History SCPFoundation / TropesEToM

* KickTheSonOfABitch: The Foundation's usage of D-Class is appalling, but when they mention said D-Class's crimes, especially if they're sex offenders, no one in the fanbase minds them getting especially gruesome deaths.
** When a guest researcher was killed by 682, everyone was fine with it in and out of universe due to the man having used children in his experiments prior.

* EagleLand:

** The fact that S. Andrew Swann is listed as one of the agents who helped right [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5999 SCP-5999]] serves as a pretty subtle indicator for this [=SCP=] [[spoiler:actually being [[RageAgainstTheAuthors Procedure ZK-001-Alpha]] finally put into action]].

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5999 SCP-5999]] twists the entire concept of SchmuckBait as seen in numerous other articles across the site on its head with the hidden reveal that [[spoiler:[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou it's all intentional]] InUniverse. The {{Mind Screw}}y nature behind the constantly changing and unrelated anomalies? They're all fictional stories created by the Foundation with the sole purpose of ''[[RageAgainstTheAuthors luring the reader in so as to kill them and their real-life authors]]'' as part of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/sandrewswann-s-proposal Procedure ZK-001-Alpha]]]].

** Once the teens in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2639 SCP-2639]] realize that in their decade long ''Videogame/{{Quake|1}}'' the monsters being shot were ordinary people, one of them enters an HeroicBSOD for causing real death [[AndYouThoughtItWasAGame in what seemed like just a FPS match]].

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2542 SCP-2543 AKA Tayn't]] ''tries'' to look like a human drug dealer, but he can't keep his form straight:

** Mentioned in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-001-o5 Dr. Bright's SCP-001 Proposal]]. They're the ruthlessly violent kind; more like orcs, but with a weakness to [[ColdIron iron]]. O5-1 wiped them out after being forced to make a DealWithTheDevil in the form of [[GreaterScopeVillain The Factory]]. This wasn't the first time they appeared, either, with [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1323 SCP-1323]] being [[IncrediblyLamePun their fairground]]. It's also implied that they once held dominion over the Earth before being overthrown by SCP-1000 (as implied by SCP-2932).

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2720 SCP-2720]] is a hotel in Japan whose rooms can open into ideal breeding ground for groups of threatened penguins. In-universe explanation: [[spoiler:A penguin-themed Foundation front achieved sentience]]. Out-universe explanation: [[spoiler:it was inspired by "an off-hand remark" about a penguin hiding in a hotel room in the author's favorite anime's CD drama]].

* UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}}: Plenty to go around; Sarkicism takes most of its ideas from Gnostic concepts (albeit with the lack of a Sophia-like figure), and its name is derived from the lowest form of human nature as depicting in Gnosticism. The Sophia analogue, on the other hand, is more or less supposed to be MEKHANE, from the Church of the Broken God - another cult within the SCP Foundation's universe that draws from Gnosticism. Beyond that, most of the articles influenced by Abrahamic mythos are written in such a way that evokes the Gnostic rejection of the Abrahamic religions, and there are further allusions to figures from Gnosticism such as Yaldabaoth and the Archons.

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6113 SCP-6113]] ("Temporary Reflections"), a combination of a shapeshifting entity that visits closeted trans people in their lowest moments and a lake that allows these individuals to magically transition when they peer into it.

* GenderBender: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-113 SCP-113]] is a piece of red jasper that can do this upon contact with flesh of a gendered organism. [[CripplingCastration Emphasis on "can".]]
** More recently, there's [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6113 SCP-6113]] ("Temporary Reflections"), a combination of a shapeshifting entity that visits closeted trans people in their lowest moments and a lake that allows these individuals to magically transition when they peer into it.

** That are many SCP's, such as [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1975 1975]], that appear in backstory to have been originally created as tools of revenge against a single person or for a single slight, only for it's anomalous effects to not end after vengeance is served - becoming horrific blights that far outstrip their creators' intentions.

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4666 SCP-4666]] kidnaps and enslaves children and forced them to make toys for it to leave out for the few families it doesn't kill. [[WhamLine When you can't make the toys, you become the toys.]]

* HumanResources: All the furniture inside of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-002 SCP-002]] is made of things like sculpted bone, woven hair, and other body parts.

%%* FantasticFoxes:
%%** In [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-953 SCP-953]] is a ''kumiho''.
%%** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1845 SCP-1845]]'s leader, King Eugenio II.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1905 SCP-1905]] ("Dino Hunter Model 6"), [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1265 SCP-1265]] ("The Mesozoic Preserve") and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-250 SCP-250]] ("Most of an Allosaurus") all feature dinosaurs.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1905 SCP-1905]], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1265 SCP-1265]] ("The Mesozoic Preserve") and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-250 SCP-250]] all feature dinosaurs.

* EldritchLocation: Lots of those too. Some noteworthy examples include [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/three-portlands-hub Three Portlands]] (a magical and semi-autonomous city-state looked after by the UIU), [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2922 SCP-2922 "Corbenic"]] (a multiverse-spanning afterlife home to forgotten gods and monsters), Website/TheWanderersLibrary (a PortalCrossroadWorld and magical library used as the primary base of [[LibertyOverProsperity the Serpent's Hand]]), [[HellOfAHeaven Adytum]] (the extra-dimensional kingdom of Grand Karcist Ion and "Heaven" of the Sarkic Cults), and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2264 SCP-2264 "Alagadda"]] (another PortalCrossroadWorld ruled over by [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-701 the Hanged King]]).

* EmployeeOfTheMonth: SCP-254 is a blank frame labeled "Employee of the Month." When hung, a model employee appears, with their picture occupying the frame. For the next month, they will have excellent performance, but degrade in quality afterwards until fired.

** The SCP Foundation and Global Occult Coalition (which are not necessarily enemies but allied organizations with conflicting viewpoints) have been known to occasionally work together to stop a creator of SCP's. As seen in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-191 SCP-191]]

** In [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5000 SCP-5000]], neither the Global Occult Coalition nor the Church of the Broken God wanted humanity to be wiped out and occasionally cooperated as the biggest forces opposing the corrupted Foundation. Ultimately, it wasn't enough, with the [=GOC=] being wiped out and the Church crippled.
* EnhanceButton: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/experiment-log-191 Subverted by SCP-191]] -- when asked to "Zoom and Enhance" a photo of license plates, she outputs a zoomed-in photo, but fills in the wrong plate numbers because she was unable to read them in the original.

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1173 SCP-1173]], The Islamic Republic of Eastern Samothrace, which is either an example of EskimosArentReal that convinces you it's an example of {{Qurac}}, or an example of Qurac that convinces you that it's an example of Eskimos Aren't Real.

%%* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1905 SCP-1905]], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1265 SCP-1265]] and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-250 SCP-250]].

** The earliest [=SCPs=] written, like 173 and 004, are very different in tone and format than what the writers later adopted as the site's definite style.

** SCP-682, the second-ever SCP item, has its Special Containment Procedures begin with a surprisingly out-of-character command compared to the Foundation's usual policy, nowadays doubling as an instance of OOCIsSeriousBusiness:

* EgomaniacHunter: Well, explorer anyway: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/harrison-t-winchester-iii-journal-excerpts Harrison T. Winchester III]], who led an expedition to [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2292 SCP-2292's]] hidden city on behalf of Carter and Dark (Marshall apparently had other plans). From his journal:

* EldritchLocation: Lots of those too. Some noteworthy examples include [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/three-portlands-hub Three Portlands]] (a magical and semi-autonomous city-state looked after by the UIU), [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2922 Corbenic]] (a multiverse-spanning afterlife home to forgotten gods and monsters), Website/TheWanderersLibrary (a PortalCrossroadWorld and magical library used as the primary base of [[LibertyOverProsperity the Serpent's Hand]]), [[HellOfAHeaven Adytum]] (the extra-dimensional kingdom of Grand Karcist Ion and "Heaven" of the Sarkic Cults), and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2264 Alagadda]] (another PortalCrossroadWorld ruled over by [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-701 the Hanged King]]).

* ExtinctAnimalPark: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1265 The Mesozoic Preserve]] is about fifty square kilometers of Congolese jungle full of dinosaurs, all of them feathered, and a few non-dinosaurian prehistoric reptiles. An unknown force keeps the animals inside -- if they try to leave, they vanish and reappear sedated within the preserve. The dinosaurs are completely passive to humans, except for a few species that have not been discovered by science yet, which are highly aggressive. Apparently, this place is where African dinosaur cryptid legends originate from.

* ExtranormalPrison: The Foundation's main purpose is creating these. And the containment methods add another layer for some [=SCPs=]. They also weren't the first, as [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1000 the Children of Night]] had previously created [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2932 "Titania's Prison"]] to serve in this purpose for them while they ruled the Earth.

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-913 Mr. Hungry]] is a humanoid SCP with an extremely fast metabolism that requires an intake of 2000 calories every two hours. If the condition is not met, he will enter a trance state and eat anything solid on sight, whether it is living or not, for a period of time.

** Gouging out one's own eyes in madness is a fairly common reaction to many [=SCPs=]. In addition, the page for SCP-212 includes a graphic picture of eye surgery.

* MagicalNativeAmerican: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-992 SCP-992 ("Gaia's Emissary")]]. SCP-992 is an Australian Aboriginal man who claims to be 57-71 years old but hasn't aged in the 65 years that he's been contained by the Foundation. He appears to be able to control the weather and talk to plants.

* {{Malaproper}}: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-586 SCP-586]] is a green metabolic pipe that causes this to anyone who tries to write about it. It's even populous enough to [[spoiler:give the wrong image]].

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-50-ae-j SCP-50-AE-J]], a Desert Eagle (the [[AwesomeButImpractical intimidating-looking but not very great]] gun the Agents use in ''Film/TheMatrix'') that shoots violently jingoistic eagles.

** And then there's [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-795 SCP-795]], a cat with mind control and BalefulPolymorph abilities... but otherwise a plain normal cat. So it uses its powers for cat things like convincing the personnel to give it more food or toys. The only nasty thing about the kitty is that it tends to turn people it likes into playmates (read: other cats) and people it doesn't like into mice.

** After successfully completing 20 tasks from [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1954 SCP-1954]], the book's pages turn into bizarre and detailed magical rituals that involve "murder, cannibalization, sexual encounters, self-mutilation, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and canned vegetables]]".

* ImAHumanitarian: The Foundation has a few D-class who were previously convicted of cannibalism, which makes them useful for testing certain [=SCPs.=]
** D-1282 was used to test whether the food delivered by [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-971 SCP-971]] was made using human meat (it wasn't).
** D-235789, previously a member of a cannibalistic cult, ate a grilled human arm produced by [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1842 SCP-1842]]. In his opinion, it tasted "superb."