SCP-217 - The Clockwork Virus

SCP 217 is a Keter Class anomaly also known as The Clockwork Virus.
SCP-217 is a virus, incurable by current means, with a rate of infectivity at 100%. It affects all organisms in the kingdom Animalia, and can be spread via touch or contact with bodily fluid.
SCP217 alters the biochemistry of organic tissue, causing organic matter to re-arrange into a form of “organic metal”.
A subject will begin to turn into a complex arrangement of gears and clockwork, these taking over for the former biological functions.
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[@0Unknowns]

SCP foundation motto: Make everything Euclid and Keter class if possible. If it's safe, let's piss it off until it starts killing.

[@irenecheung4034]

Me to

[@TatsugiriTheFeesh]

Ok

[@Imgone2023]

. .. I can't even argue with this. I'm just waiting for 999 to get turned into a living blob of acid lol

[@arikutin1032]

You forgot the designation of Neutralized.

[@devintheundertalefan5611]

@@arikutin1032 yeah but that's so rare, that it doesn't even matter in the long run

[@orcaman8794]

Did anyone else notice that during the part of the video where they talked about the zombie virus falling into the wrong hands, the non SCP scientists had the Umbrella logo from the Resident Evil games on their coats and building?

[@legeul]

Yup, a nice little touch, although i don't think this is the first time they've used the Umbrella logo for "generic evil scientist group", i feel like i've seen it be used in another video.

[@hotstepper6303]

Yes I did I was also thinking of that

[@lenny9672]

Yeah i was looking for this comment

[@idontknowmyname.1200]

Yeah, neat detail to be honest.

[@warhammer6907]

It's a nice touch.

[@timthetechpriest8876]

The Adeptus Mechanicus: "Why are you saying that as if its a bad thing?"

[@minhducnguyen9276]

The shortsightedness of the organics knows no limit. They denied the blessing of the Omnissiah.

[@cicelypatterson3927]

Dr. Gears: Look at this! A complete description of how this virus infects, corrupts and completely destroys the human brain! SCP Council: Cool! Now burn it

[@andresmarrero8666]

Why did they do that? It is a rather dumb course of action.

[@thewittywitcher0111]

One potential reason could be to stop people from wanting to be infected

[@beasty909]

huh & here i thought they'd keep it & find a way to weaponize it /:

[@stackofpancakes]

My guess is that a lot of the negative symptoms in the document are lies to stop people from purposefully contacting the virus, and the document on how it affects the brain would prove that it actually had little to no side effects. After all, the Church purposefully gives it to their higher members, if it really gave you dementia (which, note, is caused by failure of the brain) it would've caused the Church to collapse.

[@angelaphsiao]

I guess they have to write their way out of letting the fight between the scps and the foundation get too one sided

[@TheQwertt]

It's funny how literally Dr. Gears is involved in most mechanical anomalies

[@mattderogatory4068]

Well when your last name is friction Gears, you’re going to deal with gears! Like with my own last name referring to a field of wheat, and in a story I’m a farmer

[@Iraijus]

Nomen est omen.

[@mattderogatory4068]

@@Iraijus time to look up what that means

[@leviathan6326]

Blood letting was based on "humor theory" and trying to balance the "humors" blood, phlegm, saliva, and urine were thought of as humors needing balanced. So if goute leaking one more than usual them you would want to try to leak others.

[@Hopeitsagood1]

@@cameronrussell7365 oddly enough, i do have one. history is a fun class

[@silent0089]

what's a humor means in that theory? the first time I heard that familiar word really weirded me

[@danswope]

@@silent0089 :each of the four chief fluids of the body (blood, phlegm, yellow bile (choler), and black bile (melancholy)) that were thought to determine a person's physical and mental qualities by the relative proportions in which they were present.

[@clauday6467]

Uu

[@2phones918]

isn't that how George Washington died?

[@yumakuga559]

it crazy how the foundation has so much tech and power on what they could do but still lags behind on most anomalies

[@The-Branch]

It's hard to understand things that simply don't make sense, and without understanding there's bound to be one or two oversights here or there. It makes for a great plot if written correctly.

[@strawberrypencl]

Americans, am I right

[@couldntthinkofaname360]

@@The-Branch Eric’s toy go *worrpgvifhebroto* (referencing the screeches and loud noises it makes)

[@justinw1219]

It's the fault of the writers not fully understanding the material due to the unorthodox manner in which multiple stories are done by different authors with different perspectives. look at how inconsistent the flash became with each season

[@SuiteBid]

@@justinw1219 To coincide with this, the multiple writers means that continuity is practically a non-factor. Different SCP entries can all be considered their own canons, since the Foundation will go from having enough anomalous tech to build the Dragonslayer to struggling to counter a tree kid (because sacrificing kids for the sake of science is totally preferable to just killing it).

[@trevorweisberg8470]

Dr. Gears: Did you hire me for this because of my last name? SCP: it’s not the only reason, but it could be a primary one.

[@laszlonagy02]

I never thought of it that way. It's not even killing you. It just robs you from everything what makes you a human. Your consciousness and your body. Leaving you as just a... soulless machine. And the fact that it's so f*cking slow that it's imposibble to even know where it came from, make it more disturbing. And my phobia from clockwork make it way more disturbing for me personally.

[@shargo498]

Phobia of Clockwork?? How does that work

[@REDW1NG94]

@@shargo498 yeah I didn't even know that existed. Guess there's pretty much a fear for anything at this point🤷‍♂️

[@jeanmarc6517]

It does technically kills you tho

[@guizintheinsect5022]

Ahey,i had an idea about an experiment:try removing someone's brain,turn it immune(in some way) to the clockwork virus and putting it in someone totally infected,does the brain continues made out of flesh or it phisically turns into clockwork but the consciousness continues intact?

[@LordZadrenoss]

to be perfectly honest, I'm not all that fond of being a human (or even an organic, mortal life form) myself. having sentience and sapience is really the only things I really like about being human, but I must admit I'd like there to be a reliable way to rise above even that, and for lack of a better term, shed the things I dislike about being human: i.e. being organic and unable to live forever.

[@MysterAndom]

Im surprised you guys haven’t made this SCP video, but yes!! Thank you for ur daily dosage, SCP explained

[@justinboudreau7335]

The term "daily dose" will always be ruined for me

[@Revolution9machspeed]

What I'm surprised about is HOW DAMN LONG THE INTRO WAS! It was an EIGHT AND A HALF MINUTE INTRO!

[@zephyrim]

@@Revolution9machspeed right??? there was more intro than video, almost.

[@rhodiirodiles2520]

The last 2 years has made me ready for this video, orrr maybe not...I'm feeling a tad metallic

[@pompshuffle562]

Don't you mean... memetic

[@Shad0wBoxxer]

Tic tock goes the clock

[@merikmalhads1676]

Feels like a stabbing pain deep in your innards. Me who has just experienced 3.5years of out of control inflammatory bowel disease: "Hey I know this one, it's a classic"

[@Pistachio_cream]

Ow I feel sorry for you

[@merikmalhads1676]

@@Pistachio_cream Heh don't, I got a good medication that is working now and it's only a 4 year setback. I'll get back to things

[@teenagedouchebag3786]

Good luck buddy

[@MrSailing101]

That's the genuine horror of the SCP, the symptoms are common twitches, pains and aches that people often have.

[@merikmalhads1676]

@@MrSailing101 Well I can 100% confirm that if you haven't had pain like it, you won't be capable of understanding it. I say that because the pain I dealt with was higher than my previous self had imagined was even possible

[@Manny_Plays]

I like how the foundation is reasonable to do what is right but in a wrong way . If the foundation is real I'll really love to join it one day

[@creeptomie]

agreed! i jwould love to just imagine it would be real or maybe it is real but in a alternate universe from ours either the foundation is overall badass

[@shadowsa2b]

You know that even being something like a jr researcher can become extremely dangerous in a hurry, right?

[@Manny_Plays]

@@shadowsa2b I know. I just love it

[@SevyS7]

I'd be Security, probably even MTF, but I'll always wear a gas mask and many other heavy armaments etc so I can almost be survivable to anything

[@Manny_Plays]

@@SevyS7 just don't hope to go fight scp 682 😏

[@KiiXii]

The thought of the scp foundation raiding umbrella and smashing stuff is the most comical thing I can imagine.

[@pufferfish666]

Probably one of my favorite scps out of them all. Also sounds cool to become robotic as well

[@goattranslation]

It basically kills you- but in all, it's a cool scp

[@austincornish4912]

Robots this really cool one

[@vineattacker9841]

SCP-008 : Can’t Even Infect 100 People SCP-217 : Turns People Into Robots SCP-3519 : *MANAGES TO CAUSE COMPLETE CHAOS BY PRANKING PEOPLE ABOUT THE WORLD ENDING*

[@mysteryman720]

Scp 610 left the chat edit:sorry

[@Pqihtyieojn12]

*scp 610

[@mysteryman720]

@@Pqihtyieojn12 yes

[@dragonborn4405]

Love the resident evil reference with the umbrella corperation

[@hornet370]

I love how you included Umbrella, they would most certainly be a big rival to SCP

[@lordpumpkinhead265]

Umbrella would basically be MCD but for viral diseases and not anomalous objects. Same premise, different merchandise.

[@maniacalmurderer4123]

Wesker and Dr. Clef meeting each other for the first time would be an interesting interaction

[@KaiserAfini]

Why is being reconfigured to become more compatible with Mekhane's blueprint seen as a plague ? Hasn't the SCP Foundation ever heard of hollistic upgrades ?

[@dakota227_4]

Because of it being able to be spread.

[@liviquail]

Well, the advanced stages are said to be severely painful and it diminishes your mental state, so it's not exactly a good thing. Plus it has a 100% infection rate, can go undetected for long periods of time, and is currently incurable.

[@rickdiaz427]

It reminds me of the ship of Theseus. A person has his body gradually replaced with mechanical parts, when his entire body is mechanized, will he the same person as before or a complete new being ?

[@KossolaxtheForesworn]

achieve the purity of the blessed machine.

[@animosital1645]

This channel was able to make roughly a sixth of the video not about actual SCPs and instead about real-world cases of viruses and diseases and I still listened.

[@roberto-cm1rb]

Just so ya'll know, the video starts at 8:20

[@gbrown932]

Thanks

[@youhappy3]

i mean u not wrong

[@anthonka]

Actually helped me.

[@heetman12]

damn thank you dude

[@Vopadevas]

Thank you

[@stardust.7507]

Yayyy!! You guys finally made a video on the clockwork virus! I've watched other videos on it before but you guys are always my favorite to come to for my SCP knowledge ☺️

[@steliosfil1192]

i gotta be honest that reference when he threw the virus away and then the virus reappeared behind him was very funny XD

[@zombie_ragex1469]

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, It disgusted me I craved the strength and certainty of steel.

[@L-ghtlessSky]

I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine.

[@Secret0zv]

If the virus didn't make you completely robot and emotionless, then I might actually consider getting infected. It sounds kinda awesome.

[@kiwigaming09]

Bruh it's the perfect soldier who has no Morales can be fixed like a car and is somewhat bullet proof and just how scary would a army of them be slowly marching towards you in sync like clockwork

[@saden_jamuel6097]

@@kiwigaming09 Mann vs Machine theme intensifies

[@kiwigaming09]

@@saden_jamuel6097" Ah your a man of culture as well "

[@fancyspoon718]

I mean, when day breaks..

[@iamafuckingfailure]

"From the moment i understood the weakness of my flesh..."

[@Lewlew97]

2:31 Ahhh my favourite country, Europe. Just joshing, great video as always x

[@tsukiyami7101]

My daily craving the SCP content is fulfilled by you guys

[@stellaclairecreations5036]

I just tapped the like button over and over again just to let him know that we love him and his channel

[@nonono3058]

Came across this as soon as I finished the short talking about Dr.Bright being forbidden from playing with the Victims of 217

[@jamesonweimann4720]

I wonder if the luck virus from red dwarf would be an scp? And yes as the name implies the luck virus makes a person very lucky like somebody says it would be nice if we had this item and you’d just find it on the ground lucky

[@AaronBoat1]

Yeah because in the wrong hands it could kill even billions

[@ireneparkin3360]

What if we use it in SCP-682. Just a thought.

[@timcreations8059]

I wish there was a catgirl virus that would change women into cute catgirls.😸

[@ireneparkin3360]

@@timcreations8059 .... Okay.

[@carllomas4899]

@@timcreations8059 🤨 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷

[@willz8092]

I love when the intro is 8+ minutes long. 😂

[@catdust]

i love that their stance is NO WE WILL NOT LET YOU START THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE!!

[@ashman8891]

05:35 Nice little nod to the Umbrella Corporation ;)

[@zogkuma]

Out of most of the diseases in the SCP universe that I have to be infected by, I'd choose this. It's bad due to you becoming a biomechanical drone, but at least it's not deadly and gross like the flesh that hates.

[@juletid99]

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine. Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved. *For the Machine is Immortal.*

[@rickdiaz427]

Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus

[@telmaromana6034]

praise The Omnissiah

[@juletid99]

Ave Omnissiah.

[@L-ghtlessSky]

Praise Omnissiah.

[@KiwiPaws76]

Yes! One of my favourite scps!

[@magnusgreel275]

I actually forgot I was watching an SCP video during the intro and was interested in just the pandemic education.

[@DREWPRODUCTION]

I always love all you videos they are so awesome and it's just something you can lay back and watch like a movie 🎬

[@randomautobotprime360]

To be honest a society of clock robot organisms doesn’t sound that bad like “Oh you have a broken arm don’t worry I’ll have doctors make you a new one and it’ll be here by next week” and we don’t have to worry about viruses and stuff and we’d still (Somewhat) be human so doesn’t sound too bad

[@jeronimomartinezcalsina7690]

Think about the aztec gold curse, would it still be life if you couldnt eat, smell or feel? The two diferrences is the clockwork virus also erradicates the emotions and cant be cured

[@epsilonarcaneresearch1945]

We've got a live one!

[@lightwulf]

I do wonder what would happen if someone were to be infected by SCP-217 and SCP-610 at the same time.

[@L-ghtlessSky]

Throw 008 in there.

[@reesemartin3285]

Funny thing is when you read up on this SCP. The end of it leave you thinking everyone is infected with it. Telling you joints that crack and creek is a early sign of Infection

[@SCP-S326EWD]

I love that they start describing what the actual SCP is when you already watched half of this video.

[@theabomb8305]

8:34 those look like tech priests from Warhammer 40k. Looks like I have SCP- 217

[@gorillapl6531]

i have waited for this video

[@andresmarrero8666]

Nothing save creating a counter virus that turns silicon based lifeforms into carbon based lifeforms. The use of nanomachines to actively counteract the changes would also be effective.

[@user-ps2sg8qr2k]

This SCP sound appealing when you already heard about 1 = When Day Break

[@Bloodmoon023]

YEEEEES FINALLY

[@doyouknoedawae]

1:14 Virus: YOU THOUGHT U GOT RID OF ME BIH Political Man: Oh god

[@brokentoaster999]

I love the meme refferance at 1:13 (simpsons - Barney thrown out of a pub)

[@mikkelnpetersen]

Someone sneezes in one part of the world, next week a nation on the other side of the world sneezes the same way.

[@unintentionallydramatic]

The fact this video didn't get slapped with an infobox marks the end of an era that lasted far too long.

[@creeptomie]

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS EXACT VIDEO! AAHH, BLESSED MY DAYY

[@lokimischeif]

Me: this is pretty cool I’d like to see that world… Video: you might be a mechanite ready to serve the broken god. Me: ……..I mean the broken god also sounds pretty cool….. *maybe I am a mechanite?*

[@professionalprofessor9033]

Me when it sounded appealing: huh interesting When SCP explained said that if it sounded appealing then i might as well join the Church of the Broken God: ….welp sign me up

[@lyteandronic]

"To find a cure" SCPs 049 and 500: We are the cures

[@BroodingEdgelord]

3 minutes of into... What a way to go.

[@luka-us7wk]

Nice Never gonna give you up Yes you just got rick rolled by a comment :)

[@TheAnimeEncyclopedia]

NEVER GONNA LET YOU DOWN! now you got rickrolled by a reply to owo

[@PrimarisBlackTemplaDraven]

"From the moment I understood the weakness of my Flesh it disscusted me".

[@alexzhao9868]

scp 001: you can't defeat me everyone: yeah I know, but he can *scp 217 appears*

[@kingfairytale4306]

Buddy. You're a genius.

[@evandeenik5824]

I love waking up at 3am to a strange ticking in my ear just to throw this video on

[@grumpymonkeyenterprises6413]

I love this channel so much, the content is infinite for and yet ur the only channel that utilize and produce it while still being true to the source material. This channel really got me into the scp story line.

[@MrMementoMori]

I love anything to do with The Church Of The Broken God. This entry is in my top 10 SCPs.

[@anonymousnoone7035]

Magneto would be perfect for detecting this virus. And dealing with it.

[@irenecheung4034]

Finely i wannted to see this

[@thememer4071]

We got half way through the video before hearing “the clock words virus” once

[@CoffeePowered]

omg please do 4043, it's my fav. i don't know why but it always leaves me feeling warm and fuzzy and hopeful at the end

[@the_jones528]

Video game idea: You play as a victim of the clockwork virus. Your infection springs about some unique results, such as having a hidden dagger in your wrist, or your hand turning into a pistol, and as the game goes on and the infection spreads more, you gain new abilities. The overall objective is to reach SCP-500 and cure yourself.

[@OhSweetNeptune9]

1:13 nice reference

[@willowmcintire21]

What they didn't mention about Rory Jones is that SCP-682 also survived the Quiet Days pandemic and refused to kill him because doing so, "would only bring an end to suffering."

[@dragonimmunity5136]

Ever since you mentioned this I wanted to hear the storie

[@jaredrobinson7071]

I love The SCP stories.... Is it just me though, or does the SCP seem vastly incompetent. We don't even know where most SCP objects originated.

[@einar_476]

They probably know a lot more than is declassified.

[@Jnow796]

being a anomaly also includes materializing out of nowhere, just like an object popping in a videogame or an everyday object or being spontaneously changing to something different. It's basically a glitch in reality.

[@sisters3324]

1:29 The virus it... IT SLAYEDD

[@night3096]

So this fly in my house could be a clockwork fly, I'm hearing annoying ticking noise

[@LordZadrenoss]

if it is an infected fly, you have two options: 1. if you like what the Clockwork Virus does to people, let the fly land on you and embrace the glory of Mekhane. 2. if you don't want to become a machine.... run!

[@night3096]

@@LordZadrenoss 1 it would make a great Halloween look

[@andreaschong3249]

So, Sonic the comic's "Metal Virus" is a real thing, nice! Except it's not nice though

[@Coffiques]

I’ve been waiting for this video!

[@wagnertal]

I was not expecting to be this early

[@lolololfoo3775]

When you have already been feeling all the symptoms for the past 3 years……….. I know it’s heresy but. HUMAN BECOME DETROIT

[@randomguy-rb3fr]

I kinda wanna see the story Unlondon when day light breaks

[@thefallenjedi66]

PRAISE BE THE OMINISIAH!!!!

[@darthjekyll3648]

The broken God is the omnisiah.

[@maddie4834]

GLORY TO PHYREXIA! ALL WILL BE ONE!

[@evanbruneio6208]

It seems like Dr Gears has a thing for working with mechanical related anomalies.

[@shieldsdown227]

it all sounds good until the part where you get dementia and your mind slowly forms into something birthed of unspeakable horror

[@Revolution9machspeed]

I know the intro to each video is getting longer! BUT THIS ONE WAS 8 AND 1/2 MINUTES! You could listen to 3 solid length songs in that amount of time! DAMN!!!!

[@eliotoole4534]

Can it infect plants?

[@ceoofceos5219]

Why does the Foundation and the Mechanite have to keep on fighting, I HAVE TO KNOW WHY!

[@elizabethlaino2798]

This is about to be fire

[@galladegamerletsplays]

scp: the world is going to end in 2019 everyone: wait a year

[@krispyking2450]

8 minutes and 20 seconds just to finish the intro wow name another single scp video made by scp explained video that has a longer intro

[@LeonMcLeon]

5:30 The Umbrella logo from Resident Evil is a nice touch! 👍🏻

[@Manic640]

8:20 into the video Narrator: and this is the scp we will be talking about today

[@arthurmartin4616]

Even though this is an entertainment video, the fact that diseases like polio are on their way out is highly comforting.

[@kjiyere7224]

Alright, not I'm sure you guys are going back and redoing old videos. I got the weirdest sense of deja-vu with the Coffee Machine one.

[@Logan9312]

They talk about the coffee machine in other videos a lot, they just haven’t done it’s own video before

[@not-so-standardprofilepic1887]

“It was broadcasted on radios and television for citizens to prefer dying now than living through the apocalypse.” (It was at this moment that Not-So-Standard profile picture started to realize the similarities between the quiet days virus and the local 58 alien broadcasts.)

[@icebro3457]

This popped into my head. If any of you played tf2 you might be familiar with the red tape recorder. It's purpose is to deconstruct mechanical object such as robots and electronics. So would that work as an effective cure?

[@eddykidplayzyt]

The sapper might have work as well in that case, but it could also just explode the patient

[@jk09345568]

Nice vid. Yep that is The Clockwork Virus.

[@andthatsarap9473]

I love the moe throwing a drunk meme ref.

[@MailmanVR]

Epic

[@GamerLife-ce6ye]

🍔

[@IC_0052]

I like how the scientist at 5:30 had the umbrella corporation logo

[@residentJokeBiden]

I sneezed while watching this, confirmed case

[@cinnamaricat]

being infected sounds like a nightmare 😭