| 1 | !!''Website/SCPFoundation'' provides examples of the following tropes: |
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| 3 | SCPFoundation/TropesAToD | SCPFoundation/TropesEToM | '''Tropes N to R''' | SCPFoundation/TropesSToZ |
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| 10 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: A group calling itself "The Chaos Insurgency" cannot possibly be up to any good. Neither can the Church of the Broken God. Or the Sarkic Cults and their "fleshcrafters". [[CharacterizationMarchesOn The Church has since subverted this trope.]] While the name can and likely means to inspire wariness or fear, the Church [[GodIsGood (or rather, MEKHANE Themselves)]] are firmly for humanity. |
| 11 | * {{Nanomachines}}: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-204 SCP-204-1]] is a particularly fight-prone cloud of those [[EatingMachine that eats meat]]. [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-784-ARC SCP-784-ARC]] is a man who now "[[BrainUpload lives]]" as a nanomachine colony. And [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1322 SCP-1322]] has plenty of nanomachines being delivered as a weapon. |
| 12 | * {{Narrator}}: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1376 SCP-1376]] is a video camera that gives its recordings a narrator ''a la'' [[Creator/DavidAttenborough certain British nature documentaries]]. |
| 13 | -->'''Subject:''' A static recording of a tennis ball placed on a table.\ |
| 14 | '''Narration:''' ''As noon approaches, it grows increasingly confused, as the creatures around it show no sign of using it for its intended purpose. Struggling to attract their attention, it becomes ever more distressed as it finds itself completely immobile.'' |
| 15 | ** It may also be psychic (or at least very observant): |
| 16 | --->'''Subject:''' An incidental recording of Dr. ██████ made by Dr. ████████ during unrelated experimentation.\ |
| 17 | '''Narration:''' ''Despite the male's calm facade, [[MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat his lust for his female companion is extraordinary]]. The degree to which his obsession reaches has become nearly unhealthy, dominating his thoughts at every turn. Wild fantasies course through his mind when he watches her when she doesn't notice.''\ |
| 18 | '''Researcher Note:''' Dr. ██████ was treated for a broken nose after being attacked by Dr. ████████ and both researchers have been placed on administrative leave for a period of no less than two (2) weeks pending disciplinary action and transfer to another site. |
| 19 | * NecessarilyEvil: The SCP Foundation recognizes that it does ''very bad'' things, for the greater good of humanity. |
| 20 | ** The "[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/unfounded-hub Unfounded]]" mini-canon is built on the premise that this is not true, taking place in a universe where there is no Foundation, and yet things are still pretty much the same, with other Groups of Interest taking up the slack. |
| 21 | ** The [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/ethics-committee-orientation Ethics Committee]] prevents the Foundation from committing unnecessary cruelty... which means that somebody has to decide when cruelty ''is'' necessary. |
| 22 | %%* NeverMessWithGranny: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-517 Grammie Knows]], and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-352 the Baba Yaga]]. |
| 23 | * NextSundayAD: A few Series 3 [=SCPs=] start in dates after their initial publication, such as 2015 ([[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2716 SCP-2716]]), 2016 ([[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2242 SCP-2242]]), 2017 ([[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2703 SCP-2703]]), 2018 ([[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2570 SCP-2570]]) and 2019 ([[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2217 SCP-2217]]). It probably works better than Series 2 [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece dating articles with predictions]] such as [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1032 SCP-1032]]'s Euclid revision set for January 2015 or [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1023 SCP-1023]] having the CaliforniaCollapse in 2016. [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2998 SCP-2998]] plays with it — it starts in the same 2013 it was written, [[spoiler:then the aliens invade in 2017, and ultimately a ResetButton is pressed and time goes back to 2013 again]]. |
| 24 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Has [[NiceJobBreakingItHero/SCPFoundation its own page]]. |
| 25 | * TheNicknamer: Overall, the Serpent's Hand has coined quite a few nicknames for the other groups in the world (some aren't always favorable, as seen below). |
| 26 | * NicknamingTheEnemy: The rivaling factions often have nicknames for one another. |
| 27 | ** The Serpent's Hand has coined two nicknames for the SCP Foundation and the Global Occult Coalition that have become very popular in parts of the anomalous community. People from Freeports or the Library may call out the Foundation as "[[ExtranormalPrison jailors]]" when they're on rough terms, but the Hand always leaves no hesitance in calling the GOC "[[BookBurning bookburners]]". |
| 28 | ** The Global Occult Coalition utilizes codewords to refer to rival agencies encountered during its operations. "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinoma Carcinoma]]" for the Chaos Insurgency, "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanders_Fields Flanders]]" for the Oneiroi, "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis Reefer]]" for Gamers Against Weed, "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins Dawkins]]" for SAPPHIRE, ''et cetera''. |
| 29 | ** The Church of the Broken God has a long history of name calling. |
| 30 | *** Back in the late Bronze Age, the Mekhanite Empire called those from the Kalmaktama Empire "Sarkics" or "Sarkites" (from Ancient Greek σάρξ ''sárx'' "flesh") for their {{Biomanipulation}}. This has persisted so much that their religion, Nälkä, is almost exclusively called "Sarkicism" by outsiders millennia later. |
| 31 | *** In the modern era, the splintered Mekhanic sects now call ''each other'' names. The Cogwork Orthodox Church calls Maxwellists "hummers" due to their use of computer fans as meditative aids, and the Church of Maxwell calls Cogwork Orthodoxists "tickers" due to the audible sound of their mechanized bodies. |
| 32 | ** Herman Fuller's Circus of the Disquieting makes deliberate {{Mondegreen}}s to refer to the Foundation and the Coalition, calling them "Essie-Pee" and "Geo-Sea" respectively. |
| 33 | ** The Church of the Second Hytoth has apt nicknames like "stargazers" and "[[ThePowerOfBlood bloodletters]]" for their [[OfferingsToTheGods propitiation]] to an alien god, but the Fifthist Church (another group with extradimensional origins) calls them "squares" and "heptagons" due to not aligning with their [[ElementNumberFive quintary]] ideology. |
| 34 | * NightmareFuel: InUniverse: |
| 35 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-425 SCP-425]]: A television set which broadcasts a weird vision by itself on the 8th, 16th, and 24th day of each month, even when unplugged. It's harmless, but if you're born on days of the month that are multiples of 8 (e.g. 8, 16, and 24), then the vision will include ''moving through a black hole'', and experience "a crushing sense of oblivion". Then you will have recurring nightmares for weeks, and even extensive psychotherapy only reduced the nightmare to once a month. |
| 36 | ** 30% of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1881 SCP-1881-B]] players report lasting psychological effects afterwards, in the form of nightmares related to its contents (and occasional visual/auditory hallucinations). |
| 37 | * NightmareFuelStationAttendant: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2980 SCP-2980]], a BigRedDevil that switched from terrorizing cultists to writing children's books. He likes reading his stories to anyone around his "nightlight" at 8:30 PM and the only effects these stories have is they sometimes give the listener a refreshing sleep [[spoiler:and create new creatures to bedevil the Foundation like [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2845 THE DEER]] (AKA "Damnbi") and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1435 Grog the cave monster]]]]. |
| 38 | -->'''SCP-2980:''' [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall That's why we do it, you know? Write, I mean. It's all about pleasing an audience.]] |
| 39 | ** Whoever or whatever Phobos Labs ("Bringing your nightmares to YOU since 1944") is made [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2850 SCP-2850]], wasps that cause you to grow extra teeth which hatch more wasps which then hide in yours and any other human dwelling to find more people to infest. They also mention making [[{{Lobotomy}} Trypano]][[EvilClown Clowns]][[TradeSnark ©]]. |
| 40 | ** Junior Researcher James, who's implied to be Dr. Bright's son. Two of his [=SCPs=], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-789-j SCP-789-J]] and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-078-j SCP-078-J]], which are funny if not childish. Then we have [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-682-j SCP-682-J]], which are his drawings of SCP-682 and his versions of its description. One of the picture is SCP-682 eating a researcher. |
| 41 | * NightmareRetardant: {{Invoked}} with the staff assigned to [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2006 SCP-2006]], a sentient sphere that can [[VoluntaryShapeshifting transform itself in order to cause fear in others]]. To prevent it from becoming something truly dangerous, staff members must watch low-quality horror movies and [[FauxHorrific pretend they're terrified]] to trick it into only turning into harmless things. |
| 42 | * NightmarishFactory: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-001-o5 SCP-001:O5]]. A factory built by a wizard that used BloodMagic and SoulPower to manufacture OrganicTechnology from the slaves bred in the factory's basement. The founder [[spoiler:accidentally made [[DealWithTheDevil a Pact with the entity running it]], and every so often a researcher disappears... This might be why the Foundation is so quick to send D-Class personnel to their deaths. If it can gorge on RedShirts, it'll leave the more valuable people alone]]. |
| 43 | * NinetyPercentOfYourBrain: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1475 SCP-1475]] took a drug that allowed him to use 100% of his brain, giving him complete and total control over his body. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, this also means that he now must manually do everything his body ''used'' to do automatically, like pumping blood through his veins or digesting food. [[BlessedWithSuck This takes so much of his concentration that it has left him bedridden and unable to walk around]] because he can't move his muscles ''and'' keep up the formerly automated stuff at the same time. The author wrote this SCP specifically because they hated the "__% of your brain" trope.]] |
| 44 | * NintendoHard: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1633 SCP-1633]], which learns from players' actions and evolves to counter them. |
| 45 | * NobodyHereButUsStatues: SCP-173, in a manner similar to [[Series/DoctorWho The Weeping Angels]]. |
| 46 | * NoDialogueEpisode: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2521 SCP-2521]] is this out of necessity, as it is a weird HumanoidAbomination that takes away anything written about it and kidnaps anyone who talks about it. However, ''drawing pictures'' that describe it is just fine. |
| 47 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: SCP-517's reaction to SCP-087 in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/old-kansas-sector-part-7 Episode 7]] of Old Kansas Sector. |
| 48 | * NoJustNoReaction: 076's reaction to being requested to approach [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/dr-clef-s-proposal one candidate]] for SCP-001. |
| 49 | ** Any time experiments are cancelled on [=SCPs=] that violate common sense or would possibly replicate something nasty. |
| 50 | ** From [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-507 SCP-507s file]]: "I don’t care how much he grumbles about it; SCP-507 is not to be cleared for challenging [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-076 SCP-076-2]] to fifty rounds of TabletopGame/TicTacToe. Just… no." |
| 51 | * NoNameGiven: The O5. Most of the time, even their identification numbers are blanked out. Often, researchers have their names blanked out. D-Class, being expendable, don't have names, just numerical designations. |
| 52 | ** Averted with O5-12, the father of SCP-321, whose first name is Adam in a nod to the long tradition of meaningful names and nods towards Literature/TheBible in the Foundation[[note]]Assuming that [=O5s=] are still normal humans, Adam was in the Federation since 18██, then the current O5-12 play this trope straight[[/note]]. |
| 53 | * NoFourthWall: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/sandrewswann-s-proposal Andrew Swann's Proposal for SCP-001]] takes a sledgehammer to the fourth wall, when it reveals that [[spoiler:the Foundation found out they're a bunch of editable horror stories]]. |
| 54 | ** If S. Andrew Swann's proposal is a sledgehammer, then [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/operation-overmeta Operation Óvermeta]] and the related [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3500 SCP-3500]] is a wrecking ball. Continuing from the ending of the former, [[spoiler:the Foundation decides to take advantage of the fact that they're fiction, exploiting the actual site's mechanics and integrating otherwise-non-canon site functions like the Grand Crosslinking into the story. This ultimately [[NiceJobBreakingItHero bites them in the ass]] when their endgame, to establish a unified canon, heavily destabilizes reality and sends it crashing down on unfortunate AuthorAvatar researchers]]. |
| 55 | * NonIndicativeName: This tends to come up a lot when discussing the Foundation's means of categorizing [=SCPs=], mainly because when a Foundation operative says an object is "safe", they mean "nothing will happen if it's left alone in a locked room". A ''hydrogen bomb'' is "safe" by those standards. |
| 56 | * NonMaliciousMonster: A number of [=SCPs=] are essentially just predatory organisms with anomalous traits. |
| 57 | * NoodleImplements: Some of the SCP objects become this, when SCP numbers are listed in incident reports or other articles; occasionally, the SCP with that designation will appear completely irrelevant to the context in which it was referenced. [[note]]This is often due to the original SCP being removed, and a new one filed under that number.[[/note]] |
| 58 | ** [[PlayedForLaughs On the other extreme]], there are the containment methods of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1746 SCP-1746]] and the process to activate [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1731 SCP-1731]]'s anomalous effects. |
| 59 | * NoodleIncident: |
| 60 | ** Every single time you see "[DATA EXPUNGED]" or "[REDACTED]"; it seems like the whole idea is to have at least one such incident per SCP. The unspecified reason why [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-447 SCP-447]] must ''never'' come into contact with dead bodies is especially noodly and is occasionally referred to elsewhere (as seen below, it scares O5-2 shitless). |
| 61 | ** [[invoked]]SCP-231 is essentially a NoodleIncident played for {{Squick}} and horror rather than laughs. Whatever you think the notorious "Procedure 110-Montauk" is, it's much, MUCH worse... and even then, it's much worse than that. Speculation on what Procedure 110-Montauk is at times gets comparable to TheAristocrats — a FAQ had a bunch of [DATA REDACTED]s interspersed with mentions of an elephant, a bed of live cobras, Barbara Streisand's Greatest Hits, something that is over seventeen feet long, a staple remover, a feather boa that absolutely ''must'' be black (and not dark blue), and "plutonium splitting the atom." [[note]]Of course, TheAristocrats is only "[[BlackComedy funny]]" if you're not [[ColdBloodedTorture on the literal ass end of it...]][[/note]] |
| 62 | ** The uncensored reports of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-835 SCP-835]] demonstrate exactly what could be behind every NoodleIncident, and why [[YouDoNotWantToKnow you really don't want to know]]. On the other hand, it can also be seen as how a [DATA EXPUNGED] can be important for an article, as some people found the uncensored 835 reports to be [[AntiClimax quite disappointing]]. |
| 63 | ** Most of the items on [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-things-dr-bright-is-not-allowed-to-do-at-the-foundation the list of things Dr. Bright is not allowed to do at the Foundation]] imply quite a few such incidents coming from just one guy. |
| 64 | ** [[spoiler:According to [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-963 SCP-963]] and its implications, "[[BrainUploading just one guy]]" isn't an accurate term.]] |
| 65 | ** The first thumbnail in SCP-1231 is redacted, [[spoiler:which is odd, considering that whatever you think the thumbnail contains is then created as a new thumbnail, and that the thousands of other thumbnails all derived from the first perception of the original]]. |
| 66 | ** The entirety of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-579 SCP-579]]. |
| 67 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1570 Whatever lead to the photograph of SCP Agents wearing assless chaps out in public to contain SCP-1570.]] (NSFW, obviously.) |
| 68 | ** This trope is directly invoked in one of the experiments with [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1459 SCP-1459]]. The researcher asks the machine to kill an instance of SCP-1459-1 using the word ''Noodles'' as a sort of creative prompt. A curtain then goes down, various sounds are heard, and when the curtain rises again, the instance of SCP-1459-1 is dead, clearly under bizarre circumstances. It is noted in the end of the log that [[ComicallyMissingThePoint nothing related to noodles ever happened]]. |
| 69 | ** The TropeNamer is mentioned in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/experiment-log-423-a the experiment log for SCP-423]]. The SCP in question can insert itself into fiction, in this case manifesting as being involved with the Noodle Incident from ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes. No further details about the incident were learned from this experiment, leaving the experimenters frustrated. |
| 70 | * NoOSHACompliance: In the SCP articles themselves, the containment procedures are designed to minimize danger, risk, and loss of life, even of the utterly expendable D-Class. In the testing logs, the prison-recruited D-class personnel are regularly treated to definitely unethical and probably lethal experimentation, often in cases where little useful information is likely to result, and are often subjected to the machinations of some of the more diabolical [=SCPs=] purely for the amusement of the ranking research staff. |
| 71 | * NoSell: Former [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/experiment-log-151-d SCP-151-D]] exhibited this along with other MartyStu traits, shrugging off effects of other [=SCPs=] just ''because''. His termination log consists much of the same, until he's finally destroyed... rather messily. [[invoked]] |
| 72 | * NoSenseOfDirection: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-920 SCP-920,]] also known as [[MeaningfulName Mr. Lost.]] Try to take him somewhere, or just walk with him for a while, and ''you'' will get lost. (However, apparently because all the super-deadly gets old if ''everything'' is super-deadly, the description has a notice that lost means "lost" as in "misplaced" and not some horrible fate. However, you ''can'' be lost to pretty much anywhere in the world. And it's likely you'll still die of thirst or cold if you get lost with him in a desert or a snowy area.) |
| 73 | ** When they tried to contain him, ''a whole facility got lost.'' It remained where it was but nobody could ever find it, leading to its closure due to running out of supplies. |
| 74 | * NoseShove: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-108 SCP-108]]. |
| 75 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: Many of the [=SCPs=]. In particular is SCP-387, a set of sentient Legos. Ordinarily they're benign, and even kind of cute. But put a knockoff set of Legos nearby, and they will do [[YouDoNotWantToKnow something Redactable]]. |
| 76 | * NotUsingTheZWord: It's very obvious that [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-008 SCP-008]] is a zombie virus, but the article never refers to it as such. |
| 77 | * NothingIsScarier: |
| 78 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1057 SCP-1057, the Absence of a Shark]]. It's empty space, raw void, that nonetheless swims around in the water with the shape and mentality of an uncommonly irritable tiger shark. Being made to ham-fistedly illustrate a point by a pretentious group of anomaly artists, it was released in a public setting and attacked three people, two fatally... while the fleeing crowd trampled ''five'' to death in their panic. The idea of a shark thus proved more dangerous than there being a shark, doubly illustrated by the very distinct ''lack'' of shark in the anomaly's 3D space. |
| 79 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2154 SCP-2154]] is a telescope that allows the real-time observation of space. Approximately 72% of stars viewable by mundane means cannot be seen through it, which means that either stars are going out very quickly or something ''very'' large ad opaque is blocking them. [[spoiler:It is confirmed that a mix of both is most likely true, but the reader never learns what the matter is and the foundation doesn't know either. The author [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-1294137/scp-2154 confirms]] that the point of the article is not about ''why'' the stars are going out or being blocked, but rather that humans have no idea what is ''currently'' happening in space]]. |
| 80 | * NuclearOption: Most (if not all) Sites have on-site nuclear warheads, to be detonated in the event of a breach by a Keter-class SCP or Site failure. But they are actually ''afraid'' to try it on [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-682 SCP-682]] because it might not only ''survive'', it could become ''even stronger.'' |
| 81 | * TheNudifier: The intended use of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1755 SCP-1755]] by its creators, until the Foundation contained it and discovered that [[spoiler:the worms are bringing the cotton plant close to extinction and [[GoneHorriblyRight might cause a collapse in the textile industry]]]]. |
| 82 | * NumberOfTheBeast: While [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-666 SCP-666]] is not overtly Satanic, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-616 SCP-616]] is decidedly more hellish, and has clergy on staff when necessary. The actual religious requirements are [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve invented]], though. |
| 83 | ** FridgeBrilliance that SCP-616 is the hellish one, see note on the NumberOfTheBeast page. |
| 84 | ** Giving 666 yen to SCP-261 will provide some Devilish treats. |
| 85 | * NutritionalNightmare: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-807 SCP-807]], the Heart Attack on a Plate. Any food placed on it will be turned into this trope, and consuming it will invariably cause a heart attack within 5 minutes. |
| 86 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/experiment-log-261-ad-de Among the items from SCP-261]] is a "Turduchocken", an item described as "Balls of fried turkey, each containing a smaller ball of fried duck containing a chocolate candy with a fried chicken center", described by the label as containing 450% the typical adult human requirement of saturated fat. Also, "Tastee Bird Spicy Lime Snack!!!" is a "reconstituted, de-calcified parrot skeleton in a tangy broth with celery and cilantro and lime", containing 300% the daily recommended amount of sodium. |
| 87 | [[/folder]] |
| 88 | [[folder:O]] |
| 89 | * ObsessiveLoveLetter: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1269 SCP-1269]], apparently a mailbox that sends stalkerish letters to female owners. |
| 90 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-962 SCP-962]], which sends such love letters to ''humanity''. |
| 91 | * OddCouple: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1710 SCP-1710]] 1 and 2, an EldritchAbomination and a pleasant British housewife, respectively, who were turned into trees by a TricksterGod. |
| 92 | -->'''SCP-1710-1''': We were not always thus. [[CosmicHorror We were the Serrated Void. We were That Which Rends. We were blades, edges, angles.]] We moved, we ravaged, we sharped.\ |
| 93 | '''SCP-1710-2''': What was that? Sorry, I was distracted by those bees. Silly little buggers, they are, buzzing about. Oh, they tickle so! |
| 94 | * OhCrap: |
| 95 | ** In [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/interview-507-g interview 507G]], Said by [[spoiler:an alternate version of]] SCP-507 after he realizes what's going to happen to him. |
| 96 | -->'''SCP-507-A''' Oh. Bugger. |
| 97 | --> '''Closing Statement:''' Subsequent testing revealed that SCP-507's abilities have no biological basing, and that [[TheyWouldCutYouUp severed pieces will still “shift” along with the main body.]] |
| 98 | ** In [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5000 SCP-5000]], Pietro Wilson could only utter a "[[PrecisionFStrike Fuck me]]" when the Foundation released a global message revealing their existence and their intent to exterminate mankind. |
| 99 | * OldShame: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1851-ex SCP-1851-EX]] is an in-universe example. Before the Civil War, the Foundation's D-classes were composed of slaves who escaped their masters; the "D" referred to "Drapetomania," a "mental illness" that caused slaves to have an "unnatural" lack of submission and obsess over fleeing captivity. When it's suggested they destroy all evidence of this embarrassing fact, the Foundation insists on keeping the information on file specifically ''because'' it's an embarrassing fact. |
| 100 | * OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: Aside from the Foundation, there's [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1659 SCP-1659]] AKA Directorate K, whose affected "members" number in the hundreds of thousands. Its mission is incomprehensible beyond apparently wanting to fix the SCP-verse [[BlueAndOrangeMorality in its own way]] and influencing foodies. |
| 101 | * OmniscientMoralityLicense: A lot of these researchers are ''worse'' than Class-D personnel (who are "[[BoxedCrook recruited]]" from prison). Some [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard get demoted to Class D]]. |
| 102 | * OnceForYesTwiceForNo: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3082 SCP-3082]]: When 3082-2 is communicating with a somewhat broken drone: |
| 103 | --> Can you spin this gadget's blades one time for "no" and two times for "yes"? |
| 104 | --> [The drone is heard activating its motors twice in quick succession.] |
| 105 | * OminousMessageFromTheFuture: While it is unclear exactly who or what is responsible for its creation, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6135 SCP-6135]], an anomalous recording of Billy Joel's ''We Didn't Start the Fire'', contains several additional verses which appear to predict future events (of course, the documentation in question was written in 1991, so many of these events will be familiar to modern readers). The real kicker comes at the end, when it's revealed that "Research into the identities of Tim [[InconsistentSpelling McVay]] and Harry Potter is ongoing." |
| 106 | * OneMythToExplainThemAll: Many [=SCPs=] are familiar myths from different cultures, such as [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-169 the Leviathan]], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3000 AnantaShesha]], and various kinds of {{youkai}} (e.g., [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2863 Gashadokuro]]). It is unclear whether these are the origins of the myths, or simply named after them. |
| 107 | * OrificeInvasion: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2484 SCP-2484]], anomalous mayonnaise: "Masses from 235 g to 804 g will actively attempt to make their way inside vertebrate animals through any available means (including oral, nasal, aural, ocular, rectal, or genital orifices, open wounds, and sweat pores)." |
| 108 | * OrigamiGag: Hinted at in one incident with subject SCP-914, which produced a glass orb that inspired a volunteer to take a piece of paper and create something [[TooStrangeToShow inexplicably indescribable]]. |
| 109 | -->D-8742, upon contact with the object, requested a sheet of paper, which he folded into a paper [DATA EXPUNGED].\ |
| 110 | Update: It's been five months since D-8742's termination, and that thing is still in the air. |
| 111 | * OriginStory: |
| 112 | ** Some of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-001 SCP-001]] proposals are about how the Foundation and sometimes how many groups of interest are formed. |
| 113 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5497 SCP-5497]] ('What Never Was') serves as a possible origin for the world explored in the [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/unfounded-hub Unfounded]] canon. |
| 114 | * OrphanedSeries: Happens frequently with series and even entire canons. Writers begin writing, create a few articles, then lose interest or initiative before completing them. Due to the wiki nature of the site, though, other writers can pick it back up. |
| 115 | * OurAngelsAreDifferent: Averted as [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/dr-clef-s-proposal the Foundation goes to extensive lengths to document the fact that Dr. Clef's proposal for SCP-001]] is indeed a bona fide Judeo-Christian Angel without any major subversions — and possibly ''the'' Jophiel himself, who guards the real, genuine Garden of Eden. It ''does'', however, play more to the descriptions in Holy texts as opposed to cultural depictions; for instance, appearing to have as many as 108 wings and being made of fire. |
| 116 | %%** Played Straight, though, with [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-469 SCP-469]]. Disturbingly straight. |
| 117 | %%** Your mileage may vary with [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-861 SCP-861]]. |
| 118 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2610 SCP-2610-A]] thinks his [[CosmicHorror "visitor"]] is an angel ("Her flesh rippled and tore, and light shined through the cracks like the sun.") and she speaks to him, [[UnreliableNarrator as he remembers it]], like one: "'Soft and silent, Child of God,/for you have been chosen to lead His people/and create for Him a New Eden.'" |
| 119 | * OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious: Several examples: |
| 120 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2901 SCP-2901]] is based on the mythical Mothman - rather than being a singular entity however, there's a whole ''species'' of them. |
| 121 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6254 SCP-6254]] is clearly inspired by the legendary Michigan Dogman. |
| 122 | * OurDragonsAreDifferent: |
| 123 | ** SCP-682 has been called a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarasque "tarasque"]] in the Lord Blackwood and Bellerverse tales; [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1420 SCP-1420]] seem to be working towards a viable dragon; [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1013 SCP-1013]] is a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockatrice cockatrice]]; [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1779 SCP-1779]] are tiny dragons that eat change (actually, they're [[spoiler:''real'' dragons, which apparently feed on items of monetary value rather than nutritional value, and the more expensive the food, the bigger the dragon]]). |
| 124 | ** In the greater Foundation-verse, dragons are a vulnerable population of anomalous organisms whose conservation puts the Foundation at odds with preserving the veil, making their exploitation (e.g. Ambrose Restaurants using hatchlings to cook food) or annihilation inevitable. In [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1762 SCP-1762]], they wither away and die because of humanity's increasing lack of belief in fantasy. In [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3844 SCP-3844]], Tharnock weakens for the same reasons and is eventually killed, [[spoiler:though more of his kind suddenly show up after his passing]]. In [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6002 SCP-6002]], they are part of a kingdom of organisms called the aeterns and lack the weaknesses of 1762 or Tharnock, [[spoiler:but are wiped out and erased from history by destroying their corresponding genomes in 6002, hoping the SCP-6002-B infection ravaging the tree would go with them. [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt It does not]]]]. |
| 125 | * OurGhoulsAreCreepier: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6387 SCP-6387]] offers a unique variation on the ghoul. [[spoiler:Turns out this one isn't malicious, and was in fact trying to save someone who was accidentally buried alive.]] |
| 126 | %%* OurHumansAreDifferent: Many [=SCPs=] (such as [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-516925/scp-1788 1788]]) imply humanity has a radically different origin and/or true nature in the Foundationverse. Of particular note are [[RealityWarper Type-Greens]]; humans who spontaneously develop the ability to alter reality to varying extents. |
| 127 | %%* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-327 SCP-327]] |
| 128 | * OurGiantsAreBigger: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5634 SCP-5634]], who appears to be the Foundationverse's equivilant to Paul Bunyan. |
| 129 | * OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/happy-howlidays Happy Howlidays]], a ChristmasEpisode, portrays five different types of werewolves, with Class-1 werewolves being fully voluntary and in control of their changes, while Class-5 werewolves are vicious killing machines that can spread their infection through contact alone, and are capable of regenerating from a single finger and coming back from death. [[WeaksauceWeakness The infection is neutralized by nutmeg.]] |
| 130 | * OverNightAgeUp: There's a CymbalBangingMonkey in [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-983 SCP-983]] that is able to rapidly age a person [[DiedOnTheirBirthday on their birthday with each ring until they die]]. It stops only if the person sings along or dies. |
| 131 | * OverTheTopSecret: In [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/captain-kirby-s-proposal one 001 proposal]], the newly appointed O5 council tries to figure out why O5-13 is the only one around from the old council. When they ask the Ethics Committee, they get the answer that it is "Above [their] clearance".[[note]]Some stories imply that the Committee has equal, or even higher security clearance than the O5s.[[/note]] |
| 132 | -->'''O5-11''': Above your security clearance? You're on the Council, there simply aren't things "outside your jurisdiction". |
| 133 | %%* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: The [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2900 SCP-2900]] effect sometimes generates awards for these. Other times, it generates [[MedalOfDishonor awards for actions that people want to forget]]. |
| 134 | [[/folder]] |
| 135 | [[folder:P]] |
| 136 | * PaintingTheMedium: Has [[PaintingTheMedium/SCPFoundation its own page]]. |
| 137 | * {{Panacea}}: |
| 138 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-500 SCP-500]] are pills that cure any disease, but there's just about fifty of them and they're impossible to replicate perfectly (though knockoffs ''can'' work if you're lucky). Later, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-427 SCP-427: the Lovecraftian Locket]] was developed out of one of the pills and has eclipsed it in use, although with the possible side effect of mutating you into a squid. |
| 139 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/experiment-log-261-ad-de One of the items]] dispensed by SCP-261 is a drink can that has Indonesian text on it claiming it can cure any kind of disease. While it's unknown if that statement is ''entirely'' true, a D-class with prostate cancer who drank it was found to be cured. Unfortunately, only one can was released and due to the nature of SCP-261 it's extremely unlikely to appear again. |
| 140 | * ParanormalMundaneItem: A decent number of artifacts contained by the foundation bear some resemblance to some form of product intended to be sold to the public, to the detriment of anyone unfortunate enough to find one. In addition, there are a number of organizations of interest that specialize in the production and or sale of such artifacts. |
| 141 | ** [[MyLittlePanzer Dr. Wondertainment]] is a person and or company dedicated to making anomalous toys, [[NoOSHACompliance with less than stellar standards of product safety.]] |
| 142 | ** [[IndustrializedEvil The Factory]] is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a factory]] in an unknown location that mass produces anomalous appliances with guaranteed sinister motives. |
| 143 | ** Marshal, Carter, and Dark is a black market club that seeks out such items to sell to it's clientele. They take great care that their products do not harm their owners, but the same can't be said for [[PoweredByAForsakenChild what the artifacts may require in order to function.]] |
| 144 | ** SCP-261 is a vending machine that sells a number food items similar to the real-world trademarks, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/experiment-log-261-ad-de but with some really bizarre properties.]] |
| 145 | * ParodySue: Several. Most notably, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-10101-j SCP-10101-j]], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-777-j SCP-777-j]], and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-496-j SCP-496-j]] (whose name references the original [[FanFic/ATrekkiesTale Mary Sue]]). [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/decomm:scp-316-d SCP-316]], later [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/termination-log-scp-316 terminated with extreme enthusiasm]] by the resident Wonka, reads much like one but was apparently intended as a serious SCP. |
| 146 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/marysuewho The tale starring "Agent Doctor Merry Sue"]] initially reads as a textbook example, with only a few hints that things aren't as they seem, until it's finally revealed that [[spoiler:she's a literal RealityWarper trying to beat the Foundation by joining them. She was fed to 682.]] |
| 147 | * PassThePopcorn: Defied. According to [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6930 SCP-6930]], guffawing at a sapient anomaly's containment even if the methods used are valid is a pretty easy way to violate the protocols of the Ethics Committee. In the case of the aforementioned article, it got so bad that one of the lead researchers had to revise the containment procedures to be [[PetTheDog unusually generous]] as both payback and to stop another Pattern Screamer from going insane. |
| 148 | * ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Shown in the terminal logs for [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2317 SCP-2317]], with the lower-clearance agents having weaker password sense: |
| 149 | ** Jonathan Vance, Clearance Level 0: ''password9910'' (played straight) |
| 150 | ** Sgt. Hannibal Masterson, Clearance Level 1: ''1234Ilovethemarinecorps'' (long password, but familiar phrase) |
| 151 | ** Dr. Jackson Choi, Clearance Level 2: ''beethovens9th123'' (played straight) |
| 152 | ** Dr. Victoria Fellini, Clearance Level 3: ''Sierra charLy pOPPA'' (fairly robust FunWithAcronyms) |
| 153 | ** Dr. Kain P. Crow, Clearance Level 4: ''sometimesifeeellikeamotherlesschild'' (pretty strong, but lacking randomness) |
| 154 | ** O5-13, Clearance Level O5: ''[=sIERRa tANGo CASpER 3CH0.=]'' (averted entirely), plus an additional short paragraph that has to be typed down to the exact letter within 60 seconds, with some intentional spelling and capitalization errors for good measure. |
| 155 | * PayEvilUntoEvil: Guest Researcher Dr W introduced an ordinary frightened kid to SCP-682, and then a kid of the same age with deadened emotional reactions. Both were messily killed by SCP-682. So, Dr. Clef promptly introduced Dr. W to SCP-682, with the same result. |
| 156 | -->"''Fucking sadistic asshole. I've got no sympathy for that moron whatsoever. Introducing children to this fucking monster? What the hell…''"\ |
| 157 | Assistant Director Clef |
| 158 | * PerfectionIsStatic: |
| 159 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-7179 SCP-7179]] is an afterlife consisting of an island paradise with a beach house, three willing and non-sentient sex partners, and all the food, drink, and drugs you could ever want. But there's no way to leave and you're stuck there for eternity, so you will enjoy yourself for a few years at most before you start going insane from boredom and loneliness. |
| 160 | ** In the tale ''[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/visionsofabetterworld Visions of a Better World]]'', one of the possible futures has the Foundation infect the world's population with [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-217 SCP-217]], a virus that converts people and animals into clockwork beings. Their idea is that illness will become nonexistent and injuries can be easily treated by repairing them as one repairs a broken-down bicycle. Once the whole world is transformed, the clockwork humans no longer have emotions, curiosity, or imagination, and there's no further progress to be made and nothing to work toward. They no longer see the point of living and die. |
| 161 | %% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * PerfectlyCromulentWord: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-566 SCP-566]] is a calendar full of these. |
| 162 | * PerfectPacifistPeople: One of the biggest factors of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/lily-s-proposal an SCP-001 event]] is that everyone on Earth becomes aware of its inevitable fate and heavy decreases in violence are to occur. |
| 163 | * PerpetualMotionMachine: So many [=SCPs=] (labeled [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/system:page-tags/tag/ectoentropic ectoentropic]]) ignore the laws of thermodynamics, being able to produce infinite amounts of matter, energy, or their constant movements could be used as a power generation tool. Sadly, most are either too valuable or dangerous to use. |
| 164 | * PersonOfMassDestruction: People who get SCP designations, and especially Keter classifications, are generally contained because they fall into this category. |
| 165 | * PerspectiveReversal: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scantron-s-proposal Scantron's Proposal of SCP-001]] is a case file written by the Unusual Incidents Unit in 1954, which identifies the Foundation as Confirmed Anomaly 3. |
| 166 | * PetTheDog - Most sentient [=SCPs=] are accommodated reasonably well, depending on their potential danger, ability to escape, and willingness to cause harm. The most (relatively) harmless are given furnished rooms and are generally given whatever they request, as long as it doesn't violate security. They are, of course, not allowed to leave the facility. |
| 167 | ** SCP-103 was the only SCP that the Foundation actually released. It says something about the Foundation's [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well-Intentioned Extremism]] that a man whose only power is that he [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway never gets hungry]] is the only SCP ever let go without being terminated (and even that is, according to the comments, a controversial decision). He got retconned to having worms in his stomach that fly out and eat people and having voluntarily reported back to Foundation care. |
| 168 | ** Some of the [=SCPs=] are given the best care possible. Every effort is made not to upset the autistic MuckMonster girl, for example, and the harmless and friendly living eyeballs have free run of their site. And one of the first tests of the vending machine was "something Cassy will like," Cassy being a mentally normal young woman who exists in a 2-D world and was actually created by the Foundation itself. |
| 169 | ** Several [=SCPs=] which fall into a self contained microcosm, pocket universe, etc, or other [=SCPs=] that were created by the Foundation on accident, respect or outright revere the Foundation. On the other hand, some fall into a RageAgainstTheHeavens. |
| 170 | ** Some [=SCPs=] that are relatively harmless are just glad to have someone talking to / using them again, in many cases having been abandoned for years after their original owner died. |
| 171 | ** SCP-2031 is a type of army ant that incapacitates large mammals before invading them, turning them into a colony, and [[TheWormThatWalks mimicking their behavior with disturbing accuracy.]] It's also implied that this places the victim into an AndIMustScream situation. However, at one point, the Foundation sets up an experiment with a human family infested by the ants and a bunch of animals in the same situation. The ants inside the humans take care of the animals like a normal human does, herding groups and feeding them. One day, however, one of the colonies has to leave the animal corpse they're inhabiting since it can't be supported anymore. The human colonies then react accordingly, first prodding the corpse, and then later burying it solemnly when they realize that the animal's gone for good. At the end, it's stated that the Foundation will infest a Golden Retriever puppy for the human colonies. This may be the first time the Foundation has willingly accommodated a non-sentient SCP beyond what it needs.[[note]]The ants are actually TheWormThatWalks, though they willingly adjust their behavior and intelligence to match the creature they're inside of.[[/note]] |
| 172 | ** The Foundation are letting POI-2190-2 unusually nice, considering that she's the focal point of an anomaly. SCP-2190 acts as a kind of morality pet for the Foundation. The story of how they gave a couple that went through hell the happy ending they deserved while simultaneously containing an anomaly keeps the Foundation suicide rate... lower. |
| 173 | ** One of the researchers involved takes 2422-C under her wing once she realizes what's involved with them. [[spoiler:She goes on to pass on the "duty" of protecting as much of their human dignity as possible to a successor she trusts.]] |
| 174 | ** SCP-3355 is an Army AI originally designed for disaster management who, after being abandoned, took up the mantle of St Nick for the destitute children of Chicago. The Foundation's containment protocol for an incredibly intelligent, resourceful military AI? They set up a charity as a front for his operations and a source of income for him to buy presents. |
| 175 | * ThePhoenix: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5467 SCP-5467]], a species of fire-breathing birds, hunted to extinction by the Daevites. |
| 176 | * PiecesOfGod: That particular faction's not called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Church Of The Broken God"]] for nothing. |
| 177 | * {{Pilgrimage}}: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-036 SCP-036]] is about Yazidi pilgrims who use planes to travel to a site where they can be reborn. |
| 178 | * PlagueDoctor: |
| 179 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-049 SCP-049]]. [[{{Creepypasta}} This being the Foundation]], naturally he's a horrifying DeadlyDoctor. |
| 180 | ** Parodied with [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-049-j SCP-049-J]], an... ''[[ComicallyIneptHealing interesting]]'' individual. |
| 181 | * PlagueZombie: Anyone infected by [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-008 SCP-008]] is turned into a zombie over the course of several hours. They are capable of spreading the virus to others as well. |
| 182 | %%* PlantPerson: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1010 SCP-1010]] is this trope. |
| 183 | * PlayingCardMotifs: |
| 184 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2156 SCP-2156]] is a college student who became so obsessed with solitaire and its symbolism and numerology that she ''broke reality''. |
| 185 | * PlayingWithFire: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2814 SCP-2814]] can give people this power, plus [[AGodAmI very delusional thoughts]] (or are they?). Its creator's true intention was [[spoiler:to use the mask's victims to feed the sun ("Our Radiant Father"), but three other stars ("Father's brothers") are stealing the energy away -- and the victims aren't quite dead, including the mask's creator (who realizes this probably wasn't the best way to help "father")]]. |
| 186 | * PocketDimension: The Three Portlands, a pocket dimension that's connected to Portland, Oregon, Portland, Maine and Portland, UK. 3Ports is essentially a refuge for anomalous humans and other beings, having their own micro-society, down to various para tech companies present in the dimension. |
| 187 | * PoliceAreUseless: |
| 188 | ** How the Foundation sees the FBI's Unusual Incidents Unit. More recent works have begun to portray them as competent, though the Foundation itself still likes to look down on them. |
| 189 | ** Usually averted or justified with normal police departments when they show up, as they simply aren't equipped to deal with the anomalous, and any anomalies they come across are usually swiftly taken over by the Foundation, who have agents embeded in many police forces. |
| 190 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2826 SCP-2826]] invokes this, causing a number of dimwitted, clumsy entities dressed like members of the local police force to appear at the nearest gathering of officers, and attempt to assist them[[note]]Part of its effect is that actual police officers will think they recognize them as fellow officers[[/note]]. Since they are dimwitted, clumsy, and have little to no understanding of actual police procedure or how to use most of their equipment, their "assistance" invariably ends up hindering the actual police. As well, if exposed to things like tear gas or pepper spray, they automatically release a gust of air that clears the gas around them. |
| 191 | * PoliceCodeForEverything: Mostly inverted by the things Dr. Bright is not allowed to do. However, there are codes for: Necrophilia[[note]](I do NOT want to know)[[/note]] and the Bright Family Reunion.[[note]](Code Brown. Find a place to hide, and make sure you leave an offering of booze outside your door.)[[/note]] |
| 192 | * PostModernMagik: The Foundation uses science to study many of the seemingly supernatural and/or magical anomalies. |
| 193 | * PowerIncontinence: Apparently a problem with mammoths: |
| 194 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2082 SCP-2082]]: A wooly mammoth clone that caused [[AnIcePerson uncontrollable Ice Age conditions]]; its species is implied to have caused the Ice Age itself. |
| 195 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2184 SCP-2184]]: A ''steppe'' (to distinguish it from SCP-2082) mammoth (just one) that [[TimeMaster destroys any technology created after the Stone Age]]; the more advanced the object is the larger and more destructive its effect. Its aversion to post-Stone Age technology is so great it walked through a forest fire unscathed ''because the fire was started with a match''. |
| 196 | * PowerLevels: |
| 197 | ** [=SCPs=] are classified with an "object class" that, in a {{subversion}} of this trope, is not a measure of how dangerous an SCP is, but rather, how difficult it is to keep in containment: perfectly harmless [=SCPs=] can still be difficult to contain, while an SCP that can be easily contained can still be dangerous. Object classes consist of the following levels: |
| 198 | *** "Safe": Easily contained and not liable to escape. As an analogy, if you lock it in a box and do nothing, it will likely remain in the box. |
| 199 | *** "Euclid": Requires a significant amount of resources to contain, and containment may not be reliable. By default, any SCP that exhibits sentience is classified as Euclid due to the inherent unpredictability of entities capable of independent thought and action. If you lock it in a box and do nothing, it may escape, or it may stay put, but there's no way to know which will happen. |
| 200 | *** "Keter": Highly difficult to contain, often requiring vast amounts of resources and complex containment procedures. Also highly liable to escaping. If you lock it in a box and do nothing, it will very likely get out and cause trouble. |
| 201 | *** "Thaumiel": An SCP that is specifically used to contain other [=SCPs=]. |
| 202 | *** "Neutralized": [=SCPs=] that are no longer anomalous due to being disabled or destroyed. |
| 203 | *** "Apollyon": The SCP is either uncontainable, or expected to inevitably breach containment soon, usually with highly destructive (and often [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt apocalyptic]]) consequences and requiring a massive Foundation effort to handle. |
| 204 | *** "Archon": Can be contained, but the Foundation has deemed it in their best interest not to. |
| 205 | ** Supplementing the object class system is the "[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/anomaly-classification-system-guide Anomaly classification system]]". In it, object class is renamed to "containment class", and two additional ratings are added to it: |
| 206 | *** "Disruption class" defines the size of anomaly's sphere of influence and the difficulty of negating that influence, if containment fails. The lowest tier of disruption might affect one person or a specific individual; the highest would be a world-spanning or even universe-spanning outcome. From smallest to largest: Dark, Vlam, Kenneq, Ekhi, and Amida. |
| 207 | *** "Risk class" is the closest thing to PowerLevels played fully straight, and indicates how anomalous an item's effect is. The weakest classification exerts almost-nonexistant anomalous effects, while the strongest's effects are instantaneous, tangible, and very likely to cause death. From safest to riskiest: Notice, Caution, Warning, Danger, and Critical. |
| 208 | * ThePowerOfHate: The Brazen Heart, the cult behind [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2427 SCP-2427]], "express extreme animosity for the Foundation and humanity at large": |
| 209 | -->''The Christian tells you that hatred is wrong.''\ |
| 210 | ''The Buddhist tells you that hatred is a distraction.''\ |
| 211 | ''The atheist tells you that hatred is unhealthy.''\ |
| 212 | [DATA EXPUNGED] ''tells you that hatred is fun.''\ |
| 213 | ''Hatred, in reality, is but one of many invaluable tools to return Creation to purity. Hatred can work in harmony with love. The nature of the path to purity is irrelevant; all that matters is the sunrise at the end of the path.'' |
| 214 | * PoweredByAForsakenChild: |
| 215 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1875 SCP-1875]] is powered by two. [[spoiler:[[BrownNote They ain't exactly happy about it]]]]. |
| 216 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1514 SCP-1514]] [[spoiler:"Are the stars pretty"]] |
| 217 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2814 SCP-2814]]; see Playing With Fire. |
| 218 | * PowerPerversionPotential: SCP-447-2 can be used as a personal lubricant, [[RunningGag unless you're a necrophiliac]]. |
| 219 | * {{Precursors}}: Going into the very distant past, you get [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6204 SCP-6204 (Sapiensaurus)]], a species of intelligent theropods that developed an advanced civilization over 100 million years ago. More recent species include [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1000 SCP-1000 (Bigfoot)]] (yes, ''the'' Bigfoot) and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4000 SCP-4000]] (the Fae). It's safe to say the Foundationverse has ancient advanced civilizations coming out the wazoo. |
| 220 | * PrettyButterflies: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-408 SCP-408]] is a sapient flock of color-changing, illusion-creating butterflies. |
| 221 | * PrimalFear: Many of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1881 SCP-1881]]'s stage iterations invoke these, such as a level appearing to be upside-down without gravity being reversed to match, a {{shmup}} stage with no enemies (leaving the player floating aimlessly through empty space for several minutes before the level ended), and being trapped in a maze with an increasingly large number of deadly creatures. |
| 222 | * ProducePelting: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-504 SCP-504]] is a breed of tomato that throws ''itself'' if someone cracks a bad joke. If the joke is bad enough, ''it will break the sound barrier.'' |
| 223 | --> Item: Three mature SCP-504 tomatoes, one for each test subject.\ |
| 224 | Subject: After the introduction to the following news item, "Bomb blows hole in Lenin statue", the three following jokes were made.\ |
| 225 | Test Subject 1: Ooh, that's gonna leave a Marx.\ |
| 226 | Result: Tomato number one 'twitched', but did not displace from its original location.\ |
| 227 | Test Subject 2: BBC is just Stalin the good news.\ |
| 228 | Result: Tomato clocked at 152 mph. Chipped tooth and hairline jaw fracture.\ |
| 229 | Test Subject 3: That blows.\ |
| 230 | Result: Tomato clocked at [REDACTED]. Subject is hospitalized with a massive skull fracture. |
| 231 | ** Interestingly enough, when told The Funniest Joke of All Time from ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', it exploded. |
| 232 | ** When shown on a later episode of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', high-speed photography showed that the tomato ''changed velocity'' several times (including a brief jump ''backward''), as if unable to decide whether the sketch was genuinely lame or just "bad" in an [[StylisticSuck ironic sense]]. |
| 233 | * ProphecyArmor: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-711 SCP-711 ("Paradoxical Insurance Policy")]]. SCP-711 is a device capable of receiving transmissions from the future. It has received one such transmission from a future Foundation agent, but the governing O5 Council has ordered that the transmission never be sent. Since the Foundation knows the message ''will'' be sent at some point in the future, as long as it hasn't been sent then the Foundation can't be completely destroyed, because that would leave no one to send the message. |
| 234 | * PseudoSanta: A couple Christmas Stories, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/holy-crap-this-is-a-long-christmas-tale The 12 Days of Site-87's Christmas]] and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/happy-howlidays Happy Howlidays]], imply that [[WickedToymaker Dr. Wondertainment]] either is Santa Claus, or is filling in for him for the Foundation specifically. |
| 235 | * PublicDomainArtifact - [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/spring-cleaning Spring Cleaning, a story involving a bunch of these.]] |
| 236 | * PublicDomainSoundtrack: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2424 SCP-2424]], a ''VideoGame/MegaMan'' styled video game boss that somehow ended up in the real world, has his own chiptune theme music that plays whenever he becomes actively hostile, and it sounds appropriately awesome (scroll to the bottom of the page to hear it). The song itself is [[https://freemusicarchive.org/music/RoccoW RoccoW - "Break-A-Leg"]] from the free music archive. |
| 237 | * PumpkinPerson: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2331 SCP-2331 ("SCRAVECROW")]]. SCP-2331 is a scarecrow with a pumpkin head that has a fluorescent blue glow inside it. He creates raves and acts as a DJ at them. |
| 238 | * {{Pun}}: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2268 SCP-2268]] was written because of a typo. [[spoiler:Specifically, "load" became "loaf."]] |
| 239 | * PunBasedTitle - A few names assigned on the SCP lists: "The Pied Pipe", [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build-A-Bear_Workshop "Builder Bear"]], "Glory Hole" (a hole to another dimension)... |
| 240 | * PunnyName - The task forces are full of these - "Moloch 'n Load", "See No Evil", "Cater Duty", "The Suge Knights"... |
| 241 | * ThePurge: The first people the Foundation killed in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5000 SCP-5000]] were those of its own membership that had not been hit by whatever "cured" them. |
| 242 | * PurpleProse: |
| 243 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-696 SCP-696]]'s novel: |
| 244 | -->'''Excerpt''': As the blistered moon sank higher into the clouds, from behind the last faltering light ray espied a wrathful visage. [[CosmicHorror Shabathh Centhal'Pr]], a spineless cur twisted into humanoid form. Its pernicious iniquity of unthinkable gyrations splayed errant madness, yet through the shroud one could see its face was quite rectangular. |
| 245 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2591 SCP-2591]]'s way of speaking. His side of an interview tends to end with [redacted for brevity]. It turns out [[spoiler:he's from the world of an unfinished opera whose author quit after Music/GiuseppeVerdi said even he couldn't help his writing]]. |
| 246 | * PurposeDrivenImmortality: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3814 SCP-3814]] is an anomalous game of Tag that compels you to pass on the tag. It is even able to keep dying "It" people alive until they tag someone. |
| 247 | * PuttingTheBandBackTogether: The point of the Resurrection canon is to do this, turning MTF Omega-7 "Pandora's Box" into MTF Alpha-9 "Last Hope". |
| 248 | * PyrrhicVictory: The eventual termination of SCP-096, caused as a result of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/incident-096-1-a Incident 096-1-A]] |
| 249 | [[/folder]] |
| 250 | [[folder:R]] |
| 251 | * RageAgainstTheAuthor: In [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/sandrewswann-s-proposal S. Andrew Swann's SCP-001 proposal of SCP-001]]. The Foundation has a Containment Protocol ready to neutralize its own authors, although they don't plan to implement it. [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/cygnus Yet.]] |
| 252 | * RageAgainstTheHeavens: For the Global Occult Coalition, one of the Foundation's rival organizations: if God exists, then it's their job to ''kill it''. |
| 253 | * RainbowMotif: One of the entries in the [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/log-of-anomalous-items Log of Anomalous Items]]. All written text regarding a certain notebook will be one of six colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue or violet). |
| 254 | * RankInflation: The Foundation officially has six object classes to start: Safe (can be left mostly alone), Euclid (presents extra challenges to containment), Keter (active security threat), Thaumiel (can be used to contain other objects, but isn't always harmless), Apollyon (cannot be contained and is en route to end the world or upend the status quo within the next century), and Neutralized (no longer anomalous.) However, there's a lot of weird, specific scenarios that end up escaping that spectrum, requiring the addition of quite a few "esoteric classes" as patterns to their containment procedures become established. Notable ones include: |
| 255 | ** Tiamat: [[LetsGetDangerous Containing the object requires the Foundation to be less considerate about the Veil or security, taking a more proactive approach to directly engage it]]. |
| 256 | ** Enochian: An anomaly that is now a part of consensus reality but does not or cannot necessitate the [[LaserGuidedAmnesia Ennui Protocol]]. |
| 257 | ** Cernunnos: Containment is theoretically an option, but it's so costly so as to be out of reach for even the Foundation. Also has a GoodCounterpart in the form of Flor Galana, when the anomaly is of some use to the Foundation. |
| 258 | ** Hiemal: The anomalies present naturally contain each other, and direct Foundation intervention may make the problem worse. |
| 259 | ** Maksur: [[PiecesOfGod The anomaly is fragmented into other unique objects and entities under the Foundation's care]]. |
| 260 | ** Argus: [[AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent The Foundation is not the correct group required to contain the anomaly]]. |
| 261 | ** Eparch: The file does not describe something anomalous, but needs to be secured due to it being caught in something that ''is'' anomalous. |
| 262 | ** Radix/Yesod: The anomaly has been hired by the Foundation. |
| 263 | ** Ticonderoga: Not containing the anomaly outright is a viable option. |
| 264 | ** Memet: [[HoistByHisOwnPetard The anomaly defeats or contains itself without simply disappearing entirely]]. |
| 265 | * RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Dr. Clef killed a particularly obnoxious decommissioned SCP with explosive decompression after said SCP used it’s powers to rape the female researchers assigned to it. |
| 266 | * RasputinianDeath: Once the squad sent to seize [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-001-o5 the Factory]] found its mastermind, they hung him with his own entrails, cut him down, had him drawn and quartered, and then burned the remains - all while he continued to shout disturbing things. And yet the dead man was still found when the O5-1 needed help. |
| 267 | * RavensAndCrows: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2106 SCP-2106]] is a flock (or "unkindness") of ravens that can [[WormThatWalks become a woman named Jessica]]. |
| 268 | %%* RazorFloss: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-183 SCP-183]]. |
| 269 | * ReadingsAreOffTheScale: One item in the [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/log-of-anomalous-items log of anomalous items]] is a white plastic halo that shines and floats above anyone who hasn't committed any of the seven deadly sins, but glows red when put on anyone else's head. It melted itself down after being placed above Dr. ████ ██████'s head. |
| 270 | * RealEventFictionalCause: There are many of these, which usually double as [[HistoricalInJoke Historical In-Jokes]]: |
| 271 | ** The explosion of Mount St. Helens was caused by a [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-076 SCP-076]] containment breach. |
| 272 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-081 SCP-081]] caused all recorded instances of spontaneous human combustion. |
| 273 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-089 SCP-089]] has announced and prevented (or at least reduced the impact of) many disasters throughout history, such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_New_Orleans_Fire_(1788) the Great New Orleans Fire of 1788]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_Bhola_cyclone the 1970 Bhola cyclone]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion the Taiping Rebellion]]. However, it's [[AmbiguouslyEvil unclear]] if the SCP actually causes the disasters or merely offers an extreme means of stopping them (involving sacrificing a baby to it). |
| 274 | ** Both the image and the redacted clues show that [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-435 SCP-435]] was responsible for Castle Bravo, [[FantasticNuke the largest American nuclear detonation.]] |
| 275 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-453 SCP-453]] caused the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1857_Basilicata_earthquake Great Neapolitan Earthquake]]. |
| 276 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-687 SCP-687]] apparently caused the Cleveland Torso Murders. |
| 277 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1120 SCP-1120]]: It's revealed that the eruption of Vesuvius was caused by a man who was trying to bury the numerous instances of SCP-1120 in the ashes before they overran any more towns. |
| 278 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1427 SCP-1427]] is apparently why the despotic Democratic People's Republic of Korea still governs [[UsefulNotes/NorthKorea Korea above the 38th parallel]]; it attempts to fry the brains of the nearest ~20,000 humans who aren't already under its effects, but humans who are authoritarian-submissive, like millions of North Koreans are, are immune to it, so the Foundation attempts to keep the entire country's population subservient and prevent any attempts at its democratization or destabilization. |
| 279 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1529 SCP-1529]] is apparently responsible for killing the first man to ever climb Mt. Everest and about half of all the people who've died climbing it since. |
| 280 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1574 SCP-1574]] is implied to have some connection to the Boxing Day Tsunami, despite being on the other side of the world. It may or may not have been caused by aliens from its home planet who had come looking for it. The Boxing Day Tsunami itself has been caused by no less than three different [=SCPs=], including an [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/dr-clef-s-proposal 001 Proposal]], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-090 SCP-090]], SCP-1574, and even [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/in-the-big-league an asteroid brought down by the Foundation]]. It got to the point that [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-big-list-of-overdone-scp-cliches "things what caused teh INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI]] is specifically listed as an overdone cliche. |
| 281 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2090 SCP-2090]]'s containment involved the creation of [[spoiler:Hurricane Hugo, an actual hurricane]]. Oh, and a bizarre ritual called [[spoiler:''basketball'']]. |
| 282 | ** The "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop Big Bloop]]", a RealLife extremely loud underwater sound, was caused by [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-169 SCP-169]], an [[KrakenAndLeviathan enormous undersea creature]] which is at ''least'' 1,000 km in length. The Foundation had a spy in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration who tried to prevent the public from learning of the Bloop, but failed. |
| 283 | ** The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire underground fires in Centralia, Pennsylvania]] are actually the Norse fire giant Surtr ([[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1179 SCP-1179]]) waking up. |
| 284 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-966 SCP-966]] is implied to be the cause of sleep paralysis. |
| 285 | ** According to [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/code-name-the-truth CODE NAME: The Truth]], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-184 SCP-184]] is responsible for [[spoiler:the ''expansion of the universe.'' Beyond GN-Z11, there's nothing but defective copies of the Milky Way being repeated over and over.]] |
| 286 | * RealityWarper: They are called "Type Greens". They are treated extremely seriously by both the Foundation and the GOC, because RealityWarpingIsNotAToy. |
| 287 | * RealityWritingBook: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-140 SCP-140]] is a very specific version; the book writes itself and alters reality as a consequence, given a suitable form of ink or ink substitute. [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-687 SCP-687]] is a text adventure video game with broader abilities. |
| 288 | * {{Reconstruction}}: The "Resurrection" Canon hub is a major attempt at reconstructing the so-called "lolfoundation" ethos that fell out of favour several years previously. |
| 289 | * RedHerring: InUniverse, the Foundation sets up multiple ([[MindScrew or none]]) fake [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-001 SCP-001]] proposals to misdirect intruders as to the true nature of SCP-001. [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-o5-orientation The O5 Orientation]] and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/code-name-the-truth The Truth]] even imply that there is no true SCP-001 amongst the files. |
| 290 | * RedShirt: The Class D's, of course. Lampshaded: Dr. Bright cannot change the standard issue D-Class uniform to black pants with a red polo shirt. |
| 291 | --> "84.1. I see your reasoning, but we just don't want to be associated with Franchise/StarTrek." |
| 292 | ** Parodied in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2063 SCP-2063]]. |
| 293 | * RedStringOfFate: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2203 SCP-2203]], a carnival "love machine" that can make perfect matches (it can even account for the subject being aromantic and asexual and match them up with perfect friends). As long as you follow its hints on how to get close to your match and don't, for example, get matched with someone who's already happy with their partner or [[spoiler:attack your match's current partner and get demoted to D-class]] everything will be just fine. |
| 294 | * RefugeeFromTVLand: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2424 SCP-2424]] is a video game boss transported to the real world (given it's a Cyborg [[WilyWalrus Walrus]], probably a [[Videogame/MegaManX Maverick]]?). And apparently the protagonist appeared too, bearing a [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/blast-processing rather revealing document in his possession]]. |
| 295 | * RegionalRedecoration: Has happened on more than a few occasions, but they've all been covered up as just being part of Earth's natural geography. For example, the Marianas Trench wasn't around before a massive containment breach. It also wasn't initially underwater. |
| 296 | * ReleasedToElsewhere: D-Class personnel are assured that they'll be freed at the end of the month if they cooperate ("released like homicidal bunny rabbits into the wild," as said in the D-Class Orientation). Even if they manage to survive the various monsters, artifacts, and testing procedures, they are still executed at the end of the month anyway.[[note]]Of course, SCP canon being what it is, there are interpretations they're forcibly kept as D-Class until they finally get murdered by a SCP.[[/note]] |
| 297 | ** As the site has developed the idea that D-class personel are terminated monthly has [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness fallen out of favor]] with the writers due to being [[StupidEvil stupid enough to break suspension of disbelief]] so the idea isn't very commonly used anymore. |
| 298 | * ReplacementGoldfish: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1976 SCP-1976]] was made by a man to be this for his family after he died of a brain tumor. He thought its powers would make his family see it as their husband and father, instead it [[spoiler:caused his wife to think it was ''her'' father while his children weren't old enough for its powers to work]]. It currently causes anyone within its activation criteria who looks at it to think its their father while their real father becomes a stranger. |
| 299 | * ResearchInc: The Foundation benefits commercially from their research. |
| 300 | * ResetButton: |
| 301 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2000 SCP-2000]] is a facility built by the Foundation that contains backups of human culture and genetic material, which can be used to restart humanity in the event of catastrophe via cloning, education and eventual [[LaserTargetedAmnesia amnesticising]] of a planetary civilization's worth of humans. It's been used at least twice, possibly more. |
| 302 | ** Two of the most mysterious [=SCPs=], [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-055 055]] (which erases any information about itself from people's minds) and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-579 579]] (a very powerful infohazard whose file is almost entirely redactions), when put into contact with each other, will somehow turn back time and undo a catastrophe. This happens in the stories for both [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2998/ SCP-2998]] and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5000 SCP-5000]]. The only clue to what's actually happening is in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/keter-duty Keter Duty]], a 001 proposal detailing how certain [=SCPs=] can be used to contain each other; 055 and 579 have an entry on that list, which simply says "[[MindScrew can't fit round pegs in square holes]]". |
| 303 | * {{Retcon}}: |
| 304 | ** The Mass Edit, which was basically the wiki admins purging some of the more dubious entries and retconning out some of the more ludicrous (and humorous) aspects of the {{backstory}}. (See below.) |
| 305 | ** Object Classes originally referred roughly to the object's danger level, though it was noted that "Safe" didn't necessarily mean "completely incapable of causing harm", just that it was understood enough that its hazardous effects couldn't be triggered without deliberation. Object Class was revised in 2014 to refer to how difficult it is to contain an object, regardless of its actual danger levels ("For example, a button that can destroy the entire universe when it's pressed would be safe, whereas a cat who randomly switches places with another cat anywhere on earth would be considered Keter."). |
| 306 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-040 SCP-040]]: |
| 307 | *** An older version of her used to have {{telepathy}} which she [[PowerIncontinence couldn't fully control]], but it was removed for [[ComboPlatterPowers obvious reasons]]. |
| 308 | *** She was also implied to have a [[PrecociousCrush crush]] on [[https://scpclassic.wikidot.com/scp-182 an older version of SCP-182]], who was a benevolent teenaged telepath, and spoke to him via each other's respective telepathy. While that might've seemed cute at the time, it would be quite [[{{Squick}} squicky]] now considering SCP-182 is now a middle-aged deaf and mute man who can transfer his consciousness to other people and effectively "ride" them. |
| 309 | *** SCP-040-1j used to be a chair with a mouth, now it's a blue and pink furred quadruped with no eyes or ears that 040 likes to use as a steed. |
| 310 | ** The main [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-076 SCP-076 article]] was rewritten to remove the Mobile Task Force Omega-7 stuff, and make Able less [[BuffySpeak "lolawesome"]]. He's less of a ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'s expy now and more of a humanoid bundle of murder. He is also now completely hostile towards the Foundation; no longer is he working for any side. The Mobile Task Force Omega-7 stuff was later worked back in with key changes. The "official SCP-076 file" makes it '''very''' clear that he's InUniverse ChaoticNeutral ''at best'', while [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-076-2 the records of his time in Mobile Task Force Omega-7]] state that the instant Able got bored again, he reverted back to slaughtering SCP personnel starting with Omega-7. |
| 311 | ** One part of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-105 Iris]]' containment backstory had her temporarily escape SCP custody after a sympathetic researcher told her that if her power conveniently disappeared, the facility would have no choice but to release her. She is recaptured when the higher ups get wind of this and — realizing that her excuse was [[BlatantLies obviously untrue]] — force her to use her powers in front of them, take her back into custody, and fire the researcher who helped her. This got retconned twice: first, by having [[TheManBehindTheMan the Ethics Committee]] see through their trick and never release her, then by erasing the whole thing when the interview between Iris and the researcher was removed. At present, the incident is still referenced as per the Ethics Committee catching it, but the interview is still deleted. |
| 312 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-166 SCP-166]] was formerly known as the Teenage '''Succubus'''. The article was heavily rewritten in 2020 to tone down the skeevy factor of such a thing, and she is now "Just a Teenage Gaea". |
| 313 | ** An older version of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-182 SCP-182]] as a benevolent telepathic teenager who [[OlderThanTheyLook didn't age]] known as "Saint", but he was changed for a [[GaryStu pretty obvious reason]]. He also had an "[[HoYay infatuation]]" with Able. |
| 314 | * RetGone: |
| 315 | ** When Fishmonger (the writer) was banned, he demanded to have all of his characters and stories to be removed from the SCP Wiki. Some of his more famous characters were referenced in many articles. This left many gaps. |
| 316 | ** And before that, all of the [=SCPs=] deleted during the Mass Edit. |
| 317 | ** To make things even more confusing, since the numbers for RetGone [=SCPs=] were freed up, the wiki wound up with new [=SCPs=] under old numbers. The weirdest case being SCP-098, which is mentioned in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/dr-clef-s-proposal Dr Clef's SCP-001 proposal]] because it [[https://scpclassic.wikidot.com/scp-098 was]] a HellGate, but now the number is used for [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-098 crabs]]. ("[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scpfmmdbc-hub Truly these are the crabs]] that [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-gate-opens bring about the apocalypse.]]") |
| 318 | * {{Retraux}}: The [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/theme:y2k Y2K theme]] is made to resemble the SCP Foundation site as if it had existed around the TurnOfTheMillennium. This includes a different and more limited color palette of greys and blues, usage of Microsoft Sans Serif, and a period-appropriate slogan ("A New Millennium in Security"). It has been used for anomalies that existed primarily around this same time period, such as [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5312 SCP-5312]] and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5470 SCP-5470]]. |
| 319 | * RevengeBeforeReason: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1322 SCP-1322]] is a hole to an alternate dimension, that after being accidentally hit with a SterilityPlague due to the Foundation, starts using said hole to send deadly weapons to our reality. Years after cutting contact, they still send it, often with the weaponry showing progress! Many the comments ask "why are they using their science for revenge instead of fixing the sterility"? |
| 320 | * RiddleForTheAges: All over the place, but especially in Series 1. |
| 321 | ** What is [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-055 SCP-055]]? In a similar vein, what is [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-579 SCP-579]]? |
| 322 | ** What does [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-447 SCP-447]] do when it comes into contact with a dead body? |
| 323 | ** What is [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-231 Procedure 110-Montauk]]? |
| 324 | ** Which instance of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3477 SCP-3477]] is the real Harold Holt? Are any of them the real Harold Holt? |
| 325 | * RippleEffectProofMemory: A variation; the Foundation has access to technology called "Deepwell Storage", which allows digital data stored on a server in a Deepwell to resist changes to the timeline. |
| 326 | * RockOfLimitlessWater: |
| 327 | ** Inverted with SCP-402, which absorbs limitless water. |
| 328 | ** SCP-045 producing water when exposed to nitrogen in an environment with less than 380 atmospheres of pressure. |
| 329 | * RoswellThatEndsWell: It wasn't a spaceship; it was [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1051 SCP-1051]] prior to hatching, as well as a ruse to draw in victims. |
| 330 | * Room101: The [[[[https://scpclassic.wikidot.com/scp-100 old SCP-100 entry]] was a porta-john that performs MindRape on anyone inside as soon as the door shuts. All the researchers could get from D-Class victims was that it grows enormous when the door is closed. |
| 331 | * RuleOfSeven: SCP-231-7, the last survivor of seven girls rescued from a ReligionOfEvil, and the seven chains that hold SCP-2317 (six are broken). Given both involve TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt if broken, they're invoking the Seven Seals in the Literature/BookOfRevelation. |
| 332 | ** King Dyrmud of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6078 Hy-Brasil]] is described as having had seven wives over the course of his lifetime, all of whom met unfortunate ends due to a witch's curse. |
| 333 | * RuleThirtyFour: SCP-914 has frequently made this of an anthropomorphic female version of itself called Clockwork-Chan, at one point even rewriting its own file into what is basically a hentai fanfic. |
| 334 | %%** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1004 SCP-1004]] is this in its purest form. |
| 335 | * RunningGag: |
| 336 | ** Dr. King and apple seeds. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Any time he works with an object that alters or produces something, it always somehow ends up as apple seeds. For example, in the [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/experiment-log-261-ad-de experiment logs]] for [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/SCP-261 SCP-261]], all Dr. King can get out of it is apple seeds. In the experiment logs for [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/SCP-294 SCP-294]], Dr. King requests "a cup of room-temperature superconductor"... and gets a cup of apple juice with seeds floating in it. And again in the experiment logs for [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-978 SCP-978]], Dr King's photo develops as... a closeup of an apple seed.[[/labelnote]] |
| 337 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-447 SCP-447]] must '''''NEVER''''' come into contact with a dead body. It also turns everything green with a minty smell/taste. |
| 338 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-055 SCP-055]] is... Wait, what were we talking about? |
| 339 | ** All Foundation personnel are reminded that the [=SCPs=] are to be treated as powerful and dangerous artifacts at all times. They are not for use in pranks, party games, or to help with your hangover. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Older and sillier articles often have either addenda or notes warning personnel to stop using them for pranks, party games, or as quick hangover remedies. This is being phased out and frowned upon, as a majority of the senior members now find it unfunny, trite, and unprofessional.[[/labelnote]] |
| 340 | ** "Demoted to Keter Duty/D-Class" [[labelnote:Explanation]]The practice of people [[TooDumbToLive committing exceptionally stupid acts]] being demoted to Keter Duty or D-Class. Nowadays, the former is considered unprofessional; would ''you'' want people who broke rules or screwed up a lot being assigned to the most dangerous items? While the latter is just considered plainly stupid and unnecessarily cruel. Unlike funny addenda, this gag serves the purpose of indicating how '''serious''' a NoodleIncident can be (like [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-447 447]] coming into contact with dead bodies), rather than the results of personnel being silly. As such, the practice remains in old [=SCPs=], and is acceptable to use when making references to those old articles.[[/labelnote]] |
| 341 | ** SCP Insert Number Here was used against SCP-682. Attempt failed. |
| 342 | ** Researcher Darby always ends up causing some form of chaos when he experiments with SCP-914, specifically whenever he uses the Very Fine setting. |
| 343 | * RussianReversal: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-956 SCP-956]] is a piñata that comes to life and smashes ''kids'' apart, causing candy to spill out. |
| 344 | [[/folder]] |
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