Murphy Law's in... AN ANALYSIS BLOG!

“The noir hero is a knight in blood-caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.”

–Frank Miller

Before We Begin…

Anyone with some knowledge of the SCP Foundation will know that dealing with its “canon” is... complicated. Being a collaborative website with multiple articles, stories, and canons intertwined with different visions of its universe and events, it’s normal that analyzing the verse becomes tricky, to say the least, due to the enormous amount of stories by different authors that may or may not be related. The Canon Hub of the SCP Foundation website itself states that it is up to the reader to “decide what you believe and what you embrace as the heart of the universe”.

Murphy, at least, has his own canon with a more or less coherent timeline, with abilities and traits that do not change and remain consistent across all his stories and appearances. For this analysis, all content within the Murphy Law’s Hub will be used, along with mentions in other stories that do not contradict his canon and WoG—when it comes to scaling him with other characters, an attempt will be made to maintain a similar treatment.

The SCP Foundation, as a site, has multiple international branches in various countries around the world. Only the content from the English branch of the Foundation will be used for the purposes of this analysis.

Background

“Heroes always do what’s right. But me? I’m no hero. I’m Murphy Law. I'm just the guy you call when everything that could go wrong… did.”

It remains unclear where the anomaly known as SCP-3143 came from or what created him. The Foundation attempted to force an origin on it by giving it the identity of Murphy Lawden, a retired shoe salesman from New Jersey who, while writing a text based on the noir novels he read in his childhood, ended up creating the entity we know as Murphy Law. This past, however, is false, created by the Foundation to contain 3143—so his background itself is unknown.

We do know that he’s an intrafictional construct, which first manifested in 2005 at Site-95 of the Foundation, plunging all personnel into a state of unconsciousness from which they did not awaken until three hours later. Still dazed, they encountered the smell of cigarettes and cheap alcohol, two injured guards, three bullets on the Site Director's desk, and two more bullets in another anomaly, SCP-3043. The documentation of the anomaly was also altered, and the Foundation had its first encounter with Murphy Law that day.

They quickly investigated and identified it—SCP-3143, or Murphy Law, was an entity capable of flattening portions of reality to turn them into a noir and hard-boiled script-like narrative. Within this story, Murphy becomes the protagonist—a detective having to solve a case—and everyone who has been flattened into the story ends up becoming a character in it, having to follow the tropes and personalities appropriate to the genre. Once the story has concluded, reality is reversed, although the actions within the narrative have an impact on “real life.” The reason SCP-3043 had two bullets lodged in it? Murphy had shot it after it tried to ruin his story.

These same properties, along with the Foundation's already established aversion to narrative entities, led the Pataphysics Department to investigate and eventually contain him. This task was entrusted to Thaddeus Thaum, a highly trained professor of literature. To accomplish his mission, Thaddeus deconstructed Murphy's narrative—dictating truths about why his story was clichéd and repetitive and did not qualify as a noir story in reality—to nullify its anomalous properties, which worked... temporarily. Murphy eventually came to understand the clichéd tropes surrounding the Foundation, and, using Thaddeus's skill to his advantage, deconstructed the concept of the Foundation itself and regained control of his narrative once again.

The Foundation decided to leave him alone for the time being. Of course, they knew more about him, but he also knew more about them. During this period of “calm,” Murphy had an unexpected encounter with SCP-2747, also known as the Anafabula—an anti-narrative, a cluster of elements that forced themselves into other narratives and then destroyed them. It is unclear what happened during this encounter, or how Murphy was able to survive. But he did.

In 2022, seventeen years after his first encounter with the Foundation, Murphy returned to the fray after an iteration of Nobody intercepted a truck belonging to Marshall, Carter, and Dark and stole an instance of SCP-7043—gloves capable of manipulating probability from 1% to 99%. Deciding to feel “complete” after seeing his reality by jumping into the Department of Pataphysics' NarrativeJumper, Nobody manipulated the Foundation into a 10-month plan—specifically members of the O5 Council, using them in a fiduciary fraud related to Procedure 110-Montauk—to eventually have a final confrontation with Murphy. And once again, the detective in law emerged victorious, despite everything.

And so Murphy Law has endured. Pursued and sought after, but always one step ahead. Always ready to find the culprit, be the good guy. Always being the one you call when everything that could go wrong... did.

Skill and Experience

“His name is MURPHY, and he is ready to give anyone a bit of the business.”

Given the type of construct he is, it should come as no surprise that Murphy is the archetypal noir protagonist—tough, intuitive, and dangerous. At first glance, his skills as a detective are nothing to be underestimated, having more than seventeen years of experience. After receiving a vague description of the anomalous effects of SCP-3043 from Dr. Lewis and meeting with Site Director August, Lawden quickly deduced both its identity and abilities without having to investigate much further. He also immediately detected a lie told by August, and eventually came to the conclusion that he was being brainwashed by SCP-3043.

After being deconstructed by Thaddeus Thaum, Murphy eventually perceived the narrative created by him to contain him and turned it to his advantage, identifying the repetitive tropes and clichés of the Foundation and managing to reverse reality to regain control of his narrative once again, deconstructing the very concept of the article itself. This incident made him a “cursed name” within the Pataphysics Department, and even made the Foundation consider militarising its metafictional resources.

He also seems to be aware of Foundation’s narrative stack model and how its layers constituted as well. Other feats worth mentioning are during his encounter with Nobody, where he discovered the O5 Council's money laundering operation thanks to papers scattered around Director August's mansion, and later deduced Nobody's identity after compiling all of his aliases.

Murphy is also more than ready when it comes to physical action. He was able to knock down two of August's security guards who had him surrounded in an instant, turning the situation to his advantage. Pursued by MTF-Shai 1 units, Lawden managed to escape through Site-19’s cafeteria without being shot. It’s also worth mentioning his action-thriller worthy chase across Las Vegas’ roads to chase down Nobody, while, at the same time, being chased by the police and personnel of the Foundation.

It is important to note that the nature of Murphy's narrative means that he always ends up solving the case, while creating self-imposed obstacles and complications so that the plot follows the course of a noir novel.

Arsenal

.44 magnum

Murphy’s primary weapon and his (second) best pal, carried in a shoulder-strapped holster. Always ready to draw if it’s the case, this little man can be credited with the lives of O5-5, O5-6, and Nobody.

Car

Nothing noteworthy to say here. Murphy's personal vehicle when he needs to travel for independent investigations.

Foundation’s Access Card

A special access card granted to Murphy by O5-13 so he could enter the Foundation’s sites and investigate O5-7’s murder, with a level 3 clearance level.

Ballpoint pen

Before saying goodbye to SCP-2786, Murphy gives them a pen as a gift, which he claims is more mightier than their sword. He is not mistaken—when the HERO writes “im ded [sic]” on one of SCP-1893's tattoos, he’s ded the next moment.

SCP-7043

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A collection of gloves manufactured and distributed by Marshall, Cartell and Dark, Ltd. SCP-7043’s instances are able to manipulate probability of any kind of event, and can alter chances up to 99% or down to 1%—esentially bending reality. The gloves’ properties work on situations such as coin flips, getting a five-number password correctly, levers malfunctioning despite not entering in contact with it, or drag a body to multiple locations and not raise suspicions, for example.

A copy of SCP-7043 was granted to Murphy by Nobody so they could have an “even fight”, with the latter being beaten in their own game in the final standoff.

SCP-8643

Wooden pencils produced by the Horizon Initiative, whose eraser—with the properties of SCP-2747—is capable of annihilating narrative constructs on a total level, both physical, memetic, and noospheric, removing them from any cognitive and memetic cohesion. SCP-8643 is also effective on humans, animals, anomalies, and objects, or even entities such as SWANN entities. (See “Explanations” for more information).

The erasure capabilities of SCP-8643 are monstrous. We can begin to analyze them if we understand the term “noospheric,” derived from the Noosphere—a real philosophical concept—which, within the myths of the Foundation, comes to be the set of ideas that human beings are capable of having, the collective human consciousness, the sphere of human thought that designates all the cultural, cognitive and emotional human fields in an immense metaphysical web. The properties of SCP-8643 cause it to treat anything it comes into contact with—baseline human or otherwise—as a narrative construct, removing them from any form of cohesion upon contact, thus making people completely forget who (or what) was the one deleted in the first place. Complete eradication.

Even partial contact with SCP-8643 can have fatal consequences. SCP-423 (Fred) had his right foot partially erased, causing him to become obsessed and mumble about a certain figure related to the number seven and believe that he always had part of his foot missing.

Murphy was in possession of all instances of SCP-8643 after his encounter with the Horizon Initiative, and it was he who took it upon himself to destroy them in order to save the rest of narrative constructs.

Abilities

Narrative Anomaly Properties

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“For in truth, you can massacre men, break their spirits, annihilate their hopes. This is what all the horrors that are hidden within our walls do. But killing a story is almost impossible.”

—Dr. Pierre Merrand, Pataphysics Department

The most general definition given by the Foundation to narrative anomalies is that, as their name suggests, they are sentient entities that can manifest themselves through a narrative, and can either affect other fictional stories or the Foundation itself. Understanding their origin, however, is more complex—the vast majority of narrative anomalies come from the Noosphere, the metaphysical network that is the collective human consciousness. Originating from humanity's desire to tell stories, Murphy and other entities are born and nourished by the creative concepts that originate in the Noosphere, such as the crystallization of human thought and artistic spirit. Narrative anomalies become sentient and emerge once very common tropes or cliches well-anchored in the Noosphere gain anomalous properties—Murphy himself is described as a “hard-boiled mass of tropes and cliches”.

Among the types of narrative anomalies, Murphy is classified by the Pataphysics Department as a Navidson-Class Reality-Bending Narrative, the most dangerous type. These entities bend portions of reality into fiction, trapping those who come into contact with it in a story of their own direction, forcing actions and crushing the will of those affected. Murphy's effects on reality and the Pataphysics Department were so disastrous that a Narrative Task Force was created to prevent such incidents from happening again—which, we can presume, hasn’t been that effective considering he’s still around. Narrative anomalies are also capable of transmitting themselves to other art forms and pieces of fiction to alter them in their own style, a process carried out through the Noosphere, similar to how oneiroic entities move between dreams.

The Pataphysics Department acknowledges that killing, and even containing a story such as narrative anomalies is nearly impossible due to their nature. For that reason, the Department of Analytics eventually decided that the best way to achieve this was with a “good old-fashioned murder”. A simple plan that consisted of dragging the fictional character to reality, kill them, and then kill the authors that might bring them back, because as long as they just write about them, they’ll stay alive. Of course, this wouldn’t work with intrafictional constructs such as Murphy, which is why the Foundation tried to give him a banal identity after deconstructing him. It didn’t go as expected.

Reality Warping and Plot Manipulation

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Murphy's anomalous property and what makes him a headache for the Foundation. When active, he flattens portions of baseline reality to turn them into a noir-style scripted narrative. Everyone and everything that has been flattened becomes characters and elements within his story, their personalities and properties altered to resemble the style of a detective plot. The “characters” will be forced to follow these rules, with Murphy commanding the events of the narrative until a consistent conclusion is reached. Only then will reality be reversed.

Murphy's control over the plot extends beyond his narrative. He was able to completely nullify the effects of SCP-3043 on his story, making it his own, and SCP-3043’s power allowed him to rewrite and erase any story it entered. After coming into contact with SCP-5002, a reality bender who, upon rereading one of her works, would cause an analogue of the events described to occur in reality, she was unable to kill Murphy despite multiple attempts, who started to enter her stories to quickly resolve the mystery. Another notable appearance is when he introduced himself into the history of SCP-2786, with them describing Murphy as “out of place,” as if he wasn't “not entirely bound by its (the world’s) rules”—and considering that he was aware that the Foundation was manipulating 2786 into becoming the villain of their story, it’s not a far-fetched deduction.

What really makes the Foundation so concerned about Murphy, however, is the range of his abilities, which extend beyond fictional works like most anomalies. The fact that he can affect baseline reality is already worrying, but he can go even further. (See “Explanations” for more information).

Power Nullification and Subjective Reality

Another property of Murphy's narrative (noted several times by its author) is that it is simply absurdly powerful, overwhelming everything it comes into contact with. The best way to describe him is that he’s like “a little kid playing a game and changing the rules around to fit whatever he’s encountering.” He changes the rules of what he sees to suit his story, and that very perspective—as absurd as it may be—becomes real simply because his abilities are that insane.

This is precisely why SCP-3043 is unable to rewrite his story, why Thaddeus was unable to maintain control of his narrative before Murphy turned his deconstruction to his advantage, and why characters who are aware of being within his narrative, such as Nobody, also recognize that they have been written by him all along and that the conclusion of the story was always sealed. Murphy’s narrative simply works that way—overwhelming.

The range of Murphy's power nullification is a rather interesting topic to discuss, as it can reach immense levels. (See “Explanations” for more information).

Lower-Dimensional Existence

Intrafictional constructs, such as Murphy, are literally a story within a story—fiction within fiction. This does not mean, of course, that they cannot affect the baseline reality of the Foundation—Murphy’s whole thing is that he can—or beyond.

Deconstruction

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Dr. Thaddeus Thaum entered Murphy's narrative with the goal of giving him a banal background to contain him. To this end, he exposed the tropes and clichés that formed his narrative, dismantling it until he eventually contained Murphy Law as Murphy Lawden. This worked... temporarily, until Murphy managed to identify the tropes that formed the article—deconstructing both the article and the concept of the Foundation itself, and regaining control over his narrative.

The range of Thaum's “truths” borders on the absurd. Interacting directly with the author of the story, he was able to deconstruct it to the point of overwhelming its own influence until, literally, destroying everything and leaving nothing but a blank space. (See “Explanations” for more information).

Matter Manipulation

Every time Murphy bends reality, it's not just those within his range who are affected, but also his surroundings. Entire locations of the Foundation where he appears are transformed into, for example, mansions or bars in keeping with the noir genre.

Memory Manipulation

Anyone who has been flattened within Murphy's narrative will be unable to remember what happened once reality has returned to normal. Being immersed inside his narrative will also cause confusion and dizziness for the first few moments.

Teleportation

With each scene change—initiated by a “FADE IN”—Murphy will change the setting and transport the characters to it to move the story forward.

Technology and Data Manipulation

During the first containment breach caused by Murphy, his alteration of reality caused all of the Foundation's cameras to cease functioning. Once reality returns to normal, the documents of the anomalies flattened by Murphy end up with... drastic changes. He may have also changed MTF-Iota 10’s name from “Damn Feds” to “Damn Freds” in his own article, because why not?

Possession

…sort-ish.

On one occasion when members of the O5 Council managed to set up Murphy in order to destabilize his control over his narrative and his reality-bending properties using a Reality Anchor constructed by the Department of Pataphysics, thereby becoming the commanders of his story, Murphy was able to nullify the effects of this anchor in a matter of seconds once the author of the story was forced to take control, killing both of the O5 members.

It took a fit of rage and a double murder in cold blood to get everything back to normal, but hey, it worked.

Resistances

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“WHY CAN’T I REWRITE YOUR STUPID STORY WHAT ARE YOU”

—SCP-3043

• Plot Manipulation, Mental Manipulation, Memory Manipulation, Information Manipulation and Existence Erasure: Murphy showed complete immunity to the abilities of SCP-3043, who was able to control the stories in which it was present, including the stories in people's heads, thus being able to control or even “delete” them. Even 3043 is shown shocked after not being able to control Murphy’s narrative. May have survived an encounter with SCP-2747, a phenomenon that manifests itself in unfinished works to delete them, all of them following the same pattern of mentions of the number seven and a dark, destructive and related to thorns antagonistic figure. (See “Explanations” for more information”).

• Causality Manipulation, Fear Manipulation and further Existence Erasure: Murphy was able to flatten—and thereby become immune to—the anomalous properties of SCP-2740, which is capable of retroactively changing and erasing events so that they never happened if anyone attempts to discover its true nature, or even erasing people from existence. Anyone who becomes aware of SCP-2740 feels a sense of intense dread towards it.

• Status Effect Inducement, further Fear Manipulation, Mind Manipulation and Memory Manipulation: Also flattened—and thus became immune to—the anomalous properties of SCP-3000, a massive aquatic serpentine entity with cognitive abilities that cause direct observation of it to result in headaches, paranoia, fear, and memory loss.

• Fate Manipulation: SCP-5002's attempts to control Murphy's actions and eventually get rid of him by rereading his works, although weakened his control over reality, did not directly affect him.
• Power Nullification: Murphy was able to quickly adapt to the Foundation's Reality Anchor and regain control over his narrative, even as it was nullifying his effects on reality.

• While nullifying Murphy’s control over reality seems to be the best approach to destabilize him, this will only make the author of the story fully take over, and the effect won’t last permanently.

Weaknesses

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As unbeatable as Murphy may seem in his stories, he still has certain shortcomings. The first thing to note is that, due to his nature, he is limited within the tropes and conventions of his genre—he sets himself the obstacles and difficulties that your average noir film protagonist must face in order for the plot to be compelling and make sense. He’ll end up cracking the case, of course, but that doesn’t mean he’ll not be roughed up along the way.

The Foundation has also found a couple of ways to weaken his control over his narrative, the first of which is deconstruction. One clarification I think is necessary is that Murphy is not invulnerable to deconstruction—in fact, he is vulnerable to it. The point is that he realized that Thaddeus and the Foundation were as vulnerable to it as he was, and he turned the situation to his advantage by deconstructing the deconstruction. The Foundation stopped trying this method from then on, simply because the effect would not last long and Murphy could just… do the same to them.

Murphy's real weakness is nullifying the effects he has on reality, something the Foundation has attempted to do using Reality Anchors, devices designed to nullify the anomalous properties of reality benders. The truth is that the first attempt—with a Reality Anchor built by the Department of Pataphysics—did not go very well. Murphy regained control of his narrative basically seconds after the O5 Council took control of his story.

The second attempt, carried out by a mole from the Horizon Initiative using a Reality Detonator, was much more effective—Murphy’s effects on reality were practically nullified, and he was unable to control his story... only for him to reestablish it a few minutes later with a little motivation. We don't know for sure what the effects of the Reality Detonator are, and exactly what it was that made Murphy vulnerable. The only conclusion we can draw is that power nullification is effective against him, but it doesn’t last long and depends on the range, only managing to reduce him for seconds or a few minutes at most before he regains control once again.

Explanations

Does Murphy Lawden even exist?

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The Foundation classifies SCP-3143-A as “Murphy Lawden,” the author of Murphy Law, a retired shoe salesman from New Jersey who created him by accident while writing a script called “It Always Rains”, inspired by the stories he read as a child, causing the narrative to somehow come to life, becoming the main character.

It's revealed later that this is all a lie fabricated by the Foundation. Neither Murphy Lawden, nor ‘It Always Rains’, nor Thaddeus Thaum actually exist. The goal was to create a fictional Pataphysics Department to interact with Murphy's narrative and give it a banal background with which to contain him and, perhaps, get rid of him. Murphy, like other intrafictional constructs of his kind, is a set of tropes and clichés anchored to the Noosphere that acquired anomalous properties.

On the other hand, Murphy does have an author, but there have been several, and they seem to be meta representations of the real authors of his stories. Yes, it's a headache—the takeaway here is that Murphy Lawden doesn't exist, and Murphy's authors, although they command the story, are not exactly him.

The “fight” with SCP-2747

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An encounter between SCP-2747 and Murphy had been teased for a while in a couple of stories and in comments by the author, The Great Hippo. The truth is that this encounter did happen, and it took place in the Murphy Law’s Hub through a text hidden in a black box. We are not told exactly what happens in this “battle,” nor do we know exactly what happens afterwards.

The story of Murphy Law, following this encounter with 2747, was going to continue in two more stories by The Great Hippo. Stories that, for reasons unknown to me, never came to fruition. The continuation of Murphy's main story never happened—which is why the current stories deviate from this plot.

If we were to attempt to create a timeline—even though SCP canons and stories don't usually follow a cohesive rhythm—we would notice that 2747 appears in Murphy's work in 2017, and by 2022, he’s still active and his narrative is ongoing. To avoid hasty assumptions or interpretations, it is best to think that Murphy simply survived this encounter in some way or another without resorting to scaling or whatever that implies.

SWANN Scaling, because of course there is

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“Ah, shit. Here we go again.”

There have been texts in parentheses in various parts of the blog redirecting here. I have been specifically putting this off because understanding how far Murphy's powers can reach deserves its own section.

And to understand that, we need to understand the power of the Foundation's authors. And to understand that, we need to understand the structure of the Foundation's reality. As I said at the beginning of the blog, we will only discuss elements that are related to and/or have been mentioned in Murphy's stories, to save ourselves trouble and to show that he doesn't need an extensive hypercanon to stand out.

The narrative stack model is mentioned in Murphy's stories, and is one of the most popular concepts used to explain the basis of the Foundation's reality on the site. Proposed by Robert Scranton, it suggests that the Foundation's reality is part of a hierarchical system consisting of an infinite number of realities/narratives stacked one on top of the other in all directions. The Foundation influences the narratives below, seeing them as nothing more than pencil and paper, and the same happens with the narratives above baseline reality.

Scranton also proposes the idea of a true God, a true creator—someone who sees not only baseline reality, but everything in general, as nothing more than fiction, who is capable of creating and modifying the rules and laws that constitute the universe itself. The truth is that these gods do exist, proposed in the S. Andrew Swann’s proposal of SCP-001, and are the authors of the Foundation themselves, responsible for the fact that they have to face the paranormal and extraordinary. God is real, and it’s just a bunch of horror writers.

“How does Murphy scale to any of this?”

Quite simple, actually. Thaddeus's deconstruction abilities were able to not only completely overwhelm one of the authors and overcome him, but also completely erase his story until there was nothing left but an empty space (and SCP-3043). Murphy not only has deconstruction abilities equal to (or superior to) those of Thaddeus, but was able to flatten both him and the author in a script. Something worth mentioning is that the hyperlink in the author's credits takes us to The Great Hippo's profile, and the Foundation considers SWANN entities to be the real versions of the authors and editors of the Foundation. So yeah.

Murphy should also escalate to SWANN entities through his weaponry. Instances of SCP-8643 were able to “affect and erase entities that are not pataphysical in nature,” with this hyperlink sending us to S. Andrew Swann's Proposal article. We can also take into account this wacky Reddit story where Murphy investigates the death of Marvin, the bot that links SCPs for users, and confronts the author djkaktus—and we should, because it's sort of canon…? Take it with a grain of salt, obviously, it’s more of a shitpost story not meant to take itself seriously, but it’s funny to think about.

To affect these entities—gods who see an entire stack of infinite realities and narratives that go in all directions above and below each other as nothing more than fiction—is, at least, High Hyperversal. Keep in mind that this only scales to Murphy's range, not his attack potency directly. Also consider that this could go way beyond if we used a hypercanon that compassed all of the Foundation’s cosmology, not just elements that are directly tied to or mentioned in Murphy’s stories.

“Wouldn’t the SWANNs just be part of this structure?”

This is a question I asked myself while writing this blog, and I think it's worth answering. In the story of SCP-3812, where the narrative stack is first introduced, he seeks retaliation against “Ben,” the creator of his narrative—Ben being the name of djkaktus, the author—and eventually ascends through the stack until he ends up above him. This would mean there’s a layer above the authors, therefore, they don’t scale above the entire reality of the Foundation.

The truth is that 3812 never surpasses the real djkaktus, he simply rises above the fictionalized version of him for the story. He, and the rest of the authors, remain at the top of this ladder, on a layer that 3812 will most likely never be able to reach. SCP-3812 will become more “real” with each layer he climbs, of course, but he’ll never reach the top of the structure. The whole point of this is to clarify that the authors are not limited within the Foundation’s narrative stack, but are above it.

Feats

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“But there was something 3043 didn’t count on – a man with nothing to lose.”

• Has been around as a detective for, at the very least, seventeen years.
• Considered one of the most dangerous fictional constructs the Foundation has faced in its history.

• An entire Narrative Task Force was created to prevent incidents akin to the ones caused by Murphy to happen.

• Has solved all of the four cases he’s been involved in, such as the apparition of an anomaly capable of deleting stories, the death of a beloved android in the SCP subreddit, the assassination of O5-7, and the cause of Foundation’s personnel being suddenly erased from existence.
• Really liked by the youngest members of the Foundation.
• Survived an encounter with SCP-2747.
• Managed to nullify the anomalous effects and/or go toe-to-toe of multiple figures of interest in the Foundation’s mythos, such as SCP-3043, SCP-2740, SCP-3000, Dr. Thaddeus Thaum, Nobody, his own author, and others.

(Important: Due to Murphy’s nature, most of his physical feats don’t really scale to nowhere, so I consider them simply not worth mentioning).

Conclusion

Attack Potency/Durability

• High Hypoverse Level (Less than 3D)

• Murphy’s nature as an intrafictional construct—a story within a story—makes him scale no pretty much nowhere physically.

Speed

• Unknown, possibly Below Average Human

• Same reason as AP/Durability.

Range

• At least High Hyperversal (Unquantifiable-D)

• Scales to and is able to flatten SWANN entities/the Foundation’s authors, that see the verse’s hierarchy of infinite realities and narratives stacked in all directions as nothing more than fiction.

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Sources

• Murphy Law’s Hub

• SCP-3043
• SCP-3143
• Never Metafictional Character I Didn’t Like
• Recovered Media: The Hard-Boiled Adventures of Murphy Law
• Murphy Law’s in… THE DEATH OF THE PARANOID ANDROID!
• SCP-7043
• SCP-8643
• Operation ÓverMeta

• OPEN THE GATE
• Narrative Anomalies Orientation
• To Be Noir Not To Be
• Project Isorropia
• SCP-3812
• SCP-001: djkaktus’ Proposal II
• SCP-001: S. Andrew Swann’s Proposal