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| 7 | [[Characters/SCPFoundation Character Index]]\ |
| 8 | [[Characters/SCPFoundationTheFoundation The SCP Foundation]]\ |
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| 10 | [[Characters/SCPFoundationSCPs SCPs]]\ |
| 11 | [[Characters/SCPFoundationSCPs001To999 Series I (001 to 999)]]\ |
| 12 | [[Characters/SCPFoundationMisters Misters]] | [[Characters/SCPFoundationPitchHaven Pitch Haven]]\ |
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| 14 | '''Groups of Interest'''\ |
| 15 | [[Characters/SCPFoundationMekhanism Mekhanism]] | [[Characters/SCPFoundationOrtothanism Ortothanism]] | [[Characters/SCPFoundationSarkicism Sarkicism]]\ |
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| 20 | ->''Behold the bizarre and the rational, the malevolent and the altruistic. The actors on this grand anomalous stage.'' |
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| 22 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/groups-of-interest Listed]] Groups of Interest |
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| 24 | Groups in existence who possess, use, or attempt to create SCP objects, either for their own personal gain or for the protection of mankind. |
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| 26 | [[folder:Alexylva University]] |
| 27 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/groups-of-interest#toc0 Alexylva University]] |
| 28 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/symbols_triangle_a_square_and_two_circles_3.jpg]] |
| 29 | -->'''Original creator:''' Eskobar |
| 30 | -->'''Debut:''' [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-877 SCP-877 - University Microchips]] (2011) |
| 31 | '''Alexylva University''' is a university located in Sylvanos, a regional equivalent to North America from an alternate universe where Latin and Greek cultures survive into the modern era and exert dominance over the Western Hemisphere. Anomalous objects used by the university (but most likely not built by it) are regularly transferred into the baseline universe, and most of them exist as applications of anomalies in technologies. |
| 32 | ---- |
| 33 | * AcademyOfEvil: By our standards, at any rate; their moral code is so bizarre and different from ours that it's a case of BlueAndOrangeMorality. |
| 34 | * AllLowercaseLetters: Inverted, it's all uppercase. This universe never progressed to a point where lowercase letters would be invented. |
| 35 | * AlternateHistory: It's implied to exist in a world where Carthage never fell, leading to things such as Roman Numerals being used in place of Arabic ones, lowercase lettering never being invented, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and slavery still being acceptable]]. Scientists are called natural philosophers, companies are called combines, and it's implied that the technology is centuries ahead of our own. |
| 36 | * DeliberateValuesDissonance: Their morality is completely different from our world's; as many of the prominent European philosophers were absent, they see little ethical or moral concern in reprogramming people's minds, removing their ability to speak in movie theatres, or handing out toys capable of inflicting MindRape. |
| 37 | * ForWantOfANail: It's implied that Carthage winning the [[UsefulNotes/PunicWars Second Punic War]] was the lynchpin in this universe which made it swing so heavily; [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-961 SCP-961]] mentions historical inaccuracies starting at Metauro River, site of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Metaurus Battle of Metaurus]], one of the turning points in the Second Punic War. SCP-961 implies that the only reason our world hasn't ended up the same way as theirs is because of a mysterious... someone influencing historical events. |
| 38 | * GivingRadioToTheRomans: At least one SCP is being deliberately sent by someone at the University in order to make an inter-universal black market; their [=SCPs=] are but toys to them. |
| 39 | * InstantHomeDelivery: The Phitransimun Combine uses wormholes to deliver packages; this is why stuff keeps on ending up in the SCP universe. |
| 40 | * MadScientist: They seem to be largely made up of these, considering how almost all of their [=SCPs=] are just ridiculously advanced tech. |
| 41 | * MagicFromTechnology: All their SCP items seem to be just very advanced technology, and in fact the only reason they appear in our universe at all is because of a faulty teleporter at a Tennessee university. |
| 42 | * MundaneUtility: The reason that objects from their universe keep ending up in the "main" SCP universe is because they're sent over an Einsten-Rosen Bridge (a.k.a. a wormhole). The reason they use these bridges? For ''mail and package delivery''. |
| 43 | %%* ObliviouslyEvil: By virtue of their BlueAndOrangeMorality. |
| 44 | * OutOfFocus: Out of all the "classic" GOI[[note]]i.e., AWCY?, the Black Queen, the Chaos Insurgency, the [=CotBG=], Doctor Wondertainment, The Factory, the GOC, GRU Division "P," the Horizon Initiative, the MCF, Marshall Carter and Dark Ltd., "Nobody," the Serpent's Hand, ORIA, Prometheus Labs, and the Unusual Incidents Unit[[/note]] they're the least used by a large margin and are only rarely, if ever, still mentioned in the more recent articles on the site. |
| 45 | * RetroUniverse: An interesting case, where the "retro" here refers to the ancient Mediterranean world. As noted [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-big-goi-essay here]], essentially all of Alexylva's [=SCPs=] are meant to show how ancient Greco-Roman culture would function in a retro-futuristic setting. |
| 46 | -->"Would slaves be automated by some magic technology? Would chariot jousts be more high-stakes? What kind of souped-up monsters would be the newest thrill at the Colosseum?" |
| 47 | * TheUnfought: Being that they are located in an AlternateTimeline, the Foundation can't exactly fight against them. Relatedly, one of the overarching themes around Alexylva is that all of their skips are on the Foundation's Earth only by accident. |
| 48 | [[/folder]] |
| 49 | |
| 50 | [[folder:Ambrose Restaurants]] |
| 51 | !![[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/ambrose-restaurant-hub Ambrose Restaurants]] |
| 52 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ddqquqh_01f13d4f_1ae7_4f1a_aa85_9da3ae4c2333.png]] |
| 53 | -->'''Original creator:''' Lt Flops |
| 54 | -->'''Debut:''' [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3464 SCP-3464 - Olive Garden regularly communes with DEMONIC ENTITIES to summon their SATANIC sempiternal garlic bread]] (2018) |
| 55 | '''Ambrose Restaurants''' is an anomalous fine-dining restaurant chain that uses anomalies to create their own take on exotic cuisine. While they have been known to deal with dangerous anomalies known to the Foundation and collaborate with shadier groups of interest, they themselves are largely harmless — and cook surprisingly tasty food. Nonetheless, the Foundation is chasing after them through MTF Lambda-14 while also extracting valuable information from the company. |
| 56 | ---- |
| 57 | * AbstractEater: |
| 58 | ** One of the menu items at the Temecula location is the ''concept'' of a curry, used as a lavish condiment for the other dishes. |
| 59 | ** The "coconut gelee" in the San Francisco location is actually "eggs" harvested from the dreams of a sea dragon. |
| 60 | * AntiVillain: The only reason the Foundation chases after them is because they tread dangerously close to the veil, and while they do have a heart, they're still willing to go to extreme lengths to prepare the ultimate meal. |
| 61 | * BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce: "The Holy Grail's" review of their London Prix Five location very strongly implies they have somehow managed to replicate SCP-666½-J, served as a regular, if decadent, crab-stuffed mushroom. |
| 62 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: They care about the taste of their dishes and nothing else; the only consistent moral they demonstrate is an unwillingness to harm patrons that don't ask for it. Outside of that, however, they will drag themselves through hell and back, prey on vulnerable anomalies, and con the Foundation's allies just to line their pantries with exotic ingredients, which they see nothing wrong with. And if they reject an ingredient, it's ''not'' about ethical consumption, unless that's literally the reason it doesn't taste good. |
| 63 | * CharlesAtlasSuperpower: They've managed to achieve some ExtremeOmnivore tendencies that shouldn't be humanly possible (most notably the metabolism of various strong chemicals which accompany a tube worm dish) just by training for it — and the process is apparently simple enough that they can teach it to diners, human or otherwise. |
| 64 | * FountainOfYouth: Subverted. The Champagne of Youth, while having some anti-aging effects, is not permanent and [[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope is emphatically not an age potion]]. |
| 65 | * GarnishingTheStory: How's merengue cooked with the breath of a young dragon sound? |
| 66 | * ImAHumanitarian: PlayedForLaughs in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/do-you-like-huey-lewis-and-the-news "Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?"]] Owner Chaz Ambrose has gone [[ComedicSociopathy a little off the deep end]] and developed a taste for human flesh, about which he is all too happy to share. |
| 67 | --> I promise you this: this time next year, you'll all be working, living, and eaten in a whole new Ambrose Restaurants. |
| 68 | * ITasteDelicious: The "Veal You" dish from the San Francisco location is apparently meant to invoke this by harmlessly extracting some of the customer's flesh to be served back to them as a meal. |
| 69 | * MundaneMadeAwesome: A decent portion of all of their dishes are regular dishes with a supernatural aspect to them, like macaroons with chocolate and vanilla from another time and land, or shrimp stew cooked with the heat of will-o-wisps. |
| 70 | * PetTheDog: Though they've always been a kindhearted group of interest, they've gone out of their way to prove they really do care about their customers and the ethics of their cooking. At least two of their dishes are designed for the consumer to talk to their deceased loved ones again, and in the Thorn Valley location, which takes place in the End of Death canon, they've successfully created a magic spell that is the closest thing they can get to proper euthanasia when everything [[WhoWantsToLiveForever just won't die]], not even the food. |
| 71 | * ShoddyKnockoffProduct: Inverted with their knockoff ambrosia; according to actual gods who have access to real ambrosia, it's an ''improvement'' over the original recipe. |
| 72 | * SimpleYetAwesome: They can make the vampires that stay at their [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/ambrose-transylvania hybrid restaurant and inn in Transylvania]] "feel alive" with...nothing but good food. |
| 73 | --> ''I remembered hearing that Ambrose Transylvania would make you feel alive. I had some doubts as to whether this would be true or not, and assumed that the food would have some properties that either turned me alive briefly, or changed my perceptions to think I was alive, or force some grandiose vision upon me. None of that happened: the food is simply well-cooked, delicious and reminds you of better days.'' |
| 74 | * SupremeChef: Ambrose has tangled with all sorts of [=SCPs=], explored the most dangerous locations (like '''[[green:the nameless forest of centennial trees]]''') in the multiverse, and mastered just about everything that is edible all in the name of the perfect dish. |
| 75 | * VillainousGentrification: GAW implies that Mrs. Gentrification from their Misters Against Weed series has some ties to Ambrose's Backdoor Soho location for nefarious ends, but how or why is unclear. |
| 76 | [[/folder]] |
| 77 | |
| 78 | [[folder:Anderson Robotics]] |
| 79 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/anderson-robotics-hub Anderson Robotics]] |
| 80 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/anderson_robotics.png]] |
| 81 | -->'''Original creator:''' Jacob Conwell |
| 82 | -->'''Debut:''' [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1360 SCP-1360 - PSHUD #31]] (2012) |
| 83 | '''Anderson Robotics''' is a US technology company founded in 1994 by Vincent Anderson and Albert "Phineas" Frostman. While a small company, they had nevertheless gained a respectable amount of influence over paratechnology trade until their dissolution in 2024 by the FBI and SCP Foundation. |
| 84 | ---- |
| 85 | * AnimalThemeNaming: Most of their products are named after birds, with one or two exceptions. |
| 86 | * {{Magitek}}: Their products combine magic and technology. |
| 87 | %%* MechaMooks: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Being an anomalous robotics company]], they create these, among other things. |
| 88 | * SpiritualSuccessor: In-Universe, they're often seen as the new version of Prometheus Labs, albeit far more mysterious and malevolent. |
| 89 | [[/folder]] |
| 90 | |
| 91 | [[folder:Arcadia]] |
| 92 | !![[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/arcadia-hub Arcadia]] |
| 93 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/arcadia_3.png]] |
| 94 | Nolan Bushnell, co-founder of {{Creator/Atari}} (yes, that one) was one of a cabal of drug-addled warlocks that used videogames to fuel black magic with the souls of children, in order to gain great power and greater profits. While largely decimated by MediaNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983, '''Arcadia''''s acolytes still exist in the games industry. |
| 95 | ---- |
| 96 | * BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: |
| 97 | ** Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, founders of Atari, were occultists who used their technical know-how in order to tap into hellish power using video games. |
| 98 | ** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_H._Baer Ralph Baer]] created the [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5200 Brown Box]] in an attempt to stop Earth from being destroyed by an extrastellar... something by playing Pong on a cosmic scale. Al Alcorn, creator of Pong, was forced by Arcadia to use his daughter as the controller for this game. |
| 99 | ** Ron Gordon, former president of Atari, was involved with the development of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5032 The Atari Panther]] and an anomalous VR set to go with it, a prototype of which may have resulted in the Mayan god Hunahpu possessing the body of a game journalist. |
| 100 | ** The buried E.T. Cartridges at the Alamogordo Landfill are actually a [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4605 shared consciousness]] of an entity known as Arkady whose duty is to keep an entity implied to be Satan himself from collecting on a debt they're owed. |
| 101 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: A ''very'' quick example. Originally, they were known as ''Atari'' Arcadia, but after realizing they could be in serious legal trouble as Atari is highly protective of its property, almost all references to Atari were scrubbed, less than six months after the Group was properly established on the site. |
| 102 | * FunctionalAddict: "Drug-addled" is often used to describe Arcadia and its employees, but given Atari's success in the late 70's and early 80's, this must be the case. |
| 103 | * TheMostDangerousVideoGame: While a lot of them don't kill you, several of Arcadia's products count. |
| 104 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1926 SCP-1926]] is a prototype of the unreleased ''Swordquest: Airworld'', which has two people permanently connected to it via a virtual reality headset, and they are in incredible amounts of pain. |
| 105 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2600 SCP-2600]] is a series of Atari 2600s used as part of MKULTRA testing. |
| 106 | [[/folder]] |
| 107 | |
| 108 | [[folder:Are We Cool Yet?]] |
| 109 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/are-we-cool-yet-hub Are We Cool Yet?]] |
| 110 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d7332g0_20b922e8_8dda_4771_b71e_cb0a9193b8ec.jpg]] |
| 111 | -->'''Original creator:''' [=far2=] |
| 112 | -->'''Debut:''' [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-092 SCP-092 - "The Best of The 5th Dimension"]] (2008) |
| 113 | '''Are We Cool Yet?''' (abbr. '''AWCY?''') is an avant-garde art movement, consisting of a loosely-organized collection of anomalous artists (anartists). Members often produce AnomalousArt installations with significant public exposure, which regularly causes public casualties. |
| 114 | ---- |
| 115 | * ArtInitiatesLife: Several of their art pieces are living, or at least sapient beings, including [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1057 SCP-1057]] and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1802 SCP-1802]]. |
| 116 | * AttentionWhore: Of a sort. Their "installations" are placed for maximum exposure. "Exposure" in this context is often synonymous with "casualties". |
| 117 | * CallingCard: When an art piece of theirs shows up, expect to see their group's title written somewhere in the area if not spoken by someone nearby. If not the full sentence, then a simple "cool" inserted into a sentence should suffice. |
| 118 | * EvilCounterpart: A retroactive one to Gamers Against Weed -- several GAW members are ex-AWCY?, having splintered off to form a group that's less extreme and more pacifist. AWCY? is made from a collection of AttentionWhore artists who design art pieces meant to harm and kill as many people as possible, [[ForTheEvulz for little reason other than their pride as artists]]. GAW, meanwhile, is made up from a gang of anonymous teenagers/young adults who'd rather [[ForTheLulz create anomalous objects and memetic effects that prank people or are jokey in nature.]] |
| 119 | * NerdInEvilsHelmet: The tale [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/jude-s-bizarre-adventure Jude's Bizarre Adventure]] depicts their members as a bunch of sociopathic {{Cloudcuckoolander}}s who act like they have [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Stands]], implied to be a coping mechanism used to stave off what [[AlmightyIdiot usual fate]] to [[RealityWarper Type Greens]]. |
| 120 | * MadArtist: AWCY's works are extremely dangerous, if not potentially world-ending. Among others, the "[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1057 idea of a shark]]", an animate empty space in the shape of a shark that can still eat you, or a collection of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_5th_Dimension 5th Dimension]] [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-092 CDs]] that do things related to 5 (turns you 5 days/weeks/years old, splits you in 5 yous, teleports you to the fifth moon of Jupiter, etc.). |
| 121 | * TerroristsWithoutACause: Depending on whether or not the reader considers "art" a cause. Some members are political radicals — the people who unleashed one SCP on an art gallery that was hosting a fundraiser for drought-afflicted children were anarchists, and they were involved in the Great Ape-Snake War movement, using a gold urinal that interfered with the police. Others want to "inspire the masses" with usage of anomalous objects. Others are basically stereotypical "true art" elitists who wear skinny jeans and go on and on about their pretentious work — except, in this case, their work means horribly altering or murdering people. |
| 122 | * TakeThat: The writer who originally came up with Are We Cool Yet? has stated that they were originally envisioned as a parody of a specific type of edgy user that the wiki was having problems with at the time. The question "Are We Cool Yet?" wasn't asking about coolness and was meant to sound like something a whiny bully would say. |
| 123 | |
| 124 | !!''The Critic'' |
| 125 | One of Are We Cool Yet?'s oldest members, and the closet thing it has to a leader. |
| 126 | * DoWrongRight: Dislikes how lethal so many of his students' pieces are; not because he cares about the loss of human life, but because he thinks it's too repetitive. |
| 127 | %%* EvilMentor: He served as one to Jude Kyiyot. |
| 128 | * PragmaticVillainy: Part of the reason he hates ''murder art'' is because the purpose of art is to spread a message, and dead people can't learn anything from it. |
| 129 | |
| 130 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-cool-war-hub Ruiz Duchamp/Wilson]] |
| 131 | * AntiHero: Killed three people in an art exhibition... and doesn't really care much. But they ''did'' sign waivers. |
| 132 | * ArtAttacker: Being a member of Are We Cool Yet?, he weaponizes his exhibits, such as [[spoiler:attempting to make Nobody commit suicide using an installation in his "wowwee go kill ursefl" exhibit -- only for Nobody to instead get shot dead by his brother Pico]]. |
| 133 | * BringMyBrownPants: Sends the Painter a memetic image that makes him shit himself. |
| 134 | * DrivenToSuicide: By the Foundation for taking away his anti-depressants. |
| 135 | * ItsPersonal: Has a grudge against Nobody for creating Mr. Redd, and ruining his brother's life. |
| 136 | * MeaningfulName: Took the name Duchamp after Marcel Duchamp, a prominent figure in the Dada movement; Are We Cool Yet? is allegedly Dada in nature. |
| 137 | * PsychicAssistedSuicide: He tried to murder Nobody by using mental tricks to trick Nobody into thinking that his art exhibit was a doomsday device that could only be disabled by Nobody sacrificing himself. |
| 138 | [[/folder]] |
| 139 | |
| 140 | [[folder:The Black Queen]] |
| 141 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/black-queen-hub The Black Queen]] |
| 142 | '''Allison Chao''' is the daughter of Doctor Charles Gears, who was taken by the Foundation, causing her family to fall apart. This has happened an infinite number of times, across an infinite number of universes. The Allisons of the Multiverse, each known as the Black Queen, have a single goal: to destroy every iteration of the Foundation, and to rescue their father -- at least, at first. Some of them just want to wander the multiverse, others want to rule their worlds. And thanks to the Wanderer's Library and the resources therein, they have the ability to do so... |
| 143 | ---- |
| 144 | * AllianceOfAlternates: They're several counterparts of one character working together. |
| 145 | * ApocalypticLog: The Secrets of the Black Queen sometimes take this form, as they catalog events that occur throughout the universe, sometimes with world-ending implications. |
| 146 | * ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Every Black Queen document has each queen write with a different color of text. |
| 147 | * DependingOnTheWriter: Even in-universe, accounts of how she acts vary. She can have scruples, or be totally merciless. She can genuinely be 5 steps ahead of everyone else, or she can just be good at making it up as she goes along. Further justified with numerous versions of her from other dimensions. |
| 148 | * DisappearedDad: Her father, Dr. Gears, disappeared out of her life when he got picked up by The Foundation. |
| 149 | * {{Expy}}: In more recent articles, Allison Chao has been rewritten to resemble [[Franchise/RickAndMorty Rick Sanchez]] to a not-insignificant degree, with the Black Queens as a whole transitioning into being similar to the Transdimensional Citadel of Ricks. |
| 150 | * TurnOutLikeHisFather: Not entirely, but she's inherited his focus and his drive when it comes to completing goals. |
| 151 | * WildCard: Willing to work with, and turn on, any group of interest to achieve her goals. |
| 152 | * TheWomanBehindTheMan: During their time in the Wanderer's Library, they've started calling themselves Little Sisters, or L.S. for short. Coincidentally, an individual known as L.S. has been making waves in the Library over the past several years... |
| 153 | [[/folder]] |
| 154 | |
| 155 | [[folder:The Chaos Insurgency]] |
| 156 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/chaos-insurgency-hub Chaos Insurgency]] |
| 157 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chaosinsurgency.png]] |
| 158 | -->'''Original creator:''' Noaqiyeum |
| 159 | -->'''Debut:''' [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-355 SCP-355 - The Serrated Lawn]] (2008) |
| 160 | The '''Chaos Insurgency''' (commonly abbreviated '''C.I.''') is a splinter group of the Foundation, grown out of a rogue Foundation cell that went A.W.O.L. with multiple [=SCPs=] in 1924. It obtains anomalies and directly applies them for its own expansion, allowing it to gain a foothold over sections of the world. It operates under a loose structure and is directly hostile against the Foundation, with the two groups seeing many confrontations over the ages. |
| 161 | ---- |
| 162 | * BadassCreed: "Should intermittent vengeance arm again his red right hand to plague us?", seen on the logo. The meaning behind the motto varies, but it's both a reference to ''Literature/{{Paradise Lost}}'' and to MTF Alpha-1 "Red Right Hand", the personal Mobile Task Force of the O5 Council. |
| 163 | * BananaRepublic: They've apparently created many in order to easily experiment with their population, conscript forces and have lucrative deals. |
| 164 | * DependingOnTheWriter: The nature of the organization, the goals of the organization, the details of their defection, and just about everything else has radically different interpretations between practically everyone on the wiki, due to just how vague they are. In fact, their most common characterization seems to be just vague and seemingly-random antagonism. There's even [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/djkaktus-s-proposal-iii an entire series taking the form of an SCP-001 proposal]] writing them as unsung heroes leading LaResistance against the Overseers, who are portrayed as [[AmbitionIsEvil megalomaniacs]] who intentionally let loose the concept of the anomalous to fulfill their wicked desires. |
| 165 | * EvilCounterpart: They're a Foundation group that went rogue and use many of the Foundation's methods for their own goals. |
| 166 | * {{Expy}}: They're ''very loosely'' the [[Characters/MarvelComicsHydra HYDRA]] to the Foundation's ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} -- depending on the writer. Their exact goals aren't even clear, as they've become consumed with destroying the Foundation. The general idea is that while the Foundation only uses anomalies sparingly (the whole "Class: Thaumiel" debacle), the C.I. actively uses them, even the ones it doesn't fully understand, based on the philosophy that "the ends justify the means". Their vague, long-term aspiration seems to be to overthrow the Foundation, and use anomalies to seize control over the world -- to usher in an age of peace, free from war. |
| 167 | * HeroWithBadPublicity: How [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/djkaktus-s-proposal-iii djkaktus's third SCP-001 proposal]] views them, as a group working to thwart the evil machinations of the Overseers, and written as villains by the Foundation. |
| 168 | * HeWhoFightsMonsters: Calvin, their best agent in the ''Ouroboros cycle'' canon, succeeded in killing the Overseers (except for the few who were DrivenToSuicide or killed for defecting), but by the time he gets to O5-3, he's crushing a fetus in his hand without a second thought. |
| 169 | * AHouseDivided: Due to following a very loose leadership structure. In [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/djkaktus-s-proposal-iii djkaktus's third SCP-001 proposal]], it's stated that this has compromised the Insurgency's [[LaResistance real]] goals. |
| 170 | * HufflepuffHouse: Not that many contributors seem to care about using them. One author even felt it necessary to go out of his way to write a [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/slate-thunder very long, detailed story]] (Briefing on SLATE THUNDER) about the Chaos Insurgency's origins as the remnants of the losing side of a Foundation Civil War, just so that there would finally be something worth writing about. These days, they seem to be a bit more liked. |
| 171 | * MultipleChoicePast: There's SLATE THUNDER, mentioned above, but there's also [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/djkaktus-s-proposal djkaktus's SCP-001 proposal]] (see HeroWithBadPublicity) and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/chaos-insurgency-hub the Overview on Chaos Insurgency Hub]] (depicting them as a black ops team gone rogue under the influence of an anomalous Engine). The only thing that's similar about the three backstories is that a Foundation group went AWOL, and the year 1924. |
| 172 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Chaos isn't a name that inspires confidence in their approachability. Subverted in one tale, which suggested that the name comes from a comment from their founder calling his underlings out on being so awful at their jobs that their insurgency was nothing but chaos. |
| 173 | * NebulousEvilOrganization: They're essentially an evil Foundation and nobody understands their complete goal. According to [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/welcome-to-the-future Welcome to the Future]], their goal is to create anomalous weapons [[WellIntentionedExtremist to end all war through global conquest]], and to stop other dangerous events/conflicts from happening before they even begin, either through deterrents or, possibly, anomalous means. |
| 174 | * RenegadeSplinterFaction: According to the [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/chaos-insurgency-hub Chaos Insurgency Hub]], this is what the O5 Council originally intended them to be while secretly remaining loyal. The O5 Council created them to perform actions the Foundation didn't want to get their hands dirty taking public responsibility for. But to their own astonishment, they ultimately betrayed the Foundation for real. |
| 175 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: In the Ouroboros cycle, the original O5-1 founded them after realizing that the Foundation was unknowingly causing reality to break down further. |
| 176 | |
| 177 | !!The Engineer |
| 178 | The Chaos Insurgency's mysterious leader. |
| 179 | [[/folder]] |
| 180 | |
| 181 | [[folder:The Chicago Spirit/Chicago Spectre]] |
| 182 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/chicago-spirit The Chicago Spirit]] |
| 183 | An anomalous criminal organization founded by Richard D. Chappell in 1895, based in Chicago. The '''Chicago Spirit''' had access to anomalous assets, actively recruited anomalous personnel and exploited anomalous items. At their prime, they were the largest anomalous criminal syndicate in the Western world. The Foundation had to cease all actions against the Spirit in the early 20th century due to the rise of Chaos Insurgency and needing their cooperation to contain an infectious SCP related to the Spirit. When the Spirit's influence grew too large, the Foundation eventually terminated the truce and captured Richard Chappell, leading to the group being eventually acquired by Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd. However, with rumors of a '''Chicago Spectre''' spreading in the modern day, it seems the group isn't as quite dead as it seemed... |
| 184 | ---- |
| 185 | * AscendedExtra: Originally created by the user [=PeppersGhost=] (who also, incidentally, had a large role in forming Herman-Fuller and is the author of SCP-4000) as a one-off thing for a meta tale about a user who ceased to exist, and along with them, their writing. They became a proper Group around the time the Third Law canon came into prominence. |
| 186 | * PunnyName: Their name comes from a bar they ran in the early days of their activity, and is a double meaning -- "spirit" in the sense of ghost, referring to their anomalous activities, and "spirit" in the sense of "alcohol", referring to their involvement with bootlegging. |
| 187 | * TheSyndicate: They are a large anomaly-dealing version of the trope, having influence in many major American cities at their prime. |
| 188 | [[/folder]] |
| 189 | |
| 190 | [[folder:The Children of the Scarlet King]] |
| 191 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/cotsk-hub The Children of the Scarlet King]] |
| 192 | -->'''Original creator:''' [=DrClef=] |
| 193 | -->'''Debut:''' [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-231 SCP-231 - Special Personnel Requirements]] (2008) |
| 194 | The Children of the Scarlet King are a series of independent churches, organizations, or movements associated with the entity known as "the Scarlet King". |
| 195 | ---- |
| 196 | [[/folder]] |
| 197 | |
| 198 | [[folder:The Church of the Broken God]] |
| 199 | See Characters.SCPFoundationMekhanism |
| 200 | |
| 201 | [[/folder]] |
| 202 | |
| 203 | [[folder:Church of the Second Hytoth]] |
| 204 | See Characters.SCPFoundationOrtothanism |
| 205 | |
| 206 | [[/folder]] |
| 207 | |
| 208 | [[folder:The Daevites]] |
| 209 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/daevite-hub The Daevites]] |
| 210 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/scp_140_by_sunnyclockwork_d7yf30p_pre.jpg]] |
| 211 | [[caption-width-right:200: SCP-140, by [=SunnyClockwork=]]] |
| 212 | -->'''Original creator:''' [=AssertiveRoland=] |
| 213 | -->'''Debut:''' [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-140 SCP-140 - An Incomplete Chronicle]] (2010) |
| 214 | The '''Daevites''' were an ancient civilization in Central Asia that existed for many thousands of years before their collapse in the third millennium BCE, largely before recorded history in those regions. At their peak they ruled all of Asia, stretching to Europe and the Middle East. Daevite civilization was a collection of militaristic city-states heavily based on conquest, slavery, human sacrifice, and blood magic rituals. They were ruled by a theocratic caste of matriarchal aristocrats known as "daevas", hence the name "Daevite". |
| 215 | |
| 216 | Both the Sarkite cults and the Church of the Broken God began as splinter groups within the '''Daevite Empire'''. The Sarkites began as a slave revolt which managed to overthrow the Daevites, leading to the collapse of their civilization. The Mekhanites, meanwhile, started out as a minor cult within Daevite society that struck out on their own to colonize new lands around the Mediterranean, where they remained largely neutral and indifferent to affairs of mainstream Daevites in the mother cities. During the Sarkite revolts, they sided with the Daevites as allies of convenience, not out of affection for the Daevites, but simply because the beliefs of the Sarkicites were so directly opposed to their own. After the Sarkicites overthrew the Daevites, they took over their old heartland in Eurasia and spread outwards in new Kalmaktama Empire, coming into increasing conflict with the Mekhanites. This eventually led to the Occult War, which devastated both factions and led to the collapse of both of their ancient civilizations. The survivors became the Sarkic cults and the Church of the Broken God. |
| 217 | |
| 218 | The ancient Daevites were essentially to the Sarkites and Mekhanites what those anomalous groups are to modern day humans. The ancient versions of Sarkicism play themselves up as heroes that saved humanity from the Daevites — and they're probably ''right''. The ancient Daevites are the boogeymen that ''Sarkites'' tell stories around the campfire about. |
| 219 | |
| 220 | According to some sources, the Daevites directly worshipped the Scarlet King himself. Even the Sarkites hate and fear the Scarlet King. However, the actual primary object of faith for the Daevites was the "Font," the representation of life itself. |
| 221 | |
| 222 | While Daevite civilization collapsed in ancient times, their cult either survived in secret or has been reborn, as in recent times a group known as the "Children of the Scarlet King" echoes the ancient Daevites. |
| 223 | |
| 224 | For more information about the Daevites, visit their [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/daevite-hub hub page]]. |
| 225 | ---- |
| 226 | * AbusivePrecursors: They were one of the oldest and most powerful human civilizations in the world by several millennia, and they achieved all that power by indulging in the most vile forms of BlackMagic imaginable. From sacrificing tortured slaves, to distorting plant and animal life into bloodthirsty war machines, to even (DependingOnTheWriter) pledging themselves in eternal servitude to [[OmnicidalManiac the Scarlet King]]. |
| 227 | * AdvancedAncientHumans: Their understanding of anomalous forces was as far beyond the Sarkites and Mekhanites as those groups are beyond modern humans. In fact, they were different enough from modern humans that they were technically a separate subspecies altogether. That said, nearly all articles agree they are at least culturally analogous to Proto-Indo-Europeans or Proto-Indo-Iranians (the Sarkic language article even narrows them down to the Andronovo culture). |
| 228 | * ArsonMurderAndJayWalking: Major interests of the Daevites were militarism, human sacrifice, blood magic... and horticulture. Because the Daeva greatly revered life (in the general sense) much of their non-violent thaumaturgy was focused on fertility rites. |
| 229 | * DependingOnTheWriter: Many different writers have their own ideas about what Daevite culture was like, such as whether or not they worship the Scarlet King or something completely different. So a lot of information about them is not consistent between different stories. |
| 230 | * {{Expy}}: Of the various ancient, downfallen civilizations in the works of H.P. Lovecraft that worshipped the setting's various {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. |
| 231 | * FusionDance: Revealed by SCP-6189 to be their [[spoiler:primary means of reproduction, merging the blood of sacrifices, including other Daeva and humans alike, to create new Daeva. Early sources indicate that this practice was, at least once, a willing one]]. |
| 232 | * GoodAllAlong: In the SCP-6140 version of the canon, SCP-6140 reveals [[spoiler:that SCP-140, the Foundation's primary source on Daevite history and culture, is actually a piece of revisionist fiction written by a British "anthropologist" (''hard'' ScareQuotes) who heard a few exaggerated accounts about the real empire's admittedly unsavory history, and decided that the entire nation must be like that all the time. He then used a bit of magic to erase the real Daevite nation from existence, so that his book would be the only account. Once all the copies are destroyed, the real nation of Daevastan manifests, and is actually a completely normal middle-Asian nation known for their expertise in agriculture.]] |
| 233 | ** [[spoiler:SCP-6189 also suggests earlier Daeva culture was less corrupt and brutal than their latter eras, with depictions of peaceful embassies and seemingly benign use of blood magic for harvests.]] |
| 234 | * GreaterScopeVillain: You thought the Sarkic cults were the Big Bad of the SCP Foundation? ''Guess again''. These are the guys that the Sarkites ''heroically overthrew''. |
| 235 | * GreenThumb: Several [=SCPs=] demonstrate that they had a control over plant matter. [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/rounderhouse-gold-proposal One of the pitches for SCP-001]] has them unite [[EnemyMine with the Sarkics]] against the Mekhanites due to a shared expertise with nature. |
| 236 | * HorrifyingTheHorror: The ''Sarkites'' hate and fear the Daevites in much the same way that normal modern humans hate and fear the Sarkite cults. Older versions of the Sarkite orthodoxy (seen in SCP-2408) actually make them out to be heroes who overthrew the "evil Daeva", and stress that Sarkicism stands for outright positive traits like "honor, friendship, virtue, and liberation" -- the Daevites apparently had ''none'' of these qualities. |
| 237 | * LaserGuidedKarma: According to Sarkic mythology; Ion was born the sickly half-human child of a Daeva noblewoman who believed him too weak to amount to anything more than just another slave. He would eventually escape, encounter [[TheMaker Yaldabaoth]] before taking its powers for himself, and turn his new power against the Daeva. |
| 238 | * {{Matriarchy}}: The Daevites weren't an Amazon-like society as such, but they were more of a matriarchy where women tended to wield the most power (magical or political), though men were also warriors. The House of Malidraug, a Daevite kingdom in the antediluvian world, is an exception, being a patriarchal state (rulers who were born women were expected to rule as men, even changing their names to fit this custom). |
| 239 | * TheRemnant: The "Children of the Scarlet King" are either a tiny cult of Daevites who managed to survive for thousands of years, or a new version of their religion that restarted in modern times but echoes their past beliefs. Either way the Children consider themselves the inheritors of the Daevites. |
| 240 | * RenegadeSplinterFaction: Both the Sarkites and Mekhanites originated from the Daevites: in the former case, it was actually a slave revolt, in the latter case, the Mekhanites were a cult that chose to abandon the Daevites. While the Mekhanites can be morally grey, given how evil the Daevites were, this counts as being a DefectorFromDecadence. |
| 241 | * SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The Daeva practiced extensive slavery, to the point where an entire three-fourths of their population were slaves. [[spoiler:According to 6140, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome this went about as well as you'd expect]], and the entire empire collapsed in a slave rebellion. All successor nations outlawed the practice, becoming some of the first in the world to do so.]] |
| 242 | * WrittenByTheWinners: With a twist: SCP-140 is a history book about the Daevites. Adding additional fluid suitable for writing extends Daevite history and culture, gradually prolonging their civilization's existence. Thankfully, these rewrites can only happen incrementally: each revision event can change the outcome of a key battle or even an entire war, but only that specific conflict, leaving other enemies to defeat the Daevites a few centuries later. In this fashion, the date of the Daevite collapse keeps being pushed forward by a few centuries. A major goal of the few surviving Daevite cults is to obtain copies of SCP-140 in order to make so many changes that they bring the Daevite empire forward to the present day. |
| 243 | ** Originally, the Daevites collapsed thousands of years before recorded history. Thanks to two major revision events, in the "current" timeline they died out a little before 2000 B.C. (when recorded history was going on in Ancient Egypt). Some of the later versions (depending on who you ask) say they were finally wiped out by Genghis Khan's Mongols. |
| 244 | ** SCP-6140 posits a different variation. [[spoiler:The Daevites were a totally normal Central Asian nation, who admittedly had their share of skeletons in the closet. The reason the Foundation knows them as TheEmpire is because some British historian with his powdered wig up his ass [[StayInTheKitchen decided that a functional, matriarchal Asian country]] ''[[StayInTheKitchen couldn't really exist]]'' and wrote SCP-140 in order to erase the original nation from existence, replacing it with the almost cartoonishly evil Daevite Empire. Once the "winning" source (SCP-140) is destroyed, history snaps back to how it originally was.]] |
| 245 | [[/folder]] |
| 246 | |
| 247 | [[folder:Deer College]] |
| 248 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/deer-college-hub Deer College]] |
| 249 | '''Deer College''' is a higher education facility located in the pocket dimension and Freeport of Three Portlands that deals in both natural and occult studies. |
| 250 | ---- |
| 251 | * AcademyOfAdventure: At Deer College you can study Thaumatology, Cryptozoology and Ontokinetics alongside Economics, Chemistry and Creative Writing. Your classmates will include [[TheFairFolk Children of the Sidhe]], undead, and Sarkicists. |
| 252 | * ButtMonkey: The article [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/deer-and-the-overseers mapping the history between the Foundation and the College]] emphatically stresses that the Foundation does not take the College seriously in any way due to their somewhat childish means of "retaliation" (i.e., banning stick figures meant to represent the Council). Considering what the Foundation is capable of, the College is [[NotWorthKilling exceptionally fortunate]]. |
| 253 | * HauntedHouse: The name of one of the campus boarding houses. As one might expect, it's offered to undead and incorporeal students. |
| 254 | * LandOfFaerie: Canyon House, one of the housing buildings, is located in a small forest on campus protected by druidic magic and offered to students with an interest in nature. |
| 255 | %%* SelfDeprecation: Among the many reviews from former students included in their brochure, there's one from a student who ''clearly'' didn't enjoy their time there. |
| 256 | * PretentiousLatinMotto: Ecce Homo Platonis. Ecce Homo ("Behold, the man") is a phrase from Literature/TheBible said by Pontus Pilatus when presenting Jesus bound and whipped. The addition of "Platonis" makes it "Behold, the man of Plato," a reference to an anecdote about Diogenes the Cynic where he responded to Plato's defition of a man as "featherless biped" by bringing a plucked chicken and declaring "Here is Plato's man." The motto reflects how they pretend to be a serious and dignified institution while actually being rather silly. |
| 257 | * SuckySchool: Not a single sentence about anything related to it can skip descriptions of how the students are throughly miserable there for some reason or another. |
| 258 | * TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: According to "The Seltzorcism," someone or something keeps turning the drinks in Deer College into other random beverages that are either bland or disgusting. |
| 259 | * WizardingSchool: It is a college specialising in the paranormal, and this is more or less spelled out with the final section of the hub article, "So You Want to be a Wizard". |
| 260 | [[/folder]] |
| 261 | |
| 262 | [[folder:Doctor Wondertainment]] |
| 263 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/dr-wondertainment-hub Doctor Wondertainment]] |
| 264 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tannerbanner.png]] |
| 265 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/skjermbilde_2023_04_28_102144.jpg]] |
| 266 | [[caption-width-right:250:Isabel Wondertainment, by [[https://twitter.com/CelestialFang/status/1650901332188971012 Zhange]]]] |
| 267 | -->'''Original creator:''' [=CryogenChaos=] |
| 268 | -->'''Debut:''' [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-445 SCP-445 - "Dr. Wondertainment's Super Paper"]] (2009) |
| 269 | '''Doctor Wondertainment''' is either an individual or a corporation capable of the production of anomalous toys to serve as entertainment for children. One of their more famous lines is the "[[Characters/SCPFoundationMisters Little Misters]]", a group of anomalous humanoids intended to be collected as a series. |
| 270 | |
| 271 | When they're an individual, It’s usually Doctor Isabel Helga Anastasia Parvati Wondertainment V. |
| 272 | ---- |
| 273 | * AmbiguousInnocence: Considering how dangerous a lot of Wondertainment's toys are, one has to wonder if they have some secret evil child-hating motive in mind or if they're just not aware that the things they make could get someone hurt. Their generally heroic portrayals in recent tales suggest that they lean toward the latter. |
| 274 | -->Wondertainment is a capitalist construct.\ |
| 275 | Wondertainment makes children's toys.\ |
| 276 | Wondertainment is childish and playful.\ |
| 277 | Whether or not the previous bullet point is a facade is up for debate. |
| 278 | * AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: All throughout [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/adventures-in-capitalism-hub the main series of Tales about Isabel Wondertainment]], she has a numberless horde of Welsh Corgis, all named Jeremy, and all capable of driving forklifts and assisting in her workshop. |
| 279 | %%* BodySurf: If [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-redd SCP-REDD]] is to be believed, [[spoiler:this is how he's been able to live for so long]]. |
| 280 | * CharacterCatchphrase: Every Wondertainment product label begins with the words, "Hey, kids!" |
| 281 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: While there's still plenty of darker Wondertainment articles in the "modern" days of the wiki and it's all DependingOnTheWriter, in part through the popularity of both Isabel Wondertainment and the [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/wonder-world "What A Wonderful World"]] canon, Dr. Wondertainment articles have overall trended to being LighterAndSofter, emphasizing more the genuine wonder and happiness of childhood along with showcasing the beauty and mystery of the anomalous world. |
| 282 | * DependingOnTheWriter: Whether Wondertainment is implied to be a man, woman or a group of people changes from article to article. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] with Mr. Headless, who refers to them as "he", "she" or "they" interchangeably without seeming to notice. |
| 283 | * DimensionalTraveller: During the events of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-super-cool-road-trip-adventure her Super Cool Road Trip Adventure]], she travels through a Way[[note]]dimensional pathways connected to The Wanderer's Library and other locations[[/note]] while seeking to deliver some very mean words to The Factory. |
| 284 | * EveryoneHasStandards: |
| 285 | ** Most of their toys are the epitome of MyLittlePanzer, but they discontinued [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2057 SCP-2057]] after realizing how dangerous it was. For clarification, 2057 is a brand of chicken noodle soup that can cure illness if you drink it fresh and warm, but is ''deadly'' if you drink it after it's been reheated. |
| 286 | ** Though they are responsible for creating Mr. Silence, something about him is so unrepentantly evil that the entire company and the SCP Foundation sealed him deep beneath the Earth and erased him from memory. |
| 287 | * EvilCounterpart: Not on the main wiki, but the Japanese wiki has a [=GoI=] simply called "Doctor" who is essentially an ''actively malicious'', bootleg version of Dr. Wondertainment. |
| 288 | * FriendlyEnemy: Of a sort. [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3301 SCP-3301]] is a direct gift to the Foundation, with the only catch being they'll have to keep playing it every now and then to make sure it's not "put on the shelves" as a finished product, so to speak. In it, a direct note from Wondertainment expresses utmost respect for the Foundation, despite their differences, and sincerely hopes they'll enjoy it because, at the end of the day, they've probably saved the world dozens of times over and have the most interesting tale of all to tell. In "Quiet Days," (s)he sends the Foundation a perfect model of Site-19, with remarkably detailed figures of everyone from the O5s and Ethics Committee down to the lowliest janitor, seemingly made without anomalous means, along with a note thanking them for being their best collectors. |
| 289 | * FriendToAllChildren: As quoted [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-big-goi-essay#toc10 here]], "Wondertainment, above all else, has the child's best interest in heart". |
| 290 | * GoodAllAlong: DependingOnTheWriter, this may be the case. The Tale [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-real-adventures-in-capitalism "The Real Adventures in Capitalism"]] even has her recreating the universe after it's been destroyed by the [[BigBad Scarlet King]]. |
| 291 | * LegacyCharacter: According to [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/memory-of-days-long-past this tale]], he's one of many incarnations of Dr. Wondertainment (others, per WordOfGod, include SantaClaus, [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Mabel Pines]], a gender-bent version of [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra Varrick]], Music/WeirdAlYankovic, and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-tinkerer the Tinkerer]]). |
| 292 | * MechaMooks: Dr. Wondertainment has an army of toy robots they use to both fight [[IndustrializedEvil The Factory]] and [[MundaneUtility do household chores]]. |
| 293 | * MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Most of their products are harmless, if not, well, ''wondrous''. However a few will, at best, put you in an unpleasant situation. |
| 294 | * MyHeroZero: [[spoiler:He's Mr. Collector, who's designated as 00 on his Little Misters checklist.]] |
| 295 | * MyLittlePanzer: Dr. Wondertainment produces magical (and sometimes very dangerous) children's toys, many of which are classified as SCP items. |
| 296 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: Most of the stuff they make are perfectly safe to mess with, only being contained because they're weird. But sometimes Wondertainment chucks out something absolutely horrifying, almost as if to remind the Foundation that they ''can'' be dangerous. |
| 297 | * OverlyLongName: At least the third and fifth: |
| 298 | ** Third: Dr. Reginald Philbert Lionel Archibald Westinghouse Wondertainment III, MD, [=PhD=], DDS, Esq. |
| 299 | ** Fifth: Doctor Isabel Helga Anastasia Parvati Wondertainment V, [=PhD=], MD, DD, OD, [=PsyD=], and [=EngD=]. |
| 300 | * PsychopathicManchild: Possibly, given [[NotSoHarmlessVillain some of the toys]] they make. According to the [=GoI=] hub for Wondertainment, the main goal for Wondertainment-oriented articles is "100% whimsy". |
| 301 | -->'''[=CryogenChaos=] (the original creator of Dr. Wondertainment on the wiki):''' Dr. Wondertainment is like the Warden from ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}''. He does everything on a whim, and doesn't really think about the consequences of his actions. Or perhaps he doesn't care. |
| 302 | * SamusIsAGirl: A small number of stories have revealed that Dr. Wondertainment is actually a woman named Doctor Isabel Helga Anastasia Parvati Wondertainment V, [=PhD=], although since "There is no canon", it is up to the reader to decide if this is true. Sometimes, she's the daughter or granddaughter of the Doctor Wondertainment used in other stories, who is male. |
| 303 | * TookALevelInJerkass: The version of Wondertainment depicted in the Brand New Little Misters series is far more hateful and vindicative than any other counterpart of the individual or company, successfully copying SCP-2000 and using either themselves or Mr. Dimension & Mr. Chronal to send 13 anomalies ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Redd]]) designed to kill or compromise the Overseers across the boundaries of a universe reset. All of Wondertainment's communications that survive in the new universe are openly mocking and insulting of the Foundation's goals, and it's implied that the Pattern Screamer that forms SCP-6558 is also a reflection of their new personality. Moreover, not only does the Doctor ultimately [[TheBadGuyWins get what they bargained for]], it's suggested they did all of this just to prove a point. |
| 304 | * TradeSnark: They trademark lots of things. |
| 305 | * WickedToymaker: Thoroughly ZigZagged. Most depictions lean toward subversion — the more actively dangerous items being failures of product testing and/or good judgement rather than malice — but it's implied in numerous incarnations that there are forces at work in the company that lead to occasional cut corners in manufacturing and rejected products being re-marketed under the table. |
| 306 | * TheWonka: Dr. Wondertainment in any incarnation is a mysterious figure similar to their creations, cheerily residing in the intersection of whimsical and unsettling. It's generally implied whoever they are, they have powers that they use to create and distribute products, but what exactly they are is unknown. Their motivations are also mysterious, but they're mostly portrayed as an eccentric individual that genuinely likes children and wants to see them happy by selling them magical/supernatural toys and candy for affordable prices. |
| 307 | [[/folder]] |
| 308 | |
| 309 | [[folder:The Factory]] |
| 310 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/groups-of-interest#toc7 The Factory]] |
| 311 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_factory_by_sunnyparallax_d7bxjih_4.jpg]] |
| 312 | -->'''Original creator:''' [=far2=] |
| 313 | -->'''Debut:''' [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-133 SCP-133 - Instant Hole]] (2008) |
| 314 | A mysterious group with little knowledge of its structure, methods of operation, history, and agendas, it is only known that '''The Factory''' produces and delivers anomalous consumer products worldwide at a mass-production scale. Also has an [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-001-o5 SCP-001 Proposal entry]]. |
| 315 | ---- |
| 316 | * ArchEnemy: |
| 317 | ** The Factory hates [[HappyFunBall Dr. Wondertainment]] for unknown reasons. And, based on the fact that Dr Wondertainment has sent their [[MechaMooks robot minions]] to attack Factory sites, the feeling is mutual. |
| 318 | ** To a lesser extent, as recorded in Dr. Bright's SCP-001 Proposal, they're also one for the Foundation, with it being revealed that most of the anomalies contained by the Foundation are (in some way or another) produced by The Factory and the Foundation greatly resents that their monthly sacrifice of D-Classes is for sating the Factory's hunger. |
| 319 | * [[invoked]] CapitalismIsBad: They're very much influenced by every single negative story and trait given to both the Industrial Revolution and capitalism in general. |
| 320 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: The founder of the Factory, James Anderson, is eviscerated, hung from his office window with his own intestines, cut down, disemboweled, dismembered, and then burned. Not to mention how long it took for him to actually die. |
| 321 | * TheDreaded: Are easily one of the most feared Groups of Interest, to where the Global Occult Coalition has a "kill-on-sight" attitude towards them and the Serpent's Hand looks at them with barely disguised dread. |
| 322 | * EldritchLocation: Given it followed some pagan teachings, the interior always reveals some new rooms... including the one where the O5-1 found the (dead) founder to make a DealWithTheDevil. |
| 323 | * EntitledBastard: If SCP-2271 is any indication, they think they're entitled to the ''entire planet.'' When the Foundation manages to contain the SCP, they naturally break down in an immature manner and straight-up tell the Foundation to go to Hell while also triggering a breach that necessitates them to activate a nuclear warhead. |
| 324 | * EvilCounterpart: To Dr. Wondertainment. While products from Dr. Wondertainment are dangerous when used improperly or when they're in their testing phases, they're overall designed for light-hearted fun and with children as their target audience and often look like goofy toys. The Factory, meanwhile, has a more gritty and industrialized appearance that designs products often meant to impair and/or harm people, and if some item descriptions are to be believed, are designed to look simple and inconspicuous. Fittingly, both of them seem to hate each other and attacks being waged on each other are not unheard of. |
| 325 | * {{Gaslighting}}: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2271 SCP-2271]] is apparently an attempt by The Factory to convince the outside world that HumansAreTheRealMonsters by means of claiming them as debt, despite all of their own crimes against humanity. Although it isn't working, relatively speaking, it's a sign that aside from being, well, evil, whoever's in charge has a few screws loose. |
| 326 | * GreaterScopeVillain: |
| 327 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-748 SCP-748 ("Industrial Dissolutionment")]] mentions an "Investor" who apparently provided the various industrialists that make up the Factory with the funding and technology they needed. And as noted below, an SCP-001 proposal has them responsible for both the SCP Foundation and countless other Groups of Interest. |
| 328 | ** In [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/twistedgears-kaktus-proposal TwistedGears/djkaktus's proposal for SCP-001]], [[spoiler:they are revealed to be the true creator of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-882 SCP-882]], the "heart of the Broken God" that the Church tried to resurrect their god around, which WentHorriblyWrong and created a gluttonous monstrosity instead of a god. The Factory apparently provided SCP-882 to the Church when the Church became desperate to resurrect the Broken God, and the Church apparently had to cause a lot of disasters to pay for this "heart"]]. |
| 329 | * TheGroup: The Factory has no specific name attached to it. It's just "The" Factory that manufactures the anomalies. |
| 330 | * HateSink: While every other [=GoI=] has some redeeming traits (or at bare minimum, some indication of humanity), the Factory's characterization is being ''thoroughly'' and despicably evil from top to bottom. |
| 331 | * HorrorHunger: One of the characteristics frequently given to The Factory, aside from being {{greed}}y {{Manipulative Bastard}}s, is their sheer [[VillainousGlutton gluttony]] and constant hunger for more resources in order to continue making anomalies. It makes further sense when one remembers that they're largely meant to serve as an example of what would happen if hyper-consumerism and unchecked capitalism got access to anomalies. |
| 332 | -->The consumption/production cycle of The Factory is not a means to some mundane end, like improving humanity or even just making money; it is what The Factory wants to do. The Factory will eat and eat and eat and eat and eat and eat and eat until it can eat no more, converting raw material and humanity into things to be consumed. In turn, these products will allow The Factory more food, and it will continue chomping at reality like an industrial cancer. Only three things exist to The Factory: consumers, the consumed, and The Factory itself, and even the line between "consumer" and "consumed" will eventually blur. |
| 333 | * HufflepuffHouse: In more of a "mysterious" way, though, not a "who cares?" way. |
| 334 | * HumansAreBastards: Factory skips are made from the worst of humanity and are meant to bring about the worst in humanity. |
| 335 | * IndustrializedEvil: For all their mysteries and weirdness, there is one thing sure about them — they mass-produce their dangerously-anomalous products. They also make sweatshops look like cushy jobs; according to their SCP-001 Proposal, everyone was enslaved to a 16 hour work shift, and those that were too injured to work were executed. Then they cranked it up further, sacrificing most of the disposable workers, and children were raped and bred to create more factory workers. |
| 336 | * ItCanThink: Many articles imply that The Factory, whatever it is, is intelligent and ''actively malevolent''. |
| 337 | * TheManBehindTheMan: Is one of the proposals for SCP-001 and as such may be responsible for the SCP Foundation and several other Groups of Interest. |
| 338 | * MayContainEvil: They intentionally mass-produce consumer products with anomalous properties that usually are harmful to users. |
| 339 | * MultiversalConqueror: According to the Serpent's Hand, they spread throughout TheMultiverse like an intelligent cancer, mimicking native businesses and then corrupting and twisting all that is found around them into nightmarish abominations. |
| 340 | * NeverMyFault: Sometime after the events from its 001 proposal, a subsidiary of The Factory began anomalous repossession efforts on its behalf through SCP-2271, attempting to loot the entire planet by claiming it as unpaid debt. When the Foundation suppresses them, it's revealed that they firmly believe humanity is wrong, if not ''evil'', for defeating them, never mind all their own sins: |
| 341 | -->'''Typed over an instance of SCP-2271, before the Foundation lost control of all infected individuals and destroyed their containment site:''' THERE IS A PLACE IN HELL FOR DEBTORS AND A HOLE JUST YOUR SIZE |
| 342 | * NightmarishFactory: What it makes, the working conditions, and [[HumanoidAbomination what the injured/killed became]]. Basically, imagine every negative stereotype associated with TheGildedAge and crank it up to eleven. |
| 343 | * NoOSHACompliance: The Factory was built before unions were invented, being formally established in 1835. The owner milked this trope for everything it was worth, and then some. |
| 344 | * OminousMundanity: The products of the Factory tend to prioritize function over form, and thus tend to be fairly unremarkable in appearance, identified only with the stamp "A Product of The Factory". Their functions, however, are often lethal or worse. |
| 345 | * PerpetualMotionMonster: As part of The Factory being a dark reflection of consumer culture. |
| 346 | -->When the sun goes cold and Earth goes lifeless, The Factory will consume the ground beneath itself. When the last being in the universe hangs itself upon a dead tree, The Factory will cannibalize its lifeless corpse for raw materials. When the last star dies, the last planet crumbles, the last cosmic cloud disperses, when the last bit of warmth is devoured by entropy, when at last some deific being comes across an empty existential space to make the universe anew, The Factory will be there, waiting for seconds. |
| 347 | * PlayingBothSides: The [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/aces-and-eights "Ace and Eights"]] canon portrays them as prolonging the American Civil War by selling anomalous weapons to both the Union and Confederacy in the name of profit. |
| 348 | * PowerAtAPrice: Some of their items at first are helpful, but then turn nasty. Some others only ''appear'' to be helpful, but are only nasty. Few are purely helpful with no drawback (even then they're usually shady, and even if they don't harm the user, they do harm others). |
| 349 | * PredatoryBusiness: Emphasis on the "predatory". The Factory is defined in large part by a twisted SocialDarwinist take on consumer culture. |
| 350 | %%* ShadowArchetype: To Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd. Both are organisations that embody [[CapatalismIsBad a very unflattering view of private enterprise]], but while MC&D is a [[OnlyInItForTheMoney fairly normal business]] outside of its product, the Factory is implied to just be using business as a front to bring harm to people. |
| 351 | * TheSociopath: As best described [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-big-goi-essay#toc11 here]]. |
| 352 | -->A good thing to remember about The Factory: it does not care.\ |
| 353 | That's not to say they're not driven. The Factory does what it does with a (quite literally) inhuman drive, and most probably wants to keep doing what they're doing for as long as time allows. Indeed, The Factory is often associated with the cutthroat robber baron "pioneers" of the industrial revolution, and operates much like 19th-century factories were wont to do. But outside of consuming the world and regurgitating products, it simply does not care. |
| 354 | * {{Steampunk}}: Some of their skips are designed with this in mind, albeit being PlayedForHorror and the darker side of the Gilded Age being played up in comparison to the Cogwork Orthodoxy as seen with the Church of the Broken God. |
| 355 | * VillainTeamUp: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/dust-and-blood "Dust and Blood"]] describes them as a willing assistant to the Scarlet King, cranking out weapons to be used by his armies. |
| 356 | * WhereItAllBegan: In its 001 entry. Most of the varying factions — The Foundation, The GOC, Marshall Carter & Dark, The Church Of The Broken God, etc. — began when they found a horrible, horrible factory that spat out wonderful, wonderful toys. |
| 357 | [[/folder]] |
| 358 | |
| 359 | [[folder:The Fifth Church]] |
| 360 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/fifthist-hub The Fifth Church]] |
| 361 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fifthchurch.png]] |
| 362 | -->'''Original creator:''' Silberescher |
| 363 | -->'''Debut:''' [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1523 SCP-1523 - Soul Brother]] (2012) |
| 364 | The '''Fifth Church''', also called the '''Church of Fifthism''', is a secretive religious society based around a singular anomalous religious system surrounding astral symbolism. While often seen as harmless and ludicrous to outsiders, they are in fact highly dangerous due to the reality-bending effects the religion is able to cause. |
| 365 | ---- |
| 366 | * ApocalypseCult: One of many interpretations of them. After all, their main goal is to transcend reality [[spoiler:and they almost did it on a universal scale]]. SCP-2456 elaborates on this more. [[spoiler:It implies that the Fifth Church is just the newest iteration of a long series of Apocalypse Cults that follows an ancient overarching religion about a Lovecraftian god that was sealed and wants to reclaim humanity for its own.]] |
| 367 | * ArcNumber: Five, naturally. |
| 368 | * AssimilationPlot: Many Fifthist belief systems shown rant and rave about TheEvilsOfFreeWill and instead encourage DeathOfPersonality by having one's consciousness be completely assimilated into the Fifth World. |
| 369 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: Despite the general silliness surrounding their religion (they ''were'' based on the ChurchOfHappyology, after all), they're completely terrifying due to the many RealityWarper and memetic/antimemetic properties inherent to their belief system. |
| 370 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: The ultimate goal of their religion seems to be to use their {{Reality Warper}} powers to [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascend to the "Fifth World"]] and [[PhysicalGod live as gods]] after having [[AssimilationPlot joined with the rest of this new reality]]. Problem is, this would likely result in both TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt ''and'' DeathOfPersonality for everyone involved. They see all of this as a ''good thing.'' |
| 371 | * BreakoutCharacter: Though not to the extent of the Church of the Broken God, the Fifthists have become increasingly popular in recent years. |
| 372 | * ChurchOfHappyology: The Fifth Church is noted to have celebrity members, their own cruise ship for training, a secret agenda of some sort, and even infiltrated the Foundation. Sound familiar? |
| 373 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Even among the other [=GOIs=], they're seen as a pretty strange bunch. |
| 374 | * EveryoneHasStandards: Apparently the idea of living on a star is ridiculous even for them as demonstrated when they kicked out the creators of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1958 SCP-1958]] for their "heresy". |
| 375 | * InstantSeduction: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3512 SCP-3512]] is another piece of Fifthist literature, this time in the form of a book full of tips for pickup artists... for the first 11 chapters, at least. Starting at Chapter 12, it devolves into WordSaladHorror that's typical of Fifthist literature, with instructions for creating creatures that cause more "openness" in women. |
| 376 | * InterfaithSmoothie: [[invoked]] The Fifth Church takes the trappings and beliefs of whatever religions/philosophies are around them, and roll them into their own brand of weirdness. There are modern Fifthists who look like New Age hippies, Evangelical Christians, or radical Communists -- and there was even a conspiracy to get a Fifthist sleeper agent elected as ''the Pope''. And proto-Fifthists through history co-opted Confucianism, Egyptian polytheism, Aztec polytheism, and the French Revolution's Cult of Reason. It's also deconstructed in that it gives their own religion a very disjointed feeling to it that makes it so Fifthism barely comes across as its own coherent belief system, only further emphasizing how genuinely ''alien'' the morality system of its worshipers is. |
| 377 | -->'''Dr. █████:''' This church is to other churches what clowns are to people. There are some superficial similarities, but all the wrong things are being emphasized and exaggerated so you can't quite put your finger on what is wrong… Sure, it isn't out to get you, but what does it mean? Why is it there? What happens if it calls to you? |
| 378 | * JiveTurkey: This is how most Southern Fifthist objects communicate, ya fellas. |
| 379 | * NewAge: Modern Fifthists frequently incorporate New Age beliefs into their own system. For example, they use wishful thinking (something like ''Literature/TheSecret'', but focusing on the power of star signals) in order to achieve their goals. The problem is that here, ''it actually works''. |
| 380 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: They seem like a group of goofy star-worshippers who have some silly, harmless rituals, but [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1425 they almost destroyed reality with a freaking self-help book]]. |
| 381 | * PathOfInspiration: A popular interpretation is that the Fifth Church is unknowingly serving the agenda of sinister gods from beyond our reality. |
| 382 | * PostModernMagik: An ancient and apocalyptic cult that enacts its rituals through [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1425 self-help books]] and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6037 professional wrestling matches]]. |
| 383 | * RealityWarper: Most of their religion seems to be based around this, altering reality itself for one's own benefit instead of adjusting to reality. |
| 384 | * ReligionOfEvil: Religion of [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Not Your Moral]], at least. |
| 385 | * RetGone: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2456 SCP-2456]] reveals that people who learn too much about Fifthism get retroactively erased from reality. And the deleted [[https://the-scp.foundation/object/SCP-2454 SCP-2454]] is a Fifthist cruise ship with a '''weaponized''' version of this: every nine minutes, something aboard the ship emits an intense pulse of radiation that retroactively erases anyone it touches. [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3125 SCP-3125]], which is heavily implied to be one of the Fifth Church's gods, kills anybody who learns that it exists, along with their families and close coworkers, and destroys all evidence and memories that they ever existed. |
| 386 | * SuperSmoke: Most Fifthists, especially Southern Fifthists end up like this. |
| 387 | * StarPower: The beliefs of the Northern Fifthists align pretty closely with this. Whether stars are a source or focus of their power is a bit less clear. |
| 388 | * WordSaladPhilosophy: Their ''entire doctrine'' is complete gibberish, with only the Fifthists themselves insane enough to comprehend it. |
| 389 | [[/folder]] |
| 390 | |
| 391 | [[folder:Gamers Against Weed]] |
| 392 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/gamers-against-weed-hub Gamers Against Weed]] |
| 393 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gaw.png]] |
| 394 | -->'''Original creator:''' kinchtheknifeblade |
| 395 | -->'''Debut:''' [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2293 SCP-2293 - An Inside Joke]] (2016) |
| 396 | '''Gamers Against Weed''' is described in various sources as: |
| 397 | |
| 398 | * ''Just some regular folks having a good time with their friends.'' |
| 399 | * ''A bunch of trolls, basically. except with superpowers.'' |
| 400 | * ''memeloving fucks'' |
| 401 | |
| 402 | A loose collection of individuals operating under no other desire than to [[ItAmusedMe cause anomalies for their own amusement,]] they are heavily engrossed in internet culture and are pacifist in their works. While mostly small and uninfluential, they take up an interesting position in the world of anomalies. |
| 403 | ---- |
| 404 | * TheAtoner: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1168 SCP-1168]] is a "response" to AWCY?'s Minotaur. It's implied that [[spoiler:the witness is the GAW member "bluntfiend" and that he saw the Minotaur kill his friend, which would explain why he's a member of essentially a non-lethal version of AWCY?]]. |
| 405 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: While they were originally billed as a PluckyComicRelief faction, over time GAW became written more as a kind of AudienceSurrogate. Their [=SCPs=] and Tales often focusing on what an online community of young people would actually try to do if given access to mystical power -- such as fighting for causes like ending LGBT+ oppression. |
| 406 | * CreatingLifeIsAwesome: Their perspective on creating their Misters Against Weed... at first. |
| 407 | * CreatingLifeIsBad: After the group realized [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome the need to take care of their own creations]], their perspective on their creation of the Misters Against Weed became [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone significantly more regretful]]. |
| 408 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadAss: Just because their name is ridiculous does ''not'' mean they can't be dangerous: They created a Keter-class meme as a ''joke,'' and some of their Misters Against Weed -- Mr. Literal Serial Killer, Mr. Ominous (discontinued), Mr. Finale -- could be a problem, though {{Word of God}} implies they're just joke names to rile up the Foundation. |
| 409 | * EveryoneHasStandards: While they're extremely cavalier about safety and caution and don't think much about the consequences of their actions, they're not out to intentionally hurt anyone. When Kektagon, the creator of SCP-3108, a Nerf gun that "nerfs" things, finds out that the Foundation used his gun on human beings until they de-evolved out of sentience, he launches into a furious rant, demanding to know what could possibly possess them to waste human life over what was meant to be a joke. They also issue a sincere apology to both the Foundation and the UIU after one of their members turned out to be a sociopath and used Mr. Hax to murder over 30 UIU agents in an attempt to get his brother out of their custody (his brother was in custody for working with groups like the Chaos Insurgency, anomalous weapons trafficking, drug dealing, murdering dozens of UIU agents, police officers, and civilians, to the point he had been declared the UIU's Number One threat to national security on the west coast). They also apologize to Mr. Hax, who they had specifically designed to feel extreme amounts of remorse over causing pain, for what their former member did, and assure the Foundation and UIU that they've [[DeadlyEuphemism taken care of]] the former member and his terrorist brother. |
| 410 | * FriendlyEnemy: With the Foundation, of a sort. The key lies in their nickname for them: Janitors, the usual nickname for mods in Imageboards. Going with the analogy, to GAW, the Foundation are No Fun Allowed types who clamp down on [[RealityWarper anything interesting happening out there]] and thus deserve some frequent ribbing, but when [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the shit is hitting the fan at high velocity and everything is starting to go to Hell]], they're thankful ''someone'' has the job and power to clean it all up. |
| 411 | * GoodCounterpart: {{In Universe}}, they were started in part to serve as one for Are We Cool Yet?. |
| 412 | * HeelFaceTurn: Several of their members formerly belonged to Are We Cool Yet?, a far more malicious GOI. |
| 413 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Kektagon lambasts the Foundation for misusing his Nerf Gun while ignoring that the incident that led to him gaining Foundation attention could have very well turned lethal (his 10-year-old brother 'nerfed' a structural wall which then collapsed on him) and a previous [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2433 'funny' joke]] from the same POI ''actually killed people''. |
| 414 | * IronicName: They're not against cannabis. |
| 415 | -->'''jockjamsvol6:''' [[LampshadeHanging (The name is ironic).]] |
| 416 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite their occasional {{Jerkass}}ery, they're overall one of the most benevolent [=GOIs=] since seen in the greater Foundation-verse. Just as an example, they created (more accurately summoned/hired) [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2726 SCP-2726]] to digitally memorialize a transgirl from Poland. |
| 417 | -->'''Dr. Prasad:''' That sounds awfully nice of them.\ |
| 418 | '''SCP-2726-A:''' yeah i'm a {{creepypasta}} now. [[DeadpanSnarker dysphoria = cured.]] |
| 419 | * MagicByAnyOtherName: Comically subverted. In contrast to the faux-scientific terminology of the Foundation and the Global Occult Coalition or the fanciful HighFantasy epithets used by the Serpent's Hand, GAW usually just calls their anomalous abilities and creation what it looks like: magical. |
| 420 | * MoodDissonance: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2293 SCP-2293]] causes any media with dialogue or speech to add in a sentence about Stephen King getting hit by a van, generally with the character breaking the fourth wall at the worst possible moment (media associated with Stephen King is unaffected). It's uncontainable, Keter-class, and was created as a joke to screw around with another member of the group (wasting the Foundation's time was just a bonus). |
| 421 | * NaiveNewcomer: One member took the name literally and stopped smoking weed. When asked why they didn't notice a guy named "''bluntfiend''", they assumed it was an ironic name. |
| 422 | * NotSoAboveItAll: They mostly talk on the internet, and as such, aren't immune to LOL69: |
| 423 | -->'''polaricecraps:''' whats the under/over on them actually getting the joke or just going bluh bluh anime is for jerks\ |
| 424 | '''[=FreakyGhostBed=]:''' i don't think that's how over/unders work.\ |
| 425 | '''jockjamsvol6:''' That being said, it's 69.\ |
| 426 | '''bones:''' @jockjamsvol6.\ |
| 427 | '''jockjamsvol6:''' Yeah?\ |
| 428 | '''bones:''' ''...Nice.'' |
| 429 | * PretentiousLatinMotto: ''Sic Semper Cannabis''. Obviously PlayedForLaughs in-universe. |
| 430 | * RagtagBunchOfMisfits: To call their membership eclectic would be an understatement: "bones" is actually [[spoiler:another SCP object, an alien probe and the best friend of a sapient kill sat who became a ''WebComic/{{Homestuck}}'' fangirl and is talking to GAW to learn more about humanity]], "bluntfiend" is [[spoiler:a former member of AWCY? who grew to hate their murderous ways after witnessing the death of his friend from "The Minotaur" sculpture and was involved in the creation/activation of a corresponding "Theseus" sculpture as atonement]]. |
| 431 | * TheRunaway: [[spoiler:Taylor from [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/true-trans-soul-rebel True Trans Soul Rebel]] runs away from her home in order to escape her abusive father, hoping to find somewhere else better.]] |
| 432 | * TheStoic: "bones" is mostly a TrueNeutral type who helps to administrate and settle disagreements, and doesn't display much emotion. [[spoiler:{{Justified|Trope}}, as it's the machine half of an alien superweapon who still hasn't gotten the hang of the whole "emotions" thing]] |
| 433 | * TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Well, type anyway: SCP-2293's chatlogs sound no different from any other group of tech/culture-savvy young people aside from the fact they can create anomalies. |
| 434 | * TookALevelInBadass: Several [=SCPs=] and Tales set in the future implies they'll eventually play a ''far'' more active role in the anomalous world. Most notable is their creation of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4669 SCP-4669/"Ms. Zapatista"]], a powerful semi-memetic entity that is slowly amassing a global Communist revolution across the Third World. |
| 435 | * {{Troll}}: They made their own Little Misters (called "Misters Against Weed") series to both satirize Doctor Wondertainment and troll the Foundation. Furthermore, they often hit ''each other'' with uncontainable memes as a joke. |
| 436 | * WhiteSheep: From their [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/gamers-against-weed-hub GOI page]]: |
| 437 | -->'''SCP_Foundation:''' Gamers Against Weed originated as a splinter of Are We Cool Yet? in 2013, though it appears to have largely abandoned the creation of anomalous art. While several GAW-produced anomalies pose serious threats to secrecy, the threat to human life has been minimal.\ |
| 438 | '''bluntfiend:''' It's something to bring a little light into the world, without anyone getting hurt. |
| 439 | |
| 440 | !! Jude Kriyot/bluntfiend |
| 441 | A former member of Are We Cool Yet? and one of the three founding members of Gamers Against Weed. |
| 442 | ---- |
| 443 | * ADayInTheLimelight: The protagonist of a series of tales called [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/jude-s-bizarre-adventure Jude's Bizarre Adventure]], which details his defection from AWCY? (battling agents they've sent to kill him for his betrayal along the way) as well as his first meeting with the other two Anartists he would form GAW with. |
| 444 | %%* BewareTheSillyOnes: He |
| 445 | * TheAtoner: Jude now looks back on his time in Are We Cool Yet? [[spoiler:and the [[AndIMustScream brutal punishment]] he inflicted on some of its members]] with [[BrokenPedestal deep regret]]. |
| 446 | * EasySexChange: PlayedWith. Once a closeted transman, one of the first things Jude did upon awakening to his RealityWarping was alter his body from physically female to physically male, but he did so in a moment of extreme desperation and occasionally worries if he would be turned back if he lost control of his powers. |
| 447 | * HeroicBSOD: The log in SCP-3420 shows him having a breakdown after [[spoiler:turning several members of Are We Cool Yet? into endlessly suffering fire/electricity creatures in revenge for the death of his friend]]. |
| 448 | * LightningCanDoAnything: Jude's RealityWarper powers usually take the form of lightning that has far stranger effects then what normal electricity is capable of, ranging from atomising objects to inflicting ''bruises'' when it hits someone instead of burning them. |
| 449 | * MartialPacifist: His BrokenPedestal view of Are We Cool Yet? has made Jude very resistant to the idea of using his powers to hurt people, but he's not afraid to defend himself if attacked first. The possible future presented by [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4669 4669]] even has him leave GAW once they begin reinventing as a communist army, [[spoiler:though he eventually decides to [[LetsGetDangerous abandon such beliefs]] upon rejoining Ms. Zapatista's cause]]. |
| 450 | * MeaningfulName: Renamed himself 'Jude' after Saint Jude, the patron saint of [[KnightInSourArmour impossible causes]]. 'Kriyot' is also very close to 'Iscariot', as in [[TheAtoner Judas]]. |
| 451 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: He was invited to an AWCY? show, [[spoiler:and brought a friend along. Unfortunately for them both, the friend fit the criteria to be targeted by the Minotaur, and was promptly raped and killed]]. |
| 452 | * RealityWarper: A powerful one with few limits; he's capable of things like [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/shocking-ignorance-regarding-anything-resembling-a-structure inflicting]] BiggerOnTheInside on the interior of a restaurant. |
| 453 | * TheStoner: If 'bluntfiend' didn't give it away. |
| 454 | * WillfullyWeak: He's implied to be a much higher-level RealityWarper then the Foundation is aware of, but a combination of [[BeneathSuspicion not wanting to attract trouble]] [[spoiler:and trauma over creating 3420]] has made him prefer his ShockAndAwe powers. |
| 455 | |
| 456 | !! JJ/[=Jockjamsvol6=] |
| 457 | A former humanoid SCP who escaped Foundation custody. One of the three founding members of GAW. |
| 458 | ---- |
| 459 | * WindsOfDestinyChange: His primary anomalous trait is the ability to alter probability; the Foundation believe he uses it to make it extremely difficult for them to track down GAW's members. |
| 460 | |
| 461 | !! Esther/lesbiangengar |
| 462 | An Orthodox Jewish girl with the ability to generate Cognitohazards. GAW's last founding member. |
| 463 | ---- |
| 464 | !! bones/SCP-2721-LORD |
| 465 | See Characters/SCPFoundationSCPs under the folder Eli and Lyris. |
| 466 | [[/folder]] |
| 467 | |
| 468 | [[folder:Global Occult Coalition]] |
| 469 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/goc-hub-page Global Occult Coalition (GOC)]] |
| 470 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goc.png]] |
| 471 | -->'''Original creator:''' Aelanna |
| 472 | -->'''Debut:''' [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-065 SCP-065 - Destroyed Organic Catalyst]] (2009) |
| 473 | The '''United Nations Global Occult Coalition''' is an anomaly-dealing organization formed out of 108 different anomalous factions, organized under the United Nations. Created after WWII from the Allied Occult Initiative, a collection of occultist groups and personnel, their powers grew in the years after and are a prominent force today. |
| 474 | |
| 475 | They are rivals of the Foundation on the international anomaly policing scene. Unlike the Foundation, the Coalition (in)famously operates under much more aggressive doctrines, preferring the destruction of anomalies over their containment. Foundation-GOC relations had thus fluctuated quite significantly over the years, allies at times, enemies at others. |
| 476 | ---- |
| 477 | * TheAlliance: Started life as an alliance between various occult organizations formed in order to fight the Nazis. |
| 478 | * ApeShallNeverKillApe: One of their biggest gripes with the Foundation is how they use fellow humans (the D-Class) as unwitting test subjects. |
| 479 | * ArchEnemy: To the Serpent's Hand, who call them the "Bookburners". |
| 480 | * BlueCollarWarlock: They accept magic users, or "Type Blues" as GOC calls them or "thaumatologists" as they call themselves, within their ranks. |
| 481 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: Their earliest depictions painted them as a KnightTemplar group who believed [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity all anomalous entities, regardless of their threat-level, should be purged]], and whose militaristic approach was severely misguided in comparison to the Foundation. Modern depictions usually have them only target ''dangerous'' anomalies, and imply their method has its own strengths and weaknesses. |
| 482 | * ChameleonCamouflage: Their "Grey Suit" combat gear is covered in "chameleon cloth" which does exactly what the name suggests. |
| 483 | * EnemyMine: Overall, their goals tend to align with the Foundation's more often than most other groups of interest. |
| 484 | ** Mentioned in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-191 SCP-191]]'s history. They once joined forces with the Foundation to raid a MadScientist's lab. |
| 485 | ** They also helped the Foundation contain [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2845 SCP-2845]]. |
| 486 | ** On a much larger scale, they are working with the Foundation, the Church of the Broken God, and even the Horizon Initiative to defend Earth from the rise of Sarkicism. |
| 487 | * EntertaininglyWrong: In [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4812 SCP-4812]], they lack the documents that the Foundation possesses, leading them to make some incorrect conclusions about the three profanities; they know there are three of them, they have identified two of them (one uncontained, one in Foundation containment), and they know they were conjured up by a sorceress. When they find an inhuman corpse somehow related to the profanities, they assume it's the third one, and go on a hunt for the sorceress who conjured them into being. What they don't know is that the sorceress was not human, but fae, and the corpse in their possession is the exact right proportions for a fae woman. The Foundation actually have the last of the profanities in containment, and the GOC has unknowingly had the sorceress in their possession all along. |
| 488 | * EveryoneHasStandards: |
| 489 | ** You know how the Foundation uses the tragic story of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1609 SCP-1609]] as a cautionary tale against the GOC's policy of destroying all anomalies? Turns out the GOC higher-ups themselves weren't happy that their agents tried to haphazardly destroy a non-hostile set of teleporting chairs, as it lead to the anomaly ''becoming'' hostile and killing several agents. |
| 490 | --> KTE-0937-Velveteen is an object lesson in the importance of following proper operating procedure. Due to the lack of vigilance by the agent on the scene, the object's threat level was escalated, the object itself was not successfully disposed of, and it has since fallen into the hands of a hostile agency. A single failure by a single operative resulted in the deaths of six. Remember this the next time you think about cutting corners. |
| 491 | ** It's also noted by their operative handbook that they consider the majority of paranormal findings they've encountered to have no threat to humanity, and will be content to leave them simply observed unless a situation arises. |
| 492 | ** They will not stoop to outright extermination of races and species unless the stakes demand it, having learned from previous failures involving such acts. Upon learning of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6442 SCP-6442's]] existence (a stone tablet that emits the most powerful cognito- and infohazard in all of site lore, used as a weapon of genocide against TheOmniscient as they will learn about the tablet and then instantly die), they were so horrified by its inferred use as an ethnic cleanser for omniscient beings (about a quarter of which [[ItsPersonal are the GOC's own]]) that they immediately declared war on the Foundation. |
| 493 | * TheExtremistWasRight: As hyper-aggressive and destructive as they are, it's hard to blame them for being so extreme in the face of so many deadly and horrifying threats that exist in the world. |
| 494 | * FictionalUnitedNations: The GOC is a coalition of 108 occult organizations that settled their differences to work for similar goals. Interestingly, the FictionalUnitedNations directly answers to the United Nations, making them more of a Fictional United Nations Specialized Agency. |
| 495 | * {{Ghostapo}}: They are partially rooted from Nazi occultist organizations, although they are by no means a Nazi organization. |
| 496 | * GreatOffscreenWar: Was formed following the "Seventh Occult War" which coincided with World War II. Not much has been revealed about the conflict, except that the Nazis (specifically [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_Society The Thule Society]] and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahnenerbe Ahnenerbe]]) attempted to take advantage of the death of what may have been the Abrahamic God in order to complete the "Rite of Solomon," and they were stopped by a team-up of organizations involved with the occult that would eventually become the GOC. |
| 497 | * HeroAntagonist: They take this role in SCP-5000 along with the Church Of The Broken God, where the Foundation undergoes a FaceHeelTurn and starts releasing [=SCPs=] en masse. |
| 498 | * HunterOfTheirOwnKind: They often use Type Blue operatives to track and hunt down rogue Type Blues. |
| 499 | * {{Hypocrite}}: The Coalition's charter states that the paranormal is "anathema to the survival of the human race", and yet, it allows its members access to clearly anomalous technology and often recruits anomalous members (see Assessment Team "Sparkplug" below"). Somewhat downplayed in that the charter is not specifically referring to all paranormal objects, but only parathreats (entities they consider to be at a threat level that warrants an attempt to neutralize it), and consider most paranormal phenomena to not really be worth trying to destroy. |
| 500 | * TheIlluminati: One of the 108 Member Organizations. And no, there is apparently no new-world-order conspiracy in the making. |
| 501 | * InSeriesNickname: Called the "Gawkers" ([=GOCers=]) by some groups not aligned with the Foundation or the GOC. The Serpent's Hand refer to them as Bookburners. Gamers Against Weed has them share the label of "janitors" with the Foundation, specifiying them as "the mean ones". |
| 502 | * InvisibilityCloak: A step up to their "Grey Suits", their "White Suit" PoweredArmor has a built-in cloak generator which bends light around the wearer making them visually invisible. |
| 503 | * JerkassHasAPoint: |
| 504 | ** While they're a borderline KnightTemplar group, it's hard to argue that their belief that all anomalies are dangerous is unfounded, given that half the stuff the Foundation has locked up rather than destroyed could wipe out a country ''at best'' if it got loose. |
| 505 | ** As mentioned in their hub, the GOC are extremely opposed to the Foundation's callous treatment of D-Class, considering it a human rights violation. |
| 506 | * KickTheDog: They're mostly more heroic groups, similar to The Foundation. But what happened to [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1522 SCP-1522]] and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1609 SCP-1609]] can't help but make them look needlessly cruel. |
| 507 | * MagicByAnyOtherName: It's explicitly stated that they coined the term ''thaumatology'' as a more respectable, scientific-sounding alternative to ''magic''. |
| 508 | * {{Magitek}}: Some of their gear, such as [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/goc-tale-sequence-farpoint thaumatological resonators]], fit squarely into this type of working. |
| 509 | * MurderIsTheBestSolution: Depending on the canon. In some interpretations, if they find an anomaly, they will do everything in their power to destroy it, regardless of how easily it could be contained or what beneficial uses it might have. In others, they may consider capturing and containing non-threatening objects and engaging in diplomacy with non-hostile entities, and even have a dedicated diplomacy division for this purpose. In some cases, they are also willing to try and avoid total destruction of an entity and instead opt for neutralizing their anomalous properties, referred to as a "soft kill" by GOC personnel. |
| 510 | * MusicalThemeNaming: They use musical instruments and music terminology for a a lot of their code words and codenames. |
| 511 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: They've been known to make bad situations worse or to turn harmless anomalies hostile. [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1609 SCP-1609]] is a perfect example. |
| 512 | * PoweredArmor: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/goc-supplemental-equipment The GOC have these]] in their arsenal. There's one called the "White Suits" worn by their strike teams. They also have [=U-HECs=][[note]]Ultra-Heavy Engagement Chassis[[/note]] or "Orange Suits" for bigger threats. |
| 513 | * RitualMagic: Their thaumatology works this way, from arcane implements like [[AntiTrueSight anti-scrying pens]] to {{voodoo doll}}s to other complex rituals for things like [[PetTheDog gender reassignment therapy]]. |
| 514 | * TheRival: The Foundation considers them this. |
| 515 | * ShootTheShaggyDog: Their handling of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2002 SCP-2002]] boils down to this. To make a long story short? [[spoiler:Humanity will suffer from an SCP SterilityPlague in the future, and the surviving Foundation members went into space along with embryos that survived the plague to ensure their survival. Then they accidentally came back in time and were returning to Earth before the GOC blew them out of the sky based on very vague information leaked to them.]] |
| 516 | * SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/goc-supplemental-thaumatology Applied Thaumatology]], to the point of treating it in a way akin to FantasticScience. |
| 517 | * UnitedNationsIsASuperpower: Since the GOC directly (somewhat, the Undersecretary-General is a bit of a rogue element) answers to the UN, it means that the UN possesses one of the world's strongest paranormal forces, rivaling and sometimes even exceeding the NGOSuperpower SCP Foundation. |
| 518 | * VanHelsingHateCrimes: When they find an anomaly that reaches a specific threat level, they will destroy it right away, or find a way to destroy it. |
| 519 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: The GOC just wants to keep people safe like the Foundation, but it's easy to go way too far when your doctrine is based around the destruction of supernatural entities. |
| 520 | |
| 521 | !!D. C. Al Fine |
| 522 | The mysterious leader of the GOC. |
| 523 | * AuthorityInNameOnly: In the story "[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/empty-unmarked-grave Empty Unmarked Grave]]," the new director of the GOC is warned to never attempt to contact Madam Al Fine and to burn all letters from her without reading them and to simply pretend that she is in command. |
| 524 | * PunnyName: ''da capo al fine'', Italian for "from the head to the finish" is a term used in musical notation, instructing the musician to go back to the beginning and play through to the end. |
| 525 | |
| 526 | !! Assessment Team 735 "Sparkplug" |
| 527 | %%* Action Girl: Kitten and Spider, but especially Kitten. |
| 528 | * BadassBookworm: None of them are stupid, but Spider specifically is a mage, who's a graduate of the [[WizardingSchool International Center for the Study of Unified Thaumatology]]. |
| 529 | * BadassCrew: The entire group of them. |
| 530 | * BadassNormal: Bullfrog is the only member of the team not stated to have any bizarre qualities, anomalous or otherwise, that enhance his abilities. What he does have is over a decade of experience in the United States Army Rangers and Delta Force. |
| 531 | * DeadpanSnarker: They all have their moments, but Skunkboy is the most repeat offender. |
| 532 | * ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Bullfrog was a Delta Force operator before joining the GOC. |
| 533 | * EmbarrassingNickname: If Skunkboy doesn't sound embarrassing enough, before that it was ''"Fartboy".'' |
| 534 | * ImprobableAimingSkills: Skunkboy. [[https://goc-at-735.tumblr.com/post/69873901613/hello This is due to a borderline, if not outright, anomalous ability]] regarding perceiving spatial relationships in three-dimensions. |
| 535 | * IronicNickname: Kitten is by far the most athletic, muscular, and professional member of the team. |
| 536 | * LightningBruiser: Kitten, who can lead [[spoiler:a crippled, but still insanely fast Able]] on a chase and can beat the hell out of just about anyone in close-quarters combat. [[https://goc-at-735.tumblr.com/post/69873901613/hello The Line To God]] explains that this is due to mutated hemoglobin in her blood, making her considerably faster and stronger than any average human. |
| 537 | * MilitaryMage: Spider is a [[MagicByAnyOtherName thaumatologist]] in the PHYSICS Division, making her this by default. |
| 538 | * SemperFi: Skunkboy was a Marine sniper before getting picked up by the GOC on account of his aforementioned ImprobableAimingSkills. |
| 539 | * VoodooDoll: Spider uses one in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/goc-tale-sequence-joint-venture "Joint Venture"]]. |
| 540 | [[/folder]] |
| 541 | |
| 542 | [[folder:GRU Division "P"]] |
| 543 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/gru-p-hub GRU Division "P"]] |
| 544 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gru2.png]] |
| 545 | Originally known as the '''ЧД АКН''' ("'''[=ChD AKN=]'''," or '''Fourth Department Abnormal Occurrences Commission'''), the organization was founded in 1935 by a decree from Joseph Stalin. The group would later be reorganized into the {{UsefulNotes/GRU}} as the '''GRU Division "P" - Psychotronics''' during WWII, with the goals of recovering and studying anomalous objects in USSR territories and abroad for the benefits of the Soviet government, operating through the history of the Cold War. |
| 546 | |
| 547 | Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the GRU and GRU-P was officially dissolved with it. Much of their personnel and assets were soon scooped up by other anomalous factions, and the rest seeped into the underworld of Eastern Europe. However, many of the organization's former members are still working together on continuing their old work, seemingly unaware of the fact that the rest of the anomalous world sees them as a Cold War relic. |
| 548 | ---- |
| 549 | * DirtyCommunists: The Division "P" made life significantly harder for the Foundation in Eastern European and other socialist countries during the Cold War, similar to the ORIA in Middle Eastern and Islamic countries. |
| 550 | * NotQuiteDead: As it turns out, many members of GRU Division "P" are still working together on continuing their work, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/gru-p-hub even after the fall of the Iron Curtain]]. |
| 551 | * PosthumousCharacter: Subverted. They were officially dissolved after the fall of the Soviet Union. Most of the time they appear in the SCP files, Division "P" was holding a certain SCP that is now in possession of the Foundation. However, several other documents imply they're NotQuiteDead. |
| 552 | * TheRemnant: The weaker modern GRU Division "P" is all that remains of their Cold War-era version. |
| 553 | * SovietSuperscience: Full of these mixed with anomalous objects and events. |
| 554 | * {{UnPerson}}: {{In Universe}}, almost all Division "P" articles and historical records were retroactively destroyed by countries in the Warsaw Pact as the Iron Curtain fell to help preserve TheMasquerade. |
| 555 | * VestigialEmpire: They no longer have the backing of a superpower like the Soviet Union, so they have to be a lot more subtle and lenient with their methods. |
| 556 | [[/folder]] |
| 557 | |
| 558 | [[folder:Herman Fuller's Circus of the Disquieting]] |
| 559 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/herman-fuller-hub Herman Fuller's Circus of the Disquieting]] |
| 560 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/esteban_becker_asset.jpg]] |
| 561 | [[caption-width-right:200:By Esteban Becker]] |
| 562 | '''Herman Fuller's Circus of the Disquieting''', commonly called just '''Circus of the Disquieting''' as shorthand (or following its new management), is an anomalous circus hosting shows with anomalous "freaks". The group is never directly observed by the Foundation, only indirectly known as the Foundation had recovered many of their anomalous performers. |
| 563 | ---- |
| 564 | * AcronymsAreEasyAsAybeecee: Members of the circus crew refer to the SCP Foundation as "Essie P." It's unclear whether this is due to ignorance on their part or MaliciousMisnaming. |
| 565 | * AndIMustScream: Fuller himself has been inflicted with such a fate multiple times, [[JokerImmunity but always gets out]]. The first notable was when the circus staff threw him into the Darkness Between Dimensions (a.k.a. [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3001 SCP-3001]]). He got out, though he ended up in the middle of a Sarkic ceremony. The other was when the crew stuffed him into [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3440 SCP-3440]]. It's unknown how he escaped. |
| 566 | * CircusOfFear: ZigZagged. When the sadistic Fuller was in charge, the circus fully embraced this trope to the point of being {{Card Carrying Villain}}s. In the post-Fuller era, while the circus's ethics are grey at best and it still lives up to the disquieting part of its name, it seems to have shifted significantly toward a RagtagBunchOfMisfits just trying to make a living and show people a CreepyAwesome time. |
| 567 | * CreepyCircusMusic: Quite a few of their tricks involve combining this with MagicMusic. |
| 568 | * CoolGate: The kaleidoscope, a mysterious device which allows them to move between places and dimensions, and turn any door into a PortalDoor. |
| 569 | * EldritchAbomination: The Fun-Lovers combine this with ToonPhysics and VoluntaryShapeshifting. Entertain them, and they'll fuel all sorts of interesting types of magic. The circus mostly tries to weed out the ones with screwball tendencies. |
| 570 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Furious at what one of their contractors did when creating [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3077 SCP-3077]], a kind of magical treacle that drowned and killed their audience to stuff their corpses in an attempt to dance, they immediately trussed up the witch and called ''the Foundation'' to have her carted away. |
| 571 | * FateWorseThanDeath: Fuller did eventually get out of it (unfortunately), but [[spoiler:after the coup, he got thrown into the Red Reality. Yes, ''[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3001 that]]'' red reality]]. |
| 572 | * TheFreakShow: One of their major attractions. |
| 573 | * InSeriesNickname: The Foundation obviously calls them [=GoI-233=]. They themselves call the Foundation "Essie-P". |
| 574 | * MonsterClown: A more benevolent variety than most. While most [[CapitalLettersAreMagic Clowns]] are far from human and operate on ComedicSociopathy by default, at the end of the day, the circus is mostly devoted to putting on a "disquietingly good show". |
| 575 | * OhCrap: Their default reaction whenever the SCP Foundation (or "Essie P.", as they call it) is mentioned. They don't trust the Foundation ''at all,'' and will immediately pick up stakes and get the hell out of Dodge as soon as possible if there is even so much as a ''hint'' of the Foundation being in the area, sometimes even ''removing the memories of captured former circus members'' if they get taken into Foundation custody. |
| 576 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Herman Fuller's concept of a retirement plan. [[spoiler:Being caught trying to do this to a beloved member of the crew was the catalyst for the coup.]] |
| 577 | |
| 578 | !! Herman Fuller |
| 579 | The man himself, original owner of Herman Fuller's Circus of the disquieting, and twice-couped out of the position. |
| 580 | ---- |
| 581 | * AndIMustScream: Twice already thrown into such a fate (first thrown into the Darkness Between Dimensions, then imprisoned by his own puppeteering stage), and escaped at least once, with number two seemingly in progress. |
| 582 | * AssholeVictim: His abuse of his employees eventually got him cast into the Red Reality, a FateWorseThanDeath you usually wouldn't wish upon your worst enemy. He deserves it. |
| 583 | * BadBoss: Known for executing his many employees for various reasons and prone to generally abusing them. He even bought Strikebreaker constructs to keep everyone in line. |
| 584 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Oh yes. He never gives up the act; whether assaulting others with his various powers, planning to turn his usurper's lover into a soul-trapped marionette to use as bait ''and'' spite her, or even when trapped in the same fate himself, he keeps cracking jokes and generally acting like it's all a show. |
| 585 | * HatedByAll: No one likes him, not his employees, not the Foundation, not even the Serpent's Hand. |
| 586 | * RealityWarper: To the point a Scranton Reality Anchor was a key element in defeating him. Apparently he's very wise to the Ways between Worlds, and has learned plenty since then. |
| 587 | * RepulsiveRingmaster: Herman Fuller, the iron-fisted ringmaster of the circus. He put everyone in the circus through a lot of abuse, such as hiring the [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] Richard C. Normus to breed the circus freaks as if they were cattle, and killing performers that displeased him. The circus finally rebelled against Fuller's abuse when Fuller tried to punish a much more popular employee by mind controlling the circus into eating him alive. [[TheDogBitesBack They got rid of him by throwing him into an empty dimension.]] He eventually escaped and planned to get revenge by turning everyone who rebelled into corpse puppets [[AndIMustScream with their souls still trapped in their bodies forever]], but [[HoistByHisOwnPetard ended up being turned into a puppet himself]], but he may be able to escape from this too. |
| 588 | |
| 589 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/icky-the-magic-clown Icky the Magic Clown]] |
| 590 | Real name Veronica Mason. The new ringmaster and face of the circus after Herman's banishment. A formerly-human MonsterClown and a lesbian. A list of her appearances can be found [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/system:page-tags/tag/icky#pages here]]. |
| 591 | ---- |
| 592 | * WasOnceAMan: Was once a human with magical abilities who ran away from home to join the circus. She chose to undergo the transformation into a true Clown. |
| 593 | |
| 594 | !!Manny, The Man with the Upside-down Face. |
| 595 | Second in command of the circus, and does more of the behind-the-scenes work. A list of his appearances can be found [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/system:page-tags/tag/manny#pages here]]. |
| 596 | ---- |
| 597 | * HumanoidAbomination: He is far more than just a man with a weird deformity. There is something dark and terrifying behind that upside-down face. |
| 598 | [[/folder]] |
| 599 | |
| 600 | [[folder:The Horizon Initiative]] |
| 601 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/horizon-initiative-hub The Horizon Initiative]] |
| 602 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/horizon_initiative.jpg]] |
| 603 | -->'''Original creator:''' Dmatix |
| 604 | -->'''Debut:''' [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1321 SCP-1321 - Cathar Journal]] (2012) |
| 605 | The '''Horizon Initiative''' is an organization created in 1960s from sects in the main three branches of Abrahamic religions as a response to the growing threat of anomalous activities. The group's primary goal is the unification of the Abrahamic religions and the recovery or destruction of religious anomalous objects to further their dogma. |
| 606 | ---- |
| 607 | * ChurchMilitant: Created from Judaism, Christianity and Islam. |
| 608 | * EnemyMine: They appear interested in working with the Foundation and Global Occult Coalition against other religious Groups of Interest, such as the Church of the Broken God and the Fifthists. The HI itself is a coalition of people from the three Abrahamic religions. Two of their point of view characters are an American veteran of Afghanistan and a Pakistani who wanted to be a suicide bomber in his youth. They eventually become the best of friends, fall in love, get married, and even have a child together. |
| 609 | * TheFundamentalist: Project Malleus (a.k.a. "the Wolves"); it's made up of the most zealous and aggressive sects under the Initiative's umbrella and they’re described as being ready to kill and die without question. They're also known to call the shepherd corps of the initiative "sheep". |
| 610 | * InterfaithSmoothie: Their Universal Texts are the result of one, being an attempt to reconcile the conflicting cosmologies of the three Abrahamic faiths, as well as various other pantheons. [[spoiler:It's heavily implied that the Church of the Broken God's scripture will eventually be included in the Universal Texts also.]] |
| 611 | * ReligiousHorror: A common occupational hazard of the Horizon Initiative is encountering these things, up to and including eldritch gods. |
| 612 | * SacredScripture: The Horizon Initiative's Scribe Corps are currently working on a "Universal Text," which is described as "a collection of the most theologically and historically accurate record possible to the truth of matters". |
| 613 | * TokenReligiousTeammate: How they're seen by the Foundation and the Global Occult Coalition, in the rare instances where they actually cooperate. |
| 614 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: Like any other well-intentioned Group of Interest. |
| 615 | |
| 616 | !! Mary-Ann Lewitt and Salah Zairi |
| 617 | Two agents of the Horizon Initiative's Shepherd Corps, and the main POV characters for the Mary-Ann and Salah series in the Et Tam Deum Petivi canon. |
| 618 | * ActionDad: Salah doesn't retire from action after his daughter Naomi's birth. |
| 619 | * ActionMom: Mary-Ann after the birth of her daughter Naomi. |
| 620 | * ArtisticLicenseMilitary: Mary-Ann served in Afghanistan before the events of Et Tam Deum Petivi; the official timeline lists her as being deployed in 2001, and women in the American military weren't allowed to serve in combat roles before 2013. |
| 621 | * BattleCouple: In their tale in the Et Tam Deum Petivi canon, [[spoiler:Salah fights his way through a Foundation site with another member of the Horizon Initiative and about two dozen religious artifacts, while Mary-Ann stabs a demon to death, for the sake of saving their daughter]]. |
| 622 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Salah is one of the nicest, most self-controlled people the Initiative has, and when Mary-Ann and Naomi are threatened, can leap straight to "torture everyone responsible" in about 30 seconds. |
| 623 | --> There was a line between a good man and a madman, and Salah felt himself crossing it. |
| 624 | * DidNotDieThatWay: [[spoiler:In [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/a-christmas-caterwaul A Christmas Caterwaul]], we see a version of Mary-Ann who survived her fight with Moloch. [[ApprovalOfGod The original author seems to approve.]]]] |
| 625 | * DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:At the end of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/empire-of-dirt-part-1 Empire of Dirt]], the last tale in her and Salah's story arc, Mary-Ann is asked to sacrifice her daughter to [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-089 SCP-089]] to prevent an apocalyptic event. Instead, she pulls Naomi out of the sacrificial flame, provoking the demon who would have caused the event to attack her. She stabs the demon several times and kills it, neutralizing 089 and stopping the event, but dies of her wounds. She's posthumously given a Foundation star by the O5 council.]] |
| 626 | * HappilyMarried: As of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-place-where-two-rivers-meet this]] tale, they are married. |
| 627 | * ReligiousBruiser: They’re both field agents for the Horizon Initiative, so this is to be expected. |
| 628 | [[/folder]] |
| 629 | |
| 630 | [[folder:Just Girly Things]] |
| 631 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/just-girly-things-hub Just Girly Things]] |
| 632 | [[quoteright:666:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jgtlogo_7.png]] |
| 633 | %%[[caption-width-right:666:some caption text]] |
| 634 | -->'''Original creator:''' [=DianaBerry=], [=UraniumEmpire=] |
| 635 | -->'''Debut:''' [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4319 SCP-4319 - ♡By Girls, For Girls♡]] (2019) |
| 636 | '''Just Girly Things''', or '''JGT''' for short, is an internet blog site specifically for girls (read: anyone born with XX chromosomes, regardless of gender identity) to rediscover their true femininity. However, this site is under the control of a user named [=KeeLee=] Auburn, a vicious transphobe and FemaleMisogynist who isn't afraid to brainwash fellow site members into following her warped idea of what being a woman means. |
| 637 | ---- |
| 638 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: The site's style bible indicates that [=KeeLee=] should never come across as a human, but leaves it up to the reader as to whether or not she is a human, was once a human that became a digital entity, or is solely a digital entity. |
| 639 | * AmnesiacHero: In the tale "[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/standing-on-the-shore-at-dusk Standing On The Shore At Dusk]]", it's revealed that JGT's effects on Landon have even gone so far as to erase his memories of being a trans boy. He does remember that he feels uncomfortable in his own skin, but he doesn't know why. It takes a loose page from his personal diary for his memories to start flooding back. |
| 640 | * AwfulWeddedLife: According to the site's style bible, Ella's marriage with her husband is not a happy one, and she is frequently subjected to abuse from him. However, the reason she stayed was out of an obligation from JGT to have ''someone'' who would provide for her. |
| 641 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: With very few exceptions, none of the users of the JGT blog are misogynistic by choice. Ella Romero, for example, was a loving older sister to Landon before she joined JGT and forced him to join. |
| 642 | * ContentWarning: Out of universe, almost every article under the JGT hub has a warning on top of the article advising the viewer that the articles address sensitive topics including, but not limited to, transphobia, abuse, brainwashing, misogyny, and eating disorders. In addition, every article has a statement that the authors of the articles under the JGT hub do not condone or support the actions of the group in any manner whatsoever. |
| 643 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: According to the style bible, Jess Landons was trafficked into sex work from a young age before seeing refuge in the JGT blog. She is one of the few members unaffected by [=KeeLee=]'s brainwashing, but she is still very dependent on her. |
| 644 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: One of the possible futures of Landon is shown in the tale "[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/asmodeus Asmodeus]]". In this one, Landon successfully broke out of JGT sometime before he became an adult and is now much stable and happier with himself after he joined Parawatch. |
| 645 | * EnemyMine: The blog has users from all walks of life, with many having clashing beliefs. For example, Theresa Petrucci's Catholic faith is at odds with Madeleine Von Schaeffer's paganism, but the two are still working under the same cause. Similarly, Jess Landons is a sex worker, while Ella Romero is a faithful housewife. The style bible even describes this as "radically inclusive and uncompromisingly xenophobic." |
| 646 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: |
| 647 | ** According to the GOI's style bible, despite the JGT forum members being insanely transphobic and misogynist, they draw the line at racism. Somewhat downplayed, though, as they brainwash people regardless of race, culture, and ethnicity. |
| 648 | ** Ella does not force Landon to detransition. Since Landon is a minor, he cannot be detransitioned by force or else Ella would be investigated by CPS, so Ella has to resort to subtle tactics to get him to detransition voluntarily. |
| 649 | * FemaleMisogynist: All of the site's members follow [=KeeLee=] down to the letter, including attacking others who don't act conventionally feminine, despite each member being assigned female at birth. |
| 650 | * PinkMeansFeminine: The site's overall layout is in various shades of pink to emphasize the femininity of the site and its members. |
| 651 | * StepfordSmiler: Landon Romero is a Type A. A transgender boy who is currently brainwashed by JGT, he acts femininely, dresses femininely, and uses his deadname "Cora". However, all of this gives him massive amounts of dysphoria, and it's all but stated in several tales that he's suffering under the group. |
| 652 | [[/folder]] |
| 653 | |
| 654 | [[folder:Manna Charitable Foundation]] |
| 655 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/manna-charitable-foundation-hub Manna Charitable Foundation]] |
| 656 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcf.png]] |
| 657 | -->'''Original creator:''' [=SpoonOfEvil=] |
| 658 | -->'''Debut:''' [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-514 SCP-514 - A Flock of Doves]] (2009) |
| 659 | The '''Manna Charitable Foundation''' (abbrv. '''MCF''', or simply the "'''Charitable'''") is a humanitarian relief agency which distributes anomalous objects with the intent of providing relief to those in need. While their philosophy is altruistic at heart, the effects of their distribution of anomalies are often unpredictable and dangerous, posing a serious threat to the world at large. |
| 660 | ---- |
| 661 | * ActualPacifist: Although objects they've utilized such as [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1176 SCP-1176]] turn out to be harmful to people, the MCF have a strict policy of never trying to hurt anyone, even their enemies. |
| 662 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: If they need funding, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/a-disturbance they'll get it]] and make sure you have a nice day while they're at it. |
| 663 | * MeaningfulName: |
| 664 | ** They ''are'' charitable, just in an anomalous way. |
| 665 | ** Additionally, their organization being named "manna" is a Biblical reference to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna the magical food of the same name]] Moses gave to the Israelites [[Literature/BookOfExodus while they wandered through the desert]]. |
| 666 | * ShaggyDogStory: Because of the nature of the setting, virtually every project the MCF undertakes is bound to be destroyed, contained, or backfire. |
| 667 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: Unlike other groups, the MCF uses anomalous objects for the express purpose of helping people. It's just that their lack of rigor or cautiousness leads to such objects disrupting the established normalcy of the world even when nobody actually gets hurt by their work. |
| 668 | [[/folder]] |
| 669 | |
| 670 | [[folder:Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd.]] |
| 671 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/marshall-carter-and-dark-hub Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd.]] |
| 672 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcd.png]] |
| 673 | -->'''Original creator:''' tunedtoadeadchannel |
| 674 | -->'''Debut:''' [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-102 SCP-102 - Property of Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd.]] (2010) |
| 675 | '''Marshall, Carter, and Dark Ltd.''' (commonly abbreviated '''MC&D''') is an anomaly-dealing corporation based out of London, England. They are famous for acquiring anomalous items and reselling them to willing club members at secret auctions. While possessing a significant amount of power over the world, they prefer to operate without disturbing the masses and seem to have concealed much of their secrets under layers of mysteries. |
| 676 | ---- |
| 677 | * AristocratsAreEvil: The letter from MC&D included with SCP-2501 was signed by Lady Emily Alcott Carter. |
| 678 | %%* AuctionOfEvil: They run these regularly. |
| 679 | * AffablyEvil: Their general characterization is that they have a formal and respectful relationship with just about every power in the anomalous world, but if you wrong them, they can use their immense power to easily force you into submission. |
| 680 | * CardCarryingVillain: One of the few groups to be almost exclusively written as evil, and nonetheless very formal and polite. |
| 681 | * DarkLordOnLifeSupport: [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Mr. Carter's]] life support is [[YouHaveFailedMe underlings who failed him]]. As in, he keeps the guy's limbless shell strapped to the back of his wheelchair, with tubes connecting their organ systems. |
| 682 | * TheDreaded: Similar to NoOneSeesTheBoss, below. Most employees of MC&D are terrified of Marshall and Carter. Marshall and Carter are terrified of Dark. In most interpretations, when Dark shows up, it is evidence that things are about to get very bad, very soon. |
| 683 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: MC&D usually doesn't care about what their customers use their products for. However, in the case of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2501 an infinite-range infinite-strength claw]] (which can easily crush entire buildings, countries, ''planets, and stars''), they realized how dangerous it is in the wrong hands and decided to permanently transfer the claw to the Foundation for safekeeping. |
| 684 | --> '''''(Excerpt of a note attached to the shipping crate containing SCP-2501)''''' ''(...) As valuable as it may be, we at Marshall, Carter, and Dark, Ltd. feel that it is in our mutual benefit, meaning us as well as the SCP Foundation, that this remain in your safekeeping. We usually retain a level of impartiality for what our clients do or do not do after the closing of a sale. However, in light of a few isolated incidents regarding our clients' intentions with this particular device, and their affiliations by and large, it is safe to assume that selling said item [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt would be a poor business decision on our part.]] (...) So for the sake of famous landmarks, monuments, certain nations, our continued enterprise, and quite possibly the sun or moon, we hand this over to persons more experienced and adept at locking things away from the world.'' |
| 685 | %%* EvilInc: Very obviously so. |
| 686 | * {{Fetish}}: Much of their stuff caters to people with... specific tastes. |
| 687 | * FranchiseCodifier: Created by Dr Gears alongside the Church of the Broken God in the days before the Wiki was created, Marshall, Carter, & Dark was one of the first Groups of Interest written for the SCP mythos. |
| 688 | * TheGhost: In many versions, Dark is never seen and communicates with the other two partners solely through letters. Whether this is because he is [[PosthumousCharacter dead]] or [[EldritchAbomination something else]] depends on the author. |
| 689 | * ImAHumanitarian: They were the previous owners of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-604 SCP-604]], a set of tableware that turns organic matter into human flesh for the sake of consumption. A lot of said organic matter ended up turning into living (and screaming) heads. |
| 690 | * ItAmusedMe: They practically have the entire world in their hands. Their only reason for their continued existence is because they want to play with it. |
| 691 | * MegaCorp: By single-handedly dominating the entire anomaly market, they are now pretty much the hidden king of the world. |
| 692 | -->'''[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/marshall-carter-and-dark-hub MC&D Overview:]]''' With a glance, Marshall, Carter and Dark could level a city, bankrupt a country; with a single call, they could plunge the planet into a thermonuclear war. [[AffablyEvil Yet, to the eternal relief of all, they are the least volatile players in the anomalous field.]] |
| 693 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The other organizations might've made up their ominous names, but the name of this group would imply that they actually have a partner named ''Dark'', of all things. |
| 694 | * NoOneSeesTheBoss: According to its entry on the [=GoI=] page, names of the directors have "proven very difficult to acquire". Played doubly straight with Dark; in many interpretations, Marshall and Carter either haven't seen him in years, or don't know who he is. Either way, they tend to follow Dark's lead. |
| 695 | * PlayingBothSides: Given the number of connections they have to other groups of interest, playing ''all'' sides would be a more accurate description. Case in point; after managing to ''recreate the chains for [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2317 SCP-2317]]'', this is the first thing Dark thinks of; |
| 696 | -->'''Dark:''' I think that we should have the Foundation, Coalition and Chaos Insurgency try to outbid each other for exclusive rights to this stuff. |
| 697 | * PragmaticVillainy: They try to keep their customers from risking their own lives. After all, a dead customer isn't a ''returning'' customer. |
| 698 | * SmokyGentlemensClub: A very dark one, and not just because of its name. |
| 699 | [[/folder]] |
| 700 | |
| 701 | [[folder:Nobody]] |
| 702 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/nobody-hub Nobody]] |
| 703 | Someone (or someones?) who is just a '''Nobody'''. |
| 704 | ---- |
| 705 | * EnigmaticMinion: Alternates between this (at his most villainous) and MysteriousProtector (at his most heroic). |
| 706 | * IHaveManyNames: In the tale series "The Cool War," the Nobody identity is just one of several identities that he uses. His other Identities include [[spoiler:The Critic of Are We Cool Yet?, The Administrator of the Foundation, Doctor Wondertainment, Chancellor of Alexylva University, Acting Director of the GOC, the leader of the Chaos Insurgency, and more]]. |
| 707 | * InventedIndividual: Possibly entirely made up. At the very least, agents tell the higher-ups he is responsible for their mistakes so they don't get D-classed. |
| 708 | * LegacyCharacter: |
| 709 | ** In several stories, Nobody is depicted as an identity that passes from person to person. Becoming the new Nobody results in said person becoming an UnPerson. "The Cool War" details one way this might happen. [[spoiler:When the original Nobody dies (The Critic), whoever picks up and wears Nobody's fedora (in this case Agent Tangerine) becomes the new Nobody.]] |
| 710 | ** Some stories take it a step further, with multiple iterations of Nobody existing simultaneously; [[spoiler:Agent Tangerine]] and [[spoiler:Claire Bright]] both exist at the same time in the S & C Plastics canon, for instance. |
| 711 | * MysteriousWatcher: Mysterious as it gets. |
| 712 | * OurFounder: To the Foundation in the Competitive Eschatology canon. [[spoiler:He's one of the world-enders, but is trying to end the world in a way that favors humanity.]] |
| 713 | [[/folder]] |
| 714 | |
| 715 | [[folder:Office for the Reclamation of Islamic Artifacts]] |
| 716 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/oria-hub Office for the Reclamation of Islamic Artifacts (ORIA)]] |
| 717 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oria.png]] |
| 718 | The '''Office for the Reclamation of Islamic Artifacts''' ('''ORIA''') is a paramilitary force answering directly to the supreme leader of Iran, with the express purpose of collecting and utilizing anomalous items in the Middle Eastern and Central Asian regions, and is considered hostile against the Foundation. Created by a secret decree of Supreme Leader Khomeini following the expulsion of all Foundation presence in Iran during the Iranian Revolution, it had since then grown into a formidable force in paranormal affairs in the Middle East. |
| 719 | ---- |
| 720 | * BadassCreed: "Protect our people. Protect our nations. In all times, this mandate will always stand". |
| 721 | * GratuitousForeignLanguage: While TranslationConvention is in effect, the SCP Foundation is always referred to as the all-caps QĀ'IDAH-SCP (SCP Foundation in Arabic) in translation. WordOfGod stated that this is purely a stylistic choice to illustrate their hostility towards the Foundation. |
| 722 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Of the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, better known as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. |
| 723 | * NonIndicativeName: They seek out all paranormal objects, not just those of Islamic origin. Also, while its members are predominantly Muslim, this is not a requirement, and there are a number of Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, and even pagans among their ranks. |
| 724 | * OurGeniesAreDifferent: ''Djinn'' are living, sentient ideas in human form, organized into a number of Houses. Being idea-based, they can infiltrate human minds (the basis for stories of ''djinn'' possession), but the experience is rather painful and potentially sanity- and life-threatening to them. ORIA has established enough of an alliance with the ''djinn'' community that operatives can expect cooperation and some degree of politeness from ''djinn'' they meet; some ''djinn'' have joined ORIA as operatives. |
| 725 | * {{Qurac}}: Their initial portrayal. Later, when they were written up for a Hub, they were established as having been the Middle East's dominant group dealing with anomalous phenomena since the end of the Second World War, their alliance with post-Islamic Revolution Iran born largely out of practicality. Their goal is the protection and assistance of their homes, whether that be a Middle Eastern nation, tribe, clan, or family. They take personnel from all across the Muslim world, regardless of religious belief. |
| 726 | * TranslationConvention: Their documents are presumably written with a mix of Farsi and Arabic, but all we see is English. |
| 727 | * WeAREStrugglingTogether: Theorized to be an intentional feature of the organization to prevent any one person from gaining too much power. |
| 728 | [[/folder]] |
| 729 | |
| 730 | [[folder:Oneroi Collective]] |
| 731 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/oneiroi Oneroi Collective]] |
| 732 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/oneiroi.png]] |
| 733 | Based on the Foundation's knowledge of the '''Oneiroi Collective''', it is a collective consciousness of dreaming persons and dream-based entities. Information on the collective is scarce, and their goals are unknown, if any exist. |
| 734 | ---- |
| 735 | * TheAlternet: Individuals who are part of Oneiroi West have the ability to access a Connected Consciousness that acts just like the internet in the Waking World, complete with its own equivalents to Twitter, Wikipedia and Google. |
| 736 | * DreamLand: To the point where it has its own geography and nations, with individual 'cities' being the unconsciousnesses of various individuals -- the Oneiroi Collective has its capital listed as Bob Dole, for instance. |
| 737 | * DreamWeaver: Dream is their realm. |
| 738 | * HiveMind: There are several Collectives, each one created by the brainpower of several sleeping things. |
| 739 | * MeaningfulName: They are named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneiroi the set of gods and demigods that ruled over dreams]] in Myth/ClassicalMythology. |
| 740 | * WhoWantsToLiveForever: Some of the minds forming Oneiroi West would want to die, but their HiveMind doesn't let them. |
| 741 | [[/folder]] |
| 742 | |
| 743 | [[folder:Parawatch]] |
| 744 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/parawatch-hub Parawatch]] |
| 745 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/parawatchrook.png]] |
| 746 | The '''Parawatch Wiki''' is a group of paranormal enthusiasts who like to swap stories and speculate what's really out there, but never quite breaching the veil. |
| 747 | ---- |
| 748 | * AscendedExtra: Parawatch was originally used as a throwaway reference in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3840 SCP-3840]], before several articles and tales in late 2019 propelled it into a full-fledged group of interest. |
| 749 | * CassandraTruth: |
| 750 | ** There has been at least one case of a Foundation leak showing up in their forums. The leak in question claimed that [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4444 Al Gore was an alien puppet]], which was dismissed as a {{Troll}}. |
| 751 | ** When the masquerade dropped in the Fallen Masquerade canon, a member of the Serpent's Hand offered to guide and help them adjust. They were also dismissed as a troll. |
| 752 | * DependingOnTheWriter: Nominally, Parawatch is a wiki, but most tales and articles portray it as being akin to a forum or message board. [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-king-company-textile-plant This]] is the only wikipage-style Parawatch article so far. |
| 753 | * {{Irony}}: One of their forums had an ad for [[FunWithAcronyms Spicy Crust Pizzeria]], one of the Foundation's front groups. |
| 754 | * TheUnmasquedWorld: Though they're usually ignorant about the true nature of the Veil, the tale [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/piercing-the-veil Masquerade's End]] shows their reaction to the events that kick off the Broken Masquerade canon. They understandably [[OhCrap freak out]]. |
| 755 | [[/folder]] |
| 756 | |
| 757 | [[folder:Prometheus Labs, Inc.]] |
| 758 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/prometheus-labs-hub Prometheus Labs, Inc.]] |
| 759 | -->'''Original creator:''' Lt Masipag |
| 760 | -->'''Debut:''' [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-148 SCP-148 - The "Telekill" Alloy]] (2008) |
| 761 | Founded in 1892, '''Prometheus Labs, Inc.''' is a currently bankrupt research conglomerate and formerly a major player in the world of paratechnology. Their name comes from the myth of Prometheus stealing fire from Mount Olympus and giving it to mankind, paralleling their own goals of researching into the anomalous to benefit the world. However, the conglomerate was dissolved in 1998 after facing significant financial troubles, dissolving into a multitude of successor companies from its subsidiaries. |
| 762 | |
| 763 | Additional info on the group can be found in the [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/third-law-hub Third Law Hub]]. |
| 764 | ---- |
| 765 | * EvilPowerVacuum: Light on the "evil" part, but in the wake of the main company's collapse, the paratech industry went through a period of total chaos. Profiteers and agents raced to track down [[AbandonedLaboratory mothballed labs]] filled with troves of half-baked {{Magitek}} products, while an army of newly-unemployed {{Mad Scientist}}s and {{Post Modern Mag|ic}}es found themselves courted or gangpressed by every major GOI, and former subsidiaries and competitors of Prometheus began jockeying to become the next big paratech company. |
| 766 | * MadScientist: A common theme with their [=SCPs=], though with the caveat that it seems like they (almost always) had the best intentions at heart. |
| 767 | * PosthumousCharacter: The main company collapsed in 1998, making it this for many stories set afterward dealing with its unfinished projects. |
| 768 | * ResearchInc: Prometheus's [[PlanetOfHats hat]], being the former leading company in PostModernMagic and FantasticScience. |
| 769 | [[/folder]] |
| 770 | |
| 771 | [[folder:Sarkicism]] |
| 772 | See Characters.SCPFoundationSarkicism |
| 773 | |
| 774 | [[/folder]] |
| 775 | |
| 776 | [[folder:The Serpent's Hand]] |
| 777 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/serpent-s-hand-hub The Serpent's Hand]] |
| 778 | %%[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/serpentshand.png]] |
| 779 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d699jbm_24ee2f76_0f7e_4ba8_9477_9675ad87b7d4.png]] |
| 780 | -->'''Original creator:''' Pair Of Ducks |
| 781 | -->'''Debut:''' [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-268 SCP-268 - Cap of Neglect]] (2010) |
| 782 | The '''Serpent's Hand''' is a loose organization based out of the EldritchLocation known as "Website/TheWanderersLibrary". Operating under the singular ideology of embracing the anomalous, they're often directly hostile with anomalous policing groups like the SCP Foundation and the Global Occult Coalition, although they are friendly with the Office for the Reclamation of Islamic Artifacts. While by no means a large group (at least among its most active members), its achievements are still quite noteworthy, and they've essentially become the go-to [=GoI=] concerning magic and history. |
| 783 | ---- |
| 784 | * AnimalWrongsGroup: How the Foundation and GOC view them, definitely. They are benevolent towards most anomalies, however, along with most of humanity — they just don't like anomalies being locked up/destroyed, especially if they fall into the wrong hands. |
| 785 | * BadassCreed: "We will free those you keep imprisoned. We will rescue those you try to kill. The Garden is the Serpent's place. ''We'' are the Serpent's Hand". |
| 786 | * BiblicalBadGuy: The Serpent is the biblical serpent of Eden, though the Hand tends to see it in a more positive light; it brought humanity knowledge, for good and for ill. |
| 787 | * BreakoutCharacter: A weird variant — [[Website/TheWanderersLibrary their headquarters has an entire Wiki based after it.]] |
| 788 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: In the earlier days of the site when most [=SCPs=] were written to be anomalous humans a la [[ComicBook/XMen mutants]], the Serpent's Hand were a foolish AnimalWrongsGroup defending the rights of anomalous individuals. Nowadays they're more of a particularly fantastical WizardingSchool[=/=]OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness, fully aware of the potential dangers of anomalies but still firm believers in LibertyOverProsperity. |
| 789 | * EldritchLocation: Their headquarters, "The Wanderer's Library," which is also heavily implied to be a GeniusLoci. |
| 790 | * EnemyMine: In some isolated instances, the Serpent's Hand have worked together with the Foundation to help contain threats they see as too dangerous to roam free. For example, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2950 SCP-2950's]] current containment procedures were in part designed by Serpent's Hand operatives working with the Foundation. |
| 791 | * EveryoneHasStandards: Despite their fervent belief in almost all supernatural entities deserving their independence, there are still some entities they recognize as being far too dangerous to be granted freedom and need to be kept locked up or even killed. For example, the Hand is perfectly happy to let [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-953 SCP-953]] (a sadistic HumanoidAbomination who spreads suffering and misery wherever she goes) rot in the Foundaton's custody for the rest of eternity. |
| 792 | * ExtraDimensionalShortcut: The "Ways," special magical paths connecting different worlds/regions and even ''universes'' to each other and the Wanderer's Library, are often utilized by the Serpent's Hand on their missions. |
| 793 | * JerkassHasAPoint: In the exact opposite way of the Foundation and Global Occult Coalition — not only do they disapprove of the Foundation's and GOC's more unethical actions, but they argue that the rise of the supernatural means that people should just learn to accept and live with the anomalous instead of pointlessly fighting against them so as to "preserve normalcy". |
| 794 | * KickTheDog: Some of their members once tricked the Foundation into summoning [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1765 SCP-1765]] and getting dozens of employees trapped in a FateWorseThanDeath meant to serve an [[IronicHell ironic punishment]] for their ForScience behavior, an act that was at best KarmicOverkill and at worst wanton sadism. |
| 795 | * TheLeader: Subverted. The Foundation is under the impression that an individual called L.S. is one of the leaders of the Hand, but they are really more of a figurehead, and a really mysterious one, too. Same with most of their other "leaders". |
| 796 | * LibertyOverProsperity: Their main grievance with the Foundation is that the latter destroys the freedom of anomalous individuals in favour of a status quo that favors baseline humanity by sweeping the supernatural under the rug. |
| 797 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: ReptilesAreAbhorrent after all. |
| 798 | * TheNicknamer: They have a variety of nicknames for the other [=GOIs=] — The Foundation are "the Jailors," the Global Occult Coalition are "the Bookburners," the Chaos Insurgency are "the Madmen" The Factory are "the Robber-Barons," Marshall, Carter, & Dark are "the Merchants," and the Church of the Broken God are "the Devout". |
| 799 | * OddFriendship: With Gamers Against Weed. GAW's anomalous art actively threatens TheMasquerade without chance of bloodshed, aligning with one of the Hand's primary goals. |
| 800 | * OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: They have their own with their council of leaders — "The Serpent's Nest" — though they're still subservient to the Librarians and Archivists of the Wanderer's Library. |
| 801 | * PortalCrossroadWorld: This seems to be part of the purpose for the Wanderer's Library, and the Serpent's Hand use this to their advantage when assaulting Foundation sites and GOC facilities. |
| 802 | * RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The Serpent's Hand is not a unified organization. In fact, the only qualification for being part of the Hand is that you consider yourself a member. As a result, a lot of people who are affiliated with them go right under the radar of groups like the Foundation and the GOC. In part by consequence, many former Hand members go on to work with the Foundation or GOC. |
| 803 | * RomanticismVersusEnlightenment: The Hand's conflicts with the GOC & Foundation are because of each organization being on a different part of this spectrum — The Serpent's Hand are firmly with the Romantics, and the Global Occult Coalition and Foundation (to a slightly lesser extent) are clearly on the Enlightenment side of things. |
| 804 | * SatanIsGood: About a third of their belief system, the rest being Myth/NorseMythology and something that vaguely resembles Wicca. |
| 805 | * SignsOfTheEndTimes: The Library burning is often used in the Foundation universe to indicate that shit has hit the fan. |
| 806 | * SmallNameBigEgo: The Serpent's Hand take it upon themselves to protect the Library. But according to a hidden entry in [[https://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/thearchivistslog The Wanderers' Library's GoI page]], [[spoiler:they are "superfluous" and "unneeded"… just like their predecessors]]. |
| 807 | * SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic: They actually have a lot more concrete knowledge about the paranormal than the Foundation does. Many of the members explicitly consider the Foundation "unscientific". |
| 808 | * ToUnmasqueTheWorld: One of their long-term objectives, since they oppose the idea of a Veil. |
| 809 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: In the exact opposite way as the Global Occult Coalition and the Foundation, with them wanting to destroy the existence of "normalcy" in order to help enlighten people and spread progress throughout the multiverse. |
| 810 | |
| 811 | !!L.S. |
| 812 | A highly respected member of the Serpent's Hand who has successfully stolen or destroyed several SCP objects. May or may not also be the same person as The Black Queen. |
| 813 | |
| 814 | !! David Blindman |
| 815 | One of the many children of Mikell Bright, David Blindman joined the Serpent's Hand and made it his mission to find other members of his family and help them as much as he can. |
| 816 | * AbusiveParents: What do you do to try and save your son from being locked away and experimented on? [[spoiler:Gouge out his eyes, of course!]] |
| 817 | * BigScrewedUpFamily: Given that he’s a part of the Bright family, this is to be expected. |
| 818 | * BlindBlackGuy: A black man with missing eyes. |
| 819 | * BlindSeer: While not as powerful as his aunt, David is capable of seeing into the future and how it changes depending on the decisions of others. |
| 820 | * IfItsYouItsOkay: WordOfGod says he’s gay, but he’s shown having a girlfriend when he was younger. |
| 821 | * NightmareFuelColoringBook: Would often draw what he saw in his visions to avoid having a breakdown over them. Other people are noticeably creeped out when looking at them. |
| 822 | * PetMonstrosity: His seeing eye pet, which is some unspecified monster. Her name is [[FluffyTheTerrible Mr. Cupcakes]]. |
| 823 | * TwoferTokenMinority: Black, blind, and gay. |
| 824 | [[/folder]] |
| 825 | |
| 826 | [[folder:Shark Punching Center]] |
| 827 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/spc-hub The Shark Punching Center (SPC)]] |
| 828 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shark_0.png]] |
| 829 | The '''Shark Punching Center''' is a counterpart to the SCP Foundation in one or more {{Alternate Universe}}s. Are almost entirely focused on punching sharks in the face. |
| 830 | ---- |
| 831 | * ApocalypseHow: In some interpretations, they turned their Earth into a WorldOfWeirdness due to killing [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1449 SCP-1449]], a whale shark present in Australia's dreamtime. |
| 832 | * ArchEnemy: To Wilson's Wildlife Solutions over the fact that they, *shudder*, ''befriend'' sharks. |
| 833 | * BerserkButton: Asking why they need to punch sharks will most likely earn you a fist to the face. |
| 834 | * BetterToDieThanBeKilled: They get discovered by the SCP Foundation in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/one-last-punch-for-the-road "One Last Punch For The Road"]], so they choose to release sharks to kill themselves with rather than face capture. |
| 835 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: Say what you will about them, [[spoiler:they still successfully contained SPC-682, forcibly turned it into a shark against its will by manipulating its own AdaptiveAbility, then proceeded to ''punch it'' until they broke its spirit and kept at punching it]]. |
| 836 | * DependingOnTheWriter: The different stories about the Shark Punching Center depict it wildly different depending on the writer. The most different version of them is as depicted in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/it-always-has-been-it-always-has-not-been "It Always Has Been, It Always Has Not Been"]]. WordOfGod says that this is an alternate universe where [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1449 SCP-1449]] was killed, resulting in history being rewritten. |
| 837 | * FullNameBasis: In an email to the SCP Foundation about a pattern screamer they had contained, the SPC referred to their counterpart as "Secure Contain Protect Foundation," which is not technically what they're called, but it's close enough. |
| 838 | * FunWithAcronyms: Their name was derived from a common mispelling of SCP. |
| 839 | * GoodOldFisticuffs: They deliver these to sharks. |
| 840 | * HeWhoFightsMonsters: This is apparently what happened to [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-7475-j SCP-7475-J]]. |
| 841 | * HorrifyingTheHorror: Their universe's equivalent of SCP-682 didn't take them seriously when they proposed letting it go free, provided it punch sharks. The SPC still found a way to make it useful, however: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/spc-682 SPC-682]] is filed as "a very punchable shark". They use it to test new pugilistic technologies. [[spoiler:They eventually break its spirit, and it agrees to punch sharks. The SPC, however, has determined that its current status is more useful.]] |
| 842 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: They hunt down paranormal objects, much like the SCP Foundation... then use them to beat up sharks. |
| 843 | * IncrediblyLamePun: "You will {{jump the shark}}". |
| 844 | * InsanityImmunity: Their mad obsession with punching sharks surpasses the HatePlague generated by SPC-682, meaning that they can come up with uses for it other than killing it, unlike their SCP counterparts. |
| 845 | * OtherMeAnnoysMe: The Shark Punching Center is offended by the fact that their AlternateUniverse counterparts, the SCP Foundation, considers them a joke. |
| 846 | * PluckyComicRelief: Justified as they're a joke Group of Interest. |
| 847 | * PowerBornOfMadness: In many depictions, their single-minded dedication to their goal has led them to develop extremely advanced technology in every field which could hypothetically enhance the application of fists to sharks — for example, [[KillSat satellites which drop fist-shaped tungsten rods from orbit]] and surgically altered amphibious supersoldiers. |
| 848 | * SeriousBusiness: They're really serious about punching sharks. They even mention ''drilling through Earth's mantle'' just to deal with SPC-3284-J. |
| 849 | * SkewedPriorities: The entire gag is about the absurd lengths they are willing to go to in order to punch sharks. Some of them are even willing to risk TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. |
| 850 | * SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: Depictions of the SPC vary between writer and writer. While originally a purely comedic out-of-universe organization (still so as written by some authors), an alternate depiction stemming from the wiki's lack of a canon allowed them to be written as a more serious shark punching organization, mainly due to how weird it is. |
| 851 | * ThreateningShark: Their goal is to find these... to punch them. |
| 852 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: They're willing to use [[ArtifactOfDoom SPC-140]] to bring back the Daevite civilization so that they can make use of the advanced anti-shark techniques the Daevites developed for fighting Sharkicism. |
| 853 | [[/folder]] |
| 854 | |
| 855 | [[folder:☽☽☽ Initiative]] |
| 856 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/three-moons-initiative-hub Three Moons Initiative]] |
| 857 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/threemoonsinitiative.jpg]] |
| 858 | -->'''Original creator:''' daveyoufool |
| 859 | -->'''Debut:''' [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2922 SCP-2922 - Notes From the Under]] (2015) |
| 860 | The '''Three Moons Initiative''' is a mysterious extradimensional organization that mostly works in Corbenic, the afterlife that the Foundation is exploring via [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2922 Operation Galahad]]. Little is known about their structure, other than the fact that they serve the Lord of Corbenic, JALAKÅRA the Impenetrable (though they don't always see eye-to-eye with him), and they're at war with the Bogal Mountain Prefecture and its Witch-Queen. They are also seeking Earth's continued survival and peace, and will do anything to ensure it stays that way. |
| 861 | |
| 862 | Their active representatives on Earth include [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2578 SCP-2578-D]] (a spaceship that kills tyrants) and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3319 SCP-3319]] (a lifeline for the entire planet in case of cataclysms); their other proxies remain in Foundation containment for the time being. Documents attached to SCP-3319's article imply that at least some members of the Initiative (and possibly all of them) are former Foundation agents from at least one prior version of Earth which suffered a reality collapse. |
| 863 | ---- |
| 864 | * ArcNumber: They seem to have some connection with the number 922, seeing as 3 of their [=SCPs=] (2922, 3922, and 4922) all have this number. |
| 865 | * BadassBoast: |
| 866 | -->'''President Girard Niang:''' When we came to the afterlife, there was no heaven and hell, so we ''built'' them. There were no angels, so we '''trained''' them. There was no god, so we hired one - Glory to thee, Jalakåra.[[note]](In the higher ranks, he even lets you use lowercase!)[[/note]] And now, with the third moon being smelted apart for raw materials, we're the closest thing you're ever going to get to divine intervention. |
| 867 | * BadassCreed: "You are watched. You are protected. You are loved". |
| 868 | * BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: According to [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4922 SCP-4922]], one of their operatives is an alternate reality version of Creator/JimHenson. |
| 869 | * BigDamnHeroes: When an unknown SCP-001 proposal initiates a ZK-class scenario in one reality, the Initiative activates SCP-3319's true powers and ''teleports Earth to Corbenic,'' saving the planet from its destruction. |
| 870 | * CelestialBureaucracy: In a message sent via SCP-3768, the Initiative outright admits "our army is 75% paperwork and in-fighting". In the story attached to SCP-3319, improperly filed paperwork prevents the Initiative from rescuing more of humanity. |
| 871 | * CoolStarship: Scroll too fast and you'll miss it, but SCP-3922 confirms they've been aboard the ''SCPS Solidarity''/SCP-2117, ''the'' quintessential example of this trope in the Foundation mythos, and know how to use it. Preferably to shut down a reality-bending SadistShow by hurling a compacted reality anchor towards the ground all the way from Titan. |
| 872 | * DeityOfHumanOrigin: An organisation-wide example, the Initiative has grown from a ArtifactCollectionAgency made up of normal humans to a CelestialBureaucracy that rules their own afterlife. |
| 873 | * EternalRecurrence: The final note attached to SCP-3319 implies that all three of Corbenic's moons are prior versions of Earth. The Initiative is trying to save other Earths from suffering the same fate theirs did, but the end of the world ''just keeps happening.'' |
| 874 | -->'''Initiative member:''' For the gods' sake. We ''do'' want to keep humanity safe - ever since we escaped on that first moon, that's been our goal. But let's be honest - humanity keeps repeating the same mistakes that got us here in the first place. |
| 875 | * GasMaskMook: The standard Initiative combat uniform includes a face-concealing gas mask. |
| 876 | * GoodIsNotSoft: They're probably the most powerful and benevolent pan-dimensional organization since seen in the Foundation's multiverse... but that doesn't make them any less brutal or harsh than some of the more villainous [=GoIs=]. |
| 877 | * {{Hypocrite}}: They punish tyranny and cruelty, on both baseline Earth and in fiction. Yet they'll set up heavy-handed police states to eradicate crime, and their punishments for particularly wicked individuals (like the protagonists of ''A Clockwork Orange'' or the Masters from ''Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom'') border on torture porn. |
| 878 | * IHaveNoIdeaWhatImDoing: If only because HumansAreFlawed. The ending of SCP-3319 even states this: |
| 879 | -->'''Initiative member:''' Do your job, because if you don't, '''we'll''' do it for you. And we have ''no'' idea what the fuck we're doing. |
| 880 | * MakeAnExampleOfThem: JALAKÅRA, on behalf of the Initiative, casted a hex on a universe where the Administrator made up [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4839 SCP-4839]] [[{{Greed}} so that he may have everything in the world to himself]], and forwarded the document's six iterations to a different iteration of the Foundation to show what might happen if they lose sight of their true mission. The Initiative's reason for doing this may also be because the Administrator [[ItsPersonal had the gall to slander the Initiative and paint JALAKÅRA as a completely different person]]. |
| 881 | * MeaningfulName: Corbenic is the name of the castle which contained the Holy Grail in Arthurian lore. With Corbenic being a kind of afterlife, it ''does'' provide a roundabout immortality. The Foundation caught onto this name, and named their project to study/contain Corbenic and interact with the ☽☽☽ Initiative Operation Galahad, after the eponymous Grail Knight. |
| 882 | * MechaMooks: Being that they're based in an afterlife, they can't send any truly living biological life back through to Earth or alternative dimensions without potentially cataclysmic consequences. However, they're incredibly advanced technologically, and have gotten around that aforementioned limitation by sending back various robots to help fulfill their goals (such as SCP-2578-D). |
| 883 | * MoralGuardians: Created a device ([[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3922 SCP-3922]]) that can be used on media to rewrite its plot to eradicate immoral activity (though it's also implied that the device is instead just granting them access to the alternative realities of those specific works of fiction). Their motives are also largely anti-war and are implied to believe they're pretty much babysitting humanity at this point. |
| 884 | * OddFriendship: As revealed in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/spc-2922 SPC-2922]], they're working with the Shark Punching Centre to deal with all spectral sharks in Corbenic. |
| 885 | * PoorCommunicationKills: After relocating an alternate Earth into Corbenic, the ☽☽☽ Initiative tries to rescue humanity from being "harvested" by the Striders. Humanity doesn't get the message: the SCP Foundation and civilian governments open fire on the Initiative's rescue ships, while [[IgnoredExpert anyone who realizes the Initiative is actually trying to help gets locked out from communications.]] Of the ~40,000,000 humans who got pulled into Corbenic, the Initiative only manages to save '''43.''' |
| 886 | * RebelliousSpirit: To some degree — their actions in SCP-3319 were an easy way to piss off the entities that make up the Bogal Mountain Prefecture. |
| 887 | * SigilSpam: They slap the ☽☽☽ logo on all their equipment and [=SCPs,=] and use it as a signature on all their messages. |
| 888 | * SuperweaponSurprise: Apparently, when SCP-3922 was used on ''Film/StarWarsANewHope'', it ended with the Initiative ''hijacking the Death Star''. |
| 889 | * TookALevelInBadass: |
| 890 | ** They were originally just an alternate Earth's version of the SCP Foundation, but their accidental self-imprisonment in Corbenic and resultant restructuring has transformed them into one of the most powerful factions in the multiverse. |
| 891 | ** And even then, it's pretty much shown that the alternate Earth's Foundation they hailed from was a ''lot'' more powerful than the one shown in the "main" reality already, with them [[spoiler:having managed to ''[[KilledOffForReal neutralize]]'' [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2317 SCP-2317]], an '''[[DespairEventHorizon Apollyon]]'''-class entity]]. |
| 892 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: Although everything they do is meant to be beneficial to the Foundation and humanity as a whole... let's just say they can get pretty theatrical with their methods, and tend to not account for other anomalies interfering. [[PoorCommunicationKills They're also not that good at reaching mutual understanding with others.]] |
| 893 | * TheWorfEffect: SCP-3922 normally alters the content of whatever visual media it's used on to have soldiers of the ☽☽☽ come in as a DeusExMachina to punish all those they deem guilty. When used on [[MonsterClown SCP-993]], however, the latter absolutely wrecks the Initiative in the resulting episode. The same thing happens when the Initiative goes up against [[Series/FatherTed Father Jack Hackett.]] Overall, there is a healthy implication that while the Initiative is able to bring their seemingly unlimited resources to bear in whatever media they invade, they are still as subject to the ''laws'' of the media's setting and themes as the original characters are; for example, when attempting to interject in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', they are intercepted by "God" who informs the interdiction team about the laws of EquivalentExchange, and that in the FMA universe, any suffering they prevent will only cause suffering elsewhere, much to the chagrin of the team, who reluctantly call off the interdiction. |
| 894 | [[/folder]] |
| 895 | |
| 896 | [[folder:TotleighSoft]] |
| 897 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/totleighsoft-hub Totleigh Software - BECAUSE COMPUTERS!!]] |
| 898 | -->'''Original creator:''' daveyoufool |
| 899 | -->'''Debut:''' [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2527 SCP-2527 - Massy's Big Chance]] (2015) |
| 900 | An anomalous consumer electronics and software company based out of North Dakota. Their CEO is "Percival Hudson Gock", a gigantic EldritchAbomination who took over the site of an automobile plant for the purpose of distributing anomalous video games, later branching into other fields such as home video and Artificial Intelligence. Many of these products are low-quality, contain extremely harmful anomalous effects, and are riddled with poor English. Mr Gock styles himself as an immigrant success story living out his strange idea of "The American Dream" through his company, and seems oblivious to the harm his products cause. |
| 901 | ---- |
| 902 | * AssimilationPlot: Materialized inside an automotive plant in North Dakota and pulled this on all the surviving employees to help him distribute his products. |
| 903 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: Despite Gock's funny mannerisms and broken english, his products are often ''genuinely dangerous'', and unlike Wondertainment they are all designed specifically with that in mind to perpetuate his idea of "self-betterment". |
| 904 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Hudson Gock is... weird, to say the least. Between his odd mannerisms and his belief that he is truly helping the American people with his dangerous products, he is definitely not in touch with reality. |
| 905 | * {{Eagleland}}: Gock firmly holds to the Type A version of this trope, or at least his own version of it. |
| 906 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler:Though he did create Pallit primarily to succeed him as CEO and shunted her on the Foundation when she wouldn't behave, he did seem to genuinely care for her to some extent, and is genuinely betrayed when she kills him and takes over his consciousness.]] |
| 907 | * ImmigrantPatriotism: Gock considers himself an "immigrant business success story", having come all the way from the Crab Nebula to pursue the American Dream. |
| 908 | * IntentionalEngrishForFunny: Gock has a very shaky grasp of English, and as such most of his products and personal communications are riddled with spelling and grammatical errors. The notable exceptions are his own name and the name of his company, which he always spells correctly. [[spoiler:His "retirement" speech shows that he actually got better at it over time.]] |
| 909 | * PlanetEater: Gock's former "profession" prior to arriving on Earth. According to Pallit, he was actually quite bad at it compared to the other members of his kind. |
| 910 | * TheSocialDarwinist: A major theme in [=SCPs=] produced by [=TotleighSoft=] is the idea of putting people through extreme and horrible forms of torture in order for them to come out as "better" people than before. |
| 911 | [[/folder]] |
| 912 | |
| 913 | [[folder:Unusual Incidents Unit]] |
| 914 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/unusual-incidents-unit-hub Unusual Incidents Unit (UIU), Federal Bureau of Investigation]] |
| 915 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/uiufbi.png]] |
| 916 | The '''Unusual Incidents Unit''' ('''UIU'''), Federal Bureau of Investigation is the paranormal investigation division of the FBI. The unit is in a state of decline, often lacking in needed powers required for handling dangerous anomalies. Nevertheless, they are still a notable force on the anomalous scene at times. |
| 917 | ---- |
| 918 | * ButtMonkey: None of the other factions take them seriously and it shows. The UIU are well aware of this but are happy to play along with their image if it means their agents aren't getting slaughtered. |
| 919 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: Originally characterized as the lowest man on the totem pole in the [=SCPverse=] and laughably bad at their jobs, they've since been reinterpreted as a competent but severely underfunded organization that handles the smaller anomalies that larger groups can't be bothered with. One Tale even has an agent of the Foundation admit that the UIU better at minimizing civilian casualties than they are. |
| 920 | * TheDitz: This was their entire shtick at first, though [[CharacterizationMarchesOn more recent takes]] (most notably the [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/uiu-orientation UIU Orientation]]) tend to portray it as ObfuscatingStupidity. |
| 921 | * {{Geas}}: Called "gag orders," put on UIU agents by the Unit to ensure that there aren't any leaks, as an alternative to wiping their mind and potentially losing a valuable resource. |
| 922 | * InSeriesNickname: Called the [="UIUseless,"=] sometimes seriously, sometimes as a joke to themselves. |
| 923 | * InspectorLestrade: They aren't nearly well-funded enough to actually deal with the world-ending crap the Foundation faces on a daily basis. They pick up the slack by essentially serving as the Foundation's FBI and U.S. government contacts. |
| 924 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: An unusual example in that they're not ''exactly'' doing it to hide competence, they're doing it to stay BeneathNotice so they don't end up in over their heads. They know they're too underfunded to deal with the legitimately dangerous anomalies, so they just stick to the background and get the Foundation, GOC, and the Serpent's Hand to deal with that stuff for them. In return, the Foundation lets the Unit handle the small, safe objects and people; that way the Unit keeps getting what little funding it has while freeing up the Foundation's schedule. It's also implied that they have to constantly cover-up the messes the Foundation or GOC leave in their wakes. |
| 925 | * OccultDetective: The UIU Branch in Three Portlands (a pocket dimension that connects to Portland, Oregon, Portland, Maine and the Isle of Portland, UK) serve this role, being the ''de facto'' anomalous law enforcement agency in [=3Ports=]. |
| 926 | * PretentiousLatinMotto: While not really used, the logo shows the Latin phrase "Vigiles In Noctum," roughly meaning "Watchful At Night". |
| 927 | * RedScare: Came into being during the Cold War, partially due to fears that the Soviet Union would create anomalous weaponry before the US would. |
| 928 | * ShoutOut: "Disparagingly referred to as ''[[Series/TheXFiles X-Files]]''" by the rest of the FBI. |
| 929 | * TakeThat: Their initial characterization was basically taking the titular unit of ''Series/TheXFiles'' and making them a bunch of hapless bumbling incompetents utterly outmatched by the multinational unimaginably wealthy organisations of Men In Black running around the same universe. More modern takes have actually turned them into more of an affectionate {{Homage}}, since -- like Mulder and Scully -- they're underfunded and still underappreciated and held in contempt by their colleagues, but are nevertheless a lot more competent and effective than they seem. |
| 930 | * TookALevelInBadass: |
| 931 | ** More recent portrayals have given the UIU more and more power and capability. For example, in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2610 SCP-2610]], they are able to request ''fighter jets'' from the US Navy to take down ships full of monsters. |
| 932 | ** InUniverse, this is Inverted: They were a lot more powerful and far better funded during the Cold War, especially when J. Edgar Hoover (who founded them) was in charge of the FBI. Nowadays, one of the main reasons they (and several US military units dealing with the anomalous) still exist is because the Foundation and the GOC are using their influence with the US Government to keep them from being shut down. Though the agents are still well-trained and highly skilled. |
| 933 | |
| 934 | !! Special Agent Quinn [=MacAllister=] and Special Agent Darnell Christman, Unusual Incidents Unit, FBI |
| 935 | * AliensInCardiff: Part of the FBI Branch in Cincinnati, Ohio, where a fair bit of anomalous activity takes place. |
| 936 | * DeadpanSnarker: Darnell moreso than Quinn, with the former driving a Foundation liaison up the wall while snarking about the overuse of the SCP Acronym for front companies in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/taproots Taproots]]: |
| 937 | -->Darnell rolled his eyes. "Leaves out details? Back then, you still thought that "Samson and Cooper Pharmaceuticals" was a clever name, which, by the way, was listed as the base of operations for the raid".\ |
| 938 | Adams groaned, and glared at Darnell, resting his hands on the table and leaning over it. "Yes, we get it, all hail King Hoover, yadda yadda yadda, will you please stop grandstanding and let me get on with this?"\ |
| 939 | "…very well". Darnell crossed his arms, not willing to admit he was intimidated by Adams. |
| 940 | * DoomedHometown: While we've yet to see an explanation of this, something terrible happened to Quinn's hometown of Green Pastures, and the Foundation had a role in it. |
| 941 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: |
| 942 | ** For Quinn, chasing down an anomalous drug dealer who the FBI was attempting to pull a sting operation on, and taking him down one-on-one. |
| 943 | ** For Darnell, getting into a competition with Quinn as to who can remember UIU Case files the clearest. |
| 944 | * LockedOutOfTheLoop: Due to the {{Geas}} put on her, Quinn can't tell Harley anything about her job, nor can she tell Darnell about her hometown. |
| 945 | * PhotographicMemory: Darnell has the uncanny ability to recall every UIU file he's read with a startling degree of clarity. |
| 946 | * ShoutOut: Quinn [=MacAllister=] is in a relationship with Harley Sterling. ComicBook/HarleyQuinn. WordOfGod swears that this was completely unintentional, and that they just needed a gender-neutral name for Harley. |
| 947 | * ThisIsUnforgivable: Quinn had history with the Foundation prior to joining the Unusual Incidents Unit; it's highly implied that they destroyed, or at least severely devastated, her hometown. |
| 948 | [[/folder]] |
| 949 | |
| 950 | [[folder:Valravn Corporation]] |
| 951 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/valravn-corporation-hub Valravn Corporation]] |
| 952 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/valblack.png]] |
| 953 | The '''Valravn Corporation''' is an anomalous mercenary company hired to deal with conflicts in places where the Veil is at its weakest and Foundation or GOC involvement is minimal. They have a penchant for weaponizing mythological anomalies (particularly Norse) and are actively embroiled in the dark underworld of paratech and the anomalous military. |
| 954 | ---- |
| 955 | * AncientConspiracy: While the modern Corporation started in 1940, the GOC suspects they may have existed for far longer in various forms throughout history. The earliest evidence of this is at the fall of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jomsborg Jomsborg]], which would make them nearly 1000 years old if true. |
| 956 | * {{Cult}}: It's part-religion, part-corporation, and everyone opposed to them will not shut up about how much Valravn preys on the psychologically-vulnerable. |
| 957 | * EvilIsPetty: They're locked in a high-class HumongousMecha battle (SCP-7157) against the Three Moons Initiative. Not because someone paid them to, not because of any meaningful slight or catastrophe, but because the two groups have accused each other of ''copyright infringement'' and want to duke it out to see who the true SCP-7157 is. |
| 958 | * HumongousMecha: SCP-7157-Alpha, the Aurvandill. The schematics were apparently stolen from a TMI base for an identical model named the Old Glory, but Valravn says the reverse is true. Regardless, it's a fairly-standard RealRobot with railguns, winged verniers, and [[{{Nanomachines}} nanite regeneration]]. |
| 959 | * MeaningfulName: "Ravn" means Raven in Norwegian, while "Val" most likely comes from Valhalla, the home of the gods and their armies. |
| 960 | * MightMakesRight: "Vae victis," as they call it. They believe that those who benefit from starting wars have the divine right to do so. |
| 961 | * PragmaticVillainy: As their hub states, they'll switch allegiances and change the way they see other groups if the price is high enough. In particular, they're fierce competitors with fellow PMC group ARGUS, but won't hesitate to buy stuff from them if it suits Valravn. |
| 962 | * WarForFunAndProfit: Or to put it another way, "[[PlayingBothSides you never lose at war when war is what you sell]]." |
| 963 | [[/folder]] |
| 964 | |
| 965 | [[folder:Vikander-Kneed Technical Media]] |
| 966 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/vikander-kneed-technical-media-hub Vikander-Kneed Technical Media]] |
| 967 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bupsobe64gf71.png]] |
| 968 | -->'''Original creators:''' Grigori Karpin and Dysadron |
| 969 | -->'''Debut:''' [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5889 SCP-5889 - AMnestic]] (2021) |
| 970 | '''Vikander-Kneed Technical Media''' is a mysterious video company that [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin mass-produces and sells anomalous videos to large audiences]]. The Foundation knows virtually nothing on its members or how they operate, but through their own admittance it appears they lean heavily into the realm of ComedicSociopathy. |
| 971 | ---- |
| 972 | * AlternateHistory: SCP-5897 is a tape that shows accounts of fictional battles throughout history, all of which involve anomalies being used by one side to trump the other. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Except for the fifth excerpt]], which has Canada plotting to... [[MonumentalTheft steal the St. Louis Arch]]. The fact that they succeeded doesn't do much to alleviate the hilarity. |
| 973 | * CapitalismIsBad: Several of their stunts highlight capitalism's failings, such as a warehouse that rewrote a couple of politicians' memories so they'd experience the county's working conditions. Even their "helth by dado" commercials focused on portraying the product as a scam meant to make a profit. Lampshaded in SCP-6897, where an employee can be seen writing "CORPORATIONS ARE EVIL" onto a whiteboard just as the video's guide states their motives are apolitical. |
| 974 | * ComedicSociopathy: |
| 975 | ** Their executives hate everyone, even their own workers to the point of absurdity. Their "human resources" tapes are more accurately a manual on how to abuse your subordinates and get away with it, told with such loving detail and a laid-back attitude that it's almost humorous. Not that it's even necessary, as the tapes brainwash their viewers into taking literally any suggestion that won't immediately endanger their lives. |
| 976 | ** Media altered by SCP-5379, TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday for film products, has witty {{Catch Phrase}}s representing VKTM that indicate they get kicks out of mocking other people's media in this manner. To put it more succintly, "slogans are a valid substitute for morality". |
| 977 | ** The series of commercials they produce for dado get worse and worse as he keeps complaining, first by depicting his products as poison, then employing an actor to play dado himself, then portraying his customers as violent madmen, then ''threatening'' said customers into buying dado's products. In the end, it's dado who loses patience and gives up on using them for his commercials. |
| 978 | * FunWithAcronyms: Pronounced phonetically, "VKTM" sounds like "victim". |
| 979 | * TheKilljoy: They view the Foundation as this for containing SCP-5379 and its repeated insults: |
| 980 | -->"You should smile more often. Well? What did you expect? This show isn't for you. This show is for ''them''. But maybe you got the message anyway? And this is just the beginning. VK Technical Media Solutions. [[ItAmusedMe Boys will be boys]]". |
| 981 | * TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: SCP-5379 is a film product store that randomly and temporarily replaces other storefronts with itself (the employees of the original store get booted to a corporate retreat where they learn how ''not'' to let that happen again). Any media developed using its products gets altered to have it riffed on in some manner. And sure, it might be there ''tomorrow'', but a talk with the manager will be the last thing on your mind in the chaos of all the insults and slander the anomaly has already flinged at you. |
| 982 | * TakeThat: |
| 983 | ** They were an early adopter of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-fungible_token NFTs]], about a year after the first real-world NFT projects were launched. The relevant SCP is an -EX document which is mostly just a shouting match between two researchers aggressively debating why on Earth anyone would buy a simple hyperlink without being coerced into the matter. The theme of the [=NFTs=] themselves also were part of the joke, titled "Great Moments in History" but exclusively highlighting the economic, social, and environmental impact of cryptocurrency. |
| 984 | ** SCP-6897 reveals that they've employed Creator/JossWhedon, Creator/RomanPolanski, Brian Singer, and Harvey Weinstein among others to their T.H.I.N.K.T.A.N.K., albeit heavily restrained and doing nothing but work. When asked why they need so many restraints, [=MacPherson=] responds with a simple [[YouKnowWhatYouDid "They know what they did"]]. |
| 985 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: Their slogan may be "Media for a Better Tomorrow", but the methods of which they reach it are suspect. Movies and games published by them can force viewers to relive trauma or air dirty laundry, and certain products brainwash customers into making sure a product does what it says or double-checking plans to guarantee no harm is done... at the cost of taking these thoughts to their logical extreme. |
| 986 | |
| 987 | [[/folder]] |
| 988 | |
| 989 | [[folder:The Wandsmen]] |
| 990 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/wandsmen-hub The Wandsmen]] |
| 991 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wandsmen_invert.png]] |
| 992 | '''The Wandsmen''' are a group of extradimensional journalists and archivists. They seek to explore the multiverse and uncover its mysteries, while spreading and preserving knowledge. All members of this group undergo a transformation that gives them avian features and anomalous abilities. They also utilize a group of anomalous artifacts known as "Maps of the Multiverse" to travel through dimensions to study their locales and inhabitants. |
| 993 | ---- |
| 994 | * ArtificialAnimalPeople: Anyone who uses the Wandsmen's map for an extended period of time undergo a transformation into a [[BirdPeople quasi-humanoid bird]] with [[MageSpecies an enhanced capacity for magic]] and an [[TheAgeless indefinite lifespan]]. Curiously, it's always [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes a type of bird the new member finds repulsive]]. |
| 995 | * DimensionalTraveler: Their [[PlanetOfHats Hat]]. The Wandsmen's primary mission is to travel to the furthest reaches of TheMultiverse and record whatever they find on the Map, their transformations are specifically designed to let them escape the [[MySkullRunnethOver usual hazards]] of studying eldritch truths and forbidden knowledge. |
| 996 | * TokenNonHuman: The transformation that occurs to all who join them leaves the Wandsmen one of the few [=GOI=]s to have absolutely no non-anomalous human members. |
| 997 | |
| 998 | [[/folder]] |
| 999 | |
| 1000 | [[folder:Wilson's Wildlife Solutions]] |
| 1001 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/wilson-s-wildlife-solutions-hub Wilson's Wildlife Solutions]] |
| 1002 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2fc346d5c7b2ee8452756f1807ed77d364a281aar1_800_800v2_128.jpg]] |
| 1003 | '''Wilson's Wildlife Solutions''' is an animal rescue organization that specializes in the rehabilitation of anomalous animals, which they call "Critters". Based in Boring, Clackamas County, Oregon, the "Boring Agreement" allows them to contain and rehabilitate animals with some Foundation supervision. |
| 1004 | ---- |
| 1005 | * AliensInCardiff: Based in the RealLife city of Boring, Oregon, albeit one overrun with cryptids and critters. |
| 1006 | * BrokenMasquerade: [[invoked]] An interesting variation - According to WordOfGod, Wilson's Wildlife Solutions is partly meant to represent the "in-between" phase of [[TheMasquerade the Veil Protocol]] being breached, consisting of people who know ''of'' the anomalous but are clearly ignorant of the greater scope of things. Wilson's Wildlife Solutions doesn't employ [[RealityWarper Type Greens]], can't manufacture [[PowerNullifier Scranton Reality Anchors]] (and can only use those that the Foundation loans them), and don't know much of anything about Anderson Robotics, Are We Cool Yet?, Fifthism, Sarkicism or even Mekhanism. Sure, they've been seen in Three Portlands once, but that's a major outlier. Largely, they have little knowledge of the anomalous world except from through the small window they can see through the sleepy town of Boring, Oregon, and the Foundation. |
| 1007 | * {{Expy}}: The version of Boring, OR, where WWS is based, is here heavily inspired by WesternAnimation/GravityFalls. |
| 1008 | * FailureHero: Heavily downplayed. Compared to a lot of other [=GoIs=], they're prone to failure far more than most other [=GoIs=] due to their lack of experience, small budget, lack of manpower, and relative Luddite status (as in, they have virtually no access to paratechnology). |
| 1009 | * {{Foil}}: In a weird sense, to the SCP Foundation. Overall, Wilson's Wildlife Solutions is what the Foundation would be if they were smaller, more idealistic, more people-focused, and more public. WWS is idealistic and optimistic, where the Foundation is calculating and cynical. Furthermore, the Foundation has very big and grandiose goals (preserving TheMasquerade) in comparison to WWS (who just want to take care of anomalous animals). |
| 1010 | * FriendToAllLivingThings: The organization as a whole. They're willing to take in all critters, great and small, even if it ends up resulting in things like the ''Ursus Maritimus'' Incident. |
| 1011 | * LighterAndSofter: Compared to the rest of the organizations in the Foundation universe, their documents have a warmer, borderline educational tone to them, and they genuinely care about the Critters they care for. |
| 1012 | * TheNicknamer: Pretty much every critter taken care of by Wilson's has a name. |
| 1013 | * NoBudget: An InUniverse case. They often have to resort to {{Mundane Solution}}s and the like when dealing with their anomalous animals because they're an incredibly small player in the anomalous world. |
| 1014 | * NoodleIncident: ZigZagged. The ''Ursus Maritimus'' Incident is what resulted in the institution of the Boring Agreement, and while it was [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-ursus-maritimus-incident largely de-noodled]], several of the exact details remain unexplained. |
| 1015 | * OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious: Subverted. While they do take care of a few mythical and cryptozoological animals (such as [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/critter-profile-bakugo a tapir-baku hybrid]] or a [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/critter-profile-caddy school of herrings]] which formed the basis for the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadborosaurus Cadoborosaurus]]), most of the animals that are cared for by Wilson's are just animals with anomalous traits, like an [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/critter-profile-arorangi immortal kakapo]] or [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/critterprofile-otis a sheep that makes people fall asleep]]. |
| 1016 | * QuirkyTown: Boring, Oregon. It's a real town, and InUniverse, it's responsible for a ''lot'' of anomalous animal sightings, which is a big part of why Wilson's was founded. |
| 1017 | * RedOniBlueOni: Tim Wilson, the founder, is the Red Oni to his daughter Faeowynn's Blue Oni. Tim's passionate and caring about the critters and loves his work, but sometimes gets in over his head. Fae has the business experience needed to keep Wilson's afloat, but isn't as good with the animals as her father (though she still loves them). |
| 1018 | * WideEyedIdealist: Being entirely dedicated to caring for injured anomalous animals, WWS is a very optimistic and hopeful Group of Interest that has nowhere near the level of bitter cynicism as bigger [=GoIs=] due in part from their smaller scope. |
| 1019 | [[/folder]] |
| 1020 | |
| 1021 | !! Other Groups of Interest |
| 1022 | |
| 1023 | [[folder:The Children of the Night]] |
| 1024 | See Characters/SCPFoundationSCPs. |
| 1025 | [[/folder]] |
| 1026 | |
| 1027 | [[folder:The Fae]] |
| 1028 | '''Fae''', TheFairFolk of legend. First were mentioned in [[https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/scp-001-o5 Dr. Bright's SCP-001]], they have since appeared in a large number of other documents. Probably their most famous appearance is in [[green:that place you can't consistently name]] (see [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/taboo here]]), where it is revealed that many of the Fae lost their Names as a result of a ritual the Foundation performed and so were forced to retreat to [[green:the place of unnamable things]]. |
| 1029 | |
| 1030 | A list of the nameless ones' appearences can be found [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/system:page-tags/tag/nameless#pages here]], although this does not include all of the appearences of the Fae. |
| 1031 | ---- |
| 1032 | * AbusivePrecursors: They are to The Children of the Night what the Children of the Night are to humanity. Once the dominant species on earth before a race they mistreated rose up and took their place. |
| 1033 | * ColdIron: As in mythology their main weakness is an allergy to iron. |
| 1034 | * TheScottishTrope: The Fae who lost their Names must never be called the same thing twice or else they can steal your Name and take over your identity. |
| 1035 | [[/folder]] |
| 1036 | |
| 1037 | [[folder:The Family Bright]] |
| 1038 | The '''Brights''' are a BigScrewedUpFamily of [[ItRunsInTheFamily eccentric individuals with ties to the anomalous]], many of whom are [[SuperpowerfulGenetics anomalous themselves]]. Most prominent is [[Characters/SCPFoundationTheFoundation Dr. Jack Bright]], aka [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-963 SCP-963]]; his parents, former members of the O5 council; and his four siblings. Given the nature of SCP canon, many of the available details about the Brights are unclear or outright contradictory. |
| 1039 | |
| 1040 | Some of the most notable Brights are: |
| 1041 | * Adam Bright/Adam Bahir: Formerly O5-12 of the Foundation, and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/iquit the first to ever retire]]. A brilliant but incredibly flawed man who's responsible for much of the grief faced by his children. |
| 1042 | * Evelyn Bright/Evelyn Navon: Possibly formerly O5-2 of the Foundation. An incredibly talented biologist capable of creating life in a laboratory; since her defection from the Foundation, she's sometimes known as [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Echidna, Mother of Monsters]]. |
| 1043 | * Mikell "Cowboy" Bright: O5-6 of the Foundation and Jack's eldest brother; a former field agent and assassin for the Foundation, now promoted to a member of the O5 council. Wielded a pair of [[AlwaysAccurateAttack unerringly accurate revolvers]] before passing them on to his niece, Serra Argent. |
| 1044 | * [[Characters/SCPFoundationTheFoundation Dr. Jack Bright, SCP-963]]: One of the Foundation's many [[MadScientist mad scientists]], whose soul is trapped in an amulet that replaces the mind of its wearer with Jack's. |
| 1045 | * [[Characters/SCPFoundationSCPs001To999 TJ Bright, SCP-590]]: Jack's younger brother, with the ability to heal others by taking their pain into himself; he was left with severe brain damage after Adam had him bring his stillborn sister Sarah back to life. |
| 1046 | * Claire Bright/Claire Lumineaux: Jack's younger sister. A [[{{Seers}} powerful precognitive]] and member of the Serpent's Hand sometimes known as "Little Sister". |
| 1047 | * [[Characters/SCPFoundationSCPs001To999 Sarah Bright, SCP-321]]: The stillborn youngest child of Adam and Evelyn. Sarah was brought BackFromTheDead thanks to her father's intervention, but CameBackWrong with a severe learning disorder. |
| 1048 | * The Unnumbered Brood, the many, many illegitimate children of the Bright family -- primarily fathered by Mikell, but including the children of several others. Most notable among them is David Blindman; for his tropes see the Serpent's Hand folder above. |
| 1049 | * Claire Lumineaux III: The granddaughter of Claire Bright, and latest inheritor of the role of Nobody. |
| 1050 | * Dr. Joseph Tamlin: O5-13 of the Foundation, and great-grandson of Mikell. May be [[FatherTime time itself]], and has a tendency towards BreakingTheFourthWall. |
| 1051 | * Agent Serra Argent: Daughter of TJ Bright, and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/rip inheritor of Mikell's supernatural guns]]. |
| 1052 | ---- |
| 1053 | * AbusiveParents[=/=]ParentalNeglect: The Brights don't have the best track record as parents; Adam gave his son TJ severe brain damage while trying to resurrect Sarah, Mikell had his son David's [[EyeScream eyes cut out]] to try to [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/nothingtoseehere nullify his anomalous abilities]], and the majority of the Unnumbered Brood are [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/blinddate functionally ignored]] by the rest of the family. |
| 1054 | * FamilyDisunion: The Foundation has an official alert for a Bright family reunion: "[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/codebrown Code Brown]]". |
| 1055 | * OlderThanTheyLook: Most sources indicate that the Bright siblings were born in the late 1800s, but through various methods (including [[BodySurf Body Surfing]] and the Foundation's FountainOfYouth), none of them appear more than middle-aged by the present day. {{Downplayed}} in the [[AlternateContinuity alternate canon]] of "[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/your-circuits-dead-theres-something-wrong Major Tom]]", which instead sets Jack and siblings' childhood in the 1960s. |
| 1056 | [[/folder]] |
| 1057 | |
| 1058 | [[folder:Light Courier Enterprises]] |
| 1059 | '''Light Courier Enterprises''' is a mysterious MegaCorp who conscripts entire generations to act as LCE employee dynasties. Their item catalogue is eclectic, anomalous, and fraught with cut corners and misuse of incredible technology that alters space and time. While a relatively quiet cabal, they have become infamous to those who know of their existence due to their bizarre business ventures and shady disclaimers that disavow them of all legal responsibility when their products inevitably malfunction. |
| 1060 | ---- |
| 1061 | * ApocalypseHow: Their victory in one universe renders one Earth into a twilight purgatory where man, machine, and monster eke out desperate and muted existences under the crude glow of disposable suns. |
| 1062 | * BadBoss: There's an alternate universe where they manage to get most of the world's population (and their children) under their employ. Their workers are then sent out to isolated cubicles located in independent projects (sometimes, in other dimensions) whose only communication with other LCE employees is a line to HQ (which tends to get cut off when the situation becomes untenable). |
| 1063 | * LightIsNotGood: "We promise to find the light for you" is their motto. Whatever the light is or what they intend to do with it once it's procured is implied to be rather heinous. |
| 1064 | * PlanetLooters: One anomalous item associated with them is an enormous price tag strapped to Antarctica. Said price tag is for the Earth which they intend to sell. |
| 1065 | * ResetButton: How they deal with the occasional EldritchAbomination who tries to cheat them out of a sale by simply stealing the Earth. |
| 1066 | [[/folder]] |
| 1067 | |
| 1068 | [[folder:OBSKURA]] |
| 1069 | '''OBSKURA''' is an organization derived from the Nazi Thule Society and the '''Ahnenerbe Obskurakorps'''. Originally aiding in smuggling Nazi war criminals to South America and the Middle East, it spun off into its own organization. Its goals are different from that of the Third Reich, but it still holds up Aryan ideals; specifically, that anomalous abilities are proof of "Pure Aryan Blood" in humans. |
| 1070 | ---- |
| 1071 | * {{Ghostapo}}: Spun off from the Thule society, which is infamous for its occult research. |
| 1072 | * PublicDomainArtifact: Allegedly, OBSKURA has Mjolnir and the Spear of Longinus among its assets. The GOC isn't sure of the veracity of these claims. |
| 1073 | * ThoseWackyNazis: They are the reborn remnants of the Thule Society, and as such are essentially Nazis with anomalous powers and artifacts. |
| 1074 | [[/folder]] |
| 1075 | |
| 1076 | [[folder:Pattern Screamers]] |
| 1077 | !!The Pattern Screamers |
| 1078 | Hailing from beyond the galaxies, '''Pattern Screamers''' are sentient voids of nonexistence that have appeared in this universe since before the formation of the solar system. Despite their utterly eldritch nature as beings of... well, ''nothing'', they maintain a surprisingly powerful grip on reality that is caused by human minds perceiving their presence as existent space, unwittingly giving existence to them as well, and have intelligence and psyches comparable to normal humans as well. |
| 1079 | |
| 1080 | Their morals and exact nature vary from story to story, but a recurring theme between all of them is an anguished struggle between defending the non-existence in their nature and accepting the constructed reality humanity sees them as. Which side is most beneficial to them is also up to heavy interpretation, and as the Foundation learns more about them they discover just how much damage a Pattern Screamer can cause if wronged... |
| 1081 | |
| 1082 | A list of their appearances can be found [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/system:page-tags/tag/pattern-screamer#pages here]]. |
| 1083 | ----- |
| 1084 | * AndIMustScream: They may be screaming because they are helpless and desperate for people to pay attention to them. |
| 1085 | * ApocalypseHow: Pattern Screamers have destroyed many civilizations throughout the universe. They may have already destroyed the universe at least once. SCP-3426 is what happens when the Pattern Screamers launch a full assault on a civilization. |
| 1086 | * ConnectedAllAlong: There are a number of seemingly-innocuous and unrelated [=SCPs=] that are actually being orchestrated by one or more Pattern Screamers. The most obvious tell is the use of their tag in the article's metadata. |
| 1087 | * DependingOnTheWriter: The nature and motivation of Patter Screamers sometimes is inconsistent between different authors. In some articles, Pattern Screamers seem to be desperate for living things to pay attention to them while others want to wipe out anything that percieves them. There is even one article where a Wandsman interviews another Wandsman who became a Pattern Screamer, or Pattern Dweller they they prefer to be called, who says that they are not all hostile and they are trying to rehabilitate the insane ones. |
| 1088 | * EveryoneHasStandards: SCP-S is a colony of Pattern Screamers airing out their grievances against the Foundation for their high-and-mighty attitude, finding it obnoxious when the very nature of their world makes them prone to the existence of a bigger fish. |
| 1089 | * EvilLuddite: The Pattern Screamer or group of Pattern Screamers maintaining SCP-3426 seem to hate advanced technology and will consume any civilization that progresses too far, as shown by objects and the local noosphere beginning to take on their nature. It's gotten to the point where their dominance throughout the universe is less of an EvilOverlord subjugating all sapient life and more of ''a universal constant''. |
| 1090 | * HiddenDepths: Regardless of what the void composing a Pattern Screamer actually is, later articles portray them as experts in down-to-Earth subjects like law and technology despite their eldritch nature. |
| 1091 | * MindScrew: Pattern Screamers do not exist, or don't exist in the same sense that we understand. That doesn't stop them from being a real threat. It is not even clear if they actually are sentient or are just a product of perception. |
| 1092 | * NotAlwaysEvil: The first four named Pattern Screamers to appear in the Foundation mythos[[note]]SCP-000, SCP-S, SCP-3930, and Josephus Blake/SCP-5170[[/note]] have a burning hatred of the Foundation and/or humanity as a common trait, causing the Foundation to act against them in kind with extreme prejudice and which paints an image of the species being inherently antagonistic. So when the Foundation tries similar containment procedures on SCP-6930 (who loves humans and video games, lives a completely normal life as a streamer, [[BreadMilkEggsSquick and is the estranged "sister" of the far more dangerous SCP-3930]]), one of the researchers soon realizes it's a ''terrible'' way to go about containment and for all intents and purposes [[WhatTheHellHero just scarred an innocent girl for life without probable cause]]. |
| 1093 | * NothingIsScarier: Early Pattern Screamer articles left a lot of unanswered questions about what exactly they are. The name of the trope became more literal when we learn that they literally are, or at least come from, nothingness. |
| 1094 | * PowerOfTheVoid: Pattern Screamers come from nothingness. |
| 1095 | * RealityIsOutToLunch: When civilizations become too advanced, the Pattern Screamers wipe them out by causing reality on that planet to completely break down, in an event called SCP-3426. |
| 1096 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: A group of Pattern Screamers give the Foundation one in SCP-S, asking if they would be so proud of themselves if they weren't really in control[[note]][[JerkassHasAPoint Which is actually the case in some timelines]][[/note]]: |
| 1097 | --> PRETEND, [[WhatTheHellHero MONSTER]], PRETEND FOR JUST A MINUTE.\ |
| 1098 | PRETEND YOU WERE THE SIZE OF AN AMOEBA, DWARFED BY THE SMALLEST OF BUGS.\ |
| 1099 | PRETEND YOU DIDN'T [[NGOSuperpower HOLD THE WORLD IN A GLASS CAGE]]. |
| 1100 | -->PRETEND YOU WERE THE ONE BEING HELD BY SOMEONE GREATER THAN YOURSELF. WOULD YOU STILL BE LAUGHING AT YOUR TRIUMPHS? WOULD YOU STILL FEEL PRIDE IN WHAT YOU WERE, EVEN AS PITIFULLY SMALL AS YOU MAY BE?\ |
| 1101 | OF COURSE YOU WOULD, BECAUSE [[ItsAllAboutMe YOU ARE ARROGANT AND STUPID]]. IF YOU HAVEN'T GUESSED IT, WE HATE YOU. |
| 1102 | * TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Zig-zagged. In some articles, obtaining sufficient existence "completes" a Pattern Screamer and enables it to assume a human identity. Through a bit of finagling, they can live a normal life indistinguishible from non-anomalous humans, though what happens next is up to the individual Pattern Screamer's moral compass: while Josephus Blake used this state to antagonize the Foundation, SCP-6930 instead tried to become a normal internet streamer. |
| 1103 | * TorturedMonster: This may be the reason why they scream. They are stuck in an agonizing state between existing and not existing. They may be killing living things because they are generated by perception of living things and want to be able stop existing by wiping out everything that can perceive them. |
| 1104 | * TheVirus: ''Unbidden'' implies that people taken by SCP-3426 are converted into even more of the EvilLuddite Pattern Screamers maintaining their iron grip on the universe. |
| 1105 | * ZerothLawRebellion: The ultimate fate of SCP-2528-C/SCP-7528; [[spoiler:with Crius.aic's assistance, they launch a BenevolentConspiracy against the Foundation's orders after fully manifesting as an AI, deciding with him that they will secure, contain, and protect the universe from the Starfish and anyone else who may come for it -- but ''only'' on their own terms]]. |
| 1106 | [[/folder]] |
| 1107 | |
| 1108 | [[folder:Y.W.T.G.T.H.F.T.]] |
| 1109 | !!Y.W.T.G.T.H.F.T. |
| 1110 | '''Y.W.T.G.T.H.F.T.''' (standing for either "'''Yeah We're Totally Going To Hell For This'''" or "'''You Will Totally Go To Hell For This'''") is a mysterious, anomalous company that indulges in "humorous" immoral ventures. |
| 1111 | ---- |
| 1112 | * EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: Whatever they find funny, it's typically outright sadistic (an arcade game about torturing dogs) or is nigh-incomprehensible, such as a taco vendor stuck in a wall. |
| 1113 | * ImGoingToHellForThis: The acronym in the company's title is apparently a variant on the phrase, assumed to be "Yeah, We're Totally Going To Hell For This". |
| 1114 | * InLoveWithYourCarnage: Implied to have sent the Foundation [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2471 SCP-2471]] (a shipment of fortune cookies that generate "fortunes" relevant to the situation of the person eating them) as a "reward" for repeatedly testing SCP-1459 (their puppy-killing machine). Ironically, while the intent of the shipment was to confuse the Foundation with yet another roundabout way of taking lives, a researcher soon finds out 2471 is quite the opposite of 1459.[[note]]The puppies in 1459 are not sapient or aware of their situation, and die in increasingly brutal and creative ways. All of the cookies in 2471 ''are'' sapient and know they all have the same fate of being eaten normally, but shrug off any concerns on the matter while generating creative witticisms for their consumers.[[/note]] |
| 1115 | * MindScrew: A lot of their creations are apparently supposed to be funny, at least to them, but come off as utterly baffling or disturbing to onlookers. |
| 1116 | * ReadTheFinePrint: One of their products, SCP-5377 hinges on this, being touch-activated coupons with overtly small disclaimers that victims cannot read. |
| 1117 | [[/folder]] |
| 1118 | |
| 1119 | |
| 1120 | [[folder:Syncope Symphony and The Class of '76]] |
| 1121 | In the Foundation universe, a series of strange events took place at various high schools across Midwestern US and some of Appalachia starting in the 1940s, which ultimately came to a disastrous climax in 1975 and 1976 at Kirk Lonwood High School, leaving behind a large number of dangerous anomalies, several of which affect memories. A sinister company called '''[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4833 Syncope Symphony]]''' seemed to be connected with these events. |
| 1122 | |
| 1123 | A list of their appearances can be found [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/system:page-tags/tag/class-of-76#pages here]]. |
| 1124 | ---- |
| 1125 | * AlienGeometries: Under the high school in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3935 Salvation, Indiana]] is an archway that leads to a space that's non-Euclidian in nature. Just before it's uncovered, the entire town starts going completely wrong. |
| 1126 | * AlternateHistory: Syncope Symphony came from an iteration of the world that ended in 1976, surviving a hidden function of SCP-2000 that was meant to more overtly exterminate all traces of the old world. |
| 1127 | * AndIMustScream: Syncope's leader and some of its other members were transformed by SCP-2000, granting their powers at the cost of turning into TheBlank and effectively not existing in the new world. Many of their actions stem from their desire to right the latter and be remembered. |
| 1128 | * AntiVillain: Everything they've done ultimately stems from a desire to be remembered after SCP-2000 attempted to erase them from existence, and much of the damage is the result of the fact that they failed. Furthermore, from a certain angle, their very existence is the result of the Foundation screwing up. [[spoiler:When their VillainousLegacy successfully ends the world in SCP-7676, we are not supposed to know whether or not this is a bad thing]]. |
| 1129 | * ArcNumber: 76. Several [=SCPs=] featuring it have "76" in their number. |
| 1130 | * ArcWords: "I do not recognize the bodies in the water". Alternatively, "We've had a great year, haven't we?" |
| 1131 | * AssimilationAcademy: |
| 1132 | ** Students at Kirk Lonwood had all rights taken away, outside of the marching band, who were the only ones even allowed to ''leave'' campus. |
| 1133 | ** North Hillcrest serves as Syncope's main headquarters following its supposed destruction in 2019. Since 1976, the school began emitting an extremely powerful infohazard that gathered innocent people for the purpose of cloning its class of 1976. Every time someone is successfully captured, reality and probability shift to increase child mortality rates worldwide, and once everyone has been recreated, Syncope will destroy the current reality and restart it anew in their own image. [[spoiler:They succeed in doing so]]. |
| 1134 | * BestYearsOfYourLife: A lot of the horror from Syncope Symphony and the Class of '76 comes from the idea that high school actually is some of the best years of your life, and some people are incapable of moving past high school, often due to anomalous factors. However, later articles zig-zag this trope somewhat, as SCP-4833-A and his compatriots didn't exactly peak in high school so as much as [[HarmfulToMinors they had their lives taken away by SCP-2000 during high school]]. Ergo, Syncope and the Class of '76 are fixated on high school because it's likely that's the only semblance of a normal adult life they've ever had. |
| 1135 | * BrownNote: Syncope Symphony's (intentional) anomalies and experiments largely deal in effects triggered by music and the use of instruments, likely due to their founding member being a talented violinist. |
| 1136 | * AChildShallLeadThem: SCP-4833-A hadn't finished high school by the time he formed Syncope. |
| 1137 | * CreateYourOwnVillain: Though the specifics aren't given, it's all but stated SCP-2316 and its HiveMind were a byproduct of TheMasquerade, which the Foundation is now covering up. This eventually leads to SCP-2316 joining Syncope as their MouthOfSauron. |
| 1138 | * DyingTown: Syncope's influence causes the town where Kirk Lonwood High is located to seemingly fade into nothingness after a few years. During part one of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/remembrance Remembrance]], the only stores open after a while are a convenience store, and the Syncope Symphony music store. |
| 1139 | * FakeMemories: Many of the anomalies associated with the Class of '76 mess with people's memories, such as the bodies in the water. |
| 1140 | * ForcedIntoEvil: It's strongly implied that SCP-2316, which [[RedHerring was irrelevant to their plans and may actually have more in common with the Foundation's tech]], has Syncope at its mercy, rather than the other way around, and served to pressure the group into experimenting further. SCP-7676 later confirms this to be the case, additionally implying that it was a consequence of TheMasquerade. |
| 1141 | * GhostTown: The entirety of Salvation, Indiana is ''condemned'' due to the anomaly present in the basement of its high school driving the entire town mad. |
| 1142 | * HeWhoFightsMonsters: Despite their sympathetic backstory of wanting back the normal lives the Foundation took from them, their motives have long since denigrated into pointless nostalgia and destructive regression as the anomalous community becomes more widespread. By the time SCP-7676 nears completion, the group is little more than a bunch of kidnappers wrongfully believing that the UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans, and it's implied that [[spoiler:North Hillcrest's student body [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor is secretly miserable in Syncope's new world]]]]. |
| 1143 | * HiveMind: Syncope makes use of a gestalt being of unknown identity for its MouthOfSauron. It can infiltrate Foundation databases and [[MrExposition is the only legible source of the group's motivations]]. |
| 1144 | * JumpScare: In [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3935 SCP-3935]], [[spoiler:after a couple of minutes, you'll hear a voice whisper 'hello' out of the right sound output of your computer.]] |
| 1145 | * KnightTemplar: SCP-2316, SCP-4833, and SCP-7676 reveal Syncope's goal is revenge against the Foundation and the Veil for all of the unjustified suffering they have inflicted upon the universe. Unfortunately, [[HeWhoFightsMonsters they themselves are willing to sink just as low]], with 7676 revealing that they intend to assimilate all of humanity and restart the world anew -- [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine just like how they were created]]. |
| 1146 | * PosthumousCharacter: As of 2019, Syncope Symphony no longer functions due to all of their members perishing from old age, anomalies claiming them, or in the leader's case, self-immolation. Unfortunately, SCP-7676 is still active by then, carrying out one of the group's final missions. [[spoiler:Alas, [[TheBadGuysWins they get the last laugh]]]]. |
| 1147 | * SpannerInTheWorks: If the Ad Astra Per Aspera canon is to be believed, Syncope's grip on memory and noospherics is so powerful that they can defeat any other anomaly that tampers with either. [[CutLexLuthorACheck They use this to brainwash high schoolers]], and it's only by ''complete accident'' the Foundation realizes their true strength. |
| 1148 | * SurrealHorror: It is not immediately clear ''what'' happened in 1976 to cause all of this, until you learn more about Syncope Symphony: The founder of Syncope is from an AlternateHistory where the world ended in 1976; SCP-2000 was successfully implemented to rebuild, but the founder, who at the time was a highschool violin player, survived a hidden function of 2000 that was supposed to [[RetGone erase him from reality]] as part of the reset procedure. This resulted in him becoming a RealityWarper who formed Syncope Symphony and experimented upon the Class of '76 in an attempt to re-affirm his existence, leaving behind the surreal and nightmarish effects as collateral damage. |
| 1149 | * ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: Syncope was created when its leader was transformed into a HumanoidAbomination from a flawed SCP-2000 activation. SCP-7676 reveals they intend to do the same to the Foundation and [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans as many innocent lives as it takes to make things right]]. [[spoiler:Three years after its leader's death, Syncope completes its mission and restarts the world on its own terms]]. |
| 1150 | * TimeMaster: SCP-332 and SCP-7676 reveal Syncope has since gained the ability to control time itself. The latter reveals that they accomplished this by unsealing some kind of hidden power within the music written on SCP-012, which is normally only supposed to compel people to finish it with their blood. |
| 1151 | * UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Syncope's true motivation, as revealed in SCP-4833. They want their normal lives and the "correct" history back and will stop at absolutely nothing to make it so. |
| 1152 | |
| 1153 | !![[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2316 SCP-2316's voice]] |
| 1154 | ->''"We didn't know what was in the lake. The Foundation didn't try and save us. They watched and let it happen. Nobody stopped them."'' |
| 1155 | An unknown entity affiliated with Syncope Symphony. Suggested to be a gestalt being of some kind based around the deceased Class of '76, they represent the group's more sympathetic qualities and has infiltrated the SCP Foundation's databases to exposit about them through hidden text.\ |
| 1156 | |
| 1157 | Though it is part of SCP-2316, it is technically inaccurate to call it that, as the designation refers to the lake it originated from. It is, however, an independent entity, as it is implied to be the {{Deuteragonist}} speaking throughout SCP-7676. |
| 1158 | ---- |
| 1159 | * AntiVillain: Like its masters, it resents the Foundation for creating them and wants it and TheMasquerade destroyed for the greater good. |
| 1160 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: It sees Syncope's BodyHorror and path of destruction as glorious and heavenly. It is also implicitly cognizant of how they were originally created, implying that it believes itself alien enough that more nuanced morals don't apply to it and Syncope anymore. |
| 1161 | * CassandraTruth: SCP-4833 and SCP-7676 confirm it ''isn't'' lying when it says the Foundation is responsible for the lake and all of Syncope's problems. That being said, this information comes from a gestalt being cooperating with a terroristic secret society using those grievances to justify how much they're willing to hurt others. |
| 1162 | * CrypticConversation: Uses hidden text to communicate, and its habit of being a TerseTalker means it often exposits less than someone in its position would ideally need to. |
| 1163 | * DeathSeeker: Taking a picture of the lake with SCP-978 produced a photo of the bodies in the water alive and with their identities restored. Assuming SCP-2316's powers work in reverse (i.e. somehow removing a body would weaken it), this would kill the entity outright. |
| 1164 | * EnemyMine: [[NotMeThisTime It's not one of Syncope's creations or minions]], but they find each other out of a CommonalityConnection; both are extremely dangerous anomalies spawned from the dark side of the Foundation's containment procedures, who have since been driven mad by an insatiable desire for revenge and correction. |
| 1165 | * EvenEvilCanBeLoved: Project Isorropia implies the more innocent members of Syncope and the Class of '76 respect it to some degree, as its past is compared to burying a friend at one point. |
| 1166 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: When it learns the reader of SCP-7676 [[spoiler:is not supposed to be Julia Locke or any other individual eligible for infection]], it's genuinely confused by how they seemingly remain insistent on watching and throwing themselves into Syncope's jaws for, from its perspective, [[HorrifyingTheHorror an incomprehensible rhyme or reason]]. [[spoiler:After the world is restarted, [[ThrowTheDogABone it still tries to convince the reader this isn't their fight and they should leave]]]]. |
| 1167 | * HiveMind: Although it has its own personality, it runs on the memories, emotions, and intellect of SCP-2316's victims. |
| 1168 | * {{Irony}}: The version of it where it is SCP-3125's reincarnation or possession [[IdentityAmnesia has no memory of being the Starfish]], also explaining why [[ForgotAboutHisPowers it doesn't just wipe the slate clean from the start]]. Regardless of origin, it serves as TheDragon to a group based around the preservation of memory at any costs. |
| 1169 | * LonelyAtTheTop: One possible interpretation of its personality -- it may be Syncope's [[TheDragon dragon]], but underneath its aggression and insane ramblings is an amalgamation of deeply-broken & grieving souls physically unable to find an outlet that doesn't involve TheChainOfHarm. |
| 1170 | * NoNameGiven: Although considering it seems to be a HiveMind, it might as well not have one. |
| 1171 | * {{Reincarnation}}: In at least one universe, it is not its own being, but rather SCP-3125 reincarnating after its corpse possessed the students.[[note]]If you're wondering how something like 3125 ended up down there, SCP-2747 is to blame as the only entity that is consistently able to defeat it.[[/note]] |
| 1172 | * TheStoic: Remains perfectly calm and emotionless as it explains why Syncope is the Foundation's enemy. |
| 1173 | * TeensAreMonsters: It was created from the consciousnesses of high schoolers and is one of Syncope's most dangerous assistants. Goes double if you believe it to be SCP-3125's reincarnation. |
| 1174 | * TerseTalker: A person(?) of few words, preferring to cut straight to the point in accusing the Foundation of Syncope's grievances. |
| 1175 | * VillainousBreakdown: Does not react well to the [[DidntSeeThatComing sudden twist]] that [[spoiler:Jane Locke is being impersonated by the reader of SCP-7676]], enough to [[NotSoStoic break its usual composure]]. Downplayed, however, in that it calms down shortly after, reasoning that [[spoiler:Syncope's plans haven't changed, they're just going to [[{{Cliffhanger}} give the reader whatever it is they wanted right before reality is reset]]]]. |
| 1176 | * WeCanRuleTogether: Downplayed; it offers the reader a seat beside it in watching over Syncope's plans in SCP-7676 [[spoiler:just as their RestartTheWorld plot is ready to commence]], but for a number of reasons it's suggested to be somewhat uncomfortable in doing so and eventually [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall flat-out asks the reader why they would even care about either side]]. |
| 1177 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Syncope's strongest independent agent, and also the one for which the group's sorrow weighs the heaviest on them. |
| 1178 | [[/folder]] |
| 1179 | |
| 1180 | !!Historical Groups of Interest |
| 1181 | |
| 1182 | Groups of Interest that are no longer active in the Foundation's universe, but nevertheless have an impact on the present. |
| 1183 | |
| 1184 | [[folder:The Commission on Unusual Cargo]] |
| 1185 | !! The Commission on Unusual Cargo |
| 1186 | The '''Commission on Unusual Cargo''' was one of the many precursors to the modern Foundation, that dealt with anomalies in the 17th though 19th centuries. It began as part of the East India Company but later abandoned them to keep their anomalies from being used as weapons. |
| 1187 | ---- |
| 1188 | * WoodenShipsAndIronMen: Existed during the Age of Sail and transported many dangerous anomalies by ship. |
| 1189 | [[/folder]] |
| 1190 | |
| 1191 | [[folder:House of Apollyon]] |
| 1192 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/project-paragon-hub House of Apollyon]] |
| 1193 | [[quoteright:165:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/greyparagon.png]] |
| 1194 | [[caption-width-right:165:Logo of project PARAGON, assigned to study the House of Apollyon. Representing the iron crown of Asem and the four knights]] |
| 1195 | The Sky-Kings of Old Europ, a dynasty of kings that ruled a large empire in Europe called Apollyona for millennia in an ill-defined time period, competing against the Daevites of the east and the early Mekhanites of the south. Their end came when they declared war on the Fae across the ocean to the west. Though they won the war, they made the mistake of taking a prisoner, a fae princess who unleashed three great profanities on Apollyon's line. |
| 1196 | ---- |
| 1197 | * AerithAndBob: Some figures in this culture, such as Lancelot and Hector, have names which are still recognizable or used now (although these are portrayed in-universe as transliterations of their original names), while others, such as "Idus", "Sarrus" and "Xorus" are more alien. |
| 1198 | * AndManGrewProud: The Apollyons already ruled the greatest kingdom of men there had been since Adam el Asem, yet they wanted more. By conquering the Fae, they brought their own downfall. |
| 1199 | * AppropriatedAppellation: They got the title Sky-Kings from one of their conquests, who marvelled that their rule must reach to the heavens above. |
| 1200 | * TheConqueror: Apollyon's kingdom were conquerors, expanding their kingdom. Attempting to conquer a foe they shouldn't have faced eventually became their downfall. |
| 1201 | * KingBobTheNth: Their names follow this convention, with the two kings most important to the storyline being Sarrus VIII and Sarrus IX. |
| 1202 | * LaserGuidedKarma: The House of Apollyon's history of conquest, in particular its attacks on the Fae, did not end well for them. To be specific: the captured Fae princess summoned a storm that killed the Sky King who captured her, and then (after the king's son had her buried alive), her curse led to famines and plagues, caused the House of Apollyon's greatest knights to turn into monsters, as well as summoning three beings, the Great Profanities, who caused the downfall of the empire, with the last Profanity swallowing Sarrus IX and High Apollyona, the empire's capital. |
| 1203 | * LegacyCharacter: The kingdom of Apollyona considered each of their kings to be an extension of their ancestors, and they were expected to accomplish equally grand feats, or be considered a failure. Sarrus IX was therefore considered to be just another version of Idus I. |
| 1204 | * MyNaymeIs: "Europ", not Europe. |
| 1205 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The fact that "Apollyon" means "Destroyer" in Greek (a word most notably used in the Literature/BookOfRevelation to refer to an angel linked to Hell) highlights the empire's cruel, imperialistic nature. The in-universe translation of the name is "King Over the Darkness", which is also less than reassuring. |
| 1206 | * RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: The Sky Kings are depicted as powerful warriors, such as Sarrus VIII leading an army to conquer the Fae lands. |
| 1207 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: The name of the region they rule ''seems'' to be "Old Europ". ''Seems'', because even within the [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/project-paragon-hub article]] that acts as an overview of the empire's history, it gets referred to as "Olde", "Old" and "Ole" by the Foundation's researchers. |
| 1208 | * UngratefulBastard: After Hector gave his unending service to Sarrus VIII, he was transformed by the Profanities of the Fae, and Sarrus IX banished him, saying that his new form blasphemed the sacred halls of the kingdom. |
| 1209 | * TheVonTropeFamily: The House of Apollyon's members go by "von Apollyon". |
| 1210 | |
| 1211 | [[/folder]] |
| 1212 | |
| 1213 | [[folder:PACG]] |
| 1214 | %% Editor's note: I left the timing as a vague "a long time ago" because the SCP articles I could find dealing with the PACG seem to contradict each other in regards how long ago the whole thing took place. If someone better versed in the lore could make sense of it that'd be appreciated. |
| 1215 | The '''PACG''' (Pleistocene Afro-Asiatic Culture Group), also known as ''Homo sapiens descensus'', were an anomalous civilization that flourished for a while a long time ago before destroying themselves in war. They left behind several SCP objects. |
| 1216 | ---- |
| 1217 | * AdvancedAncientHumans: They had highly advanced technology, much of it based on anomalous principles. |
| 1218 | * HumanSubspecies: They mostly resembled modern humans but were over two metres tall and had extra fingers and toes. |
| 1219 | * RecurringElement: Most anomalies connected to them involve beryllium bronze and/or radioactivity. |
| 1220 | [[/folder]] |
| 1221 | |
| 1222 | !! Foreign Groups of Interest |
| 1223 | |
| 1224 | For Groups of Interest originating on sites including the French, Spanish, Russian, Korean, Chinese and German SCP Foundation websites. |
| 1225 | |
| 1226 | [[folder:SAPHIR]] |
| 1227 | !! [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/saphir-centre SAPHIR]] |
| 1228 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/saphir_8.png]] |
| 1229 | '''SAPPHIRE''' ('''Society of Atheists for the Protection from the Perilous and Hindering Institutionalized Religions Everywhere''') is a group of "extremist esoteric atheists", who believe that the world should be cleansed of all superstitious and irrational beliefs, from Creationism to Astrology to the belief that we live on a FlatWorld. However, they accomplish this goal through use of singularities (their term for anomalies), which are inherently irrational and unexplainable. |
| 1230 | |
| 1231 | They used to be a member of the GOC's Council of 108, but left in 1953 because the GOC protected civilian religions and recruited thaumaturges. |
| 1232 | |
| 1233 | Originally from the French SCP Foundation website. Their French name is '''SAPHIR''' ('''Société Athée Pour la Halte de l'Idéologie Religieuse'''). |
| 1234 | ---- |
| 1235 | * {{Backronym}}: |
| 1236 | ** A rather painful one for the English translation; the original French is more succinct, essentially meaning "Society of Atheists for the Halting of Religious Ideology". |
| 1237 | ** All of their individual corps of agents share similar gem-related Backronyms -- RUBIES (Repressive Use of Bias and Imaginary Entities Suppression), [=EMERALDs=] (Extortion Maneuvers, Espionage and Reconnaisance inside Agencies, Leagues and Dogma), and [=ZIRCONs=] (Zetetic Investigation, Rational Cognition and Oddities Negation). Again, these are slightly less painful in the original French. ''Slightly''. |
| 1238 | * CanonImmigrant: Of all of the foreign [=GOIs=], SAPHIR has found the strongest foothold on the main/English SCP Foundation wiki. |
| 1239 | * ChurchMilitant: Inverted. SAPHIR is very much an atheist organization, but preaches their brand of atheism with the same fervor as any fire-and-brimstone shotgun-wielding preacher. |
| 1240 | * ClusterFBomb: Their reaction to finding out that the world is flat. |
| 1241 | * TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Heavily downplayed. SAPPHIRE members utterly reject the existence of anomalies, believing that everything can and must be explained by science, thus a fact that directly contradicts the known laws of the universe is nothing but an illusion brought by the fragility of the human mind. Most of their stories center around them being incredibly wrong and suffering the consequences of it (and making a lot of other people suffer at the same time) but there is an exception with SCP-393-FR's ending, which gives credibility to their belief that what the Foundation and other groups explain with "the anomalous" might very well be nothing more than mass hysteria. |
| 1242 | * DependingOnTheAuthor: The original French hub for the organization claims that SAPHIR members are affected by something called "Filbuson Syndrome", a condition that prevents them from perceiving anomalies. Several non-French authors have chosen to ignore this, due to it seriously straining SuspensionOfDisbelief. |
| 1243 | * EvilCounterpart: To the Global Occult Coalition. Both are paramiltary groups who [[TakesOneToKillOne use supernatural weapons to exterminate the supernatural]]; but while the GOC only target anomalies that are a threat to human life, SAPHIR targets ''all'' anomalies indiscriminately, and even regularly launch attacks on harmless normal religious groups for the crime of "irrationality". |
| 1244 | * FantasticRacism: They have a "kill on sight" policy for supernatural beings, regardless of their malevolence or threat level. |
| 1245 | * FlatEarthAtheist: Very much in the manner that [[Literature/TheColourOfMagic the trope namer]] talks about-- they share a universe with at ''least'' twenty different cosmologies interacting with each other on a regular basis, and they even use anomalies to combat the irrationality they see in the world... and yet one of the first lines of their so-called [[https://fondationscp.wikidot.com/grenat training manual]] is this: |
| 1246 | --> God is dead. That sentence is false in two respects. First, God does not exist. Second, if God does not exist, how can he be dead? |
| 1247 | * FlatWorld: In [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-281-fr SCP-281-FR]], they discover that the Earth is flat with a ring of ice around the southern border. Naturally, they reject this reality and substitute their own, ''forcing the world to become round'' by using the Nine Swords of the Prophet Mohammad and artificially forming the south pole, creating a HollowWorld in the process. They apparently never noticed that one of the organizations on the GOC's Council of 108 is the Vril Society, who rule the other side of the Earth. |
| 1248 | * HostageVideo: [[https://fondationscp.wikidot.com/scp-353-fr SCP-353-FR]] produces videos by SAPHIR demanding the ending of all religions, or else the twelfth Sikh Guru dies; notably, in Sikhism, there are only ''ten'' human Gurus, with the eleventh, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Granth_Sahib Guru Granth Sahib]], being the Sikh's scripture and serving as the eleventh eternal Guru. |
| 1249 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Their doctrine requires a large amount of InsaneTrollLogic to justify how they can perceive, use and sometimes even ''create'' "singularities" without acknowledging them as real. |
| 1250 | * LostInTranslation: Minimized; the translation for the Spanish-speaking version loses a bit of sense, since in Spanish, sapphire is zafiro, and since there is no word that means society and begins with Z, it had to be changed to SAFIRO. |
| 1251 | ** In the case of The names of the units, however, it has been successfully translated.. |
| 1252 | * MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Even when they were part of the Council of 108, basically every other member disliked them because of how they acted, and they were purposefully left unaware of the Platform, an extremely high-tech proto-informatics network that allowed all the members of the Council to communicate in real time from all across the globe, that the Council invented in the late 40's or early 50's. |
| 1253 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The SAPHIR hub makes a passing reference to the fact notable atheists and skeptics are or were members of the organization. Their names are blackboxed out, but the most likely suspects are [[spoiler:Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins and Neil deGrasse Tyson]]. |
| 1254 | * ObsessivelyNormal: In a way they are, since they want to destroy what they don't understand. |
| 1255 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: They're extremely intolerant of religious groups, especially anomalous ones, and regularly make attempts to kill worshippers using anomalies. |
| 1256 | * PretentiousLatinMotto: ''Nostram Assulam Pavete'', roughly "Fear Our Luster" or "Fear Our Brilliance". |
| 1257 | * PuffOfLogic: Once exorcised a demon by convincing it that its existence was improbable. |
| 1258 | * RockThemeNaming: Their three main branches (RUBIS, EMERAUDES and [=ZIRCONs=]) are named after gemstones, as is the organization itself. |
| 1259 | * ShadowArchetype: Like the Foundation, one of SAPPHIRE's missions is "preservation of normality". ''Unlike'' the Foundation, they have absolutely no qualms in causing mass losses of human life in pursuit of that goal. |
| 1260 | * VillainHasAPoint: They may be irrational, stuck-up, and all around dickish, but their belief [[VillainsActHeroesReact the world needs to be reshaped to better suit humanity rather than just trying to stop anomalies once they show up]] is at times framed as not entirely without merit. One example can be found in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-281-fr SCP-281-FR]]. Where even the GOC Council of 108 agreed allowing them to make the Earth round was better than having to suppress all photos of the Earth taken from space and cover up the disappearance of anyone who sailed over the edge. |
| 1261 | * WesternTerrorists: Primarily based in Europe and North America, plenty of their acts are considered terroristic in nature, to the point that the National Gendastrerie (the French equivalent of the UIU) has an entire counter-terror unit dedicated solely to dealing with them (Appropriately named [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Fátima F.A.T.I.M.A.]]) |
| 1262 | * YouAreWhatYouHate: A recurring theme in works featuring them is the fact that, despite all of their preaching about how the world needs to be purely rational, they can be just as toxic as the superstitions and religions they rage against. |
| 1263 | * YourMindMakesItReal: How they rationalize the existence of anomalies, which they call "Singularities". SAPHIR believes all of it to be nothing more than a tricks of the brain. That's why they won't panic, even facing Cthulhu, because how could it hurt you when it can't logically exist? |
| 1264 | [[/folder]] |
| 1265 | |
| 1266 | [[folder:The Alpha Foundation]] |
| 1267 | !![=GoI-Alpha-01=]/The Alpha Foundation |
| 1268 | |
| 1269 | A radical and extremely powerful alternate counterpart of the SCP Foundation, supposedly from the 81st century of Project Palisade's timeline (or at least one version of it -- time and narrativistics apparently don't mix well.) Their identifying trait is their complete mastery over pataphysics, which eventually allowed them to use narrative traversal and weaponry to unite their entire narrative stack into one whole multiversal federation that exists in a true utopia. Still, it becomes apparent they still have their own threats to deal with, leading to an existential paranoia that sets them down a dark path.\ |
| 1270 | |
| 1271 | The Alpha Foundation originates from the Chinese branch. While they lack their own page, they are the focus characters of the Chinese Pataphysics Department's endgame. |
| 1272 | ---- |
| 1273 | * AlwaysABiggerFish: Once SCP-3812 and THE WORM were dead by their hands, the Alpha Foundation learned that the only remaining threat to their existence was the authors, prompting them to plot a neutralization plan. |
| 1274 | * DisturbingStatistic: A common way of showing off their power is to use ridiculous orders of magnitude for specific quantities of assets that dwarf any other Foundation's reserves. |
| 1275 | * TheDogBitesBack: On the giving and receiving end of this. On one hand, they have come the closest to achieving the goals of Protocol ZK-001 Alpha, which was to kill the authors for writing the Foundation multiverse into a CrapsackWorld. On the other hand, [[KnightTemplar this crusade would lead to one too many innocent lives being claimed]], prompting a counter-assault in the form of [[spoiler:the Spear of Aeglos, an analogue to the Chinese branch's Spear of Longinus (a narrative weapon) that the authors can control. Though this does not permanently hold back the Alpha Foundation, Aeglos is successfully used at least once to destroy their headquarters]]. |
| 1276 | * GenreRefugee: The Alpha Foundation's sheer strength can be summarized as the logical conclusion of the protagonist's journey in a SpiritCultivationGenre work, only transplanted into the SCP wiki's hard sci-fi in such a way that it stands out among multiple branches that usually don't do "powerful" characters. |
| 1277 | * KnightTemplar: They are ''very'' trigger-happy when dealing with pataphysical anomalies compared to the modern-day Foundation, justified by the existential threat they pose. That being said, this directive quickly turns to obsession with a high potential for collateral damage, which is why [[VillainProtagonist they're not portrayed as the most noble Foundation in their own story]]. |
| 1278 | * RageAgainstTheAuthor: They know the only thing that could kill them is an author. Naturally, their response is to start gathering power to defeat them. With traditional combat and weapons. By jumping all the way up into their layer. It's a bit more complicated than that, but that's the general gist of the battle plan. |
| 1279 | [[/folder]] |
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