What did SCP-049 do During the Actual Black Plague?
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- Опубліковано 29 січ 2025
- SCP-049 is a Euclid Class anomaly also known as The Plague Doctor.
SCP 049 is a humanoid entity, roughly 1.9 meters in height, which bears the appearance of a medieval plague doctor. While SCP049 appears to be wearing the thick robes and the ceramic mask indicative of that profession, the garments instead seem to have grown out of SCP-049's body over time, and are now nearly indistinguishable from whatever form is beneath them.
SCP-049 will become hostile with individuals it sees as being affected by the Pestilence, often having to be restrained should it encounter such.
SCP-049-2 instances are reanimated corpses that have been operated on by SCP-049.
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SCP-049 doesn't seem evil. He believes that the world is diseased and he tries to cure it the way he knows how. He's one of my favourite of all the SCPs.
I agree
He must learn to cure it in a anther way
Agreed
SCP-049 is probably trying to work on a cure toward the possessive mask and rid the world of its influence. You can't control a human if it's been "cured" (zombified). It won't succumb to the "Possessive Masks" influence, but only to the doctors. Neat.
@@fnafcool6973 yay he not necessary malicious hell he even cooperates with the SCP Foundation it's just the ways he tries to cure people is well death
Honestly, SCP-049 is really misunderstood. He just needs a hug.
*WAIT NO STOP DON'T TOU-*
oh, are you dead? np. 049 can turn you back alive, only, into a zombie
Poor choice of words...
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R.i.p
What flowers do you want at your funeral?
No way, I went as 049 for Halloween. And when I explained the character to some friends, they had this EXACT question
Same, but I didn't tell them who I was because I didn't have the mask and tophat as it was prohibited in my school.
@@goofygoober8991 ohhhh
I dressed as a regular plague doctor, but I knew of 049. My mask was a black leather one, though
@@goofygoober8991 I don't think 049 has a hat
@@mrguy1235 No, he doesn't. He was a hooded robe and a Venetian style white mask, both of which, of course, are part of his exoskeleton
Strangely, he would be the most hardworking and dedicated doctor of the time.
Mhm.
he has some determination
bro is as determined as frisk from undertale
@@Brandogamer293 no, more determined lol
Did u notice when he touched them they didn’t die?
The thing is; he didn't even know what the bubonic plague was when he was interviewed. One of the doctors mentioned it to him, when they were trying to understand what he meant by "The Pestilence", and he just went "I don't know what that is." But this is still fairly interesting. He is, so far, my personal favorite SCP. It's like he's a bit of an anti-hero.
Yet he always seemed to call it the pestilence even during the times where the bubonic plague occured
I seem to recall that the more you question the pestilence, the more he suspects that you have it. So not many people dig too deep against it, lest they become zombies
They didn't call it the Bubonic Plague back then
They called it many things so its possible that he never heard of black plague.
@@tut28Angel Makes sense
I always knew that the Plague Doctor had something against the Possessive Mask, but turns out this conflict goes back further than I thought.
(edited) Wow! I didn't expect to get this many likes. Thank you all so much!
strange that 049 don't remember 035
@@The_Cooler_Statics Not really. He kind knows him because in when the day breaks he knows that he should not put on the mask. I wonder what would happen if he meets scp-343
@@The_Cooler_Statics because all these stories arent canon, that's the whole concept of SCP stuff. Anybody can make a story based on the wiki page
Yeah and I have seen some people ship them i don’t know why but some people actually ship then
@@dastardlyruby74737 Wait. Someone shiped them.
God: Get the ark Noah
This really reminds me of what 049 said on the SCP sedition series interview:
*SCP 049:* 035's hosts appeared nullified of whatever Pestilece had been present prior to death. I attempted to create a synthetic ointment based on its design, but there was something inherent in it's makeup that I could not simulate without keeping the excrement's acidic qualities. By the time my interest had dissolved, I had depeloped a new reputation.
*Jacobs:* How so?
*SCP 049:* 035 had begun a rumour, associating me with the Omen of Death. This image of myself spread faster than a virulent disease. Before long, I was being chased into the streets, out of townships, and across borders. 035 himself spurred on several of the lynch mobs against me. Eastern Europe had been poisoned by his influence, and I knew then that his usefulness had run out.
It was the mid 19th century by now, and cholera had begun to grip Italy upon our return. We reminisced about times past, and eventually led 035 to our first patient. Only the house I took him to had nothad a soul within for many years. I took 035 to the crypt below, convincing him that their sick were being quatantined within. The gullible fool... felt it was very atmospheric. I shut him in and made sure the door could never be opened. That is, until your organisation set him free.
*Jacobs:* Yeah, we regret it too...
I remember that series
Where can I find it?
@@GhostKingDeAngelo UA-cam.
So the plague doctor went from “turns you to dust” to “turns you dead”? Progress!
just give him the time, surely it will work..... right?
Mans was thanos
Yknow The Plague Doctor's relationship with the Foundation would be a lot easier if he'd just DESCRIBE the actual pestilence.
I have literally never understood what is stopping him from sitting down and just explaining himself to the Foundation other than it would make him less scary
Because he is phisically uncappable of explaining it, when he tries to explain it via words he just sturters unnable to say a word and when the Foundation grabbed his jornal to see what he writes about the Pestilance, they just see unintelligable symbles that not even the own Doctor can translate
@Krebo nah its doctor handwriting, mans so old he cant even read it himself.
@Krebo incorrect cause he has a way of telling who does and who doesn't have it and im pretty sure everyone is able to die last time i checked
@@saddictive dunno I haven't died before
We seem to just have fundamentally different perceptions of the same thing. He sees his zombie people as cured, doesn't he?
SCP-049 is one of the friendlier anomalys all things considered
But he kills people for a imaginary illness
oddly that in scp containment breach game he want to cure us with no hesitation at all
without question, im friendly too! :)
@@wish4695 he is kind of unpredictable so it does make sense
@@anunkownuncontainedscp590 how do we know your friendly?
I’m learning about the Middle Ages so I can finally watch SCP explained in my class
Problem is the Plague Doctor's appearance belong firmly in the Renaissance c1600 over a century after the Middle Ages ended.
smart plan
No wonder SCP-049 has his own plush. I love the guy and his stories.
probably the most well known SCP out there, maybe together with 096 and 173
@@anunkownuncontainedscp590 and 106
@@Dante_xy7idk 106
I like this one, it makes a good origin story for both the plague doctor and the possessive mask. In a sense they both created each other, invoking some kind of ancient curse.✌️
The cycle of Zelda, Link and Ganon
Why is it always SCP-049 gets faced with a perilous situation? Why can’t we have “SCP-049 gets treated as an equal by foundation scientists”? Or why can’t we have “SCP-049 has a nice day?” OR WHY CAN’T WE HAVE “SCP-049 FINALLY GETS RELEASED FROM THIS INFERNAL CELL AND AT LONG LAST ACHIEVES THE RESULTS OF HIS LIFE’S WORK”!?
an End of Death scenario where 049 cures the Pestilence, but the Pestilence is every form of death and decay
Păi ar bine Că iar da Drumu Doctorului Ciumei Dacă Ar Ati ce este Aia Ciuma Bubonică dar nu știe și Ar face mult bine dacă ar ști cei Ciuma bubonică Dar nu știe
@@uexkeru The pestilence is one of the mind, hence his obsession with brains and the fact that when his patients are reanimated they appear to carry no cognitive function.
Chill, 049.
Things worked out pretty well for him in the Ikea.
There's a simple way to determine whether or not the pestilence that SCP-049 talks of is real: if SCP-049 states that someone in the foundation has contracted the pestilence, give that person one SCP-500 (without telling the Plague Doctor) if you return the person to SCP-049 and the doctor still claims that the person is sick, then you have proof that the Doctor is lying.
Huh, now thats smart!
The SCP foundation would never waste SCP-500 though.
Genius. However SCP 500 empty
@@dieselfuel8988 no but only twenty something was left if memory Serves me right
@@LostPlaytester i read in an article (ofc there's alot cannon in the SCP verse but this is a huge possibility for all the cannons) the pill actually gets refilled after its empty, they discovered this after the 05 council were fighting over it and when one of them took it, it got refilled and it actually said " infinite refill " on the back, they simply didn't research it's jar enough and only focused on the pill. I read this from, SCP-6001 and SCP 500
I like how everything SCP Explained talks about sounds like a crazy scp, even if it is something as comparatively mundane as a normal disease
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SCP-049 is a very underrated SCP because of his kindness especially compared to others.
The way 035 and 049’s backstory’s intertwine is perfect
it's no surprise when SCP 001 - SCP 049 part 2 once said "You are a villain" he probably meant this. Because in that episode, SCP 035 was also there antagonizing him and given they both have extensive history together, I suppose this aligns to that.
Has Part 1 out? Or this Part 2
query, what if the plague mentioned isn't of the bubonic variety... but of the black contents drunk in that village?
Hope you have a great day & Safe Travels!
This video continues the trend of making me feel very sorry for the poor, misunderstood Doctor
if i had the chance, i would help 049 in his mission to find the cure. but the fact that no one except 049 knowns what the pestilence is, its hard to help him
he's not misunderstood, he's DELUDED. big difference. just because he's not actively malicious like the posessive mask, doenst mean he isn't JUST as deadly if allowed to run loose. Sadly, it's unlikely there will ever be any genuine character development beyond his standard depiction. Status quo and all that.
@@anunkownuncontainedscp590
Hello cousin.
@@o_o-037 i dont think i know you my friend, what is your anomalous power
@@anunkownuncontainedscp590
No comment
An origin story for 049 would be pretty interesting. We know that he tried to be an honest doctor. But what made him into an SCP I wonder? Perhaps he became that way while fighting the mask. Some cure he used on himself to prevent his death. This could explain his extreme disdain for the white mask centuries later.
No wonder 049 has a grudge against 035. Damn. It Sherlock vs Moriarty of the SCP universe.
Can we get a part 2 of this? This would go well into why there is bad blood between these two.
I think this is Part 2...
@Mrhade5 Where?
Plague Doctor: Looking at all the windows.
Plague Doctor: Sees SCP 035
Plague Doctor: That Bish.
Scp-049 during 2020 be like: "Here I go curing again!"
049: “I smell….
P E S T I L E N C E.”
BRIGHT DONT YOU DARE OPEN THAT CONTAINMENT CHAMBER, BRIGHT, *BRIGHT NO*
I have a hypothesis: what if the Plague was created by 035? I have no idea how it got on the boats to Sicily at first, but maybe the mask was on one of them at some point. The black secretions it oozes could correlate to the black boils of the plague, having a corrosive diseased effect. And the way he cured the infected mysteriously? 035 is smart, but I don't think he has such vast medical knowledge, therefore maybe he could cure the plague because he controlled it to begin with. And if so, he didn't heal the farmer or his wife willingly in order to raise suspicion against 049 (as he was present at these points of treatment and these points only) and then framed him by going to the judge and suggesting 049 brought it with him, yet 035 showed up to the village first. 049 felt his methods that worked prior were usurped when 035 was around, so it could stand to reason that 035's presence strengthens the plague because he controls it. He also probably heard of 049 and his great success, and beat him to the village deliberately in order to cause more death AND dethrone 049, eliminating him before he could find a permanent cure. Because, after all, maybe to us the Black Death, despite its mysterious nature in how it appeared and subsequently disappeared so abruptly, is normal, but in the SCP universe, something so lethal and so secretive could almost be... anomalous.
But, I digress, as this is just a theory after all.
Edit: I began typing this comment before I fully finished the video, so obviously some aspects of this are wrong, (e.g. 035 didn't actually expect 049 to show up)
But hey, thats just a theory
@@B-Lux Jesus Christ, thank you, I was waiting for that.
I am beginning to wonder if the Possessive Mask had anything to do with 049's deadly touch. I mean, early in the video 049 was able to touch a patient. And after finding the truth of the mask's long-dead host, the touch of death began.
Fun fact. Plague doctor outfits were actually quite good at keeping disease out
No they weren't lol
@@SSJGengar yes they were lol
@@freezer-monkey No they weren't. You need to refresh your history knowledge.
@@SSJGengar I meant for the time
I actually learned a lot about the Black Death from the starting part
I knew it. I knew that they had a beef long ago. 049 has always been a “hero” in many ways, while 035 is just pure evil
I love SCP-049. He only does what’s best for the world. Even if his methods are not how one would expect, he still does what he can to help.
Now that I think about it, don’t the “infected” people the plague doctor cures have some symptom of the black plague? I have little knowledge about the plague, but it does make some sense. Especially considering the fact that he expects the Foundation to know what the pestilence is, and it’s taught about in most schools
(in the US at least)
He might just not know that it’s been mostly eradicated from the world, and thinks that it’s only spread further with all the time that passed between then and now
only problem here is it's not the bubonic plague, the scp foundation has asked scp-049 if "the pestilence" is the bubonic plague and scp-049 replied with "I don't know what that is".
this is weird because the plague doctor should know about it since he's wearing the outfit of one and has most likely been alive for way longer than that ago.
@@GameCyborgCh To be fair, I don't believe it was known as the "Bubonic Plague" at the time. Probably only known as the "Black Death"
@@CGOLChris sure but after asking "do you mean the bubonic plague?" and getting a "idk" for an answer you would ask it by it's alternative names
@@GameCyborgCh With how dumb the Foundation is times, it wouldn't surprise me if they didn't
@@CGOLChris true
The Foundation: "WHAT IS THE PESTILENCE!?"
Constipation: ".... Allow me to introduce myself"
so scp 049 was actully a good person back then? man i wish i knew him back then before he started thinking everyone was infected
Black Plague raged from 1347 to 1352. The bird-shaped Plague Doctor outfit was imagined by Charles de Lormes - king of France Louis XIII's personal doctor - during the 1619 plague outbreak in Paris (because even if none had the same amplitude than the Black Death there were plague outbreaks in Europe until WW2) and was used until the XVIIIth century. The doctors already had special outfit to protect themselves against the plague, working on the same principles, but they weren't shaped like bird.
Meaning that, if SCP-049 already was around in the Black Plague, he followed medical researches about the plague at least until the XVIIth century, so during at least 2 centuries
thank you for this!
This got me thinking recently.
Recently, I have been reading some fanfic that is not SCP and some words caught my interest.
People in the Doctor's time feared the diseases as they were a severe epidemic back then. Nowadays, these diseases were a more common annoyance or misfortune, from coughs, to fevers, etc.
I do not know how many others thought of this but...The Plague Doctor must be forever stuck.
It's not just because of his appearance, but his knowledge of medication, diseases, and others are forever chained to the times of the 1300s or below. It's either he never knew the new ways of healing or his mind couldn't adapt far from the knowledge and skills he currently possesses
But this is just a theory.
A SCP THEORY
But, thats just a theory. A FILM theory.
I think it's far more likely that as medicine evolved in the world so too did the plague doctors knowledge. He even say in the video that he was willing to learn from the masked man when his patients kept dying so I think a similar case would happen here.
035 gives big antagonist energy. The classic rival of 049, yet not exactly the most dangerous.
Can we please have more animated readings? You haven’t done any in a long time
What if you put SCP-049 through medical school if he's so open to learning new medical procedures and methods and theories.
Thanks!
POG
That thumbnail is wild
SCP-049 is probably a really chill and knowledgeable guy that just wants to get rid of sickness.
Very interesting concept, as always.
The thumbnail scares me, 035 can't be THAT EVIL, right, right..?
You have no idea how evil it truly is
@@BleachFan9891 Yet, it is still affect by SCP-999
@@andytaker3073 holy now that was evil, I completely forgot about that
It can. :)
@@ignite015 Yes it can :)
049 will always protect the public and the private. That mask…
He’s crazy
yep
@@anunkownuncontainedscp590 I didn’t even finish the video and I have a feeling the mask has something to do with the sick
@@JoJo-fan-right-here no, the mask is just crazy, like you said
@@anunkownuncontainedscp590 that’s what I’m saying
I just realized. Since scp-035 kind of reminds me of the joker and how he kind of is like the joker. His relationship with scp-049 is kind of like how Batman and Joker's relationship is like
Fun fact some of the herbs used in the beak of the plague doctor masks actually had antibacterial properties, so it kinda worked actually.
Actually fantastic episode, i think we've all been wondering about this
Having recently watched SCP Sedition, and hearing 035 talk about a possible relationship between it and 049, I just wanted to say that the thumbnail for this video caught me off guard.
SCP-049 just managed to beat up SCP-035 by pushing, this is why the possessive mask shouldn't possess a skeleton body. Also, how did Plague Doc got the death touch? Could it be the plague?
049's treatment is pretty much like the other doctors at that time.
It is an anachronism though, as the plague doctor outfit didn't exist during the Great Plague of the 14th century. It was only mentioned for the first time during the 1619 plague outbreak in Paris.
Nobody is going to talk about the 682 plush that was just dropped? XD he's adorable!
i can only imagine a scene where a giant mob is chasing 049, yet he just casually walks away despite everything going on
Hold on. So scp-049’s touch wasn’t always deadly? He was shaking hands with a king perfectly fine.
SAMW
I think he can activate it it's like a power when he's not using it he can touch people without killing them
@@darthbane418no that’s wrong it’s said multiple times that it’s a passive thing and that he can’t control it it’s just an animation error
Maybe he got cursed??
I thought that was weird too. 2/3 people he touches in this episode don’t die. (Distilled spirits dude and that king) and then the judge does at the end? Also it shows the Dr without gloves on, but his “gloves” are a part of his “skin”.
Alright, I know this is off topic but I have question.. Why doesn't the foundation put SCP-173 in a mirror room when testing is not scheduled for SCP-173? I find it a little interesting how the foundation secures anomalies.. But doesn't protect them?
Its been a while since i saw a scp explained and left wondering more than i started with. I've heard these two knew each other, from this period this is the first time it was delved into.
I think he would’ve helped out as many people he could.
Fun fact: The recognizable plague doctor outfit was actually designed in France in 1619, and popularised by its inclusion in the venetian carnivals.
Despite SCP-049 being one of the dangerous anomalies thats held in Heavy Containment, he isn't all that evil. Just a man who is trying to cure people of the Pestilience.
my history teacher put this on not realising it was an scp video...
What a wonderful scenario, thanks for this thing .
In this town SCP 49 somehow gains his death's touch probably a curse casted upon from SCP 35. Hmm makes me wonder what would happen if we put the two of them into a room together now.
I guess the plague doctor uniform kind of did provide some level of protection, so they did not have to touch them and the beak kind of being like a face mask?
That's exactly it.
That will be a interesting story since even though he looks like a plague doctor, scp 049 never heard about the black death and has no idea what it is. (at least according to my knowledge correct if wrong please)
I’m not sure what the possessive mask is doing there, but here we are, I guess
049: I was around for a long time now! Also 049: WHAT'S A BLACK DEATH?
5:20 I can just imagine scp 049 running up behind 035 and just yelling out: "YOU!! GET BACK HERE YOU FAKE PHYSICION! YOU STOLE MY BAG AND MY BACK UP CLOTHES, AND NOW YOU CALL YOURSELF A DOCTOR?!" Or at 7:18 scp 049 looking at him and just saying "You..." in a menacing tone XD
Edit: funny thing I went a scp 049 for halloween and many people didn't know what a plauge doctor was XD (my brother was scp 035)
Steal his secondarily uniform.
@@Dante_xy7 LOL
In all honesty this story would do perfect for a movie, I really loved it!
“Their ain’t enough room for 2 doctors in this town!” *referring to the thumbnail*
So, something that confuses me about the Ol' Doc. Is his death touch optional, like can he choose when he kills with his death touch, or is it something he doesn't have control over? Also, is it only his hands which can kill?
I’m pretty sure it’s optional but I could be wrong
Finally, I’ve really wanted to know this
“Fortnight” I can just imagine the villagers and the doctors playing lol
SCP-049 the plague doctor was cursed by SCP-035. He can no longer feel the touch of skin. Instead he kills people by touching.
Poor guy
I adore stories of scp 049, I hope to see more of him 🥺❤️
The goalball coalition 🆚 SCP 3288 aristocrats
The chaos insurgency 🆚 scp-001 the factory
Marshall Carter and dark 🆚 SCP 001 when DAY breaks
Goalball i think you meant Global Occult Coalition
Scp-035 during the sedetion interview: "Oh 049 and I we are lovers, we travelled together and tried to cure the infected"
Scp-049 during the sedetion interview: "He stalked me, abused me, attacked me, Blackmailed me, tried to manipulate me, and constantly harrased me, since the moment I first met that thing my life has been hell, dont put me near that thing EVER"
17:58
The Plague Doctor isn't wearing his gloves.
Wonder why though...
He thinks that the gloves where dangerous
049 is my favorite. I’d be his lab assistant.
1:56 SCP-3760 Like a Doll's eyes
I want to know if they'll ever do a video on what the mask(black lord of alagada) did to SCP-049 and it's mother and how he ended up in our world without any recollection of his time in alagada
Yeah SCP 049 is my personal favorite as well he just wanted to help people.
hunter how dare you have such good voice acting?
So wait, if scp 343 knows basically everything, couldn’t we just ask him what the pestilence is? Because 049 just refuses to tell us
I'm dressing as a Black Plague Doctor for Halloween. Great animation 👍👍
Major correction - the plague doctor outfit described didn't appear until shortly before 1619 nearly 300 years after the Black Death first arrived in Europe.
Cool
I kind of forgot I was watching an SCP video at the first 2 minutes. i love this channel, and i am stoned
Well this answers some questions but gave another million more.
049 is genuinely a caring doctor but I think this event must've messed up his mind about what the Pestilence even is anymore.
The fact if 049 learns the actual pestilience Aka terminal illnesses and deadly illness he could actually save lots of people
Thank you for answer my question this night i can sleep with a smile
it honestly seems like the possessive mask cursed / drove the doctor mad and that's why, today, he goes after people
It would be an interesting concept that pestilence 049 speaks of, was the ooze that came from the Possessive Mask - but why doesn't clear it out that he means is the Corrosive Ooze from it?
This video deserves a sequel (or part 2)
The video did provide some of the information for both of the possessive mask and the plague doctor share history it even brings up the location of where the possessive mask was locked away until the day when the scp foundation both found him and freed him witch the foundation would later regret also in that same the plague doctor was shock to hear that the site that he was being moved to is the same site that scp-035 is at he later told the doctor who was being interviewed at time I hope that they don't put us in the same room witch his way of requesting that they should not scp-049 and scp-035 in the same room for more information about their share history watch scp foundation interview with scp-049 be sure to look for the video with the plague doctor on the title card when you try to find the video in question it will be the second video below the top one as the one the above that one is just the doctors playing a game of 20 questions with him just go to the one below that one
This dude made the Black Plague sound like an scp
I’m sorry but the thumbnail’s looking kinda sus 😭
Cool video!
thumbnail made me fail november
This is what I came to see! Yes 049 content!
So if i am correct, 035 must have lost the power to infect, yet since they're in the same site, that could be what the plague doctor senses
I wanna see what if video where posessive mask takes one of scp-049's zombie as his body.