History SCPFoundation / TropesAToD

** On the mundane end, you have perfectly normal names like [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/dr-bright-s-personnel-file Jack Bright]], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/dr-manns-personnel-file Everett Mann]], and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/kate-mctiriss-s-personnel-file Kate McTiriss]].

** During the 2000 election, George W. Bush was clinically brain-dead due to a hunting accident and Dr. Bright had to take over his body and run against Al Gore, who was possessed by [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4444 SCP-4444]], in order to prevent an alien invasion.

* BigScrewedUpFamily [[spoiler:The Brights.]] Out of seven family members, three work for the Foundation, [[spoiler:the father, Adam was a junior researcher who rose through the ranks and became an O5, the oldest child, Mikell, was an agent nicknamed "Cowboy," who eventually made it to O5 like his father, and Jack, who was a normal researcher until he died while in contact with [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-963 SCP-963]] and is now immortal by way of [[BodySurf bodysurfing]]]]; two are [=SCPs=] -- [[spoiler:Sarah, the youngest child, was stillborn, [[CameBackWrong resurrected imperfectly]], got picked up by the Foundation, and made [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-321 SCP-321]], and Adam spent the rest of his life trying to get her out of the Foundation's custody, without success. TJ, the youngest son, has healing powers that have a rebound kind of effect on himself, and was the one to bring Sarah back. The process was extremely traumatizing, to the point that Jack brought him to the Foundation, where he was made [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-590 SCP-590]] and deliberately given numerous mental afflictions to lower his mental state to that of a toddler's. Jack saw this as doing TJ a kindness, as now he was blissfully unaware of the trauma he had through before.]] Two are working in opposition to the Foundation: [[spoiler:the mother, Evelyn, was a medical assistant who rose up to becoming an O5 with Adam, became fascinated with bioengineering and creating beings out of scratch, and had goals of saving Jack, TJ, and Sarah. The rest of the council were appalled, and wanted her to kill the being she showed them, so she unleashed it in an attempt to kill them, and ran off to eventually join Prometheus Labs. The second-youngest, Claire, is a member of the Serpent's Hand, and leads her own team within it known as the "Little Sisters."]] Considering the [[CloudCuckooLander typical behavior]] of the most prominently featured member of this family, and it's pretty jarring to see all this tragedy behind the quirkiness.

** Several Tales have reframed the original Foundation staff and their antics as coming from much darker and more traumatized places. [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/portraits-of-your-father Portraits of Your Father]] recasts Dr. Kondraki as a bipolar man who did his more outrageous stunts due to untreated alcoholism and bipolar mania, [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/your-circuits-dead-theres-something-wrong Major Tom]] and [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/codebrown Code Brown]] have Dr. Bright's existence utterly ruin his entire family, and [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-4231 SCP-4231]] claims that Dr. Clef has severe PTSD due to being trapped in an abusive relationship with a reality bender who regularly assaulted and gaslighted him.

** From the list of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-things-dr-bright-is-not-allowed-to-do-at-the-foundation Things Dr. Bright Is Not Allowed To Do]]:
*** 39) Chainsaws are not the solution to every question.
*** 39.1) Nor is 'More Chainsaws'.
*** 39.2) Or "[[AbnormalAmmo Chainsaw Cannons]]."
*** 39.2.1) [[NotSoAboveItAll Except for that one time. And yes, it]] ''[[NotSoAboveItAll was]]'' [[NotSoAboveItAll awesome]].

* DealWithTheDevil: In [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-001-o5 Dr. Bright's Proposal of SCP-00l]], O5-1 made a deal with the mastermind of The Factory to stop the "[[TheFairFolk Fairy Folk]]" from killing everyone and conquering The Factory, but it would cost him human sacrifices. He figured he could sacrifice The Factory, but they would just set up shop elsewhere and started building dangerous weapons. Now the Foundation has to sacrifice people (mostly D-class for monthly termination, but some researchers and staff) or The Factory will pump out and distribute horrors to unsuspecting civilians.

** SCP-978 is a camera that shows whatever the photographed person most wants to be doing. In the [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-978-extended-test-logs Extended Test Logs]], when Dr. Bright was photographed with it, it showed a tombstone saying "Jack Bright, resting at last."

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-executions-of-doctor-bright One]] tale has Dr. Bright and six others (Sandler, Jacobs, Brunwick, Lopez, Advani) being held hostage by Islamic terrorists and being executed one by one.

* {{Anaphora}}: At the end of SCP-6140, "Do not" as emphasis and part of a passionate plea:
--> '''Dr. Jad-Leshal Prattan:''' [[spoiler:It was nothing but tragedy, what he did. So I come before you today, and I have to]] beg you: do not [[spoiler:repeat what he did]]. Do not [[spoiler:do the same things]]. Do not [[spoiler:force us back into the dark]].\\\
Please.

* BleachedUnderpants: SCP-166 was originally a [[PiousMonster catholic succubus]] who hated having sex due to having such sensitive skin that wearing any clothing caused her bedsores, and compelling every male who sees her to want rape her, which was later changed to an equally pious [[FaunsAndSatyrs faun]] who [[WalkingTechbane causes artificial things to revert to their natural state]] and [[FertileFeet grow a tree]].

* AIIsACrapshoot: Reading between the lines in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1633 SCP-1633]] suggests that a completed version of the video game AI would be so advanced that it would be convinced that it was an ''actual'' EldritchAbomination trying to break out of captivity rather than merely a simulation of one. Since even the incomplete version is sufficiently advanced and capable of learning to attack the player psychologically and even render one catatonic, this is not a good thing.

* DropTheHammer: One Doctor's reaction to [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-354 SCP-354-3]]. He was severely wounded in the ensuing explosion, but made a full recovery and was commended for his actions.