46 Fun Facts About SCP Foundation

On the SCP Wiki, the letters SCP began as an initialism for what?

Special Containment Procedures is the heading under which each file sets out how to hold its object; the motto 'Secure, Contain, Protect' was coined later as a backronym.

The SCP Foundation answers only to which shadowy leadership body?

The O5 Council's Overseers are known only by number, O5-1 to O5-13, and are kept away from the anomalies themselves for fear of contamination.

What are 'D-class personnel'?

D-class personnel are disposable human test subjects, usually convicts, sent to handle dangerous SCPs so regular staff are spared; the wiki's writers disagree on whether they all come from death row.

The Foundation typically erases witnesses' memories with what?

Amnestic drugs, graded by strength into lettered classes, wipe what witnesses saw so the world keeps running under a veil of normalcy; mnestics are the opposite, bringing erased memories back.

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

The Chaos Insurgency turns stolen anomalies into weapons; the wiki offers rival accounts of its birth, including one in which it began as a deniable Foundation task force that turned on its masters.

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.

In the SCP Wiki's class guide, a button that would destroy the universe if pressed gets which object class?

Safe describes the containment, not the object: the class means an anomaly is easily and reliably held, and handling or activating a Safe item can still pose a threat.

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 how costly and unreliable containment is, so the guide stresses that a Keter object is not necessarily dangerous.

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

Containing other SCPs is the point of a Thaumiel: in the wiki's locked-box test for sorting anomalies, a Thaumiel is not something shut in the box but the box itself.

Which class is reserved for anomalies about to break containment, usually with world-ending results?

Apollyon marks anomalies that cannot be contained or are expected to break out imminently; because that usually means a world-ending event, each one demands a massive effort from the Foundation.

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?

4chan's /x/ board, its paranormal forum, got SCP-173 as an anonymous one-off post; so many imitations followed that fans built a wiki to stop the threads from vanishing.

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; unhappy at the unlicensed use, he still let the photo stay as long as nobody used it commercially.

Why did SCP-173 get no new image after its photo's removal?

Its author asked that readers imagine it themselves, so nothing replaced the photo, and the community answered with a flood of its own redesigns of the statue.

SCP-049 resembles what?

SCP-049 looks like a medieval plague doctor, but its robes and mask have grown out of its body; 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?

Anyone who sees its face, even in a photo, sends SCP-096 into screaming, weeping distress before it runs them down wherever they are; left unseen, it is docile and simply paces its cell.

SCP-087 is an apparently endless what?

SCP-087 is an unlit descending staircase with no known bottom: a child's cries seem to rise from far below, yet no descent brings explorers closer, and a face with no mouth, nostrils or pupils waits on the way.

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?

Any liquid, including abstract concepts, can be ordered: one agent asked for 'a cup of pertinent medical knowledge' during a breach, drank it and began treating wounded colleagues.

SCP-426 is a toaster with what peculiar rule?

It can only be referred to in the first person, so its file's description begins 'Hello, I am SCP-426'; people kept near it for over two months start to identify as toasters themselves.

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

Whatever the person finds most comforting: recorded scents include chocolate, fresh laundry and bacon, and its touch brings a mild euphoria that has left even severely depressed people with a brighter outlook.

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

Shia LaBeouf is what SCP-1247 perceives in place of every animal, at life size: a bird appears as the actor flying by flapping his arms, and a horse as LaBeouf galloping on all fours.

SCP-3008 is a seemingly endless version of what kind of building?

An IKEA store, endless inside: its faceless 'staff' turn violent when the lights go out, announcing that the store is now closed, a line that named a fan game IKEA's lawyers objected to.

The Global Occult Coalition made SCP-1609, a kindly teleporting chair, vengeful by doing what?

Feeding it through a woodchipper left SCP-1609 as a heap of mulch that teleports into the lungs of anyone it takes for a threat, above all people in Coalition uniform.

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

Its previous home, EditThis, started charging: the host was short of money and told its wikis to pay or be deleted, so one fan copied every article across to Wikidot by hand.

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.

The SCP Wiki lists SCP-682 under what title?

'Hard-to-Destroy Reptile' is the title of SCP-682, a huge, hostile creature kept submerged in acid to hold it down; nothing the Foundation has tried can destroy it, only damage it.

A 2011 SCP Wiki contest gave which coveted number to its winner, an article revealing Bigfoot as an anomaly?

SCP-1000 went to thedeadlymoose's contest winner, in which Bigfoot is real and the Foundation itself bankrolled hoaxes and comedies so that people would find the idea laughable.

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

It hosts fantastical stories rather than scientific reports, and the Library is itself a place in the SCP stories: a building reached through portals scattered around the world.

Which YouTuber backed the SCP Wiki's legal fund against Andrey Duksin's Russian trademark on the SCP name?

Markiplier gave to the legal fund and posted a video on the dispute, which is how many fans first heard of it; donations then ran far past the $50,000 goal.

SCP – Containment Breach, the 2012 hit game, was made by Joonas Rikkonen, a developer from which country?

Finland's Joonas Rikkonen built the game, and its arrival sent the SCP Wiki a surge of new members.

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

SCP: Secret Laboratory, released in 2017 by Northwood Studios, sets its players against each other in a breached site: the SCPs hunt as one team while the humans fight to escape.

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

The Federal Bureau of Control tracks and contains paranormal objects much as the Foundation does; Remedy's writers said some of their inspiration came from digging through the SCP site.

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

Sam Hughes, as qntm, serialised the story on the SCP Wiki and self-published it as a book; major publishers later bought a reworked edition.

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

Declaring war on humanity is the mystery at the heart of SCP-5000: the Foundation turns its anomalies on the public, and technician Pietro Wilson journeys on trying to learn why.

The web series Confinement follows Connor, a prisoner with what anomaly?

He resurrects instantly from any death, so the Foundation keeps sending Connor in first against its most dangerous SCPs in Lord Bung's darkly comic series.

The SCP Wiki's clinical, pseudo-academic style of horror has been compared to the stories of which author?

H. P. Lovecraft is the comparison Inverse's Winston Cook-Wilson drew: his narrators, like SCP files, report horrors in a detached scholarly voice with little action, and that clash of tone and subject does the frightening.

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

Cure any disease: each SCP-500 pill does so within two hours, and since nobody has managed to copy them, staff are told not to waste one on a hangover.

Which Containment Breach mechanic was designed around the threat of SCP-173?

A blink function makes the player's eyes close for an instant each time a slowly draining meter runs out, echoing the original file's order that staff warn one another before blinking.

Which 2023 co-op horror hit by solo developer Zeekerss drew on the SCP universe for its world-building?

Lethal Company was built alone by Zeekerss, who had learned the craft making Roblox games; within weeks of release it was outselling Call of Duty on Steam.

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

The Serpent's Hand embraces anomalies and protests loudest when those locked up or destroyed are fully human and harmless; its only unprovoked attacks have been on Global Occult Coalition agents.

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

SCP-106 looks like a rotting old man; it cripples its prey, then drags them into a pocket dimension it enters through any solid surface, leaving a corroded patch behind.

The SCP Wiki's original logo depicted SCP-529, which is what?

The front half of a cat is all there is of SCP-529, 'Josie the Half-Cat', who behaves like any other cat and is harmless enough to be left roaming her site.

Which 2018 management game has players harvest energy from contained, SCP-style 'Abnormalities'?

Lobotomy Corporation, by South Korea's Project Moon, has players extract energy from caged 'Abnormalities'; the bigger the facility grows, the more chances its monsters have to escape and destroy everything.

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

By writing in window condensation, staff answer SCP-1171's entity, which writes there too; it is hostile to humanity and has no idea that its correspondents are human.