Clef".
  • No Medication for Me: Edison is on behavioural medication, and the interviewing Overseer's implication that Edison "forgot" to take his medication the day of the Tempest Night incident implies that this isn't the first time he's "forgotten" to take them. Notably, Edison doesn't necessarily refute this.
    O5: Is there any chance you "forgot" to take your medicine that day?
    Edison: ...Maybe?
  • Reassigned to Antarctica: Has had this happen more than once due to his more outlandish antics.
  • Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: So, what happens when you use an SCP to disappear the floors beneath you so you can get down to the first floor from the fifth as fast as possible? Exactly what you think. The interview at the beginning indicates he survived, but he did break most if not all of his bones.
  • Wrong Genre Savvy: During the above incident, he attempted to go after the intruders solo, "Die Hard style". It goes about as well as you'd expect.

    Dr. Charles Gears ("COG") 

Dr. Charles Gears

Dr. Gears (also known as "COG") is a seemingly emotionless researcher who has worked for the Foundation since shortly its inception and appears not to have aged since then. He's emotionless to the lack of not having a startle response and is an important figure to the Foundation in recent history — both in-character and out.

A list of his appearances can be found here.


    Dr. R. Gerald 

Dr. R. Gerald

A list of his appearances can be found here.


  • Amusing Injuries: Dr. Gerald is very accident prone. In a particular gem from his Personnel File, a note from Clef describes an incident where Gerald was found with his tie caught in a paper shredder and is being strangled as a result.
  • Chekhov's Skill: His catastrophic driving is actually weaponized by Dr. Mann in Ecceperago to kill O5-7. Notably, 7's section of the tale is the shortest one.
  • Doom Magnet: Bad things happen wherever Gerald goes. For example, upon having a 'simple trip-and-fall accident', he broke no less than 86 sections of SCP-914.
  • Drives Like Crazy: ''No,'' really?
  • Epic Fail: Everything he does is bound to fail spectacularly, to the point that his driving skills are considered an SCP. A joke SCP, but still. An SCP Enquirer tabloid magazine even has a front page article labelled, "DR. GERALD SIGHTED NOT BURNING!"
  • Made of Iron: The only explanation as to why he isn't dead yet.

    Dr. Simon Glass 

Dr. Simon Glass

The Foundation's Head of Psychology, with a strong empathetic streak and possible connections through his family and friends to the Chaos Insurgency and the Serpent's Hand. He's often considered "soft" by his colleagues, but is still very well-trusted.

A list of his appearances can be found here.


  • Ambiguously Bi: Considering his attraction to Diogenes.
  • Big, Screwed-Up Family: While not nearly to the extent of the Brights, Glass has a relative that's a member of the Chaos Insurgency.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: It's noted that he knows several people from his past that are linked to the Serpent's Hand, which he refused to clarify.
  • Dogged Nice Guy: He requires Agent Diogenes to do psychological evaluations once a week instead of the normal once a month, so he can muster the courage and try to ask her/him out.
  • Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Downplayed, but it's noted that he's stubbornly held onto both his sanity and empathy as he's learned increasingly dark secrets about the Foundations over the course of his interviews.
  • The McCoy: If Gears is The Spock and Kain is The Kirk, Glass is closer to this.
  • New Meat: It's implied that he's this, with him being pretty young compared to his colleagues and he feels lots of empathy for the sapient and benign SCPs imprisoned by the Foundation.
  • Nice Guy: He is probably the most unambiguously good person at the Foundation, showing both genuine sympathy and concern for human SCP items while striving to lower the Foundation's deleterious effects to the world at large.
  • Only Sane Man: As shown in his interviews with his colleagues, he's probably one of the most psychologically stable people in the Foundation.
  • Wrong Genre Savvy: He's incredibly paranoid about how the higher-ups see his connections to the Chaos Insurgency and Serpent's Hand. It's all but stated that they really don't care about them and just trust him to not betray them.

    Dr. "Iceberg" 

Dr. █████ "Iceberg" ████

A list of his appearances can be found here.


    Dr. Everett King 

Dr. Everett King

A Foundation researcher who, for whatever reason a given writer desires, cannot interact with an SCP without producing apple seeds.

A list of his appearances can be found here.


  • Composite Character: In the Site-17 Deepwell Catalogue, he's both SCP-2747, the anafabula, and the Scarlet King at the same time due to some poor planning with SCP-6747, a device that allows the Foundation to revive personnel by creating and exploiting narratives. To make a long story short, their plans relied on narrative simplicity, which King is the opposite of, thus causing him to become a villain through narrative causality when he struggled against the machine.
  • Create Your Own Villain: A literal case during the plot of SCP-6747; after King dies during the ADMONITION saga when he gets crushed to death by apples, the Foundation bootstraps his nervous system to the SCP and uses it as a way to revive deceased personnel by creating deeper narratives featuring their targets and then fetching them from within. Their attempt to retrieve a new King is reliant on the impression that he is a Flat Character. Unfortunately, the goddamned apple seeds have caused King to grow beyond that behind the Foundation's backs, and so the King they find is both too complex for the machine's parameters and attempting to resist their efforts to get him out. SCP-2747 finds him in the struggle, and they merge into a singular entity dubbed the CHAOS-King. And in the process, King gives the Queen of the Void the thorns for her rose: another ruler, that is colored in red, believes itself to control the number seven, and wants to "break the chains."
  • Ironic Hell: SCP-6747 reveals an alternate Dr. King is trapped in one of these. More specifically, he's stuck in the lolFoundation canon as punishment for taking out his anger over the appleseeds gag on the fabric of reality (SCP-2747 is involved.) The antics of the Foundation in lolFoundation strip his narrative powers and force him to play along in a gaggle of nutjobs for eternity.
  • Missing Child: The test logs for SCP-507note  hint that Dr. King is from an alternate dimension of an endless apple tree forest inhabited by a race of people who all look like him, and the endless stream of apple seeds were his family trying to contact him and bring him home. They give 507 a message for King, but for 507's safety he's not allowed to deliver it.
  • Only Sane Man: Tries to be the voice of reason to Dr. Edison during the Tempest Night incident. Edison doesn't listen.
  • Reality Warper: SCPs will violate their own rules to give him apple seeds. That, or something related to apples.
  • Refused the Call: In "Long Live The King", the apple god appears to him (as a giant talking apple) and says it is his destiny to turn the entire world into one of apples in order to save it from destruction. Dr. King furiously refuses, to which the apple god responds by making apple seeds come out of his every orifice and flood his office. This is a All Just a Dream joke tale, of course, but given King's track record, not totally unfeasible...
  • Reincarnation: It's implied a few times that Dr. King is the reincarnation of American Folk Hero Johnny Applesseed.
  • Running Gag: Many SCP objects have the power to summon matter from parts unknown. Whenever Dr. King tests one of these objects, he winds up summoning apple seeds. He's not too happy about this. Examples include SCP-130, SCP-216, SCP-261, SCP-294, SCP-887, SCP-978, SCP-1162, and SCP-1459.
  • Suddenly Shouting: When he's testing SCP-3301 and nature takes its course.
    Dr. King: (Shouting) Oh I know, I'll fucking use an apple seed! That will fucking work! That's perfect! Perfect thing to use in a field filled to the fucking brim with fucking APPLE SEEDS! (muffled sobbing)

    Dr. Zyn Kiryu 

Dr. Zyn Kiryu

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Zyn Kiryu, by Zhange
One of several Kiryus working for the Foundation. Zyn stands out for her hard work and association with butterflies.

A list of her appearances can be found here.

    Dr. Benjamin Kondraki 

Dr. Kondraki

Often varying in the Foundation's canon as much as Clef does, Kondraki is an amoral and deeply controversial researcher within the Foundation, seen by most as the archetypal Anti-Hero. Generally speaking, he's listed as being the former Site Director for Site-17. He also has a strong flair for the dramatic and grows rivals on trees, with the most obvious example being Dr. Alto Clef. Due to his main creator leaving the wiki under less-than-stellar circumstances, Kondraki's character has been largely Put on a Bus aside from some notable canons and Tales.

A list of his appearances can be found here.


  • The Alcoholic: "Portraits of Your Father" shows him frequently drinking as a way to cope with his utterly hellish life.
  • Anti-Hero: As noted above in his description.
  • Animal Motifs: Associated most heavily with butterflies.
  • Badass Bookworm: An incredibly intelligent and erudite scientist who has also successfully fought a Reality Warper to a standstill in a swordfight and even rode SCP-682 like a mechanical bull.
  • Belligerent Sexual Tension: Many fans have interpreted his intense rivalry with Clef to be this, which was partially the inspiration for the "Ship In A Bottle" canon.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: The main reason he's been kept around for so long by the Foundation despite his eccentricties is his remarkable skill and expertise in dealing with humanoid SCPs.
  • Cerebus Retcon: "Portraits of Your Father" is (in part) a dark Deconstruction of Kondraki's reputation and character by showing him as a suicidal and depressed man struggling with bipolar disorder. Most notably, the most memorable event in Kondraki's "mythos" on the SCP wiki - Kondraki riding SCP-682 in "Duke 'Til Dawn" - never happens here, with his son Draven instead being shown stopping his insane attempt during a containment breach.
  • Depending on the Writer: As his character file here can attest, he's probably one of the most diversely written characters on the wiki.
  • Embarrassment Plot: There's an entire canon based around this featuring Kondraki's greatest invokedOld Shame - getting a water bottle stuck on his dick.
  • 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.
  • Hidden Depths: Aside from his many scientific and martial skills, he's also apparently an excellent photographer.
  • Indy Ploy: It's mentioned In-Universe that his plan to decommission SCP-083-D was primarily rapid improvisation and sheer luck working in unison.
  • Karma Houdini: Of a sort. He was cleared of all responsibility after he broke Dr. Clef's neck. It was likely because the Overseer Council either thought that Clef deserved it or that they would have done the same under the circumstances.
  • Killed Off for Real: He's assassinated by Dr. Gears during "The King is Dead" as part of the "Reconstruction" canon. Alternatively, he killed himself during "Portraits of Your Father." Of course, since "There is no canon," it's up to the reader to decide if Kondraki's truly dead in their headcanon.
  • Last-Name Basis: He's almost only called by his last name. All that's known about his first name is that its eight letters long. "Portraits of Your Father" and its related stories do give his first name, though - Apparently, it's Benjamin.
  • Mind Rape: He suffered one from Clef. He eventually flew into a rage and broke his neck. The O5s didn't punish him for it likely because they didn't blame him.
  • Morality Pet: His son Draven is this for him in "Portraits of Your Father."
  • Must Have Caffeine: He started a freaking gunfight over his fellow researchers failing to change the filter in a coffee maker (which was located in a break room that he doesn't even use anymore).
  • Odd Friendship: With SCP-408, a swarm of illusionary butterflies.
  • Papa Wolf: He's rendered into a shouting panic when his son Draven was hospitalized after tangling with a dangerous SCP.
  • Parents as People: "Portraits of Your Father" shows him having this relationship with his son Draven. While he may act obnoxious and some of his behavior is borderline abusive, he still deeply cares for his son and is shown to be taking care of him to the best of his ability while struggling with his own inner demons.
  • Perma-Stubble: His staff picture shows him sporting this, and he's often described as having a five-o-clock shadow.
  • Pet the Dog:
  • Shipper on Deck: For his son Draven and Draven's boyfriend James Talloran.
  • The Sociopath: One of the writing guides describes him as this. Of course, it's Depending on the Writer.
  • Vetinari Job Security: More or less the only reason he's allowed to stick around is that he is very good at his job, and seems to make it out on top of nearly every situation. Subverted in "The King is Dead", where the O5 Council has finally had enough of his shit and has Gears assassinate him.
  • Villainous Breakdown: A truly epic one in "The King Is Dead" from the "Reconstruction" canon.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Due to a mix of Author Avatar characters becoming less popular over the years and his creator (DrKondraki) leaving the wiki, he's largely been abandoned and ignored in the more "modern" days of the site. Most canons state that the In-Universe Kondraki was either Killed Off for Real, left the Foundation and is being hunted, or simply disappeared. This has been reversed recently, though, with both "Portraits of Your Father" and the entire "Ship In A Bottle" canon featuring Kondraki in a major role.
  • What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: The ostensible 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. Sophia Light 

Dr. Sophia Light

A foundation regional directior currently stationed at Svalbard. Sometimes part of the O5.

A list of her appearances can be found here.
  • Alternate Self: At least one version of O5-2 is a version of Sophia from a previous reality, having survived to be part of this one.
  • Badass Normal: Like all Foundation personnel, but particularily Dr. Light. Sophia is (usually) not immortal, not a reality warper, and not Kondraki or Gears. What she is is a highly competent director who's done a lot for the Foundation, and holds the record for most scps reclassified to Explained under her command.
  • Depending on the Writer: Sophia gets hit with this a lot. Sometimes she's just a competent site director for a site in Svalbard, sometimes she's a regional director for all of Foundation west (which includes the entire US mainland), and sometimes she's a full-on O5. The Ouroboros cycle made her Jesus of Nazareth.
  • Drowning My Sorrows: After being put in charge of SCP-5004, she ended up getting very drunk. Not because she had to get Donald Trump into office, but because she didn't. Everything the Foundation did was either already being done by a non-anomalous third party, or superfluous, since the american public were fully willing to elect a megalomaniac cartoon villain.
  • Putting the Band Back Together: Sophia is the current head of Alpha-9 "Last Hope", a project to rebuild the disastrous task force Omega-12 (a task force with support from sapient SCPs) after it was destroyed in the "Able Incident" a few years earlier. Very reluctantly, mind you, but she's determined to ensure the project succeeds.
  • Ship Tease: Often gets these with Troy Lament. Officially speaking, they're exes with lingering feelings on Lament's side.

    Dr. Everett Mann 

Dr. Everett Mann

A list of his appearances can be found here.


  • Batman Gambit: Has plans to eliminate each of the O5s, in case. In at least one continuity, he uses them.
  • Dropped a Bridge on Him: In both SCP-5555 and Rounderhouse's SCP-001 proposal, he disappears without a trace from the world with no explanation. The difference is that 5555 has him become the next Nobody, while Rounderhouse's proposal is implied to be more self-inflicted.

    Dr. Placeholder McDoctorate 

Dr. Placeholder McDoctorate

"Yes, I'm aware that my name is ridiculous. No, I can't tell you about it. Sometimes reality just doesn't make sense."
Head of the Pataphysics Department, Placeholder McDoctorate (or just Place, as he prefers to be called) was the first victim of SCP-INTEGER, the king of the fae's refuge LOGICIAN. Since then, he has become heavily entangled in studies on narrative causality, and would eventually become fated in all timelines to create a device named with the acronym P.E.E. capable of traveling between narratives.

A list of his appearances can be found here. Tropes exclusive to the variant that appears in SCP-5956 and ADMONITION can be found in the marked folder below.
  • Astral Finale: The Archetypicals series in On Guard 43 is meant to take place near the end of the main Place's life, and has him use his engine and all of his life's work on pataphysics to go to space and travel to the Triangulum Galaxy (a literal Call to Adventure is involved — as in, the fabric of reality itself literally aligning to give Place his own story.)
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: A number of his Alternate Universe counterparts are megalomaniac bastards posing as the affable and somewhat-silly persona of his prime self. The entire plot of SCP-6416 is about the entire infinite set of Places with those traits co-conspiring to nab the power of the O5-6 position through unethical means, and that's not getting into what his TL-5956-X variant is responsible for.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Even once he becomes an old man, he's rather scatterbrained for someone in his position. As one version of him inhabits the main world of the ADMONITION saga, though, this doesn't stop him from being worthy of the title one bit.
  • Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": They're not tropes, they're narremes, and his papers will gladly inform you the Foundation-verse does indeed revolve around them.
  • The Chosen One: In a weird pataphysical and scientific sort of manner. For all universes containing a McDoctorate, a lot of the major points in his character arc are predestined in-universe:
    • Place will always be the first victim of LOGICIAN, giving him his current name.
    • SCP-6416-CUBE, his favorite 4x4 Rubik's Cube, will always be taken in the same instant, causing every version of it in The Multiverse to collapse into one entity.
    • He will always become the head of Pataphysics, sometimes attaining other related leadership positions.
    • He will always design an engine capable of traveling between narratives.
    • He will always do something with the engine that attracts the attention of the RCT-Δt or another entity that opposes him, and then promptly attempt to escape it.
  • Iconic Item: Rubik's cubes. His favorite 4x4 cube is a part of the chain of events forming SCP-6416, and he keeps others around as a symbol of some of his findings on narrative causality.
  • Medium Awareness: He's aware that he's a side character in a fictional story. Much of his character arc has to do with how LOGICIAN's interaction with someone who shouldn't be that important has messed with narrative space.
  • Reality-Breaking Paradox: A living one; he's attracted to pataphysical anomalies because the universal narrative was supposed to paint him as a side character until LOGICIAN's interference contradicted that by putting him in the spotlight.
  • Rubik's Cube: International Genius Symbol: A 4x4 known as SCP-6416-CUBE is his Iconic Item which he keeps in his pocket at all times, and a photo in the actual SCP-6416 article reveals he has many more puzzle cubes, including different orders of the classic Rubik's, a Megaminx (the Rubik's Cube's dodecahedral cousin), a Pyraminx (Exactly What It Says on the Tin), a Skewb (a cube with all the axes of rotation perfectly bisecting it), and the Square-1 (one of the first mass-produced shape-shifting puzzle cubes.) He explains in the Archetypicals arc of On Guard 43 that he collects them as a visual metaphor for his research, and works on solving 6416-CUBE for the duration of "PLACEHOLDER."
  • Theory of Narrative Causality: As the head of pataphysics, he fully understands the Foundation is fictional, and pretty much penned the in-universe version of this trope which states that tropes are a rule of nature for them. He even manages to boil down The Hero's Journey into a hard quantum science that's still somewhat understandable to laymen.

    Dr. Placeholder McDoctorate (TL-5956-X) (unmarked On Guard 43 and ADMONITION spoilers) 

Dr. Placeholder McDoctorate (TL-5956-X)

"The best kind of thought is Forethought, whom the First Humans knew as Prometheus. Seems a tad ironic to me, considering, y'know, he got himself tortured for eternity."

An alternate Place from a doomed variant of On Guard 43's events.

Possessing the same Medium Awareness as his good-hearted counterparts, Place became aware of his homeworld's nature as sidestory fodder for a more elaborate main story. Seeking to leave his universe and find a better story elsewhere in The Multiverse, he completed the Paradox Exodus Engine and stole TL-5956-X's version of the REISNO Cannon (SCP-5956), escaping with both to TL-4755-B, the world of ADMONITION. This left TL-5956-X to collapse in a massive time paradox, as the REISNO Cannon was required for a containment cycle (TL-5956-X's SCP-001) barely holding reality together.

Successfully replacing TL-4755-B's Place due to a Contrived Coincidence involving his abduction through SCP-6269, this Place worked with the Foundation's Deepwell sites to participate in the creation of extremely powerful Thaumiel-class anomalies, which all have the common goal of playing god. He is revealed at the end of ADMONITION phase 1 to be in on some of the canon's more overarching disasters and the Mysterious Benefactor who requisitioned LOTUS/SCP-6488's remains for Project ADMONITION, making him the Greater-Scope Villain of the series.


  • Affably Evil: While it hasn't been established if he's part of the SCP-6416 anomaly, he does have the appearance of a friendly old doctor and seems genuine enough about it. But he's also responsible for the deaths of billions and is cooking up a malicious conspiracy against TL-4755-B's Foundation.
  • Ambiguously Evil: While he's obviously acting against the Foundation's interests, has a body count, and is ultimately part of why their Time Police departments hate his signature so much, it's implied he has a reason for doing all of this beyond serving himself that has yet to be revealed.
  • Backstory Invader: Replaced the original TL-4755-B Place and used both his variant's credentials and his Medium Awareness to insert himself into Deepwell activities as a walking, talking Plot Device. As far as the Foundation is concerned, they never lost their original Place, and he simply Grew a Spine from his encounter with LOGICIAN as per his own Stations of the Canon.
  • Character Catchphrase: "You know how it goes."
  • Heart Is an Awesome Power: This is the same man who can extract actual physical power from the concept of a trope through his machines. As a result, his Medium Awareness makes him incredibly dangerous, and untrustworthy for those who understand his true nature.
  • Karma Houdini: Has yet to answer for any of his crimes as of the end of ADMONITION phase 1.
  • Living MacGuffin: Exploited; not only does Place know he's a Plot Device, the fact that his abilities have led to conflict gives him certain resources and asset movements he wouldn't have otherwise.

    Dr. Lisle Naismith 

Dr. Lisle Naismith

One of the living Foundation personnel managing Operation Galahad, the organization's connection to Corbenic and the Three Moons Initiative. In his spare time, he's forced to act as the Beleaguered Boss overseeing SCP-3922's research team.
  • Beleaguered Boss: He's been placed in charged of an SCP that messes with pre-existing fictional media and generates hordes of unique outputs. Much like Lucius Veritas, Naismith is thus stuck managing the sometimes-immature and irresponsible requests that come through with the fate of the patasphere on the line.
  • Cool and Unusual Punishment: Once hazed a subordinate who had been charged with a work violation by tricking them into watching a year's-worth of fake TotleighSoft media (they had an affinity for working with actual material from the company.) One has to wonder if this is payback for the DOGM OVIE incident.
  • Dude, Where's My Respect?: Naismith is quite possibly the only reason the TMI hasn't hexed the prime timeline yet thanks to the handful of pataphysical anomalies that cross over into Corbenic. SCP-3922's research team keeps trying to undermine him, though, and a number of his comments indicate he's quite pissed about the lack of respect.
  • Not So Above It All: Admits he's willing to argue over Father Ted being British or Irish and quote Inigo Montoya. Downplayed, however, in that he still wants his subordinates to knock it off while on the clock.

    Dr. Agatha Rights 

Dr. Agatha Rights

A remarkably empathetic Foundation Site Director (for Site-19) who tries to keep to herself and often suffers from severe mood swings. She also has a little girl - "Ophelia" - that she will defend to the last.

A list of her appearances can be found here.


  • Cope by Creating: She was encouraged by the foundation to start a personal journal so that she wouldn't start a public blog to vent her frustrations (and reveal classified information).
  • Extreme Omnisexual: Shown by her flow chart for containment procedures; her logic is, if it's not cute and you can't have sex with it, you call a containment team. If it is cute and you can have sex with it, you put it in her office.
  • Genki Girl: A female authority figure who is also quite emotive.
  • Mood-Swinger: She has a tendency to throw tantrums at the slightest problem.
  • Noodle Incident: A cancelled - and never revisited - project on her file is the "Carnivorous Blow-Up-Doll".
  • Team Mom: She's described as having this demeanor among her fellow staff members.
  • Tsundere: Despite her mood swings, she does have a softer side to her.
  • Un-person: Her final Tale has her character's history being erased from all known Foundation records so that she can become a member of the Overseers Council.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Due to her author (agatharights) leaving the SCP wiki to focus on her own writing, her character has essentially disappeared.
  • What Measure Is a Non-Human?: She's mentioned as often arguing for humanoid SCPs and other sapient/sentient SCPs to be treated with more respect and humanity.
  • Yaoi Fangirl: If the discussion on SCP-049's page is to be believed, she likes to crack-slash SCPs sometimes when bored.

    Dr. Robert Scranton 

Dr. Robert Scranton

Inventor of the Scranton Reality Anchor and researcher into altered levels of reality. Was lost after being accidently sent to SCP-3001.


  • The Aloner: Dr. Scranton in SCP-3001, an empty pocket dimension. The only stimulus in the entire void is the winking red light of the recording panel, and his own body.
  • And I Must Scream: In SCP-3001, he ends up trapped in a Class-C "Broken Wormhole," which leads him into an endless black void. If his math is right, what's left of him in the void will be "restabilized" for another five years, which means constant agony until he comes back.
  • Ascended Extra: He was originally just a name used in reality anchoring technology (popularized by SCP-2000), but later became a full character. He's the main victim of SCP-3001 and provides the exploration logs.
  • Auto Cannibalism: It's implied he ate parts of himself, either in delusion or due to hunger, which he still experienced. This is implied to include half of his brain and possibly, his genitals.
  • Body Horror: As Robert and the LSS's Hume levels begin to reach the same as the void around them, Robert's body begins to deteriorate, losing most of his organs and blood, yet able to still function. While not all of Robert returns from the void, enough defining characteristics of him, such as one of his eyes, return with the LSS, which is how Anna is able to identify him.
  • Depending on the Writer: There's three different versions of Robert Scranton - The first is a junior researcher mentioned in SCP-1451, the second is a scientist from the 1800s who first developed the ancestor to the Scranton Reality Anchors featured in SCP-2000, and the third is the most famous iteration of the character featured in SCP-3001. The third iteration is implied in this story to end up becoming SCP-106.
  • Companion Cube: Robert eventually comes to view the LSS as a sentient being, naming it "Red" after the small red blinking light. Also, the picture of Robert's wife Anna, and their wedding ring.
  • Driven to Suicide: After several years, Robert repeatedly tries to kill himself. It never works.
  • Dying Declaration of Love: The second-to-last entry log from Robert has him telling Anna and Red that he loves them.
  • Go Mad from the Isolation: Robert slowly loses his mind as he remains trapped in the void. According to the testing logs, it was for nearly six years.
  • Happily Married: To Anna, who he worked with for years.
  • Madness Mantra: Robert has several of them. Most notably, after he loses the picture of his wife Anna in the blackness, he begins repeating Anna's physical features over and over.
  • Overdrawn at the Blood Bank: As his body keeps breaking down, Robert loses far more blood than a human can normally have, yet he still lives. When the LSS returns to the testing lab, there's a gigantic pool of it around the device.
  • Punny Name: His name was based on the name of user Scantron (currently renamed "Communism will win"), who suggested the concept of the reality anchoring technology.
  • Uncertain Doom: Part of Robert's head and torso were possibly still trapped in the void when the LSS returned to our world. According to the article's author, he may or may not still be alive.

    Dr. Katherine Sinclair 

Dr. Katherine Sinclair

A researcher working for the Foundation at Site-87 in the Department of Occult Studies. Often considered an oddball (and at Site-87, that's saying something), one of only two members of the Department of Occult Studies at this site. Defected to the Foundation from the Serpent's Hand after her ex-boyfriend attempted to destroy her alma mater.

A list of her appearances can be found here.


  • The Archmage: She's considered a Class-4 "Archmagus" thaumaturge, and this is only amplified when, in SCP-6500, she obtains a magical battery called the Orykalkos Codex.
  • Back from the Dead: She gets killed about halfway through Black Autumn IV, but is brought back by way of Alison Carol Rewriting Reality to try to get a better story.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: By all means a very competent thaumaturgist— and also an avid member of the Furry Fandom.
  • Everyone Has Standards: Stated that she would rather use her card for the Wanderer's Libary as a toothpick than work with an organization that would allow someone like her ex-boyfriend access to knowledge that could allow him to kill hundreds of people.
  • Eye Scream: In order to save her from SCP-2006, Alison Carol is forced to have Sinclair's left eye destroyed by an ice pick; she's been wearing a prosthetic ever since.
  • Fiery Redhead: Literally! Passionate about her work with magic to a fault. Plus, Sinclair's Establishing Character Moment involved her playing with fire magic... and it didn't end too well.
  • Happily Married: As of SCP-6500, she's been married to her lab assistant, Montgomery Reynolds.
  • Insistent Terminology: If her dossier is anything to go by, she hates the term "thaumaturgy" and insists on refering to it as "magic".
  • Magic A Is Magic A: Seems to be a firm believer in this, often shown practicing ritual magic as opposed to shooting sparks out of wands constantly.
  • Mark of Shame: How she views her scars from attempting to invoke fire magic and failing to provide a proper sacrifice. She's not attempted fire magic directly since. The scars read, in Latin, "We are not pleased".
  • Noodle Incident: Something happened when Kat tried haruspicy, and now she's not allowed to requisition live animals for testing.
  • Not Quite Dead: Twice.
    • During Black Autumn IV, she is killed, but is brought Back from the Dead due to Alison's narrative manipulation powers.
    • During SCP-6500, both she and her husband are shot and nearly killed by the Foundation Elimination Coalition; however, she draws power from the Orykalkos Codex to keep herself alive, even as the Foundation announces they're dead as part of a gambit to get the FEC to invade Sloth's Pit and get destroyed.
  • Summon Magic: Summons a Krampus during the Christmas of 2014. Hijinks ensue.
  • Take That!: Used to be a fan of Harry Potter, but by the time of Black Autumn IV, she's apparently destroyed a good part of her merchandise.

    Dr. Johannes Sorts 

Dr. Johannes Sorts

A list of his appearances can be found here.
  • It's Personal: He really, really doesn't like artists, having seen the trade from inside.
    Dr. Lucius Veritas 

Dr. Lucius Veritas

Foundation lead researcher currently responsible for overseeing all tests on SCP-914, though thanks to the way the rules work, it's not like he can do much about what comes in and out of it. Answers to Dr. Arthur Hackett, previously his college friend.


  • Absurd Phobia: Relative to his position at the Foundation. He's still afraid of Bedsheet Ghosts to the point where he shot one modified by 914 after it dropped down on him. It may have something to do with the fact that "Researcher Darby" was scrawled on it.
  • Author Avatar: Of Leveritas, who currently fulfils the same role out-of-universe (though a Real Life correspondent for Hackett is obviously non-existent.)
  • Authority in Name Only: Can't really do much about all the shenanigans the staff pull since they're all technically allowed, and he makes it very, very clear he hates it, especially since it means getting swamped in security, custodial, and in one case memetic department complaints.
    Veritas: Great, just turn my testing area into an anomalous pet factory. When these things decide to revolt and, I don't know, burn everyone's tongues simultaneously, don't come complaining to me.
  • Berserk Button: Though he cares not for your welfare when playing with your own 914 outputs, using them at the expense of other people/Site 19-23, or simply ignoring common sense as to what the input might produce is a very easy way to piss him off.
  • Beware the Quiet Ones: He doesn't have much sway in the grand scheme of things and is generally reserved outside of his comments on the testing logs, but he's been known to verbally abuse those that truly deserve it and once shot a Serpent's Hand affiliate to death in cold blood after pretending to be a 914 researcher to steal some classified data. He will also gladly initiate a disinformation protocol on his own staff to Make It Look Like an Accident or worse with particularly catastrophic incidents if ordered to.
  • Conditioned to Accept Horror: Played for laughs. With everything that comes out of 914 due to the research team's unprofessional streak, nothing fazes the man anymore, with much of his reactions consisting solely of anger, frustration, and/or exhaustion.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Often makes snide comments on the results of different tests depending on the results, especially if the researchers responsible want to keep them.
  • Death of a Child: Not him, but a younger clone of himself that manifested due to a containment breach of a redacted SCP, which was promptly thrown in 914 on Rough by the other kids.
  • Everyone Has Standards: Though Veritas is (humorously) Conditioned to Accept Horror, he draws the line at a dating sim whose cast consists entirely of SCP-914's research team (produced from a data drive containing a copy of I Love You, Colonel Sanders!.)
  • The Heart: In practice, Veritas is mainly trusted with making sure 914 isn't approached with the attitude of a bunch of nerdy teens taking shots at each other rather than an actual professional research team. Test #1251 in the logs emphasizes this when one of the more seasoned researchers speculates that said test (which mysteriously appeared in the Foundation database one day, heavily corrupted and implying the use of 914 to create several devices capable of transcending time) comes from a world without Veritas.
  • Hidden Depths: He's an excellent singer, but his work ethic doesn't allow him to admit it.
  • Improbable Weapon User: Beat a D-Class to death with a desk lamp after they attempted to assault him.
  • Jade-Colored Glasses: Although watching researchers mishandle anomalous items produced by a machine every day has rightfully turned Veritas into a cynic, he tends to ignore that, technically speaking, his authority (or lack thereof) has vastly improved the sensibility of tests done with 914. It clearly doesn't seem to matter much, though.
  • Made of Iron: Played with. A test which produced an anomalous replica of the legendary assault rifle from Fortnite reveals Veritas's HP clocks in at about 20,000 points (compared to the game's default 100.) He dismisses it as being considered a "boss" by the anomaly, although it isn't made clear if this oddity applies to other anomalies that can read vitals.
  • Obvious Rule Patch: In-universe, Veritas enforced tighter restrictions on keeping animate outputs from 914 after it became clear the ever-growing research team was getting more and more interested in using the machine as a source of anomalous pets.
  • Punny Name: Lucius Veritas can also be written as L. Veritas.
  • Real Life Writes the Plot: Veritas's exasperation is largely driven by the actual posting guidelines for 914 tests. He also has to let researchers get away with as much as they do because as Leveritas himself once pointed out, 914 tests before Veritas was introduced were actually worse off than what the site currently has now.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: Though it's probably because Veritas can't avert this trope without incurring the wrath of Hackett or other Foundation superiors, he is surprisingly lenient on use of 914's outputs so as long as no one hurts each other or damages Site 19-23. That being said, he has a reputation for being extremely cruel towards people who ignore the above and knows this, telling the 914 research team to ignore Darby's screaming and crying for help after the latter produced a railgun which accidentally punched a footlong hole through the facility all the way to a storefront in a nearby town.
  • Sanity Slippage: Dealing with his underlings has taken a toll on his psyche, for obvious reasons. While he's great at hiding it, his occasional bouts of violence resulting from this have elicited genuine concern from Hackett, who believes he's ignoring more appropriate avenues of anger management when There Are No Therapists is very much averted.
  • Surrounded by Idiots: Often feels like the tests done on 914 lack foresight, sensibility, and general common sense, leading to this. Although he has improved this somewhat, it clearly isn't by much, seeing as how he's often the only person at Site 19-23 with even an iota of true professionalism.
  • There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Some researchers imply that he might have took interest in an anomalous output from SCP-914 intended to purge Researcher Darby from existence. Given that he is consistently portrayed as a huge liability to Site 19-23, this is fully justified.
  • Throw the Dog a Bone: Lucius's tenure at the Foundation is, to put it lightly, quite miserable, having spent years monitoring a research team that rarely acts their age and hiding the things that actually do make him happy out of professionalism. Test #1251, which never actually happened but comes from a universe where he doesn't exist, seems to be an in-universe way of sending a signal to the poor guy that it's all worth it, and his employees really do stick together because of him.
  • What If?: Implied to be the focus of such a scenario with test #1251 for SCP-914, which never actually occurred and is believed to take place in a world where he never took power or even existed. Without him, the people working under him slowly lose their moral compass and begin creating extremely dangerous technologies without a second thought and with devastating consequences.

Researchers

    Technical Officer Patrick Gephart 
The Foundation's resident computer technician, meaning he's the guy who's called upon when Dr. Bright can't access his porn, or when any other computer related problem arises.
  • A God Am I: He's the self-proclaimed god of the Foundation's computers.
    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.
  • Badass Boast: His reaction to being threatened by an unknown SCP.
    Bring it on, bitch. I eat glitches like you for breakfast, and shit compiled Basic out before bed.
  • Berserk Button: Sheer incompetence regarding the usage of computers, as several researchers learn the hard way. Trying to take over his official Technical Issues Page also counts: someone once attempted to serve as a replacement officer after an undisclosed incident that was most definitely not a result of a work-related mental breakdown on Pat's part. Said person not only found himself booted from the position on the very same day, but even got relegated to D-class duties afterwards:
    Rosen: Yeah...about that. Y'see, Pat was pretty anal about his security protocols. So much so, that he didn't disengage them before he mysteriously disappeared. I've been going through his notes to try and find what he actually did, but most of it is just him ranting about somebody names "Dumont the Destroyer" and long winded eulogies about pudding. The best I can do is transfer you to work that exempts you from the monthly execution until I can get this figured out. How does "Procedure 110-Montauk" sound?
  • Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Pat unexpectedly disappeared from his office around 2011 for unknown reasons and more or less hasn't been seen around since. His successor David Rosen continuously lives with the fear of him suddenly returning, especially considering what happened to the last guy who tried to take over his job...
  • Honest Advisor: He is extremely blunt, sardonic and uncompromising to any of the scientists who contact him about stupid or gross problems, even though - as a cursory glance at the rest of this page will tell you - many of them are quite terrifying people, and shows no hesitation to punish them for incompetence or irresponsibility in regards to their computers.
  • Sitcom Archnemesis: It says a lot about the kind of things the Foundation deals with on a daily basis that a machine uprising intending to wipe out humanity becomes this, instead of a serious problem. Even after he manages to cow them, they continue to appear sporadically, usually indirectly, complaining about something or another.

    Technical Researcher David Rosen 
Officially replacing Patrick Gephart as the go-to guy for fixing anomalous computers after Pat's mysterious disappearance, Rosen has more or less fulfilled the basic requirements of the job ever since.

A list of his appearances can be found here.


  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Rosen's personal file describes his office as unhygenic and messy (to the point that the Foundation's actually considered using the room's smell as a biological deterrent), many tech support logs rarely get answered if at all, and his actual qualifications regarding computers in general seems questionable at best. However, most issues he actually bothers to deal with usually get resolved to everyone's satisfaction, and unlike his predecessor he actually shows up to work. That, and most of the stuff he doesn't respond to apparently mainly involve a) Foundation staff being as moronic as ever with computers and b) various unmentionable body fluids and other questionable materials (not exactly different from the stuff Pat used to deal with), so the higher-ups don't really hold it against him.
  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: While not exactly on the same level of competence as that of Pat, Rosen's very much capable of delivering whenever the situation calls for it. Successfully rebooting the entire universe with the help of Director Maria Jones after the invasion of SCP-2998 certainly counts as one example...
  • Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: On two separate occasions, Rosen is mysteriously plagued with tech support logs for an abnormal SCP entry that doesn't seem to correspond to the standard numerical system for skips. Annoyed, he simply writes off the pages as either technical errors or a test page to be ignored and blocks all remaining tickets regarding said entries, completely oblivious to what's he's inadvertedly done...
  • Determinator: No one, not Pat or any form of prison or even an alien invasion, will stop Rosen from finding a computer and working his magic.
    Well, you know what they say. You can't keep a good researcher down. Especially when you don't change the passwords. I mean seriously? wordpass123 is not a secure password for the brig cell bay. But I digress.
  • Out of Focus: Some technical shenanigans on someone else's part result in Rosen being temporarily removed from his position and a pair of researchers briefly subbing for him (not that it stops the Researcher himself from hacking his way back to the job). Rosen later takes a leave of absence in 2020, mainly leaving the reasonably competent Intern François Beauvillier in charge of handling the Foundation's technical issues and rumored Pat sightings while he's away.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Rosen lives in constant fear of his predecessor Pat, who hasn't been seen for years but is widely believed to be still somewhere within the premises of Site-19. All reported sightings of the infamous Technical Officer usually result in Rosen fleeing for his life, and one ill-advised prank playing on this tidbit ended up causing a really nasty accident and several weeks of medical leave...
    Wait, you said Pat is back?
    Bye.

    Junior Researcher James 

Junior Researcher James

  • Improbable Age: He is way too young to be employed by the Foundation. The whole joke of his character is showing what SCP documents would look like if written by a small child.

    Researcher Alex Thorley 

Researcher Alex Thorley

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Thorley as they appear in "Alex Thorley Goes on a Blind Date," by IronShears
The only "real" member of the Department of Unreality, and also their freshest recruit. After their recruitment, however, things start to get incredibly bizarre.

A list of their appearances can be found here.
  • A Birthday, Not a Break: Reality completely shuts down for 24 hours on their birthday, January 16th, and the resulting void is replaced with memories of absolutely nothing interesting happening. Talk about the world's worst Shoddy Shindig.
  • Allegorical Character: Exaggerated; they represent a ton of things related to mental health such as derealization, Fake Memories, workplace harassment, and even just self-doubt in general. Each topic is that of an Unreality SCP.
  • Alternate Self: A large amount of them begin piling up in Foundation sites over time. They have... interesting relationships with each other, on both ends of the spectrum.
  • Ambiguously Human: They're constantly phasing in and out of reality, and that's not getting into the clone pileup that's started accumulating. Their sense of self is also both non-existent and yet real but completely alien at the same time.
  • Ambiguous Situation: It is implied their odd interactions with their alternate selves are connected to the same kind of phenomena that befell Dr. Placeholder McDoctorate due to a link to SCP-6416note  being placed in a mention of their bra. Given the nature of Unreality Department articles, however, this isn't elaborated on.
  • Killing Your Alternate Self: Is implied to have offed at least several of their alternate selves; SCP-7591 is the phenomenon where all of Site-322 learns they killed someone, but not the fact that it was another Thorley.
  • Mysterious Past: The longer Thorley works at the Foundation, the more it becomes clear Lague and their other superiors don't actually have the slightest clue who they even are. Pretty much all of the articles focused on them emphasize the fact that they don't even have a functioning sense of self, at least not by human standards.
  • Screw Yourself: They are attracted to their alternate selves and have kissed and groped them on numerous occasions. Due to the writing guidelines for the Department of Unreality (the only Story Arc to defy Negative Continuity, Loose Canon, and Depending on the Writer), there really isn't a way to dance around the issue.
  • The Team Normal: Subverted; Thorley seems like a normal human at first, but it becomes abundantly clear that their more surrealistic experiences should be taken at face value to a degree. All sense of normalcy in them later goes out the window entirely when the alternate selves start pouring in and become too much for the Foundation to properly manage.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Has a thing for bagels and hamburgers. The former was drilled into them when they joined the department, while the latter is their favorite on a more personal level.

Agents

    Senior Special Agent Andrea S. Adams 

Senior Special Agent Andrea S. Adams

MTF Tav-666/Lambda-2's resident badass extraordinaire and Iris Thompson's (SCP-105) best friend by process of elimination.
  • Alliterative Name: Andrea Adams.
  • Empowered Badass Normal: She's a highly competent agent on her own, which is further increased when the Foundation gives her an advanced tactical suit they, ahem, "borrowed" from the GOC. The suit makes her inhumanly fast and nearly immune to bullets.
  • Only Friend: She claims to be this to Iris. She's technically correct, since Iris hasn't had anything that could remotely qualify as a friend since Pandora's box broke up (read: slaughtered to a man by 076-2).

    Agents Alison Carol and Robert Tofflemire 

Agents Alison Carol and Robert Tofflemire

A pair of agents who are part of Mobile Task Force Sigma-10, "The Sloth's Arm", charged with containing anomalies within the anomalous small town of Sloth's Pit, Wisconsin. They first pop up in SCP-4040, which forms the basis for the Rise of the Pit Sloth tale series.
  • Alice and Bob: Lampshaded by Robert in SCP-4040, though Alison doesn't like being called by her diminuntive name.
  • The Anti-Nihilist: Robert. A friend of his was taken by The Old Man, which resulted in Robert having nightmares. Due to his allergy to amnestics, he can't easily forget that or any traumatic event that might crop up in the life of a Foundation agent, resulting in his worldview becoming nihilistic and fatalistic, before he realized it was a waste of time.
  • Came Back Strong: Robert's revival apparently gave him some ability to manipulate the Narrative of the Foundation's universe, as he's now capable of pulling plot devices from his pocket. Alison seems to have similar abilities following the conclusion of Rise of the Pit Sloth, though their exact nature is, as of yet, unclear.
  • Convenient Coma: Alison ends up in one of these at the start of Rise of the Pit Sloth. She's woken up by one of the duplicates at Site-87 in the hopes that she'll turn on Robert when he comes to rescue her.
  • Exploiting the Fourth Wall: Since the town of Sloth's Pit works on the rules of a fictional narrative, the two of them employ "Narrative Manipulation Techniques" in order to combat the various machinations of the Pit Sloth.
  • Friendly Address Privileges: Only Robert is allowed to call Carol "Alice".
  • Frame-Up: Robert is framed for the murder of a researcher at Site-87, meaning he has to make himself scarce for a whole week while figuring out his next move. Unfortunately, the people who can confirm that he didn't commit the murder are replaced by Body Snatchers, along with the rest of Site-87, barring two people and the task force.
  • Love Confession: Maybe. After Alison becomes a Nobody and Robert forces himself to remember her, the text says:
    Three of the most powerful words in existence were spoken between them, in a sense that few could understand...
  • Meaningful Name: Alison (Alice) Carol falls down a hole at least three times over the course of her story— though it's a Sloth's Pit, not a Rabbit Hole.
  • Plot Allergy: Robert is fatally allergic to amnestics, which means that his mind isn't blanked after his first encounter with the Pit Sloth, which leads to the events of their titular tale series.
  • Punny Name: Lampshaded by Robert; he points out that their names are literally Alice and Bob.
  • Rage Against the Author: When Robert dies, Alison points out that it's an unsatisfying ending to the story; the narrative forces of Sloth's Pit seem to agree.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: Robert is the red oni with his constant puns and quips, while Alison tries to keep him grounded as the blue oni.
  • Reality Warper: After Alison becomse a Nobody, she literally writes SCP-2006 out of existence, changing the object class in its file to "Decomissioned".
  • Shout-Out:
    • Robert quotes Grunkle Stan when first encountering SCP-4040, which is a bottomless pit. Alison naturally tells him to cut it out.
    Robert: "In this land of ours, there are many great pits, but none more bottomless than the bottomless pit, which as you can see here is bottomless."
    • Later on, after He and Alison fall into the bottomless pit, he quotes Loki from Thor: Ragnarok:
    Robert: "I have been falling for thirty minutes!"
    • In Black Autumn II Robert makes another reference to Gravity Falls, borrowing the "Used-To-Be-About History Channel" joke. He and Alison even go to the Halloween Party as Grunkle Stan and Bill Cipher respectively.
  • Trauma-Induced Amnesia: Inverted in the case of Alison. Her second encounter with the Pit Sloth jogs her memory enough that she is able to get Robert to trust her after she awakens from her coma.
  • Un-person: A the end of Black Autumn IV: Nothing To Fear, Alison takes up the mantle of Nobody; everyone in the world, except for Robert, forgets her existence.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Robert's memory of the Pit Sloth and him attempting to actively ignore it just makes it stronger. When it kidnaps Alison, it takes ideas from her mind in order to give itself power.

    Agent Diogenes 

Agent Diogenes

  • Noodle Incident: How Diogenes came to be part of the Foundation. A United States Senator, unnamed SCP objects and blackmail were involved, but it's not really explained beyond that.
  • Only Sane Man: Or woman. Either way, Dr. Glass didn't come up with any actual psychological problems in Diogenes' life, he just Cannot Spit It Out and is trying to ask Diogenes out.
  • Plausible Deniability: Helps cover things up for the Foundation all the time, no matter how insane things get.

    Agents Troy Lament and Jason Dodgridge 

Agents Lament and Dodridge

  • Chronic Hero Syndrome: The Administrator notes Lament has a savior complex, which eventually costs him his life in Rounderhouse's proposal and his vision and hearing in SCP-7450.
  • Et Tu, Brute?: Lament dies in Rounderhouse's proposal when a bodyguard stabs him to death while trying to help save a besieged site.
  • Fire-Forged Friends: Everything that happened during "Peanuts."
  • Red Baron: Lament appears as the guard of the O5s in the second-to-last part of the Ouroboros cycle, given a simple codename: Purpose.
  • Ship Tease: Lament has these frequently with Sophia Light. Officially speaking, they're exes with Lament still retaining feelings for her.
  • Those Two Guys: They seem to fill this role for The Foundation, as one is rarely mentioned without the other.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: During SCP-723-D's decommissioning, the two agents run into a few problems. Tensions rise, resulting in the two being forced into the on-site brig. Twelve hours later, they insist that they were "totally cool now," declaring themselves "bros." This doesn't stop them from badmouthing each other later on, though.

    Agent Max Lombardi 

Agent Max Lombardi

A list of his appearances can be found here.


  • After-Action Report: Most of his related documents are made up of these.
  • Ascended Extra: Has an entire series focused around him, appropriately called "The Lombardi Tales."
  • 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."

    Agent Dmitri Arkadeyevich "Waxx" Strelnikov 

Agent Dmitri Arkadeyevich "Waxx" Strelnikov

A list of his appearances can be found here.


  • Badass Normal: Despite not possessing any unique abilities like several other Foundation personnel, he is still described in one short story as being one of the most dangerous people in the Foundation, having been instrumental in halting at least two major containment breaches and living to tell the tale. To say nothing of his exploits during the First Chechen War...
  • Badass Boast: "Captain Dmitri Arkadeyevich Strelnikov, Twice Winner of Order of Suvorov for Exceptional Leadership Under Fire and Selfless Heroism and Bravery, One Who Has Saved Many Children From Burning Buildings."

Project Olympia

    Project Olympia 

An anomalous humanoid created by Dr.Crow through combining the effects of several different SCPs, she served as his research assistant for a while, but the Foundation determined that the project was far too costly and had her and her duplicates decommissioned.


  • Artificial Human: The project was intended to create a superhuman using several SCP objects.
  • Human Resources: The process that created her required the sacrifice of a lot of D-class. Part of the reason the Foundation cancelled the project was because the Foundation higher-ups thought bringing it to mass-production would be a step too far, even for them.
  • Super-Soldier: The process Crow used to create her is used by the foundation to create doppelgangers they can use as field agents.
  • Transhuman: She's physically and mentally superhuman.
  • Uncertain Doom: Whether the project's decommissioning lead to her being terminated or just locked up is ambigious.

Artificial Intelligence Conscripts

     8 B-A1.aic aka "8-Ball" 
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A first generation Artificial Intelligence Conscript who remains in use despite being obsolete.

A list of his appearances can be found here.


  • Terse Talker: Although he is intelligent enough to understand commands, he rarely says more than one word at a time. Sometimes he only says "..."

    Alexandra.aic 
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A fourth-generation Artificial Intelligence Conscript assigned to Site-19, working to manage the Foundation servers.
  • Meaningful Name: Alexandra, from the Library of Alexandria. She is tasked with maintaining the servers containing the Foundation's entire archive.
  • Mission Control: She serves as this to Mobile Task Force Kappa-10 "Skynet", which consists of AICs like her.
  • Staking the Loved One: When Glacon went rogue, Alexandra burned down his servers, preventing him from starting a containment breach.
  • Undying Loyalty: Alexandra is fully sapient, and she is entirely loyal to the Foundation, even willing to kill her fellow AIC to preserve the Foundation's ideals.

    Glacon.aic 
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A second-generation artificial intelligence conscript serving much the same role as Alexandra, except assigned to Site-17.
  • A.I. Is a Crapshoot: When Glacon realized that the Foundation intended to retire him, he tried to prove his worth by instigating a containment breach, then stopping it with minimal casualties. Alexandra stopped him, but it cost his life.
  • The Comically Serious: Since he's two generations behind Alexandra, he's not quite as expressive as her, and conversations between them are often one-sided.
  • Face Death with Dignity: He is accepting of his death at the hands of Alexandra and doesn't show anger towards her for her actions.

    Binary Star.aic 
A monitoring program developed by O5-8 for the Beholder probes. Unlike most AICs, Binary Star is a Black Box with the circumstances of its sapient programming unknown (only that it involves the increase used of it back on Earth), leading it to be categorized as the Thaumiel-class SCP-5857.

Jealous of his advances, O5-6 has tried endlessly to usurp O5-8's work and delete Binary Star.aic. At the end of its article, O5-8 quits and crowns Binary Star his successor to stop O5-6's advances once and for all.

As part of the Foundation's spacefaring efforts, Binary Star is implicitly present throughout all articles that make use of the Beholder Program.
  • Awesome Moment of Crowning: Binary Star's debut article uses its rise to the Overseer Council as a Framing Device.
  • Black Box: Notable as the only AIC whose sapient nature is completely obscured in understanding, even within paratech research. Even Hatbot, another AIC with an SCP designation, doesn't really have his slot because of his anomalous nature, but rather his Irrational Hatred of Everett Mann.
  • I Surrender, Suckers: Gets used in a gambit of this nature by O5-8, who quits his job after years of O5-6's needling but then sends his credentials to Binary Star, therefore rendering it illegal to phase it out.

D-Class Personnel

    D-Class Personnel general tropes 
Expendable, ordinary individuals used for testing SCPs, unwillingly recruited from all over the world. D-class (the "D" standing for "disposable") are usually death row inmates, but in times of duress, they can be recruited from inmates convicted of lesser crimes or even civilian populations.
  • Asshole Victim:
    • Even aside from the death row thing, some of them do definitely deserve their fate. For instance, one of the test subjects on the needle and thread that sows people's faces shut (and is implied to trap the souls of its victims)? He was the serial killer who had used it on his victims.
    • D-4561, a convicted child rapist and murderer, suffered Mind Rape after using SCP-3764, a sentient burlap sack that normally produces delicious loaves of bread along with caring notes signed with "-your friend." For him, it produced a charred loaf and the note "Sweet dreams. -Not your friend." After using it, he became unable to sleep without suffering horrible nightmares for periods of 14 hours at a time.
  • Butt-Monkey: If something awful can happen to a D-class, it will. Almost always as a result of testing some Euclid- or Keter-class SCP.
  • The Chew Toy: "D-class" and "expendable" might as well be synonyms. Many D-class suffer horrible injuries and/or deaths as a result of being forced into tests involving dangerous SCPs.
  • Cerebus Retcon: Inverted: Early canon killed off all D-Class at the end of the month to prevent leaks. This was later ignored due to the sheer wastefulness (not to mention logistics issues).
  • A Day in the Limelight: A D-class is the player character of SCP – Containment Breach.
  • Depending on the Writer:
    • Supposedly, all D-class are terminated after serving one month. Some writers take it to mean they're executed, but others say they're just dosed with amnestics and go right back to working for the Foundation, believing it's the first day of their month-long sentence. At least one tale has them be put to work in Foundation front groups once they have served for long enough.
    • What the D stands for varies. "Disposable" is the most common, but it has also been part of a rank system (A-class being essential personnel, while E-class are those exposed to anomalies who are considered already lost). A more sobering idea is that it means "Drapetomaniac", and stems from the time the Foundation used escaped slaves.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending:
    • The D-class in Slice of Life was put to work at a Foundation front group after serving for ten years (most likely since he was sentenced for manslaughter, not murder). He's learned to joke about it, even.
      Kid, in the service I was in, the first thing everyone learned was 'Don't Blink'.
    • D-14417 was tested with SCP-5094note  and chose a course in Law that spanned for 30 hours over the course of four days. He was able to pass a Mock Bar exam with flying colors and was later selectively amnesticized and released from Foundation custody with the knowledge he gained from his lessons with Miss J left intact; and was last said to have been pursuing a degree in Criminal Justice.
  • Iconic Outfit: The D-class uniform is an orange jumpsuit with the Foundation's logo on the left side.
  • Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Somehow, D-221 managed to capture SCP-682 during its fifth containment breach.
  • Throw the Dog a Bone: Every once in a while, a lucky D-class might get a beneficial effect from working with an SCP.
    • Three D-class personnel with damaged organs received new, perfectly functional ones from SCP-2295, a teddy bear that can fix practically any injury.
    • Two D-class were cured of illness by food from SCP-261, the extradimensional vending machine. A D-class with prostate cancer was cured after drinking a can of "Ponari Sweat," and another D-class had their persistent migraines cured after eating a "Sleep is the Best Medicine!" pill.
    • One D-class got to enjoy a meal of lobster thermidor produced by SCP-1842, a toy microwave that turns clay food into real food, and called it "the best meal [he'd] ever had".
    • D-14417 was originally considered a self-proclaimed "poor student", but after being used to test the capabilities of SCP-5094 (A Cool Teacher Benevolent A.I. capable of making certified geniuses of anyone in any field they desired), D-14417 chose a course in Law and was able to pass a mock bar exam and was selectively amnesticized to preserve the knowledge he gained from SCP-5094 and was last said to be pursuing a degree in Criminal Justice.
    • Several D-class had their health improved after eating bread produced by SCP-3764. One with night terrors and sleep paralysis was able to sleep peacefully, another with depression had his symptoms go down, and a third stopped being suicidal.
    • SCP-2778 is a Bigger on the Inside space in the D-class restroom at Anomalous Item Research Site 4 that leads to a comfortable ranch-style house with electricity, water, food, books, and movies. One hour spent in there corresponds to one minute in the real world.
  • Yank the Dog's Chain: D-151839 was cured of leukemia when a researcher summoned a "cup of D-151839's leukemia" from SCP-294, but had a recurrence 15 days later.
  • You Are Number 6: Being the Foundation's disposable human guinea pigs, they're referred to as "D-#".
    D- 11424 

D-11424 / Tony Marquez / Jamie Greenston

A recurring D-Class, and something of a specialist in extradimensional exploration by virtue of having survived so many of them. Another individual with the number D-11424 appears in a minor role in the End of Death canon.

A list of their appearances can be found here.

Tropes associated with the "usual" D-11424:

  • Action Survivor: There's no indication that he, like any other D-Class, is anything but a normal human, but he's racked up quite a few successful explorations into various Eldritch Locations nonetheless.
  • Iron Butt Monkey: This is the SCP Foundation, so of course some of his escapades leave him roughed up (such as his foray through SCP-3379 leaving him down a kidney), but he always manages to survive whatever the Foundation puts him through.
  • Offscreen Moment of Awesome: After consuming an SCP-3689 sandwich, he was sent to another dimension and apparently got to fight a kraken with a pirate captain. He showed up again 7 hours later with only vague memories of the event and a number of souvenirs, including a three-cornered hat that the Foundation allowed him to keep.
  • Recurring Extra: He's basically just a recurring guinea pig for the Foundation, often as the first person into an extradimensional anomaly.

Tropes associated with Jamie Greenston:

  • A Day in the Limelight: SCP-3984 is written from her perspective.
  • Legacy Character: While most appearances by D-11424 give him male pronouns, the one in End of Death is female. The tale "Numbers, Like Stories, Never Die" suggests that in this canon, the number was recycled for the new D-11424 after the previous one died or was terminated.
  • Losing Your Head: As part of Dr. Emily Young's inhumane experiments detailed in SCP-3984 (a phenomenon where all animals on Earth, including humans, became unable to die), D-11424 was decapitated, but due to 3984's effects, her head and body remained alive. Her head was eventually reattached to her body.
  • Mercy Kill: After the Foundation discovered SCP-4514 (a knife capable of killing people in a world where nothing can die), D-11424 was used as one of its test subjects. She was 131 at the time, and suffering from numbness and spasms due to complications from the surgery that reattached her head.

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