SCP Foundation/Fridge

Fridge Brilliance

• It's commonly reiterated that the only real canon there is in the Foundation-verse is that there is no real canon. This only makes so much sense after one realizes just how many reality-bending SCPs there are.
  • Not to mention the alternative universes mentioned in many articles and the subject of a good number of SCPs.

Fridge Horror

• As most of the articles are about everyday objects being potentially world-ending, or at the very least life-threatening, you're bound to start thinking the next time something strange happens.
  • To put this into perspective: most of the Foundation's SCPs were discovered by regular people, going throughout their daily lives. Just like you.
  • Several SCPs have been written so that they can be printed and left in a public place.
• The recruitment of D-class typically comes from inmates, though under their security designation is this gem: "Condemned persons are preferred; in times of duress, Protocol 12 can be authorized, allowing recruitment of innocents or persons incarcerated for lesser crimes." The reader is then immediately reminded about how all D-class are killed off at the end of the month.
• While most (if not all) articles are built upon Fridge Horror, leaving far too many to list, there are a few good in-universe examples of this:
  • SCP-087, a never-ending staircase with an ominous white face that shows up just out of view. Only when you can't see it, it's right behind you.
  • The fate of the world SCP-093 came from. It's a post-apocalyptic dystopia centered around Christian belief, where demons are very, very real.
  • It is, by all means, completely impossible to know just what SCP-055 is. Yes, it's hilarious when the researchers forget about things, but the horror sets in when you begin to imagine just what it could actually be.
    • Another dimension of horror arises when they list possible threats SCP-055 could pose, which is then followed by the line, "No action to counter any of these potential threats is suggested, or indeed theoretically possible." SCP-055 could potentially pose any threat right up to an "end-of-the-world scenario" and there'd be no way to know, and no way to stop it.
• Just about any "creation story" one would be able to come up with for how most of the SCPs came about.
  • Maybe except the spiral path entry.
    • Especially the spiral path entry.
• Quite possibly the entire point of the SCP Foundation.
  • [DATA EXPUNGED]
    • Of special horror are the black bars commonly used on the site - you don't know what's behind them, but there's a number of them left there for you to guess. SCP-231's age was originally "between ██ and ██ years of age," but after a user realized that meant she was at least a teenager, it was swiftly changed to "between █ and ██ years of age." Think about it.
• When you go to the page for SCP-001 proposals, you receive a warning that, if you scroll down, you will be terminated by a visual memetic kill agent. So you scroll down, see a weird-looking picture, and nothing happens, giving you access to the proposals. Translation: the only thing preventing everyone from seeing SCP-001 doesn't work, leaving it open to everyone. And if something that important has been done badly, just what else have they screwed up?
  • It Gets Worse. SCP-1055 grows in size depending on how many people are aware of its existence. Naturally, they've taken some measures to keep its true nature under wraps, including tricking all agents into thinking that its "caretaker" is the SCP, and restricting access to its true nature on the site. Or at least, trying to; information which is supposed to be deleted can be read and seen by anyone. Just by reading the page, you are making the SCP a greater threat! And so is this troper for telling you.
• The interaction between SCP-682 and SCP-053 is real cute. But lets drop that Sugar Bowl for moment and think, 682 kills everything because they're disgusting, yet it became docile toward 053. And no, it isn't a case of Wouldn't Hurt a Child, it has killed at least two kids - quickily and messily. Remember that when humans make eye contact with or touch 053, or simply be near her long enough, they will go berserk and attack 053. Taking all those clues, you should have realized the wrongness hiding in 053.
  • Maybe 053 is for us what we are for 682.
• The Ethics Committee. At first, it seems like a bad joke for an organization like the Foundation to have such a thing (hell, even the most of the staff think it's ineffectual and pointless), but the truth is they know everything the Foundation has ever done, is doing, and ever will do. Every thing behind those black bars, every [REDACTED] and [DATA EXPUNGED]? They know what's there. Procedure 110-Montauk? Yep, they know that, too. They designed it. The thing is, as bad as the Foundation is now, without them it would be much, much worse.

Ethics Committee Member: Remember this: the Foundation is not evil. We do not torture people "just because". We are against unnecessary cruelty. Which means somebody has to decide when cruelty is necessary. And that somebody is us... Stop trembling.

• A lot of SCPs require sophisticated containment that would take a long time to construct. What did the Foundation do with the artifacts before their containment rooms were constructed? Even when the containment is simple they still need to locate a free room. Where did they put SCP 173 before they found it a cell? How was it contained and transported to the cell?
• Consider this story, which goes into detail about the class A amnesiacs that are given out like candy after the more traumatic events. Now remember SCP-231-7 is given a class A amnesiac every few times 110-Montauk is administered...

Fridge Logic

• More than a few SCPs have containment procedures that are... ridiculously unorthodox to say the least. Thus any of them that don't bother to explain how someone figured them out leave you to wonder why someone apparently randomly decided to feed an aborted fetus in a jar some virgin's blood.