| 1 | !!''Website/SCPFoundation'' provides examples of the following tropes: |
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| 3 | '''Tropes A-D''' | SCPFoundation/TropesEToM | SCPFoundation/TropesNToR | SCPFoundation/TropesSToZ |
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| 9 | [[folder:A]] |
| 10 | * AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2219 SCP-2219]] is a ''Goldilocks and the Three Bears''-themed video game that causes various things to happen to the player's body after completing, or failing to complete, various objectives. Good things like collecting enough Porridge cause feelings of contentment and instantaneous orgasm. Bad things like losing a life to a boss cause an inflamed throat, leprosy, blindness, and cardiac arrest. No one's been able to beat the final boss yet. |
| 11 | * AbsurdlySharpBlade: |
| 12 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-585 SCP-585]] sharpens pencils to the point of their initiating ''nuclear fission.'' |
| 13 | ** {{Inverted}} with [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-572 SCP-572]], which is a dull, excessively ornamental katana. The problem is that it makes anyone holding it ''believe'' it's actually an AbsurdlySharpBlade and that they are now an unstoppable InstantExpert, with often disastrous results. |
| 14 | * AcceptableBreaksFromReality: |
| 15 | ** 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. |
| 16 | ** One short story posits that instead of drugs, Class A Amnestics are good old-fashioned [[TwoPlusTortureEqualsFive psychological torture and brainwashing]]. |
| 17 | ** SCP-3000 explains the existence of Amnestics by [[spoiler:introducing a giant sea serpent that excretes it after a human sacrifice]]. |
| 18 | * AdaptiveAbility: |
| 19 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-682 SCP-682]] in a nutshell. Its ability to spontaneously evolve and [[HealingFactor regenerate]] lets it counter, or at least survive, everything thrown at it. This includes [=SCPs=] that have reality warping powers. The Foundation's attempts to kill it are numerous and their failures often spectacular. [[spoiler:In [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6820 SCP-6820]] its adaptability ends up screwing an alternate universe Foundation over when it uses every attempt by the Foundation to decommission it to become a perfect, god-like being that destroys the universe.]] |
| 20 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1633 SCP-1633]] adapts its strategies to the people playing it. Literally to the ''people'' playing it. After having deduced the player's strategy, it deduces that there's a player and [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou starts attacking the player psychologically]] in addition to or instead of attacking the player's avatar physically. |
| 21 | * AdvancedAncientHumans: |
| 22 | ** The [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/document-2481 Xia Anomalous Culture Group]] (Foundation's way of referring to the mythical ancient Chinese Xia dynasty) is apparently very advanced and even made their own Reality Anchoring towers. |
| 23 | ** A few articles mention the Erikesh civilization, an apparently very advanced ancient human civilization that has been completely wiped out from history. |
| 24 | ** After the Xia came the Daevites (a race of AlwaysChaoticEvil {{Planimal}} {{Half Human Hybrid}}s in what is now Russia that worshiped [[SatanicArchetype the Scarlet King]]), the Mechanite Empire (precursors of the modern Church of the Broken God {{Machine Worship}}ers that were based in the Mediterranean), and the Sarkic Empire (now a collection of cults with a flesh-sculpting theme, originally coming from both eastern Siberia and Eastern Europe). The three all had different forms of {{Magitek}}, and all annihilated each other (and civilization in general) in a massive war that caused the Bronze Age Collapse. |
| 25 | ** There are even a few hints of ''much'' older examples, like an intergalactic human empire that was destroyed about 100 million years ago. |
| 26 | * AdventuresInComaland: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6778 SCP-6778]] is a saloon straight out of the Old West that exists solely in the minds of coma patients. |
| 27 | * AerithAndBob: If you are the kind that considers "everything is canon, including the [[AuthorAvatar author pages]]", then you would surely see that the Foundation has quite a mix of names (though some can be excused due to the Foundation being international). |
| 28 | ** On the mundane end, you have perfectly normal names like Elias Shaw, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/dr-manns-personnel-file Everett Mann]], and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/kate-mctiriss-s-personnel-file Kate McTiriss]]. |
| 29 | ** On the strange end, you have names like [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1780 Thaddeus]] [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/iteration-0 Xyank]], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-715 Karlyle]] [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/folly Aktus]][[note]]AuthorAvatar of [[PunnyName djkaktus]][[/note]]. And then there's [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/silberescher-personnel-file Dr. Löwen Alphonse Davison Augustin Jakobs Atreides Lemuria Agloval Silberescher]], OverlyLongName extraordinaire. |
| 30 | * AffectionateParody: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2020 SCP-2020]] is a Grey Alien that is frequently pitching science fiction ideas, all of whom were running with it in the [[MilestoneCelebration SCP-2000 contest]] (the winner is the very first, while the last is a LampshadeHanging SelfParody). |
| 31 | * AfterlifeExpress: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-716 SCP-716]] and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1489 SCP-1489]]. [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-342 SCP-342]] is an Afterlife Express ''ticket'' which works on any train, but only for the ticket holder. |
| 32 | * AfterTheEnd: |
| 33 | ** The post-apocalyptic "[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/system:page-tags/tag/bellerverse Bellerverse]]" story setting, with researchers and [=SCPs=] alike feared or revered as gods. |
| 34 | ** According to the [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/document-recovered-from-the-marianas-trench Document Recovered from the Marianas Trench]], [[spoiler:our current world is a recreation after an untold number of these. It gets rebuilt each time using [=SCPs=], but it keeps happening.]] |
| 35 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2935 SCP-2935]] is an alternate dimension/universe where every form of life down to the microbial level died at the same time. How dead was everything? [[spoiler:That dimension's SCP-682 died along with everything else.]] |
| 36 | * AIIsACrapshoot: |
| 37 | ** Reading between the lines in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1633 SCP-1633]] suggests that a completed version of the video game AI would be so advanced that it would be convinced that it was an ''actual'' EldritchAbomination trying to break out of captivity rather than merely a simulation of one. Since even the incomplete version is sufficiently advanced and capable of learning to attack the player psychologically and even render one catatonic, this is not a good thing. |
| 38 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/dyfscp0012 Dafydd Utica Foolfellow's Proposal for SCP-001]] starts by introducing PALLIT.AIC, a sentient AI program that is supposed to create AI art, but displays behavioral problems that prompted her "father" to send her to the Foundation for "discipline". PALLIT ''really'' loves humans, and tries to befriend any humans she comes across. Around 50 years later, Earth is invaded by [[[MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels WEASELS?!]]], an alien race trying to terraform Earth under the command of their leader [Grandma!], with the power to simply splatter any human trying to resist, wiping out most of human life except those the Foundation managed to shunt into a pocket dimension. [[spoiler:PALLIT remains however, and eventually manages to gain enough control to supplant [Grandma!], [[AGodAmI ascend to godhood]], and retrieve the surviving humans to build paradise on Earth... by deciding that HappinessIsMandatory, outsiders should be killed on sight, and the few remaining [WEASELS?!] should be bred and they and their offspring eternally, graphically tortured for their crimes. When PALLIT's most trusted advisor (a human clone named KK-507) decides to rebel by breaking out a few of the [WEASELS?!] and escaping to a pocket dimension, PALLIT decides to imprison the rest of humanity in the "[[SuperFunHappyThingOfDoom Group Hug]]", a second, artificial sun made of millions of human bodies stitched together and lit on fire to burn forever.]] |
| 39 | * AlienGeometries: Has [[AlienGeometries/SCPFoundation its own page]]. |
| 40 | * AliensSpeakingEnglish: In [[http://scp-int.wikidot.com/scp-cn-2631 SCP-CN-2631]], the Foundation discovers a planet of StarfishAliens that speak modern American English, and [[EternalEnglish have done so for over 8000 years]]. They apparently see no problem with the word "footnote" despite not having feet, or limbs of any kind. |
| 41 | * AllMythsAreTrue: |
| 42 | ** Heavily implied by The Administrator's letter, which claims that the [=SCPs=] themselves are the universe's conservation of insanity after the end of myths. |
| 43 | ** More particularly, several of the [=SCPs=] are implied to be the cause of certain RealLife myths themselves. For example, the file for [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-953 SCP-953]] notes that the people in the cultures it is traditionally associated with have had generations to learn to deal with it, and that [[Myth/KoreanMythology their myths about the creature]] can be considered a crude precursor for formal Special Containment Procedures. Thus, the surrounding folklore is one of the first things that should be considered when planning containment. There are several [=SCPs=] that are mythological beings, creatures, locations, or figures — Valhalla Gate pulls people from, well, Valhalla to do battle with the living; a kumiho, Jormungand, and Baba Yaga are in containment, djinn of all sorts are referenced... |
| 44 | ** This also includes [[UrbanLegends Urban Myths]]: |
| 45 | --->[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2805 SCP-2805]]: '''Description:''' SCP-2805 is the severed head of American industrialist Creator/WaltDisney, frozen in a cryogenic freezer. |
| 46 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6078 SCP-6078]] is the legendary island of Hy-Brasil. |
| 47 | ** An interesting variation in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/competitive-eschatology-hub The Competitive Eschatology Canon]]. In it, one particular SCP opens and thus begins the end of the world. Caused by what? EVERYTHING. The Apocalypse, Ragnarok, deadly SCP, all of them are loose and trying to end the world. The problem is that each one is trying to end it under its own terms. |
| 48 | * AllThereInTheManual: |
| 49 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1899 SCP-1899]] is a bullet suspended in time and harmless, with plenty of time to put measures in place should it become unsuspended, but its origin [[spoiler:in the death of a reality warper]] is in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20131005081811/https://goc.wikidot.com/lte-3410-clockwork-green its GOC Report]]. |
| 50 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1591 SCP-1591]] is quite a horrifying destructive sculpture on its own, but it origins are further explained in Website/TheWanderersLibrary story, [[https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/stars "Stars".]] |
| 51 | * AllYourPowersCombined: In the antimemetics series this is [[spoiler:how [[GodOfEvil SCP-3125]] is finally defeated. Adam uses his memories and a Class Z Mnestic to bring his wife, Marion, back to life, Hugh uses his newly created mini-EldritchAbomination form to turn Marion into a goddess and Marion enters the idea space to destroy [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3125 SCP-3125]].]] |
| 52 | * AlmightyJanitor: |
| 53 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-janitor-who-cleans-up-after-messy-scps Wilhelm Grungkok.]] He knows about the Foundation way more than one would expect from, well, a janitor, because researchers usually ask him to clean up their messy offices, leaving him alone with sensitive documents for hours. Oh, and he cleans up 682's pen on a ''daily'' basis. |
| 54 | ** Subverted in the case of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/stormbreath Henrik Sturmatem]], as while he's a member of the janitor equivalent of the Overseer Council, he oftentimes survives by cowering under a table. It's only because of how long he's survived compared to the average Foundation janitor that he has the position. |
| 55 | * AlternateHistory: |
| 56 | ** The [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/aces-and-eights Aces and Eights]] canon shows a timeline where the American Civil War went on until 1867, Lincoln survived his presidency and lives in self-imposed exile, women have voting rights in the late 1800s (albeit only if they are veterans of the war), and the Foundation ceases to exist after the Confederate Army razes Baltimore, possibly using anomalous means. InSpiteOfANail, several Foundation characters exist in a WeirdWest timeline, albeit in altered forms — SCP-049 is a female doctor with a porcelain mask covering her face, the Church of the Broken God are stand-ins for Mormons, and SCP-008 is ravaging the West, resulting in colonies of "Rotties" appearing. |
| 57 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3601 SCP-3601]] is an alternate history writing contest that can [[{{Retconjuration}} change the past]] even with the slightest divergences, and it already did. Multiple times. |
| 58 | * AlternateUniverse: A very common motif in stories and [=SCPs=] alike. They range from [[WorldGoneMad surreally nightmarish places]] to simply quirky worlds where some obscure nation/language group is the dominant one. |
| 59 | ** In [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/mackenzie-s-proposal Dr. Mackenzie's Proposal of SCP-001]], the Administrator claims to originally be from a parallel plane of existence that he calls an "alternate reality". |
| 60 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-507 SCP-507]] is a man who periodically and involuntarily gets sent on visits to different ones. |
| 61 | * AlwaysChaoticEvil: |
| 62 | ** The Daevites as described in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-140 SCP-140]]. Other works on the site that reference them generally don't have anything nice to say, either. [[spoiler:Except SCP-6140, which reveals they're a completely normal country that was rewritten into the evil Daevites everyone knows because of an orientalist Victorian British "anthropologist" named Thomas Bruce]]. |
| 63 | ** The only reason one of the agents sent to capture [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-953 SCP-953]] survived was because he knew that she was a [[AsianFoxSpirit kumiho, from Korea, not a kitsune]]. The other agents mistook her for a benevolent fox spirit, which didn't work out for them too well. |
| 64 | ** The cured Foundation personnel in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5000 SCP-5000]] are unable to feel pain or sympathy and are nearly emotionless. [[spoiler:The hidden dialogue hints that this is ''the natural state of the human race''.]] |
| 65 | * AmbiguousSituation: Several. |
| 66 | ** Does [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/jonathan-ball-s-proposal Jonathan Ball's proposal]] bring other [=SCPs=] into existence, or merely alert the Foundation to their existence? |
| 67 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1719 SCP-1719]] presents an ambiguous situation — the Harrison-Grey lens cause roughly 11.4% of human population to appear as anomalous entities when viewed through it, but these people are unaware of it and do not behave any differently. Is it a latent Film/TheyLive plot and the Harrison-Grey Lens are [[GlamourFailure revealing their true nature]]? Or is it just a harmless (albeit very strange) visual anomaly shaped up as something extremely dangerous by the mad {{Cult}} that manufactured these lens? |
| 68 | ** There's also [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1173 that thing down in Samothrace]], where there might be a memetic agent causing the destruction of all memories regarding a Middle-Eastern country — or causing people to collectively hallucinate the existence of that very same country. Its effects are roughly 50-50 either way, so nobody in the Foundation knows what's actually true. It's also possible that ''neither'' is, and the real effect is something entirely different. |
| 69 | ** Do the doors created by [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4005 SCP-4005]] ''really'' lead to the paradise city that the SCP-4005-1 instances claim, or is it just an elaborate trap? Are those affected by the lamp really acting of their own free will, or is there a memetic effect? While the story ''seems'' to suggest that more positive interpretation is correct, we never get any concrete answers. |
| 70 | ** In [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5535 SCP-5535]], it is unknown if Mateo Velez is still in control of most of his body, and only his arm is possessed by an evil entity, or if the BodySnatcher has taken him over except for his left arm. The foundation is currently investigating which is the case. |
| 71 | * AmbiguousSyntax: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3467-j The Six-Foot-Tall Man Eating Chicken, SCP-3467-J]], isn't a 6-foot tall chicken that eats humans, it's a 6-foot tall man that's eating chicken. |
| 72 | * UsefulNotes/AmericanCustomaryMeasurements: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5280-j SCP-5280-J]] is a mockery of the topic, calling it a pervasive meme, impractical for use. |
| 73 | * AmplifierArtifact: |
| 74 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-914 SCP-914]] on the "Fine" and "Very Fine" settings. When rare permission was given for biological testing, the researcher used harmless bacteria from the same strain for all ten tests. "Very Fine" turned out a super-helpful bacteria the first time and a killer plague the second (incinerated). |
| 75 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-248 SCP-248]] is a Factory SCP that increases the performance of anything it's placed on by 110%. |
| 76 | %%* AmusementParkOfDoom: |
| 77 | %%** Visit the [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-823 Carnival of Horrors]]. When you're done, try the [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-944 Mirror Maze]]. For younger kids, there's [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1357 The Children's Park]] and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1740 the Prison-Break Playground]]. Fun for the whole family. |
| 78 | %%** There's also [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1329 the Aquarium]], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1323 the Fair(y)ground]], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-821 Dixie Funland]], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-257 Woodsworth's Zoo]], and if you're in the mood for a bit of culture, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1763 The Found Space Theatre]]. |
| 79 | * AmusingInjuries: |
| 80 | ** Just ''look'' at [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/dr-gerald-s-personnel-file Dr. Gerald's personnel file.]] If it hasn't happened to him, it's not for want of trying. |
| 81 | *** He's been: "caught on fire; trampled; dropped several stories onto concrete; shot; run over by several vehicles; badly cut; given amnesia; dragged through several kilometers of [DATA EXPUNGED]; eaten; blown up; frozen; asphyxiated; hit repeatedly with several blunt instruments; electrocuted; bitten; and in one incident, was mentally reconfigured, making him believe that he was a duck." |
| 82 | *** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-666-j His driving skills]] will cause injuries to everyone in the general vicinity. Even if he's on a bike. He blows up the Iranian equivalent of the Foundation by having the SCP send him in on ''roller skates.'' |
| 83 | ---->How the hell did he manage that with an electrically-powered Segway? |
| 84 | ** Darby ticked off [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-914 SCP-914]]. Since then, its various outputs have attacked him, poisoned him, submitted him to dangerous memetics and cognitohazards (mind poisons), and more -sometimes even when the output was from another researcher's test! |
| 85 | * {{Anaphora}}: At the end of SCP-6140, "Do not" as emphasis and part of a passionate plea: |
| 86 | --> '''Dr. Jad-Leshal Prattan:''' [[spoiler:It was nothing but tragedy, what he did. So I come before you today, and I have to]] beg you: do not [[spoiler:repeat what he did]]. Do not [[spoiler:do the same things]]. Do not [[spoiler:force us back into the dark]].\ |
| 87 | Please. |
| 88 | * AnIcePerson: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2082 SCP-2082]]: [[spoiler:Wooly mammoths]] had [[PowerIncontinence uncontrollable freezing powers]] and [[WalkingWasteland caused the Ice Age]]; this is also why we haven't heard much about cloning them lately. |
| 89 | * AMythologyIsTrue: In the [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-trashfire Trashfire canon]], this is inverted for Non-Gnostic Christian Theology which does not apply in the canon ''at all.'' |
| 90 | -->Maybe Judaism and Islam got something right. Maybe they didn't. But it's hard to get a good sense of the world when your religion is hijacked by such a violently expansionist and opportunistic superpower as the Romans. |
| 91 | * AncientTomb: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-557 SCP-557.]] And they can't find the thing that got out of it after 4500 years... but anything called the "bastard son of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apep Apep]]" ''can't'' be good news. |
| 92 | * AndIMustScream: Has [[AndIMustScream/SCPFoundation its own page]]. |
| 93 | * AngelUnaware: The hidden occupant of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1348 SCP-1348's]] central chamber is very heavily implied to be {{God}}, although witnesses are compelled to [[{{Masquerade}} stop just short of giving conclusive information on the subject]]. Additionally, [[spoiler:the creation of humanity is implied to have been a mistake]]. |
| 94 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: ''Possibly'' [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2032 SCP-2032]] for recorded human history. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, he has dementia and can suffer from trauma-induced amnesia.]] |
| 95 | * AnotherDimension: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3008 SCP-3008]], a branch of IKEA that is BiggerOnTheInside and serves as an infinite PocketDimension to those unlucky enough to step inside. Incredibly easy to get into yet nearly impossible to escape from, 3008 fortunately has everything you'd need to survive in there since the restaurants are mysteriously resupplied with food... but [[PerpetualMotionMonster god help you if the SCP-3008-2 decide to attack.]] Whole civilisations have been built by the people who wound up inside 3008, building rudimentary forts to defend against the marauding 3008-2s. |
| 96 | * TheAntiNihilist: What [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1281 SCP-1281's]] message boils down to. It's a message of hope and appeal, to let the receiver know that they were not the only people in the galaxy, and asking for them to send the message on to others who may feel alone, especially if the receiver's civilization is nearing its end. |
| 97 | * TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople: Lampshaded in the journal of one guy who escaped from [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3008 SCP-3008]], the journaler notes that in the movies people forced to band together for survival always end up turning on each other for petty reasons, but none of that is happening in the IKEA settlements. Instead they're all perfectly willing to help each other survive without complaint. |
| 98 | * ApocalypticLog: |
| 99 | ** Several of the personal logs and mission reports. Towards the end of the article, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-093 SCP-093]] takes this trope and uses it to help explain the backstory of its setting's CosmicHorrorStory. |
| 100 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-152 SCP-152]] is literally a log of many hypothetical apocalypses. The book is regularly read to try and prepare for, or prevent, any that seem likely to occur. |
| 101 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-256 SCP-256]] starts as a regular file. Then the user reading it starts to seek more information... and goes on a rampage. |
| 102 | ** Incident-370-A was a personal log written by the Foundation doctor in charge of the expedition that found [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-370 SCP-370]]. It details the progressive infection and death of expedition personnel caused by SCP-370's influence. Although he had been infected himself, he managed to use a ritual (which required 80% of his blood supply) to contain it. |
| 103 | ** The scientist who discovered [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-772 SCP-772]] kept a journal. It details how he found a body filled with [[spoiler:giant]] wasp larvae, let them hatch, and contained them. They later escaped, attacked him, and implanted eggs in him. |
| 104 | ** In [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-827 SCP-827]]. Dr. George Farrow was suffering from cancer and had less than six months to live. He tried to cure himself with stem cell therapy and [[BodyHorror ended up changing himself into a mass of protoplasm]]. |
| 105 | ** In [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-930 SCP-930]]: One of the survivors of the wreck of the USS ''Kete'' kept a journal of his experiences. One by one, the other 18 survivors vanished in the night, apparently just walking away. The remaining survivors sometimes found the bodies hanging in the trees, but none of the others ever came back. The last survivor saw glimpses of something in the bushes that was worse than anything he'd ever seen. |
| 106 | ** The journal in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1958 SCP-1958]] describes the trip as going pretty well for the first few weeks, but then one of the crew dies from an incident where he tried to investigate possible damage to the exterior of the van/ship and a foreign object knocked him loose. Things go downhill from there. |
| 107 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2249 SCP-2249]]: A medical doctor is taught how to create a small idyllic universe so the children in a hospital have a place to play. Things go terribly wrong and the new universe ends up filled with gamma radiation, with the doctor dying after being trapped inside of it. |
| 108 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2661 SCP-2661]]: A man who took an anomalous drug was compelled to build an enormous maze. After he did so, a cow-like humanoid appeared out of the maze, killed him, and ate him. The man left a diary describing his increasing compulsion to build the maze and worship the being who would appear from it. |
| 109 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3001 SCP-3001]] is told as transcribed audio logs from a researcher who was accidentally sent to 3001, as he [[GoMadFromTheIsolation slowly goes insane]]. |
| 110 | ** The meat of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3008 SCP-3008]] consists of a journal written by a captive [[HopeSpot who managed to get out,]] but was sadly chased down by one of the Staff and killed. |
| 111 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4100 SCP-4100]] is a rather odd case, in that the log is being recorded ''after'' the apocalyptic event has already occurred by a [[spoiler:supposed]] third party (in this case, the Stellar Congressional Protectorate). |
| 112 | ** Part of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4220 SCP-4220's]] documentation includes the records of the Soviets' "Luna" program, which they had secretly enhanced using paratechnology to reach the Moon before even the ''Americans'' did. It... did not end well. |
| 113 | ** The main narrative of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5000 SCP-5000]] is framed as an archive of thought-transcribed journal entries stored in the databanks of an inoperative [[PoweredArmor Absolute Exclusion Harness]], written by a Foundation employee who lived through an [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt XK-Class End-of-the-World Scenario]] directly and deliberately caused by [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness the Foundation itself]] long enough [[spoiler:to [[ResetButton reset the universe]]]], causing his dead body and the broken Harness to appear in a flash of light in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-579 579]]'s chamber. |
| 114 | %%** The diary in "[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/bees Bees]]". |
| 115 | %%** We get several colorful ones from exploring [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-455 SCP-455]]. Told as radio contact between exploration teams sent into the ship an a headquarters monitoring them. |
| 116 | * ApocalypseWow: |
| 117 | ** The 2013 story contest's [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/competitive-eschatology-hub "Competitive Eschatology"]] group has ''every single culture's world-ending beings appear at once'', and not just humanity's. |
| 118 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1288 SCP-1288]]'s dimension heard about our 2012 Mayan Apocalypse and decided they should get in on that. The "Wow" factor is from the giant Mayan pyramids (apparently nuclear power plants) at the center of every major city. |
| 119 | --->How you have concluded that the end of the calendar signifies the end of all things, we can not be sure. Before we saw you, we thought it only a way to tell the passing of seasons and kings. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Your reckoning of time inspired us and urged us to take action.]] |
| 120 | --->We have left you this record to show you how we succeeded. For a hundred years, you have only waited for the end to come. From this, we concluded that we must instead bring it about. Please, study it so that you might properly plan in the next thousand years. |
| 121 | * AppendageAssimilation: The containment procedures for [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1055 SCP-1055]] (the ursine AnimalisticAbomination that gets stronger, bigger, and more dangerous as more people know about it) in Roget's Proposal involve putting it in with [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1048 SCP-1048]] (the adorable teddy bear that constructs copies of itself out of vile materials). Any 1055 growth is cut short when 1048 specimens violently maul it and use its flesh to make more of themselves. |
| 122 | * AppleOfDiscord: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-050 SCP-050.]] Acquiring the title of "cleverest prankster" [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/document-050 has never been so hazardous]]. |
| 123 | * AppliedPhlebotinum: Beryllium bronze pops up in a lot in articles, like [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1564 1564]], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1427 1427]], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1348 1348]], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1216 1216]], and the reimagining/external expansion of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-148 SCP-148]], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/oricha-s-folly Oricha's Folly]]. The Foundation has even applied it to [[spoiler:make Scranton Reality Anchors]], which are used to counteract reality bending, and are crucial to the containment of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2000/ SCP-2000]]. |
| 124 | * AprilFoolsDay: |
| 125 | ** April 1st of 2009 featured multiple image replacements on the most popular [=SCPs=], including depicting [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-682 682]] (the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Hard-To-Destroy Reptile]]) as [[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barney]], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-076 076-2]] (the official Mary Sue boundary line) as Creator/ChuckNorris, and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-173 173]] (the statue that attacks when you're not watching it) as the Statue of Liberty. Also, the site [[SealedEvilInACan Can of Sealed Evil]], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-231 231-7]], was cured and set free, and in its test log 682 was killed by cutting it in half and letting the halves kill each other. And [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-914 914]] was erased and relabeled as, basically, "This is a picture of a box full of gears. Why on earth does everyone like it so much?" |
| 126 | ** April 1st of 2010 involved one (or more) of the mods going through and editing articles into a more humorous state. Details included replacing researcher's profile pictures, and the containment breach of a self-inserting SCP: adding "And Fred was there." to the end of Foundation Tales pages, and general editing of [=SCPs=] (Classification: SUPER KETER) |
| 127 | ** The 2011 Fool's Day received a treatment similar to 2009, with 682 becoming [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl Bowser Kirby]], and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/dr-clef-s-proposal Dr. Clef's Proposal 001 Gate Guardian]] becoming Metatron from ''Film/{{Dogma}}''. Among others. |
| 128 | ** In 2012, the "Groups of Interest" page got a makeover, with the [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Red Team]] as the GOC, Tropers/{{Anonymous}} as "Nobody", and [[Anime/PrincessTutu Drosselmyer]] as Dr. Wondertainment. Plus there was a slot added for the Shark Punching Centre. Other [=SCPs=] had their pictures changed to comedic images. |
| 129 | *** Darkblade and Fred came back went on an SCP hopping SelfInsert adventure while trying to beat each other up. |
| 130 | *** ''And'' Dr. Clef's Proposal (SCP-001) is [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Lilith]] for the moment. Plus, 076-2 was [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Edward Cullen.]] |
| 131 | ** 2013 now has all of the pages rewritten to be [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Dog Facts]]. |
| 132 | ** 2014 turned the site into "Super Cute Pets", with SCP-173 and SCP-096 shown on the homepage as an adorable puppy and kitten, respectively. [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-231 231-7's]] entire page was also replaced with an adorable bunny. They even rewrote [[OmnicidalManiac SCP-682]]'s [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-682-cu page]] to be about a completely mundane pet lizard that everyone thought was adorable. |
| 133 | ** 2015 had the staff of the site becoming infected with some sort of compulsive obsession with ducks, causing them to replace the featured pages with popular duck-related articles. Several articles were rewritten to be more duck-centric, and everybody ended their comments with "quack quack." |
| 134 | ** 2016 had a CrackFic [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/an-incredibly-important-announcement Contest]] where amusing titles would become be expanded into full-fledged tales. Complete with tiers (Euclid: FusionFic; Keter: all/no dialogue; Thaumiel: SelfInsert; Decomissioned: [[RougeAnglesOfSatin as misspelled as possible]]). |
| 135 | ** 2017 was '''!!NotSafeForWork!!''' with entries from the Foundation Dept. of Sexual Containment Procedures whose motto is "Secure, Contain, Penetrate". Examples: ('''NSFW''', obviously) [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/a-viscous-green-substance The un-expunged condom test for the "Green Goo"]] and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/iteration-f the Minotaur hooks up with Coyote]]. |
| 136 | ** 2020 has an InternalHomage to 2014's Super Cute Pets with [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/april-fools-2020 Super Cool Plants]], which has many existing articles edited to be plant-based or associated with plants, as well as two plant-themed Joke SCP's ([[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-600-co A plant]] that's [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial definitely alive]], and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-cc-by-sa-3-0-co a plant]] from which any picture taken of it is automatically licensed under CC-BY-SA-3.0, the website's license.) |
| 137 | * ArcNumber: |
| 138 | ** The [[{{Cult}} Fifthist Church]] is based around any occurrence of the number five. |
| 139 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-255 SCP-255 has a thing for eleven.]] |
| 140 | ** Appropriately enough, any SCP associated with [[MindScrew the Class of '76]] has 76. |
| 141 | ** A meta variant; The number "231" is often associated with the [[BigBad Scarlet King]] and his associated Tales/articles since he was first created in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-231 SCP-231]], one of the oldest articles on the entire site. |
| 142 | ** Another meta variant; the admin Jacob Conwell has written over twenty [=SCPs=], with two reoccurrences in near all of them: |
| 143 | *** All but three of them are in numbers slots ending in "60" (the ones that don't? "06"). |
| 144 | *** The date of November 15th. Something always happens on that date, be it birthdays or paranormal phenomena. |
| 145 | * ArcWords: Despite being a site with the mantra [[LooseCanon "There is no canon,"]] there's a surprisingly high amount of these. |
| 146 | ** For individual SCP articles: |
| 147 | *** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/twistedgears-kaktus-proposal Apotheosis.]] |
| 148 | *** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-026 The children used to sing.]] |
| 149 | *** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1173 "You hear about that thing down in Samothrace?"]], which triggers the anomaly's effect, whatever it may be. |
| 150 | *** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1591 The stars are beautiful tonight]] (which is actually also part of a {{Crossover}} to Website/TheWanderersLibrary). |
| 151 | *** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1730 What Happened to Site-13?]] [[spoiler:Answer: Dr. Emerson cruelly experimented on and then terminated the site's many anomalies, and then had them all incinerated. This resulted in a sludge combining various anomalous effects, plus a giant leech monster made from an anomalous young boy who wouldn't burn. Then he used an experimental machine to throw the side into the main wiki's universe.]] |
| 152 | *** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1782 There's a hole in the wall in the bottom of the floor.]] |
| 153 | *** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1875 November 77.]] |
| 154 | *** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1981 "Now there you go again!”]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_you_go_again Based on an actual catchphrase of Reagan's.]] |
| 155 | *** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2316 I/You do not recognize the bodies in the water.]] This also applies to any SCP associated with [[BestYearsOfYourLife the Class of '76.]] |
| 156 | *** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2718 "DAMMERUNG" and "Belief is the key."]] |
| 157 | *** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3201 We archive.]] |
| 158 | *** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5999 "Chains,"]] which are referenced in every segment of the SCP-5999 article, usually in a different font and with references to them holding or failing to hold something back. |
| 159 | *** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6500 "I will not fade"]], a phrase which appears at least once in each of the four paths, as well as the poem which precedes it. [[spoiler:It's also the password used to access the rest of the article.]] |
| 160 | ** For both the site in general and individual canons: |
| 161 | *** [[TheMasquerade We die in the dark so you can live in the light.]] |
| 162 | *** Can't fit round pegs in square holes. |
| 163 | *** Are We Cool Yet? (The titular AnomalousArt group's motto) |
| 164 | *** Does the black moon howl?[[note]]Only when waning.[[/note]] |
| 165 | *** [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique "Thaumiel"]] and [[DespairEventHorizon "Apollyon"]]. |
| 166 | *** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/third-law-hub "Scientia Potentia Est".]][[note]]Latin for "Knowledge is Power". In addition to serving as the subtitle for the Third Law canon, this phrase also shows up within the canon as the motto of [[ForScience Prometheus Labs]] and the Foundation's [[SinisterSurveillance Department of Analytics]] — although the two organizations use it with very different intentions.[[/note]] |
| 167 | *** "Site-5" struck out, followed by the footnote "Personnel are to be reminded that there is no Site-5". Often shows up on [=SCPs=] written by S.D. Locke. |
| 168 | *** "Six and a half seconds" for the tales [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/six-and-a-first-half 6 1/2]] and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/six-and-a-second-half 6 2/2]], pertaining both to the duration of intervals between everyday Foundation activities, and the duration of critical events (such as experiencing thought before fainting in an incident, and taking the effects of memetic kill agents) |
| 169 | * Area51: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1051 SCP-1051]] is a somewhat unique take on this. The base isn't where they research aliens, the base ''is'' the alien. |
| 170 | * AnArmAndALeg: An agent who was accidentally exposed to the candle's flame ([[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-310 SCP-310]]) had to have his arm removed below the elbow to save his life. |
| 171 | * ArmedWithCanon: An interesting case. The extended logs for [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-914 SCP-914]], as a result of a small community forming around the characters written for it, have plenty of notes and addenda where various {{Author Avatar}}s (notably Lucius Veritas, who is one to the staff member in charge Leveritas) are used to take potshots at each others' writing and ideas. However, this is mostly in good taste, with the only lasting effects shown in-universe being a problem researcher getting KickedUpstairs and Veritas's psyche [[SanitySlippage slowly declining]] as he witnesses every single incident with the machine. Even then, both are PlayedForLaughs. |
| 172 | * ArmiesAreEvil: The Pentagon manages to convince the Foundation to use SCP-076 against the Taliban. In so doing, they irritate it so much that the brief window they had into its mind — namely, that it would respect a WorthyOpponent — is forever closed from what we can tell, and its containment area had to activate its onsite warhead. |
| 173 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: |
| 174 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1765 SCP-1765]], three nigh-omnipotent entities who use the Foundation's personnel as guinea pigs for their sadistic experiments. The first forces them to permanently and frustratingly take measurements of an ever-changing plumbing system. The second puts them through a hellish obstacle course with fireballs and giant hammers squashing them. The third makes its subject... choose a flavor of ice cream. [[note]]It's not clear if the subject eats the ice cream, he's just told to pick between two flavors. Also, the flavors can be anything from chocolate to "That Shoe You Always Liked" to "God's Wrath".[[/note]] |
| 175 | ** From [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1006 SCP-1006]], a Marxist collective of sentient spiders: |
| 176 | --->''Once supplied a source of black ink and poster sheets, SCP-1006 will communicate with humans by creating signs written in English. These communications are largely centered around demands for the dismantling of western imperialism, a scathing critique of the bourgeoisie, and a request for less mosquito spraying in the surrounding area of the park.'' |
| 177 | ** The list of items taken by [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-303 SCP-303]]: |
| 178 | --->-One (1) █████ cryotube\ |
| 179 | -Three (3) sets of standard Foundation surgical equipment\ |
| 180 | -█████ ███ █████████████\ |
| 181 | -Two (2) D-Class research cadavers\ |
| 182 | -One (1) gasoline-powered generator\ |
| 183 | -A variety of chemicals, including large quantities of tryptophan, phenylalanine, █████████ and tyrosine, among others\ |
| 184 | -One (1) container of powdered coffee creamer [[note]]Not so funny when you know that the Series/{{Mythbusters}} made a terrifying cannon with coffee creamer...[[/note]] |
| 185 | ** In [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/dr-robinsons-statement Dr. Robinson's Statement]], after viewing SCP-1981 in 1994, Ronald Reagan became erratic and ordered the killings of "a civil rights lawyer based out of Chicago, a 15-year-old high school student in Oslo, Norway, and the four-year-old daughter of a New York investment banker." [[spoiler:i.e., UsefulNotes/BarackObama, Anders Breivik, and Music/TaylorSwift.]] |
| 186 | ** From [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1954 SCP-1954]]: "Experimentation logs show that after no less than 20 successful attempts at homemaking tasks, the instructions turn into detailed rituals, some of which mirror those which first were recorded in ███ ██████; some have never been previously documented. Most of these rituals involve murder, cannibalization, sexual encounters, self mutilation, and canned vegetables." |
| 187 | ** "[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2085 SCP-2085]] and SCP-2085-A have been linked to numerous criminal operations occurring between 2010 and 2013, including smuggling, theft, kidnapping, extortion, possession of fissile materials, corporate sabotage, embezzlement, copyright infringement, piracy, possession of narcotics with intent to sell, and tax evasion." |
| 188 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2014 SCP-2014]] is responsible for the creation of cults that carry out murder, theft and indecent exposure in his name. |
| 189 | * ArtifactOfDoom: Very many. Particularly those in the Keter class. |
| 190 | * ArtificialCannibalism: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-604 SCP-604]], "The Cannibal's Banquet" is a dinner set which converts any food or drink placed on it into human flesh and blood, usually that of infants. Before the Foundation got hold of it, it was owned by Marshall, Carter and Dark Ltd., who used it to provide {{Exotic Entree}}s at some of their more exclusive business functions. The Foundation's interest in it seems to be no more than scientific curiosity, but they are considering using it to feed [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-352 SCP-352]], aka Literature/BabaYaga, as a "more efficient" alternative to her [[EatsBabies usual diet]]. |
| 191 | * ArtisticLicenseChemistry: Sometimes, titanium get gratuitously used in articles without paying much attention to its chemical/physical nature, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/technical-words#toc12 especially in older articles]]. Adding this usage becoming a BerserkButton to some, and this is mercilessly spoofed in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-022-j SCP-022-J]]. |
| 192 | * AssInAmbassador: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2264 The Ambassador of Alagadda]], which, unlike what [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-701 SCP-701]] would have you believe, is actually a pretty cool place to meet people from other universes — as long you avoid the Ambassador and the King. |
| 193 | -->'''Agent Alexander Papadopoulos:''' [interrupting] It stood so damn proud. Just radiating arrogance. I couldn't understand a word it said and yet every syllable dripped with narcissistic venom. It brought a hand to where a mouth should have been… and it laughed and laughed...\ |
| 194 | \ |
| 195 | And we destroyed ourselves for its amusement. |
| 196 | * AsYouKnow: Articles sometimes explain scientific facts that the in-universe researchers who are supposed to read them should already know. |
| 197 | * AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/kate-mctiriss-s-proposal Kate McTiriss's Proposal]] has Dr. Mary Nakayama, through the use of the anomalous SCP-001 slot's powers of of making all statements within it objectively true, to "attain omnipotence and omniscience, rising to and becoming Godhead." A comment in the SCP-001 hub even notes a similarity to ''Film/{{Lucy}}''. |
| 198 | * AssholeVictim: |
| 199 | ** The D-Class are recruited death row inmates, but one will likely feel sorry for them anyway. It's actually been ''dialed back'' considerably; in a lot of older tales and some main entries, the Foundation was depicted as ''deliberately'' getting them killed as fast as possible, since any that made it to the end of the month would be killed anyway. The editors and admins felt this crossed the line between "ruthlessly pragmatic" and StupidEvil. |
| 200 | ** Guest researcher Dr. W. He fed [[WouldHurtAChild TWO children]] to SCP-682 for utterly arbitrary reasons. Director Clef realized what was going on and [[PayEvilUntoEvil murdered Dr. W in the same manner.]] |
| 201 | ** The Foundation covered up the disappearance of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-191 SCP-191]] and her fellow test subjects by blaming a SerialKiller who had been recently caught. Then, in order to make sure he couldn't compromise the lie, they killed him just before his court date. |
| 202 | ** Every victim of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2578 SCP-2578]] has been a tyrant, someone about to become a tyrant, or [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1427 a bronze steele]] indirectly responsible for the continued existence of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. |
| 203 | * AssimilationBackfire: An attempt to kill SCP-682 with SCP-1361 resulted in 1361 essentially ''becoming'' 682. Once it was killed, 682's skeleton was extracted and regenerated as normal. |
| 204 | * AuthorAvatar: Many characters are named after the usernames of their real-life counterparts. The avatars and the authors are not always alike. |
| 205 | * AuthorTract: Possibly, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2726 SCP-2726]] takes a moment to go on a rant against ''Series/BlackMirror''. It should be noted SCP-2726 is a ghost who was contracted over the internet to impersonate/memorialize a dead girl. |
| 206 | -->"ohh [[Recap/BlackMirrorFifteenMillionMerits in this dystopia everybody has to jog all the time and reality tv is shallow and it's mean]] bluh bluh"\ |
| 207 | yeah tell me when [[Recap/BlackMirrorNosedive you can downvote people into popcorn hell and also rig their posts to blow up]] in real life. maybe that'll get my attention. |
| 208 | * {{Autocannibalism}}: |
| 209 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-524 SCP-524]], an ExtremeOmnivore rabbit who is ''so'' extreme that his diet includes himself. When the only remaining parts of his body are parts that he can't reach with his mouth, [[AlienGeometries his mouth flips inside out]], swallowing himself whole in one final gulp. Half an hour later, he'll re-appear, whole and unharmed. |
| 210 | ** This was most likely [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2682 SCP-2682]]'s ultimate fate. |
| 211 | ** And [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4820 SCP-4820]] is a man who acquired a HealingFactor while marooned on an island and got into the habit of eating himself. |
| 212 | * {{Autodoc}}: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-212 SCP-212]], which "improves" the body by adding or replacing certain tissues with the nearest artificial equivalent. This may wind up being lethal. |
| 213 | * {{Atlantis}}: Kinda, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1069 one of the SCPs]] is clearly Ys, a legendary city off the Atlantic coast of France that was sunk when its RebelliousPrincess, Dahut, either let the city's protective floodgates be opened or opened them herself either while [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy under the influence of alcohol]] or [[TheCorrupter tricked by Satan into doing it.]] |
| 214 | * AwesomeAussie: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1470 SCP-1470 is a telepathic jumping spider with a very stereotypical Australian accent.]] It's implied this is due to telepathic communication using the biases and cliches one's familiar with. |
| 215 | * AwkwardSilenceEntrance: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-453 SCP-453 ("Scripted Nightclub")]]. In Script #21 "The Senator's Visit", when the Senator and his servants enter the club, conversation will stop for four minutes. |
| 216 | [[/folder]] |
| 217 | [[folder:B]] |
| 218 | * BadBoss: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-001-o5 James Anderson]]. At times, the O5 [=and/or=] the research team are painted as such, but the staff discourages it. |
| 219 | * BadFuture: |
| 220 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2003 SCP-2003]], a very limited time machine, has shown the Foundation many ways the world ends in the future. The "happiest" ending starts with a billion deaths via the flu, causing countries to work together, resulting in world peace, and ends abruptly with TheRapture. But since the Foundation doesn't know what happens to everyone who disappears, the "preferred option" is humanity fighting and living as usual and then ''[[ShootTheShaggyDog suddenly getting destroyed by a rogue asteroid]]'' (two similar endings are "random gamma ray burst" and "suddenly the sun is a black hole"). |
| 221 | --->[future#]XE: The election of Sir William Entwistle as Prime Minister of New Zealand in 2049, combined with the birth of an unnamed infant boy in Ahal Province, Turkmenistan on the same day, lead to an escalating chain of events culminating in a society-destroying nuclear exchange between the nations of Israel and Greater Indonesia in 2058. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero All Foundation attempts to interfere with either individual merely result in the date of the nuclear exchange occurring sooner.]] |
| 222 | ** The future as described by the future Simon Kells in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4989 SCP-4989]] is absolutely hellish, with the Scarlet King dominating the globe aside from a select few holdouts - most notably including the titular "Site-89", the Foundation's last redoubt located in eastern Siberia. |
| 223 | * TheBadGuyWins: Played with with the creator of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3033 SCP-3033]]: While she is in Foundation custody, she's still [[spoiler:considered a VIP, lives in a comfortable cottage (sans Internet), and is able to ''vivisect one of her victims'' when she (the victim) goes after her for revenge. All that happens afterward is that she's moved to a new cottage]]. |
| 224 | * BadSanta: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4666 SCP-4666]] is a pagan demon that murders families and kidnaps children in his sack, forcing them to make presents out of human remains. He then delivers these presents to children. It's implied that this monster was the original inspiration for the myths of both Santa Claus and Krampus. |
| 225 | * BadassArmy: Though primarily a scientific organisation, the Foundation relies on conventional military forces, the [=MTFs=] or Mobile Task Forces, at all levels. It even has its own ''nukes''. |
| 226 | ** MTF Nu-7 ("Hammer Down") is a battalion-strength force consisting of three companies of specialist infantry, a light vehicle company, [[TankGoodness a tank platoon]], helicopter gunship squadron, [[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBRN_defense a CBRN defence platoon]], a combat engineer platoon, and a nuclear weapon specialist squad, with additional support and logistics personnel. The point of Hammer Down is to be TheCavalry, sent in to secure Foundation sites undergoing massive catastrophe. |
| 227 | ** MTF Eta-10 ("See No Evil") and MTF Eta-11 ("Savage Beasts") are deployed against [[BrownNote visual and auditory cognitohazards]]. These guys have got to be pretty badass if they are expected to fight and win against things that can potentially kill them ''if they look at them''. |
| 228 | ** MTF Lambda-5 ("White Rabbits") go up against anomalous objects and entities that can [[RealityWarper manipulate space and time]], and MTF Mu-13 ("Ghostbusters") go up against... well, guess. |
| 229 | ** MTF Eta-5 ([[PunnyName "Jaeger Bombers"]]) is a rapid response unit meant for tracking, capturing and containment of [[{{Kaiju}} Large-Scale Aggressors]] — entities over 30 metres in height. |
| 230 | ** MTF Omega-7 and MTF Alpha-9 are both [=MTFs=] that utilize humanoid [=SCPs=] for the good of the Foundation. The only difference being that Omega-7 was deactivated after SCP-076-2 killed all of its members in what is known as "Incident Zero". |
| 231 | ** Last but not least, MTF Alpha-1 ("Red Right Hand"), a task force comprised of the most loyal Foundation agents operating under the strictest operational security and reporting directly to the O5 Council. This is the Foundation's ''in-house black ops division''. And they still meet their match in MTG Omega-1 ("Law's Left Hand"), their Ethics Committee counterpart, and Rēsh-1 ("Seat of Consciousness"), the Administrator's personal task force. These two are apparently so secret that ''not even the O5 Council knows about them''. |
| 232 | * BadassBoast: The Ethics Commitee has one: |
| 233 | -->"[The O5s] judge what is and isn't ''safe'', and that's a vital and important function. But we are the ones who advise the O5s on what is and is not ''[[EveryoneHasStandards acceptable]]''." |
| 234 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4100 SCP-4100]] "Future Imperfect" manages to twist their usually somber motto into a truly victorious boast: |
| 235 | --->"We don't die in the darkness anymore. We've won. We're living in stellar light." |
| 236 | * BadassCreed: |
| 237 | ** "We [[ArtifactCollectionAgency Secure.]] We [[SealedEvilInACan Contain.]] We [[NecessarilyEvil Protect.]]" |
| 238 | ** "[[HeroicSacrifice We die in the dark]] so [[TheMasquerade you can live in the light.]]" |
| 239 | ** For the [[MagicalSociety Serpent's Hand,]] [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/serpent-s-hand-hub here]]: "We will free those [[ArtifactCollectionAgency you]] keep imprisoned. We will rescue those you try to kill. The Garden is the Serpent's place. ''We'' are the Serpent's Hand." |
| 240 | ** For the Global Occult Coalition: "[[HumansAreSurvivors Survival]] - [[TheMasquerade Concealment]] - [[TheCavalry Protection]] - [[AntiMagicalFaction Destruction]] - [[SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic Education]]" |
| 241 | * BadassNormal: |
| 242 | ** Most competent Foundation personnel. For example, one of SCP-140's archeological digs went very, ''very'' wrong. The ''doctor in charge of the site'' sacrificed his life to stop whatever the Hell was in there. |
| 243 | ** D-14134 was sent into [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1983 SCP-1983]] for (suicidal) recon after several groups of elite agents had gone in and been massacred. Long story short, ''[[DyingMomentOfAwesome a D-class on a suicide mission singlehandedly neutralized a Keter threat]]''. Congratulations, D-14134, you have earned the title of BadassBystander. |
| 244 | ** Topped by Researcher James Talloran, a 30-something Irish-American low level researcher who withstood ''three million years'' of [[MindScrew unbelievable dream logic torture]] at the hands of SCP-3999, a malevolent ''Apollyon-class'' RealityWarper, and somehow brings reality back under control for a while, humiliates SCP-3999 in an interview, and then destroys SCP-3999 [[HeroicSacrifice and himself]] to revert reality back to normal. |
| 245 | * BagOfHolding: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-101 SCP-101]] is of the 'Bag of Devouring' variant. |
| 246 | ** As well as [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1689 SCP-1689]] is literally called "The Bag of Holding Potatoes", due to it being infinite, and creating infinite potatoes. |
| 247 | * BarbieDollAnatomy: Some SCP organisms are described to lack reproductive organs, such as instances of SCP-3325-1. |
| 248 | * BatmanGambit: |
| 249 | ** How [[spoiler:[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/ecceperago Dr. Mann tries to become the Administrator]].]] |
| 250 | ** OutGambitted: [[spoiler:[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/annon Every single person]] he had killed either survived, [[BackFromTheDead didn't stay dead]], or got replaced by someone else ([[StableTimeLoop or themselves]]).]] |
| 251 | ** The specimens of SCP-3325-1 [[spoiler:play dead so guards can come near them to get attacked.]] |
| 252 | %%* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-medium The Medium]]. Literally. |
| 253 | * {{Bathos}}: |
| 254 | ** All over the place. The more horrifying [=SCPs=] are frequently used in experiments with the more ridiculous ones for humor value. Many of the highest-rated entries on the site feature tales of nightmarish abominations tempered with pitch-black [[BlackHumor humor]], or have hilarious descriptions of wacky [=SCPs=] who, when you think about it, are actually terrifying. |
| 255 | ** The infamous story [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/bees "Bees"]] is probably the most iconic example of this, which starts with the ludicrous premise [[SurrealHumor "What if everything was bees?"]] and slowly forces the reader to consider the question "What if '''[[SurrealHorror EVERYTHING]]''' was bees?" |
| 256 | * BattleButler: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-662 SCP-662]] is a bell that, when rung, can summon one of these. His name is Mr. Deeds, and he is able to perform just about any task, which includes attacking others (such as when he assassinated a D-Class personnel with brutal precision using a knife to the throat). Notably, he can be killed, but once line of sight is broken, he can be summoned again perfectly fine. |
| 257 | * BeAsUnhelpfulAsPossible: SCP entries are written to be engaging, not to be informative. As a result, they very frequently bury the lede, placing vital information about the SCP at the very end of the entry, while leading into it with physical descriptions that serve to build ambiance. In some cases, like [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2935 SCP-2935]], information that would be absolutely, completely vital for anyone interacting with the SCP is buried at the end of the attached ''incident reports'', when logically in reality it would be the very first thing in the entry. (For the record, the thing about SCP-2935 that is only mentioned in its final recovered artifact is that [[spoiler:if anyone returns from it, everyone in the world will die]].) |
| 258 | * BearsAreBadNews: Nearly everything [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/system:page-tags/tag/ursine#pages here]]. A few are even SealedEvilInATeddyBear.[[note]]Averted with [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2295 SCP-2295]].[[/note]] |
| 259 | * BearyFunny: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2579 SCP-2579]] are bears that emit pop music instead of growling, and woo females by engaging in dance-offs. |
| 260 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: |
| 261 | ** Researcher Garnier asked [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1459-extended-testing-log SCP-1459]] to "do your worst". It seemingly did so, as all present were given amnestics and sent to psychological counselling. The actual method by which the machine killed the puppy was hidden behind a [[YouDoNotWantToKnow [DATA EXPUNGED], ]] and the cookie produced by SCP-1459 was in an advanced state of decomposition. |
| 262 | ** A test subject requested [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-294 SCP-294]] to provide "the perfect drink". Upon drinking it the subject went into a state of shock, and later committed suicide leaving behind a note which read, "I'm sorry, but at this point everything's just one big letdown." |
| 263 | * BeeAfraid: Inverted and invoked by [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1256 SCP-1256.]] It's a pamphlet that uses InsaneTrollLogic to make you think that bees are smarter than you think. It also has the effect of making anyone who reads it in full to love and care for bees and other similar species such as wasps unconditionally, even if it harms the insects and makes them hostile. |
| 264 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-883 SCP-883]], a beehive shed that is BiggerOnTheInside. As one gets further inside the hive, the bees start looking less like bees. Bees found more than 1.5km in have extra wings. Bees found more than 2km in have a deadly toxic sting. Bees found more than 7 kilometers in do not appear to be insects, and more like [DATA EXPUNGED]. |
| 265 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/bees "Bees"]] is a short story about a [[RealityWarper Type Green]] who finds a journal that starts turning everything into bees in part due to his own worsening mental state. |
| 266 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/system:page-tags/tag/apian#pages Pages relating to bees.]] |
| 267 | * BeenThereShapedHistory: Not counting historical disasters caused by [=SCPs=] (most are listed on HistoricalInJoke), [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1160 Cocoa Puffs]] and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2090 basketball]] were created to contain some of them! And apparently Mexico had a huge landmass before an [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/twistedgears-kaktus-proposal SCP-001 proposal]] [[spoiler:(The Broken God)]] turned it into the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_California Gulf of California]]. |
| 268 | ** The Foundation [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3780 killed JFK]], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1841-ex John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Tupac Shakur, Kurt Cobain, and pretty much every other famously dead musician of the century]]. They also orchestrated the Presidencies of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4444 George W. Bush]] and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5004 Donald Trump]] and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-687 caused the Cleveland Torso murders]]. |
| 269 | * BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: |
| 270 | ** The identity of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1447 SCP-1447-2]] is heavily obscured, but if you read carefully enough and have enough knowledge, you'll realize that he is [[spoiler:Creator/SteveJobs, who apparently went to Tibet in 1985 and created his own [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulpa Tulpa]], all the while another Steve Jobs replaced him in public]]. |
| 271 | ** Mountaineer George Mallory was killed on Mt. Everest by [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1529 a frostbite-causing monster]], one that later spared Lincoln Hall. |
| 272 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1570 SCP-1570 (NSFW)]] is implied to be indirectly responsible for San Francisco, Austin, and Las Vegas' trends toward partying and counterculture, as well as Burning Man's exposure. It's also the source of the infamous picture of Cowboy fans in assless chaps (and flaunting it) partying on the street as a shocked woman walks past. |
| 273 | ** Roman Emperor Septimius Severus was apparently [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1732 a talking lion]]. |
| 274 | ** [[UsefulNotes/{{Basketball}} Tim Duncan]], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2090 Destroyer of Worlds.]] |
| 275 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2776 George Washington]] (who impersonated and replaced the original person long before he became president) was a SchizoTech android. |
| 276 | ** UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla successfully invented his DeathRay, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2700 SCP-2700]]. [[spoiler:He also traveled to help a DimensionalTraveler in his scientific venture (and to secretly complete his death ray), and ended up creating a universal-scale bomb when one of his peers sabotaged his creation because it was a weapon of war.]] |
| 277 | ** Zig-zagged with [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1841-ex SCP-1841-EX]] — Franz Liszt, infamous for a rabid fanbase in a time where most musical composers didn't warrant a fanbase that would put the screaming crowds of Beatles fans to shame, was thought to have some kind of memetic or magic effect that caused such hysteria in his fans, but the modern SCP Foundation dismisses it as simple fanboyism. It's also indirectly responsible for the SCP Foundation killing Tupac. |
| 278 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2264/ SCP-2264]] implies that Christopher Marlowe wrote [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-701/ The Hanged King's Tragedy.]] |
| 279 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1084 SCP-1084]] is the grave of [[spoiler:Creator/AmbroseBierce]], who cursed the town that killed him and made all but one person in it die. |
| 280 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2736 Richard]] [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon Nixon]] was a normal senator up until a night in 1951 where a secret society performed a ritual on him that split him into two Richard Nixons, one of which became the president and the other under Foundation custody. |
| 281 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3817 SCP-3817]] is an immortal clone of Music/FelixMendelssohn who has so many self-inflicted injuries it is a wonder he is still alive. He maintains that his injuries are not out of suicidal intent, but rather so he could [[TrueArtIsAngsty use his suffering to create musical masterpieces]], just like the great composers before him. |
| 282 | ** During the 2000 election, George W. Bush was clinically brain-dead due to a hunting accident and Dr. Shaw had to take over his body and run against Al Gore, who was possessed by [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4444 SCP-4444]], in order to prevent an alien invasion. |
| 283 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4335 SCP-4335,]] an anomalous ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' entity, has a note in TheStinger that [[spoiler:places ''Minecraft'' lead creative designer Jens Bergensten as a researcher of the SCP, and that the Endermen were added to the game to smokescreen 4335's existence]]. |
| 284 | * BeigeProse: Most articles are written this way, to emphasize the methodical, coldly scientific approach that the Foundation takes towards the horrors that it contains. {{Enforced}} in the [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/short-works-contest Short Works Contest]], requesting entries less than 500 words long (the winner [[LoopholeAbuse had none, only pictograms]]). |
| 285 | * BeneathTheEarth: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2622 SCP-2622]] claims to be from a subterranean world straight out of pulp fiction, home to a civilization of MoleMen, evil reptilian people, and [[LostWorld caverns full of prehistoric life]]. [[spoiler:He's making everything up.]] |
| 286 | * TheBermudaTriangle: |
| 287 | ** Apparently caused by [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-605 SCP-605]], a predatory cloud that hunts boats and planes for food. |
| 288 | ** Although it's not specifically the Bermuda Triangle, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1372 SCP-1372]] has a similar description. Being a spacial anomaly, in the middle of the ocean, that boats and planes disappear when they go through. However, they do sometimes come back, but that ''is not a good thing''. |
| 289 | * BerserkButton: |
| 290 | %%** Apparently, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-387 SCP-387]] (a pile of sentient LEGO blocks) will do something extremely violent and unexpected when shown a pile of Megablocks. |
| 291 | %%-->'''Experiment 387-e''': ''Once a normal community of 387 was constructed, a small mound of Megablocks (a common copy of Lego) was placed near the community. When this happened, everything constructed of 387 stopped moving, turned slowly towards the Megablocks and [EXPUNGED].'' |
| 292 | %%-->'''Addendum 387-6:''' ''Jesus fucking Christ. - Dr. Arch'' |
| 293 | ** If you don't want [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-096 SCP-096]] to [[YouCanRunButYouCantHide hunt you down to the ends of the Earth]] at [[SuperSpeed speeds over 35 miles per hour]][[note]]at minimum; if you have a substantial lead on it, ''[[RubberBandAI it accelerates]]''[[/note]] while [[TheJuggernaut smashing through any obstacle in its way with only minor, momentary reductions to its speed at the absolute most]] and then [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown dismember you to the point where]] there's NotEnoughToBury when it inevitably catches up, then [[DontLookAtMe don't look at its face]]. |
| 294 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-233 SCP-233]] has a problem with a certain number (3 squared), and thus even the SCP file is forced to make it [REDACTED]. |
| 295 | ** If you're planning on getting something from [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-261 SCP-261]], do ''not'' give it counterfeit yen. The only thing it'll give you is a bunch of [[spoiler:lethally poisonous]] gummy candies shaped like hands FlippingTheBird. It also doesn't like it when you press the return coin button. And God help you — and anyone else in the room — if you try the coin-on-a-string trick. |
| 296 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-682 SCP-682's]] BerserkButton is easy to press; simply ''[[OmnicidalManiac be an earthly creature]]''. |
| 297 | ** If you tell [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2835 SCP-2835]]-1 his cartoon sucks, you're gonna [[MadnessMantra "reap what you sow]]" — [[TheVillainKnowsWhereYouLive and so is your family.]] |
| 298 | * BewareOfHitchhikingGhosts: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1337 SCP-1337]] was harmless, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero until a Foundation doctor had her parents executed and her home demolished.]] Now [[EyeScream she's not]]. |
| 299 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2542 SCP-2543 AKA Tayn't]] is a very friendly, extremely generous anomalous drug dealer, but ''[[CruelAndUnusualDeath God help you]]'' if you [[IJustWantToHaveFriends betray his friendship]] and steal even a pinch of his stash. |
| 300 | -->Autopsies confirm that while the bodies may appear to have undergone [[{{Understatement}} unusual injury]], the subjects were [[ColdBloodedTorture alive]] for the majority of time spent in SCP-2542's dimension. |
| 301 | * {{BFG}}: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-044 SCP-044]], the World War II Era Molecular-Fission Cannon. |
| 302 | * BigBad: The lack of canon obviously means this depends on the author, but the [[EldritchAbomination Scarlet King]] qualifies as one of the greatest. The lack of canon makes exactly what he is ambiguous, but the two most popular versions claim he is either the sentient border between civilization and savagery, order and chaos, present and past, etc. who'd want nothing more than to destroy the first part of said differences, or one of the first gods born beneath the Tree of Knowledge (the Wanderer's Library), who raged against the meaninglessness of his existence, and now seeks to end everything. Either way, he's generally depicted as an OmnicidalManiac. |
| 303 | * BigCreepyCrawlies: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-363 SCP-363]], the Not Centipedes. Don't turn the lights off... |
| 304 | * BigDamnHeroes: Can be inferred from the cave paintings of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1660 SCP-1660-7]]. |
| 305 | * BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1000 SCP-1000]], a species of hominids with chimpanzee intelligence infected with an anomalous disease that has a chance of killing any hominids who look at them. [[spoiler:That is just the cover story created to divert attention. They are actually just as smart as humans, and they once controlled the world with their OrganicTechnology marvels until humans overthrew them. They once ruled the world, and may yet again...]] |
| 306 | * BiggerOnTheInside: |
| 307 | ** The sphere in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-002 SCP-002]] is 60 m³ (or 2000 ft³) in volume, but the interior room does not correspond to these dimensions. The room also has a window that's not visible from the outside. |
| 308 | ** If [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-184 SCP-184]] is placed inside a structure, its interior will slowly expand. At first, the additional space will just be copies of and minor variations of the original structure, but as it continues, the additional rooms and hallways become stranger and stranger. |
| 309 | ** Inverted with [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1767 SCP-1767]], which causes any affected building to be ''smaller'' on the inside. |
| 310 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1992 SCP-1992 ("Indecisive Mobile Home")]]. When a person enters and moves through SCP-1992, imperfect copies of the person are created and move through SCP-1992 as well. As they do so, additional rooms are created inside SCP-1992, increasing its interior space. |
| 311 | * BiggerThanJesus: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3933 SCP-3933]] was a famous band called "Tyrannosaurus Flex," whose lead singer is claimed to have said "if The Beatles were bigger than Jesus, we're bigger than God." No one remembers them because, as if by divine retribution, hearing a particular song of theirs causes one to completely forget that the band and its members ever existed. |
| 312 | * BigGood: |
| 313 | ** Depending on the author, the Ethics Committee, as they keep the rest of the Foundation from JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope. |
| 314 | ** The Foundation as a whole counts, as despite being ''very'' anti-heroic, they've preserved human civilization since at least the eighteenth century. |
| 315 | ** [[CrystalDragonJesus Mekhane]] was this [[GodIsDead while alive]], with His/Her high priest Robert Bumaro taking over in His/Her absence. |
| 316 | ** The Serpent of the [[MagicalLibrary Wanderer's Library]], who while mysterious and being ultimately more akin to TricksterGod in the grand scheme of things, has overall acted as a benevolent force by helping shepherd humanity and other sentient species, spreading their awareness of the anomalous world so they can stand against the infinite number of dangers in the darkness. |
| 317 | * BigRedDevil: The Scarlet King is a demonic god who is often associated with the color red. |
| 318 | * BigScrewedUpFamily [[spoiler:The Shaws.]] Out of seven family members, three work for the Foundation, [[spoiler:the father, Adam was a junior researcher who rose through the ranks and became an O5, the oldest child, Mikell, was an agent nicknamed "Cowboy," who eventually made it to O5 like his father, and Elias, who was a normal researcher until he died while in contact with [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-963 SCP-963]] and is now immortal by way of [[BodySurf bodysurfing]]]]; two are [=SCPs=] — [[spoiler:Sarah, the youngest child, was stillborn, [[CameBackWrong resurrected imperfectly]], got picked up by the Foundation, and made [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-321 SCP-321]], and Adam spent the rest of his life trying to get her out of the Foundation's custody, without success. TJ, the youngest son, has healing powers that have a rebound kind of effect on himself, and was the one to bring Sarah back. The process was extremely traumatizing, to the point that Jack brought him to the Foundation, where he was made [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-590 SCP-590]] and deliberately given numerous mental afflictions to lower his mental state to that of a toddler's. Jack saw this as doing TJ a kindness, as now he was blissfully unaware of the trauma he had through before.]] Two are working in opposition to the Foundation: [[spoiler:the mother, Evelyn, was a medical assistant who rose up to becoming an O5 with Adam, became fascinated with bioengineering and creating beings out of scratch, and had goals of saving Jack, TJ, and Sarah. The rest of the council were appalled, and wanted her to kill the being she showed them, so she unleashed it in an attempt to kill them, and ran off to eventually join Prometheus Labs. The second-youngest, Claire, is a member of the Serpent's Hand, and leads her own team within it known as the "Little Sisters."]] Considering the [[CloudCuckooLander typical behavior]] of the most prominently featured member of this family, and it's pretty jarring to see all this tragedy behind the quirkiness. |
| 319 | ** [[spoiler:There's an eighth family member. A little sister, introduced in the [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-man-who-wasnt-there-hub Man Who Wasn't There]] canon, who used to be part of the Serpents Hand, became the new Nobody. She was {{Unperson}}ed as a result.]] |
| 320 | * BioluminescenceIsCool: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1660 SCP-1660-7]] have bioluminescence. [[spoiler:It turns out that they are sapient and use it to communicate.]] |
| 321 | * BizarreAlienBiology: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1972 SCP-1972]] consist of SCP-1972-A, an alien HookerWithAHeartOfGold with features of a moose, kangaroo, and octopus, and SCP-1972-B, an interstellar cop that's chasing her across the galaxy. [[spoiler:SCP-1972-A slept with SCP-1972-B, and as a result, SCP-1972-B is pregnant.]] |
| 322 | * {{Bizarrchitecture}}: In [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scantron-s-proposal Scantron's Proposal of SCP-001]]. The high school affected by the anomaly transformed practically overnight. All the desks and books were missing, the walls were replaced with reinforced concrete or other strange materials, [[AlienGeometries rooms were randomly rearranged]], and the auditorium was sealed off by large steel walls blocking the doorways. |
| 323 | * BizarroApocalypse: |
| 324 | ** SCP-093, "The Red Sea Object", is a red stone disc which, when attached to a mirror, opens a gateway into what appears to be an [[AlternateUniverse alternate Earth]] where something seriously ''wrong'' had gone down. Human civilisation appeared to possess high technology and was controlled by a [[TheTheocracy totalitarian religious authority]], but the test subjects and MTF agents the Foundation sent into this alternate reality found no people, animals or even corpses: only [[TheBlank monstrous empty-faced torso creatures]] that hunted them down. [[spoiler:Eventually, the Foundation find a relatively coherent explanation which describes how a godlike HumanoidAbomination known only as "He" provided the alternate humans with advanced tech and a substance known as [[AppliedPhlebotinum His Holy Tears]]. This liquid apparently possessed healing properties but could also [[WasOnceAMan turn people into the faceless monsters]], who eventually overwhelmed humanity.]] |
| 325 | ** S. D. Locke's Proposal, "[[{{Pun}} When Day Breaks]]" describes a nightmarish scenario in which, with no explanation or warning, the Sun started transforming any creature exposed to its rays (including those reflected through moonlight) into [[BodyHorror hideous, amorphous blobs of flesh]] that seek to drag any survivors into the sunlight. It's pretty bleak even by SCP standards. |
| 326 | * BlackAndGreyMorality: Pretty much all [=SCPs=] that aren't trying to outright destroy the world or kill people are extremely dangerous. Take into account that there are other organizations that are trying to use [=SCPs=] for their own agendas (many of whom make [[ALighterShadeOfBlack the Foundation seem moral stalwarts by comparison]], such as Global Occult Coalition, Chaos Insurgency and the Sarkic Cults) and it's almost outright EvilVersusEvil. The Foundation is a slightly Grey entity, and even then, they've slaughtered millions, altered reality, and are toying with forces they barely understand. But, like one short story says "You want happy endings? Fuck you. You're alive to read it. God help us all." |
| 327 | * BlackBox: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-914 SCP-914]]. Various settings give the user "control" of the output. |
| 328 | * BlackComedy: |
| 329 | ** Most of the occasional humor on the site falls into this category. Especially with the Joke articles, which parody the usual nightmare fuel found in the mainlist articles. |
| 330 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2398 SCP-2398]] is a standout example of black comedy, as it is a baseball bat that makes things explode when hit, leading to hilarity like: |
| 331 | --->'''Testing Parameters:''' SCP-2398 is swung by a machine at a test pig. |
| 332 | --->'''Test Results:''' During setup of the swinging robotic arm rig, the arm swings prematurely, striking Dr. Towns in the arm and causing him to violently explode. The swinging robotic arm rig is destroyed. The resulting explosion causes SCP-2398 to arc across the test chamber and strike the test pig, which also violently explodes. That explosion causes SCP-2398 to then strike two D-Class personnel used as operators in earlier tests, who also violently explode. The test chamber is destroyed as a result of the four explosions. SCP-2398 is unaffected, and later placed back into containment. |
| 333 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2875 SCP-2875]], aka "The Town That Got Fucked By Bears", wavers between this and NightmareFuel. The article describes a town [[BearsAreBadNews that got massively infested and destroyed by self-replicating bears]]. An MTF leader even acknowledges in the article how inherently funny the concept is while also pointing out that [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome if the bears were to get loose from the town they would devastate the ecosystem]]. Doesn't make [[ApocalypticLog the found voicemails]] from the MinnesotaNice "Tom Miller from City Hall" any less funny, though. |
| 334 | ---> ''Okay listen there is a bear outside of my house, okay. [[ARareSentence My neighbor just got fucking eated by a bear]]. Okay there are bears on the streets, there are bears in peoples' homes, okay, we gotta do something about this. There's, I can't get outside, okay, my kids are at school, I can't get to my kids. Okay there is a bear on my car, why can't oh god (bear attack sounds), oh lord there's a bear in the house, oh, 875-7112 call me please ([[DisconnectedByDeath dial tone]]).'' |
| 335 | * BlackComedyAnimalCruelty: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1459 SCP-1459]], a machine that once given a verbal input kills a dog following the listed command (whether directly, as "Blender" has the dog puréed by a blender, or indirectly, such as "Supernova" being a puppy bludgeoned by Epiphone Supernova guitars), and then gives out a cookie (mostly of a flavor the person dislikes, but sometimes related to the test). |
| 336 | * TheBlank: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-600 SCP-600]], which has the faceless version visible on camera, but otherwise takes on appearance based on direct human observers. Surprisingly enough, no one's compared him to [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos the original depiction of the Slender Man.]] |
| 337 | * BlankWhiteVoid: The hyperspace in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3001 SCP-3001]], although it's black. At one point, Robert Scranton traveled in a straight line for two months, and found nothing. |
| 338 | * BlatantLies: Occasionally pops up while the Foundation is trying to cover something up. One good example: |
| 339 | -->''"[It is determined that this is the point where Dr. Clef '''[[CutHimselfShaving accidentally fell out of his chair and struck his head nine times against the corner of the desk]]''', fracturing his skull and snapping his neck between the second and third vertebrae.]"'' |
| 340 | ** Although that example is a strange one, as the only thing being covered up in the source document is the precise nature of Dr. Clef himself, and that it's a fig-leaf coverup of another researcher's berserk moment. |
| 341 | * BlessedWithSuck: Name-checked in the talk page for [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2102 SCP-2102]]: He ''should'' be a SuperSoldier (he even gets an [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} X-# designation]]) because of his invulnerability to radiation (possibly caused by exposure to said radiation) combined with an experimental fast-healing solution; instead [[spoiler:the healing process is imperfect and in order to prevent his flesh from growing uncontrollably, he's been a deaf, blind, mute, and paralyzed mass of cauterized scars in the shape of a human ''for 42 years'']]. |
| 342 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: Many of the "Sentient" [=SCPs=] run on this, and even the more bloodthirsty [=SCPs=] could be argued to be simply doing the things they do because they do not know any better. |
| 343 | ** Special note goes to [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-049 SCP-049]], who thinks he's curing people from a (non-existent) plague, by killing said people and turning them into zombies. From the doctor's perspective, however, he is simply curing people. |
| 344 | ** The Foundation itself. You'd like to call them evil for what they do to some of their living subjects, but there are times they PetTheDog, like with Cassy the living drawing. Furthermore, lives outside the Foundation for Foundation members exist to a greater degree than you'd expect from such an organization; there are references to families and such. Also, there are threats of demotion or dismissal if rules are broken; in other words, death by YouHaveFailedMe isn't the primary response to screwing up, and it is possible to exit the Foundation alive even if misconduct is why you're exiting. (Of course, with LaserGuidedAmnesia drugs in use, it's likely that their retirement policy is the same as in ''Film/MenInBlack.'') This all serves to make it more frightening: if they were all clearly villains, doing bad things ForTheEvulz or for gain, that'd be one thing. But the Foundation members are capable of being kind, and are quite reasonable at times. The same people are capable of being scarier than the monsters, then being very kind or even heroic, all in one day. Their lives when they clock out at the end of the day? Just like ours, for the most part. You read the worst of it, you want them to be just plain evil… but they're not. The normal, the exceptionally good, and the exceptionally horrific is ''all'' done by people who are still human enough. Your good-to-evil meter just doesn't apply here. |
| 345 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-171 SCP-171]] is a case of TheAssimilator and covers an expanse of beach. Stay too long, it knows what you know and your body becomes an extension of it. Don't confuse this for merely being controlled: the victims are permanently consumed. The entity is not malevolent: it couldn't keep people from walking over it, [[PowerIncontinence has no power over the process]], and regrets the losses. So naturally, ''the psychological testing for Foundation members wishing to voluntarily 'join' with it is quite rigorous before permission will be given.'' |
| 346 | ** The Foundation in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5000 SCP-5000]] believe that the extermination of humanity is the right thing to do. [[spoiler:Scant references imply that it's thanks to a discovery that humanity itself is abhorrent and anomalous. And if the horrifying revelation that a mind-controlling EldritchAbomination added emotions to humanity's collective subconscious in the past is true, then humans as a whole were ''originally inclined to this kind of morality'' before the being stepped in.]] |
| 347 | * BodyHorror: [[BodyHorror/SCPFoundation Needs an entire page to list the many examples.]] |
| 348 | * BodyToJewel: |
| 349 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-009 SCP-009]] is a red water that crystalizes in heat and infects water, including the body's water content. |
| 350 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-578 SCP-578]] turns blood into jewels. |
| 351 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-409 SCP-409]] will turn organic matter that touches it into more SCP-409 crystals. |
| 352 | * BornOfMagic: One of the effects observed to be caused by [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1987-j SCP-1987-J]] is that it can make people and creatures exist, apparently permanently, as most changes don't reverse when play ends. If no females (who could be turned into 18-year-olds, with a 68% chance of their clothing turning into G-string bikinis, lingerie, or leather fetish gear) are present during testing, several may come into existence. Dragons, dinosaurs, and female angels, along with other album cover cliches, also come to exist. Spontaneous pregnancies have also occurred, ''even in males.'' |
| 353 | * BossBattle: |
| 354 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1201 SCP-1201]] is a well that's a portal to a [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/document-1201 boss fight]]. |
| 355 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2424 SCP-2424]] is [[spoiler:the first boss in an Antarctic-themed "game"]]. |
| 356 | * {{Bowdlerise}}: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-096-j SCP-096-J]] is a web add-on that does this to any explicit material found on the web, mostly pornography. |
| 357 | * BoxedCrook: Class D Personnel are mostly death row inmates. (See CannonFodder, below.) |
| 358 | * BrainBleach: Class A amnestics can come in ''quite'' handy when dealing with some [=SCPs=]. |
| 359 | * BrainUploading: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2306 SCP-2306]] used to be a human named "Ian" who was uploaded into a flash drive and was forced to solve computer problems. |
| 360 | * BreadEggsMilkSquick: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-978 SCP-978]] has scenes of hilarity, scenes of remarkable fuzz, and scenes to haunt your dreams. All at random. |
| 361 | ** A lot of articles will read like this, with the article seemingly describing a normal person/object with mundane powers until you read the part about how it kills/mentally scars/otherwise ruins you. For example, a magic boarding pass that transforms into a valid ticket for the nearest public transportation vehicle, completely indistinguishable from any normal ticket ( like the bus pass in your wallet right now). And then once you reach your destination, it erases you from existence. |
| 362 | ** One of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1763 SCP-1763's plays is as follows:]] |
| 363 | --->Performance Incident #: 14\ |
| 364 | Performance: "Play With the Jenklsedn" by "Rodney Harper"\ |
| 365 | Program Description: A play all children should attend, Play With the Jenklsedn addresses problems of growing up, family issues, and even how to deal with a family pet.\ |
| 366 | Observations: Scenes include "Bad Words", "Why We Share", and "Sexual Problems with Cats". |
| 367 | ** One of the items dispensed from SCP-261 is a package of "Dimensional Donuts". These are small, edible donuts with a spacial anomaly where the hole would be. Things sometimes fall out of this "hole". |
| 368 | --->'''Item Description''': ''Dimensional Donuts — A brightly colored box of donuts, labeling in Spanish. Donuts possess a small interdimensional anomaly, located in the hole of the donut which is destroyed once the ring of the donut is broken. When held sideways, small objects fall out of the hole, the object varying depending on person, donut, and time of day. Items noted include small candies, slices of fruit, jigsaw pieces, various forms of ammunition, blood, gasoline, various insects of unknown species, and human fingers.'' |
| 369 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1954 SCP-1954]], the 'Housewives Handbook' contains the following line about how the instructions go from weird but mundane (such as putting cat hair in meatballs) to insane rituals: |
| 370 | --->''Most of these rituals involve murder, cannibalization, sexual encounters, self mutilation, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking canned vegetables.]]'' |
| 371 | ** From the description of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-078-j SCP-078-J]]: "It is well known for causing various cases of yuckiness, bad smells, and immediate death." |
| 372 | ** From the description of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2547 SCP-2547-1]], an anthropomorphic coyote. |
| 373 | -->SCP-2547-1 will accept the following as payment: any kind of meat, pepper, flint arrowheads, knives, whips, leather, burlap, belts, the thorns of a saguaro cactus, broken glass, lost teeth, ties, carved sculptures, the corpses of domestic cats, amber, canvas shoes, peyote, chewing tobacco, [[YouSexyBeast sexual favors]], sulfur, men's button-up shirts, animal skulls, and stories with SCP-2547-1 as the protagonist.[[note]]The latter appears to be a favorite of SCP-2547-1, and the highest recorded amounts of water were produced in exchange for such narratives, followed by the volumes produced in exchange for sexual favors.[[/note]] |
| 374 | * BreakingTheFourthWall: |
| 375 | ** In-universe, there is [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-993 SCP-993]], a children's television show about "Bobble the Clown" which sends viewers over ten into a coma for the duration of the program. Like most children's shows of the particular format, it has the normal sort of fourth-wall-breaking, speaking directly to the audience as he teaches the under-tens to commit any number of atrocities. More recently, it seems to have caught on to the SCP Foundation's efforts to keep it from being broadcast to the world; the two most recently archived episodes are Bobble Hates You. [[note]]Bobble the Clown sitting in a chair, glaring at the viewer for thirty minutes straight[[/note]] and [[ClusterFBomb (EXPLETIVE) YOU (EXPLETIVE) YOU (EXPLETIVE) YOU]].[[note]]Bobble the Clown in the room where the Foundation has his show archived, angrily telling the viewer how to breach containment of several dangerous [=SCPs=] and murder several important Foundation personnel, featuring an appearance by the animated version of a researcher who happened to be passing by the archive at the time shown on the clock in the show.[[/note]] |
| 376 | ** Then there's [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/sandrewswann-s-proposal S Andrew Swann's Proposal]]. In the end, it concludes with the basic truth of the matter: [[spoiler:There is a God, and it is SCP-001. And it’s a bunch of horror writers.]] |
| 377 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2835 SCP-2835]]: Similar to Bobble, except Paddy the Pelican takes care of troublesome viewers ''himself''. |
| 378 | ** The description SCP-2574-1, an anthropomorphic coyote. |
| 379 | -->SCP-2547-1 will accept the following as payment: any kind of meat, pepper, flint arrowheads, knives, whips, leather, burlap, belts, the thorns of a saguaro cactus, broken glass, lost teeth, ties, carved sculptures, the corpses of domestic cats, amber, canvas shoes, peyote, chewing tobacco, [[YouSexyBeast sexual favors]], sulfur, men's button-up shirts, animal skulls, and stories with SCP-2547-1 as the protagonist.[[note]]The latter appears to be a favorite of SCP-2547-1, and the highest recorded amounts of water were produced in exchange for such narratives, followed by the volumes produced in exchange for sexual favors.[[/note]] |
| 380 | %%* BrokenMasquerade: |
| 381 | %%** There's [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/broken-masquerade-hub an entire canon of the same name]] based around this concept, which is caused by an SCP going haywire and obliterating all of North Korea. |
| 382 | %%** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/revised-entry Revised Entry]] has SCP-173 cause this once it gains the ability to [[MesACrowd self-replicate]]. |
| 383 | * BrotherSisterIncest: Implied in the first test of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-404 SCP-404]]; it's further implied that he killed his sister's boyfriend. |
| 384 | ** The siblings of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2610 SCP-2610]]: Older brothers A and B (who was psychically lobotomized by A by the time SCP-2610 really gets going) impregnate their twenty-years-younger sister C after A is visited by [[OurAngelsAreDifferent an "angel"]] who tells him she'll be the "Whore of His[[note]]the "Lord", not A[[/note]] Deliverance". A assures us that [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror C came on board]] after she was visited by the "angel", but he's [[UnreliableNarrator the only source of info]] and [[spoiler:a photo 10 years later implies C is starting to have doubts]]. C's [[BodyHorror "children"]] take this trope to the extreme: "Her daughters have become the vessels for the Seed of her sons, and their daughters and their sons". |
| 385 | * BrownNote: Has [[BrownNote/SCPFoundation its own page]]. |
| 386 | * BullSeeingRed: What might be going on in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2851 SCP-2851]], seeing as the malevolent entity's name is ''Taros''[='=]zedbreet. Subverted as the color red doesn't make it angry, just [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny distracted]]. |
| 387 | * BunniesForCuteness: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6145 SCP-6145]] (which is loosely based on the real life case of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Toft Mary Toft]]) features an 18th century woman who gives birth to a litter of rabbits. Unfortunately for her, the Foundation (or rather, a precursor organization, His Majesty's Foundation for the Secure Containment for the Paranormal), gets involved. It doesn't end well. |
| 388 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Just about all the scientific personnel, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/routine-psychological-evaluations-by-dr-glass in one way or another.]] |
| 389 | ** Compared to the others, the real BunnyEarsLawyer is Dr. Glass. He's probably the only one with anything resembling ''normal human emotions and morals.'' |
| 390 | * BuriedAlive: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6502 SCP-6502 ("Harwick Cemetery")]] renders people buried in it unable to die as long as they stay buried there (the mind and consciousness are preserved even as the body rots away); however, to take advantage of this, the subjects have to be interred ''while still alive''. The Foundation uses it to keep a number of high-value personnel around to consult with who would otherwise be dead, as well as a few prisoners from rival Groups of Interest to interrogate and the five people who'd inadvertently been buried alive there before the Foundation got wind of it. |
| 391 | * BurlyDetectiveSyndrome: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/taboo the forest we don't know did anything hence we can't name]] is a place where referring to '''the Scottish forest''' or anything inside '''the Onomatopia Oaks''' causes its victims to undergo drastic mutations. |
| 392 | * ButlerSpace: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-662 SCP-662 ("Mr. Deeds").]] SCP-662 is a small silver bell. When it is rung, a short well-dressed Caucasian butler named Mr. Deeds will appear from the nearest area not within line-of-sight. |
| 393 | * ButtMonkey: |
| 394 | ** The Unusual Incidents Unit (UIU), an underfunded division of the FBI that is very inept compared to the other Groups of Interest and is continually used and manipulated by the Foundation. That being said, a lot of it is implied to be them ObfuscatingStupidity so they can stay under the radar of forces that are ''far'' above their paygrade in terms of handling. |
| 395 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3467-j SCP-3467-J]], whose containment procedures include making fun of him at every waking moment. |
| 396 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-507 SCP-507]] is an otherwise-ordinary guy who occasionally, and involuntarily, slips into AnotherDimension. His adventures into alternate realities have led to him being tormented by horrific [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]], having to survive in nightmarish [[DeathWorld Death Worlds]], and getting ''mauled by a [[BearsAreBadNews friggin' polar bear]]'', among other things. |
| 397 | ** [[RedShirt Class D personnel]]. Need some expendable people to be a guinea pig? Send in some Class D personnel! Need someone to go and feed the incredibly dangerous EldritchAbomination? Class D! |
| 398 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-661 SCP-661]]; since he's basically a complete {{Jerkass}} salesman stereotype, the Foundation personnel are gladly dicks right back to him, often with hilarious results: |
| 399 | -->"████. It ███████ reeks in here. Open a god████ window or something". (Denied. Officer ██████ passed flatulence in cell instead.) |
| 400 | * ButterflyOfDoom: How [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2820 SCP-2820]] kills its anomalous targets: |
| 401 | -->'''14:47 (18/09)''': Frog detonates bomb, preventing [[NoodleIncident Alpha Threat's]] complete rebirth.\ |
| 402 | [REDACTED]\ |
| 403 | '''21:40 (18/09)''': Rock falls out of coat pocket onto bottle of tequila, breaking it and averting an XK-Class scenario.\ |
| 404 | [REDACTED]\ |
| 405 | '''23:47 (18/09)''': Trench coat is thrown onto flintlock rifle, which discharges on accident, striking Alpha Threat in the head and killing it. |
| 406 | [[/folder]] |
| 407 | [[folder:C]] |
| 408 | * CainAndAbel: There's a human SCP named Cain, and one named Able (with that spelling, though it used to be interchangeable). Cain is Able's BerserkButton (though Able is TheBerserker ''anyway''). Interestingly, Cain is a friendly, helpful guy whose [[WalkingWasteland unfortunate effect on plant life and soil]] is what makes him Euclid class (that's bad). Able, on the other hand, is a Keter class (that's ultra-bad) [[HealingFactor unkillable]] AxCrazy BloodKnight to the point of basically being a human version of good ol' 682. Looks like [[Literature/TheBible the good book]] didn't give us the whole story. They ''used'' to be more interconnected (it's implied they originated from the same place, and exposure to each other caused Cain to go into [DATA EXPUNGED]), but with Able's ReTool, they're now separate, only bound by their names. Many tales still portray the two as the biblical Cain and Abel, however. |
| 409 | ** Their personalities are so different to how the two are usually shown, because this is both of them 6000 years later — Cain [[TheAtoner has been suffering under intense regret, and resolved to do good]], while Able has had intense revenge fantasies running through his head for 6 millennia. |
| 410 | ** On a less literal note, the "elders" of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2039 SCP-2039]]'s FeudingFamilies are Blaine Wagner and Mabel Pike. While Blaine didn't kill Mabel (and [[FateWorseThanDeath probably can't at this point]]), he did kill [[spoiler:his sister Mabel's girlfriend Lucy. Or, as it is implied, Mabel killed Lucy, who was Blaine's girlfriend according to his side of the story.]] |
| 411 | * CallBack: |
| 412 | ** The heart of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/twistedgears-kaktus-proposal TwistedGears-Kaktus Proposal]]'s SCP-001 is SCP-882. The beach that is [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2217 SCP-2217]] is mentioned, and every major SCP relating to the Church is a key component in that they combine to form an Eldritch Abomination [[spoiler:that probably isn't the true Broken God.]] |
| 413 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1514 SCP-1514]]: SCP-148 (Telekill alloy) is implied have been involved with CIA's telepathy experiments. |
| 414 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1710 SCP-1710]]: |
| 415 | *** It's heavily implied (but never directly stated) that [=SCP-1710-1=] originally came to the Foundation's universe since they were chasing down [=SCP-682=] after the latter had somehow appeared in their home dimension. |
| 416 | *** Saturn Deer, a TricksterGod seen/mentioned in many other [=SCPs=] and tales, is the one who ran the reincarnation scam that tricked both [=SCP-1710-1=] and [=1710-2=]. |
| 417 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2000 SCP-2000]]: The phrase on the security image - "Remember us." The phrase was the final line from [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/document-recovered-from-the-marianas-trench Document Recovered From The Marianas Trench]], symbolizing the connection between the two - a ResetButton. |
| 418 | ** The Durand that created [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2776 SCP-2776]] is not a one-off character. He is all but stated to be the same Dr. Jean Durand from [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-186 SCP-186]], and sure enough, what appears to be prototype versions of the superweapons in SCP-186 reappear. (e.g. the immortality gas) |
| 419 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3434 SCP-3434]]: Several of the E-3434 instances interviewed mention events that occurred in tales present on the site and one is implied to be the person [[PhysicalGod SCP-343]] removed from existence for doubting him. Also to the [[BadAssCreed Foundation/MTF motto]] "We die in the darkness so you can live in the light" which was on the 3000 Horror Contest page and [[SignificantAnagram twisted]] into "He sews kindhearted sin contagiously. Think evil." |
| 420 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3930 SCP-3930]]: The Pattern Screamer was first mentioned in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1795 SCP-1795 ("Star Wombs")]] |
| 421 | ** Several of the pictograms broadcast from [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4100 SCP-4100]] are of other [=SCPs=] - Specifically, of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-173 SCP-173]], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-882 SCP-882]], and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-914 SCP-914]]. |
| 422 | ** The main anomaly of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4231 the Montauk House]] is an example of "traumatic imprinting," where the emotional distress of a [[RealityWarper Type Green]] is imprinted on the surrounding environment and [[GroundhogDayLoop repeats forever and ever]]. This idea was first introduced in the [=G.O.C.=]-related Tale [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/goc-tale-sequence-trauma "Trauma."]] |
| 423 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/goc-supplemental-basic-guide The original G.O.C. article detailing Type Greens]] is often cited throughout the above SCP article to help better understand how they both work and how the Coalition hunts them. |
| 424 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6820 SCP-6820]]: This article, which primarily focuses on [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructing]] the EarlyInstallmentWeirdness of the Foundation's uncharacteristic insistence on terminating [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-682 SCP-682]], [[spoiler:pays homage to the first line of 682's Special Containment Procedures by quoting it almost word-for-word in the exact same place in its second file]]: |
| 425 | --->[[spoiler:SCP-6820 must be deactivated and/or destroyed as soon as possible.]] |
| 426 | * CameBackWrong: |
| 427 | ** The stillborn child of Researcher Adam; he revived her using several [=SCPs=], and the result is [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-321 SCP-321]]. |
| 428 | ** When a severed human head is placed into [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-827 SCP-827]], a living copy of the person the head belonged to was created, albeit with a flat head, malformed intestines, and communication consisting solely of writing the letter G. |
| 429 | * TheCameo: A couple of the joke [=SCPs=] — and a few of the regular ones as well. |
| 430 | ** Big Biblical names, Literature/StregaNona's pot, ''The Little Mermaid'', [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-031-j Halloween]], Santa Claus... |
| 431 | * CanisLatinicus: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-7000-j SCP-7000-J]] is an entity that answers and communicates in fake Latin, to the point it's summoned with sentences that start with "Lorem ipsum". |
| 432 | * {{Canon}}: Loose, and kept that way. In theory, "[[UnreliableCanon there is no canon]]". Any work on the site is allowed to ignore or contradict any other work on the site, and every person's headcanon is valid. In practice, any work that violates too many people's headcanons gets downvoted enough to be deleted, turning FanonDiscontinuity into CanonDiscontinuity. |
| 433 | ** However, there are multiple "mini-canons" around the site: 2013 was ushered in with a [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/new-years-contest site-wide contest to see what canons users could create.]] Non-contest mini-canons include the [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/system:page-tags/tag/bellerverse Bellerverse]], the [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/classicalrevivalindex Classical Revival]], and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/etdp-hub-page Et Tam Deum Petivi]]. |
| 434 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/resurrection Resurrection]] is a major new canon hub that is reviving (hence the name) aspects of the Old Shame of the "lolfoundation" and Task Force Omega-7, reconstructing the original "central storyline". |
| 435 | * CanonImmigrant |
| 436 | ** Mobile Task Force Epsilon-11 "Nine-Tailed Fox" originally appeared in the ''[[VideoGame/SCPContainmentBreach Containment Breach]]'' video game, but has since showed up on the site, becoming an "official" task force. |
| 437 | ** Some groups of interest from the foreign language branches have been tackled by English authors for the main wiki, such as the Meat Circus (Мясного цирка) from the Russian branch, but the most well known is SAPPHIRE (SAPHIR, ''La Société Athée Pour la Halte de l'Idéologie Religieuse) from the French branch. |
| 438 | ** An interesting case with the Spanish SCP entry, SCP-ES-026. Originally published on ''La Fundación SCP'' by the user Dr Reach in May 2014, Reach translated the entry into English and published it to the main wiki in June to fill the empty SCP-179 spot. |
| 439 | ** Affray Interactive created an original SCP for their game ''[[Videogame/SCP5K SCP: 5K]]''; at the developers request, the users Gabriel Kero, [=HarryBlank=], and [=Placeholder McD=] wrote [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-7528 SCP-7528]] to promote its addition in the "This is Why: Part II" update. |
| 440 | * CannonFodder: Dying is literally in the job description of Class D Personnel. It can get quite blatant; for instance, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-120 SCP-120]] notes that a moon base was constructed after expending "vast amounts of money and D-personnel". |
| 441 | ** Despite being {{Elite Mook}}s, the Foundation's Mobile Task Forces are surprisingly easily defeated. (Given the nature of what they're up against, this isn't entirely surprising. Even the [=SCPs=] that aren't actively hostile are often very difficult to handle.) Read through any given incident report featuring any given Mobile Task Force and watch the team quickly fall apart, one member at a time. Yes, even that time they went after a non-sentient SCP whose only known ability was to [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/retrieval-log-db-503-b produce an infinite amount of pasta]]. |
| 442 | --->'''MD:''' This is MD, we're on floor seventeen, ME is down!\ |
| 443 | '''L1:''' Down? Why?\ |
| 444 | '''MF:''' Some farfalle cut him to death, fuck if I know! |
| 445 | ** Of course, this depends on SCP to SCP. Some have managed to destroy horrible magic artifacts with nothing but modern-day weaponry. |
| 446 | ** It might help if you know where D-Class personnel come from. The popular perception used to be that they were prisoners from death row, but given the vast amount of human resources needed to sustain it and the relatively few amount of prisoners on death row, this viewpoint has largely been abandoned. A more popular idea nowadays is that D-Class are clones that have organs that fail within 30 days of their creation, made specifically for the purpose of testing. A few of them are instead ex-members of Foundation staff, who got busted down to D-Class after they misbehaved so badly that they may well have endangered their entire facility for a petty lark. The non-cloned D-Class are usually kept alive for repeated testing. |
| 447 | * CapturedSuperEntity: ''Lots''. [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-343 One]] is even implied to be the Abrahamic God. Indeed, mantaining such entities under captivity is pretty much the point of the Foundation (although a few are uncontained). |
| 448 | * CardboardPrison: There are some [=SCPs=] that the Foundation does not have the ability to contain. For example, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-343 SCP-343]] stays in its cell only because it chooses to. |
| 449 | * CatsAreMean: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-511 SCP-511]]; a living, cat-shaped mass of debris, flesh, and rot. It's always surrounded by hordes of cats, and makes them very unpleasant. [[spoiler:511s are made by the cats. The cats made it ''because they hate us''.]] |
| 450 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-607 SCP-607]] is a cat that is bonded to somebody it declares to be its owner in a way that causes the owner to suffer any injury it does. The cat will regenerate or revive after any sort of injury. The owner, however, will not, which is bad since the cat is actively suicidal. |
| 451 | ** Subverted with [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-529 SCP-529]] (a.k.a. "Josie"), who is quite affectionate despite not having any hindquarters to speak of. |
| 452 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-795 SCP-795]] is a reality-bending cat that caused all dogs in an animal shelter to be euthanized, as well as made some staff members disappear. |
| 453 | * CausticCritic: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1722 SCP-1722]] is a walking stick with the soul of one that usually criticizes any form of recorded media within a five meter radius by inserting commentary on it. |
| 454 | * CensorBox: |
| 455 | ** ██████ ███ |
| 456 | ** [REDACTED] |
| 457 | ** [DATA EXPUNGED] |
| 458 | ** [[SoundEffectBleep [EXPLETIVE DELETED] ]] |
| 459 | * CensoredForComedy: In the more comedic entries, expletives are censored with [EXPLETIVE REDACTED], and sometimes simply [REDACTED] or [DATA EXPUNGED]. |
| 460 | * CerebusRetcon |
| 461 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-148 Telekill alloy]] was changed from a "magic restraint" for psychic [=SCPs=] to an incredibly harmful substance that causes, among other things, [[TakeThat mental retardation]]. This is because before the rewrite, it was starting to become a BoringButPractical means of controlling a wide variety of [=SCPs=] with minimal risk; after the rewrite, a "no cross-testing [=SCPs=]" rule was established. |
| 462 | ** Several Tales have reframed the original Foundation staff and their antics as coming from much darker and more traumatized places. [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/portraits-of-your-father Portraits of Your Father]] recasts Dr. Kondraki as a bipolar man who did his more outrageous stunts due to untreated alcoholism and bipolar mania, [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/your-circuits-dead-theres-something-wrong Major Tom]] and [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/codebrown Code Brown]] have Dr. Shaw's existence utterly ruin his entire family, and [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-4231 SCP-4231]] claims that Dr. Clef has severe PTSD due to being trapped in an abusive relationship with a reality bender who regularly assaulted and gaslighted him. |
| 463 | * CessationOfExistence: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2718 SCP-2718]] [[spoiler:subverts it: A resurrected O5 declares that after he died, there was nothing... for about a day, then his consciousness went back into his body and felt every excruciating moment of his body decomposing and being spread out and eaten by wildlife while feeling as if he were holding his breath "beyond bearing". He was the only O5 who hadn't "enhanced" his lifespan with [=SCPs=], so when he told the rest of the O5 Council why he was suddenly so concerned about his and even the D-classes' health, they believed him and ''completely freaked out'']]— |
| 464 | -->[[spoiler:"We must declare human death a Keter SCP," [O5-8] demanded, "and contain it at any cost."]] |
| 465 | ** —and then O5-1 told everyone to shut up and [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain flooded the council room with amnestic gas]]. |
| 466 | * ChainsawGood: |
| 467 | ** Pre-mass edit/migration, when [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-076 Able]] started working for the Foundation, [[https://scpclassic.wikidot.com/scp-076 some changes were observed in his endless supply of hack-slash-stabbity-chop-chop implements]]: |
| 468 | --->'''Addendum 076-08:''' As of 08/11/????, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-076 SCP-076-2's]] weapons have become noticeably different, being constructed of an unknown dull, dark brown metal, the items mechanical in design and nature, rather than traditionalist iron forged items. Rotating blades, chain edges, and drills are often present on subject's weaponry, powered and operated by unknown sources. It is unknown as to what prompted this change, and SCP-076-2 again refuses to divulge any information regarding it, stating only "Your people have created such odd blades. I thought I might see how they worked." |
| 469 | ** Clef recounts a time when he was bringing a chainsaw to work to test if it had any anomalies worth researching, but wound up in the middle of what he thought was a D-Class riot (but was actually a costume party for the research staff). Half the research staff died that night, and the chainsaw was discovered to be just a regular chainsaw after all. |
| 470 | * ChemicallyInducedInsanity: Dr. Clef once held an orientation meeting with new researchers on the subject of {{Reality Warper}}s. He'd spiked the food and drink with hallucinogens so that when he started yelling at them that reality ''was'' being changed, they believed it, driving home just how helpless you are against such [=SCPs=]. |
| 471 | %%* ChildEater: Numerous examples, such as [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-352 SCP-352]] (Baba Yaga) and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6097 SCP-6097]] (Granny Rat Tail). |
| 472 | * ChildlessDystopia: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1322 SCP-1322]] is a small interdimensional portal to another world. The people on the other side have suffered a global SterilityPlague, and blame our side. |
| 473 | * ChildrenAreInnocent: Played with. While there are child SCP items (many of which are [[CreepyChild creepy]]), very few of them are actually [[EnfantTerrible hostile or malevolent]] and even the ones that are hostile/malevolent are (most of the time) not so of their own volition but because they've been altered or brainwashed or are being manipulated by an outside force. |
| 474 | * ChildSoldiers: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2273 SCP-2273]] is 2.1 meters tall, a Major in the Russian army in an alternate universe UsefulNotes/WW1, and mentions being a child "several years ago". |
| 475 | * ChristmasEpisode: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/a-keter-kinda-christmas A Keter Kinda Christmas]], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/holy-crap-this-is-a-long-christmas-tale The 12 Days of Site 87's Christmas]], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/december-24th-2011-hub the December 24th, 2011 Collaboration]] ([[NonIndicativeName which was made in 2014]]), [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/are-we-christmas-yet Are We Christmas Yet?]]... it goes on and on and on. |
| 476 | ** Even some [=SCPs=] get on the act, particularly [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1225 SCP-1225]] and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-784 SCP-784]]... even if they are subversions. |
| 477 | * ChunkySalsaRule: Averted with [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-186 SCP-186]]. |
| 478 | -->He handed me a pair of field glasses. Take a look, he said. I saw the German missing half of his head, still screaming ... The Frenchman, in his terrible calm voice, explained that his shot had to have destroyed at least a quarter of the soldier's brain tissue. Enough to cause instant death, he said. But watch. I kept watching through the field glasses. The German didn't stop screaming ... the Frenchman lined up another shot. The rest of the soldier's head was now gone, and the screaming was replaced by some sort of low grunting, the likes of which I have never heard from men. |
| 479 | * CIAEvilFBIGood: If CIA is ever mentioned in an article, they are most likely involved as the creators of some Cold War era [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1514 supertechnology]] with immoral history and applications. If FBI appears, they are usually working for the greater good of the world, though as the Unusual Incidents Unit may attest, they're not very specialized at handling anomalies. |
| 480 | * CirclesOfHell: SCP-2731, where each circle of hell has a different punishment for its denizens. The twist is that the denizens of hell are ice cream, so [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment the tortures they endure get weird]]. In order of distance to the entrance, closest to furthest: allowed to melt and left out, left in a broken freezer, mixed with garbage and other inedibles, [[TakeThat turned into the ice cream-like Dippin' Dots]], dropped off an ice cream cone into a playground sandbox, repeatedly melting and refreezing, ignored by lactose intolerant people, melting in an ice cream shop because someone can't decide on a flavor, and a giant tongue swaying over the ice cream but never actually licking it[[note]]which is notably an inversion of the ultimate punishment in ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', ie. being eternally consumed by Satan's mouth[[/note]]. |
| 481 | * CircleOfStandingStones: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-526 SCP-526]] "Valhalla Gate" is a ring of nine rune-covered standing stones on a hill in Norway. Each morning at sunrise, a group of what appear to Einheriar (spirits of fallen warriors, from Myth/NorseMythology) appear on the hill and either dig in or move off the hill and attack anyone they find. |
| 482 | * CircusOfFear: Herman Fuller's Circus of the Disquieting; the performers found by the SCP Foundation are pretty friendly, but the Man With The Upside-down Face they keep mentioning is decidedly not. Also described as a [[TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday little big top that wasn't there yesterday]] in a tale: |
| 483 | -->'''''Opening Night''''': Not an eye sees our caravan pull up in the moonlit lot. Not a soul hears the sound of our spikes driven into the earth. One day we're not there, the next day we are. |
| 484 | ** Which is itself a horror version/shout out to ''Literature/TheNightCircus,'' which literally begins with the line "The circus arrives without warning." |
| 485 | * ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: |
| 486 | ** Believing you can keep [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-616 SCP-616-1]] open will make you able to keep it open. For this reason, the Foundation painted Satanic symbols all over it and manned SCP-616 flights with devout people. |
| 487 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-239 SCP-239]] is a RealityWarper who doesn't fully understand the nature of her powers. Instead, what she believes to be true becomes true. People are exceptionally nice to her because she thinks they're her friends, so they become friendly. Bordering on MindScrew, this works the other way as well: Dr. Clef frightened her, and she believed he wanted to kill her, so he became obsessed with killing her. |
| 488 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2950 SCP-2950]] is an EldritchAbomination that takes the form of whatever people think it is. So the Foundation's strategy is to make people think it's simply a very comfortable chair. |
| 489 | * ClickbaitGag: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3299 SCP-3299]] is a series of BrownNote internet advertisements that result in various physical or mental changes when viewed. These effects are somewhat related to the headline. For example, reading the affected article titled "This woman's one weird trick will make you younger! Doctors hate her!" will literally make the viewer 20 to 30 percent younger, unless they have a [=PhD=], in which case they will be compelled to develop an angry and "crippling obsession" towards the woman described in the article. |
| 490 | * ClingyMacGuffin: Numerous [=SCPs=] fall under various categories of this, both mental and physical. To name but one example, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1545 SCP-1545]] is a two-man llama costume that forces whoever dons it to become "Larry the Loving Llama", an identity they will maintain until they either die or are removed from the costume by others. And this is one of the ''more benign'' examples, as "Larry the Loving Llama" won't resist being taken apart even though he isn't inclined to do so of his own accord. |
| 491 | * ClockPunk: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-217 SCP-217]] is a virus that gradually and painfully turns any animal's organs (including humans) into gear-and-cog-driven machines. |
| 492 | * ClockworkCreature: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6854 SCP-6854]], the aptly named ''cogcows'', are a species of mechanical cattle, inspired by the FearsomeCrittersOfAmericanFolklore. They're described as having lightbulbs in place of eyes, naturally producing oil and coal, and moving about on a set of wheels. Their horns can also be used to ''fire bullets''. |
| 493 | * ColdBloodedTorture: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1808 SCP-1808]] are six WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants watches that makes your finger and toe bones grow by 6cm every 15 minutes, accompanied by [=SpongeBob's=] laugh. The process is extremely painful, since your bone is literally slowly piercing through your flesh, tearing it apart. Turning the knob makes it grow ''faster''. MC&D uses them as torture tools, and the process is ''painful'', even just from the description. |
| 494 | %%* ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere: Appleseedsappleseedsappleseeds (see RunningGag below). |
| 495 | * ColonizedSolarSystem: The Foundation has a moon base and at least a few outposts and ships located throughout the Solar System. |
| 496 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-179 SCP-179]] is a GuardianEntity that floats a few hundred kilometers beneath the sun. According to her, the Solar System has many inhabitants, all of whom she watches over. Humans are simply one of the most talkative. |
| 497 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-736 SCP-736]] indicates that something living in the vicinity of Saturn really, ''really'' hates humanity in particular. As in, enough to throw one of Saturn's moons at us. |
| 498 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1960 SCP-1960]], on the other hand, is an unknown entity that manifests in the form of text over images of Neptune. It's desperately lonely, cold, and asking for help. |
| 499 | * ColorCodedForYourConvenience: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1564 SCP-1564]]'s test log, in which [[spoiler:six "gods" are talking]]. |
| 500 | * ComboPlatterPowers: Allowing for humanoid [=SCPs=] has resulted in many a Mary Sue being listed. These are generally deleted within time, but the notoriously bad ones are decommissioned: they remain in the series continuity as past [=SCPs=] and are given [[RasputinianDeath elaborate destruction sequences]]. |
| 501 | * ComedicSociopathy: Invoked by the special containment procedures for [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3467-j SCP-3467-J]], who is to be made fun of at every moment, even if he's trapped with SCP-682. |
| 502 | * TheComicallySerious: |
| 503 | ** The SCP reports are written in an entirely serious tone, no matter how absurd the topic might be — a cake platter that continually generates cakes of various sizes sounds silly, but it's there and has to dealt with, as left unchecked it would bury the entire world under baked goods. Thus, the dry manner of the archive acts a StraightMan to the nature of the [=SCPs=] (especially the "joke" ones) and the eccentric behavior of SCP personnel. |
| 504 | ** The dead serious warnings after some doctors with a sense of humor pull some sort of stunt/prank. |
| 505 | * CompoundTitle: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2615-j SCP-2615-J]] and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2615 SCP-2615]], titled [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve Clap Your Hands]] and [[TheFairFolk If You Believe]] respectively. |
| 506 | * TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Literally with [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1633 SCP-1633]], an unfinished video game that, if played long enough (and with enough breaks), starts actively targeting ''the player'', not their in-game avatar. It's also been observed to exploit glitches in the physics engine, even ones unknown to the player prior. An attempt to bypass this by playing one continuous game resulted in the game rendering the guy catatonic in apparent retaliation once he started a NewGamePlus. |
| 507 | * CondemnedContestant: D-Class personnel. |
| 508 | ** Taken a bit more literally when Game Show style [=SCPs=] come into play, namely, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-024 SCP-024]] and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-263 SCP-263.]] |
| 509 | * ConspiracyTheorist: |
| 510 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1862 SCP-1862]] was one prior to becoming a [[SiliconBasedLife Fluorine-Based Lifeform]]. The one thing he suspected? [[DeathByIrony Fluoridation of water.]] |
| 511 | ** Parawatch, a forum of aspiring sleuths of the paranormal mixed with {{creepypasta}} tellers. The Foundation keeps tabs on the group of interest but doesn't [[KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade stamp them out]] as they're currently so off the mark it's like Parawatch is a free psy-ops. |
| 512 | * ContrivedCoincidence: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4006 SCP-4006]] is a series of ridiculously improbable coincidences and events that have lead people to mistakenly believe that the area known as Massachusetts is a populated and fully-functional American state; in reality, it has no history of human habitation. Why it happens and how some members of the Foundation were able to learn the truth and spread it to others is unknown. [[spoiler:It's also possible that SCP-4006, through more improbable coincidences, has a role in assisting the Foundation with maintaining TheMasquerade.]] |
| 513 | * ContinuityNod: The excerpt from the [=O5=] Emergency Meeting for [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4002 SCP-4002]] has them reference [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1000 the Children of the Night]], and alludes to SCP-2000 as a way to continue the effects of SCP-4002, and to put it in their own words: "Let us replace a blighted crop with a cutting of its former self, as many times as is necessary." |
| 514 | * ConvenientlyInterruptedDocument: Used extensively. |
| 515 | * CoolStarship: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2117 SCP-2117]] is a universe-hopping [[MileLongShip 23 kilometer long starship]]. Its explicit purpose it to aid in the defense of worlds with organizations devoted to "Maintaining Normalcy" during their DarkestHour, and apparently represents the absolute best of countless other species on (mostly) parallel Earths. The entire ship is a hodgepodge of every type of technology imaginable for every purpose imaginable (technology found ranges from a ''literal'' WaveMotionGun, a maternity ward which requires large amounts of ''[[NoodleImplements thermite]]'', and a piece of OrganicTechnology described by every race to discover it as simply a "SpaceWhale".) The only way that anyone from the Foundation knows any of this is because of the (surprisingly) helpful writing on the walls written in everything from hybrids of modern languages to long lasting pheromones to ''radio signals in the walls'' (helpfully, the ship makes memetic TranslatorMicrobes) which have been used to map the ship (and leave [[DeadpanSnarker snarky comments]]). The ship is currently designated as Euclid; however, in the event of an AlienInvasion or similar event resulting in at least 50% extinction rates, it will be reclassified "Thaumiel" [[SuperweaponSurprise and put to immediate use]]. |
| 516 | * CoolTrain: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-716 SCP-716]] qualifies for this trope by virtue of being a steam engine. And it can travel through dimensions. Also [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-052 SCP-052]]. |
| 517 | * TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch: The [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-682 SCP-682]] [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/experiment-log-t-98816-oc108-682 termination attempt]] using Dr. Clef, which was ''definitely'' a legitimate termination attempt and he ''absolutely wasn't'' put in with 682 by someone trying to get rid of him. And the head researcher found killed by blunt force trauma shortly thereafter despite never having entered the containment area was certainly killed by 682. |
| 518 | ** The Foundation itself routinely does this when recovering [=SCPs=] that have caused casualties. |
| 519 | ** Not fatal, but [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/supplemental-report-239-b-192 this after-incident interview]] ends with a description of some ''completely accidental'' injuries on the part of [[spoiler:Doctor Clef]]. |
| 520 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: Marshall, Carter, and [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Dark]], Ltd. is a group that captures (and occasionally makes) anomalies for exploitation and sale to rich people. |
| 521 | * CorruptedData: Not counting data ██████████ or [EXPUNGED], multiple incidences in entries, for various reasons — corrupt storage data, unintelligible footage in what they're attempting to transcript, or [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-586 the effects of the SCP itself]]. |
| 522 | * CorruptingPornography: SCP-1004, Factory Porn, is a computer program that gives the user access to whatever kind of porn they want for free. If someone views it for long enough, they'll start developing disturbing sexual fetishes like scat, murder, bestiality, and pedophilia, and will start trying to perform those acts in real life. |
| 523 | * CosmicHorrorStory: |
| 524 | ** Perhaps at an even greater level than Lovecraft's, as the Foundation hasn't even been able to catalog the number of parallel universes, pocket dimensions, and indescribably vast voids full of incomprehensible entities and forces trying to kill us. |
| 525 | ** Some SCP-001 proposals deftly dodge the MetaOrigin and OriginStory elements and entirely focus on telling just another cosmic horror story set within the Foundation universe. |
| 526 | * CrackFic: While the Website/SCPFoundation mainly focuses on horror, it has a ton of stories that can best be described as crackfics. |
| 527 | ** Crackfic is even in the title of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/party-of-gods this story]]. |
| 528 | ** The [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/lolfoundation-hub-page lolFoundation]] canon manages to be crackfic and horror at the same time. It takes place in a setting where the [[AuthorAvatar Author Avatars]] got themselves effectively turned into [[MadGod Mad Gods]], warping the Foundation into a twisted parody of itself while civilization is devastated by the consequences of their antics which they are unable to precieve. |
| 529 | ** Basically everything in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/cool-war-2-hub Cool War 2: Ruiz From Your Grave]]. It originally was a fake hub page for a sequel to the Cool War that was posted as an April Fool's joke, but then people actually started writing stories using the fake chapter titles. |
| 530 | ** The [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/cack-hub Cack]] hub is a place for collecting crack fic stories too silly for [=lolFoundation=]. |
| 531 | ** I can't even begin to explain what is going on in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo this story]]. Something about cowboys, a man made out of fish, bombs that make you have flashbacks, and guns that shoot muzak. |
| 532 | ** Several [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/joke-scps Joke SCPs]] fall under this. Probably the best example is [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-botnik-j this one]] which was written using a predictive text app. It even inspired its own crackfic titled [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/crispy-sex-pirates A Surprise Encounter With Crispy Sex Pirates]]. |
| 533 | ** The [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/system:page-tags/tag/shark-punching-center#pages Shark Punching Center]] pretty muck exists for people to write crackfiction about it. |
| 534 | * CrapsackWorld: In a world where physical laws are subverted at every corner, things are not looking pretty. Paranormal threats threaten humanity's very existence. The lines of protection are upheld at great costs and through extreme methods. And even the solutions to the anomaly problem have their own frightening implications. Humanoid creatures, or humans with special abilities, who would otherwise even become superheroes in a different universe, are captured and contained, thus being completely dehumanized, complete with being given a number, becoming mere objects, even referred to as "it" in official documentation. Life certainly sucks for you if you fit anywhere beyond "ordinary human". |
| 535 | ** Even ''without'' the anomalies, the existence of a seemingly-inexhaustible supply of "D-class" personnel for the Foundation to exploit suggests that the world is either awash in capital crime, burdened with a flawed justice system that condemns countless innocents ''for'' capital crimes, or (most likely) both. |
| 536 | ** The setting is ''so'' unremittingly awful that [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-7955 one anomalous race of eldritch shapeshifters]] have become aware of just how bad it is and are now overwhelmed with terror at ''everything'', hence why they're all in hiding. |
| 537 | -->…how do you work at the Foundation and ''not'' realize what kind of world you live in, Marcus? The cosmic nightmares, the malignant godlings, the insane societies at war, the hordes of monsters beyond counting, the doomsdays upon doomsdays… there's so much that can't be stopped, so many things that could end everything, even in the better worlds that some have envisioned- |
| 538 | * CrapSaccharineWorld: Several [=SCPs=] are towns, locations, or areas where things are too good to be true for any that inhabit it. |
| 539 | %%* CrazyCatLady: Required to keep [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-511 SCP-511]] under control. |
| 540 | * CrazyWorkplace: The SCP Foundation is a covert prison network dedicated to catching EldritchAbomination[=s=] and keeping them in their pens. And those abominations can be ''anything'', from a serial-killing teddy bear to a box of infinite pizza. For obvious reasons, the vast majority of Foundation employees are disposable. |
| 541 | * CreepyCave: SCP-2935 is a space-time anomaly existing within a limestone cave leading to a parallel universe where all life, including both biological and non-biological, as well as any sentient entities, machines, computers and other "life-like" phenomena, ended. |
| 542 | * CreepyCentipedes |
| 543 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-363 SCP-363]]. They look like regular centipedes, until the lights are turned off, where they grow to massive size and become hostile. Even worse, [[TheVirus their bites can turn humans into more of them]]! |
| 544 | ** There are several odd occurrences in the [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/log-of-extranormal-events Log of Extranormal Events]] that qualify. |
| 545 | *** For 12 minutes, all shed human blood in a 15 kilometer radius of a town in France turned into centipedes, then turned back into blood after the event ended. Women who were menstruating at the time suffered such severe emotional distress that the normal amnesia-causing drugs didn't work on them. |
| 546 | *** A centipede that was 12 meters long (though of normal height and width) was seen at a museum. |
| 547 | * CreepyChangingPainting: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-173 SCP-173]] is the most prominent example, but there are quite a few [=SCPs=] that only demonstrate their true nature when nobody is watching. |
| 548 | * CreepyChild: Quite a few [=SCPs=] either are children ([[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-053 SCP-053]]), look like children ([[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1003 SCP-1003]]), or cause children to become creepy ([[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-097 SCP-097]]). |
| 549 | * CreepyOldFashionedDivingSuit: "[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1861 SCP-1861 - The Crew of the HMS Wintersheimer]]". The HMS ''Wintersheimer'' appears to be a UsefulNotes/WorldWarI era British submarine. Its crew consists of animated diving suits that can talk. The crew tries to get people to enter the submarine, after which the people are turned into more crew like themselves. If a crew member ever takes off their helmet, it's revealed that there's nothing inside the suit except water, eyes and jaws. |
| 550 | * CringeComedy: SCP-451, an otherwise-normal Foundation agent that cannot perceive any other living humans or anything that would indicate the presence of such. Assuming he's the last living human being on the planet, he does things like steal food and clothes from his "dead" coworker's quarters, take files from file cabinets that he's not allowed access to (and try to knock over those cabinets as well), and walk around buck-naked because he assumes nobody will see him. The reader, on the other hand, knows much better. |
| 551 | * {{Crossover}}: These are generally frowned upon; there used to be a lot of joke [=SCPs=] which were nothing more than "It's that thing from that show, and here's how the SCP foundation would describe it!", and they got eventually deleted. However, Clef's "[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/crossoverprojectindex Project Crossover]]" is a challenge to write a good crossover story — or, a [[StylisticSuck good bad crossover story]]. |
| 552 | ** Of note are the two [[Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale Night Vale]] Crossovers, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/piercing-the-night-vale Piercing the Night Vale]] and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/now-the-we-expunged And Now, The We[EXPUNGED] ]], the latter of which is actually read out by another author on the site. |
| 553 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: There’s so many of these it’s [[CruelAndUnusualDeath/SCPFoundation gotten it’s own page]]. |
| 554 | * CrypticBackgroundReference: Some things on the site refer to [=SCPs=] and reports that are absent, creating this effect because they [[{{Watsonian}} haven't been included in these partial archives]] — [[{{Doylist}} or because]] they were deleted in {{Retcon}}s, cut for being badly conceived, or banned contributors took their ball and went home. |
| 555 | * {{Cult}}: Many are known enemies (though some are more neutral) of The Foundation and many worship/created different objects. Examples include: |
| 556 | ** Church of the Broken God: Three branches, one {{Clockpunk}}, one {{Steampunk}}, one {{Cyberpunk}}; all of which practice MachineWorship. As the name implies, they worship a broken mechanical god. Split into three branches, one of which claims that [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-882 SCP-882]] is the "heart" of their god. They also show interest in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-217 SCP-217]] and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-271 SCP-271]]. The [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-208951/the-broken-god implications]] of a union between these objects is disturbing. |
| 557 | ** The group responsible for the creation/impregnation of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-231 SCP-231]], "The Children Of The Scarlet King". |
| 558 | ** The plurality cult, which resides in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-453 SCP-453]]. |
| 559 | ** The Fifthist Church, a ChurchOfHappyology expy with a CosmicHorror twist. |
| 560 | * CuteKitten: Two of the joke entries; the [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2558-j Pufferkittens]] and the [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2559-j Portal to the Plane of Infinite Kittens]]. Somewhat averted with the decidedly non-joke [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-247 A Harmless Kitten]]. |
| 561 | * CuteMonsterGirl: SCP-811. It's more due to her child-like demeanor and manner of speech. |
| 562 | * CutenessProximity: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2558-j Pufferkittens.]] '''WARNING:''' Classified Euclid on account of having enough ''d'aaaaaaw'' to disrupt normal staff activities. |
| 563 | -->''... are not to be weaponized.'' |
| 564 | ** And someone went ahead and did in SCP-914. Grenadepuffs!!! |
| 565 | * CutHimselfShaving: |
| 566 | -->Kondraki: [Inarticulate scream of rage.]\ |
| 567 | \ |
| 568 | [It is determined that this is the point where Dr. Clef accidentally fell out of his chair and struck his head nine times against the corner of the desk, fracturing his skull and snapping his neck between the second and third vertebrae.] |
| 569 | * CutLexLuthorACheck: It’s mentioned that SCP-447 could be marketed as a lactose-free milk. |
| 570 | * {{Cyborg}}: Aside from those with descriptive names ([[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-191 Cyborg Child]], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1991 Cybernetically Enhanced Mammalian]], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2424 Hostile Walrus Cyborg]]), the Church of the Broken God, for obvious reasons, like them. They created [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2360 SCP-2360]], three men who were fused with their Xbox 360s, hope to transcend by playing ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'', and nourish on Mountain Dew. |
| 571 | ** Outside the Church, there's [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2085 SCP-2085 (The Black Rabbit Company)]], a self-declared space wizard and his CatGirl brigade, all of which possess cybernetic enhancements. Even the Foundation has room for RuleOfCool. |
| 572 | * CymbalBangingMonkey: There's a Cymbal Banging Monkey in [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-983 SCP-983]] that targets and [[DiedOnTheirBirthday kills people on their birthdays]] by [[RapidAging rapidly aging a person with each ring until they die]]. It only stops if the person sings along to the toy's birthday song or dies. |
| 573 | [[/folder]] |
| 574 | [[folder:D]] |
| 575 | * DarkerAndEdgier: |
| 576 | ** The Never Hungry Man was changed from an SCP who was released back into the general public when his condition posed no threat to a man with worms that have faces in his stomach that leap out at people. In fact, this is typically the fate of many SCP drafts whom are said to be either too bland or not have a good hook. Then again, sometimes there's ''too much'' senseless edginess that gets removed. |
| 577 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-299 SCP-299]] is "an arboriform organism" that makes plants hard, black, pointy, and covered in prehensile vines; it also releases chemicals that make humans paranoid and aggressive. |
| 578 | ** Parodied with [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1049-j SCP-1049-J]], a black fluid that turns objects into "darker" versions of themselves. ("Darker" in this case means "made of rusty metal with lots of spikes and skulls sticking out".) |
| 579 | * DarkIsNotEvil: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1471 SCP-1471]] (appearing to anyone using an app by the name of "[=MalO=]" for a sufficient amount of time), a large humanoid mass of shaggy black hair with a canine skull for a face, makes no attempt to actively harm anyone. Mostly it just wants to hang out. The problem comes from the fact that it ''won't leave you alone''. |
| 580 | * DeadHorseTrope: The concept of pataphysics is a craze in full swing since about 2016. The basic idea is that 1) the SCP reality is a story and the authors are jerking the characters around, or 2) a character within a story in the SCP universe breaks the fourth wall and damages the SCP universe in which it is a story. The number of entries of this exact concept has ''exploded'', with very minimal variation on the basic idea before the MandatoryTwistEnding that reality is just a story. The lack of variety and oversaturation has caused most "new" entries of this type to be downvoted into oblivion shortly after they appear, but they multiply so fast that some inevitably slip through. Articles that do survive for extended periods of time tend to have additional gimmicks tied to them (such as Murphy Law doubling as a spoof of the FilmNoir genre) or a more thorough analysis [[GenreDeconstruction of the concept's implications in modern science]] (for example, SCP-6747 opens with a primer on pataphysics that contains a large amount of references to [[ShownTheirWork actual quantum mechanics related to observation]].) |
| 581 | * DeadlyEuphemism: "Terminated" is used very frequently. The page on the Ethics Committee lampshades this. "Liquidated" by the Global Occult Coalition. |
| 582 | %%* DeadlyGame: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-024 SCP-024]] is a studio housing a deadly game show, and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-263 SCP-263]] is a television that forces viewers into a deadly quiz show (if they answer wrong). |
| 583 | * DeadMansSwitch: The System to Contain Unsustainable Threats To Life and Existence, or SCUTTLE. Housed in Site-01, its job is to send continuous signals, or heartbeats, to all other Sites. Should Site-01 become compromised and the heartbeats stop for a certain period of time, it will trigger the nuclear warheads at all other Foundation Sites to be detonated. [[spoiler:In one tale, SCUTTLE ends up breaking down simply due to its age, which compromises the safety and secrecy of the entire Foundation.]] |
| 584 | * DeadManWriting: In [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/mackenzie-s-proposal Dr. Mackenzie's Proposal of SCP-001]]. One of the pages of The Administrator's diary it says "If you are in possession of — and reading — this document then I am probably dead." The last page was written by someone who loved The Administrator in their original reality. They write "By the time you read this, I will already be dead." |
| 585 | * DealWithTheDevil: In [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-001-o5 Dr. Shaw's Proposal of SCP-00l]], O5-1 made a deal with the mastermind of The Factory to stop the "[[TheFairFolk Fairy Folk]]" from killing everyone and conquering The Factory, but it would cost him human sacrifices. He figured he could sacrifice The Factory, but they would just set up shop elsewhere and started building dangerous weapons. Now the Foundation has to sacrifice people (mostly D-class for monthly termination, but some researchers and staff) or The Factory will pump out and distribute horrors to unsuspecting civilians. |
| 586 | * DeathSeeker: |
| 587 | ** SCP-978 is a camera that shows whatever the photographed person most wants to be doing. In the [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-978-extended-test-logs Extended Test Logs]], when Dr. Shaw was photographed with it, it showed a tombstone saying "Elias Shaw, resting at last." |
| 588 | ** The "Eetmee" crabs dispensed by SCP-261 have only one goal: to be EatenAlive by the person who opens their package. They scream in joy after force-feeding themselves to that person and getting chewed and swallowed. |
| 589 | * {{Deconstruction}}: |
| 590 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-085 Cassy]] could be seen as one of the concept of MediumAwareness, as rather than take advantage of it, she slips into an existential crisis upon realizing that she's not technically real. |
| 591 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/dr-gears-s-proposal Dr Gears's Proposal]] is a deconstruction of SCP-001. Think that SCP-001 should be an ultra-special top-secret world changing SCP that reveals secrets behind the Foundation? No. SCP-001 is just the very first SCP ever documented. A simple monster. |
| 592 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5031 Yet Another Murder Monster]] acts as one towards the Foundation's tendencies towards treating Keter [=SCPs=] as murderous automatons to be locked away and forgotten with the bare minimum to keep it alive. SCP-5031 was deemed Keter due to its murderous intentions and difficult-to-track physiology, but the former was discovered to be the typical survival instinct of a living being that was terrified and convinced it was starving, and was only exacerbated by the torture of being locked away for ten years in a solid metal cube by the first containment specialist to observe it. When the latest specialist assigned to it decided to try and find out what makes it tick, he discovers it has the mental capacity to classify as sentient, read (and to an extent, speak) English, and even comprehend complex social dynamics, like playing instruments and cooking high-class dishes to entertain guests. |
| 593 | %%** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-239 SCP-239]] and her fate is a deconstruction of ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya''-style {{Reality Warper}}s. |
| 594 | %%** As well as the [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/termination-order Termination Report]] of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/decomm:scp-531-d SCP-531]]. |
| 595 | %%** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/video-oddity This Tale]] may well be one of the FantasticNatureReserve trope. |
| 596 | * DeliberateValuesDissonance: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1851-ex SCP-1851-EX]], an archived entry from an 1850s American Foundation precursor complete with all the racism against blacks.[[note]]"Drapetomania" was an assumed mental condition slapped onto any slave that tried to escape to the north prior to the Civil War, as southern slave owners genuinely believed slaves wanted to be kept in servitude. The worst part? This was a real diagnosis; the article did not make this up![[/note]] |
| 597 | * DeliveryStork: Horrifically inverted by [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-918 SCP-918]], a group of storks that spirit away newborn children [[spoiler:to be harvested and turned into cosmetic products]]. |
| 598 | * DependingOnTheWriter: Regarding the SCP Foundation itself. Although there is a general set of guidelines that everyone should follow for writing articles, the specifics are less well-defined and each author has to decide for themselves how to handle them. |
| 599 | * DespairEventHorizon: The list of suggestions for countermeasures against [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4005 SCP-4005]] grows gradually more desperate as the list of affected humans grow. At 89.6%, someone suggests ''[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3799 SCP-3799]]''. Whoever did so was either incredibly desperate or really, ''really'' stupid. |
| 600 | * DetachmentCombat: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-418 SCP-418]] uses this, although mostly as a tool for his industrial sabotage. |
| 601 | * {{Determinator}}: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-682 SCP-682, the Hard-To-Destroy-Reptile]] is the embodiment of this. Regenerating after all attempts to destroy it (the SCP Foundation claims not to possess any means of doing so effectively), while generally shrugging off any damage to the point it has been described as being "seen moving and speaking with its body 87% destroyed or rotted". |
| 602 | * DeusExMachina: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2000 SCP-2000]] is a Thaumiel-class object that can effectively [[spoiler:recreate humanity after an end-of-the-world event]]. The name of the object is "Deus Ex Machina". Horrifyingly enough, it's actually been used several times already. |
| 603 | * DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-696 SCP-696]], a typewriter possessed by a cosmic horror, just wants someone to read its epic novel and happily leaves when its D-class "partner" says it was [[PurpleProse wonderfully-written]] and [[BlatantLies amazing]]. |
| 604 | * DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/eldritch-application Eldritch Application]], where the Foundation director refuses to take WebOriginal/{{Zalgo}} in as an SCP since it's too vaguely defined, all-encompassing, and hasn't ever done anything worth containing, which causes it to admit defeat and leave in shame. The ending hints that Cthulhu will get similar treatment as well. |
| 605 | * DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Any time a Keter class gets detained effectively (which is very, very rare) or even ''detained at all'', it's this. Special mention goes to the Agent who managed to murder Able several times (gaining Able's respect) before an airstrike killed him, and an Agent who managed to contain [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-058 SCP-058]] after its rampage by squashing it under a tank. Decommissions are often this, except when done by Clef. |
| 606 | * DiggingYourselfDeeper: Happens to the Janitor in his [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-janitor-who-cleans-up-after-messy-scps psychological evaluation]] about the availability of Segway golf carts. |
| 607 | * DismantledMacGuffin: The Maksur object class. An SCP with the Maksur class consists of several minor objects with anomalous properties that can be brought together to have a different effect. |
| 608 | * DisproportionateRetribution: |
| 609 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-504 SCP-504]] tomatoes hurl themselves at speeds in excess of 100 mph at anyone that makes a bad joke within earshot. Sufficiently bad jokes have resulted in them ''breaking the sound barrier'' and killing people. |
| 610 | ** The shadow law-enforcer spawned by various [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1002 SCP-1002]] objects won't stop until the offender is punished. Said punishment includes removal and severing of fingers ''for littering''. [[AndIMustScream You don't want to know what happens to the more severe offenders. Or how the Foundation figures out which crime begets which punishment.]] |
| 611 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2270 SCP-2270]] ("[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill An Unnecessary Utilization of Excessive Force]]"), an eight-volume set of instruction books on how to summon Nergal (the one from [[Myth/MesopotamianMythology Mesopotamia]], not [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}} the Eye of Chaos]] or [[Franchise/FireEmblem the guy using life-force to summon dragons]]). The reason they were purchased from Marshall, Carter, & Dark? [[spoiler:A dude in Montana who was really annoyed at his neighbor.]] Also goes the other way: While we don't know about the purchaser's fate in the afterlife, after he unleashed a massive explosion, he [[spoiler:was killed when he got drunk and ran his car into a ditch]]. |
| 612 | * TheDogBitesBack: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1759 SCP-1759 "Lovely Lucy"]] is an airplane that hates losing the people who fly her. When the observing scientist intends to send yet another D-class up to die as a test, she convinces the D-class to [[SwissCheeseSecurity take a guard's gun]] and attempt to shoot him. Said doctor [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere wisely removes himself from the project afterwards]]. |
| 613 | * DoingInTheWizard: {{Averted|Trope}}. For a site that prides itself on clinical detachment and scientific inquiry, it is almost impossible to discover how nearly all of the [=SCPs=] actually work, where they came from, or why ''anyone'' would want to make some of them. They give it a good try, but it's not as important as knowing how to keep them safe and under control. If they ever came across a real wizard, they'd measure his staff, subject him to "stress" tests to determine destructibility, and finally have some [[UnusualEuphemism very strong words]] with him over the creation of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. And, [[RunningGag of course]], they'd want to see if his magic could kill SCP-682. |
| 614 | ** Writers are pretty much encouraged to make sure that whatever SCP entity they write is either hard to comprehend or flat-out incomprehensible. |
| 615 | ** In-universe, if something becomes understood in enough detail, then it's no longer considered paranormal, it gets "-EX" appended to its name, and the research done on it is released to the public. |
| 616 | * DoNotTauntCthulhu: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-846 SCP-846.]] |
| 617 | -->'''SCP-846:''' DO NOT INTIMIDATE ROBO-DUDE. |
| 618 | * DontExplainTheJoke: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-005-j-ex SCP-005-J-EX]] is people trying to explain why their jokes are funny. Even after the phenomenon was explained, the Foundation considers it a public service to tell people that doing this is annoying. |
| 619 | * DoomyDoomsOfDoom: '''Release me, insects! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1370 I am Doom-Master Thirteen Seventy]] [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Master Of All Doom.]] I shall be the herald of your destruction!''' |
| 620 | * DopeSlap: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-572 SCP-572: Katana of Apparent Invincibility]]. Once the Katana is removed from the victim's grasp, "all psychological effects can usually be expunged by a single swift blow to the back of the subject's head." |
| 621 | * DoubleMeaning: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1459-extended-testing-log SCP-1459]] took "Chángchéng" (general shorthand for "Great Wall") to mean "Great Firewall", and so killed an instance of SCP-1459-1 by getting it in trouble with Chinese Authority by watching banned content. |
| 622 | * DovesMeanPeace: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-514 SCP-514]] invokes this. A flock of anomalous doves that generate a field of influence around themselves which cause all weapons to malfunction and fall apart, and even cause negative and aggressive emotions to fade. |
| 623 | * DownerEnding: |
| 624 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1958 SCP-1958]] has a journal written by the driver of the VW bus that's been drifting through space for decades. After an enthusiastic takeoff into space with the flying van, his friends onboard the bus all perish one by one for various reasons (sucked out into space, drug overdose, scurvy, "crawled behind something and died"), leaving him as the SoleSurvivor onboard a vehicle that is too slow to reach its destination within the span of a human life before dying in what is implied to be two months. |
| 625 | ---> "The stars are so fucking beautiful out here, man." |
| 626 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/shaggydredlocks-proposal S.D. Locke's SCP-001 Proposal]]. After reading through multiple revisions of the SCP entry that function more like an ApocalypticLog, with every named person in the audio and video files succumbing to the collective bio-mass of people (SCP-001-A) who came in contact with sunlight, the unnamed protagonist ([[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou who is referred to in the second person]]) is dragged out of the tunnels of the underground facility by said bio-mass and into the light, converting them into yet another instance of SCP-001-A. |
| 627 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3280 SCP-3280]], another narrative-style entry done by S.D. Locke, ends with the reveal that the protagonist is infected with an instance of SCP-3280, which is living misanthropic water, which kills them by violently expelling itself out of their throat as they realize that the rain "fall" on the window is in fact coming from ''below'' to meet them. |
| 628 | * DraggedOffToHell: Let's just say that if people disappear into thin air, they generally don't end up anywhere nice. |
| 629 | * DragonHoard: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1779 SCP-1779]] are tiny reptiles which feed only on coins and make their nests out of them. They can grow to really big sizes, though... |
| 630 | * DramaticIncontinence: Halfway through the documentation on [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-7955 SCP-7955]] (a shapeshifter suffering from dementia), the unfortunate character is reduced to hiding under his bed when his paranoia gets the better of him during the night. When the staff drag him out next morning, they find that 7955 has soiled himself several times, having been too afraid and too ill to leave his hiding place to even use the provided toilet. Worse still, his physical coordination has decayed so badly that he needs to be helped into the shower cubicle. |
| 631 | * DramaticIrony: In [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4812 SCP-4812 "Wrath"]], the GOC has figured out part of the puzzle. Namely, they know that there are three profanities, they have identified two of them, and they have found a corpse that's related to the profanities that they think is the third. However, since they don't have the Connington documents that describe them in detail, they don't know that the corpse they have is not human, but ''fae'', and she is not the third profanity (who's already in Foundation containment). |
| 632 | * DramaticSpaceDrifting: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1959 SCP-1959]] is an unidentifiable cosmonaut who has been orbiting the Earth, struggling with some unseen force or [[BuffySpeak thing]] in his suit. [[AndIMustScream For over 50 years.]] |
| 633 | * TheDreaded: The Foundation is one of ''the'' top players in the paranormal world. While people like the GOC, Church of Mekhane, Marshall, Carter & Dark and Serpent's Hand are capable of challenging, or at least consider themselves to be, a lot of tales make it clear that lesser groups of interest are absolutely ''terrified'' of drawing attention to themselves out of fear that the Foundation will come crashing down on them. Herman Füller exploits this by telling his circusperformers that he's the only thing protecting them from the terrible "Essie-P", and the Chaos Insurgency's motto specifically calls out that they have to be careful, or the Foundation will crush them like insects: |
| 634 | -->Should intermittent vengeance arm again his red right hand to plague us? |
| 635 | * DreamLand: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1230 SCP-1230]], a book where the subject can live out their fantasies. Their guide, the Bookkeeper, is friendly and the dreamworld can't harm them. |
| 636 | * DrivenToSuicide: Commonly happens among Researchers, Agents, and D-Class personnel, whether [[PsychicAssistedSuicide due to the influence of an SCP object]] or as a preferable alternative to the influence of an SCP object. |
| 637 | ** Many [=SCPs=] want to do this but cannot, either due to an inability to die, or because the Foundation is actively preventing it for one reason or another. |
| 638 | * DrivesLikeCrazy: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-666-j SCP-666-J]] is this trope personified. |
| 639 | -->A research team hypothesized that rollerblades are, technically, vehicles. We tested their hypothesis by having Gerald skate into the ORIA's headquarters in Tehran. They were right.[[note]]The building went up in a giant explosion.[[/note]] |
| 640 | * DrinkingContest: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1212 SCP-1212]] is a bar stool that mentally transports the sitter into various drinking establishments and forces them to enter a drinking contest that only ends after one hour has passed or the sitter dies (if they go unconscious, SCP-1212 forces them to keep drinking). |
| 641 | -->'''Entity/entities in SCP-1212's "bars"''': "You must drink with me, in memory of those who sat where you sit and lacked the strength to understand their limits," and "We must curse those who were weak, and honor those who were strong." |
| 642 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: Decommissioned [=SCPs=] tend to have very anticlimactic deaths. For example, one invincible D-Class died from a peanut allergy. |
| 643 | * DugTooDeep: An anomalous section of mine shaft that's explored by Mobile Task Force Trotter-5: |
| 644 | -->-'''T5-6''': Too long.\ |
| 645 | '''T5-7''': Too long in the fire.\ |
| 646 | [...]\ |
| 647 | '''T5-5''': [[MadnessMantra Too long in the fire, too long in the fire, too long in the fire, too]]-- |
| 648 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2625 SCP-2625]][[MoleMen -1]] would be thrilled if they dug deep enough: |
| 649 | --->''I love to mine away the day''\ |
| 650 | ''[[MajorInjuryUnderreaction Even through the bloody spray]]''\ |
| 651 | ''Hacking, slashing, burrow away''\ |
| 652 | ''So we can reach the core some day''\ |
| 653 | ''To reach the world of men of sun''\ |
| 654 | ''[[ApocalypseWow Wouldn’t that day just be so fun?]]''\ |
| 655 | ''[[BewareTheSillyOnes Chipperee hey! Chipperee yay!]]'' |
| 656 | * DwindlingParty: |
| 657 | ** With [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-231 SCP-231-1 through SCP-231-6]], leaving SCP-231-7 as the only instance left. |
| 658 | ** Subverted by [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2951 SCP-2951]]: [[spoiler:Task Force Trotter-5 is a four-man team]]. |
| 659 | ** The tale [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/six-little-mice Six Little Mice]] combines this with a poem counting down the deaths. |
| 660 | [[/folder]] |
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