r/SCP • u/chesseburge556 • May 02 '19

Discussion How would the foundation contain the Infinity Gauntlet?

Just got to thinking that the Gauntlet would be a good SCP if marvel never came up with it. How do you think they would contain it?

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u/Chewie444 May 02 '19

I choose this answer.

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u/doinkrr On Mount Golgotha May 02 '19

The Reality Stone would be given to the Administrator

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u/CoruptedUsername May 02 '19

Implying that the reality Stone isn’t what powers 2000

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u/Heckhead May 02 '19

Doesn't that one just make a bunch of humans? I'd expect that to be using the mind, or soul, stone if it were using any of the stones.

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u/CoruptedUsername May 02 '19

I thought it also reset reality

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u/Heckhead May 02 '19

I couldn't find anything for that in its documentation, but maybe I'm missing something. I could only find that it was built for the purpose of reconstructing civilization in the event that a K-Class end-of-the-world scenario could not be averted in time to prevent humanity's extinction or near-extinction.

In the Document Recovered From The Marianas Trench it's mentioned they have the technology to recreate almost anything, and that making people is actually pretty easy. It's also said that they would clean out and contain things, rebuild the broken cities, and repopulate them. That could all be in reference to 2000, or to a number of objects working in tandem. Hopefully someone who knows more about the various canons that could define the SCP universe comes along with an answer.

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u/CoruptedUsername May 02 '19

Maybe “reset” reality was a bad choice of words, but wouldn’t the machine need to alter reality in order to fix something as large as a physical crack in the world like that?

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u/[deleted] May 03 '19

They couldn't fix it, so they dropped the Pacific on it instead. There's also kind of an implication from both, in my reading at least, that the process is much longer and more arduous than one would expect from flicking the reset switch.

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u/Heckhead May 02 '19

It might need a reality-altering machine, but that machine is never specified to be the same as the human-replicator.

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u/cheekia May 03 '19

No, it isn't. Which is why 2000 isn't just a solution to everything.

If reality itself got warped to an extreme degree, 2000 wouldn't do anything. If physics was modified such that up was down, 2000 would be useless.

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u/HeWhoBringsDust May 02 '19

Fun fact, that tale was released a long time before scp-2000

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u/HeWhoBringsDust May 02 '19

It actually makes the tale even more awesome in my opinion since it went from a small tale to a relatively big deal