46 Fun Facts About SCP Foundation

In the SCP Foundation universe, what do the letters SCP stand for?

SCP stands for Special Containment Procedures, the heading of the section that opens every article; 'Secure, Contain, Protect' is the Foundation's separate motto.

The SCP Foundation answers only to which shadowy leadership body?

The O5 Council, thirteen Overseers numbered O5-1 through O5-13, is the Foundation's supreme authority, with no national government above it.

What are 'D-class personnel'?

D-class personnel are disposable human test subjects, usually death-row convicts, who are made to handle dangerous SCPs so that regular staff are not put at risk.

The Foundation typically erases witnesses' memories with what?

Amnestic drugs, graded into classes such as A, B and C by strength, wipe witnesses' memories so the world keeps running under a veil of normalcy.

Which rival group is a splinter of ex-Foundation defectors who weaponise SCPs?

The Chaos Insurgency broke away from the Foundation in 1924 in the main canon and uses captured anomalies as weapons instead of containing them.

The Global Occult Coalition is a secret paramilitary arm of which real organisation?

The Global Occult Coalition operates under the United Nations, formed after the Second World War from occult groups, and destroys supernatural threats rather than containing them.

Which object class covers anomalies that are easily and reliably contained?

The wiki stresses that this class does not mean harmless, only that containment is straightforward.

Any SCP that is autonomous or sapient is, by default, usually classified as what?

Euclid is the default class for anything autonomous or sapient, because unpredictable behaviour makes containment less than fully reliable.

A Keter classification means an anomaly is what?

Keter means exceedingly difficult to contain: the class measures the cost and unreliability of containment, not how dangerous the object is, a distinction fans love to argue.

Thaumiel-class objects are special because the Foundation uses them for what?

Thaumiel-class objects are used by the Foundation for containing other SCPs or counteracting their effects; their very existence is classified at the highest level.

Which class is given to anomalies that cannot be contained or are about to breach imminently?

Apollyon is an esoteric class for anomalies that cannot be contained or are about to breach, as with the entity behind SCP-2317's door; a breach usually means an end-of-the-world scenario.

SCP-173, the first SCP ever written, is a statue that does what?

SCP-173 attacks when nobody is looking at it: it stays frozen under direct observation but moves fast enough to snap necks the instant eye contact breaks; it is concrete, rebar and spray paint.

The original SCP-173 post appeared in June 2007 on which website?

SCP-173 was first posted anonymously to 4chan's paranormal board /x/ on 22 June 2007, a year before the dedicated wiki existed.

The photo that illustrated SCP-173 for years showed a sculpture by which Japanese artist?

Izumi Kato's sculpture 'Untitled 2004' was the face of SCP-173 for years; he reluctantly permitted non-commercial use in 2014, and the wiki removed the photo in 2022.

Why was no replacement image added to SCP-173 after the sculpture photo was removed in 2022?

The community responded with a flood of original interpretations of the statue.

SCP-049 resembles what?

SCP-049 looks like a medieval plague doctor in a black robe and beaked mask; its touch kills anyone it believes carries 'the pestilence', and it then reanimates the corpse.

SCP-096, the 'Shy Guy', hunts down anyone who does what?

SCP-096 pursues and kills anyone who sees its face, even in a photograph or drawing; the tall, pale humanoid is otherwise docile and apparently indestructible.

SCP-087 is an apparently endless what?

SCP-087 is an unlit descending staircase with no apparent bottom, home to a floating face with no mouth, nostrils or pupils; a short 2012 game let players walk down it.

SCP-055 is famous for being what?

SCP-055 is impossible to remember: an 'antimeme' that no one can recall once they look away, describable only by what it is not, such as the fact that it is 'not round'.

SCP-294 is a vending machine that dispenses what?

The paper cups are somehow never damaged, whatever gets poured into them.

SCP-426 is a toaster with what peculiar rule?

SCP-426 can only be referred to in the first person, so its article reads 'I am a toaster'; people who discuss it at length begin to believe they are the toaster.

SCP-999, the friendly orange slime, smells like what?

SCP-999 smells like whatever the person finds most comforting, differing from subject to subject; its touch induces euphoria, so the Foundation uses it to treat depression.

SCP-1247 depicts a man who sees every animal as which actor?

SCP-1247 is a man who perceives every animal as the actor Shia LaBeouf, one of the wiki's light-hearted entries that leaven its usual grimness.

SCP-3008 is an infinite version of what kind of building?

The staff-like creatures inside turn violent when the lights go off; a planned game, The Store is Closed, drew legal threats from IKEA.

SCP-1609 is a hostile pile of mulch that used to be what?

SCP-1609 was a benevolent teleporting chair that appeared wherever someone needed a seat, until the Global Occult Coalition fed it through a woodchipper and left hostile, lung-invading mulch.

The SCP Wiki moved to Wikidot in 2008 for what reason?

New Wikidot sites defaulted to a Creative Commons licence, which the SCP staff 'accidentally' adopted for the whole project.

Under which licence is SCP content released?

SCP content is released under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0, so anyone may sell merchandise or make games as long as they credit the authors and share alike.

SCP-682, one of the wiki's most infamous entries, is nicknamed what?

SCP-682, the 'Hard-to-Destroy Reptile', is a huge, adaptive and intensely hostile creature kept in a tank of acid; the Foundation's many attempts to kill it have all failed.

The wiki's first writing contest, in 2011, decided which article would get what number?

The 2011 SCP-1000 contest was the wiki's first, and the winning entry made SCP-1000 a hidden population of Bigfoot-like hominids.

The Wanderer's Library, a sister site to the SCP Wiki, differs how?

The Wanderer's Library hosts fantastical stories rather than scientific reports: it shares the SCP setting but swaps the clinical file format for tales kept in an endless library.

Which YouTuber contributed to the $140,000 fundraiser against Andrey Duksin's Russian trademark?

Markiplier was among the YouTubers who backed and promoted the 2018 GoFundMe that raised about $140,000 for the legal fight against Duksin; the Russian trademark was later invalidated.

SCP – Containment Breach, the 2012 game that brought a surge of new fans, came from a developer in which country?

Joonas 'Regalis' Rikkonen's game added a blink meter so that SCP-173 could creep up on you.

Which 2017 multiplayer game based on Containment Breach lets players play as SCPs?

SCP: Secret Laboratory, released in 2017 by Northwood Studios, turns Containment Breach into a multiplayer round in which some players spawn as SCPs such as 173 and 096.

Remedy's 2019 game, heavily influenced by SCP, centres on which fictional agency?

Control (2019) centres on the Federal Bureau of Control, a secret agency housed in the shifting brutalist Oldest House, whose 'Objects of Power' are mundane items with paranormal influence.

There Is No Antimemetics Division was written by which author under a pen name?

Sam Hughes, writing as qntm, serialised the Antimemetics Division stories on the wiki from 2015 and collected them as a self-published novel in 2020.

The 2021 graphic novel SCP-5000 Why depicts the Foundation doing what?

SCP-5000 Why shows the Foundation declaring war on humanity, loosing its anomalies to exterminate people; technician Pietro Wilson survives in a containment suit, and the graphic novel was Kickstarter-funded.

The animated web series Confinement follows Connor, a prisoner whose anomaly is what?

Connor resurrects instantly from any death, so the Foundation keeps him as a D-class test subject to throw at dangerous SCPs in Lord Bung's web series Confinement.

Critics have most often compared the SCP Wiki's clinical, pseudo-academic horror to which author?

H. P. Lovecraft is the usual comparison: like the SCP Wiki, his stories draw horror from a detached, documentary tone set against the things described, with little action.

SCP-500 is a bottle of red pills that each do what?

SCP-500, nicknamed 'Panacea', is a bottle of red pills, each of which will cure any disease in the person who swallows it, which is why the dwindling supply is strictly rationed.

Which Containment Breach mechanic gives SCP-173 its openings to move?

A blink function forces the player to shut their eyes every few seconds, and SCP-173 moves only while unobserved, so each blink is a chance for it to close in.

Which 2023 co-op horror hit by solo developer Zeekerss drew on monsters from the SCP universe?

Lethal Company's Coil-Head monster is a direct homage to SCP-173; Zeekerss's 2023 co-op scavenging horror became a Steam phenomenon within weeks of release.

Which militant group in the SCP universe fights for the rights of anomalous beings?

The Serpent's Hand fights for the freedom of anomalous beings, opposing both the Foundation's containment and the Global Occult Coalition's destruction of them; it operates from the Wanderer's Library.

SCP-106, nicknamed 'The Old Man', pulls its victims into what?

SCP-106, 'The Old Man', is a corroded humanoid that passes through solid matter and drags its victims into a pocket dimension, where it hunts them at leisure.

The wiki's 2008–2010 logo depicted SCP-529, which is what?

SCP-529, 'Josie the Half-Cat', is the front half of a cat that behaves normally in every way despite having no back half, and it appeared on the wiki's early logo.

Which 2018 management game by Project Moon harvests energy from SCP-style 'Abnormalities'?

Lobotomy Corporation, Project Moon's 2018 management game, has players extract energy from contained 'Abnormalities' while surviving their breaches, a direct nod to the Foundation's premise.

How does one communicate with the extra-dimensional entity of SCP-1171?

SCP-1171's entity writes on the condensation of the house's windows, and staff reply by writing in the condensation too; it loathes humans without realising its correspondents are human.