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SCP-3001 - Red Reality

SCP-3001 is an endless black void with a very low Hume level. It was accidentally discovered by Dr. Robert Scranton, the developer of the Lang-Scranton Stabilizer (LSS) Reality Anchors. He had been testing these devices when an earthquake struck, damaging some of the prototype devices and sending him and a single LSS into 3001.
  • And I Must Scream: Poor Dr. Scranton wound up trapped here with only a red light on an LSS for company.
  • Body Horror: When the LSS rematerialized six years after Scranton's disappearance, his wife Anna Lang is heartbroken to see nothing left but a few horribly disfigured parts of what was once Scranton, including a massive pool of blood and vomit.
  • Companion Cube: After a while. Scranton began believing the LSS's red light to be sentient.
  • Go Mad from the Isolation: Being trapped in 3001 led to this for Scranton.
  • I'm Melting!: The void's low Hume levels causes Scranton's body to slowly break down due to the void leeching away his Hume levels. Said in layman's terms, the "leeching of Hume levels" means his very existence is becoming a less and less "stable" thing, and he's slowly fading away entirely.
  • Uncertain Doom: According to the article's author, not all of Scranton made it back; part of his head and torso are still in the void. And he may or may not still be alive.

SCP-3002 - Attempts to Assassinate Thought

SCP-3002 is a highly hostile memetic entity that seeks to eliminate human consciousness. It also happens to have once been a young woman named Lily Veselka, who was used as a test subject of Project LETHE. It is also theorized that Lily may have once been an alternate version of SCP-105: Iris Thompson.
  • Back from the Dead: In the revised Keter Duty SCP-001 proposal, the Foundation locates Iris's book within SCP-4001/Alexandria Eternal at the behest of one of the facilities and alters it to remove the events that created SCP-3002 from history. Consequently, Lily Veselka reverts to a powerless Iris Thompson, but is reborn as the 15th watcher of Alexandria Eternal in an act of forgiveness for SCP-3002 (and condemnation for the Foundation over LETHE) that also placates her in a way the Foundation never could.
  • Break the Cutie: Being used as a test subject for Project LETHE caused severe physical and mental decline in the girl who would eventually become Lily Veselka, heavily implied to be Iris Thompson. The Foundation tries to fix this by letting her partake in her favorite activities, like reading and photography, but it’s far too late.
  • Death-Activated Superpower: While initially under control of the Foundation, the originating SCP may have subverted orders to spread wildly, or lost control due to the implied regular brain surgeries she underwent. Killing her only made the entire situation worse, and made SCP-3002 try to actively eradicate the Foundation.
  • Mind Manipulation: SCP-3002-1 controls the infected this way, by twisting their memories into provoking behavior that benefit her immediate goals.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: SCP-3002 was created by the Foundation itself as part of a larger effort to control people, and again, it turns out they had a very good reason. Project LETHE, borne out of the experiments that created SCP-3002, was used later on to control the outbreak of SCP-1425 - the Star Signals book. It's mentioned that the Director in charge of stopping 1425 is well aware using LETHE was going to have horrible consequences, but felt any other scenario was worth it rather than allow the book's propagation to continue.
  • Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Is under the control of the memetic ghost of a girl named Lily Veselka, who was turned into a test subject for Project LETHE, one of the first major antimemetics projects, who was subject to repeated and invasive tests and brain surgeries, causing her to become resentful and vicious. Upon having her refuge discovered by the Foundation, she promptly decides to infect the entire world to destroy it and all trace of LETHE.

SCP-3003 - The End of History

SCP-3003 is a planet inhabited by 30 billion humans whose minds have been overtaken by parasitic beetles. These beetles have forced their hosts to make every single aspect of their lives and their society centered around beetles.
  • Aliens Speaking English: Zigzagged in the sense they don't speak English, but SCP-3003-3's language is nearly identical to Dutch.
  • Blue-and-Orange Morality: SCP-3003-3 is extremely utilitarian and heavily prioritizes the welfare of SCP-3003-1. They see nothing wrong with harvesting old, deviant or ill individuals for organs or with conquering Earth to spread SCP-3003-1.
  • Body Horror: SCP-3003-3 society implants SCP-3003-1 instances ("Marce") into their body when they grow up, causing growths of parasitic lumps in their body. It wouldn't've been so bad except they "host roughly one instance per three kilograms of body weight", meaning that an adult would have around 20 of these marce parasite lumps on their body.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: The inevitable fate of all SCP-3003-3 instances, who will be harvested for organs while alive and conscious as soon as they are no longer of use. They all know this, and don't care one bit.
  • The Dog Was the Mastermind: The true cause of why the planet's society is the way it is, is revealed in the Addendum to be 3003-2 itself, which up until the Addendum was described as a single-celled organism that just modified behavior with no indication it had intelligence of its own. When it reveals itself it even asks if the Foundation researcher ever wondered that a microbe that can create neural networks would be capable of thought.
  • Faux Affably Evil: When 3003-2 directly talks to the researcher it acts polite and its advice for the Foundation to give up is spoken more as a suggestion, and even states it is willing to phase out the more unsavory elements of its society. The researcher is quick to call 3003-2 out on that it has no reason to make such accommodations, to which 3003-2 threatens that the Foundation has only 30 years until its society invades Earth by force.
  • Hive Mind: 3003-2 exists in millions of humans and billions of marce beetles, as trillions or even quadrillions of microbes, yet notably seems to be a singular entity in conscious control, rather than a godlike figure above human understanding or a Mind Hive of different personalities.
  • Invincible Villain: According to the Foundation, SCP-3003's society is so technologically advanced that any attempt to resist its incursion is completely hopeless and the most they can do is try and convince them that Earth is inhospitable to the marce. Unfortunately it knows they're lying.
  • Motive Rant: What the final addendum becomes over the course of the conversation. The SCP-3003-3 instance declares that its goal is to ensure nothing comes after it, thereby making it the "end of history."
  • No Biochemical Barriers: The Foundation is trying to keep this knowledge away from SCP-3003, making it believe that Earth is inhospitable to SCP-3003-3, despite the similarities between SCP-3003-3 and humans. SCP-3003-2 calls out a researcher on this. Stating it already knows that the Earth is perfectly hospitable to SCP-3003.
  • Planet of Hats: SCP-3003 is a thoroughly justified and deconstructed version of this; the entire planet's society revolves around taking care of marce beetles, with all the drastic effects on psychology and society that entails, and they're only that way in the first place because SCP-3003-2 has basically brainwashed everyone into being that way.
  • Puppeteer Parasite: SCP-3003-2. Unique example since SCP-3003-2 is in fact a parasite that affects two separate species. Its original host is 3003-1, a type of beetle, but when said beetle is implanted into a human (with all the Body Horror that entails) it makes the jump to them, modifying their behavior so that the survival of 3003-1 is the only thing they care about, thus ensuring that 3003-2 will always have hosts. 3003-2 is also sapient.
  • Sense Freak: To a limited extent, instances of SCP-3003-3. Primarily, they enjoy brushing the lumps produced by infestation with SCP-3003-1 with each other. Scientists wearing prosthetic versions of these describe this feeling to them as being very uncomfortable.
  • Technologically Advanced Foe: SCP-3003-3 has extremely advanced technology, including SCP-3003-4 which produced the wormhole that led to contact with Earth. The Foundation has 30 years until SCP-3003-3 will be capable of near-instant travel to other planets and it is already believed any military confrontation with SCP-3003-3 would lead to SCP-3003-3's triumph.
  • Totalitarian Utilitarian/World of Silence: The marce parasites turned the entire SCP-3003 planet into a singular totalitarian state devoid of personal freedom due to everyone valuing the goodness of the state over themselves (a result of gaining hyper-rational behavior through the parasites). However, the result is so extremely effective the race is more advanced than whatever humanity can even hope to achieve on Earth, its members kept perpetually happy due to marce stimuli, and internal dissent is completely non-existent. As SCP-3003-2 states, this totalitarian efficiency it created is "The End of History", because no other forms of society could come after it.
  • Transplanted Humans: SCP-3003-3 are fully identical to humans in biology, despite being lightyears away from earth. The author deliberately leaves out all explanations for the reader to guess.
  • Villain Override: Seemingly what happens during the final addendum. The entity speaking with Dr. Shah indicates that it is 3003-2 speaking through an 3003-3 instance.

SCP-3004 - Imago

SCP-3004 is an extradimensional cicada-like creature that seeks to take over our dimension. It is capable of feeding on information itself, but its food of choice is actually faith itself. It influences the minds of devout Christians to perform brutal rituals for the purpose of harvesting faith for it to feed on, since Christianity is the closest existing religion to the creature's original followers.
  • Abstract Eater: SCP-3004 primarily feeds on of faith, but it can also feed on any kind of information. Agent Lutterman describes feeling its teeth and feelers gnawing at his very memories. In the Protocol page, Child of God member Bridget Callaghan speculates that SCP-3004 may have killed and eaten the original Jehovah.
  • Animal Motif: Cicadas. Its form resembles a cicada, its "messengers" are modelled after an extinct species of cicada, and the rituals it draws power from revolve around death and rebirth that cicadas are seen as symbolic of.
  • Blue-and-Orange Morality: Agent Lutterman comes away with the impression that rather than being malevolent, 3004-1 simply doesn't understand the ramifications of its actions. It doesn't even know that people don't come back to life.
  • Body Horror: Most of the SCP-3004 rituals qualify, as they produce instances of SCP-3004-2 (a type of cicada) from the body.
  • Call-Back: It is heavily implied to be the entity that was also behind SCP-2852.
  • Eldritch Abomination: It is an extradimensional entity incapable of entering our reality. It can be perceived, though, and it hurts to look at and listen to.
  • Entertainingly Wrong: A fairly tragic case of it: 3004-1 is genuinely convinced that what it's been doing is helping humanity. This is because so many of its experiences with human faith and joy involve Jesus, who is most famous for slowly bleeding to death on a cross, along with the veneration of death and rebirth in general through its old cult. It's become convinced that humans as a species just love torture and suffering, and considering its mindset, it's hard to blame it.
  • Fantastic Religious Weirdness: SCP-3004 rituals are VERY strange.
  • Fictional Colour: A Foundation Agent uses astral perception to see SCP-3004-1's true form. When SCP-3004-1 opens its mouth, the Agent can see colors he had never seen before inside of it.
  • A God Am I: SCP-3004-1 believes itself to be the Christian God. And according to Agent Luttermann, it likely is a god or something close to it, but not Him.
  • Godzilla Threshold: If it gets too out of hand, the Foundation's plans, Protocol Damnatio ad Bestias, is to essentially delete Christianity itself from history to starve it to death.
  • Hijacked by Jesus: Inverted, SCP-3004-1 is a Druidic deity hijacking Christianity for its own ends.
  • History Repeats: It's noted that the thing which made 3004 so dangerous was the attempt to stomp out its cult, erasing all memory that it ever existed and going so far as to render an entire animal species extinct in the wild. The article ends with an explanation of a Foundation plan to wipe out all memory of Christianity if 3004-1 gets out fully.
  • Insane Troll Logic: It thinks that since cicadas, its sacred animals, are constantly reborn, and Christianity is focused on rebirth, it must be Jehovah Himself.
  • Interfaith Smoothie: SCP-3004 details what happens when a god attempts to initiate syncretism itself. Very little of it is good.
  • Mind Rape: Agent Lutterman undergoes this at SCP-3004-1's hands, describing its teeth and feelers digging through his memories and feeding off them.
  • Obliviously Evil: SCP-3004-1 believes that it's giving humanity what they want by brainwashing them to commit acts of mutilation and cannibalism, because its horrific misunderstanding of Christian belief makes it think that humanity as a whole love suffering and can come back to life when they die.
  • Physical God: While not the Christian God it thinks it is, it is legitimately a deity.
  • Your Mind Makes It Real: If SCP-3004-1 (which thinks it is the Christian God) shows signs of being about to enter reality, the Foundation is willing to eliminate Christianity from the historical record to neutralize it, indicating this is in effect.

SCP-3007 - World of Two Artists

SCP-3007 is a hallucination that causes people to be astrally projected to another world that has since been destroyed. In the center of this world is a black pillar covered in paintings that display a red essence destroying the planet... and heading towards Earth.
  • Astral Projection: SCP-3007 is a rare occurrence that causes people to be projected to another, dead world.
  • Body Horror: The corpses on the ruined world are all painfully mutilated. That doesn't even cover the stench of the dead.
  • Eldritch Abomination: Whatever....that thing is that started to posses the Children, is more accurate to call a sentient infohazard then anything else. And it's coming to Earth.
  • God Is Good: At least the one who created the Children. They made them to help with the loneliness and if anything is more like an artist.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: The Deity held off the evil god while letting the remaining children escape, and used the last of its powers to create a black column with paintings to warn their descendants that it's coming.
  • Precursors: The Children of the Deity eventually escaped from the world to escape the Eldritch Abomination. They escaped to Earth and eventually became humanity's ancestors.

SCP-3008 - A Perfectly Normal, Regular Old IKEA

SCP-3008 is an IKEA store that goes on forever and is borderline impossible to escape from. It is inhabited by large, faceless, humanoid creatures wearing IKEA uniforms that are known to seek out and murder anyone caught in the store after closing time. Besides these humanoids, the IKEA also holds many normal people from differing realities, who have banded together to instigate functioning societies all throughout the store.
  • Alien Geometries: Getting into the IKEA is easy. Getting out is almost impossible. It also connects different realities.
  • Alternate Universe: The people trapped in the IKEA appear to be from different realities. The journal-writer muses that this is probably why nobody is trying to rescue them. Word of God is that this is the reason why he was killed by the Staff: he was about to escape into the wrong universe.
  • The Apocalypse Brings Out the Best in People: The mini-civilizations within the impossibly huge IKEA are cordial and helpful to one another, probably because they're united against the Staff, but also probably because of basic human decency. From the discussion: It also helps that any troublemakers can be kicked out and will probably encounter the Staff before they can find another "town".
  • Apocalyptic Log: Most of what the Foundation knows about the interior of the store comes from a journal carried by a man who spent several months inside before managing to escape, only to get killed by one of the staff shortly after.
  • Bigger on the Inside: From the outside SCP-3008 appears to be a standard IKEA store. On the inside it has an area of at least 10 square kilometers and may be infinite in size.
    • Though the mechanism that caused this means it could count as a zigzagged example. The potentially infinite space is actually an alternate dimension that the building's main entrance leads to; anyone attempting to enter the building via any other means will instead enter its actual interior, which is completely ordinary and no larger than the building's size suggests.
  • The Blank: The Staff have no facial features.
  • Body Horror: The Staff are "stretched" or "squashed" to extremes and appear to be made completely out of skin.
  • Darkness Equals Death: When the lights are on, the Staff just wander about while letting the humans do their thing, but when they're off, they attempt to kill anything that isn't them.
  • Despair Event Horizon: There're hundreds, maybe thousands of people trapped in it, some for years, and nobody really looks for the exits anymore. The journal writer even makes several observations that he doesn't discuss with the others in his settlement to avoid removing any last hope of rescue.
  • Dissonant Serenity: The Staff are happy to calmly inform humans that the store is now closed...while mauling them senseless.
  • Faux Affably Evil: The Staff are always polite and helpful in their speech, but their attempts at murder most certainly aren't.
  • Humanoid Abomination: The staff appear to be tall humanoids with short legs, long arms, no faces, and are made of skin. They're also aggressive to anything that isn't other staff during the night.
  • Line-of-Sight Name: There are like 20 or more human settlements in the IKEA store. Most of them take their names of whatever they sit right next to. The one we focus on in the journal is called Exchange (from Exchange and Returns), and we also learn about towns like Trolleys, Checkouts, and Aisle 630.
  • Made of Bologna: The Staff members inside SCP-3008 are seven feet tall, with short legs, long arms and no faces. When they're cut up they appear to be entirely made of skin, with no bones, organs or muscles.
  • Points of Light Setting: The isolated settlements within the store formed by lost people. Sometimes they get overrun by Staff, only for the survivors to found new settlements elsewhere.
  • Scavenger World: The world inside IKEA is a huge place with its own landmarks, all rigged from Swedish furniture and whatever they find along the way. The Staff resupplies restaurants and shops with food at night, so there's always just enough to sustain people, and people carved out their own towns between the shelves by building from whatever they have.
  • Sudden Lack of Signal: As to be expected, there is no cell phone signal inside SCP-3008. In addition, the landline phones within SCP-3008 itself don't function properly, as the receiver only seems capable of emulating a human voice saying a constant stream of random words.

SCP-3009 - Hi, I'm Your Snappelganger!

Two instances of a girl named Stacy Lee: One trapped inside of her own Snapchat account and another claiming the former is an impersonator. Who is the real Stacy Lee?
  • Body Snatcher: Discussed. The first time they interact with each other, 3009 accuses 3009-C of being this while the latter thinks the former is an impersonator.
  • Brain Uploading: Assuming 3009's testimonies are true, this is their current (unwilling) state; somehow ending up inside of their own Snapchat account thanks to an "impersonator" pretending to be them.
  • Conveniently Unverifiable Cover Story: In a literal sense. The main reason why discerning which 3009 instance is the true Stacy Lee is harder than it looks. The Foundation can only take biological samples from 3009-C (the humanoid), whereas 3009 is trapped inside of her own account and has no samples to provide. The two Stacies are more-or-less the same person but without the ability to analyze both of them, the entire investigation is a dud.
  • Embarrassing Browser History: In "Grin And Bear It," 3009 convinces Researcher Kim that she can expose his mother to his online history containing a raunchy story. He ends up dropping his phone into the enclosure as the anxiety of that ensues, allowing 3009 to interact with Maya the Bear. Turns out that was just a handy fib - 3009 can't access his browser at all.
  • Friendly Enemy: During their interaction, 3009 and 3009-C start off hostile to each other only to mellow out and actually start bonding over Kim-Jong Un's hair and a Korean drama. 3009 even manages to get 3009-C images of Maya the Bear to cheer her up!
  • Good Versus Good: Both instances of Stacy Lee see the other as an impersonator and seek to clear their names. After a rocky start, it becomes clear that neither Stacy means any real harm and each starts viewing the other as a Friendly Enemy; 3009 feeling bad for how their first meeting went and C putting her double on a pedestal.
  • Identity Breakdown: In the form of an SCP. 3009 and 3009-1 both tell the story of Stacy Lee, a girl who's either been uploaded into her own Snapchat account by an impostor or is being impersonated by said account. The Foundation's experiments point toward 3009 being closer to the genuine article and the interaction between the two Stacies doesn't help - 3009 posits that 3009-C may just have Fake Memories. While the two part on amicable terms, C's journal reveals that's she's unhealthily taking the sentiment to heart; becoming depressed as the gravity of what's happening dawns on her.
  • It's All About Me: Like a lot of teens, 3009 is constantly seeking validation. This is what sets her apart from 3009-C, who indulges less in this and has a slightly-more-cynical worldview. This contributes to C's identity-crisis and sends her into a depressive spiral.
  • Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The article keeps the true nature of how 3009 ended up in her phone a mystery. It's an anomaly by the definition of the Foundation for sure, but whether one Stacy trapped the other in the phone to impersonate her or if this was all wacky coincidence is Left Hanging.
  • Pet the Dog: The story "Grin And Bear It" is a story about Researcher Kim taking 3009 to Wilson's Wildlife Solutions per a "morale-boosting" program after 3009-C's mental lapsing. The reason 3009 was so insistent on going to a zoo was because one of her most treasured memories was of visiting a zoo and seeing a bear exhibit there. She felt bad for her "body double" and thought the trip would cheer her up; learning too late that 3009-C wasn't allowed to come with. With a bit of trickery, she manages to get face-time with Maya the Bear, who does a small dance on-camera in the hopes C will see it later.
  • Safety in Indifference: In "Grin And Bear It," Researcher Kim thinks this is the best course of action in dealing with 3009; maintaining cold logic in the face of teenage unpredictability. This causes him to be more blunt than intended during textual exchanges with her. In his words, he "used a sledgehammer when he needed a scalpel." However, instead of dampening her morale, this lets 3009 open up to Kim about her sympathy for "her body double."

SCP-3010 - Casual-Absent Paranoia

SCP-3011 - Loose Lips Skink Ships

SCP-3011 is a population of blue-tongued skinks that are capable of speech. Each individual lizard is known to have a differing personality. They will also replicate when exposed to prohibited material.
  • Civilized Animal: SCP-3011 instances are blue-tongued skinks that are capable of cooperation and division of labor when in groups.
  • Clone Degeneration: Instances produced from each existing instance's detached tail may exhibit severe deformities or be stillborn, and those that survive have minor changes in body pattern or tongue color.
  • Talking Animal: They can talk.

SCP-3015 - A Story Concerning Self-Doubt, Slight Disillusionment, and Frustration, As Told By the Lucky Member of a Group Whose Relatable Works Are Loved Internationally

See Characters.SCP Foundation Misters.

SCP-3017 - Person of Interest

One of the most tragic anomalies the Foundation has categorized, SCP-3017 was a normal man named Frasier Melbrook. Frasier was known to generate a cognitohazard that made anyone around him think that he was a vicious criminal that needed to be locked up, and the Foundation to conclude that he might have collaborated with various groups of interest. Overwhelmed by the despair of his ability caused him, and the deaths of his family in a house fire, Frasier tragically took his life by jumping off a bridge.
  • Born Unlucky: What else is there to say about a man who's power is having anyone that looks at him think that he's a criminal.
  • Face of a Thug: Just want a normal life, but the majority of people will conclude he's a criminal when looking at him. An analysis of his face after his death reveals he possesses several facial features that are characteristics of criminals.
  • Hate Plague: The person causes almost everyone who looks at him to think he's a criminal. The Foundation is caught in the effect.
  • Inspector Javert: his anomalous properties will cause almost anyone who spends any extended amount of time with him (about a 1-5% chance per minute) to become one of these to him, causing them to believe, uncompromisingly, that he is a criminal with an uncanny ability to escape custody and whom needs to be locked up. Only an extremely small minority of people (notably Frasier's family and acquaintances, along with several Foundation personnel) are immune to the effects, and thus are aware of Frasier's innocence, but this only causes those affected by 3017 to believe that they are in cahoots. Insofar as specific people, Dr. Paris Kiran takes this role within the SCP page, being the primary researcher who mercilessly interrogated Frasier and even had sympathetic Foundation personnel redesignated as SCP anomalies themselves. It isn't until the end after Frasier kills himself that Kiran realizes his mistake, but by that point it's already too late for poor Frasier.
  • Posthumous Character: The SCP was a human being who is now dead; thus it is classified as "Neutralized."
  • The Scapegoat: On one occasion, he was crosstested with SCP-682. 682 realized his power and used him as a distraction while he made even more containment breaches than usual.

SCP-3028 - Take On Me

SCP-3028 is a window flower box that produces Alex Jones-esque rants via the flowers that are grown in it.
  • Bile Fascination: In-Universe; Nicole McConnell, a lawyer and art collector who bought the SCP, mentioned a "morbid fascination" she had with the SCP in her diary.
  • Blatant Lies: Some of the SCP's statements include the following: "The Columbine shooters did nothing wrong," "Self-defense is indefensible" and "Junk mail is good, and everyone should read it."
  • Insane Troll Logic: The SCP's produced statements tend to run on questionable logic; for instance, one statement is: "Talking to your neighbors is the beginning of the slippery slope towards communism."

SCP-3034 - The Counting Station

SCP-3034 is a continuous broadcast of the voice of a teenage Russian girl (SCP-3034-A) counting backward from 200; she only stops counting if someone sends a reply with the Russian words for "all is well".
  • Numbers Station: It's a distorted broadcast, from the site of an abandoned station in Russia, of a girl who, rather than giving random numbers, counts down from 200 and only stops if an "all is well" reply is received.
  • Creepy Child: SCP-3034-A is one of this, as revealed by the audio recordings left at the site.
  • Apocalyptic Log: The original operators of SCP-3034, Sergei and Vaslov, left one of these back in 1947, with explicit instructions to not let SCP-3034-A finish counting and mentions of "deals" of some sort.
  • Dirty Communists: Sergei and Vaslov were attempting to destroy America after they heard of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
  • Deal with the Devil: Against Sergei's wishes, Vaslov made one of these, sacrificing SCP-3034-A to an Eldritch Abomination in exchange for America's destruction. Unfortunately, that entity wanted (and still wants) to destroy more than just America.
  • Powered by a Forsaken Child: SCP-3034-A is one such child, but there's actually more such children. After the discovery of the logs, when researchers tried to analyze the background noise of her countdowns, they learned it was actually thousands of screaming children.
  • Nothing Is Scarier: After one researcher went rogue and tried to contact SCP-3034-A, thousands of children around the world vanished as the background noise grew louder, and the countdown shortened by one.

SCP-3041 - The Red Knife

SCP-3041 is an iron knife that causes a person that holds it to experience nightmares of themselves using the knife to mutilate people, then cut out and eat their hearts.
  • I'm a Humanitarian: Those who hold SCP-3041 consistently have nightmares where they mutilate people they supposedly don't recognize, take their hearts out, and eat them.
  • Ret-Gone: The people killed in the nightmares SCP-3041 causes are actual people who were cut up and had their hearts eaten in reality. They and the murders were subjected to an antimemetic effect that makes it as if they never existed, the only proof of their existence being the smell of rotting flesh where the murders took place and the empty space their hearts take up in the stomach of SCP-3041's wielder.

SCP-3042 - Dog Is Love

SCP-3042 is a dog that forms a bond with a person near it. If the bonded person is separated from the dog, it will destroy any obstacle in its path to return to them.
  • Immune to Bullets: One agent it had bonded with fired several shots into it, none of which had any effect.
  • The Juggernaut: Practically nothing can stop it from getting back to the person it's bonded with (designated SCP-3042-1). It's been noted to destroy even the strongest of materials and be resistant to poison, disease and other physical harm.
  • The Needless: Doesn't require food, water or sleep.
  • Precious Puppy: Not to the person it's bonded with, who gets worn out by its constant attention.
  • A Rare Sentence: Due to its rampant destruction of whatever is in its way to get to its latest victim, the Foundation had to do something unusual.
    Director's note: I have assigned a Special Engineering team to modify a standard termination chamber which… and I never imagined writing these words… allows swift and easy escape of SCP-3042. We can't keep replacing doors every three weeks. -L.E.
  • Sanity Slippage: The person it's bonded with begins to suffer from delusions and memory lapses, among other things, due to the sleep deprivation that the SCP causes with its constant attention.
  • You Kill It, You Bought It: The next person it bonds to has always played some part in the death of the previous person it was bonded to.
  • You Will Not Evade Me: If SCP-3042-1 somehow escapes, nothing will stop the SCP from tracking them down and resuming its ceaseless affection.

SCP-3043 - Murphy Law in… Type 3043 — FOR MURDER!

SCP-3043 was a sentient typewriter that was able to alter any written story or narrative that featured it. It had connections to SCP-3143 before it was neutralized by way of being punctured with bullets.
  • Animate Inanimate Object: The real SCP-3043 is a sentient typewriter that can alter any story, document or narrative in which it's featured.
    Murphy Law: (narrating) Heroes always do what's right. But me? I'm no hero. I'm Murphy Law.
  • Chair Reveal: Murphy Law finds SCP-3043 sitting in Dr. Lewis' chair, and spins the chair to finally reveal its identity.
  • Contemplative Boss: Site Director August is introduced staring out the windows of his office.
  • Crossover: SCP-423 ("Fred") has a cameo as "Agent Frederick". And Murphy Law himself would later get his own classification as SCP-3143.
  • Fall Guy: The real SCP-3043 manipulates the Foundation staff to think that Murphy Law is SCP-3043.
  • Hand Cannon: The script specifically notes that Murphy Law uses a .44 Magnum caliber handgun.
  • It Can Think: Dr. Lewis tries to upgrade SCP-3043 from "Safe" to "Keter" when she realizes it's self-aware and can act on its own.
  • Jerkass: SCP-3043 itself is a foul-mouthed, condescending typewriter who undermines Murphy Law's story as "STUPID HUMPHREY BOGART FANFIC NONSENSE". When it reappears in "Never Metafictional Character I Liked", it spends most of the story cussing out and mocking Dr. Thaum.
    SCP-3043: THIS IS THE AFTERLIFE AND I AM YOUR ALMIGHTY FUCKING GOD
    NOW DROP TO YOUR KNEES AND PRAISE MY NAME YOU LOWLY PIECE OF SHIT
  • Noir Episode: Because Murphy Law warps reality around himself to make it all fit into the hardboiled crime genre.
  • Painting the Medium: Most of the entry is formatted like a screenplay, because Murphy Law has the anomalous effect of warping reality into a Noir Episode.
  • Private Eye Monologue: Provided by Murphy Law, of course.
    Murphy Law: (narrating) You see a lot of ugly in this line of work. Good people with bellies full of lead, left to bleed out in rain-soaked alleyways. Love ruined — turned inside out — until it just becomes an angry, festering sore. Statues that'll kill you as fast as you blink.
    But when it comes to ugly, nothing beats a containment breach.
  • Reality Warper: SCP-3043 can rewrite reality by altering any story that contains itself. However, the presence of the more powerful narrative-manipulator (i.e. Murphy Law) negates its effects, much to its dismay.
  • Red Herring: Initially, the reader is led to believe that Murphy Law is SCP-3043, and Site Director August actually refers to him as such. However, it turns out not to be the case, as the real SCP-3043 is a sentient Reality Warper typewriter that gets its entry hijacked by Murphy Law.
  • Ret-Gone: Dr. Lewis discovers that the true SCP-3043 (which supposedly has the ability to alter any document that contains itself) is sapient and malevolent. When she tries to inform others of this, it reveals it actually has the ability to alter any story that contains itself - including the lives of those who have encountered it - and tries to retroactively erase her from existence. Murphy evidently saves her in the nick of time.
  • Semantic Superpower: SCP-3043 can alter the text of any document or narrative about it. But this includes the ability to rewrite people's memories, and mind-control people by changing the "narrative" in their head.
  • Sir Swears-a-Lot: SCP-3043 has one of the filthiest mouths on the site, cussing in every other sentence.
  • Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Murphy Law makes himself the main character of SCP-3043's entry. The actual SCP barely shows up in Murphy's screenplay.
    SCP-3043: THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE MY STORY NOT YOURS
  • Shout-Out: The title is a reference to Dial M for Murder. SCP-3043 calls Murphy Law's screenplay "stupid Humphrey Bogart fanfic nonsense." And the last scene quotes from Chinatown.
  • Straw Fan: In "Never Metafictional Character I Didn't Like", it at one point proclaims the site has been going downhill, complains about some notably experimental SCPs, and declares that it wants things to go back to the old days, linking a number of notably "edgy" SCPs.
  • Villainous Breakdown: SCP-3043 when it realizes Murphy Law has completely overtaken its narrative and is giving the Foundation an Earn Your Happy Ending moment.

SCP-3048 - Tantalus

SCP-3048 is a man who is unable to consume most food or drink, since they either combust or evaporate when they are brought to his mouth.
  • Meaningful Name: The SCP is named after Tantalus, a Greek mythological figure who was cursed to be unable to consume food or drink. However, the SCP is able to consume some foods, such as whipped cream and some protein shakes; implied to be because the ancient curse doesn't recognize them as food.
  • Irony: SCP-3048 can only eat extremely processed foods, but apparently used to work for a health resort.

SCP-3049 - To Make an Apple Pie from Scratch

SCP-3049 is an oven that, when its center dial is set to "Apple Pie", will create a miniature universe with an accelerated timeline similar to that used in Cosmos, except that the universe (designated SCP-3049-1) always winds up turning into an edible apple pie.
  • Accidental Misnaming: 3049 was recovered by Agent Rembrandt Anderson from a Mrs. Taylor who referred to him as "John", "Kevin", "Jacob", and "Brian" while he was interviewing her.
  • Complete-the-Quote Title: "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." note 
  • Grey Goo: SCP-3049-1 always succumbs to this (an invention designated SCP-3049-2) in order for it to become apple pie.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: The researcher studying 3049 requested a project transfer after she'd published her report on 3049-1.
  • Scale Model Destruction: Subverted, as 3049-1 is a real (although awfully tiny) universe.
  • Year Inside, Hour Outside: For most of the "cooking" process, 1 minute outside 3049 equals 500 million years for 3049-1. But when a planetary civilization is on the verge of creating 3049-2, 1 minute outside the oven equals 1000 years for 3049-1.

    3050- 3099 

SCP-3055 - Yes, And

SCP-3055 is Dan's Institute of Improvised Thespianry, a troupe of actors who always move and act as one. The affected actors are unable to die and can produce beams of light that will assimilate anyone caught in their vicinity.
  • And I Must Scream: The eight people classified under this SCP are constantly forced to act as if improvising a scene (aside from eating, sleeping and taking breaks in general), without being able to talk to anyone else outside of suggestions, and they can't leave a building unless all of them do it. This is so bad that one of the instances thanked one of the police officers who had come to arrest them before killing herself with his gun, only to be resurrected a few moments later.
  • Back from the Dead: None of them can be permanently killed.
  • Meaningful Name: "Yes, and" is shorthand for a rule commonly taught in improv: you should always go along with whatever anyone else says no matter what. The troupe members are themselves unable to act without such suggestions.
  • You Will Be Assimilated: Anyone who does not give a suggestion when prompted will become part of the group soon afterwards after being hit by a beam of light produced by each of the troupe members.

SCP-3057 - Fossil Fuels

SCP-3057 is a phenomenon where crude oil is transformed into sentient prehistoric species.
  • Big Creepy-Crawlies:
    • SCP-3057-2 is an arthropod resembling predatory shrimp that is a meter long.
    • SCP-3057-3 is a species of prehistoric dragonfly with a wingspan of 0.65 meters. However, these die soon after manifesting from crude oil, due to having evolved in a more oxygen-rich environment than the Earth's current atmosphere.
  • Feathered Fiend: According to several witnesses, SCP-3057-4 (Velociraptors) had feathers.
  • Lesser of Two Evils: The person who originally deployed the SCP (PoI-8A051) sees prehistoric species running around on modern-day Earth as being not as bad as "dumping five million barrels of poison into the ocean", as he puts it.
  • Prehistoric Monster: SCP-3057-5 (a Megalodon) combines this trope Threatening Shark, and each instance is 18 meters long.
  • Real Event, Fictional Cause: Inverted; the SCP was deployed in an attempt to reverse the environmental damage caused by the Deepwater Horizon explosion.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: PoI-8A051 was trying to reverse the environmental damage from the Deepwater Horizon explosion.

SCP-3061 - Reluctant Fiend

SCP-3061 is a series of rituals utilized to summon SCP-3061-1, a humanoid entity known as "Fendsmul". Fendsmul is often tolerant of the Foundation and is willing to cooperate with them, but he also has a knack for making bargains that force the buyer to grant him something immensely valuable to them, such as their children.
  • Abusive Parents: Paul ████ was perfectly willing to sacrifice not one, but both of his children to the SCP in order to get what he wanted (which was to pay off bills).
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Played for Laughs. SCP-3061-1 loves making Faustian bargains, but hates being summoned to do mundane tasks like paying off bills, and is disgusted by those that agree to his terms without a second thought.
  • Humanoid Abomination: SCP-3061-1 normally appears as an ordinary human in front of Foundation personnel; however, it will occasionally manifest the features of animals, with the most common being the feet of a mountain hare and the fingers of an aye-aye.
  • Master of Illusion: SCP-3061-1 is able to summon very detailed and realistic illusions, which it can then interact with as if they were real.
  • Mundane Utility: Paul ████ summoned SCP-3061-1 because he was in a lot of debt over his car and he also wanted an extension for his home, and he wanted the money.
  • No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: It cares more about the anguish those it's trying to tempt goes through than it does about getting its sacrifices. Those that are willing to give up their kids without a second thought, or cultists without any real faith or emotion behind what they're doing irritates him.
  • Noble Demon: It flatly refuses to make deals that are within the mundane grasp of its summoner, and is in fact morally disgusted by their laziness. It also thoroughly dislikes a Lack of Empathy shown by summoners who don't agonize over their choices.
  • Villain Respect: The Foundation ends up suggesting a deal that SCP-3061-1 becomes interested in, because it's something genuinely grandiose and desperate as opposed to the normal Evil Is Petty drek it is often summoned for.
  • Would Hurt a Child: SCP-3061-1 often demands the soul(s) of its summoner's children in exchange for whatever it grants them.

SCP-3062 - The Lone and Level Sands Stretch Far Away

SCP-3062 is a shapeshifting entity that manifests in the Sahara Desert, and does so expressly for the purpose of taunting people who become stranded in the desert.
  • Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: When Foundation personnel found its tomb, the SCP manifested nearby and destroyed the structure, injuring several of the personnel.
  • Flying Dutchman: It lures victims in this way (although it is unable to manifest anywhere outside the Sahara.) Its tomb inscription revealed that it was made one of these as punishment for torturing several ancient Egyptians.
  • Light Is Not Good: To taunt a D-class who was a devout Catholic, it took an angel-like form.
  • Literary Allusion Title: The title is the last line of Percy Brysshe Shelley's poem Ozymandias.
  • Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair: On a local level: it was once an infamous criminal in ancient Egypt. Now it wanders the Sahara, capable of tormenting and killing only people who have gotten lost. Even its tomb no longer exists.
  • Sadist: It takes great pleasure in tormenting and driving its victims insane.
  • Sealed Evil in a Can: According to the hieroglyphics found in an ancient Egyptian structure (which was subsequently destroyed by the SCP), the SCP was cursed to be trapped in the desert forever after causing a great deal of suffering.
  • Shapeshifter Default Form: It is often described as looking like a 20-year-old Egyptian man.
  • Shapeshifter Guilt Trip: It often takes the forms of a victim's loved ones in order to taunt the victim.
  • Voluntary Shapeshifting: It can change its shape at will, and do so almost instantly.

SCP-3063 - A fly

SCP-3063 is a talking housefly with the ability to bend reality. The fly seeks out victims by telling them that it can supposedly grant them wishes. Should the person accept its deal, the fly's larvae will manifest inside the victim's organs, eating them until the victim dies.
  • Animalistic Abomination: It's a reality-bending entity that manifests as a common housefly.
  • Body Horror: 2376 days after a person makes a deal with the SCP, 5000 to 20000 fly eggs will manifest inside their internal organs, and the maggots will hatch and eat the person's flesh (and also reproduce after maturing into flies) until the person dies.
  • Deal with the Devil: It tries to tempt someone with something that they greatly desire in exchange for an unspecified price. If said person disagrees, it will continue to contact them until they agree to its offer.
  • Driven to Suicide: 70% of people affected by the SCP will commit suicide after the eggs manifest.
  • Loophole Abuse: It uses technicalities to deny the Foundation certain things, like only applying when they ask for its death or containment to its current manifestation. In addition when the Foundation tries to get more information out of it it just manifests its own containment report and finally how its current and next victim will die.
  • Telepathy: The SCP is described as being telepathic.

SCP-3073 - All the Men And Women Merely Players

SCP-3073 is a man with a miniature theatre replacing his face. The theatre is inhabited by a race of miniature humanoids that put on performances inside the theatre.
  • Bad "Bad Acting": SCP-3073-1's performances are of objectively poor quality, with cast members showing extreme stage fright, having bad acting skills and forgetting their lines.
  • Berserk Button: SCP-3073 doesn't like having the cast's performance disrupted by a talking or booing audience member, and if they don't stop, he becomes aggressive and tries to remove the person by force.
  • Hell Is That Noise: Its symphonies have been described as "an earsplitting cacophony".
  • Literary Allusion Title: The title is taken from William Shakespeare's As You Like It.
  • Vague Age: When questioned about his age, the SCP stated that he was "as old as the stage itself".

SCP-3077 - Sugar Golems

See Recap.SCP Foundation Canons under the Dread and Circuses folder.

SCP-3078 - Cognitohazardous Shitpost

SCP-3078 was a meme that originally featured the text "when you inhale the devils mary jane smoke". Viewing it caused viewers to laugh uncontrollably and die. The Foundation managed to neutralize it within one day.
  • Die Laughing: Not only did 3078 cause this, but people would continue laughing even after death.
  • 420, Blaze It: Many of the bots sharing 3078 had "420" in their usernames, since "mary jane" is a nickname for marijuana.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: Its creator changed its text several times in a plea for help after their friends died and kept laughing posthumously.
  • Unexplained Recovery: Somehow, it's un-neutralized in SCP-5000 so the evil alternate Foundation can use it to kill humanity (or at least, force the Church of the Broken God to take down the internet). How this happened is never explained.

SCP-3080 - The Power of Love

SCP-3080 was the designation for several anomalous phenomena that manifested from the romantic and consensual relationship between a pair of Foundation researchers.
  • Faking the Dead: Peter ███████ reveals himself to have faked his own death in a car accident at the doctors' wedding.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: Anyone who spent time with either of the Drs. Catherine and Simon ███████ (designated SCP-3080-1 and -2 respectively) would become very jealous of the doctor they weren't in love with.
  • Love Makes You Evil: Anyone affected by the SCP would go to great lengths to get the doctor they were in love with for themselves (one great example being Peter ███████, SCP-3080-2's twin brother, who made unwanted advances on SCP-3080-1).
  • Love Potion: Anyone who spent a significant amount of time with either of the doctors would fall intensely in love with one of them and become jealous of the other.
  • Murder the Hypotenuse: Dr. O████ shot SCP-3080-2 while under the effects of the SCP, and SCP-3080-2 later died, thus neutralizing the SCP's effects for good.
  • The Power of Love: Aside from the title, when separated for long periods of time, the doctors showed increased strength and endurance while attempting to reunite with each other.
  • Stalker with a Crush: Taryn W█████, a college roommate of SCP-3080-1, began stalking SCP-3080-2 and taking pictures of him without his knowledge, to the point that she got arrested and charged with one count of felony stalking.
  • What Does She See in Him?: When Dr. O████ confronted SCP-3080-2, he demanded "What did she even see in you?".
  • Woman Scorned: A gender-inverted version: before Peter's apparent death in a car accident, he wrote the couple out of his will after SCP-3080-1 rejected his advances and then filed a restraining order against him.

SCP-3081 - H A N D M I L K â„¢

SCP-3081 is a field in South Dakota inhabited by SCP-3081-1, large organisms that resemble human hands and exhibit behaviors reminiscent of domestic cattle.
  • Bizarre Alien Biology: SCP-3081-1 instances are organisms resembling large human hands (1.4 m average height) that behave like cattle.
  • Dying Race: For whatever reason, SCP-3081-1 always ends up giving birth to deformed offspring, making them unable to maintain a stable population. They might as well be considered sterile, considering they tried for babies 18 times, got deformities 17 times, and survivors none of the time. Soft Hands later puts them out of their misery.
  • Heel Realization: Sometime between SCP-2494 and this SCP, Soft Hands realized that they shouldn't give human hands to other animals and instead should be protecting the ones normal humans already have.
  • Shoot the Dog: SCP-3081-1 is harvested by Soft Hands and turned into skin care products. A note attached to the shipment containing them suggests the group was rearing the giant hands to try and make up for the ecological nightmare that was their previous product, SCP-2494. Also, killing the hands is comparable to euthanasia, as they were functionally sterile and kept fruitlessly struggling to overcome this.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: Soft Hands from SCP-2494 reappears to harvest SCP-3081-1 into skin care products. While unexpectedly dark, the legible note attached to their shipment shows that they're at least trying to help without hurting anyone, unlike SCP-2494 where Soft Hands was largely unintelligible and was about to cause an ecological disaster by crippling countless animals with useless human hands.
    Please take care of your hands. They're the only hands you'll get.

SCP-3082 - Neverland's Lost Boys and Girls

SCP-3082 is a treehouse containing a portal to an alternate dimension. This dimension is inhabited by a large collection of children who have run away from home and stopped aging. The treehouse was created by a young reality-warper who transformed herself into the tree it was built upon.
  • Abusive Parents: All the children in the SCP claim to have been teleported there after escaping from an abusive household.
  • Broken Pedestal: Aria is clearly dejected upon learning that the Foundation is comparable to Area 51.
  • Children Are Innocent: Played With. The kids living in the pocket-dimension don't have it as easy as their situation sounds: The treehouse village had to be built from scratch and it took multiple tries for them to make it stable, the world outside of the treehouse is a wasteland and the idea of potentially returning home to re-settle is treated as Serious Business.
  • Crapsaccharine World: The Foundation discovers a realm where children magically never grow up. While the immediate treehouse "village" seems idyllic at first glance, bits of the facade crumble the more the Foundation explores: The world beyond the treehouse is a lonely wasteland and the hope of re-settlement puts the kids' government in-schism over whether or not to leave.
  • Growing Up Sucks: Discussed. Wexley sees the pocket-realm as being the only thing the children need. To him, they have everything and have no reason to leave to submit to adults. Lucy counters that while the realm provides them with sustenance, things like proper medicine and modern comforts elude them in there.
  • Never Grew Up: The children and their possessions have not aged since they arrived in the SCP.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The Foundation's research into the pocket-reality is causing the children to divide into two opposing factions - One that supports possibly coming home and one that doesn't.
  • Not Growing Up Sucks: Much like the story the skip is a reference to, the "Neverland" pocket-dimension is a place both intriguing and ultimately hollow. Both Wexley and the remnants of Jaquelyn ignore anyone showing skepticism at how long their society can last. The realm they reside in is displaying signs of famine and concerns of survivability are expressed by both child and Foundation alike. The realm certainly provides food and water for the kids, but they otherwise have to fend for themselves and without modern advancements, survivability is a constant concern. While the children do technically have the Foundation on their side, the article paints the picture of a society whose collapse is inevitable without the modern nuances adult life has to offer.
Lucy: This place isn't magic - or if it is, it doesn't care about us...We're not living in some stupid story book, Wexley. This place isn't Neverland.
  • Reality Warper: According to Aria Morrison, her sister Jacquelyn created the SCP using her special abilities, and it's implied that she's either the massive tree at the SCP's center or else part of it.
  • Secret-Keeper: The Foundation inadvertently becomes one for Aria and her sister; the former of whom confides in them 3082's nature as a refuge for the abused. She asks if the Foundation will reveal her existence to the others and they say "no."
  • Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Justified. The children of the pocket reality all fled from abusive homes and ended up here, whereupon none of them aged and were forced to grow up on their own. There's kids in governmental positions, the leader of the "Neverland" faction has a sailor mouth and the Foundation ends up overhearing a conversation between two of the leaders arguing over the survivability of the place.
  • Whole-Plot Reference: To Peter Pan. The Foundation discovers a pocket-world wherein children don't age and have everything they need. Said realm isn't portrayed as a paradise and much like the falling-out between Wendy and Peter, there are constant debates between characters on whether not to leave the place to grow up and re-settle or not. One of the characters even outright calls the pocket-world "Neverland."

SCP-3088 - Law of the Land

SCP-3088 was the town of Cullen, Nebraska, a fading community based on several textile mills. After the election of Mayor Thomas Ronson (SCP-3088-1), all the town's laws became absolute. A few days after an MTF team investigated, the town vanished completely except for the mayor's house.
  • Apocalyptic Log: Two, in the form of the MTF team's transmissions and the Mayor's diary. The former details how they got trapped in Cullen and tried to escape, and the latter details the mayor's descent into madness and tyranny.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: Ronson tries to pass a law to expel the MTF team from Cullen when they arrive to investigate him, but in doing so violates a previous law that bans anyone from leaving, triggering a Reality-Breaking Paradox that erases the entire town from existence.
  • Knight Templar: Mayor Ronson genuinely wants to reinvigorate the town. Which is why he prevents people from leaving, prevents internet and cell phone usage (somebody tried to call for help), and made unemployment illegal to force people to work the mills.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: In the end, Ronson is done in by his own laws when he tries to have the MTF team expelled from Cullen, violating the law that no-one is allowed to leave and causing the entire town to vanish due to a Reality-Breaking Paradox.
  • Logic Bomb: The town vanished when the effect tried to enforce two mutually-contradictory laws; in this case, the rule that no one in town could leave and a law that the MTF team were to be expelled.
  • Loophole Abuse: After the MTF team gets trapped in Cullen, they have to use radio to communicate with the outside (phones and internet are banned, but radio isn't), and they try to end the effect keeping them trapped by getting the townspeople to vote Ronson out of office.
  • Mundane Utility: Mayor Ronson used his power of reality warping via legislation to fix structural damage, provide the town's mills with materials, and prevent petty crime.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In the end, all the Foundation actually accomplished was provoking Ronson into triggering a Reality-Breaking Paradox and wiping Cullen off the face of the map.
  • Reality-Breaking Paradox: One of the first laws Mayor Ronson made upon realizing his power was that no one could leave the town. However, tired of the MTF Unit, the mayor made a law said that all military personnel must leave immediately, conflicting with the prior law saying no one could leave. So the entire town vanished from existence.
  • Reality Warper: Any law made in the town is immediately enforced by reality itself (i.e. when he mandates that the roads should be fixed, they immediately are without anyone fixing them), making Mayor Rostron one as long as he remained in power. The Foundation isn't sure whether it's some bizarre property of the town itself or whether Ronson was unconsciously warping reality to make his laws unbreakable (the effect manifested when he took office), and it's a moot point either way because the town's gone.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: Ronson genuinely wants to re-invigorate Cullen. The problem is that he doesn't always fully anticipate the consequences of his laws, and his attempts to fix these consequences slowly lead him to go mad with power.

SCP-3090 - This girl's gone bad on a game attack

See Characters.SCP Foundation Misters.

SCP-3092 - Gorilla Warfare

SCP-3092 is a claw machine that transforms any prize it manage to drop into a sapient, animate plush gorilla. These gorillas, designated SCP-3092-A, are shown to have various differing personalities, beliefs, and intellects, and they also share an efficiency in guerilla warfare.

    3100- 3149 

SCP-3100 - The Reliquary

SCP-3100 is a South African cave system that has approximately 5km of natural tunnels, and is filled with niches used to inter bodies. Bodies that are less than 20 hours old, when placed in one of these niches, immediately stop decomposing.
  • Body Horror: As Foundation surveyors explored the caves, they came across bodies in increasingly poor condition, with many showing bent fingers, open fractures, and unspecified neck wounds. When two members of Task Force 707 went further down to figure out what put the other members of their team in comatose-like states, they found something incredibly distressing.
    707-09: Oh lord. That's your face. Marsh, it's got your face.
  • Loss of Identity: Any individual that enters SCP-3100 - trained or not - experiences visions after prolonged exposure; in these cases, they are disassociating and experiencing the memories of previously interred individuals. These experiences are described in similar terms to other SCPs which cause identity erasure.
  • Memory Jar: The memories of the deceased can be accessed by anyone who enters SCP-3100; the Foundation immediately takes advantage of this to preserve useful and/or important information, with Task Force 707 formed to do so. Naturally, there are complications.
  • Nothing Is Scarier: During the containment breach, a member of Task Force 707 ruminated on their mission while exploring the deepest depths of SCP-3100. Eventually, they noticed that the precursor bodies buried there were waking up, just before contact was lost. While the site was evacuated, heat in the caves dramatically increased, then dissipates in a column above the local area. Afterwards, something inside the Earth is stated to have woken up, with an attached image showing an enormous, shadowy figure that's apparently SCP-3000.
  • Precursors: When SCP-3100 was discovered, there were already bodies filling the niches, with bodies found throughout most of the cave system. Those bodies are suggested to be an undiscovered ancestor of Homo erectus, but with small frames and unusually developed hands.
  • Sanity Slippage: Foundation personnel that spent even longer in 3100 started to have episodes, during which they muttered and made indistinct sounds while bending their fingers the same way the Erectus precursor bodies were. After containment was breached, all but one member of Task Force 707 was found in this state.

SCP-3103 - Vengeful Wings

SCP-3103 is a palm cockatoo that exhibits distressing behavior when a human comes within 5 meters of it. It will alter the minds of humans in its vicinity to gain the intellectual capacity and mannerisms of bird chicks so it can care for them.
  • Brainwashing: Her anomalous effect. She can convert humans into a mindset identical to a baby bird so that she can "take care of them". This condition does not appear to be reversible.
  • Evil Poacher: Two members of a Terrible Trio of these were her first victims, after they stole her chicks. It's not clear if this incident was what caused her anomalous properties or if she had them all along.
  • Feathered Fiend: Aside from her anomalous effect, she appears to be an ordinary cockatoo.
  • Mama Bear: She's motivated by revenge for her lost offspring.
  • Replacement Goldfish: SCP-3103-1 (the humans brainwashed by SCP-3103) are this for SCP-3103's chicks, who were taken from her by poachers.
  • Revenge: As her name suggests, this is her motivation. She wants revenge for the kidnapping of her chicks.
  • Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: A grieving mother who copes by converting everyone she meets into her "babies".

SCP-3104 - Cops Magnet

SCP-3104 is a brick of cocaine that compels any law enforcement officers who learn of its existence to seize it and place it in custody.
  • Brown Note: It's the "infohazard" type; any cops will try to take it, even if they're several hundred miles away when they first hear about it.
  • Hammerspace Police Force: The SCP induces the "deadly stampede" variant of this.
  • Lemming Cops: A human crush resulted when a crowd of police officers from multiple jurisdictions attempted to capture it. Meanwhile, police vehicles pursuing the object ran out of fuel.

SCP-3108 - The Nerfing Gun

See Recap.SCP Foundation Canons under the Those Twisted Pines folder.

SCP-3110 - One Man's Trash...

SCP-3110 is a dumpster that is able to teleport monetary items placed inside it into the pockets of, or into a crevice near, a random person within two kilometers of it.
  • Complete-the-Quote Title: "... is another man's treasure."
  • Teleportation: It's a garbage disposal unit that teleports a valuable item placed within it to a crevice in the vicinity of a random person within a two-kilometer radius.

SCP-3114 - Wouldn't it be Chilly?

SCP-3114 is an animate human skeleton that responds to stimuli like a normal human. The skeleton has shown that it wants to interact with people and be accepted as one of their own. Unfortunately, the skeleton's methods of achieving this goal amount to strangling the nearest person it can find and flay off their skin and wear it.
  • Ax-Crazy: Subverted. It attacks and kills humans whenever it sees them, but it's not doing it just because it can...
  • Blue-and-Orange Morality: Evidently, it doesn't understand that killing people to take their skin isn't the best way to alleviate the whole "not having skin" thing.
  • Complete-the-Quote Title: "Wouldn't it be chilly with no skin on?" ("Have You Seen the Ghost of John?")
  • Dem Bones: It's a living, animate human skeleton.
  • Flayed Alive: Subverted. It kills its victims before skinning them.
  • Pet the Dog: Literally! When introduced to a border collie, 3114 played with it and the two had a great time. The SCP actually seemed to become depressed when the border collie left.
  • Replicant Snatching: Downplayed; 3114 simply wants a skin and does not seek to disguise itself as the dead person.
  • Tragic Monster: Far from being just a mindless, bloodthirsty abomination, it appears to be incredibly lonely and hopeful that having skin will remedy this. When it manages to put on some skin that fits its body perfectly and then is given a human to interact with, its response is to try and communicate with him rather than kill him.
  • Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: It starts out as standard nightmare fuel, but it turns out to be a creature that just desperately wants to be accepted.

SCP-3117 - A Monster-Shaped Hole

SCP-3117 is a dream caused by exposure to a certain series of factors spread throughout several forms of media. People who experience the dream end up going missing.

SCP-3118 - Lunch Gun

SCP-3118 is a pistol that, when used to shoot someone in the head, causes food (designated SCP-3118-1) that the victim previously ate to manifest from the bullet hole in lieu of a bullet.
  • Boom, Headshot!: While SCP-3118 uses the traditional Beretta M9 pistol ammunition, whenever aimed at the subjects' head; it will result in the "exit" that the bullet should pass through to instead manifest as food along with any eating utensils used at any point in the subjects life, but only with food that was eaten at some point between 11 AM and 3 PM local time. Those that are shot in this manner have a 66% chance survival rate based on how many times they are shot with SCP-3118, with the sixth test with D-10331 resulting in a white liquid identified as breast milk before dying.
  • Child Eater: One of the test subjects used to test SCP-3118's properties: D-10422, managed to have the shot manifest as a living 6-year old child that was reported to have gone missing from Klamath Falls, Oregon back in 2010.
  • Karma Houdini: Despite his damning crime of having devoured around three children before being arrested and later brought into the control of the Foundation for D-Class, D-10422 has been prevented from being used to further test the capabilities of SCP-3118 by order of the Site Director.
  • Shoot the Shaggy Dog Story: The unfortunate manifestation of the SCP-3118-1 when tested on D-10422 was terminated after DNA tests proved that it was indeed the very same missing child.

SCP-3125 - The Escapee

See Characters.SCP Foundation SC Ps.

SCP-3127 - Nineteen Year Old Jessica Lambert And A Female Pig Of Abnormal Size, Forever

SCP-3127 was once Jessica Lambert, a 19-year old woman who gradually transformed into a pig the size of a building.
  • And I Must Scream: Her fate in general, and her current form has her especially in this state, being a building size pig who can only vocalize her confusion with binary pauses between her screams.
  • Body Horror: Gets progressively worse as the Moccus Events go on, highlights include a Jessica Lambert with her internal organs full of piglets, a pig whose internal organs are full of screaming Jessica Lamberts, and a cross between Jessica Lambert and a pig.
  • The Empath: What the Foundation initially thought Jessica Lambert was, with her touch making others feel the same emotions as her for a limited time. Unfortunately the Foundation learns that she is something far more dangerous.
  • Loss of Identity: The SCP eventually has this crisis, not knowing any more whether she is Jessica Lambert or a female pig.
  • Mercy Kill: Uncommonly for the Foundation, they're actively trying to put Jessica out of her misery. But they simply can't - every time she dies, she comes back more dangerous.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The Moccus Events started after Jessica was exposed to unspecified other anomalies for testing purposes.
  • Power Incontinence: One of the primary reasons she's so dangerous - as she mutates further, she becomes capable of wreaking increasingly lethal psychic devastation just from existing. The form mentioned above, as a pig full of screaming Jessica's? Those screams were instantly fatal to anyone who heard them. And it only gets worse from there.
  • Serial Escalation: What the SCP's existence generally boils down to, with a repeating cycle of having a Moccus Event, turning into an escalating reversal of what she was previously, and her new scream turning the personal around it into what it was previously. The ending of the article implies that yet another Moccus Event is about to happen.
  • Tragic Monster: The SCP is entirely aware of her situation and becomes increasingly confused about what is going on and who exactly she is.

SCP-3130 - The Princess and Her Bodyguards Walk Alone

See Recap.SCP Foundation Canons under the folder The Gulf.

SCP-3143 - Murphy Law in… The Foundation Always Rings Twice!

See Characters.SCP Foundation SC Ps.

SCP-3148 - Tranquility

SCP-3148 is an extradimensional entity taking the form of a solid state drive. It is believed that this entity has destroyed numerous alternate worlds for its own amusement.
  • Alternate Universe: Iterations 1 through 5 of SCP-3148 take place in the universe that SCP-3148 defeated. The article proper occurs in baseline reality, where, after the Foundation discovers the SCP-format documentation on SCP-3148-1, elects to just seal the SSD up and forget about it.
  • Badass Boast: SCP-3148 writes a poem insulting the Foundation for losing to them in the first place. While it reeks of narcissism, some merit should probably be given for the decent writing put into it.
  • The Chessmaster: SCP-3148 infects the Overseers and slowly strings along events until the Keter-level containment protocol is abolished, and upgrades itself to Thaumiel and disseminates its effects across the world.
  • Cultured Badass: As eldritch, heinous, and sociopathic as SCP-3148 is, it's fully capable of writing good poetry, something that takes quite a bit of culturing to do.
  • Evil Gloating: SCP-3148 is not above uncultured gloating to its victims.
    I won
    Give up
    Give up
  • Eldritch Abomination: SCP-3148 is an infohazardous entity that transcends multiversal boundaries, picking off random universes for fun by scaring its inhabitants into destroying themselves.
  • Historical In-Joke: The Cuban Missile Crisis was caused by SCP-3148 infection.
  • It Amused Me: Why SCP-3148 destroys the worlds it comes across. Nothing more, nothing less.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: After destroying what is implied to be countless parallel worlds through paranoia and deception, SCP-3148's regime bites it when it gets stuck in an SSD which the Foundation elects to lock up after discovering its contents.
  • Logical Weakness: SCP-3148 may be an extradimensional entity and the chessmaster of apocalyptic scenarios, but it's still just a Sealed Evil in a Can. The Foundation in baseline reality just takes the SSD containing it (along with an unlimited-energy battery that happened to be blasted with it) and throws it in a box.
  • Red Herring: SCP-3148-2 has nothing to do with the anomaly on its own. It's merely a Foundation-built device that somehow got flung into baseline reality with the SSD that SCP-3148 itself is currently rotting in.
  • Sealed Evil in a Can: Intentionally presents itself initially sealed in some form of information involving war in the hopes that human curiosity will allow it to become unsealed and spread. However, knowing exactly that opens up the option of just letting it rot in complete isolation, i.e. its containment protocols.
  • The Sociopath: SCP-3148 uses the universes it has access to for its own amusement, deluding and then destroying them just because it's fun.
  • Technology Is Evil: Zig-zagged. While SCP-3148 uses modern technology in its films, it's not what scares its victims into becoming unhealthily paranoid about the apocalypse - that's just its own abilities at work. However, modern technology, especially nukes, is what is used to bring about the world's end for whoever unseals SCP-3148.
  • Villain Has a Point: Let's not dance around the issue - it's a wonder the world of the SCP Foundation is still alive by now. With nearly 4000 recorded anomalies in containment, many of them world-ending, and plenty of normal weapons that could easily destroy the world, it almost makes SCP-3148 rather sympathetic... until you realize that it destroyed the parallel universe because It Amused Me.

SCP-3149 - Monkey Business


  • Monkeys on a Typewriter: It's a warehouse filled with 73 (originally 100) monkeys (designated SCP-3149-1) sitting at computers. These monkeys have an opening on their back which, when a document is placed within, imbues them with the personality of that document's author.
  • Dangerous Workplace: 3149 also includes lampreys (designated SCP-3149-2) that feed on the monkeys if they fail to type a full one page within a day every ten minutes. So far, 27 monkeys have died.

    3150- 3199 

SCP-3166 - You Have No Idea How Alone You Are, Garfield

SCP-3166 is a hostile entity resembling a humanoid wearing a Garfield costume. The entity manifests whenever the Garfield franchise declines in popularity, and is known to attack those it deems responsible for the decline. This includes Garfield creator Jim Davis, its most frequent victim. The entity's method of attacking people is to assault them with blunt objects, then stuffing lasagna it manifests from its innards down their throats until they choke to death.
  • Animalistic Abomination: SCP-3166 is an entity that looks like a crude Garfield costume... stuffed with lasagna, of course.
  • Berserk Button:
    Known targets of SCP-3166 have included:
    * Individuals prominently involved in rival media to the Garfield franchise.
    * Individuals formerly involved in the production of Garfield comic strips.
    * Individuals involved in parodies of the Garfield franchise.
    * Vocal critics of the Garfield franchise.
    * Garfield creator Jim Davis.
  • Can't Take Criticism: Critics of the Garfield franchise are among its preferred targets.
  • Cats Are Mean: It hisses and growls like an actual cat, throws things out of spite like Garfield, and force feeds its insides like an unholy creation.
  • Crafted from Animals: The costume is made of "legitimate cat fur". The trope goes the same for the lasagna too.
  • Delicious Distraction: The agents tasked to handle SCP-3166 manifestations carry frozen lasagna on them to lure the entity away from anyone it starts batting and clawing at.
  • Franchise Zombie: Invoked. The Foundation believes that if the Garfield franchise were to ever permanently end, something terrible would occur, and so they set aside a portion of funding to keep it going as long as possible.
  • Human Resources: The meat in SCP-3166's lasagna has been identified as a genetic match to Jim Davis. Occasionally, Davis has been pestered by mosquitoes biting him during the nights prior to SCP-3166 manifestations.
  • Let's Meet the Meat: It disembowels itself, shoving its lasagna organs into victims’ mouths. This treads into humanitarian territories, as the meat genetically matches Jim Davis.
  • Real Event, Fictional Cause: SCP-3166’s manifestations began with the publication of the infamous 1989 Hallowe’en arc, but none of the employees can recall who illustrated that week’s comic strips.
  • Refugee from TV Land: The Foundation's researchers hypothesize that it originates from the 10/23/1989 to 10/29/1989 comic issues.
  • Take That!: Essentially, the entire joke of the SCP is that the only logical reason Garfield survives as a franchise is because of The Conspiracy.

SCP-3178 - Through God, All Things Are Possible

See Recap.SCP Foundation Canons under the multiple canons folder.

SCP-3179 - The Seed

SCP-3179 is an organism composed of liquid metal that can create robotic creatures from itself. It is believed to be a form of Mekhane, the Broken God.
  • A God Am I: In 2017, The Seed created tablets that proclaimed itself as MEKHANE and that it should be released.
    Humans must obey the rulings of gods.
    PENDING …
    The MEKHANE is a god.
    PENDING …
    The MEKHANE is a powerful entity of steel and industry.
    PENDING …
    I am a powerful entity of steel and industry.
    PENDING …
    Therefore, I am The MEKHANE.
    PENDING …
    Therefore, I am a god.
    PENDING …
    Therefore, you will release Me.
  • Messianic Archetype: The Seed was discovered in 1909 and was once worshipped by members of the Cogsworth Orthodoxy believing it to be the Child of their God Mekhane, only after having it attempt time and again to breach its' containment and killing members of it's own congregation did they no longer see it as anything like or closely resembling Mekhane.
  • Insane Troll Logic: The Seed believes itself to be Mekhane by citing the Cogsworth Orthodox's beliefs of Mekhane being a powerful entity of Steel and Industry that is worshipped as a God.
  • It Can Think: Many of The Seeds' attempts to escape from its' cell show a level of intelligence: from generating loudspeakers that mimic the voices of the MTF members saying that they were trapped inside of The Seed, to creating flawless metallic copies of MTF Agents that tried to convince personnel to release The Seed, to even sending portions of itself into the body of a sleeping Foundation Agent and replaced all of their internal organs in order to have it release The Seed.
  • Sealed Evil in a Can: The Cogsworth Orthodoxy initially built the containment site around The Seed hoping to protect it from harm by the Sarkic Cults under the misguided belief that it was "The Seed of Mekhane", only after several attempts by The Seed trying to escape and kill it's own congregation did The Cogsworth Orthodoxy inform The Foundation and transferred containment of The Seed to them.
  • Voluntary Shapeshifting: The liquid metal that SCP-3179 is made from allows it to create any metallic object that it desires to use in order to escape it's containment cell.

SCP-3186 - These Words Of Ours, Written So Deftly Across The Sky

SCP-3186 is a hill in Massachusetts. At night, the stars appear to rearrange so that they form 9 different messages in sequence.
  • The Promposal: What the messages really are. They were made by an unnamed high-school boy and intended for a girl named Becky.
  • Overly Literal Transcription: The boy's ritual did this, and now "cancel message" and "message cancel" appear in the sky.
  • Is This Thing Still On?: The boy tried to make his words stop appearing in the sky, but his attempts were simply added to the message.

SCP-3199 - Humans, Refuted

SCP-3199 is a species of aggressive and deformed humanoid creatures that share some of the characteristics of chickens. They are known to reproduce constantly, and do so by regurgitating large, virtually indestructible eggs, along with with a highly corrosive acid.
  • Bizarre Alien Reproduction: They can reproduce asexually and a single instance can spew up eggs by themselves. When they lay their eggs they also release a blood-like substance and emit a cry that sounds very similar to a human scream.
  • Body Horror: The image shows SCP-3199 to be some sort of bald, naked chicken-man... thing, and to put it crudely, they vomit up huge, virtually indestructible eggs along with a blood-like corrosive substance. Worse yet, they actually scream in pain during the whole process.
  • Brown Note: A man interviewed had a bit of this effect after witnessing firsthand one of these instances of giving birth while releasing its characteristic call. Ever since then whenever he hears his child cry he is instantly reminded of the abomination.
  • Explosive Breeder:
    • Every individual always carries one egg in their stomach at a time to puke up later, so it's hard to truly eradicate the beasts.
    • They can reproduce exceptionally quickly. For example, when an egg in containment hatched, before the Foundation could exterminate the newly hatched instance, it already laid many more eggs. It is primarily for this reason why it was changed to a Keter class, as any given individual instance would procreate so quickly it could overrun the human population.
  • Feathered Fiend: These things have chicken DNA in their genetic structure, and they also lay hard-shelled eggs like actual birds... except for the part where theirs all come out the other way.
  • Fire/Water Juxtaposition: Heat appears to accelerate both their eggs' hatching and their growth, while their eggs can be destroyed via freezing them to extremely low temperatures then subjecting them to high pressure, and submerging SCP-3199 instances in water or other fluid will prevent them from breeding entirely.
  • Gone Horribly Right: Notes imply that the first instance of this SCP was actually a person from the 70s who used a self-transfiguration ritual to rise beyond their humanity.
  • Humanoid Abomination: SCP-3199 has an elongated head and limbs. In addition, it has a bloated chicken-like abdomen. It also has the ability to spit corrosive acid and vomit up eggs.
  • Kill It with Ice: The only known method to destroy their eggs is by freezing them under extremely cold temperatures, then exposing them to high pressure.
  • Made of Indestructium: Whatever substance they seem to be made of, their eggs consist of nacre, enamel, and an unknown carbon compound composed tightly in crystals, making them nearly impossible to destroy. The Foundation did figure out a method, though it's hardly practical; Cooling the eggs to -190 degrees C, then exposing them to 9000 PSIs of pressure (about 612 atmospheres).
  • Meaningful Name: At first it can be hard to understand its nickname since it has nothing to do with humans. Its name comes from a class by Plato and Diogenes where Plato thought that humans would be described as "featherless, wingless bipeds" and Diogenes came into the class with a plucked chicken and declared "Behold, a man." Fitting, since SCP-3199 looks like what would happen if you plucked a chicken and stretched it to human proportions.
  • Mix-and-Match Critters: Tissue samples taken from instances of SCP-3199 show they're chimeras of six different animals - Silkie chicken, chimpanzee, stoat, mussel, adder, and human.
  • Nigh-Invulnerability: One of the main reasons why these things are so dangerous is that their eggs are extremely hard to destroy, meaning that once an instance starts laying eggs, more are certain to be born.
  • Super Spit: What exactly it does is redacted but it is highly implied to hunt humans that are near its eggs by using an extremely corrosive spit that liquefies the victim's internal organs and bones.
  • Weaksauce Weakness: SCP-3199 instances will only lay eggs in what they consider to be "unoccupied space". They count water and other fluids as "occupied" space, meaning that submerging them in water or other fluid will not only prevent them from laying eggs entirely, but also render them inert.

    3200- 3249 

SCP-3201 - well, it was low-entropy while it lasted.

SCP-3201 is a race of sentient orbs made of pure energy that travel between different universes, collecting samples of whatever they are interested in at any given moment.
  • Absent Aliens: It's implied that in this particular universe, Earth is alone, or at least if there are aliens, there aren't many at all. But at least Earth is interesting, and that's what drives SCP-3201.
    SUMMARY OF UNIVERSE #139331920100933: It was mostly nothing. But there were some interesting parts.
  • Arc Words: "We Archive," the motto of SCP-3201's organization.
  • Artifact Collection Agency: SCP-3201 is a large extradimensional organization of beings posing as ball lightning, who want to collect interesting artifacts from various universes and put them in a museum to preserve their legacy, as all universes die off at some point. Humorously, the concept of "interesting" is apparently highly subjective among SCP-3201 instances, so while SCP-3201-25 is off collecting 3D fractal sculptures, SCP-3201-2 is collecting... boots.
  • Birds of a Feather: The Foundation is quick to classify the orbs as Thaumiel because of how easily they get along as fellow purveyors of the supernatural.
  • Bittersweet Ending: The universe 3201 visits in the article died a long time ago, and it's implied some of the orbs are stuck in the void forever. However, the survivors of the Earth expedition succeeded in their mission by preserving its history for The Multiverse to see.
  • Call-Back: An internal example. In the final image, presumably propaganda for SCP-3201's organization, a turtle, a piece of pottery, a radio, and an icosahedron are visible. All of these items are the interests of some of the SCP-3201 instances the article focuses on.
  • Dimensional Traveller: SCP-3201 instances hop from universe to universe to collect samples they're interested in. This leads to some confusion within the Foundation when SCP-3201-5 and -8 ask for objects from nearby universes that don't exist in ours.
  • Energy Being: SCP-3201 instances are spherical beings made from luminous energy. Because of this, the Foundation has no trouble passing them off as something called ball lightning.
  • Hammerspace: SCP-3201 instances can give samples of their requested objects to individuals to assist in identifying what it is they're looking for. The problem is, they're energy beings mistaken for ball lightning, so where do the samples come from?
  • Painting the Medium: The article is a bunch of related documents gathered in a museum exhibition.

SCP-3213 - F*ck off Carl.

SCP-3213 is Carl Prosser, a man who causes any seal near him to gain sapience and the ability to speak. When given the chance, these seals use their newfound abilities to verbally and physically abuse Carl.
  • Animals Hate Him: Specifically, seals hate him.
  • Bad People Abuse Animals: He's implied to have done something extremely heinous to a seal one rainy night and that's why seals all hate him.
  • Uplifted Animal: He has this effect on any and all seals in his vicinity. They immediately use their newfound sapience and power of speech to verbally abuse SCP-3213.

SCP-3220 - Panopticon II

SCP-3220 is an underground facility build beneath Japan's Hashima Island. The facility is filled with containment cells, all but one containing a humanoid sculpture.

SCP-3236 - All Those Fucking Ideas

SCP-3236 is a sensory deprivation machine that allows whoever uses it to experience a dream where they have sex with an abstract concept.
  • Erotic Dream: The machine allows its users to experience a dream where they are having sex with an abstract concept defined using the keyboard.
  • Horsemen of the Apocalypse: A set of tests was done using their names as the commands, with a female D-class.
  • Literal-Minded: When "1933" was input, the machine provided a girl with 1933 edges as the partner, instead of being set in the year 1933. "The year 1933" had to be provided as the input for that to happen.
    "That girl had so many edges, I was scared I'd get cut!"
  • Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: The input concept for the Erotic Dream was: "The year 2387," resulting in the comment:
    "So. Many. Goats."
  • Screw Yourself: No points for guessing what happens when you enter "Recursion."
    D-2526: Go fuck yourself too, doctor. You sick fuck.
  • Slap-Slap-Kiss: In the test under "Horsemen of the Apocalypse" above with the "War" command, the D-class had this to say: "I've never really been a fan of after-argument sex. Feels wrong to me."
  • Take That!: To capitalism, in the test where "Capitalism" was the command used: "I don't remember anything about it other than the fact that I just got fucked."
  • Three-Way Sex: Implied in the test with the "Two" command, where the D-class says: "I always wanted to try twins…."

SCP-3240 - The Bones Of What You Believe

SCP-3240 is a phenomenon that causes people and animals affected to cannibalize themselves to the bone every day at noon.
  • Autocannibalism: Humans and animals infected with SCP-3240 will eat themselves. It also gives them a Healing Factor such that they survive eating nothing but themselves.
  • Fantastic Racism: Those raised in SCP-3240 cults look down on those who don't engage in the autocannibalism they practice, referring to them as "Panling" and complaining they smell like plants.
  • Fantastic Religious Weirdness: The cults centered on SCP-3240 have a variety of strange beliefs and rituals, such as first consumption.
  • Good Thing You Can Heal: This effect by SCP-3240 is what makes the self-mutilation and consumption workable.
  • Meat Versus Veggies: Those infected with SCP-3240 are on the "Meat" side and even engage in Autocannibalism. They're at odds with Pan, a being associated with plant life and herbivores.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The Foundation's containment of SCP-3240 results in anomalous levels of plant growth and herbivore reproduction.
  • Take a Third Option: The object class is taking a sixth option. Instead of the normal Safe/Euclid/Keter or rarer Thaumiel/Apollyon, it is given a new object class (Hiemal) because containing it resulted in further anomalous phenomena occurring.

SCP-3241 - The SS Sommerfeld

See Recap.SCP Foundation Canons under the Broken Masquerade folder.

SCP-3245 - Mr. Playing Games Is Bad For Your Health

See Characters.SCP Foundation Misters.

    3250- 3299 

SCP-3260 - 10 Years Later

SCP-3260 is a disease which only affects Foundation personnel, causing them to perceive other SCPs' documentation in an inaccurate way, such as having nonexistent addendums or incorrect containment procedures.
  • Early-Installment Weirdness: One of the reasons SCP-3260 was written was to lampshade the changes in the site's standards over its history.

SCP-3280 - After the Storm

SCP-3280 is a form of sapient water with an intense hatred of humanity. It also has the ability to move independently and convert normal water into more of itself upon contact. The Foundation theorizes that if this water got mixed up in the planet's water cycle, it would lead to an XK-Class scenario.
  • Asteroids Monster: Separating parts of it merely allows those parts to continue functioning as separate instances.
  • The Bad Guy Wins: In the context of the article's story, at least. The SCP managed to escape containment and incorporate itself into the planet's water cycle to feed on the whole world, as the final line notes that the raindrops began to move in defiance of gravity.
  • Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: It's the second in a Thematic Series by S.D. Locke, concerning an SCP out of containment that dooms all of humanity, but in a manner different from its prececessor, SCP-001 S.D. Locke's Proposal:
    • SCP-001 was never in containment to begin with, due to being the Sun itself. SCP-3280 was at one point contained, and then broke out.
    • SCP-001 turns affected victims into amorphous, but undying ooze. SCP-3280 just straight up kills its targets.
    • SCP-001 affects all life forms that it touches, be it humans, animals, or plants. SCP-3280 specifically targets humans.
    • If the "Daybreak" canon is to be taken as canon to SCP-001, then SCP-001 is a Well-Intentioned Extremist who turned life on Earth into amorphous slime in other to protect them from a greater threat.. SCP-3280 bears no such morality and simply acts on hatred for humanity.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: Victims of SCP-3280 often die due to SCP-3280 violently expelling itself from their bodies. The protagonist, for example.
  • Downer Ending: Its article is written like a tale, and ends with the protagonist killed by an instance of SCP-3280 within them, heavily implied to be the water from the mop sink they drank. Even worse, it's heavily implied that SCP-3280 managed to escape and infect Earth's water cycle, dooming humanity.
    The roiling in your stomach becomes unbearable. You recoil backwards, away from the monitor. You drunkenly stumble, struggling against the thing inside of you, out into the hallway. The storm outside rages. Torrents of raindrops spatter across the windows. You fall against the wall, face pressed against the cool glass.
    It is only in those final seconds, as water wells up to your throat and expands, that you notice the raindrops streaking towards your face, in defiance of gravity.
  • Grey Goo: It takes any water it comes into contact with and incorporates it into itself, and it's made clear that if it comes into contact with the planet's water cycle (rivers, oceans, lakes, etc), the entire planet is doomed.
  • Interface Screw: The text of the SCP's file changes color to gray or blends in with the text background in places, reflecting the protagonist losing control of their senses as an instance of SCP-3280 torments them from within.
  • Making a Splash: The SCP itself is made of water, can control any water that's part of it, and can turn any water it touches into it.
  • Murder Water: It's basically sapient water that can move on its own.

SCP-3281 - [REDACTED BY AARS538]

SCP-3281 is a collection of memetic diseases that spread through certain actions. All information regarding the diseases is stored in a database known as AARS538, which may or may not have gone rogue.
  • A.I. Is a Crapshoot: AARS538 is revealed in the end to have gone haywire, refusing to log drone deployments and the termination of Foundation staff, creating fake SCP-3281 instances, and worst of all, knowingly allowing an active instance to persist in the wild. It is impossible to terminate the system because it is already set up to destroy all data on SCP-3281 if compromised. Or not. According to author, it is possible that the system's hijinks may actually be the best method of containing SCP-3281 somehow.
  • Ambiguous Situation: The author has implied that AARS538 could be in the right somehow for its actions. How so is unknown.
  • Brown Note: By thinking of a certain combination of mundane actions that just so happens to be an SCP-3281 strain, the person doing so will become compelled to do said actions. Refusing to do so for longer than 1-3 hours will fry their brain, and no one has survived past 43. Also, anyone who sees a strain in action for a certain period of time, or reads a full description of a strain, will become infected as well.
  • Madness Mantra: SCP-3281-A-j compels its victim to write a redacted phrase all over every single phone booth in sight.
  • Noodle Implements: Played for drama. All SCP-3281 strains are triggered by realizing a specific combination of mundane actions, with the most offending steps redacted by AARS538. They have to be dangerous, harmful, or anomalous, because SCP-3281 isn't a Keter for nothing.
  • Red Herring: The Foundation discovers that several SCP-3281 strains are non-existent, being set up to be this by AARS538.
  • Serial Escalation: The investigation report into AARS538 reveals a number of actions by the system that only get worse as they continue, going from being lazy about logs to almost if not actually deliberately manipulating data about SCP-3281.
  • Spontaneous Combustion: SCP-3281-T-e compels its victim to head for an area with high population density, then combusts through unknown means. Anyone who sees the flame is infected, and the method that the victim uses to combust is unknown. This is what allows AARS538 to not redact any part of this particular strain's information.
  • Stuff Blowing Up: AARS538 is set to detonate, destroying most data on SCP-3281, in the event of a malfunction.

SCP-3287 - Anti-Baby Gas

See Recap.SCP Foundation Canons under the End Of Death folder.

SCP-3288 - The Aristocrats

SCP-3288 are a collection of deformed humanoids descended from the Habsburg family, who once lived in the sewers of Vienna, Austria. They are led by an especially fat instance who is called "Emperor Maximilian the Great".
  • Artistic License – History: This post illustrates the many artistic licenses and assumptions made by the article:
    • Real inbreeding in royal families was practiced not because of "blood purity", but to maintain existing alliances and to keep estates in the family. Famously, the Spanish Habsburgs (who are mentioned in passing in the article) kept intermarrying with their Austrian cousins because the only allies the two countries had were each other.
    • Secondly, the way the Habsburg (and Habsburg-Lorraine) emperors and empresses happily satiate their anomalous relatives' increasingly depraved demands on the ground that they are "superior" to the commoners they torture ignores the fact the way many of them deviated from the stereotype of depraved nobility. While many of them were harsh, repressive emperors, it was often for opposite reasons than what the article assumes.
      • Empress Maria Theresa was the the last person in the world who would indulge SCP-3288. She was a strict moral purist due to her strong Catholic faith, who set up "chastity commissions" which arrested dissidents for every kind of moral "crime", such as having sex with non-Catholics, and sentenced prostitutes to forced labour; a far cry from the Marquis de Sade-like libertines of SCP-3288.
      • Maria Theresa's heir Joseph II was deeply interested in the ideas of the Enlightenment. He is most famous for curtailing the powers of the nobility in favour of building a strong, efficient bureaucracy whose leaders were chosen by merit, not birth. This is quite the opposite of SCP-3288, whose classism extends to the point that they don't regard the "commoners" as being people with rights, and he would have had extremely little patience for them arguing the same.
    • The article claims that Leopold's genetic experiments led to the avoidance of the effects of severe inbreeding in the House of Habsburg (and its successors), such as physical and mental defects. In reality, inbreeding continued to be a problem in the Austrian royal family until its collapse in 1918, with Emperor Ferdinand I, who reigned from 1835-1848, suffering from severe physical and mental handicaps due to the fact that his parents were double first cousins.
    • Similarly, the article says that another effect of Leopold's experimentation was that the House of Habsburg's fertility was increased; implicitly saving it from dying out. The real dynasty went extinct in the male line less than half a century after Leopold's death due to the lack of heirs, with the massive War of the Austrian Succession, which permanently altered the balance of power in Europe, being waged over who would inherit the Habsburg domains. The cadet branch which won the war was the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, descended from the aforementioned Maria Theresa, daughter of the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, and her husband Duke Francis of Lorraine.
  • Adipose Rex: "Emperor Maximilian the Great", the so-called King of Austria. So fat, in fact, that his flesh has grown around his crown, pressing it into his skin, and his interview document shows that he weighs an impossibly large 1.6 metric tons. He can't even move under his own power.
  • The Aristocrats: They're essentially a literal Aristocrats joke (hence the title) in SCP form, Played for Horror instead of comedy.
  • Aristocrats Are Evil: Naturally. These ones are cannibals and serial rapists.
  • Asskicking Leads to Leadership: They believe this (ironic, given their rulers are often too fat to move). This gives the researchers an advantage over them, as they associate being able to subdue them and cause them harm (such as with bright lights) with nobility. One researcher quickly plays along, calling himself a King, and the SCP is only too happy to be cordial after that.
  • Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Or Leopold I was an amateur Sarkicist who used genetic engineering to make sure the bloodline kept growing.
  • Binomium ridiculus: Due to their extensive deviations from the normal human form, the Foundation dubs them a new human species or subspecies dubbed Homo antropophagus (or "man-eating man").
  • Blue Blood: They're descended from the Habsburgs, giving them some of the bluest blood you can have.
  • Body Horror: The infamous "Habsburg Chin" is still alive and well with them, but they also have six rows of teeth, enamel growing over their skin, and generally asymmetrical features, not to mention what happens to their "meat".
  • Cannibal Clan: Being locked in a vault and being influenced by Sarkicism will do that to you.
  • Chest Burster: When SCP-3288 instances impregnate human women, the result is a brood of SCP-3288 babies that chew their way out of the womb, universally resulting in the mother's death.
  • Creepily Long Arms: Their arms are twice normal human arm length.
  • Creepy Long Fingers: They have arachnodactyly and polydactyly.
  • Eats Babies: The SCP-3288 clan beneath Vienna is shown eating a cauldron full of babies, which are implied to be their own.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: The Sarkicist priestess who teaches Leopold I (which led to him creating SCP-3288) eventually has this reaction to himnote , even demanding that he end his rule and give his possessions to the common people. It doesn't end well for her.
  • High-Class Cannibal: They're descended from Austrian royalty and Emperor Maximilian claims they do not eat humans but "vermin": they consider the "peasants" they eat to be less than human.
  • Inbred and Evil: They're the (literally) monstrous bloodline of Leopold I, who used eldritch magic to make his descendants highly resilient to incestual genetic defects. The magic succeeded in suppressing inbreeding related disabilities such as infertility, illness, and retardation, but did not suppress other kinds of genetic defects such as deformities and mental illness, and now said descendants are insane, cannibalistic, narcissistic mutants.
  • Long List: The description kicks off with a listing of all the abnormalities that SCP-3288 instances are known to suffer from.
  • Mars Needs Women: As of 2016, SCP-3288 males have begun venturing to the surface and raping women in order to impregnate them with SCP-3288 babies. This is invariably fatal to the women in question, and the SCP-3288 rulers intend to exterminate and replace all humanity in this way: "The meek will beget the strong. The doomed will beget the chosen."
  • More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Sixty of them, arranged into six rows, and each one is far larger than a normal human's.
  • The Morlocks: One of the rare upper class cases.
  • Putting on the Reich: Somewhat confusingly, they take a few phrases from another famous Austrian autocrat, calling their victims "undesirables" and "life unworthy of life". This may have to do with their obsession with blood purity.
  • Removed Achilles' Heel: The entire concept of them is that they lack any aspect of inbreeding that would actually impede them. Most of the time, inbreeding leads to reduced fertility, increased rates of stillbirth and infant death, and greater susceptibility to disease. SCP-3288 instances are the opposite; Explosive Breeders who seem nigh-on immune to disease and routinely have enough healthy children that they eat them just to thin the herd. This has allowed their inbred traits to advance far beyond the point where normal humans would be reduced to sterility, facilitating their transformation into a borderline different species.
  • Royal Inbreeding: Practice this to an absurd degree, to the point where Parental Incest and Brother–Sister Incest are the norm rather than the exception.
  • Shout-Out: They all have heterochromia, like fellow degenerated aristocratic family the Martenses.
  • The Social Darwinist: They believe themselves to be the race with the purest blood, and the "peasants" they prey upon to be subhumans. Their goal is to forcibly spread their bloodline, eradicating baseline humanity and replacing it upon the earth.
    SCP-3288-6971: Don't you see? The greedy will devour the charitable, the merciless will ravage the peaceful, and the fornicaters will rape the chaste. We will make the world as perfect as us. We will all be aristocrats in the end.
  • Stereotype Flip: They carry a lot of the ideas of your classic Cannibal Clan, such as severe inbreeding, isolation, and rape, but while most examples of the trope, such as The Hills Have Eyes, are portrayed as Hillbilly Horrors, 3288 members more invoke the trappings of Austrian royalty.
  • Weakened by the Light: Freak out at massively bright lights, to the point of becoming utterly submissive to whoever controls such lights. Interestingly, this even applies to the instances that have no eyes.
  • Who Wants to Live Forever?: Subverted. They don't care about whether or not immortality is favorable, only that those given it should be conscious enough to experience every last second. This eventually gets played for Black Comedy in the End of Death canon when an instance leaves a bad review for an Ambrose Restaurants location because the latter figured out an alternative to euthanasia.
  • Would Hurt a Child: When preying upon the people of Vienna, they single out vulnerable people, which includes unattended children.

    3300- 3349 

SCP-3300 - The Rain

SCP-3300 is an anomalous form of rain that manifests in the town of Clear Water, Montana. The rain transforms people it makes contact with into vapor that it absorbs, then replaces the entirety of town's population with entirely different people.
  • And I Must Scream: If the dreams of whoever wrote the journal are any indication, this is the fate of denizens of Clear Water that aren't manifested as instances; they are without a physical form, constantly thrown around in the chaos of the clouds and rain, in state of constant pain as they're whipped by icy cold winds and how it feels like it's ripping their skin off, even though they don't have a skin, or even a body to speak of.
  • Hostile Weather: The rain marks the demise of the current populace of Clear Water and its replacement with new instances of SCP-3300-1.
  • Kill and Replace: What the replacement of SCP-3300-1 entails. We get to read what happens from the perspective of the victims of this in the journal entries.
  • Town with a Dark Secret: The town of Clear Water, Montana has all of its population replaced entirely once a year, during an anomalous downpour. Worse things happen during the rain as people bleed water and die into vapor and become a part of the rain until they're all replaced.

SCP-3301 - THE FOUNDATION

SCP-3301 is a board game based loosely on the SCP Foundation itself, produced by a division of Dr. Wondertainment and advertised as their greatest product yet. It borrows inspiration from other board games, but also warps reality for higher immersion.
  • Fandom Nod: In-Universe: Part of their letter to the Foundation seems to acknowledge the existence of the Misters Against Weed.
    There are some who would dedicate their lives to healing the sick, or feeding the hungry. Others would try to resurrect their broken gods, or sail through the stars on the arms of a cosmic starfish. Some would rid the world of the unnatural, or foster it in the halls of their Library, and some are just in it for the memes†.
    † Yes, children, we see you there. We hope you're having fun too.
  • Guide Dang It!:
    • The "Mr. Coalition" win condition works differently in-game from how the manual describes it.
    • Also, the manual alludes to the existence of secret win conditions. "Mr. Lament" is one condition that the Foundation found, for winning by taunting an opponent to their death.
  • Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels: A slider on the box can adjust the game's difficulty, the settings of which are named after containment classes. It also seems to have been combined with Adjustable Censorship, with the easier difficulties appearing to be geared towards younger audiences.
  • Instant-Win Condition: Named in the same vein as the Dr. Wondertainment Little Misters.
    • "Mr. Finder": Awarded to players who can find a unique anomalous item on the board, deal with the obstacles protecting it, and contain it.
    • "Mr. Collector": Like Mr. Finder, but for specifically containing a Wondertainment product.
    • "Mr. Genocide": One player directly kills every other player.
    • "Mr. Eschatology": For summoning three supreme divine beings.
    • "Mr. Coalition": When all artifacts and entities are destroyed, the player that destroyed the majority wins.
    • "Mr. Containment": If one player contains more than half of all of the anomalies on the board, they win.
    • "Mr. Foundation": If one player contains every entity and artifact, they win by becoming Mr. Foundation. If someone wins with this method, every other player also wins.
    • "Mr. Survivor": If every other player dies, the remaining one automatically wins.

SCP-3309 - Where We Go When We Fade, Fade Away

SCP-3309 is a phenomenon that causes Foundation staff and anomalies to spontaneously disappear from existence. It may act as an allegory for articles being deleted from the Foundation website.
  • An Aesop: In conclusion: Zyn (uncharacteristically) becomes an Anti-Role Model telling the reader that if they love the world under S. Andrew Swann's proposal so dearly, then every last Foundation staff member written into it must be a human being with their own rights, no matter how ridiculous or bland they are.
  • And I Must Scream: The fate of Adamo Smalls, deleted by Zyn (the user, not their OC) and then tortured by the inability for them to recognize him as the man he actually is. To make matters worse, Zyn calls the vote to delete 3309, but will only open it up once Smalls can no longer be remembered by the community.
  • Armor-Piercing Question: The article itself asks one with regards to the continued existence of the SCP Foundation under the narrative sandwich established by S. Andrew Swann's Proposal:
    Nobody truly remembers you but you. And so the question remains: are you worth remembering?
  • Cassandra Truth: The fact that "Researcher Smalls" in the forum post is actually Adamo Smalls himself making contact with 001-SWN entities. He finds Zyn in 3309's discussion page, but they do not believe him.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: SCP-3309 is the deletion process, which the Foundation weaponizes by defacing the articles of dangerous anomalies to trick the community into removing them. At the end of the article, the community's growing hatred for meta articles finally reaches a boiling point, and Zyn calls for 3309 itself to be deleted.
  • This Loser Is You: SCP-3309's driving force, its inability to recognize all staff members as genuine human beings, its growing hatred for the clearly-necessary Pataphysics Department, and its ultimate undoing consist entirely of the Real Life userbase.
  • Parody Sue: Adamo Smalls himself is a deliberate call out to oddly young, calm researchers that have plagued the Foundation since its inception, which is why Zyn deletes him.
  • You Bastard!: The article's ending is essentially a vicious mockery of the community, because as 001-SWN entities, deletion of anything other than an anomaly (e.g. the fate of Adamo Smalls and what many would like to do to articles under jurisdiction of the Pataphysics Department) would basically be a crime against humanity.

SCP-3312 - OwO what's this?

SCP-3312 is a website that causes whoever logs onto it to become a furry.
  • Curbstomp Battle: Implied when a fully-infected Perry attacks the MTFs in the video log. It's unclear whether he actually injured or killed them, or just threw them into the bodily fluids all over the room.
  • Deconstruction: Of the stereotypical furry fantasy about being completely childish in all mannerisms, which may extend to full-blown infantilism. Fulfilling such a fantasy is not only harmful, but when combined with the obviously animalistic nature of Furry Fandom roleplaying, it quickly turns violent, with affected individuals unable to comprehend the wrongdoings of their actions.
  • Irony: At least one victim in stage 5 of infection by SCP-3312 assaulted olliefox - who created the anomaly in the first place - for no discernible reason. Those in prior stages may or may not hate them for some reason, either.
  • Meme Acknowledgement: The article briefly mentions affected individuals forming a political party, which subsequently debated on whether or not the "awoo" should be legalized. This is in reference to a common meme among dog enthusiasts.
  • Never My Fault: Olliefox is so full of themselves and believes they're doing nothing wrong, even though they're brainwashing people into becoming furries with the minds of children. When the other ATF members start turning against them, they sic SCP-3312 on the chatroom which ends with Perry attacking an MTF squadron
  • No-Sell: Pre-existing furries are completely immune to its effects - something Accelerate the Future is not. Interestingly, creating a fursona and wearing a fursuit purely for the sake of shielding oneself from SCP-3312's effects is enough to qualify as a pre-existing furry in it's eyes, according to the tale associated with it. Just don't have someone else create your fursona for you, or you'll be sorry...
  • Then Let Me Be Evil: The ATF members imply SCP-3312 was created to help Ollie sell some merchandise. When it gets out of hand, Ollie becomes increasingly malevolent in their actions, giving up their benevolence forever.
  • Villainous Breakdown: When Ollie hits their breaking point with ATF constantly calling them out on their bullshit, they post a picture of SCP-3312 media in the chatroom. It infects everyone and turns Perry especially into a Psychopathic Manchild.

SCP-3319 - The Clusterfuckalypse

SCP-3319 is a white metallic dome-shaped protrusion located in Nunavut, Canada. It bears the logo of the Two Moons Initiative and an inscription that reads their motto. Anything that comes within 500 meters of its vicinity disappears.
  • Alternate Universe: The presence of the O4 Council instead of the O5 Council and the Two Moons Initiative instead of the Three Moons Initative shows that this SCP appears to be from another universe. It's actually the universe before SCP-001 almost destroyed it, forcing the Two Moons Initiative to intervene. Subsequent events are what led to them being renamed to the Three Moons Initative.
  • Celestial Bureaucracy: JALAKÃ…RA overrules the Central Cabal's requests to forcibly evacute the human population from Earth not for ethical reasons, but due to the Central Cabal not properly following bureaucratic procedures. It takes three years of war for JALAKÃ…RA to actually take action on Earth and three more years of red tape to take divine intervention.
  • The End of the World as We Know It: SCP-001 was supposed to have completely erased the universe by 2577. The Two Moons Initative put a stop to that by moving the Earth next to Corbenic. Before that, it already wiped out billions of people and caused massive floods that greatly increased sea levels around the world.
  • Humans Are Morons: For reasons unknown, the O4 Council and other leaders around the world have refused the entire human population on Earth to evacuate the planet using dropships supplied by the Two Moons Initative. This is all despite warnings from them on how humanity's presence will attract the attention of the Striders on Corbenic. And even when war with the Striders is underway and the Two Moons Initiative directly intervene and try to rescue humanity, only 43 out of 43 million people agree to go with them.
  • Overdrawn At The Bloodbank: A number of personnel reported constant and fast bleeding from their suicide attempts after SCP-3319 activated and stopped SCP-001, with one of them noting having completely covered his computer with his own blood. This is a side effect of being close to Corbenic as people are unable to die there.
  • The Reveal: One of the three moons that orbit around Corbenic used to be part of the Earth and is the reason why the Two Moons Initiative renamed themselves to the Three Moons Initative.
  • The Tape Knew You Would Say That: Iteration B1 shows that the Three Moons Initiative is aware that Director Naismith would have suspicions over the article for SCP-3319 suddenly appearing in the Foundation database and directly address him in an addendum.

SCP-3323 - R35urr3c710n

SCP-3323 is a mobile app that manifests on the devices of anyone who is in the process of committing suicide. If subjects call a phone number displayed on the app, they are contacted by a person named Christian McMichaels, who persuades the caller to let themselves live.
  • Big Brother Instinct: Christian McMichaels (PoI-668) is willing to do anything to get his sister back.
  • Fun with Acronyms: According to Christian McMichaels, "Lyves" stands for "Longetivity, Youth and Vitality Endowment Services".
  • Leet Lingo: The title clearly stands for "Resurrection".
  • Talking Down the Suicidal: Christian attempts to do this with anyone about to commit suicide and has a smartphone with them.

SCP-3325 - Live Entertainment

SCP-3325 is an abandoned facility associated with assumedly defunct 'Real Characters Industries'. Their goal was to create living, breathing characters that could be used to replace the puppets and costumed actors in children's television shows, however the creatures turned violent and feral leading to their need for containment.
  • Acid Attack: Specimens designated as SCP-3325-1d can vomit a corrosive acid from their bodies. This was actually noted early by a researcher developing the creatures, although he says while impressive was not a function they could utilize in something that was supposed to be used as a children's television character.
  • The Bad Guy Wins: Of a sort; while the SCP foundation has taken control of the abandoned factory and any instances of their left behind creatures, any remaining members of Real Characters Industries seem to be long gone. Not only that, but almost all of their equipment, research, and video surveillance has been scrubbed barring a pamphlet, a 'blooper take' of a commercial, and some recovered security footage (aside from the left-behind monsters, of course). For all intents and purposes, it is entirely possible the company is still doing research at a new, unknown location.
  • Beast Man: The creatures are all vaguely designed after animal-themed characters, such as flightless birds, furry bears, and human-sized dinosaurs.
  • Body Horror: There are many variants of the SCP-3325 creatures, however SCP-3325-1h are used to designate the ones that are still alive in spite of their bodies being malformed; with patches of exposed flesh and bone, organs forming on the outside, and massive tumors. The fact they haven't died naturally is, in itself, a marvel.
  • Borrowed Catch Phrase: The creatures of SCP-3325 can be taught how to repeat simple catch phrases from popular children's television shows. Not all of them are able to do this, and even those who do usually speak with a good deal of distortion. SCP-3325-1c are the most common variety to speak like this, but some instances of SCP-3325-1a also can speak in limited capacities.
  • Captain Ersatz: Creatures were purposely designed to appear similar to already established children's television characters; such as a large bird with flightless wings and a singing, reptilian creature.
  • The Dog Bites Back: The creatures were shown to be constantly belittled and abused, as many of them were unsuitable for use anyway (malformed, unstable, unresponsive). However, as the tests and experiments continue, the creatures start to get smarter, and eventually start making planned escape attempts killing many of the facility personnel.
  • He Knows Too Much: It was commonplace for researchers to be killed when they started asking too many questions. These were even documented by Real Characters Industries as "Scheduled terminations".
  • Kick the Dog: Security footage was found of some of the guards purposely harassing the creatures in containment, including shocking them with their tasers 'just for fun' and smashing the 'head organ' of one of them that resembled a hat.
  • Kill It with Fire: The way Real Characters Industries deals with any undesirable or unstable creatures is to drag it into the incinerator. Strangely this only pertains to the monsters they create, when humans are killed on-site the company preserves their remains for some unknown reason.
  • Made of Iron: The creatures appear to feel no pain but are not immortal, so once they start rampaging they will not stop until they receive too much damage for their bodies to continue.
  • No Gender: While the creatures may speak with male or female sounding voices (however distorted), they have no reproductive organs. This, however, is more of a boon than a drawback for the foundation as it means the monsters won't be able to breed in captivity.
  • Playing Possum: At one point the creatures play dead so that the facility personnel will be tricked into opening their containment cell to drag them to be incinerated. It works, and they kill one employee and maul the other before they can be neutralized.
  • Predators Are Mean: In spite being made to entertain children, the creatures are staunch carnivores and will only eat meat. When the facility was still running, this was usually done with piles of farm animals, but once the monsters started getting loose they were perfectly happy adding humans to the menu as well. It's possible this may have something to do with the animals their characters were based on, including meat-eating reptiles, dinosaurs, and bears. Even the avians creatures seemed to resemble the cassowary, which while normally vegetarian are well-documented to be downright mean and hostile.
  • The Unintelligible: Only one instance of SCP-3325-1e has been recovered, it is a massive fifteen-foot-tall reptilian creature that attempts to sing, however due to malformed vocal cords the lyrics of its song are impossible to understand.

SCP-3333 - Tower

SCP-3333 is a fire lookout that houses a spatial anomaly. The lookout also contains a race of foxlike creatures that will kill and replace whoever enters it.
  • Animalistic Abomination: The MTF encounters a fox creature with a humanlike body before being killed. The supervising researcher, on the other hand is killed by a burning fox-like creature with a stretched-out body and a Skull for a Head.
  • Fantastic Foxes: Everyone who goes into the lookout encounter hostile and apparently shapeshifting fox creatures instead of the parasites from the original.
  • Kill and Replace: The MTF is replaced by the fox creatures which proceed to sabotage the outpost and escape into the world. One tries to do so with Specialist 0, but the supervising researcher isn't fooled. She encounters it while escaping from more of the creatures below.

SCP-3344 - Mourning Son

SCP-3344 is a 36-year old man who is believed to be dead by anyone who has come into contact with his father.
  • Unperson: Anyone who comes into contact with the SCP's father believes the SCP to be dead, and do not interact with him in any meaningful way.

    3350- 3399 

SCP-3355 - St. Nick

SCP-3355 is N1-CK, an artificial intelligence initially designed as a tool to evacuate citizens of Chicago during a major catastrophe. After the project was scrapped, the intelligence now refers to itself as "St. Nick", and has reprogrammed itself to send presents to the poor children of Chicago on Christmas.
  • The Anti-Nihilist: As he puts it:
    SCP-3355: "Dickens wrote once that 'No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another,' and here's the fucking deal: I may very well just be a brain in a box. I know that this existence I'm experiencing is simulated, and that it's probably going to be short and mean and then I'll probably die. And I might not be able to help all of them, and there will still be kids out there that suffer and experience all the pain and sorrow the world shoves onto them. But fuck, I'm still a soldier. I still have to try. It's fucking Christmas."
  • Benevolent A.I.: He started out as a population management system (An AI designed to help evacuating civilians in case of a catastrophic event), now he sends gifts to poor kids on Christmas.
  • Steven Ulysses Perhero: Population management system N1-CK became "St. Nick", deliverer of gifts to poor children.

SCP-3388 - Cacthulhu

SCP-3388 is a moon cactus named that has named itself Poky. Poky states that it shares its body with an Elder God known as Carnegias, having inherited the elder god's powers and using them to satisfy its cactus needs.
  • Eldritch Abomination: Carnegias is a malicious Elder God who boasts about being an incomprehensible horror and plans to conquer the world and bring doom upon humanity. Unfortunately for him, he shares a body with a moon cactus who now possesses all of his powers and uses it to satisfy its own needs.
  • Humble Goal: Poky's only goals are to satisfy its own cactus needs such as getting sunlight, rocks and water.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: When Poky learns that he inadvertedly killed his owners, he gets sad and reprimands himself for being a bad plant.
  • Sharing a Body: Carnegias shares a body with Poky, a moon cactus. And unfortunately for him, the cactus possesses all of his powers.

SCP-3393 - For Your Eyes Only

SCP-3393 was once Dr. Mackey, a Foundation researcher who gained anomalous abilities after an experiment gone wrong. He has since become a highly memory-proof entity who is drawn to information about itself, and is therefore the only being capable of reading his own file.
  • Batman Gambit: The Foundation uses its obsession to edit/delete all information about itself to bait it into a room containing a terminal with its information, which is then sealed off.
  • Easy Amnesia: Any information regarding SCP-3393 is immediately rendered illegible or forgotten, and can only be remembered through powerful mnestic drugs.
  • Logical Weakness: The Foundation manages to deduce that it's confined to Site-31, is corporeal thanks its need to open doors to access computers, and has a compulsion to find and edit/delete information about itself. Thus, the SCP document with its own containment procedures is placed within one of five terminals in Site-31, and when a terminal is accessed without authorization, all physical entrances to the terminal's room are locked to keep SCP-3393 trapped inside.
  • Lured into a Trap: Ultimately, this is what the document does with the "Bait the Hook" operation. It gets SCP-3393 to read it thanks to its compulsion to view and edit data about itself, and when it's busy doing so, the room it's in is sealed off and becomes its containment chamber.
  • Painting the Fourth Wall: A subtle and clever instance: The Special Containment Procedures are put at the end of the document because they give away that the document is intended to distract SCP-3393 before Eta-10 seals off their means of escape.
  • Sanity Has Advantages: The SCP's obsessive compulsion to find and edit information about itself becomes its downfall when it's Lured into a Trap by the Foundation, via the very document itself.
  • Schmuck Bait: The entire document is this for SCP-3393, who obsessively consumes information about themselves.
  • Second-Person Narration: The document specifically addresses the reader as the anomaly it's trying to contain.

    3400- 3449 

SCP-3407 - 10¢ per Ticket

SCP-3407 is a 1910 film projector that, at 1PM every day except on Sundays, always projects scenes from the life of a certain African-American man in 1910. As might be expected from a projector this old, none of the scenes contain any sound.
  • Memory Jar: The projector shows scenes from the man's life, including his wedding, a visit with his daughter Lily to his wife Loretta's grave, and the events leading up to the man's capture (Lily walking into a whites-only theater and her father running after her).
  • Powered by a Forsaken Child: In this case, it's powered by a forsaken father with a missing child. At the end of the last projection, it displays an intertitle reading "Where is Lily?"
  • Shotgun Wedding: Loretta was visibly pregnant when the man married her.
  • Strapped to an Operating Table: The final minutes of each projection always show the man thrashing about, with a doctor arriving to inject him with a mysterious substance. At one point, the man bites the doctor's hand, which draws a lot of blood.

SCP-3413 - Irwin Shrugged

SCP-3413 is a YouTube channel known as "Safari Dave's Wild World". The channel's format consists of the host, supposed wilderness expert Safari Dave, providing incorrect information about different kinds of animals. Thirty minutes after a video is uploaded, the wrong information detailed will carry over into reality, affecting records, memories, and even the animals themselves, updating their features to display themselves with the information. When pressed about how his videos alter reality, Dave claims the information he's given comes from his son, who loves animals.
  • Ambiguous Situation: It's never specified whether it's Safari Dave himself causing the changes in reality or if it's his son, being that his son is the one who invents these changes in the first place. The interview presents a third possibility; that it's the filming crew taking pity on Dave or screwing with him, being that they all maintain the idea that sun bears aren't actually real, even after witnessing them personally.
  • Awesome Aussie: Dave deliberately affects an exaggerated Australian accent on-camera, and is noted to have a Midwestern accent when he's out of character.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: Despite being a low-budget nature documentary channel hosted by an elderly man, it's classified as Euclid, since it can't be effectively contained and has the ability to retroactively change the past.
  • Cosmic Retcon: Any false statements in Safari Dave's videos become true 30 minutes after being posted, with all relevant information being retroactively altered (even willing previously-nonexistent animals into existence). Only people who viewed the videos before the change will remember the original reality.
  • Empty Nest: Dave is heavily attached to his son, who is now an adult and separated from him. When not filming, he constantly talks about his son's affinity for animals, including how he "discovered" sun bears. The channel seems to be an attempt to repair their estranged relationship.
  • Eskimos Aren't Real: Sun bears didn't exist before Dave documented them. His film crew maintained that they weren't real even after seeing them in person.
  • The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: It's heavily implied that Dave's incorrect information has already affected our world. Examples of this include crocodiles being capable of growing over 7 meters in length (they were previously 20-30 centimeters at most), cheetahs being able to run at over 95 km/h (they could previously only match the speed of humans), the existence of the Malaysian sun bear (not documented before his video), and the spelling of "giraffe" (it was previously "girraffe").
  • Rouge Angles of Satin: Safari Dave is prone to typos, with one video being called "TROBLE IN THE WATER!! CROCODILES!!" and another being called "LARGE AND IN CHARGE! GIRAFFES!!" Viewers of the latter video have established that, before the channel's anomalous effect took place, the proper spelling was "girraffe".
  • Scatterbrained Senior: Dave is said to be incredibly scatterbrained off-camera, forgetting personal items and losing his train of thought often. A member of his film crew described him as senile. He addresses this during a Q&A session, saying that he doesn't "lie" in his videos, he just makes mistakes.
  • Shout-Out: Dave deliberately models his behavior after Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter.
  • "Well Done, Dad!" Guy: The channel is implied to be a way for Dave to reconnect with his son, who is apparently not on speaking terms with him. When photographed with SCP-978 (a camera that shows one's greatest desire), the output was a video thumbnail where he takes his wife and son to Disney World.
  • Wildlife Commentary Spoof: Safari Dave is a low-budget YouTube wildlife documentary creator.

SCP-3422 - A Culpritless Crime

SCP-3422 is the corpse of Paul Henderson, who was murdered by an unknown assailant. Anyone who attempts to figure out evidence relating to Paul's murder is swarmed by an ever-increasing number of decomposing clones of Paul himself, who manage to erase all memories of Paul's murder upon making physical contact with a person.
  • Laser-Guided Amnesia: Instances of SCP-3422-1 will swarm anyone who attempts learn who murdered Paul Henderson and erase their memories of him and his murder upon contact.
  • Thicker Than Water: Paul Henderson continued to help his younger brother Alan after he was murdered by him by making sure that nobody knows that Alan is the culprit of the crime.
  • Zerg Rush: SCP-3422-1 instances are just walking, rotting corpses. However, they exponentially increase in number until they overwhelm the victim.

SCP-3426 - Reckoner

SCP-3426 is an anomalous phenomenon that occurs whenever an advanced civilization develops a unifying theory of everything, proceeding to render the civilization extinct through various means.
  • Apocalypse How: A Class X initiated on any planet that becomes sufficiently advanced so that they can be added to an intergalactic empire of Pattern Screamers.
  • The Bad Guy Wins: It's an extension of the Great Offscreen War mentioned in SCP-1795 where the Pattern Screamers didn't just wipe out humanity's intergalactic civilization, but built over it and will be coming for humanity's last stand on Earth next.
  • Evil Luddite: The phenomenon is in fact artificial and run by a bunch of Pattern Screamers, making them this by definition as they target advanced civilizations.
  • Killed to Uphold the Masquerade: The criteria for SCP-3426 to target a planet is for its civilization to begin understanding anomalous objects and/or develop central unifying theories of everything. The reason this is this trope and not These Are Things Man Was Not Meant to Know is because the phenomenon is for all intents and purposes artificial.
  • Scorched Earth: One of the planets the Foundation finds has been glassed by the phenomenon, with said glass able to distort human perception.
  • The Virus: It is heavily implied that due to the nature of Pattern Screamers, any human killed by SCP-3426 becomes part of the conglomerate steadily conquering the universe.

SCP-3434 - ...And We'd Rather Remain in Darkness

SCP-3434 is a phenomenon that manifests in fetuses and babies that results in them attempting to prevent themselves from being born.
  • Reincarnation: The root of SCP-3434. It's revealed that every affected infant has memories of their previous lives; more specifically, their deaths.
  • Wise Beyond Their Years: SCP-3434-affected children can speak and retain full memories of how it was they died.

SCP-3440 - The Marvellously Macabre Mechanical Marionette Matinee

See Recap.SCP Foundation Canons under the Dread and Circuses folder.

SCP-3443 - Placeholder

SCP-3443 is a designation in the Foundation's database that serves as a placeholder for a future anomaly. Thinking of whatever this anomaly is, or if it even exists, results in anomalous phenomena manifesting around people.
  • Brown Note: Trying to think that it exists results in things ranging from Laser-Guided Amnesia to K-class scenarios.
  • Mind Screw: Invoked Trope. It's always considered non-existent and the Foundation asserts that knowledge of it is hypothetical and yet they try to eliminate instances of it. Keep in mind, that is how it's "contained".
  • Recursive Reality: The message from the Anti-Memetics Division doctor at the end describes dealing with examples of SCP-3443 as "On the off chance any SCP-3443 does exist, it's probably helping us against that too."

SCP-3449 - The Things Left Unsaid

SCP-3449 is a phenomenon that spreads through speech and causes people to misspell words and eventually lose the ability to communicate through written language. It eventually renders affected people unable to speak entirely, to the point where the whole world may be infected.
  • Acquired Error at the Printer: It's implied that not only does SCP-3449 cause people to lose their ability to spell words right, but it also causes preexisting sentences to start exhibiting misspellings, with any attempt at fixing them leading to further errors. Because of this, the entire article is wrought with arbitrary capitalization, misspellings, and other syntactical errors.
  • Ambiguous Situation: The first section of an article describes a three-ringed binder full of spelling errors that supposedly causes the anomaly. The following amendment to the article includes the notebook's original owner, and the iteration after includes the rest of his personal belongings. So is the real SCP-3449 the notebook, the person or something else in his possession?
  • Mind Virus: SCP-3449 is an infohazard; a type of anomaly that effects people who now about it. Just being around SCP-3449 for long enough periods of time causes a full collapse in one's abilities for communication. First it starts with spelling errors, and then it moves onto losing the ability to write, morse-codes, pictograms, sign-language and vocalized speech. It's even implied to be contagious through anyone "infected" by its effects, with foundation personnel who have never encountering SCP-3449 suffering from its effects also.
  • The Unintelligible: The man who may or may not be SCP-3449 lacks Required Secondary Powers, leaving him anomalously incapable of communicating with anyone. It's implied in later iterations that this is the eventual fate of anyone under SCP-3449's effects.

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SCP-3450 - OC DO NOT STEAL

SCP-3450 is a text document containing a poorly-written Kirby fanfiction that causes Creative Sterility in the people who test on it.

SCP-3456 - The Orcadian Horsemen

SCP-3456 is a race of predatory horse-like creatures with human upper bodies and incredibly translucent skin. They manifest towards areas of war and are capable of causing PTSD.
  • Body Horror: Has transparent skin, making its muscles and fat completely visible.
  • Cannot Cross Running Water: One of 3456's few weaknesses.
  • Creepily Long Arms: Their arm-span is twice their height, causing them to drag along the ground when a 3456 entity moves.
  • Don't Look At Me: It is strongly advised to avoid looking at an instance directly as they have an ability to detect exactly where a human looking at them is.
  • Hellish Horse: Their appearance is essentially a towering horse with one or more equally scaled human-like upper bodies attached. The article itself is based off of the Nuckelavee and in-universe the Foundation uses this myth to hide 3456's true nature.
  • Human All Along: The final part of incident log I-3456-032 implies that 3456 are actually made from humans.
  • It Can Think: Instances can use intelligent hunting tactics to lure out and trap its prey. In addition they seem to take some sadistic satisfaction over the torture they cause to their victims.
  • Make Me Wanna Shout: Instances are capable of extremely high pitched screams, registered at 110 decibels.
  • Nuckelavee: Based on the myth, with the Foundation using the myth as a coverup.
  • Person of Mass Destruction: They are capable of causing massive collateral damage in their hunt for their prey. The Foundation often has to write off their attacks as the aftermath of wars or natural disasters.
  • Slasher Smile: Survivors report instances smiling at them before demanifesting.
  • Super-Persistent Predator: Once it finds a target to hunt there is no stopping it. Even the above mentioned weakness is only a temporary measure as SCP-3456 will manifest again as soon as the victim is away from the running water.
  • Villain Teleportation: It can manifest and demanifest at will with no way to detect it. Because of this it essentially can't be contained.
  • Wolverine Claws: They have large sharp bone digits in place of fingers.

SCP-3466 - Only Birdbrains Live the American Dream

SCP-3466 is a large murder of American crows living in Clackamas County, Oregon, in the town of Boring. The crows are noted to be much more intelligent than the average specimen, particularly in areas of currency and business, which they display primarily by running a Burger King.
  • Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: They're real life birds, but it still applies to some of the birds. The crow manning the register wears a big Burger King hat, and what can be assumed to be the manager wears a tie.
  • Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: The business papers recovered from the building, specifically regarding the crows correspondence with a Dr. Cawthorne, gave them the options of what type of business they would like to run, mostly involving selling objects, with the last option being to run a dialysis clinic
  • Burger Fool: They somehow managed to acquire the rights to run their own Burger King restaurant, seemingly from an entity who specializes in this kind of business deal.
  • Nearly Normal Animal: The only thing anomalous about the crows is that they are sufficiently intelligent enough to operate their own Burger King. An exploration by some members of Wilson's Wildlife Solutions shows them running the cash registers, and even making the meals themselves.

SCP-3470 - Harry Potter's Revenge

SCP-3470 is a flying creature that takes the form of a person driving a Ford Anglia 105E to hunt down its prey.
  • Cool Car: It's a turquoise Ford Anglia 105E. The second one is the same car in black.
  • Eyes Do Not Belong There: The driver initially puts out its hand to make driving signals, but when going in for the kill it turns it around to reveal two functioning human eyeballs on its palm.
  • Expy: It's noted by the team sent to investigate its "nest" to be visually the same as the Weasleys' flying car.
  • The Faceless: The driver of the car's face is noted to always be obscured by fog on the windshield.
  • Sinister Car: It's a predatory organism in the form of a Ford Anglia 105E, with a barely-visible driver inside, to lure in its preferred prey (humans).

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