History AlternativeCharacterInterpretation / SCPFoundation

* Granted, it's only natural that info about [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-006 SCP-006]] is kept secret to all but the [=O5s=] because despite it being beneficial, its effects still can't be explained by known science. But is that all there is to it? Given the extra-high clearance required to access this information, are the [=O5s=] [[WithholdingTheCure hiding this knowledge]] so they can have this mysterious health water to themselves and live far beyond life expectencies? Or are they really doing it for the benefit of humanity, knowing that humans would likely [[AppleOfDiscord go to war just to secure this water]] (and it's not know how much of this water exists)?

* If SCP-999 really is [[spoiler: the last child of the Scarlet King, destined to defeat its father]], how is it going to go about accomplishing its goal? Will it eventually be powerful enough to [[spoiler: totally wipe out humanity's baser instincts, denying its father the ability to feed off them?]] UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans?

* Did the events in the previous iterations of SCP-2998 actually happen? Or is the [[spoiler:alien invasion]] described therein a misinformation memetic and nothing more?

* Did the events in the previous iterations of SCP-2998 actually happen? Or is the [[spoiler:alien invasion]] described therein a misinfirmation memetic and nothing more?

* If SCP-999 really is [[spoiler: the last child of the Scarlet King, destined to defeat his father]], how is he going to go about accomplishing his goal? Will he eventually be powerful enough to [[spoiler: totally wipe out humanity's baser instincts, denying his father the ability to feed off them?]] UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans?

The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'''s UnreliableCanon makes this situation highly likely.

* The Serpent's Hand. Are they a supernatural AnimalWrongsGroup who are dabbling in inappropriate powers? Are they an ultimately positive force fighting for liberating supernatural items and denouncing the preservation of "normalcy"? ''Wiki/TheWanderersLibrary'' only helps to further muddy the waters.

* The Foundation as a whole. Despite being the literal name of the whole website, they're perhaps the most diversely portrayed of all the [=GOI=]. Do they sometimes have to do unpleasant things to preserve humanity with a minimum loss of human life and retaining their morals? Are they callous dictators out to control every item of power they can as much [[ForTheEvulz for the sociopathic thrill]] as anything else? Articles are written from both viewpoints and a significant number are in between, and there's plenty of arguing over which is the "correct" one.
** Scantron's SCP-001 proposal offers another interpretation: [[spoiler:[[TomatoInTheMirror The Foundation is an anomaly itself]].]]

* Some people claim [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2718 SCP-2718]] being a cognitohazard are lies meant to cover up [[spoiler:[[AndIMustScream the afterlife being eternal agony beyond human comperhention]]]].

* If SCP-999 really is [[spoiler: the last child of the Scarlet King, destined to defeat his father]], how is he going to go about accomplishing his goal? Will he eventually be powerful enough to [[spoiler: totally wipe out humanity's baser instincts, denying his father the ability to feed off them?]] UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans? NotSoDifferent?

* Granted, it's only natural that info about [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-006 SCP-006]] is kept secret to all but the [=O5s=] because despite it being beneficial, its effects still can't be explained by known science. But is that all there is to it? Are the [=O5s=] [[WithholdingTheCure hiding this knowledge]] so they can have this mysterious health water to themselves and live far beyond life expectencies? Or are they really doing it for the benefit of humanity, knowing that humans would likely [[AppleOfDiscord go to war just to secure this water]] (and it's not know how much of this water exists)?

* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-607 SCP-607]]. Is he a suicidal cat who wants to die and is [[ObliviouslyEvil not aware]] of his effects of bonding with humans, or is he aware of them and [[CatsAreMean intentionally]] trying to kill off humans? The photo of him taken by [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-978 SCP-978]] suggests ''[[TakeAThirdOption both]]''.

* In the early "lolfoundation" days of the SCP Wiki, [[BodySurf Jack Bright]] was generally portrayed as a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who's fond of pulling wacky pranks for no reason. This characterization has fallen out of favor (although it lives on in "The List Things Dr. Bright Is Not Allowed to Do"), but several interpretations of him remain popular among writers. Is he the Foundation's GreaterScopeParagon who considers it his duty to help the Foundation avoid the mistakes of the past? Is he an opportunist who only acts in the best interests of [[BigScrewedUpFamily his family?]] Has he undergone severe SanitySlippage from all of the D-Class personalities he's absorbed? Different tales write him completely differently.
* SCP-682 wants to kill everything because [[JerkassWoobie it can't comprehend the world it's in]].
* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-173 SCP-173]] isn't a homicidal statue which loses the ability to move when a human is looking at it. Rather, it's a piece of art that ''wants'' people to look at it, and so is content to stay still when someone is looking at it. If someone is present but no one is looking at it, it tries to ''force'' that person to look at it, but since [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength it doesn't know its own strength]] it ends up snapping their necks when it tries. A bit weakened by the fact it will do this to someone looking straight at it when they blink (which would not be helped by moving someone's head around). And due to [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/crunch this page]], appropriately titled [[SickeningCrunch "crunch"]]. Of course, that is not canon and you can ignore that story.
* The Foundation as a whole. Despite being the literal name of the whole website, they're perhaps the most diversely portrayed of all the [=GOI=]. Are they the Weirdness Cops who sometimes have to do unpleasant things in the name of preserving all of humanity, but try to do so with a minimum loss of human life and while retaining what morals they can? Or are they just callous Science Nazis, out to control every item of power they can as much [[ForTheEvulz for the sociopathic thrill]] as anything else, willing to order the cold-blooded slaughter of entire towns on a whim? Articles are written from both viewpoints and a significant number are in between, and there's plenty of arguing over which is the "correct" one.
* Scantron's SCP-001 proposal offers another interpretation: [[spoiler:[[TomatoInTheMirror The Foundation is an anomaly itself]].]]
* The Global Occult Coalition. Paranoid and trigger-happy soldiers who destroy what they can't understand, or the real last line of defense who will do things the Foundation can't or won't? (The GOC-focused stories also suggest that the "destroy everything" strategy may not actually be true, and is [[UnreliableNarrator just how the Foundation chooses to see them]].)
* The Church of the Broken God: Are they a group of madmen trying to bring about the apocalypse, or are they just a standard religion that the Foundation have decided to pick on, and will fight back with the fervor of any other group who are persecuted in the same way? And the biggest one of all — what if they're ''right,'' and the world '''is''' screwed up because God is lying broken into pieces and cannot intervene? And the Foundation has responded by, among other things, continually droning God? This is further complicated by the fact that when the Broken God is assembled in an SCP-001 entry, it does NOT seem happy to be here.
* The Serpent's Hand. Are they a [[TooDumbToLive moronic]] and hopelessly [[WideEyedIdealist naive]] romantic {{Animal Wrongs Group}} for the supernatural who are dabbling in powers far beyond their ken? Or are they an ultimately positive force fighting for the rightful liberation of the supernatural while spreading wisdom and getting rid of the futile desire to preserve "normalcy"? The existence of [[Wiki/TheWanderersLibrary The Wanderer's Library]] only helps to further muddy the waters.

* Are the claims that [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2718 SCP-2718]] is a cognitohazard valid, or is it denial over the possible AwfulTruth about [[spoiler:[[AndIMustScream the afterlife being eternal agony beyond human comperhention]]]].
* The Circus of the Disquieting, post-Fuller: A motley, close-knit group of anomalous outcasts trying their damnedest to keep their show alive, so that they can continue to welcome others like them into their family and avoid the clutches of ominous bogeymen like the Foundation? Or a group of sociopathic freaks who buy anomalous individuals off the black market or outright ''kidnap'' them from their families and add them to their collection? [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2094 The]] [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3619 SCPs]] that have been associated with them tend to show evidence of both sides of the group at times.

* Clef (the creator) sees Clef (the character) and Kondraki as having an inimical view of each other. However, many Foundation tales written by others depict Clef and Kondraki to be more like VitriolicBestBuds (without the "best" part, at least). This is horribly subverted in [[http://scp-wiki.net/incident-239-b-clef-kondraki Incident 239-B]] [[spoiler:when Kondraki snaps Clef's neck out of pure rage]].

* [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-173 SCP-173]] isn't a homicidal statue which loses the ability to move when a human is looking at it. Rather, it's a piece of art that ''wants'' people to look at it, and so is content to stay still when someone is looking at it. If someone is present but no one is looking at it, it tries to ''force'' that person to look at it, but since [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength it doesn't know its own strength]] it ends up snapping their necks when it tries. A bit weakened by the fact it will do this to someone looking straight at it when they blink (which would not be helped by moving someone's head around). And due to [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/crunch this page]], appropriately titled [[SickeningCrunch "crunch"]]. Of course, that is not canon and you can ignore that story.

* [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-607 SCP-607]]. Is he a suicidal cat who wants to die and is [[ObliviouslyEvil not aware]] of his effects of bonding with humans, or is he aware of them and [[CatsAreMean intentionally]] trying to kill off humans? The photo of him taken by [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-978 SCP-978]] suggests ''[[TakeAThirdOption both]]''.
* Are the claims that [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2718 SCP-2718]] is a cognitohazard valid, or is it denial over the possible AwfulTruth about [[spoiler:[[AndIMustScream the afterlife being eternal agony beyond human comperhention]]]].
* The Circus of the Disquieting, post-Fuller: A motley, close-knit group of anomalous outcasts trying their damnedest to keep their show alive, so that they can continue to welcome others like them into their family and avoid the clutches of ominous bogeymen like the Foundation? Or a group of sociopathic freaks who buy anomalous individuals off the black market or outright ''kidnap'' them from their families and add them to their collection? [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2094 The]] [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3619 SCPs]] that have been associated with them tend to show evidence of both sides of the group at times.

* Are the claims that [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2718 SCP-2718]] is a cognitohazard valid, or is it denial over the possible AwfulTruth about [[[[spoiler:[[AndIMustScream the afterlife being eternal agony beyond human comperhention]]]].

* [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-447 SCP-447]] may do something unimaginably horrible when brought into contact with dead bodies... or it may simply have a memetic effect that makes people ''think'' it does.
* [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2718 SCP-2718]] is either [[spoiler:[[AndIMustScream the afterlife]]]], a cognitohazard that ''causes'' [[spoiler:people to irrationally fear a nonexistent agonizing afterlife]], or a cognitohazard that causes [[spoiler:people who are exposed to it to have an extremely agonizing afterlife]]. The group of interest page for the [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/the-dark-web-dke79-o2rg5-4jlw6 Dark Web]], which is used by Marshal, Carter, and Dark as an ultra-high-security network, gives another implication — that it is not a natural afterlife, but one given to those who will be brought back from the dead in the future.

* [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2571 SCP-2571]] is an AmusementParkOfDoom named Cragglewood Park that abducts children with siblings, erases all memory of them and turns them into singing trees in the park. There is a theory on the discussion page that Cragglewood Park itself isn't responsible for taking the siblings; rather, it's a memetic cognitohazard that manifests in the minds of children whose siblings have died through other means.