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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.
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:
- After Action Report
- Alien Geometries
- Amplifier Artifact: SCP-914 on the "Fine" and "Very Fine" settings.
- Apocalyptic Log: several of the personal logs and mission reports
- Artifact Of Doom: many
- Attempted Rape: Doctor Bishop attempting to rape SCP-808.
- In the after action report for SCP-835, after the Corporal gets infected.
- It went further than an attempt.
- Author Avatar: All named high-ranking members are fictional counterparts of wiki's administrative staff.
- A Wizard Did It: averted, because they don't spend a lot of time figuring out how the object became SCP, magically or not.
- However, there are a lot of "SCP did it", especially when they can't explain how can the object work that way.
- 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
- Battle In The Center Of The Mind: The Medium. Literally.
- Black Box
- 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 INOCULATION 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.
- Bucket Of Ears - happens twice to the Janitor in his psychological evaluation: once about SCP-808 having Potty Failure and once about the availability of Segway golf carts.
- 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".
- ████or Box
- 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."
- 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 decommissioned: they remain in the series' canon as past SCPs and given elaborate destruction sequences.
- Convection Schmonvection: One possible SCP-001 has a flaming sword with heat rivalling the sun.
- Condemned Contestant: D-Class personnel.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd is a group that captures SCP objects to exploit and sell them for money.
- 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.
- Cruel And Unusual Death
- Cuteness Proximity: Pufferkittens. WARNING: Classified Euclid on account of having enough d'aaaaaaw to disrupt normal staff activities.
- Deconstruction: SCP-239 and her fate is a deconstruction of Haruhi Suzumiya-style Reality Warpers
- 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
- 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 and SCP-155. 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. 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.
- DO NOT LET SCP-447 COME INTO CONTACT WITH DEAD BODIES.
- 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:
- Human experimentation with SCP-439 was immediately terminated on discovering that its victims remain alive and possibly conscious.
- 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.
- To give the new reader an idea of how great an extent of this trope this example is, Dr. Clef's identity is not known. The most popular theory? He's Satan.
- This troper laughed way harder than he should have at that. There's just something inherently funny about seeing two entries from a guest researcher going into detail about introducing children to 682, then seeing one from Dr. Clef going into very little detail beyond "Sick bastard. Hope he rots in hell." about introducing the researcher to 682.
- Evil Phone: SCP-145, SCP-989, SCP-400, SCP-519.
- 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.
- Eye Scream: gouging out own eyes in madness is a fairy normal practice. In addition, the page for SCP-212 includes a graphic picture of eye surgery.
- Fate Worse Than Death: Being assigned to Keter duty.
- Becoming D-Class personnel.
- Fan Fic: There are a lot.
- Fan Service: Several personnel requested SCP-808 and SCP-105 hook up, so to speak. They were threatened with cleanup for SCP-682.
- Fetish Fuel: SCP-597 qualifies.
- 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, including a literal Gargle Blaster.
- General Ripper: General Bowe, who has attempted to weaponise both the Doves of the Peace and, by implication, the pufferkittens.
- Go Mad From The Revelation: Just count the number of times "mandatory psychiatric evaluation" appears or some sim
- 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.
- Holy Hand Grenade: SCP-94 can create these.
- Input: 2x concussion grenades
- Setting: Very fine
- Output: A large white aerodynamic sphere, approximately 99.9% the size and 99.99999% the mass of the original two grenades. A twin circle pin is attached to the top. Has been nicknamed "the Holy Hand Grenade" by Iceberg, and is currently in his possession for research.
- Note: Recommend removing this object from Dr. Iceberg, and passing it on to a more experienced researcher. Perhaps Dr Clef, or Gears. Not Kain.
- Hyperspace Is A Scary Place - many different varieties. SCP-616 is a portal to a Fire And Brimstone Hell and could have been taken straight out of EventHorizon...merely looking into it will make you instantly homicidal, suicidal, insane or all three.
- 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.
- I Have Many Names: Played for laughs with SCP-507:
"Although SCP-507 has an already-established name due to its unremarkable upbringing, it seems to find entertainment in forcing those it meets to give it a nickname in lieu of divulging this information. Thus SCP-507 will now respond to the names Tommy, Steve, Bruto, Guy, Houdini, and Grabnok the Destroyer."
- 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.
- 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-necessary is up to the individual.
- 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.
- Literal Genie: The reactions to commands after having been exposed to SCP-061.
- Lost In Transmission: Otherwise humanity might be exposed to [DATA EXPUNGED] with the plunger.
- 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 super
herobeing 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.
- 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.
- And with that in mind, read what was done to SCP-590 at Dr. Bright's instigation. 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 human flesh, she prefers the flesh of young infants. They are considering altering her diet to accommodate this fact.
- MST 3 K Mantra - any contributor who asks the senior staff about some of the more questionable aspects of the setting's backstory - like where the Foundation keeps getting like Class D personal (even in United States, there are only so many people serving life sentences/on death row), or where do they keep getting billions of dollars that would logically be necessary to keep everything running - will be greeting with this. If the contributor catches them on a good day, her or she may get a Hand Wave explanation, but even then, they will urge the contributor not to overthink it too much.
- Note that the Foundation has been successfully using clones (and humans made from scratch) for D-Class, not to mention that people who fuck up are demoted to D-Class.
- 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. Although the first one actually has some evidence to support it. Murky, potentially deceptive evidence, but evidence nonetheless.
- 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.
- 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. Neither can the Church of the Broken God.
- 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 SCPs.
- The uncensored report for SCP-835 also qualifies. Urghh...
- SCP-835 has got nothing, nothing on SCP-610.
- Could someone explain what the picture to SCP-610 looks like? This Troper was too terrified to let it load.
- Imagine a butcher made a fake, hunchbackedzombie out of spare, skinless, ill-prepared, half-rotted meat, but there he didn't have any heads, so he just slapped on a gruesome mass of appendages to the end of its neck. That's what it looks like.
- Your mileage may vary - as per the original gallery it belonged to, it's almost mundane. The head looks like a meaty beak (no sexual innuendo intended).
- 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 Just No: 076's reaction to being requested to approach one candidate for SCP-001
- 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 SCPs 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 SCPs 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).
- Oh Crap- Putting a replica of the plates from the Voyager probes (which were meant to contact extraterrestrials) into SCP-914 on the "Very Fine" setting results in a cell phone with 500 numbers that do not match any on Earth. The first one is labelled "SCP-682-Home Number." The scientist recommends destroying it as quickly as possible because no one should ever want to find the place that SCP-682 came from. (It turns out that, when dialed just calls a cell phone that was in SCP-682's cell. No one knows how it got there.)
- Oubliette
- Our Angels Are Different - Shockingly averted. The Foundation goes to extensive lengths to document the fact that SCP-001 is indeed a bona fide Judeao-Christian Angel without any major subversions.
- Omniscient Morality License - A lot of these researchers are worse than the level D Operatives.
[[ http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-294* 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).
- Pieces Of God
- Ret Con: The Mass Edit, which was basically the wiki admins purging some of the more dubious entries and retconning out some of the more ludicrous (and humorous) aspects of the backstory (see below)
- 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.
- Ruined FOREVER: Apparently a chat conversation (reposted here) ruined SCP-033. SCP-033, aka Theta Prime, is the Missing Number, and in the chat log, [REDACTED] said that MISSING NUMBER -> MISSINGNO.
- Runaway Meme: The guy that wrote the original SCP-173 article thought it would be forgotten in a day and never heard from again.
- 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.
- And any object that produces or transforms other objects (ala the vending machine and 914) will inevitably produce something shaped like SCP-682.
- Science Is Wrong: The Missing Number. We missed a number. Our math is bullshit.
- 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: 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, but Word Of God says it'll be left up to the reader's imagination.
- Of course, "Chowderclef" still allows for the possibility it's Clef and someone else playing a prank on the rest of the Foundation.
- Clef (the writer, not the character) stated in the wiki's forums that he originally planned to Ret Con out all of his fictional counterpart's quirky escapades and replace it with something "grimdark," but he ultimately decided to be ambiguous about it and let readers decide for themselves whether or not the escapades still count.
- 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.
- Spell My Name With A █████
- Sound Effect Bleep: [EXPLETIVE REDACTED]
- Spank The Cutie: Dr. Bright is not allowed to administer spankings to Dr. Rights as punishment, as it only causes more rules to be broken. Therefore, he've done it several times before.
- Squick: SCP-597 Imagine a gigantic udder. Now imagine a gigantic udder with HUNDREDS OF NIPPLES. And sadly, this isn't the worst thing about it.
- And then we have One Bad Mother, written by Dr. Mann. Combining Mister Seahorse with Herr Chirurg, two-into-one body grafting and one of the most mentally depraved individuals the Foundation boasts was sure to lead to a lot of vomiting. It's played for laughs, though, and non-canon because no way in hell would the Foundation allow anyone (specifically two men) to start an active relationship with an SCP like Herr Chirurg, let alone bear their child. But still...
- Status Quo Is God: The primary reason for the Foundation's existence.
- Take Our Word For It: [DATA EXPUNGED]
- Take That: SCP-4444 is basically a Take That directed at Gaia Online's SCP Roleplay 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: The SCP Foundation wiki is a site devoted to deconstructing Urban Fantasy genre. There is about thousand of objects. Each of them deconstructs or plays straight at least one trope, mainly more. The SCP Foundation wiki is troperrific.
- All tropes connected with SCPs and specific characters must be posted in the Character list. Here are only tropes connected with SCP Foundation itself.
- 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.
- 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
- When All You Have Is A Hammer: Lampshaded by Dr.Bright. If something is lethal, they will at least suggest trying to kill SCP-682 with it. Additionally, they will stuff everything with all possible settings in SCP-914.
- They will use SCP-447's slime on everything, if it doesn't involve dead bodies.
- If they find a SCP that converts (The Clockworks) or produces (The Coffee Machine) a lot of things, they will end up testing it on a lot of random stuff.
- If they suddenly find out that they can perform standard tests without sacrificing D-Class subjects (using audiotapes, animals, etc), they'll ignore that fact.
- 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.
- By the way, they use IQ tests on every sapient subject. Yes. Even on talking Eldritch Abominations. Despite the obvious fact that their psychologies are absolutely different.
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