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*** Want to know exactly WHY they don't want SCP-447-2 to come in contact with dead bodies? Don't bother; [[HeKnowsTooMuch the Foundation will execute you for trying to play detective, no exceptions.]]
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*** Want to know exactly WHY they don't want SCP-447-2 to come in contact with dead bodies? Don't bother; [[HeKnowsTooMuch the Foundation will execute you for trying to play detective, no exceptions.]]
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* NoSenseOfDirection: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-920 SCP-920,]] also known as [[MeaningfulName Mr. Lost.]] Try to take him somewhere, or just walk with him for a while, and ''you'' will get lost. (However, apparently because all the super-deadly gets old if ''everything'' is super-deadly, the description has a notice that lost means "lost" as in "misplaced" and not some horrible fate. However, you ''can'' be lost to pretty much anywhere in the world.)
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* NoSenseOfDirection: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-920 SCP-920,]] also known as [[MeaningfulName Mr. Lost.]] Try to take him somewhere, or just walk with him for a while, and ''you'' will get lost. (However, apparently because all the super-deadly gets old if ''everything'' is super-deadly, the description has a notice that lost means "lost" as in "misplaced" and not some horrible fate. However, you ''can'' be lost to pretty much anywhere in the world. And it's likely you'll still die of thirst or cold if you get lost with him in a desert or a snowy area.)
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* OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: Aside from the Foundation there's [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1659 SCP-1659]] AKA Directorate K, whose affected "members" number in the hundreds of thousands. It's mission is incomprehensible beyond apparently wanting to fix the SCP-verse [[BlueAndOrangeMorality in its own way]] and influencing foodies. [[spoiler: It's classified as Keter and some of the most recent names of its "cells" ("'Its Majesty's Office of Smallpox Aerosols,' the 'Counterintelligence Nutrition Council,' and the 'Extrareality Recruitment Office'") were alarming enough for the O5 to authorize its neutralization despite decades of diplomatic peace.]]
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* NutritionalNightmare: [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-807 SCP-807]], the Heart Attack on a Plate. Any food placed on it will be turned into this trope, and consuming it will invariably cause a heart attack within 5 minutes.
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* ResetButton: [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2000 SCP-2000]]. Deconstructed in that it is a VERY complicated procedure.
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* ResetButton: [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2000 SCP-2000]]. Deconstructed in that it The article massively [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerates]] the trope with relentless, non-stop technobabble and a very convoluted activation process, but is a VERY complicated procedure.none the less played straight.
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* ResetButton: [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2000 SCP-2000]]. Deconstructed in that it is a VERY complicated procedure.
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* ReleasedToElsewhere: D-Class Personnel are assured that they'll be freed at the end of the month if they cooperate ("released like homicidal bunny rabbits into the wild", as said in the D-Class Orientation). Even if they manage to not get killed by the various monsters, artifacts, and testing procedures, they are still executed at the end of the month anyway.
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* ReleasedToElsewhere: D-Class Personnel are assured that they'll be freed at the end of the month if they cooperate ("released like homicidal bunny rabbits into the wild", as said in the D-Class Orientation). Even if they manage to not get killed by the various monsters, artifacts, and testing procedures, they are still executed at the end of the month anyway.[[note]]Of course, SCP canon being what it is, there are interpretations they're forcibly kept as D-Class until they finally get murdered by a SCP.[[/note]]
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* PyrrhicVictory: The eventual termination of SCP-096, caused as a result of [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/incident-096-1-a Incident 096-1-A]]
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105? 202? 415? 507? 590? And many more. It clearly isn\'t \"pretty much every human\", and the exception isn\'t too rare either.
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* OurMermaidsAreDifferent - [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-327 SCP-327]]
* {{Panacea}} - [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-500 SCP-500]], pills that cure any disease, but there's just about fifty of them and they're impossible to replicate perfectly (though knockoffs ''can'' work if you're lucky). Later, [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-427 SCP-427: the Lovecraftian Locket]] was developed that has eclipsed it in use, although with the possible side effect of mutating you into a squid.
* ParodySue - Several. Most notably, SCP-10101-j (a parody of overpowered wish-fulfillment self-inserts), SCP-777-j (a parody of god mode black hole sues), and SCP-496-j (a parody of Purity Sues, whose name actually references the original [[ATrekkiesTale Mary Sue]]). SCP-316, later terminated with extreme enthusiasm by the resident Wonka, reads much like one but was apparently intended as a serious SCP.
* {{Panacea}} - [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-500 SCP-500]], pills that cure any disease, but there's just about fifty of them and they're impossible to replicate perfectly (though knockoffs ''can'' work if you're lucky). Later, [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-427 SCP-427: the Lovecraftian Locket]] was developed that has eclipsed it in use, although with the possible side effect of mutating you into a squid.
* ParodySue - Several. Most notably, SCP-10101-j (a parody of overpowered wish-fulfillment self-inserts), SCP-777-j (a parody of god mode black hole sues), and SCP-496-j (a parody of Purity Sues, whose name actually references the original [[ATrekkiesTale Mary Sue]]). SCP-316, later terminated with extreme enthusiasm by the resident Wonka, reads much like one but was apparently intended as a serious SCP.
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* OurMermaidsAreDifferent - OurMermaidsAreDifferent: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-327 SCP-327]]
*{{Panacea}} - {{Panacea}}: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-500 SCP-500]], pills that cure any disease, but there's just about fifty of them and they're impossible to replicate perfectly (though knockoffs ''can'' work if you're lucky). Later, [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-427 SCP-427: the Lovecraftian Locket]] was developed that has eclipsed it in use, although with the possible side effect of mutating you into a squid.
*ParodySue - ParodySue: Several. Most notably, SCP-10101-j (a parody of overpowered wish-fulfillment self-inserts), SCP-777-j (a parody of god mode black hole sues), and SCP-496-j (a parody of Purity Sues, whose name actually references the original [[ATrekkiesTale Mary Sue]]). SCP-316, later terminated with extreme enthusiasm by the resident Wonka, reads much like one but was apparently intended as a serious SCP.
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* PersonOfMassDestruction -- Pretty much every human housed by the Foundation (and maybe the ''researchers''), especially if their object class is Keter.
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* PersonOfMassDestruction -- Pretty much every human housed by the Foundation (and maybe the ''researchers'').
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* PersonOfMassDestruction -- Pretty much every human housed by the Foundation (and maybe the ''researchers'').''researchers''), especially if their object class is Keter.
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*** On the other hand, it also demonstrates how important a [DATA EXPUNGED] can be for an article, as many people found the uncensored 835 reports to be quite disappointing.
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*** On the other hand, it can also demonstrates be seen as how important a [DATA EXPUNGED] can be important for an article, as many some people found the uncensored 835 reports to be quite disappointing.
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Just keep it short, remove natter. And I doubt that anyone would remove \"Keter-duty\" from 447 anytime soon.
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*** And to a lesser degree, the Foundation is prone to warning people that they'll get Keter duty if they intentionally harm Cassy.
*** Among other things. But keter duty is also being phased out: it's also unprofessional, and would you want people who ''broke rules or screwed up a lot'' being assigned to the most dangerous items?
*** Among other things. But keter duty is also being phased out: it's also unprofessional, and would you want people who ''broke rules or screwed up a lot'' being assigned to the most dangerous items?
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* NoSenseOfDirection: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-920 SCP-920,]] also known as [[MeaningfulName Mr. Lost.]] Try to take him somewhere, or just walk with him for a while, and ''you'' will get lost. (However, apparently because all the super-deadly gets old if ''everything'' is super-deadly, the description has a notice that lost means "lost" as in "misplaced" and not some horrible fate. However, you ''can'' be lost to pretty much anywhere in the world.
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* NoSenseOfDirection: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-920 SCP-920,]] also known as [[MeaningfulName Mr. Lost.]] Try to take him somewhere, or just walk with him for a while, and ''you'' will get lost. (However, apparently because all the super-deadly gets old if ''everything'' is super-deadly, the description has a notice that lost means "lost" as in "misplaced" and not some horrible fate. However, you ''can'' be lost to pretty much anywhere in the world.)
**When they tried to contain him, ''a whole facility got lost.'' It remained where it was but nobody could ever find it, leading to its closure due to running out of supplies.
**When they tried to contain him, ''a whole facility got lost.'' It remained where it was but nobody could ever find it, leading to its closure due to running out of supplies.
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** Dr. King and his [[spoiler: appleseeds]].apple seeds]].
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*** And to a lesser degree, the Foundation is prone to warning people that they'll get Keter duty if they intentionally harm Cassy.Cassy.
***Among other things. But keter duty is also being phased out: it's also unprofessional, and would you want people who ''broke rules or screwed up a lot'' being assigned to the most dangerous items?
***Among other things. But keter duty is also being phased out: it's also unprofessional, and would you want people who ''broke rules or screwed up a lot'' being assigned to the most dangerous items?
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** Some articles have either addendums or notes warning personnel to stop using them for pranks, party games, or as quick hangover remedies.
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** Some articles have either addendums or notes warning personnel to stop using them for pranks, party games, or as quick hangover remedies. This is being phased out and frowned upon, as a majority of the senior members now find it unfunny, trite, and unprofessional.
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* NoseShove: [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-108 SCP-108]].
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* RealityIsUnrealistic: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1485 SCP-1485]], a portal to [[ThisIsReality a world with no supernatural weirdness, no bizarre Groups of Interest, and no SCP Foundation]]. Despite the relative safety (compared to the SCP-verse) diplomatic relations became strained when the government on the other side learned just how terrifying the SCP's side was and the SCP had to deal with mass defections:
--->'''Head Researcher Smithers:''' SCP-1485-A is hardly a utopia, ████. They have wars, suffering, and death just like we do.\\
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'''Agent''' ████: Well, yeah, of course. But when you're walking down the street, you can trust your eyes. You know that what you see is what's really there. There's nothing hiding in your peripheral, nothing lurking in the shadows. Everything is…[[IJustWantToBeNormal normal]].
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'''Agent''' ████: Well, yeah, of course. But when you're walking down the street, you can trust your eyes. You know that what you see is what's really there. There's nothing hiding in your peripheral, nothing lurking in the shadows. Everything is…[[IJustWantToBeNormal normal]].
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* RealityIsUnrealistic: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1485 SCP-1485]], a portal to [[ThisIsReality a world with no supernatural weirdness, no bizarre Groups of Interest, and no SCP Foundation]]. Despite the relative safety (compared to the SCP-verse) diplomatic relations became strained when the government on the other side learned just how terrifying the SCP's side was and the SCP had to deal with mass defections:
--->'''Head Researcher Smithers:''' SCP-1485-A is hardly a utopia, ████. They have wars, suffering, and death just like we do.\\
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'''Agent''' ████: Well, yeah, of course. But when you're walking down the street, you can trust your eyes. You know that what you see is what's really there. There's nothing hiding in your peripheral, nothing lurking in the shadows. Everything is…[[IJustWantToBeNormal normal]].
--->'''Head Researcher Smithers:''' SCP-1485-A is hardly a utopia, ████. They have wars, suffering, and death just like we do.\\
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'''Agent''' ████: Well, yeah, of course. But when you're walking down the street, you can trust your eyes. You know that what you see is what's really there. There's nothing hiding in your peripheral, nothing lurking in the shadows. Everything is…[[IJustWantToBeNormal normal]].
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* {{Nanomachines}}: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-204 SCP-204-1]] and [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-784 SCP-784]]net/scp-784-ARC SCP-784-ARC]]
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** The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire underground fires in Centralia, Pennsylvania]] are actually the Norse fire giant Surtr ([[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1179 SCP-1179]]) waking up.
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There is no canon. All stories are, by definition, not canon, by nature of the fact that any work on the site is allowed to ignore any other work on the site..
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* NecessaryEvil: The Foundation considers itself this. The "[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/unfounded-hub Unfounded]]" mini-canon is built on the premise that this is not true, taking place in a universe where there is no Foundation, and yet things are still pretty much the same, with other Groups of Interest taking up the slack.
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* NecessaryEvil: The Foundation considers itself this. this.
** The "[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/unfounded-hub Unfounded]]" mini-canon is built on the premise that this is not true, taking place in a universe where there is no Foundation, and yet things are still pretty much the same, with other Groups of Interest taking up the slack.
** The "[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/unfounded-hub Unfounded]]" mini-canon is built on the premise that this is not true, taking place in a universe where there is no Foundation, and yet things are still pretty much the same, with other Groups of Interest taking up the slack.
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* NecessaryEvil: The Foundation considers itself this. The "[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/unfounded-hub Unfounded]]" mini-canon is built on the premise that this is not true, taking place in a universe where there is no Foundation, and yet things are still pretty much the same, with other Groups of Interest taking up the slack.
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*PoliceCodeForEverything: Mostly inverted by the things Dr. Bright is not allowed to do. However, there are codes for: Intense Homoeroticism, Necrophilia, And the Bright Family Reunion.
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* RealityWritingBook: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-140 SCP-140]] is a very specific version; the book writes itself and alters reality as a consequence, given a suitable form of ink or ink substitute. [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-687 SCP-687]] is a text adventure video game with broader abilities.
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** Some articles have either addendums or notes warning personnel to stop using them for pranks, party games, or as quick hangover remedies.
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* NamesTheSame: Meet [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-080 The Boogieman]], aaaand [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-959 The Bogeyman]].
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: A group calling itself "The Chaos Insurgency" cannot possibly be up to any good. Neither can the Church of the Broken God.
* {{Nanomachines}}: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-204 SCP-204-1]] and [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-784 SCP-784]]
* {{Narrator}}: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1376 SCP-1376]] is a video camera that gives its' recordings a narrator ''a la'' [[DavidAttenborough a certain British nature documentary series]].
--->'''Subject:''' A static recording of a tennis ball placed on a table.\\
'''Narration:''' ''As noon approaches, it grows increasingly confused, as the creatures around it show no sign of using it for its intended purpose. Struggling to attract their attention, it becomes ever more distressed as it finds itself completely immobile.''
** It may also be psychic (or at least very observant):
--->'''Subject:''' An incidental recording of Dr. ██████ made by Dr. ████████ during unrelated experimentation.\\
'''Narration:''' ''Despite the male's calm facade, his lust for his female companion is extraordinary. The degree to which his obsession reaches has become nearly unhealthy, dominating his thoughts at every turn. Wild fantasies course through his mind when he watches her when she doesn't notice.''\\
'''Researcher Note:''' Dr. ██████ was treated for a broken nose after being attacked by Dr. ████████ and both researchers have been placed on administrative leave for a period of no less than two (2) weeks pending disciplinary action and transfer to another site.
* NecessarilyEvil: The SCP Foundation recognizes that it does ''very bad'' things, for the greater good of humanity.
* NecessaryWeasel: The Foundation uses ordinary (that is, not paranormal) drugs which can [[LaserGuidedAmnesia erase memories]]. Nothing like that actually exists, but they're necessary to maintain TheMasquerade, which is itself necessary for PlausibleDeniability.
* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-294 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 "[[ShockSite two girls]]" gives the standard "OUT OF RANGE" error message. Come up with something more original next time.
* NeverMessWithGranny: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-517 Grammie Knows]], and [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-352 the Baba Yaga]].
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: A number of [=SCPs=] were either benign or dormant until the Foundation got their hands on them. It's only after some ill-conceived test is performed on it that it begins to become "uncooperative". And, when you're containing a minor deity, you do NOT want to make him uncooperative.
** A particularly memorable one is [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1322 SCP-1322]]. It's a portal to an alternate dimension. The inhabitants were friendly at first, until the Foundation offered to help them synthesize a vaccine to a viral epidemic on their side. Turns out the vaccine also acted as a DepopulationBomb. They are ''pissed''.
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1777 SCP-1777]]: Researchers accidentally kill a man who was given a weapon by an SCP. [[spoiler: Nice job killing King Arthur's heir.]]
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-687 SCP-687]]: A test subject used it to escape through time and become The Cleveland Torso Killer and Black Dahlia Murderer.
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1970 SCP-1970]]: Just an old TV that used tiny glowing humanoids for pixels until [[spoiler: researchers opened the glass and accidentally killed them.]]
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1122 SCP-1122]]: On a less deadly note, the family living in [[ZeeRust The House of Tomorrow]] isn't adjusting to the present very well:
--->Each new item has, without fail, had a negative effect on the house’s inhabitants. SCP-1122-1 [dad] has frequently been seen drinking, lamenting how [[IWantMyJetPack "things should be better,"]] while SCP-1122-3 [daughter] and SCP-1122-4 [son] have become more introverted and are rarely seen outside their rooms.
** The potential for this to occur due to gratuitous usage of Class-Ds (which, let's face it, is most of the time) is brought up on one talk page:
--> "It always bugs me when they send in the D-Class before the drones or lowered cameras or whatever. Good thing these dimensions always just contain a monster that eats D-Class personnel rather than, say, a button that makes the first person who presses it turn into a living God or something."
** The [[WellIntentionedExtremist Global Occult Coalition]], which aims to destroy all anomalous items regardless of their actual threat, is ''all about this'': They turned a [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1609 helpful chair]] into a very defensive pile of splinters, and [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1261 wiped out a village]] just because they were "infected" with harmless, "imaginary" (or were they?) flightless birds.
* NightmareFuel: {{In-universe}}:
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-425 SCP-425]]: A television set which broadcast weird vision by itself on the 8th, 16th, and 24th day of each month, even when unplugged. It's harmless, but if you born on days of the month that are multiples of 8 (e.g. 8, 16, and 24), then the vison will include ''moving through a black hole'', and experience "a crushing sense of oblivion". Then you will have recurring nightmares for weeks, and even extensive psychotherapy only reduced the nightmare to once a month.
** 30% of [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1881 SCP-1881-B]] players report lasting psychological effects afterwards, in the form of nightmares related to its contents (and occasional visual/auditory hallucinations).
* NinetyPercentOfYourBrain: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1475 SCP-1475]] can use 100% of his brain [[spoiler: because he needs to regulate everything his body would normally do automatically. The author wrote this specifically because they hated the "__% of your brain" trope.]]
* NintendoHard: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1633 SCP-1633]], which learns from players' actions and evolves to counter them.
* NoJustNoReaction: 076's reaction to being requested to approach [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/dr-clef-s-proposal one candidate]] for SCP-001.
** Any time experiments are cancelled on [=SCPs=] that violate common sense or would possibly replicate something nasty.
* NoNameGiven: The O5. Most of the time, even their identification numbers are blanked out. Often, researchers have their blanked out. D-Class, being expendable, don't have names, just numerical designations.
** Averted with O5-12, the father of SCP 321, whose first name is Adam in a nod to the long tradition of meaningful names and nods towards TheBible in the Foundation[[note]]Assume that [=O5s=] are still normal humans, Adam was in the Federation since 18██, then the current O5-12 play this trope straight[[/note]].
* NonIndicativeName: This tends to come up a lot when discussing the Foundation's means of categorizing [=SCPs=], mainly because when a Foundation operative says an object is "safe", they mean "nothing will happen if it's left alone in a locked room". A ''hydrogen bomb'' is "safe" by those standards.
* NoodleImplements: Some of the SCP objects become this, when SCP numbers are listed in incident reports or other articles; occasionally the SCP with that designation will appear completely irrelevant to the context in which it was referenced.
** That's often due to the original SCP being removed, and a new one filed under that number.
** Also, the FAQ's tongue-in-cheek explanation of what Procedure 110-Montauk is consists of a bunch of [DATA REDACTED]s interspersed with mentions of an elephant, a bed of live cobras, Barbara Streisand's Greatest Hits, something that is over seventeen feet long, a staple remover, a feather boa that absolutely ''must'' be black (and not dark blue), and "plutonium splitting the atom."
*** Updated to "An amateur shadowcast of the Rocky Horror Picture Show."
* NoodleIncident: 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 why [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-447 SCP-447]] must ''never'' come into contact with dead bodies is especially noodly and is occasionally referred to elsewhere (as seen below, it scares O5-2 shitless).
** [[invoked]]SCP-231 is essentially a NoodleIncident played for {{Squick}} and horror rather than laughs.
*** Related to this is the notorious "Procedure 110-Montauk". Whatever you think it is, it's much, MUCH worse...[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe_Boll and even then, it's much worse than that]].
** The uncensored reports of [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-835 SCP-835]] demonstrate exactly what could be behind every NoodleIncident, and why you really don't want to know.
*** On the other hand, it also demonstrates how important a [DATA EXPUNGED] can be for an article, as many people found the uncensored 835 reports to be quite disappointing.
** Most of the items on [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/the-things-dr-bright-is-not-allowed-to-do-at-the-foundation the list of things Dr. Bright is not allowed to do at the Foundation]] imply quite a few such incidents coming from just one guy.
*** [[spoiler: According to [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-963 SCP-963]] and its implications, "[[BrainUploading just one guy]]" isn't an accurate term.]]
** The first thumbnail in SCP-1231 is redacted, [[spoiler: which is odd, considering that whatever you think the thumbnail contains is then created as a new thumbnail, and that the thousands of other thumbnails all derived from the first perception of the original]].
** SCP-579.
* NoOSHACompliance: Played straight, subverted and averted in different sections of the site. In the SCP articles themselves, the containment procedures are designed to minimize danger, risk, and loss of life, even of the utterly expendable D-Class. In the testing logs, the prison-recruited D-class personnel are regularly treated to definitely unethical and probably lethal experimentation, often 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. Finally, 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.
* NoSell: Former [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/experiment-log-151-d SCP-151-D]] exhibited this along with other MartyStu traits, shrugging off effects of other [=SCPs=] just ''because''. His termination log consists much of the same, until he's finally destroyed... rather messily. [[invoked]]
* NoSenseOfDirection: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-920 SCP-920,]] also known as [[MeaningfulName Mr. Lost.]] Try to take him somewhere, or just walk with him for a while, and ''you'' will get lost. (However, apparently because all the super-deadly gets old if ''everything'' is super-deadly, the description has a notice that lost means "lost" as in "misplaced" and not some horrible fate. However, you ''can'' be lost to pretty much anywhere in the world.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Many of the [=SCPs=]. In particular is SCP-387, a set of sentient Legos. Ordinarily they're benign, and even kind of cute. But put a knockoff set of Legos nearby, and they will do [[NothingIsScarier something Redactable]].
* NotUsingTheZWord - The entry for [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-008 SCP-008]].
* NothingIsScarier: The guidelines for writing new SCP reports encourage [[TakeOurWordForIt vagueness]] so that the reader fills in the horror for themselves, which is more effective than detailing something that may just fall flat.
** Judging by the details of one uncensored article, ''everything behind those [DATA EXPUNGED] is worse than you think''.
** [=SCPs=] [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-055 SCP-055]] and [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-100 SCP-100]] are good examples of that.
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-579 SCP-579]]. What is it? '''We don't know.''' Whatever it is, the SCP Administration felt it was so dangerous that even the description of it is gone. They even killed all the people working on it, save 7 agents that act as advisers in case it ever gets loose. It's so bad that it's currently stored in an alternate universe -- after having destroyed at least 4 other containment sites, with a very specific containment procedure, and if it ever fails, even for a minute, policy is to ''destroy the alternate universe'' to contain it. And if that fails?
--> ''In the event of an unsuccessful Action 10-Israfil-B, no further action will be necessary.'' [DATA EXPUNGED]
* NuclearOption: Most (if not all) Sites have on-site nuclear warheads, to be detonated in the event of a breach by a Keter-class SCP or Site failure.
** But they are actually ''afraid'' to try it on [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-682 SCP-682]] because it might not only ''survive'', it could become ''even stronger.''
* TheNudifier: The intended use of [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1755 SCP-1755]] by its creators, until the Foundation contained it and discovered that [[spoiler:the worms are bringing the cotton plant close to extinction and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero might cause a collapse in the textile industry.]]]]
* NumberOfTheBeast: While [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-666 SCP-666]] is not overtly Satanic, [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-616 SCP-616]] is decidedly more hellish, and has clergy on staff when necessary. The actual religious requirements are [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve invented]], though.
** FridgeBrilliance that SCP-616 is the hellish one, see note on the NumberOfTheBeast page.
* ObsessiveLoveLetter: [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1269 SCP-1269]], apparently a mailbox that sends stalkerish letters to female owners.
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-962 SCP-962]], which sends such love letters to ''humanity''.
* OddCouple: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1710 SCP-1710]] 1 and 2, a pair of beings who were reincarnated by jerkass TricksterGod:
-->'''SCP-1710-1''': We were not always thus. [[CosmicHorror We were the Serrated Void. We were That Which Rends. We were blades, edges, angles.]] We moved, we ravaged, we sharped.\\
'''SCP-1710-2''': What was that? Sorry, I was distracted by those bees. Silly little buggers, they are, buzzing about. Oh, they tickle so!
* OhCrap: From the Incident Report "Duke 'Till Dawn:" ''Containment of Keter level threat SCP-682 compromised.''
* OmniscientMoralityLicense - A lot of these researchers are ''worse'' than Class-D personnel (Who are "recruited" from prison.) Some [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard get demoted to Class D]].
* OurAngelsAreDifferent - ''Shockingly'' averted. The Foundation goes to extensive lengths to document the fact that [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/dr-clef-s-proposal Dr. Clef's proposal for SCP-001]] is indeed a bona fide Judeao-Christian Angel without any major subversions. It ''does'' however play more to the descriptions in Holy texts as opposed to cultural depictions, for instance appearing to have as many as 108 wings and being made of fire.
** Played Straight, though, with [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-469 SCP-469]]. Disturbingly straight.
** Your mileage may vary with [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-861 SCP-861]].
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent - [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-327 SCP-327]]
* {{Panacea}} - [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-500 SCP-500]], pills that cure any disease, but there's just about fifty of them and they're impossible to replicate perfectly (though knockoffs ''can'' work if you're lucky). Later, [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-427 SCP-427: the Lovecraftian Locket]] was developed that has eclipsed it in use, although with the possible side effect of mutating you into a squid.
* ParodySue - Several. Most notably, SCP-10101-j (a parody of overpowered wish-fulfillment self-inserts), SCP-777-j (a parody of god mode black hole sues), and SCP-496-j (a parody of Purity Sues, whose name actually references the original [[ATrekkiesTale Mary Sue]]). SCP-316, later terminated with extreme enthusiasm by the resident Wonka, reads much like one but was apparently intended as a serious SCP.
* PerfectlyCromulentWord: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-566 SCP-566]] contains these.
* PerpetualMotionMachine: So many [=SCPs=] (labeled [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/system:page-tags/tag/ectoentropic ectoentropic]]) ignore the laws of thermodynamics, being able to produce infinite amounts of matter, energy, or their constant movements could be used as a power generation tool. Sadly, most are either too valuable or dangerous to use.
* PersonOfMassDestruction -- Pretty much every human housed by the Foundation (and maybe the ''researchers'').
* PetTheDog - Most sentient [=SCPs=] are accomodated reasonably well, depending on their potential danger, ability to escape, and willingness to cause harm. The most (relatively) harmless are given furnished rooms and are generally given whatever they request, as long as it doesn't violate security. They are, of course, not allowed to leave the facility.
** SCP-103 was the only SCP that the Foundation actually released. It says something about the Foundation's [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well Intentioned Extremism]] that a man who's only power is that he [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway never gets hungry]] is the only SCP ever let go without being terminated (and even that is, according to the comments, a controversial decision). He got retconned to having worms in his stomach that fly out and eat people and never having been released.
*** Admittedly, some of the [=SCPs=] are given the best care possible. Every effort is made not to upset the autistic girl, for example, and the harmless and friendly living eyeballs have free run of their site. And one of the first tests of the vending machine was "something Cassy will like," Cassy being a mentally normal young woman who exists in 2-D.
** Several [=SCPs=] which fall into a self contained microcosm, pocket universe, etc, or other [=SCPs=] that were created by the Foundation on accident, respect or outright revere the Foundation. On the other hand, some fall into a RageAgainstTheHeavens.
** Some [=SCPs=] that are relatively harmless are just glad to have someone talking to / using them again, in many cases having been abandoned for years after their original owner died.
* PiecesOfGod: That particular faction's not called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Church Of The Broken God"]] for nothing.
* PlagueDoctor: The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' has [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-049 SCP-049]]. [[{{Creepypasta}} This being the Foundation]], naturally he's a horrifying DeadlyDoctor.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1875 SCP-1875]] is powered by two. [[spoiler:[[BrownNote They ain't exactly happy about it]]]].
* PowerPerversionPotential - SCP-294 is a vending machine that can produce twelve ounces of just about anything as long as it's liquid. A security guard started using it to produce and sell heroin and meth before being caught.
** SCP-447-2 can be used as a personal lubricant, [[RunningGag unless you're a necrophiliac]].
* PrettyButterflies: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-408 SCP-408]], a sapient flock of color-changing, illusion-creating butterflies.
* PrimalFear: Many of [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1881 SCP-1881]]'s stage iterations invoke these, such as a level appearing to be upside-down without gravity being reversed to match, a {{shmup}} stage with no enemies (leaving the player floating aimlessly through empty space for several minutes before the level ended), and being trapped in a maze with an increasingly large number of deadly creatures.
* ProducePelting - [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-504 SCP-504]] is a breed of tomato that throws ''itself'' if someone cracks a bad joke. If the joke is bad enough, ''it will break the sound barrier.''
--> Item: Three mature SCP-504 tomatoes, one for each test subject.\\
Subject: After the introduction to the following news item, "Bomb blows hole in Lenin statue", the three following jokes were made.\\
Test Subject 1: Ooh, that's gonna leave a Marx.\\
Result: Tomato number one 'twitched', but did not displace from its original location.\\
Test Subject 2: BBC is just Stalin the good news.\\
Result: Tomato clocked at 152 mph. Chipped tooth and hairline jaw fracture.\\
Test Subject 3: That blows.\\
Result: Tomato clocked at [REDACTED]. Subject is hospitalized with a massive skull fracture.
** Interestingly enough, when told The Funniest Joke of All Time from ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', it exploded.
** And when shown a recent episode of SaturdayNightLive, high-speed photography showed that the tomato ''changed velocity'' several times (including a brief jump ''backward''), as if unable to decide whether the sketch was genuinely lame or just "bad" in an [[SoBadItsGood ironic]] [[StylisticSuck sense]].
* PublicDomainArtifact - [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/spring-cleaning Spring Cleaning, a story involving a bunch of these.]]
* RageAgainstTheAuthor: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/sandrewswann-s-proposal S. Andrew Swann's SCP-001 proposal.]]
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: For the Global Occult Coalition, one of the Foundation's rival organizations, if God exists, then it's their job to ''kill it''.
* RazorFloss: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-183 SCP-183]]
* RealityRetcon: The "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop Big Bloop]], a RealLife unexplained extremely-loud underwater sound, was caused by [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-169 SCP-169]], an [[KrakenAndLeviathan enormous undersea creature]] which is at ''least'' 1,000 km in length. The Foundation had a spy in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who tried to prevent the public from learning of the Bloop, but failed.
* RealityWarpingIsNotAToy
* {{Red Shirt}}s: The Class D's, of course. Lampshaded: Dr. Bright cannot change the standard issue D-Class uniform to black pants with a red polo shirt.
* ReplacementGoldfish: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1976 SCP-1976]] was made by a man to be this for his family after he died of a brain tumor. He thought its powers would make his family see it as their husband and father, instead it [[spoiler: caused his wife to think it was ''her'' father while his children weren't old enough for its powers to work]]. It currently causes anyone within its activation criteria who looks at it to think its their father while their real father becomes a stranger.
* ResearchInc: the Foundation benefits commercially form their research.
* {{Retcon}}: 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.)
* RetGone: When Fishmonger (the writer) was banned, he demanded to have all of his characters and stories to be removed from the SCP Wiki. Some of his more famous characters were referenced in many articles. This left many gaps.
** And before that, all of the [=SCPs=] deleted during the Mass Edit.
** To make things even more confusing, since the numbers for RetGone [=SCPs=] were freed up, the wiki wound up with new [=SCPs=] under old numbers.
* RockOfLimitlessWater: Inverted with [=SCP=]-402, which absorbs limitless water.
** [=SCP=]-045 is a straight example, producing water when exposed to nitrogen in an environment with less than 380 atmospheres of pressure.
* {{Room 101}}: The old SCP-100 entry.
** This is also possibly a subversion of the [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour obvious reference]], since the actual SCP-101 is relatively tame: [[spoiler: it's a bag which eats things and is apparently mostly used for trash disposal.]]
* RoswellThatEndsWell: It wasn't a spaceship; it was [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1051 SCP-1051]] prior to hatching.
* RuleThirtyFour: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1004 SCP-1004]] is this in its purest form.
* RunningGag: [DATA EXPUNGED]
** On a not so funny note, that may be to KEEP you from gagging.
** DO NOT allow [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-447 SCP-447-2]] to come into contact with dead bodies!
*** It eventually gets to the point that all of the researchers mention their fear of it coming into contact with dead bodies in the most unlikely of circumstances (such as dead bodies drinking milk).
*** And other forces seem to play on that fear, such as when SCP-914 transforms a dead body ''into'' SCP-447-2.
*** The real reason for this fear is [[spoiler:that Doctor Alistair is very afraid of dead bodies and he's the one in charge. So he made up crap to get away with it and it took a life of it's own.]]
*** One (non-canon) story actually DOES describe some of the adverse effects of SCP-447 touching a dead body. In the aftermath, a dimensional rift opened up and dragged Dr. Clef into an alternate reality.
*** SCP-447 also seems to have an obsession with the color green and the smell of mint. Applied to the cure-anything-pill, SCP-500, the pill still cures anything, but leaves the subject with "minty-fresh breath". Applied to a subject's eyes, it improves that person's vision significantly, with the side effect of tinting that person's vision green, including coloring the eyes themselves green. It can also: harden concrete, make milk lactose-free (and give it a slight minty taste), decontaminate water to a limited degree (as well as tinting it green), and increase a car's functioning significantly (windshield wiper fluid will literally repel dirt and grime, radiator fluid will double the temperature needed to overheat the engine, and mixed into gasoline will increase fuel efficiency by 150%).
** There's also how the discovery of any SCP being potentially lethal inevitably leads to someone wondering if it could be used to kill [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-682 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.
** Dr. King and his [[spoiler: appleseeds]]
** That the common typo of SCP, SPC, is an AlternateUniverse version of the Foundation, the '''S'''hark '''P'''unching '''C'''enter.
** Some articles have either addendums or notes warning personnel to stop using them for pranks, party games, or as quick hangover remedies.
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* NamesTheSame: Meet [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-080 The Boogieman]], aaaand [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-959 The Bogeyman]].
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: A group calling itself "The Chaos Insurgency" cannot possibly be up to any good. Neither can the Church of the Broken God.
* {{Nanomachines}}: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-204 SCP-204-1]] and [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-784 SCP-784]]
* {{Narrator}}: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1376 SCP-1376]] is a video camera that gives its' recordings a narrator ''a la'' [[DavidAttenborough a certain British nature documentary series]].
--->'''Subject:''' A static recording of a tennis ball placed on a table.\\
'''Narration:''' ''As noon approaches, it grows increasingly confused, as the creatures around it show no sign of using it for its intended purpose. Struggling to attract their attention, it becomes ever more distressed as it finds itself completely immobile.''
** It may also be psychic (or at least very observant):
--->'''Subject:''' An incidental recording of Dr. ██████ made by Dr. ████████ during unrelated experimentation.\\
'''Narration:''' ''Despite the male's calm facade, his lust for his female companion is extraordinary. The degree to which his obsession reaches has become nearly unhealthy, dominating his thoughts at every turn. Wild fantasies course through his mind when he watches her when she doesn't notice.''\\
'''Researcher Note:''' Dr. ██████ was treated for a broken nose after being attacked by Dr. ████████ and both researchers have been placed on administrative leave for a period of no less than two (2) weeks pending disciplinary action and transfer to another site.
* NecessarilyEvil: The SCP Foundation recognizes that it does ''very bad'' things, for the greater good of humanity.
* NecessaryWeasel: The Foundation uses ordinary (that is, not paranormal) drugs which can [[LaserGuidedAmnesia erase memories]]. Nothing like that actually exists, but they're necessary to maintain TheMasquerade, which is itself necessary for PlausibleDeniability.
* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-294 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 "[[ShockSite two girls]]" gives the standard "OUT OF RANGE" error message. Come up with something more original next time.
* NeverMessWithGranny: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-517 Grammie Knows]], and [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-352 the Baba Yaga]].
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: A number of [=SCPs=] were either benign or dormant until the Foundation got their hands on them. It's only after some ill-conceived test is performed on it that it begins to become "uncooperative". And, when you're containing a minor deity, you do NOT want to make him uncooperative.
** A particularly memorable one is [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1322 SCP-1322]]. It's a portal to an alternate dimension. The inhabitants were friendly at first, until the Foundation offered to help them synthesize a vaccine to a viral epidemic on their side. Turns out the vaccine also acted as a DepopulationBomb. They are ''pissed''.
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1777 SCP-1777]]: Researchers accidentally kill a man who was given a weapon by an SCP. [[spoiler: Nice job killing King Arthur's heir.]]
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-687 SCP-687]]: A test subject used it to escape through time and become The Cleveland Torso Killer and Black Dahlia Murderer.
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1970 SCP-1970]]: Just an old TV that used tiny glowing humanoids for pixels until [[spoiler: researchers opened the glass and accidentally killed them.]]
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1122 SCP-1122]]: On a less deadly note, the family living in [[ZeeRust The House of Tomorrow]] isn't adjusting to the present very well:
--->Each new item has, without fail, had a negative effect on the house’s inhabitants. SCP-1122-1 [dad] has frequently been seen drinking, lamenting how [[IWantMyJetPack "things should be better,"]] while SCP-1122-3 [daughter] and SCP-1122-4 [son] have become more introverted and are rarely seen outside their rooms.
** The potential for this to occur due to gratuitous usage of Class-Ds (which, let's face it, is most of the time) is brought up on one talk page:
--> "It always bugs me when they send in the D-Class before the drones or lowered cameras or whatever. Good thing these dimensions always just contain a monster that eats D-Class personnel rather than, say, a button that makes the first person who presses it turn into a living God or something."
** The [[WellIntentionedExtremist Global Occult Coalition]], which aims to destroy all anomalous items regardless of their actual threat, is ''all about this'': They turned a [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1609 helpful chair]] into a very defensive pile of splinters, and [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1261 wiped out a village]] just because they were "infected" with harmless, "imaginary" (or were they?) flightless birds.
* NightmareFuel: {{In-universe}}:
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-425 SCP-425]]: A television set which broadcast weird vision by itself on the 8th, 16th, and 24th day of each month, even when unplugged. It's harmless, but if you born on days of the month that are multiples of 8 (e.g. 8, 16, and 24), then the vison will include ''moving through a black hole'', and experience "a crushing sense of oblivion". Then you will have recurring nightmares for weeks, and even extensive psychotherapy only reduced the nightmare to once a month.
** 30% of [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1881 SCP-1881-B]] players report lasting psychological effects afterwards, in the form of nightmares related to its contents (and occasional visual/auditory hallucinations).
* NinetyPercentOfYourBrain: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1475 SCP-1475]] can use 100% of his brain [[spoiler: because he needs to regulate everything his body would normally do automatically. The author wrote this specifically because they hated the "__% of your brain" trope.]]
* NintendoHard: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1633 SCP-1633]], which learns from players' actions and evolves to counter them.
* NoJustNoReaction: 076's reaction to being requested to approach [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/dr-clef-s-proposal one candidate]] for SCP-001.
** Any time experiments are cancelled on [=SCPs=] that violate common sense or would possibly replicate something nasty.
* NoNameGiven: The O5. Most of the time, even their identification numbers are blanked out. Often, researchers have their blanked out. D-Class, being expendable, don't have names, just numerical designations.
** Averted with O5-12, the father of SCP 321, whose first name is Adam in a nod to the long tradition of meaningful names and nods towards TheBible in the Foundation[[note]]Assume that [=O5s=] are still normal humans, Adam was in the Federation since 18██, then the current O5-12 play this trope straight[[/note]].
* NonIndicativeName: This tends to come up a lot when discussing the Foundation's means of categorizing [=SCPs=], mainly because when a Foundation operative says an object is "safe", they mean "nothing will happen if it's left alone in a locked room". A ''hydrogen bomb'' is "safe" by those standards.
* NoodleImplements: Some of the SCP objects become this, when SCP numbers are listed in incident reports or other articles; occasionally the SCP with that designation will appear completely irrelevant to the context in which it was referenced.
** That's often due to the original SCP being removed, and a new one filed under that number.
** Also, the FAQ's tongue-in-cheek explanation of what Procedure 110-Montauk is consists of a bunch of [DATA REDACTED]s interspersed with mentions of an elephant, a bed of live cobras, Barbara Streisand's Greatest Hits, something that is over seventeen feet long, a staple remover, a feather boa that absolutely ''must'' be black (and not dark blue), and "plutonium splitting the atom."
*** Updated to "An amateur shadowcast of the Rocky Horror Picture Show."
* NoodleIncident: 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 why [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-447 SCP-447]] must ''never'' come into contact with dead bodies is especially noodly and is occasionally referred to elsewhere (as seen below, it scares O5-2 shitless).
** [[invoked]]SCP-231 is essentially a NoodleIncident played for {{Squick}} and horror rather than laughs.
*** Related to this is the notorious "Procedure 110-Montauk". Whatever you think it is, it's much, MUCH worse...[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe_Boll and even then, it's much worse than that]].
** The uncensored reports of [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-835 SCP-835]] demonstrate exactly what could be behind every NoodleIncident, and why you really don't want to know.
*** On the other hand, it also demonstrates how important a [DATA EXPUNGED] can be for an article, as many people found the uncensored 835 reports to be quite disappointing.
** Most of the items on [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/the-things-dr-bright-is-not-allowed-to-do-at-the-foundation the list of things Dr. Bright is not allowed to do at the Foundation]] imply quite a few such incidents coming from just one guy.
*** [[spoiler: According to [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-963 SCP-963]] and its implications, "[[BrainUploading just one guy]]" isn't an accurate term.]]
** The first thumbnail in SCP-1231 is redacted, [[spoiler: which is odd, considering that whatever you think the thumbnail contains is then created as a new thumbnail, and that the thousands of other thumbnails all derived from the first perception of the original]].
** SCP-579.
* NoOSHACompliance: Played straight, subverted and averted in different sections of the site. In the SCP articles themselves, the containment procedures are designed to minimize danger, risk, and loss of life, even of the utterly expendable D-Class. In the testing logs, the prison-recruited D-class personnel are regularly treated to definitely unethical and probably lethal experimentation, often 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. Finally, 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.
* NoSell: Former [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/experiment-log-151-d SCP-151-D]] exhibited this along with other MartyStu traits, shrugging off effects of other [=SCPs=] just ''because''. His termination log consists much of the same, until he's finally destroyed... rather messily. [[invoked]]
* NoSenseOfDirection: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-920 SCP-920,]] also known as [[MeaningfulName Mr. Lost.]] Try to take him somewhere, or just walk with him for a while, and ''you'' will get lost. (However, apparently because all the super-deadly gets old if ''everything'' is super-deadly, the description has a notice that lost means "lost" as in "misplaced" and not some horrible fate. However, you ''can'' be lost to pretty much anywhere in the world.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Many of the [=SCPs=]. In particular is SCP-387, a set of sentient Legos. Ordinarily they're benign, and even kind of cute. But put a knockoff set of Legos nearby, and they will do [[NothingIsScarier something Redactable]].
* NotUsingTheZWord - The entry for [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-008 SCP-008]].
* NothingIsScarier: The guidelines for writing new SCP reports encourage [[TakeOurWordForIt vagueness]] so that the reader fills in the horror for themselves, which is more effective than detailing something that may just fall flat.
** Judging by the details of one uncensored article, ''everything behind those [DATA EXPUNGED] is worse than you think''.
** [=SCPs=] [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-055 SCP-055]] and [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-100 SCP-100]] are good examples of that.
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-579 SCP-579]]. What is it? '''We don't know.''' Whatever it is, the SCP Administration felt it was so dangerous that even the description of it is gone. They even killed all the people working on it, save 7 agents that act as advisers in case it ever gets loose. It's so bad that it's currently stored in an alternate universe -- after having destroyed at least 4 other containment sites, with a very specific containment procedure, and if it ever fails, even for a minute, policy is to ''destroy the alternate universe'' to contain it. And if that fails?
--> ''In the event of an unsuccessful Action 10-Israfil-B, no further action will be necessary.'' [DATA EXPUNGED]
* NuclearOption: Most (if not all) Sites have on-site nuclear warheads, to be detonated in the event of a breach by a Keter-class SCP or Site failure.
** But they are actually ''afraid'' to try it on [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-682 SCP-682]] because it might not only ''survive'', it could become ''even stronger.''
* TheNudifier: The intended use of [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1755 SCP-1755]] by its creators, until the Foundation contained it and discovered that [[spoiler:the worms are bringing the cotton plant close to extinction and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero might cause a collapse in the textile industry.]]]]
* NumberOfTheBeast: While [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-666 SCP-666]] is not overtly Satanic, [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-616 SCP-616]] is decidedly more hellish, and has clergy on staff when necessary. The actual religious requirements are [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve invented]], though.
** FridgeBrilliance that SCP-616 is the hellish one, see note on the NumberOfTheBeast page.
* ObsessiveLoveLetter: [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1269 SCP-1269]], apparently a mailbox that sends stalkerish letters to female owners.
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-962 SCP-962]], which sends such love letters to ''humanity''.
* OddCouple: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1710 SCP-1710]] 1 and 2, a pair of beings who were reincarnated by jerkass TricksterGod:
-->'''SCP-1710-1''': We were not always thus. [[CosmicHorror We were the Serrated Void. We were That Which Rends. We were blades, edges, angles.]] We moved, we ravaged, we sharped.\\
'''SCP-1710-2''': What was that? Sorry, I was distracted by those bees. Silly little buggers, they are, buzzing about. Oh, they tickle so!
* OhCrap: From the Incident Report "Duke 'Till Dawn:" ''Containment of Keter level threat SCP-682 compromised.''
* OmniscientMoralityLicense - A lot of these researchers are ''worse'' than Class-D personnel (Who are "recruited" from prison.) Some [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard get demoted to Class D]].
* OurAngelsAreDifferent - ''Shockingly'' averted. The Foundation goes to extensive lengths to document the fact that [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/dr-clef-s-proposal Dr. Clef's proposal for SCP-001]] is indeed a bona fide Judeao-Christian Angel without any major subversions. It ''does'' however play more to the descriptions in Holy texts as opposed to cultural depictions, for instance appearing to have as many as 108 wings and being made of fire.
** Played Straight, though, with [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-469 SCP-469]]. Disturbingly straight.
** Your mileage may vary with [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-861 SCP-861]].
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent - [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-327 SCP-327]]
* {{Panacea}} - [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-500 SCP-500]], pills that cure any disease, but there's just about fifty of them and they're impossible to replicate perfectly (though knockoffs ''can'' work if you're lucky). Later, [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-427 SCP-427: the Lovecraftian Locket]] was developed that has eclipsed it in use, although with the possible side effect of mutating you into a squid.
* ParodySue - Several. Most notably, SCP-10101-j (a parody of overpowered wish-fulfillment self-inserts), SCP-777-j (a parody of god mode black hole sues), and SCP-496-j (a parody of Purity Sues, whose name actually references the original [[ATrekkiesTale Mary Sue]]). SCP-316, later terminated with extreme enthusiasm by the resident Wonka, reads much like one but was apparently intended as a serious SCP.
* PerfectlyCromulentWord: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-566 SCP-566]] contains these.
* PerpetualMotionMachine: So many [=SCPs=] (labeled [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/system:page-tags/tag/ectoentropic ectoentropic]]) ignore the laws of thermodynamics, being able to produce infinite amounts of matter, energy, or their constant movements could be used as a power generation tool. Sadly, most are either too valuable or dangerous to use.
* PersonOfMassDestruction -- Pretty much every human housed by the Foundation (and maybe the ''researchers'').
* PetTheDog - Most sentient [=SCPs=] are accomodated reasonably well, depending on their potential danger, ability to escape, and willingness to cause harm. The most (relatively) harmless are given furnished rooms and are generally given whatever they request, as long as it doesn't violate security. They are, of course, not allowed to leave the facility.
** SCP-103 was the only SCP that the Foundation actually released. It says something about the Foundation's [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well Intentioned Extremism]] that a man who's only power is that he [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway never gets hungry]] is the only SCP ever let go without being terminated (and even that is, according to the comments, a controversial decision). He got retconned to having worms in his stomach that fly out and eat people and never having been released.
*** Admittedly, some of the [=SCPs=] are given the best care possible. Every effort is made not to upset the autistic girl, for example, and the harmless and friendly living eyeballs have free run of their site. And one of the first tests of the vending machine was "something Cassy will like," Cassy being a mentally normal young woman who exists in 2-D.
** Several [=SCPs=] which fall into a self contained microcosm, pocket universe, etc, or other [=SCPs=] that were created by the Foundation on accident, respect or outright revere the Foundation. On the other hand, some fall into a RageAgainstTheHeavens.
** Some [=SCPs=] that are relatively harmless are just glad to have someone talking to / using them again, in many cases having been abandoned for years after their original owner died.
* PiecesOfGod: That particular faction's not called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Church Of The Broken God"]] for nothing.
* PlagueDoctor: The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' has [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-049 SCP-049]]. [[{{Creepypasta}} This being the Foundation]], naturally he's a horrifying DeadlyDoctor.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1875 SCP-1875]] is powered by two. [[spoiler:[[BrownNote They ain't exactly happy about it]]]].
* PowerPerversionPotential - SCP-294 is a vending machine that can produce twelve ounces of just about anything as long as it's liquid. A security guard started using it to produce and sell heroin and meth before being caught.
** SCP-447-2 can be used as a personal lubricant, [[RunningGag unless you're a necrophiliac]].
* PrettyButterflies: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-408 SCP-408]], a sapient flock of color-changing, illusion-creating butterflies.
* PrimalFear: Many of [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1881 SCP-1881]]'s stage iterations invoke these, such as a level appearing to be upside-down without gravity being reversed to match, a {{shmup}} stage with no enemies (leaving the player floating aimlessly through empty space for several minutes before the level ended), and being trapped in a maze with an increasingly large number of deadly creatures.
* ProducePelting - [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-504 SCP-504]] is a breed of tomato that throws ''itself'' if someone cracks a bad joke. If the joke is bad enough, ''it will break the sound barrier.''
--> Item: Three mature SCP-504 tomatoes, one for each test subject.\\
Subject: After the introduction to the following news item, "Bomb blows hole in Lenin statue", the three following jokes were made.\\
Test Subject 1: Ooh, that's gonna leave a Marx.\\
Result: Tomato number one 'twitched', but did not displace from its original location.\\
Test Subject 2: BBC is just Stalin the good news.\\
Result: Tomato clocked at 152 mph. Chipped tooth and hairline jaw fracture.\\
Test Subject 3: That blows.\\
Result: Tomato clocked at [REDACTED]. Subject is hospitalized with a massive skull fracture.
** Interestingly enough, when told The Funniest Joke of All Time from ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', it exploded.
** And when shown a recent episode of SaturdayNightLive, high-speed photography showed that the tomato ''changed velocity'' several times (including a brief jump ''backward''), as if unable to decide whether the sketch was genuinely lame or just "bad" in an [[SoBadItsGood ironic]] [[StylisticSuck sense]].
* PublicDomainArtifact - [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/spring-cleaning Spring Cleaning, a story involving a bunch of these.]]
* RageAgainstTheAuthor: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/sandrewswann-s-proposal S. Andrew Swann's SCP-001 proposal.]]
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: For the Global Occult Coalition, one of the Foundation's rival organizations, if God exists, then it's their job to ''kill it''.
* RazorFloss: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-183 SCP-183]]
* RealityRetcon: The "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop Big Bloop]], a RealLife unexplained extremely-loud underwater sound, was caused by [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-169 SCP-169]], an [[KrakenAndLeviathan enormous undersea creature]] which is at ''least'' 1,000 km in length. The Foundation had a spy in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who tried to prevent the public from learning of the Bloop, but failed.
* RealityWarpingIsNotAToy
* {{Red Shirt}}s: The Class D's, of course. Lampshaded: Dr. Bright cannot change the standard issue D-Class uniform to black pants with a red polo shirt.
* ReplacementGoldfish: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1976 SCP-1976]] was made by a man to be this for his family after he died of a brain tumor. He thought its powers would make his family see it as their husband and father, instead it [[spoiler: caused his wife to think it was ''her'' father while his children weren't old enough for its powers to work]]. It currently causes anyone within its activation criteria who looks at it to think its their father while their real father becomes a stranger.
* ResearchInc: the Foundation benefits commercially form their research.
* {{Retcon}}: 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.)
* RetGone: When Fishmonger (the writer) was banned, he demanded to have all of his characters and stories to be removed from the SCP Wiki. Some of his more famous characters were referenced in many articles. This left many gaps.
** And before that, all of the [=SCPs=] deleted during the Mass Edit.
** To make things even more confusing, since the numbers for RetGone [=SCPs=] were freed up, the wiki wound up with new [=SCPs=] under old numbers.
* RockOfLimitlessWater: Inverted with [=SCP=]-402, which absorbs limitless water.
** [=SCP=]-045 is a straight example, producing water when exposed to nitrogen in an environment with less than 380 atmospheres of pressure.
* {{Room 101}}: The old SCP-100 entry.
** This is also possibly a subversion of the [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour obvious reference]], since the actual SCP-101 is relatively tame: [[spoiler: it's a bag which eats things and is apparently mostly used for trash disposal.]]
* RoswellThatEndsWell: It wasn't a spaceship; it was [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1051 SCP-1051]] prior to hatching.
* RuleThirtyFour: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1004 SCP-1004]] is this in its purest form.
* RunningGag: [DATA EXPUNGED]
** On a not so funny note, that may be to KEEP you from gagging.
** DO NOT allow [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-447 SCP-447-2]] to come into contact with dead bodies!
*** It eventually gets to the point that all of the researchers mention their fear of it coming into contact with dead bodies in the most unlikely of circumstances (such as dead bodies drinking milk).
*** And other forces seem to play on that fear, such as when SCP-914 transforms a dead body ''into'' SCP-447-2.
*** The real reason for this fear is [[spoiler:that Doctor Alistair is very afraid of dead bodies and he's the one in charge. So he made up crap to get away with it and it took a life of it's own.]]
*** One (non-canon) story actually DOES describe some of the adverse effects of SCP-447 touching a dead body. In the aftermath, a dimensional rift opened up and dragged Dr. Clef into an alternate reality.
*** SCP-447 also seems to have an obsession with the color green and the smell of mint. Applied to the cure-anything-pill, SCP-500, the pill still cures anything, but leaves the subject with "minty-fresh breath". Applied to a subject's eyes, it improves that person's vision significantly, with the side effect of tinting that person's vision green, including coloring the eyes themselves green. It can also: harden concrete, make milk lactose-free (and give it a slight minty taste), decontaminate water to a limited degree (as well as tinting it green), and increase a car's functioning significantly (windshield wiper fluid will literally repel dirt and grime, radiator fluid will double the temperature needed to overheat the engine, and mixed into gasoline will increase fuel efficiency by 150%).
** There's also how the discovery of any SCP being potentially lethal inevitably leads to someone wondering if it could be used to kill [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-682 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.
** Dr. King and his [[spoiler: appleseeds]]
** That the common typo of SCP, SPC, is an AlternateUniverse version of the Foundation, the '''S'''hark '''P'''unching '''C'''enter.
** Some articles have either addendums or notes warning personnel to stop using them for pranks, party games, or as quick hangover remedies.
