History SCPFoundation / TropesSToZ

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2747 SCP-2747]] involves an EldritchAbomination "antinarrative" that erases any narrative it is featured in from existence (including narratives within narratives) called the "anafabula". [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabula_and_syuzhet "Fabula"]] is a real term from the Russian formalism school of literary criticism that refers to the chronological arrangement of events within a story. Thus an "anafabula" (using the Greek root "ana-", meaning "up", "against", "back", or "re-"), can literally be read to mean "against chronological order", [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin which is exactly what the entity does.]]

* SuperWeight:
** Type -1: SCP-014, SCP-173 when being looked at, SCP-1364, SCP-1370, SCP-321, SCP-085, anyone [[FateWorseThanDeath negatively affected]] by an SCP.
** Type 0: Ordinary humans.
** Type 1: Dr. Kondraki, Agent Strelkinov, Human Foundation employees, SCP-029.
** Type 2: Most safe-level SCP humanoids, Iris (SCP-105), SCP-999, SCP-173 when not being looked at, Dr. Clef[[note]]at least, could be anywhere from here to Type 7 depending on how much of what he says about himself is in fact true[[/note]], [[spoiler:SCP-1000 before being mind-wiped]], SCP-1048, Lord Blackwood (SCP-1867) if his stories are true.
** Type 3: Dr. Bright after activating SCP-963, Cain (SCP-073), Abel (SCP-076-2), SCP-053, SCP-040, SCP-017, SCP-106, SCP-457 if uncontained, SCP-752 inhabitants in groups.
** Type 4: SCP-096 in a rage state, Dr. Gerald when driving a vehicle.
** Type 5: [[OmnicidalManiac SCP-682]], [[spoiler:SCP-1055 uncontained]], most Keter-class [=SCPs=] (i.e. the ones that certainly go above [[ApocalypseHow "Regional Catastrophe"]])
** Type 6: SCP-239[[note]]Some tales elevate her to Type 7, but generally her powers are restricted to only what she can see[[/note]], SCP-106 in his pocket dimension, SCP-1548, Dr. Clef's SCP-001 Proposal.
** Type 7: SCP-343, SCP-1230 in the stories it creates, [[spoiler:S Andrew Swann's SCP-001 Proposal]].

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/a-suicide-note "A Suicide Note"]], a suicide note left behind by Alto Clef, bemoaning that everyone ''thinks'' he's a Reality Warper that goes on wacky adventures, when he's actually a [[PowerNullifier reality anchor]] that breaks anomalies just by being near them. In one paragraph, he helps shoo out the other "LOL Foundation" clowns: Kondraki ("in a psych ward"), Bright (betrayed the Foundation to the Serpent's Hand and was finally allowed to die), Rights (merged with a biological SCP she was working on), and Crow ({{Mercy Kill}}ed by Clef). Worse still, he claims that all the "LOL Foundation" stuff was a direct result of [=SCP-239=] screwing with reality ForTheLulz. [[spoiler:In the end, the Foundation finds evidence that Clef definitely [[AteHisGun shot himself in the head]]... [[NeverFoundTheBody but no body]].]]

** Most of the details given about the various cultures of the Middle East during the Bronze Age (especially in regards to that of Sumeria and Mesopotamia) in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4960 SCP-4960]] are surprisingly accurate and [=well-researched=], especially in regards to how the worship of various gods and goddesses was conducted at the time.

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2614 SCP-2614]] is a DVD of ''Series/TheSopranos''[='=]s Fifth Season that a viewer can "control", essentially guiding a camera through the show and seeing what happened in the background of some episodes, such as Tony having a breakdown in the shower. It can even enter other media in ''The Sopranos'', including a showing of ''WesternAnimation/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}}'', to produce [[RecursiveReality Recursive Realities]]. [[spoiler:Things get ''really'' weird when a researcher tries to enter a show within a show ''within'' a show.]]

** [[invoked]] [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4231 SCP-4231]] is one to both [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/your-circuits-dead-theres-something-wrong "Major Tom"]] and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/portraits-of-your-father "Portraits of Your Father,"]] two Tales both created by the [=SCP=] article's author that took several [[EnsembleDarkhorse "titans"]] of site lore[[note]]Bright, Kondraki, and now Clef respectively[[/note]] and [[{{Deconstruction}} darkly analyzed them]] while looking into what made them the men they are today.
** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4444 SCP-4444]] as a whole is one to the goofier early [=SCP=] articles and Tales focused around {{Author Avatar}}s and {{Mad Scientist}}s, such as [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/incident-239-b-clef-kondraki "Incident 239-B"]] and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/duke-till-dawn "Duke 'till Dawn"]].

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5031 SCP-5031]] can be seen as one towards [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3114 SCP-3114]], as both are articles based around taking a stereotypical "murder monster" [=SCP=] concept and humanizing the subject by highlighting the underlying tragedy of their situations.

* SpoonBending: [=SCP-463=] "A Spoon That Bends People" is a spoon that bends people's spines backwards by 90 degrees when it's picked up, acting as a playful inversion of the trope.

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1710 SCP-1710-1]] is described as having been called in their home reality "The Serrated Void," and spends most of their time describing how sharp they (literally) were. Also, they usually talk in dark and foreboding passages, occasionally mentioning how they used to have enough power in their home reality where they could [[EyeScream "pluck out the eyes of gods"]] and [[PhysicalGod "make the universe our whetstone."]] In other words, [=SCP-1710-1=] is a ''literal'' edgelord.

* UnequalRites: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2164 SCP-2164]]-A and -B are a(n allegedly) Renaissance-era RitualMagic[=ian=] and a modern NewAge [[NewAgeRetroHippie Retro Hippie]] GranolaGirl (her food must be organic, gluten-free, and not altered genetically), respectively, who can alter reality within a radius of one meter with their rituals and potions. Oh, and they ''hate'' each other:

* WombHorror: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-231 SCP-231-7]] is the last survivor of seven pregnant women extracted from an ApocalypseCult. Her predecessors underwent progressively more catastrophic [DATA EXPUNGED][==] upon dying or giving birth, such that the Foundation projects that #7 could kick off the Apocalypse. Whatever procedure they use to keep her from delivering, even members of an organization ConditionedToAcceptHorror routinely volunteer to have their memories wiped of the experience.

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2085 SCP-2085]], the Black Rabbit Company (formerly "Space Wizard and the Commando CatGirl[=s=]!"), a group of fun-loving adventurers with cybernetic and genetic enhancements plus all sorts of anomalous tricks. Naturally the Foundation couldn't let them run wild so they're trapped forever.

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5000 SCP-5000]] possibly provides a rare {{Double Subver|sion}}ted example of this trope. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, even though Pietro eventually reached his goal, humanity had been essentially exterminated by that point by the [[FaceHeelTurn Foundation]], he is left with no answers, and he could only make SCP-055 come into contact with SCP-579 by dropping the former from a fatal height, causing him to die before his remains were transported to the main SCP universe. Thankfully, this still reset the timeline and saved humanity. However, the DoubleSubversion comes into play when one realizes that, thanks to this timeline reset, whatever entity that the alternate Foundation found within the collective unconsciousness of mankind and was trying to fight by exterminating humanity is ''still out there'', and now there's nothing stopping it from pursuing whatever its goals are in granting humanity empathy. [[RayOfHopeEnding Though since the Foundation has SCP-5000 now, they may be able to rediscover it and find a way to stop its nefarious plans]] without resorting to a FinalSolution.]]
** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5999 SCP-5999]] has a complex narrative presented using a high-tech layout and has ineffective warning systems for what is apparently part of the containment protocols (even though reading more of the article slowly unseals whatever is being contained, there are seemingly no attempts to stop the reader by force.) [[spoiler: It's all completely irrelevant, as it's really a means to invoke this trope and execute [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/sandrewswann-s-proposal Protocol ZK-001-Alpha]] (simulated using the JumpScare at the very end.)]]

* TechnicallyLivingZombie: The "cured" Foundation members in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5000 SCP-5000]] are still alive, but feel no pain or fear and refer to those who do as "live ones". [[spoiler: It's implied that they sacrificed some core element of their humanity itself thanks to discovering it to be unnatural and repulsive since it is assumed that humans originally ''do not have emotions at all'' (or at least not certain ones such as empathy).]]

* TowerOfBabel: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1643 SCP-1643]]: Someone from the Horizon Initiative found it and upgraded it [[spoiler: in order to ''[[NukeEm nuke heaven]]'']].

** [[invoked]] [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1440 SCP-1440]], a man who destroys man-made objects [[spoiler: because he pissed off the Three Brothers of Death so badly they wanted to torture him forever by making him the ruin the human world he tried to save with the three death-defying objects he won from them (he initially just wanted a second chance at life but when he won he decided to ''humiliate death'').]]
** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-032 SCP-032]], a (barely) DeceptivelyHumanRobot that destroys flora and fauna "un-influenced" by mankind [[spoiler: to further torture SCP-1440: it's an inhuman copy of his dead wife and it's only emotion is hatred towards her for being everything it isn't. The Three Brothers want to ruin his memories so he'll let the world crumble in despair as part of his punishment.]]

** [[spoiler: SCP-939 is a subspecies of humanity that mutates around the age of 10, up to that point being identical to human children. They start out by removing all their skin and eventually their old head detaches and falls off, whereupon they eat their old skin and head, having become a predator species reliant on cannibalism.]]

*** And in return, the [=GOC=] doesn't care for the SCP Foundation, because even if they're ''not'' secretly using [=SCPs=] to take over the world using the Chaos Insurgency as a proxy, they're keeping around a huge stockade of objects that do not play well with reality and can destroy entire swaths of Earth on a whim.

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1892 SCP-1892]], a "haunted" doctor's chair that just wants to cure its "patients" with 50's-era prescriptions. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, it's a psychiatrist's chair, and the 50's had a thing for lobotomies...]]

** While they don't seem to be ''deliberately'' rebelling, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2815 SCP-2815]] is notable for being the first truly ''benign'' [[ReligionOfEvil Sarkic cult]] community ever discovered: the cannibalism is only for funerals, their flaying ritual is done on fruit, and most amazingly of all, [[spoiler: no one died or even went insane in the exploration log!]] To the consternation of more concerned members of the Foundation (they ''are'' still inbred[[note]](though thanks to their mastery of [[LovecraftianSuperpower Sarkic magicks,]] Sarkic cultists can inbreed without the threat of genetic deformities and other issues)[[/note]] cannibalistic cultists who are ''tricking people into eating human flesh fruit'' and accepting anomalous blood and organs via the Manna Charitable Foundation - which, given [[GoneHorriblyWrong Manna's track record...]]), not even ''[[WellIntentionedExtremist the Global Occult Coalition]]'' wanted to neutralize them as there was simply no definitive proof they or their products were actively harmful.

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1504 SCP-1504]]: He's immortal, wants to die, [[spoiler: can't be seen, heard, or felt "properly": no one sees him leave the interview room to "borrow" a guard's gun to shoot himself; yelling and screaming is "reedited" into mild answers; when he punches the researcher interviewing him, the researcher wonders why his nose started bleeding]], and in his quest to die [[spoiler: tried to murder an entire site's staff, caused a site-wide containment breach that necessitated a ''nuclear detonation'', '''''and no one knows if he's dead or alive''''']].

** Replace "worm" with "words" and you have [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1516 SCP-1516]], who's also hinted to be [[spoiler: a fourth-wall-breaker, what with his talk of the god(s) who wrote him and read him]].

* {{Yandere}}: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-962 SCP-962]] is one [[spoiler: FOR THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE]].

* YouCantFightFate / BecauseDestinySaysSo: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1271 SCP-1271]] teleports children from around the world to play a game of kickball. Those players who have been found almost always have a destiny based on their positions; for instance the red team's second baseman/second kicker will die before age 18 and the blue team's second baseman/second kicker becomes head of state or a high-ranking politician. When one man tries to resist his fate of [[spoiler: becoming addicted to drugs by age 25 and dying before age 27 ''everyone around him becomes a drug pusher''. This includes his own parents, his teachers, anti-drug program advocates, and the Foundation doctor who was studying him. Unfortunately the doctor succeeded in injecting him, the subject was terminated, and the Foundation discovered that SCP-1271 can create mind-altering brain tumors.]]

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: A pair of modern-day Are We Cool Yet? artists try to appeal to an older artist by calling the modern EU "fascist". Since the older artist lived through [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII actual fascism]] he doesn't appreciate the AWCY guys' ignorance/hyperbole and [[spoiler: entombs them (and himself) in his [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1803 "living" collage]]]].

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Invoked with some members of the ''Are We Cool Yet'' collective, who have weaponized LeFilmArtistique in an effort to break the line between viewer, artist, and artwork. Unfortunately, in this case, the artwork usually tends to kill, maim, or mentally destroy the viewer.

** SCP-085 (Cassy) and [=SCPs=]-131-a and 131-b (Eye Pods) could qualify as well.

* ShareTheMalePain: This is [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5972-j SCP-5972-J]]'s main function to males when described.
* ShipperOnDeck: SCP-191 is implied to be one to her (female) attending doctor and (male) supervising agent.

** Able (SCP-076-2) has also become one, to the point where he's the one of a select few [=SCPs=] that's typically referred to by name instead of number.

** Type 3: Dr. Bright after activating SCP-963, Cain (SCP-073), Able (SCP-076-2), SCP-053, SCP-040, SCP-017, SCP-106, SCP-457 if uncontained, SCP-752 inhabitants in groups.

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3966 SCP-3966]] excepts the reader to understand neuroscience and [[spoiler:4-D geometry]] to understand the true nature of the anomaly.

* VillainousRescue: At one point when trying to escape [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1730 SCP-1730]] (a facility from an alternate universe where the Foundation decided to apply the KillEmAll approach to scips, with [[GoneHorriblyWrong horrific results]]) the team of survivors finds their way barred by a locked door, which is opened by alternate universe ''[[MonsterClown Bobble the fucking Clown]]'' of all things.

** The word's use as an object class started from [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/roget-s-proposal Roget's SCP-001 proposal]][[note]]Going even further back, the word itself was first used as an {{Arc Word|s}} in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/thaumiel Project Thaumiel]], a series of SCP-001 related tales, and obscured inside [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1764 SCP-1764]].[[/note]], a building where Keter-class [=SCPs=] self-contained each other via cross interaction.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: A heartbreaking example occurs as part of SCP 1958. William and his beatnik pals dreamed of creating a human colony on the planet of Alpha Centauri, so they modified a VW microbus with ability to travel into space and have an endless supply of oxygen (don't ask how). Unfortunately, none of them actually accounted for the actual distance to Alpha Centauri from earth (4.37 lightyears) and that the speed of the bus was the same as a regular microbus (about 130 kph). As a result, [[spoiler:William's three friends and their cat all die before they make it past the moon and William himself eventually starves to death, leaving the bus trapped in the orbit of Mars]]. To make matters worse, none of them thought to bring any fruits or veggies on the trip, so [[spoiler:William and his last living friend Sam begin suffering from scurvy, leading to Sam's death and likely William's as well assuming he didn't simply starve]].

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: A heartbreaking example occurs as part of SCP 1958. William and his beatnik pals dreamed of creating a human colony on the planet of Alpha Centauri, so they modified a VW microbus with ability to travel into space and have an endless supply of oxygen (don't ask how). Unfortunately, none of them actually accounted for the actual distance to Alpha Centauri from earth (4.37 lightyears) and that the speed of the bus was the same as a regular microbus (about 130 kph). As a result, [[spoiler:William's three friends and their cat all die before they make it past the moon and William himself eventually starves to death, leaving the bus trapped in the orbit of Mars]].
** To make matters worse, none of them thought to bring any fruits or veggies on the trip, so [[spoiler:William and his last living friend Sam begin suffering from scurvy, leading to Sam's death and likely William's as well assuming he didn't simply starve]].

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5740 SCP-5740]] is a series of donut-dispensing machines set up by dado that advertises [[DonutMessWithACop free donuts for cops]]. If a cop eats one of those donuts, it causes a live, full-sized pig to magically appear inside their rectum and doesn't kill them, and which they have to crap out over the course of a few hours (and [[DirtyCop the dirtier the cop]], the bigger the pig--the worst cops have gotten pigs weighing up to ''500 pounds''). When asked why this was happening by an incognito Foundation agent, dado categorically denied that it had anything to do with seeing his customers being harassed and beaten up by police officers.

** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5740 SCP-5740]] is a series of donut-dispensing machines set up by dado that advertises [[DonutMessWithACop free donuts for cops]]. If a cop eats one of those donuts, it causes a live, full-sized pig to magically appear inside their rectum which they have to crap out over the course of a few hours (and [[DirtyCop the dirtier the cop]], the bigger the pig--the worst cops have gotten pigs weighing up to ''500 pounds''). When asked why this was happening by an incognito Foundation agent, dado categorically denied that it had anything to do with seeing his customers being harassed and beaten up by police officers.

* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': The Foundation has catalogued and contained several examples of anomalous candy or other sweets that do something dangerous when eaten.

** There's also the [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-foundation-the-movie SCP Foundation movie.]] The fact that [[Film/TheRoom Tommy Wiseau]] and [[Series/WinBenSteinsMoney Ben Stein]] are in it should already be setting off alarms in your head.