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Mankind must not go back to hiding in fear. No one else will protect us, we must stand up for ourselves. While the rest of mankind dwell in the light, we must stand in the darkness to combat it, contain it, and shield it from the eyes of the public, so that others may live in a sane, normal world.
We secure. We contain. We protect.
"The Administrator", About the SCP Organization

Item #: SCP-4445

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: Security of these data has been compromised, rendering further secrecy counter-productive. In accordance with Information Security Protocol 008-C-1 ("Class C breach") and the recommendation of General Bowe, our current orders are to allow all but the most sensitive data to remain freely available. The nature of these data insures that few will question the official cover story: that these data are short works of fiction originating from the image board "4chan" and uploaded to a publicly edited website (i.e. a "wiki"): here.

Description: SCP-4445 is the incomplete archives of the SCP Foundation, a secret, global organization which exists to study, catalogue, and contain SCP Objects: artifacts and "items which jeopardize normalcy". These range from humans with strange powers, to creatures of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin, to objects causing unexplainable phenomena, to [DATA EXPUNGED]. All of them represent clear threats to human normalcy, human society, human sanity, human lives, or quite simply the universe at large.

Of course, the nature of SCP Objects means that those who contain and study them must possess certain qualities: keen intelligence, a clinical outlook, and complete ruthlessness. The stakes are far too high to allow concerns like morality or the loss of human lives to interfere...


Addendum 4445-01: For specific SCP items, please see the list.


Addendum 4445-02: SCP-4445 provides examples of:

  • An Aesop: SCP-505
  • After Action Report
  • Alien Geometries
  • And I Must Scream (The fate of SCP-439 infectees)
    • Also, SCP-762, an iron maiden that keeps anyone trapped in it alive indefinitely.
    • Implied fate if you look into the eyes of an SCP-531.
  • Animorphism: SCP-801
  • Apocalyptic Log: several of the personal logs and mission reports
  • Artifact Of Doom: many
  • Attempted Rape: Doctor Bishop attempting to rape SCP-808.
  • Ave Machina: The Church of the Broken God, one of the organisations that opposes the SCP.
    • Also inverted with SCP-808, the Machines' God.
  • Badass Normal: Most competent foundation personnel
  • Bag Of Holding: SCP-695
  • Battle In The Center Of The Mind: The Medium. Literally.
  • Berserk Button: SCP-076-2-'s exposure to a picture of the symbol on SCP-073's forehead. 682's exposure to Earth life...
  • Black Box
  • Blob Monster: SCP-1007, SCP-861, SCP-171, SCP-1011...
  • Blood Knight: SCP-076-2 (Able)
  • Body Horror: Too many to list
  • Body Surf: Dr. Bright via SCP-963.
  • Boxed Crook: Class D Personnel.
  • Brown Note: Anything tagged as "memetic hazard". (SCP-701, for instance, is a play the performance of which causes the manifestation of a humanoid wrapped in bandages, prompting the actors (and most of the audience) to kill themselves.) The foundation even managed to replicate their effects:
    WARNING: ANY NON-AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ACCESSING THIS FILE WILL BE IMMEDIATELY TERMINATED THROUGH BERRYMAN-LANGFORD MEMETIC KILL AGENT. ONLY AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL SHALL BE INNOCULATED FROM SAID MEMETIC KILL AGENT. SCROLLING DOWN WITHOUT PROPER INNOCULATION WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE CARDIAC ARREST FOLLOWED BY DEATH.
    • To an extent, of course. The picture won't actually kill you, but staring at it for too long might make you kind of dizzy.
    • Actually, they took it from the future. Don't ask how they got it, but they did.
  • Bunny Ears Lawyer: Just about all the scientific personnel, in one way or another.
    • Compared to the others, the real Bunny Ears Lawyer is Dr. Glass. He's probably the only one with anything resembling normal human emotions and morals.
  • Cain And Abel: The original pair. Interestingly, Able is an immortal Blood Knight searching for a Worthy Opponent (or maybe something that can kill him permanently), while Cain is a nice and helpful Walking Wasteland (towards plants - he even makes plant products rot away) with Photographic Memory and a lot of metal parts who reflects all harm done to him.
  • Cameo: A couple of the joke SCPs - and a few of the regular ones as well.
  • Cannon Fodder / Red Shirt: Dying is literally in the job description of Class D Personnel. It can get quite blatant; for instance SCP-120 notes that a moon base was constructed after expending "vast amounts of money and D-personnel".
  • Chainsaw Good / This Is A Drill: After Able started working for the Foundation, some changes were observed in his endless supply of hack-slash-stabbity-chop-chop implements:
    Addendum 076-08: As of 08/11/????, SCP-076-2's weapons have become noticeably different, being constructed of an unknown dull, dark brown metal, the items mechanical in design and nature, rather than traditionalist iron forged items. Rotating blades, chain edges, and drills are often present on subject's weaponry, powered and operated by unknown sources. It is unknown as to what prompted this change, and SCP-076-2 again refuses to divulge any information regarding it, stating only "Your people have created such odd blades. I thought I might see how they worked."
  • Chess Motifs: SCP-177 communicates entirely in these, in a more direct manner than usual: it's literally a sentient, animate chessboard, and the only way it can communicate is by moving its pieces around. A good example of this can be seen in "Wanderlust."
  • Combo Platter Powers: Allowing for humanoid SCPs has resulted in many a Mary Sue being listed. These are generally deleted within time, but the notoriously bad ones are decomissioned: they remain in the series' canon as past SCPs and given elaborate destruction sequences.
  • Condemned Contestant: D-Class personnel.
  • Cosmic Horror
  • Crowning Moment Of Awesome: Mostly in the Foundation Tales and Incident Reports sections, especially Incident 239-b.
  • Crowning Moment Of Funny: Surprisingly, for a site that's determined to leave you terrified, there's quite a lot.
  • Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming: SCP-682's introduction to SCP-053. This troper (who feels a little sorry for 682 despite its homicidal tendencies, considering all the crap they put it through attempting to get rid of it) pretty much had a complete ten-minute breakdown from dangerous levels of awwwwwww.... That is, until they come to put it back in its containment area...
    • Also, SCP-368.
    • Also, SCP-085 aka "Cassy", a sweet, friendly girl who lives as a drawing and can interact with anything drawn in the page. In a foundation filled with stuff literally hell-bent on destroying all humans, SCP-085 comes across as one of the most heartwarming objects.
      • Someone asked SCP-294 to produce "something Cassy will like". It dispensed an empty cup with a drawing of a glass with a brown liquid in it. The drawing was given to Cassy, who identified it as a chocolate banana milkshake, and said that it was "delicious". YMMV, but to this troper, it's incredibly endearing.
    • Something similar happens to SCP-208, a man who literally radiates an aura of friendliness.
  • Cuteness Proximity: Pufferkittens. WARNING: Classified Euclid on account of having enough d'aaaaaaw to disrupt normal staff activities.
  • Deconstruction: Of Urban Fantasy in general.
  • Driven To Suicide: Commonly happens among Researchers, Agents, and D-Class personnel.
  • Dropped A Bridge On Him: The fate of any SCP Object which crosses The Able Line (see Marty Stu, below).
  • Eldritch Abomination
  • Elemental Powers: SCP-776 and others
  • The End Of The World As We Know It: a distressingly large number of SCP objects can cause this.
    • Here are just a few: SCP-008 can cause a Zombie Apocalypse. SCP-808 could have caused a Robot War in some combination with SCP-217, SCP-155, and SCP-067. SCP-682 is an Omnicidal Maniac that can't be killed by any known means and rapidly adapts new abilities in response to anything it's introduced to — more than one End of the World scenario involves it getting its hands on something that eliminates its ability to be temporarily incapacitated through massive injury. SCP-217, and SCP-253 are The Virus. One possible SCP-001 can cause a good old fashioned Biblical apocalypse, in possible conjuction with SCP-995 and SCP-616. SCP-231-7 is strongly believed to potentially bring one of these about if the Fetus Terrible inside her is born, which means that she must be constantly and violently [DATA EXPUNGED]. SCP-093 operates as a gateway into a parallel world After The End - with the implication that the threat that destroyed that world could make its way into other universes.
    • Also, anything that can cause an XK-class End-of-the-World scenario, such as the speculation involving Dr. Clef's proposed SCP-001 moving, in confluence with a breach in SCP-995 and the opening of SCP-616.
      • Not just those. There's at least one other K-class, the CK-class Restructuring scenario, which is mentioned by Dr. Clef in relation to SCP-239. It doesn't end the world outright, but the world is so different that it might as well be gone. Also terrifying is the fact that there are probably several other K-class scenarios... Let's hope they involve pufferkittens.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Every once in a while members of the Foundation demonstrate that there are a very few lines they will not cross, at least not without very good reason. Examples include the researcher with an obsession with exposing children to SCP-682 mysteriously ending up in its containment cell himself.
    • Human experimentation with SCP-439 was immediately terminated on discovering that its victims remain alive and possibly conscious.
    • Well summed up with a particularly pointless and unpleasant experiment proposed for SCP-505, when the reason for the proposal being rejected was simply "There is a limit to what I will allow in the name of science.".
    • SCP-231's page indicates that the Foundation is terribly, terribly guilt-ridden about it, and more than once have had to deal with agents who have tried to rescue the girls. It's also worth pointing out that any D-class personnel who tries to "prolong" Procedure 110-Montauk is immediately executed.
    • Dr. Clef introduced a guest researcher to SCP-682. Why? He had introduced two children to it, one of whom was drugged, neither of whom survived, and planned on continuing.
      • A common misconception. His real objection is that both experiments basically produced no usable data. He didn't seem to have any objection to the 053 experiment.
      • Which does not explain why Clef calls him sick.
      • Also, it probably doesn't hurt that "SCP-053 will regenerate almost instantaneously from any wound, regardless of severity." So he wouldn't have needed to worry about her being killed.
  • Evil Phone: SCP-145, SCP-989, SCP-400, SCP-867, SCP-519
  • Exactly What It Says On The Tin: SCP-283 is a rock falling sideways. Period.
  • Expospeak Gag: Experiment Log 914 describes one of the researchers as developing "a sudden acute epistaxis" after discovering that a Rockman.EXE cartridge had turned into a Rockman.EXE H-doujin.
  • Extranormal Institute: Any of the foundation's various sites.
  • Extreme Omnivore: SCP-524; and SCP-101, which is used as a refuse disposal unit
  • Eye Scream: Various (e.g. SCP-525)
  • Face Full Of Alien Wing Wong: SCP-835, SCP-562, SCP-600
  • Fan Fic: SCP-732 is a "plague on records" that, in-universe, contaminates records files and turns them into bad fan fiction, frequently of the Mary-Sue variety.
    A recent breach in SCP-!@#i'manorphanwithnofamilybutlotsofmoneybwahahahaha!@'s containment, which should have warranted the simple and safe procedure of [DATA EXPUNGED], -somehow- led to the deployment of Mobile Task Force Omega-7. SCP-076%^^kicked abel's ass and now he's my bestestestfirend evar!!@# was quite displeased when he found that the "elfin death god" he was sent to contain was not a death god of any sort at all. Quite displeased. $$onadatewithSCP-808!%^
  • Fan Service: Several personnel requested SCP-808 and SCP-105 hook up, so to speak. They were threatened with cleanup for SCP-682.
  • Formulaic Magic: SCP-033.
  • Four Is Death: The mean number of wings for Dr. Clef's proposed SCP-001 has been noted to be 4.
  • Gaiden Game: The Global Occult Coalition wiki is in the works, with the GOC focusing more on destruction of SCP candidate objects than studying them.
  • Gargle Blaster - SCP-294 can make quite a few.
  • General Ripper: General Bowe, who has attempted to weaponise both the Doves of the Peace and, by implication, the pufferkittens.
  • Giant Spider: SCP-694
  • God: SCP-343
  • Go Mad From The Revelation: Just count the number of times "mandatory psychiatric evaluation" appears or some similar phrase.
  • Happy Fun Ball: the scp-producing toy chest, killer vibrator, among others...
  • Hellgate: SCP-354, SCP-616
  • He Who Fights Monsters: A serious concern, especially in the case of SCP-231.
  • Hikikomori: SCP-237
  • Historical In Joke
  • High Octane Nightmare Fuel: Like saying that grass is green.
    • For in-universe sufferers of Nightmare Fuel, we have poor SCP-507, who involuntarily jumps in between alternate realities. These alternate realities run the gamut of this one and one of many horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible places. The examples given on 507's page are:
      • Someplace perfectly dark, with the sound of breathing very close by. After that he asked if he could carry a flashlight at all times.
      • Someplace with moldy corpses all over the ground. Wait, did I say corpses? Because they were breathing.
      • "So many spiders."
      • The dark place again. The flashlight revealed the breathing to be a man leaning into 507's face so close as to almost be touching him. He had a black suit, black shades, and a Slasher Smile. "Back so soon?"
    • The After Action Report for SCP-835...there's a reason some data ought to remain expunged...
    • Presumably, Procedure 110-Montauk.
  • High Turnover Rate: Not content with having PLENTY of Red Shirts, it is standard procedure to terminate them after a month.
  • I Did What I Had To Do: Practically every article is an example of this. Among the most stark and disturbing examples are the fates of SCP-231-2 to SCP-231-7. It got to the point where one security guard was angry enough to try and get SCP-231-4 out of the facility and still causes controversy to this day.
  • IKEA Porn: Played creepily in the SCP-217 fic "Union."
  • Indy Ploy: Dr. Kondraki is a master of this. When assigned the termination of a highly dangerous insufficiently different vampire SCP ... well:
    Interviewer: I have here a copy of Dr. Kondraki's termination procedure proposal. Step one in his plan to use cat urine and a pistol loaded with silver bullets. Backup plans two, three, four, and five are listed as, and I quote, 'Wing It,' 'Make Something Up,' 'Cross That Bridge When I Come To It,' and 'Put My Head Between My Knees And Kiss My Ass Goodbye.'
    Clef: [EXPLETIVE REDACTED]
    • One of his colleagues even describes him as, "A master of the Indy Ploy."
  • Insufferable Genius: Dr. Bright. Worse, his genius is an Informed Ability that can only be inferred from the fact that he's still alive and SCP-963 is not locked in a safe.
  • Immune To Bullets: Various, but especially notable is SCP-357, who's immune only to bullets.
  • Incredibly Lame Pun: SCP-504 is a species of tomato that hurls itself at people and recordings making poor attempts at humor. The lamer the pun, the faster the hurl.
    Spoken: "So, I was going to bed, and my brother told me, 'Goodnight! Don't let the bedbugs stick their proboscis in your skin and suck your blood!'" *pause* "Good luck on a healthy dermis!"
    Result: Two-second pause before activity. Tomato clocked at [REDACTED]. Sound barrier broken. Subject killed.
  • Katanas Are Just Better: Subverted with SCP-572, a badly crafted, blunt, and poorly balanced katana that makes its wielder suicidally convinced of the superiority of the sword and their abilities with it.
  • Kick The Dog: The Foundation does more than a few things that are, simply put, quite horrible. Whether they're examples of this or simply tragic-but-neccessary is up to the individual.
  • Killer Robot: SCP-228 — what SCP-808 would have become after a Robot War in an alternate timeline.. Also Hatbot.
  • Laser Guided Amnesia: Class A Amnesiacs
    • Brutally deconstructed/subverted in "A Man at the top of his Profession". Turns out Class B and C work for recent memories. Class A is just a sedative so the subject can be taken to a secure location and psychologically traumatized until they block out what they saw.
      • "A Man at the top of his Profession" has been mostly rejected as canon, according to comments from the mods on the discussion page. After all, if the Foundation couldn't just erase memories, they'd kill the witnesses, not waste time and resources on horrific torture. They've done so before on several occasions. At most, it might, emphasis on might, have been a policy in the distant past, as indicated by the year in which the story takes place.
  • Lets Meet The Meat: SCP-261's "Eetmees."
  • Living Shadow: SCP-017, SCP-122-1
  • Living Statue: SCP-011, SCP-264, scp 234, SCP-173, scp 689, scp 359, SCP-531
    • The Foundation has so many statues, they could probably make a statue garden. A very, very dangerous statue garden.
  • Lost In Transmission: Otherwise humanity might be exposed to [DATA EXPUNGED] with the plunger.
  • Mad Artist: various SCP are closely related
  • Mad Doctor: SCP-212, SCP-542
  • Made Of Indestructium: The vast majority of inanimate objects are indestructible, to justify the Foundation locking up the dangerous items instead of just tossing them in an incinerator for the good of mankind. In fact, plenty of "safe" objects are also indestructible, including SCP-458, the never-ending pizza box, which has proven impervious to various attempts at destroying it. Yes, they actually tried to destroy a magical box that instantly and inexhaustibly conjures up the favorite pizza of anyone who touches it.
  • Magic Mirror: SCP-554, SCP-242, SCP-093, SCP-575, SCP-543, SCP-901
  • Magnificent Bastard: Dr. Clef
  • Man Of Wealth And Taste: Clef actually uses this line to introduce himself to a Reality Warper he's about to kill. Considering almost everyone in the Foundation finds him uncouth and disgusting, he was probably just being wry considering certain...implications about his nature.
  • Marty Stu: parodied by SCP-10101.
    • Averted with SCP-076-2. Despite being (some argue) overpowered and (everyone agrees) a total badass, Able is not written as likeable in any way, is not always victorious, is not the center of attention, and is not (thankfully, or there'd be a lot of badfic) capable of forming relationships. The wiki has an unofficial Mary-Sueness threshold called "The Able Line"—if a humanoid SCP is more of a superherobeing than Able, it probably sucks.
      • Not entirely true on the relationship bit, what with Saint and all.
      • 182's "relationship" with 076-2 is...iffy. Word Of God is that Saint is in love with Able, and keeps bothering him with his weird mind powers like some crazy psychic stalker. Able, on the other hand, is pissed because people are talking to him with telepathic powers and won't shut up.
    • Deconstructed with SCP-056, a being that changes its form to always be better than everyone/everything else present — among dogs, it appears as a bigger/fancier/better-groomed dog; given an IQ test, it scores 30 points higher than the smartest person in the room; in a gym, it can always lift 30 lbs more than the strongest person in the room; with no one present, it'll focus on the surveillance camera and turn into a better one. Anyone talking to it for too long usually ends up violently hating it. Its incredible narcissism doesn't help.
  • Mental Time Travel: Foundation member The Fishmonger, a.k.a. "Observer Zero" a.k.a. FO0 was apparently an agent of some kind of time traveling organization, sent back in time to his younger self's body to delay the development of GPS just a bit as part of a temporal war between his organization and several other factions. He got distracted by a girl (who was herself a mental time traveler ordered to distract him by one of the other factions, who threatened to erase her brother from the timeline), resulting in his faction ceasing to exist and thus not pulling him back. He went on to ... well just read the Wanderlust series of Foundation Tales.
  • The Messiah: At the end of Wanderlust, SCP-808. If SCP-239 believes someone is good, then they will be because she's a reality warper (and maybe, just maybe, literally The Messiah, as in God).
    • SCP-343 is omnipotent and claims to be God. He's also mischevious and people like him a lot, though he's pissed off a doctor by deleting his orders.
  • Mix And Match Critters: SCP-569, SCP-517, SCP-136 can create them
  • Moral Event Horizon:
    "SCP-590 is not to be named as anything other then Five Ninety. He is a tool to be used, not someone's friend, sibling, or child."
    • The worst part is that he is someone's sibling. Read Dr. Bright's Personnel File. Yeah.
    • Their dealings with 352 are more worrying. 352 is Baba Yaga; carnivorous, strong, fast, tough, fond of human flesh, and rated Keter for her aggression. It's been discovered that while she likes humanflesh, she prefers the flesh of young infants. They are considering altering her diet to accommodate this fact.
  • Multiple Choice Past: Dr. Clef gets at least one new origin every time he's in a story. Previous claims have included Satan, Adam, and a Reality Warper who blew up the space shuttle Challenger in childhood by casually wondering what would happen, all in the same story.
    • Notable in that these are all relayed by Clef himself, who is a self-admitted liar.
    • Also the case with SCP-001. There are several articles with that number. None of them may be true, some of them may be decoys for the real SCP-001, or all of them may be true.
  • Mundane Utility: So many.
    "It has come to the attention of the higher level personnel that someone has been stealing SCP-283 for use as a paperweight."
    "It has come to my attention that several personnel have used SCP-041 as a ad-hoc 'she likes me/she likes me not' detector. This is one of the most appalling things I've ever heard. Are we safeguarding potentially world-destroying objects or are we in third grade?"
    "I would like to remind all personnel that SCP-038 is not, I repeat, not a toy. It should not be used for cloning car keys, movies, music or items from the vending machines."
    If I see you one more time using SCP-105 as a device to punch or stab people over the Internet, I will personally make sure you spend the rest of your days at SCP in Keter duty. (mind you SCP-670 would arguably do a better job.)
    Note to all male staff: any attempts to place genitalia in the small end [of SCP-786] will result in termination and loss of employment. — Dr. Clef
    Note from Dr. Klein— SCP personnel below Level 3 are now banned from handling SCP-500. This is not to be used to cure a hangover. Get AIDS and then ask permission.
    I know SCP-503 is saving us a fortune in food costs, but seriously, can we actually have a menu that doesn't have pasta in it? I'm already starting to get sick of the stuff!
    • Sometimes the organization actually does it themselves, like moving SCP-294 to the break room to save money on drinks  *.
  • Murder Is The Best Solution: Distressingly common, and considering what the Foundation deals with, distressingly justified. The Foundation takes no chances.
  • Murderous Mannequin: This.
  • Names To Run Away From Really Fast: A group calling itself "The Chaos Insurgency" cannot possibly be up to any good.
  • Nanomachines: SCP-204-1, SCP-784, SCP-434(technically picotech)
  • Nausea Fuel : Your imagination filling in the details for the DATA EXPUNGED bits on the really creepy SC Ps.
    • The uncensored report for SCP-835 also qualifies. Urghh...
      • SCP-835 has got nothing, nothing on SCP-610.
  • Necessarily Evil: The SCP Foundation recognizes that it does very bad things, for the greater good of humanity.
  • Never Heard That One Before: SCP-294 can take any liquid (or anything that can become a liquid) within its unknown range and pour it into a plastic cup. One request was so common that it lead to a special note:
    **Addendum [SCP-294ad]: ** In order to stem the daily tide of attempts, it is now officially noted that keying in "two girls" gives the standard "OUT OF RANGE" error message. Come up with something more original next time.
  • Nightmare Retardant: Joke SCPs.
    • Humorous "Added notes" regarding why the Doctors are no longer able to do so-and-so (often with commentary along the lines of "seriously, what the hell people") can lighten up otherwise dark articles.
  • No Kill Like Overkill: SCP-788 Experiment Log:
    Subject: D-37123
    Date: ██/██/20██
    Weapon: RPG-29, loaded with a 105mm HEAT round
    Procedure: One sheet of SCP-788 was set up at a range of 50 meters. Subject instructed to fire the weapon at the target.
    Result: [DATA EXPUNGED]
  • No Name Given: The O5. Most of the time, even their identification numbers are blanked out.
  • No OSHA Compliance: Played completely straight. Not only are the prison-recruited D-class personnel regularly treated to definitely unethical and probably lethal experimentation, they are often done so in cases where little useful information is likely to result, and are often subjected to the machinations of some of the more diabolical SC Ps purely for the amusement of the ranking research staff. On the other hand, anyone who works at the Foundation willingly is expected to follow reasonable safety procedures, although considering the nature of some SC Ps they still have a short life expectancy.
  • Noodle Incident: Every single time you see "[DATA EXPUNGED]" or "[REDACTED]"; it seems like the whole idea is to have at least one such incident per SCP. The unspecified reason for never letting SCP-447 come into contact with dead bodies (seriously, DON'T!) is especially noodly and is occasionally referred to elsewhere (as seen below, it scares O5-2 shitless).
  • Number Of The Beast: Both played straight and subverted, with SCP-616 being a Hell Gate, but SCP-666 is a hut causes hallucinations in anyone who has used drugs (specifically, the hallucinations are those of places they've done drugs in - example: caffine addicts find themselves at a coffee shop)
  • Offscreen Teleportation: Several, like SCP-173 and SCP-689
  • Ominous Fog: SCP 416, the former SCP-106 [1]
  • One Hundred And Eight: The highest number of wings observed on Dr. Clef's proposed SCP-001.
    • Also, the sum of the time of death (hours + minutes + seconds) for all the holders of SCP-843.
  • Organic Technology: SCP-747, SCP-127, SCP-003, SCP-605
  • Oubliette
  • Paranoia Fuel — Aside from the obvious, Class D personnel can be recruited from the general population if they run out of condemned prisoners. It is, of course, still debated.
    • SCP-112 is an Artifact Of Doom activated in the presence of any non-virgin or non-castrated person. And it has been stolen by Muslim terrorists.
  • Person Of Mass Destruction — Pretty much every human housed by the Foundation (and maybe the researchers).
  • Phlebotinum Breakdown: SCP-447. It can purify water, it tastes great, increases your fuel economy by 150%, can make your NES output an HDMI signal, turns regular milk into lactose-free milk and can make concrete harder... but please, puh-leeze, do NOT let it touch a dead body. Others are easy to find out: SCP-427 will heal you before turning you into a Blob Monster.
  • Reality Warper: Several SC Ps display varying degrees of Reality Warper abilities. SCP-239 is a Suzumiya Haruhi level one.
    • Ironically, some of the decommissioned SC Ps were terminated for being reality warpers that essentially blackmail the Foundation: "Give me what I want or I'll run wild." (The alternative OOC reason being quality control to get rid of Mary Sues.)
  • Rewriting Reality: SCP-871, SCP-255
  • Room101: SCP-100
    • This is also possibly a subversion of the obvious reference, since the actual SCP-101 is relatively tame: it's a bag which eats things and is apparently mostly used for trash disposal.
  • Running Gag: [DATA EXPUNGED]
    • On a not so funny note, that may be to KEEP you from gagging.
    • The constant warning that SCP-447-2 should be kept away from dead bodies.
    • There's also how the discovery of any SCP being potentially lethal inevitably leads to someone wondering if it could be used to kill SCP-682.
  • Scrapbook Story
  • Sealed Evil In A Can: SCP-076-1, amongst others, is one such can. It contained SCP-076-2, but it was a very leaky can, and when SCP-076-2 started working for the Foundation, it became little more that 076-2's respawn point.
    • SCP-231 is an interesting case, as the SCP is the can that the evil is sealed inside. And the Foundation will do whatever it takes to keep said evil sealed up.
    • You did not just make that pun.
  • Series Mascot: SCP-682 appears to have assumed this role, as witnessed by the protests on the site forums whenever anyone suggests killing it off for good. SCP-808 or SCP-076 may also qualify, depending on whether you prefer your mascots scary, cute or badass. The original one was SCP-173.
  • Serious Business: Deconstructed with SCP-514, a flock of doves that neutralizes all weapons and violent urges within 500 meters. The mobile task force assigned to monitor it and keep it out of enemy hands must therefor be proficient in many other ways of settling disputes - rock-paper-scissors, for example. Or children's card games.
    05-??: Are you serious? The fate of one of our SCPs could be decided on the outcome of rock-paper-scissors!?
    Captain ????????: I assure you sir, you have nothing to fear. We are dead serious about these matters.
    • The site itself maintains quality by treating each wiki edit like a live Claymore mine.
  • Shoo Out The Clowns: Currently there is an ongoing effort to tone down the humorous elements. See this forum thread for further explanation. Also, "Chowderclef" is an official Ret Con of all of Dr. Clef's quirky escapades
    • Of course, "Chowderclef" still allows for the possibility it's Clef and someone else playing a prank on the rest of the Foundation.
  • Shout Out Overexposure to SCP-427 caused D-073 to start quoting from System Shock. Well, that and turn into an abomination.
  • Shrug Of God: When asked about what exactly the [DATA EXPUNGED] and Noodle Incidents are, most authors decline to give a straight answer and encourage the reader to fill in the gaps for themselves.
  • Something For Everyone: SCP-421, SCP-799, SCP-508, SCP-435
  • Spell My Name With A █████
  • Squick: SCP-597 562
    • And others, especially if you wonder what's behind all those blanks and [DATA EXPUNGED]s.
  • Status Quo Is God: The primary reason for the Foundation's existence.
  • Suspiciously Specific Denial: SCP-753, a giant sapient jumping spider of temporal distortion. His name is “Harold”, and he “know[s] absolutely nothing about a purple crayon, honest!”
  • Take Our Word For It: [DATA EXPUNGED]
  • Take That: SCP-4444 is basically a Take That directed at Gaia Online's SCP Ropeplay Guild.
  • The Little Shop That Wasnt There Yesterday: Site 19, according to one of the propositions for SCP-001.
  • There Are No Therapists: Inverted with regard to SCP-076-2 and several higher foundation personnel that are... less than stable. There are PLENTY of foundation therapists. The subjects in questions just don't really want anything to do with them.
    • Deliberately avoided with SCP-231-7. In order to prevent a possible The End Of The World As We Know It scenario, her emotional distress has to be maximized by constantly [DATA EXPUNGED].
      • And subverted in the same: containment procedures for SCP-231 require staff to undergo psychological counseling on a regular basis.
  • Things Man Was Not Meant To Know: [DATA EXPUNGED]
  • Troperiffic: See the SCP-specific list list
  • Unfunny: Most of the staff.
  • What Measure Is A Mook - Canon is flip-floppy on whether they still execute D-Class personnel monthly, or not.
    • Of course, it seems that a lot of them really deserve this sort of treatment as it's implied that an awful lot of them are barred from experiments that require subjects to not be sociopaths or sexual deviants...with tests that apparently pass doctors who feed each other to 682 and gender swap for fun. And guards and scientists are occasionally reclassified to D level for things such as using SCP-294 to produce meth, LSD and heroin.
  • Walking Wasteland: SCP-353, SCP-073 (towards plants and plant products - animals are fine)
  • We Have Reserves: The general treatment of Class D personnel. Especially evident with testing for SCP-504, where it was discovered that recordings worked just as well as people, yet whoever was overseeing the test continued using people, apparently just because he didn't like them (although it's at least noted that he would be reprimanded for it).
  • Well Intentioned Extremist: The Foundation, putting it lightly.
    • The Foundation considers the Global Occult Coalition to be Well Intentioned Extremists, because by destroying SCP objects they are risking both destroying any chance of gaining knowledge from the objects and eliminating something humanity might really, really need in the future.
      • And in return, the GOC look down on the SCP Foundation for not being extreme enough
  • Who Wants To Live Forever: SCP-014, the Concrete Man.
  • The Woobie A lot of them.
    • SCP-231. All seven of them, but especially SCP-231-7.
      • Compounding it: Due to constant exposure to it, SCP-231-7 has started to show reduced emotional response to Procedure 110-Montauk, running greater risk of The End Of The World As We Know It. The solution? Administering Class A Amnesiacs to her during every procedure, so every time it happens, it is her first time. Goddamn.
      • They've perfected it. Now, they give her amnesia every...fourth attempt. So, she experiences it, dreads the next one, fears the next one, and then once she's almost used to it, she forgets the whole thing. Fun.
    • SCP-590. A young man who has the power to heal injuries, both mental and physical, with a touch, taking them into himself. The first thing the Foundation does is infect him with mental retardation to keep him pliable, then strap him to a hospital bed and start using him as a disease repository to clean out personnel who get sick.
    • SCP-187
    • SCP-085. A sentient drawing (created from an experiment involving SCP-067 and SCP-914), fully aware of her 2D status and described as quite friendly...but she's unable to see or hear people in the third dimension, which means things are awfully lonely most of the time. Communication can only be made by writing on the paper she currently exists on.
    • SCP-042. A formerly winged horse, now in suicidal depression.
  • Worthy Opponent: SCP-076-2 lamented the loss of an SCP agent who was able to match him in combat. Partly because said agent died when an on-site nuclear warhead was detonated (to stop 076-2) instead of in combat (as 076-2 thought a Worthy Opponent deserved) and partly because fighting the Foundation was really boring without said agent there to make it challenging.
  • You Are Number Six: Every humanoid SCP is referred to by their designated number. Most of them don't mind this.
  • You Fail The IQ Test: The Blob Monsters created by overexposure to 427 are claimed to have IQ that could possibly exceed 400.
  • Zombie Apocalypse - Sort of. The "Unclean" on the other side of the mirror if one is holding SCP-093 caused one on the other side, and are the result of exposure to "His Tears", which cause genetic restructuring in the victims. They absorb their victims - a crazed log by one state the absorbed "live forever", apparently forming a Hive Mind. You'll have to read the logs and items recovered to understand.
    • SCP-610 is essentially The Flood, except horrifically much worse and spread by viruses.

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