YMMV / SCP: Secret Laboratory

• Awesome Music:
  • The Final Flash of Existence, the music that plays when the Light Containment Zone goes under lock down is a beautifully haunting and somber version of the game's theme. It is music you don't want to hear, but some players admit to lagging behind or staying behind just to listen to it.
  • The Melancholy is an original piano composition that can play while on the surface. The elevator remix "The Waiting Game" works just as well.
  • Whenever the Chaos Insurgency spawns in, they have their own unique theme that D-Class and other Chaos Insurgents can hear. It's a great beat that is sure to hype any lone D-Class up.
• Complacent Gaming Syndrome: It has become very common for D-Class and Scientist players to gather in the SCP-914 room right off the bat, usually staying there until they get an O5 class keycard, SCP-106 finds them or the Light Containment Zone decontamination countdown kicks off.
• Fan Nickname: Various nicknames are given to the anomalies, items and teams by the playerbase to help soften the usual Foundation colloquialism.
  • Class-D Personnel - 'D-Boys', in reference to this popular video. Less commonly heard is 'D-Bags' thanks to the D-Class team's habit of trying to backstab everyone, including each other, whether there's a good reason to or not.
  • Scientists - 'Nerds'
  • SCP-173 / 'Peanut', for its original model resembling a peanut in shape. Even though the model was changed due to copyright issues, the term is still the most popular name for 173.
  • SCP-096 / 'Lanky' or 'Long Boy', in reference to his physique resembling Lanky Kong. 'Shy Guy' is also rather common.
  • SCP-106 / 'Larry' / 'Uncle Larry', a longstanding nickname that stuck ever since 106 was first conceived (and is even agreed to be 106's real name by many writers) thanks to having roughly the same abilities as 'Radical Larry' in this meme.◊ The 'Uncle Larry' nickname comes from the fanon characterization as a Dirty Old Man.
  • SCP-939 / 'Dogs' or 'Doggo', a nickname stemming from the Internet's insistence on calling any quadrupedal creature a dog. Similarly to 173, the nickname persisted after 939 became bipedal.
  • SCP-079 / 'Computer'
  • Micro H.I.D Prototype / 'The Super Soaker', for reasons that become very apparent when you see what and how it fires.
  • SCP-3114 / 'Skeleton', for obvious reasons. Some other popular nicknames include Papyrus, Skeletor, Mr. Doot, Fake Player, and Imposter.
  • SCP-1507/ 'Flamingo', again, for being, well, plastic lawn flamingos that want to kill you and turn you into one of them.
• Low-Tier Letdown:
  • Facility Guards usually spawn with an MP7, a keycard that's good only for entrance checkpoints and a pitiful amount of ammo, resulting in them getting killed early by SCPs who decide to rush the Entrance Zone. It's considered a minor miracle if guards actually do end up making it down to Light Containment, much less surviving the round... at least, until the Parabellum update, where the MP7 was renamed and given better stats, and can now decently shut down an SCP's hume shield, given the Guard knows how to use it properly.
  • SCP-106 is not only slower than other SCPs and his Pocket Dimension escapable with enough luck, but his lifespan was entirely dependent on how quickly the humans would find the Femur Breaker and if they could sacrifice one of their own to take him down. Luckily for him, the Femur Breaker room was sealed altogether in the Mimicry update.
  • SCP-049 started out as competent thanks to his touch of death attack and zombification, but later got nerfed so hard he has become Awesome, but Impractical. He's extremely slow and is too dependent on his SCP-049-2 instances to even do a thing on his own. And since 049-2 instances are usually players who were just revived (given they don't outheal the attack first), some of them will even off themselves instead of working with him. Just hope that they don't immediately seek death if you revive a fresh kill.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • D-BOYS!^ExplanationOften screamed when the D-Class spawn in. Even though this isn't as popular to do as it once was, the term is still a popular nickname for the class (see Fan Nickname above).
  • 939's ass^ExplanationIn the Mimicry update, 939 got a new, much more humanoid model, and players were quick to notice that 939 now had much larger hips and and a strangely suggestive walking animation. Many people started to joke about it being furry bait.
  • 173 got evicted^ExplanationIn update 13.1, SCP-173 was relocated from Light Containment Zone to Heavy Containment Zone, to the area previously owned by SCP-049. Naturally, the official Discord went to work right away on joking on why 173 moved to 049's room, offering up the idea that SCP-173 was evicted from his special room in Light.
• Nightmare Retardant: The game can provide a menacing atmosphere with dark, foreboding hallways and the amount of things skulking around ready to kill you, but any tension can easily fly out the window thanks to the fact that almost everyone can communicate in some way and simple human error/nature. A typical round can include Scientist and D-Class players constantly belittling each other as some of the SCPs decide to defect to the human side and help the civilians escape while MTF ignore their rescue mission entirely to play deafeningly loud music over the facilities intercom system instead while the Chaos Insurgency launch a desperate mission to get the MTF out of the Intercom Room.
  • As proved in one of Frisky’s videos, it’s a pretty strange atmosphere when someone starts blasting the Burger King Foot Lettuce copypasta on the PA system.
• Paranoia Fuel: The game runs on skipping direct confrontation in favor of deceiving and betraying the people around you to further your own objectives or to survive yourself. Perhaps those footsteps in the other room belong to your friends here to rescue you, or maybe it's the enemy hunting you down. Maybe that voice asking to be let into your defensive position is a fellow D-Class, or maybe it's SCP-939 trying to trick you into letting it in. Maybe you think you're being watched by SCP-079 in the hallways and can be walking right into an SCP ambush. And that's not saying on whether or not SCP-079 could be watching you and waiting for a perfect moment to seal you in a room alone with another hostile SCP.

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