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· SCP
SCP-140: An Incomplete Chronicle Object Class: Keter SCP-140 is a history book that keeps giving a dead civilization another chance. Every time its story expands, the evidence outside the book changes along with it. The book itself is title...
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SCP-139 begins as a missing-person case. By the final document, the person reading the case is the one being hunted. Lucian Saxe was a Foundation security specialist who advised Site-97 on unusual methods of reanimation. In March 1978, ze s...
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SCP-138 is a man who cannot die, but that does not mean his body can heal. The Foundation found him in 2006, alive inside a sarcophagus in an Egyptian tomb near Tutankhamen's. He is suspected to be more than four thousand years old, althoug...
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SCP-137 can turn a toy into the real thing. The catch is that it follows a child's idea of what that thing should be. The entity possesses toys, taking on the size, shape, and physical properties of whatever they represent. A toy gun can fi...
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SCP-136 looks like a small handmade doll. The dangerous part begins after someone has watched it for about twenty minutes. The doll changes between ordinary materials such as clay, wood, metal, and cloth. It usually appears female, but not...
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SCP-135 never moves. Everything growing around her is another matter. She is a human female permanently curled into the fetal position, with an anomalous effect extending 2.25 meters from her body. Within that area, cells grow rapidly and u...
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Spoilers through Uncanny X-Men #280 and X-Factor #70, the end of the Muir Island Saga. That’s where I’m stopping. The Muir Island Saga brings the X-Men back together by making them fight their way back to each other first. Xavier is back fr...
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PART 4 OF 4: THE TWO CAROL STORIES, THROUGH MUIR ISLAND After Carol leaves Earth, there are two related strands to keep separate: Carol herself, living as Binary, and the Carol personality within Rogue. Confusing them turns later X-Men scen...
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PART 3 OF 4: BINARY AND THE DECISION TO LEAVE The Brood story changes Carol's possibilities dramatically. Their experiments exploit her altered genetic structure, and Uncanny X-Men #164 reveals Binary. The transformation comes out of anothe...
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PART 2 OF 4: BETRAYAL, MEMORY AND THE RIGHT TO BE ANGRY Content note: sexual coercion, forced pregnancy and assault. Avengers #200 needs to be described plainly. Marcus abducts Carol, manipulates her mind with Immortus' technology and uses...
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PART 1 OF 4: CAROL BEFORE BINARY Carol Danvers needs room to be a whole person in this history. By the end of the Muir Island Saga, she has already been a military and intelligence professional, a NASA security chief, a writer and editor, M...
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There are smaller and stranger objects that belong in the picture too. Wonderland's looking glasses function as thresholds. They are a category of magical object rather than one interchangeable mirror with a single ownership history. The ca...
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The Veridian Scepter is the central artifact of the original Oz adventure. Dorothy, Glinda and Thorne's journey is organized around recovering its separated pieces. It offers a way to challenge the Wicked Witch and a way for Dorothy to get...
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Wonderland #36 shows the result: the Terror is brought back alive with the En Passant around his neck. Calie wants him held for questioning, and keeping the artifact on him is essential. While he is bound by it, he has no access to the powe...
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The En Passant is the artifact from the Well of Dreams arc, but it isn't another name for the Well. The Squire explains the problem in Wonderland #34. The Terror can torment people through nightmares and isn't something they can reliably st...
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Wonderland's Ebony Blade is also called the Death Blade. Those are two names for the same artifact. It is the legendary knife associated with killing the Jabberwocky, and that history is why its return matters so much. By Wonderland #19, Ca...
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Ali's lamp is another example of why the container and the being inside it need separate entries. In Grimm Fairy Tales #101–102, Ali brings a family-heirloom lamp to Arcane Acre. It belonged to his father, and Ali knows there is something i...
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Grimm Fairy Tales #64 gives Sela and Belinda two separate magical tools during the Dream Eater crisis. Sela receives a golden, cage-like container that once held the Dream Eater's essence before its birth. The proposal is that it might cont...
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Two quieter objects in #115 are worth including alongside the swords. Wiglaf wears a pendant carrying a glamour Adraste made for him. Its purpose is to help him blend in when he goes off campus. That is an artifact doing something practical...
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The Warlord of Oz's sword is a different weapon again. Within Grimm Fairy Tales #116–117, it is used against Arcane Acre's protective enchantment. The Warlord cuts through the school's barrier with his own blade. The explanation given after...
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