 Ahoy hoy and welcome to the channel. I'm dr. Sumerian not a real doctor and today We're going to talk about something that was surprising to me. I a couple of days ago was thinking in The shower about what kind of videos I could do to kind of change the trajectory the downward trajectory of the channel And one of the things I thought of was of course like you know people like lists of Things and I was like, okay. Well, what kind of lists most popular SCPs have been done done and done again Might actually do something along those lines at some point But you know what would be interesting is what are the most popular SCP? characters not SCPs and Then I was like, oh, of course, you know Dr. Brides first and then maybe it's gears and cleft for second Then who goes down on the list after that basically it was basically it was The impetus for this video was the question Who's the third most popular because I felt like I knew who was going to be first and second as it turns out I Was wrong Now when we talk about popularity, I'm not talking about like Who talks about them the most or who has the most memes made about them I'm talking about on the wiki and I think this is a very strong reflection of someone's of a character's popularity how many articles Contain that character and this is actually easy to determine because the scp wiki has tags for characters, especially commonly and well-used ones So you can look up care you can look up articles by tags and then just count the articles so I did that for Every character on the scp wiki actually that has a character tag Which requires at least five articles. I believe by three authors Although they may be restricting that or changing that so it's just five articles at this point This is something that I looked into and I did the it took about 50 minutes, but I did some manual Work and eventually I got a I got a solid ranking down and I was very surprised And I think you'll be surprised as well as to who's number one But we're gonna start at number 10 and I will be clear here even though I filtered by character tags I removed The ones that were purely SCPs specifically in this listing since we're only doing a top 10 the only ones that were removed were Abel and The hard to kill reptile Both of which are primarily SCPs and this is not an SCP list. This is a character list. Yes They can be characters But it's not quite what I was going for for this list and we may do a Top SCPs thing later, but for now, that's not what we're doing. So who's number 10 We'll do this in the announcement voice right number 10 number 10 is Datto and Dr. Sumerian how's that pot the tide? They're not related to each other. They're just tied Both the doc care and I say this is you know, I'm dr. Sumerian the character on the wiki dr. Sumerian Has 52 articles and so does datto and what we're gonna do is we're gonna cover Well, we're gonna cover dr. Sumerian first. Why not? Dr. Sumerian was first written in it looks like October of 2014 so about two ish months after our first started writing for the wiki if you look at the earliest article he features in its SCP 978's extended test logs, but that's just because he was edited in later. So technically that doesn't count He's not he didn't originate in 2009 he originated in 2014 and he's sort of in the middle a ground between everything because all the rest were written first in 2008 and the and datto and the ninth rank were all written in 29 or 2018 So there's two really new ones one Old one and then eight really really old ones and My character is the old one. It's one in the middle 2014. I Wrote the funny thing is is dr. Sumerian was not originally supposed to be the author avatar character I was writing for the wiki the very first character that I wrote that was really sort of a Authorial almost an authorial answer. They're none of them really are but for me the closest was probably Philip Foster who was in the very first or second tale I wrote and Yeah, he was Supposed to be my representation on the wiki and then I wrote a dr. Sumerian into who I at that point I think I'd already decided he was gonna be on the ethics committee Which made me think that hit myself that he was gonna be into the arts and that was gonna be where some some of his Education was in the arts and then I Needed a character to notice The names of the end at the time I thought of the foundation as a very science-y sort of thing But I needed a character who would notice that these were God names from some Esoteric group that most people wouldn't recognize And Dr. Sumerian was that thing and then I wrote then there were other tales that got written The the third tale featuring the character was written by somebody who wasn't me And then he shows up in one of my most popular early tales called Technicolor Geography By the way, they're not all gonna be this detailed. This one's particularly detailed because I wrote it So there's that What we come down to here though Is that as a character Dr. Sumerian very much became you know the me of the scp wiki He's not an author insert Because he's very different from me as a character dr. Sumerian and just as an example and this is like that's not a character trait But it kind of is um I'm a teetotaler. I don't drink alcohol at all don't know drugs nothing, right? Sumerian on the other hand is a alcoholic who Has tried every drug under the sun and uh, Dr. Sumerian went to college. I didn't do that either He's a different person entirely And he's been developed as well. It's important to note it that a lot of Recent characters are all written by the same authors Whereas Sumerian Is most well not even mostly I think I think about 30 to 40 of the tales and scp's that feature dr. Sumerian were written by me but that leaves 70 to 60 percent that are written by other people And that's important for creating a character that actually works when the scp wiki Having it be written by people who aren't you because if it's only you that's great And you're you know, that's one thing once it begins being written by other people Then I feel as though you finally arrived at having a character that can be used Uh, but then we move on to dato and dato is ridiculous Uh, the original author of dato is DJ cactus and it's from the silliest article weirdly As he's been developed later on as to be a completely silly and ridiculous individual Dato was being contracted to kill a person in the first article he appears in And I believe he Succeeds at that or at least the method by which he decides he's gonna kill somebody Is gonna kill him he's gonna Poison them radio activity of all of the bananas Not not all of the bananas, but A lot and dj. I mean he jk has wrote this amazingly funny really fun article Uh, and and it just sort of grew from there because it's uh, you know And the titles of the scp's are great too Forced banana equivalent dose by dato waste management by dato youth in asia As in the youth in asia by dato tan and laundry by dato Hair growth by dato and it's basically just hey, what if something was really really powerful and really And actually maybe even really really smart, but also constantly Got your Got your order wrong Then just rolls from there and it is just an amazing Uh piece the very first one was written in the beginning of 2018. So it's not even three years old Um, actually it's more than three years old math And it's been written 50. So he's you know in four last year in four Last years. He's actually gotten to the same point that samarian's and so What I think he's probably more popular at this point He'll and they'll be content. There will always be daddos. There will always be dato articles because it's fun Uh, and it's not just written by cc dj cactus dj cactus writes a few of these but not all of them And that's our number 10 slot shared between me and dato Yeah, that's a thing Me it's not me. Oh put that way The character dodgers wearing and me are not the same person, but It's complicated when you that's the online moniker, which would you go by but Now we're going to move on to number nine another relatively new one That is fail and wilson of wilson's wildlife now I am not as familiar with fail and wilson as some of the other Uh characters on this list, but I can tell you that the driving force behind fail and wilson Uh is a writer called uncle nickolini who is one of the more prolific writers on the sdp wiki He's in the top 10 of prolific writers. So I think he might even be top five at this point um, and he began the Riding of these of this particular character and Um, I think even I wrote. Yeah As part of yeah So there's an sdp called this but I can only talk about I are not only but I can talk about the stuff that I know about the life and times of chairman meow and the wuftang clan. So wilson wildlife Is a goi that handles anomalous animals and uh, yeah, so when I wrote an art, I believe This was a I think this might have been Either a challenge or a christmas gift Seems like it was posted at the wrong time of the year for it to be a christmas gift. So I don't know for sure um There's a gift exchange on the wiki and I know I was asked to write an article That involved fail when wilson. So I did and that's the life and times of chairman meow and the wuftang clan Uh, which is about a talking cat and dog And uh, I included a mention of wilson's while life and eventually fail when wilson as well. Um, just to Basically include that character Uh, and it worked into the narrative because we're talking about anomalous animals. Let me put this way I wrote an article about anomalous animals because I knew that I could include fail when wilson and wilson wildlife Let's put that way I don't know a lot about fail and wilson We'll put that way Next up is dr. Kendracky Dr. Kendracky is originated from dr. Kendracky It says here that the first article including him is iceberg sevens article um and then like Half a month later a couple weeks later. Kendracky and clef wrote incident two three nine b clef Kendracky um Dr. Kendracky is a very Old character that doesn't see a lot of use anymore now when the bottle dick Canon was a thing it There's no real way to talk about it in a way that doesn't when that was a thing they Resurrected kendracky a little bit. He showed up in some Resurrection stuff I believe and additionally I've written him into A couple of my own articles or not articles but tales as well specifically in the old west canon that I created um And dr. Kendracky dies and gets kind of kicked out as sort of a symbolic That's the best way to put this and we're talking about these only as characters by the way The people who are behind them I'll tell you who's behind them, but I'm not going to talk about dr. Kendracky the person Uh, if I do we would get this would get way too long and way too controversial Uh for a lot of these characters But uh, yeah, we'll talk about the characters because once you write it for the wiki and as you can as I can You can see as I can see here Like kendracky only wrote like three of these tales and there are 60 so like This belonged to kendracky the person. He's a character of his own um But kendracky was sort of killed off in symbolic ways In a way that kind of reflected the scp wiki's departure from the All powerful doctors doing whatever the fuck they want tropes that Uh Kind of govern the early parts of the scp foundation's writing Um after duke basically in a lot of canonical representations Uh kendracky is dead after duke till dawn when he does this thing where he decides he's going to write scp 682 out of the uh Out of the site basically When dr. Kendracky decides he's going to ride scp 682 and uses a And containment breach that kills a bunch of people as an excuse to do it That's sort of the end of dr. Kendracky. It's it's played for laughs. There's lots of jokes involved in that article, but also That is the last time in a most canonical representations of the character that he shows up Uh, there are future again resurrection and Both resurrection and the dick in a bottle Uh canons do involve future stuff involving kendracky and there are other tales that involve them, but in a sort of general Canonical sense like there's a general canon on the wiki if that makes any sense Uh kendracky is dead like for most people and now number seven dr. Light who i Am less familiar with the funny thing is dr. Light Whilst originating in 2008 Did not originate with sophia light the person who eventually it's sort of based around Um, it's in 19 or I believe she shows up I'm not actually a hundred percent sure that this is she was in the original But she's definitely in scp 166 is Rewritten version and she's in uh quite a few other Uh, well not quite a few just a few other early articles Where dr. Light comes into her own Is this sort of a core character in The resurrection canon which is a lot of articles and also influenced a lot of articles that other people wrote later She is basically in charge of the project if memory serves And uh, that has led to the reason why she has 64 articles, uh written, uh about her So we're gonna move on and again all of these are, uh, originated in 2008 by the way Yeah, cain pathos crow Who despite the name it's actually a dog uh Actually quite like, uh the character of cain pathos crow is a very hyper competent dog doctor Uh, but it does show a little bit of the ridiculousness of the early scp foundation Just on the edges like not that this wouldn't happen now I'm sure that people would come up with this kind of stuff Now but also that's a little ridiculous Uh, man, yeah, but that's our number six pic right here You would think a, uh, sentient talking, uh dog considering how people on the internet tend to, uh, Talk to be like huge fans of animals would be you know more What's the word i'm looking for, uh popular than this but here we are Ah, yes, this one was one that I had some difficulties Deciding if I was going to include or not first of all and second of all this one has an arguable We're not arguable, but um, um, actually yes arguable core origination so Number five is the scarlet king And I say the scarlet king starts or the scarlet king originates in 2008 because scp 231 Is the original article where the scarlet king comes out of But he's not technically a character in it. So if you look at the list of articles That involve the scarlet king in some way enough to by the way in order to be tagged With a character tag the character needs to be more than just like an offhand mention You can't just say the word dr. Sumerian for example and then be like, all right Let's tag up dr. Sumerian the character needs to be present and needs to participate in some way in the story So officially he's not tagged on scp 231, but he shows up in 231 However, I don't see any other articles featuring the scarlet king until 2012 after that So whilst he originated back then he is his current incarnation and understandings of him Are somewhat newer than the other characters on this. Well, not all the other characters on this but the More new or I should say more of the original characters on this list still old but not quite as old and Honestly, despite the fact that 231 I believe is clefs, baby Dijorek is really the one who drove early writings on the scarlet king outside of 231 And I mean other characters picked it up. You've got cactus on here. You've got deadly moose twisted gears Dijorek Dijorek again and so on in more recent years. You see people like uranium empire have written on this topic And and you keep going you'll find more and more characters Or I should say more and more writers writing this character Um, I don't think we need to talk too much about who the scarlet king is because I think we all know this and again This was questionable to me because this is technically an scp But he's not assigned an scp number 231 is not the scarlet king So I decided to go ahead and leave him in as a character I think there's a little bit of a nebulousness between The scarlet king and another one on this list that we're about to get to But for the moment, yeah scarlet king number five the most popular characters on the scp wiki number four the most pop the fourth most popular character on the scp wiki Is one that I'm actually kind of like I find ridiculous that it's on this list and almost didn't include but it still technically fits my criteria The administrator and you might be like what's the problem with that? Well, the administrator in most of the stories in which he features isn't really a character He's just Like more of a force of nature than he's a character But that's also true the scarlet king when I was a little bit effing on the scarlet king too. So it's like Not and not to the level of scarlet king But references to him are always like very minor and to the side like if he participates It's like maybe one line here at most There aren't Articles there are some Certainly there aren't many articles that focus on the administrator as a character He's always tertiary. He's always on the side and that Just what I'm saying like does that really count? Yes, it does Uh, he features in 93 articles So Yeah, a lot But he's probably one of the least developed and least like Included characters and the articles in which he features But now we're getting down to the nitty gritty number three And we know we haven't said bright. We haven't said class and we haven't said gears yet And these are really popular especially with offsite fandoms But what order are they in? Well, number three is gears Yeah gears it's double check when he was originally posted and by who I would assume gears, but I don't know Yeah In 2008 by dr gears. He was also written by uh cane pathos crow the author and then gears again and so on In recent years, he's showed up in some other articles But there's been no like strong I mean a little bit. There's no strong thread like a particular author who's picked it up Well, no, that's not true. Technically it looks like trial had a whole series that included him. So that's a thing um, dr gears is a character who is very emotionally Detached the idea is that he's more robot than man, but he's not technically a robot um And he features in 114 Uh articles which just for the record our number 10 slot me or my character dr. Sumerian and datto We're in 52. So this is already more than twice as many as the ones at the end of the list Just to keep in that and keep kind of keep some scope in mind And dr gears is a cold and less than, uh Emotional character who acts more like a robot than a person and that's generally his portrayal on the wiki which gives him a nice Uh Niche to fill for stories. You need a character who has no emotional reaction to something a data android type character or spock Throw any gears. In fact, there's an I wonder if there's an argument to be made that cleft gears and uh Bright fulfill the kirk spock and mccoy rolls Huh, you do a whole video on that and maybe I will anyway That's it. That's number three. Now. This is the part that's going to surprise you, right? Because if you're like me you might have considered Dr. Bright to be the most popular character on the wiki, but he isn't He's number two And dr. Bright's first article was in scp 963 and this is another one where we'd be like, isn't he technically an scp? Yes, but he's dr. Bright calmed down I've made an exception Technically he is an scp because he well the character and the necklace are different things I think I think there's enough of a differentiation to make that difference But scp 963 is his necklace and it's the first article featuring dr. Bright and It was written by well this character name. I was at men bright. He used to be dr. Bright And it was the duck man and now it's at men bright Uh, and that's the person who originated the character. It has been written a lot by bright In he's features. He features in everything. Oh, not everything, but he features in so many different articles Um a total of 157 so even even Bigger jump from our last one he features in very popular articles like dr. Bright Is no longer allowed to use temporal anomalies in order to travel back in time so he can kill hitler Whoever wrote that's uh Great writer. I'm I'm to understand and and a few others uh Yeah, and he originated in 2008 like most of the rest of these and he's kind of If scp 173 is the mascot of the scp foundation, I think dr. Bright is the uh the employee I don't I refuse to want to call him the employee of the month, but the guy on the employee Employment brochure that's like hey work for us and look like this and this is the guy that you could be um, he's the architect archetypical doctor the character that when you read even Me and even people who today are like dr. Bright's a terrible character Which you'll find a lot of people on the wikis think and say that but even with those people you're dealing with you know A character that's so so many other people Read on the wiki and are like I would love to have a character like that. That's that popular Whether the quality or not as high who cares. I want something that popular And you know what leave people alone for wanting what they want. That's all I'm saying But number one Is dr. Clef It's not much of an explanation needed for bright and clef I think we both we all know that dr. Bright is you know uh Hey, hey, hey, you know was is essentially a necklace that you put on people and then it strips of personality But then you've got dr. Clef who is kind of a basic bitch He has 188 articles but like He's the most Normal of the three I would say like dr. Gears seems like he's the most normal because he is You know emotionalist and just kind of does his job dr. Clef's just a guy I mean there's some uh in some stories. He's anomalous We're like the picture thing in some stories and of course the fact that he's supposed to be immune to anomalies in certain other stories But a lot of a lot of the stories you're gonna tell he's just a dude who It's good with a shotgun used to work for the goc. That's about it I mean Ultimately, I'm surprised to find that I mean maybe I shouldn't be as one of the oldest Uh, it was one of the oldest characters who is kind of basic It makes sense that he would show up in more articles than any of the rest because he's the easiest one to use You need a doctor who is known to be competent You throw in dr. Clef and the very first article including him is the scp 166, which is by dr. Clef and then the clef kondracky incident which is where clef Or no kondracky breaks dr. Clef's neck and then a few other ones. Um, yeah So that's our list. Let's uh go over it again just to so that we can say it out loud so tied for number uh number 10 dr. Sumerian and dato and then nine Is failin wilson and then eight is dr. Kondracky Seven is dr. Light Eight no six is I can count leave me alone Uh cane pathos crow and then five is the scarlet king Four is the administrator and then three dr. Gears Two dr. Bright and one is dr. Clef Thank you very much for watching if you'd like me to do more like sort of Investing or not investigations, but deep dives in or maybe I could do a deep dives in on each of these characters individually their origins who's written them And uh, like who they are as characters in general. Um, maybe that's a good that's a good idea for some videos I could do later But uh hit the subscribe button and hit the notification bell next to that So you're notified when I upload new videos and then Head on over to patreon.com forward slash d. 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