50 Fun Facts About SCP Foundation

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

The motto is 'Secure, Contain, Protect', but the acronym itself refers to the procedures written up in every file.

The SCP Foundation answers only to which shadowy leadership body?

Also called the Overseers; the Foundation is depicted as independent of any national government.

What are 'D-class personnel'?

They are forced to interact with dangerous SCPs so that regular staff are not put at risk.

The Foundation typically erases witnesses' memories with what?

The goal is to keep the world functioning under a masquerade of normalcy.

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

The GOC is a UN paramilitary that destroys anomalies rather than containing them, and the Serpent's Hand campaigns for anomalies' rights.

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

Unlike the Foundation, it specialises in destroying supernatural threats.

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?

It is the class with the widest scope, the default for anything that does not fit elsewhere.

A Keter classification means an anomaly is what?

The class is about the cost and complexity of containment, not the danger level, a distinction fans love to argue about.

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

Their very existence is classified at the highest level, known to few outside the Overseers.

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

'Explained' is for things that turned out to be mundane or hoaxes; 'Neutralized' for anomalies that have stopped being anomalous.

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

It is made of rebar, concrete and spray paint and can cross several metres in the time it takes to blink.

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

The anonymous author was later identified as Wesley 'Moto42' Williams.

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

He reluctantly allowed non-commercial use in 2014; the wiki removed the image in 2022 and left the article deliberately unillustrated.

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?

It kills anyone it believes carries 'the pestilence' and reanimates the corpses; ScreenRant called it the perfect entry for beginners.

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

The tall, thin, apparently immortal humanoid suffers extreme scopophobia, a fear of being looked at.

SCP-087 is an apparently endless what?

Its resident is 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?

The 'anti-meme' can only be described by what it is not; its author qntm spun the idea into There Is No Antimemetics Division.

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 sentient toaster with what peculiar rule?

The article is therefore written as 'I am a toaster', and so is this explanation's source.

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

It induces happiness on contact, so the Foundation actually uses it as a tool.

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

One of the site's more light-hearted entries, of the sort io9 praised for stopping the wiki from becoming relentlessly grim.

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?

The Global Occult Coalition put it through a woodchipper; now it teleports into the lungs of anyone in formal attire.

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?

That is why anyone can sell SCP merchandise or make SCP games, and why a Russian trademark filing caused such a fight.

What happened to a large number of early SCP articles between September and December 2009?

The purge of low-quality posts is preserved at SCP Classic, and the review culture that followed kept standards high.

As of early 2026, roughly how many SCP objects had articles on the wiki?

Plus more than 6,300 Foundation Tales; a 2022 journal article suggested it may be the largest collaborative writing project in history.

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

A 2014 'Dystopia Contest' asked for stories of the Foundation in a degraded world.

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

It shares the setting but not the clinical format.

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

The Russian antimonopoly service ruled against Duksin in 2021 and the trademark was finally cancelled in October 2022.

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: 5K is a co-op shooter and Secret Files an episodic adventure; Go Home Annie is a 2024 original story in the setting.

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

Control's 'Objects of Power' are mundane items with paranormal influence, kept in a shifting brutalist skyscraper.

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

The web serials began in 2015; a revised edition was published by Del Rey in 2025.

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

It follows technician Pietro Wilson in a world where the Foundation is releasing SCPs to wipe humans out; it was funded on Kickstarter.

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

The Foundation exploits it by using him as a D-class guinea pig against dangerous SCPs.

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

Inverse noted both rely on the tension between a detached tone and the horrors described, and neither has many action scenes.

Which found-footage horror anthology series announced an SCP Foundation entry for 2027?

Announced for a 2027 release, the film was to collect encounters with various SCPs on tape.

Which mechanic in SCP – Containment Breach forces the player to close their eyes, letting SCP-173 move?

The 2012 game was made by Finnish developer Joonas Rikkonen and brought a surge of new members to the wiki.

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

It sits alongside Remedy's Control and Project Moon's Lobotomy Corporation as original works shaped by the mythos.

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

It resists both the Foundation and the Global Occult Coalition, which would rather destroy anomalies than contain them.

Besides English, how many other official language branches does the SCP Wiki have?

Some of their articles are translated back into English, and a 2017 licensing row briefly shut the Russian branch down.

The wiki's 2014 writing contest asked members for stories set in what kind of setting?

It was billed as the 'Dystopia Contest'; the first contest, in 2011, had decided who got the SCP-1000 slot.

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

It behaves like a normal cat in every way except for lacking a back half.

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

Handling containment breaches is a core part of the gameplay, a direct nod to the Foundation's premise.

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

The entity loathes humans but has no idea the Foundation staff writing back to it are human.

SCP: Fragmented Minds (2025) is set at Site-113, a Foundation site on which planet?

The Kickstarter-funded game from HST Studios launched its first chapter in January 2025, with four chapters planned.

The anonymous 4chan poster who wrote SCP-173 was later identified as whom?

He released the text into the creative commons in 2013 and later asked that no replacement image be added when the statue photo came down.