O5 Council

The O5 Council, also known as the O5 Command, the Overseers, or the Overwatch, is an overarching on-and-off faction in the series. It is the ruling body of the SCP Foundation, consisting of 13 individuals who are widely regarded, and rightfully so, as among the most powerful, if not the most powerful, and influential individuals on the planet to the point where they could outright alter history itself if they so wished. They keep watch over everything and everyone that has a certain experience and history dealing with anomalous entities and objects.
The O5 Council plays an important role in the "Resurrection" and "No Return" canons and is the main antagonist in the "Ouroboros Cycle" series.
== Organization ==
Being the Overseers of the Foundation, more specifically being the head of the the Administrative Department, they have unlimited access to all information about anomalies and Foundation operations. Due to their nature, they can be either allies or antagonists, although they have very questionable morals to the point of outright malevolence. They have ultimate control over the Foundation and all its operations. They are so secretive and unknown that many people, even ones with a high seat in society, dismiss them as a myth. According to SCP-001 (WJS Proposal), a document that describes what counts as anomalous or not, it is the Council who decides which objects and people should be considered anomalous and contained, although they express that they do this to not only protect the world from the anomalies but to also protect those same anomalies from the dangers of the outside world as the Council secretly love the anomalous.
The members of the O5 Council are unknown as they could be practically anyone, especially those with a high position of power in the world. Each O5 member knows almost everything there is to know about the Foundation and its activities. Between them all, they know almost every single secret that the Foundation holds. Most Foundation personnel spend their entire careers without seeing them. Members below Clearance Level 2 do not even know they exist. Most people outside the Foundation have never heard of them, and even dismiss them as being not real at all, mostly as a way to keep people in line out of fear. Even if they are real, Foundation personnel do not even believe that they are human. 
While no one knows this for sure, it is purported that the O5 Council is comprised of humans, although, some of them could be humans whilst the rest are not. A minority of the O5 Council may have anomalous abilities or traits if reports are to be believed, but it is generally believed that none of the O5 Council are reality benders, and most of them are simply human. 
The O5s rarely intervene in the day-to-day processes of the Foundation or the containment of SCP objects. They tend to keep an eye on Keter-Class objects, and practically micromanage Thaumiels. O5 Council members are officially barred from coming into contact with any anomalous entities. This is, naturally, not strictly true in practice. At a minimum, all O5 Council members of sufficient tenure have access to SCP-006. And that aside, O5s tend to be able to bend rules, even their own rules.
Some reports suggest that the O5s regularly switch numbers with each other and that they make common use of body doubles and other security and disinformation techniques.
The Council gathers and hold meetings inside the Protected Site-01, a highly classified and impenetrable Foundation facility, also known as Building T-01 and O5 Command, in an undisclosed location (although it is stated to be located either underground beneath the Sabattis Christian Parish in Hamilton County, New York State or 75 kilometers north of Kraków, Poland) where some of the Council members and their staff presumably live.
== Ranks and Structure ==
The Council is comprised of the only personnel who were granted the Level 5 clearance which allows them unlimited access to all Foundation matters. This Security Clearance Level is not restricted to the Council as certain staff selected by the O5 could be granted this level. These personnel include Mobile Task Force Alpha-1, AKA the Red Right Hand, personal staff and secretaries. The MTF is very close to the Council, taking direct orders from individual members and serving as personal bodyguards. Staff can join the O5 Council through promotion, but can also just usurp the members' positions.
Other personal staff are known as Factotums who have been selected by the Council. These were chosen for their fanatical loyalty and act as personal assistants, bodyguards and decoys, disguising themselves as the actual O5 members. It is suspected that these Factotums have anomalous powers which they received with approval from the Council in order to perfectly mimic their assigned O5 member.
Despite the Council holding its power with a tight grip, the O5s delegate many of their tasks to lower personnel. This body of personnel is known as either the Site Directors’ Council, the Site Directors' Executive Committee of the Whole or the O4 Council, the latter not to be confused with the O4 Command. This body is often tasked with broader or minor matters that the Council doesn't want to bother. However, this body may have the power to outright overthrow the Council if it goes AWOL, or as a vice council in the case something happened to the Council and have to keep the Foundation running in its absence.
The exact relationship between the Council and the Ethics Committee is largely unknown. Although it is believed that the Committee served to oversee the decision taken by the Council, it is also possible that the Committee could overthrow and dispose the Council.
The Council is not the only body in charge of the Foundation as numerous reports indicate the existence of the Administrator, a position above that of the Council. Just like with the Council, the Administrator is also shrouded in complete mystery. Various Administrators have been recorded, but one common person associated with the position often surfaces with the name F. Williams or other names derived from it.
==Members==
The various members and iterations of the O5 Council observed from throughout the multiverse. They may all exist in one continuity, or each existed in their respective reality.
Overseer Position	Notable Individuals 	Description
O5-1 	The Founder 	A long-lived physicist and occultist named Aaron Siegel from the Cornell University who helped form the Foundation and may have fathered Dr. Gears.
O5-1 	The Man With The Infinity Gun 	The project head of SCP-001 (djkaktus's Proposal) who used the anomaly to kill the then current Administrator before going onto form the Chaos Insurgency. The same man as Aaron Siegel.
O5-1 	The Dead Man 	A living mummy only kept alive through anomalous means and sheer will, never appeared in public and was dreaded by his fellow Overseers.
O5-1 	Eve 	The Biblical Eve, Adam's third wife and possible mother of SCP-073 and SCP-076-2, who led humanity out of Eden in the past and was immune to the effects of reality-bending. Possible founding member, though she had been seen with the Founder.
O5-1 	The Visionary 	A former member of Her Majesty's Foundation for the Secure Containment of the Paranormal from the timeline before SCP-001 (Wrong Proposal).
O5-1 	The Usurper 	A former Insurgency operative who after assassinating the entirety of the previous Council was forced to replace it with his own iteration to contain the idea of the Administrator.
O5-2 	The Gardener 	An elderly alternate version of Dr. Sophia Light from a previous iteration of the universe before it had reset. One of the more pragmatic members who wished to breakdown the anomalous objects and was often accompanied by an elderly man, either another version of a Foundation employee or O5-1.
O5-2 	The Nazarene 	Another version of Sophia Light who in an alternate timeline became known as Jesus of Nazareth before being crucified though she survived. She appeared to have reality-bending powers and was possibly the head of the Department of Morality, the Ethics Committee's precursor.
O5-2 	The Way 	A male version of Dr. Light named Stefan Light accompanied by his bodyguard and lover, a female version of Agent Troy Lament named Tracy. He had tried to have anomalies that had been understood be released in the public, despite their alien nature.
O5-2 	He Who Waits 	A former member of the Estate Noir from the timeline before SCP-001 (Wrong Proposal). May be an ancestor of Light and the founder of the Insurgency.
O5-2 	The Archivist 	An AI constructed from Mekhanite technology, possibly including the ancient automaton named Sophia, and incorporated with newer more advanced technology, likely taken from 8B-A1.aic, to allow it to operate the PANOPTICON Global Surveillance System.
O5-3 	The Kid/The All-seeing Eye 	A individual of varying appearance who always communicated via a computer terminal, probably due to inhabiting a computer. Possessed omniscience which allowed him to become aware of everything that was going on and could possibly even predict future events. May be the brother of SCP-2772's AI, helped with the creation of the internet, and the head of RAISA.
O5-3 	The Philosopher Scientist 	A Japanese man who joined the Council shortly after World War I, and helped found the Ethics Committee and implemented psychological checkups of Foundation personnel since he was one of the more empathetic Overseers.
O5-3 	The Beacon 	A man who worked in using religion to manipulate large groups of people, while making himself appear as a divine supernatural figure. He was suspected to be L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, or just helped him in his campaign.
O5-3 	The Hermit 	A former member of Tsars' Seers from the timeline before SCP-001 (Wrong Proposal). He always staid in the Overwatch HQ and was one of the more malleable Overseers.
O5-4 	The Ambassador 	A Foundation field agent elevated to the post of an Overseer, who held diplomatic meetings with various political figures to maintain good relations between the Foundation and various countries and governments, becoming one of the more public Overseers.
O5-4 	The Martyr 	A man who was forced to take the post of O5-4 after unwillingly killing the previous Overseer during an attack on the Foundation. Later died heroically.
O5-4 	Frost 	A gentle man who was opposed to weaponization and cross-test of anomalies, and following incidents involving SCP-076-2 killing MTF Omega-7, Dr. Kondraki riding SCP-682 throughout Site-19 and a Foundation employee wiping himself and several sites out of existence, among others he incorporated an unofficial policy to not study anomalies beyond for containment purposes. He was later killed by the Insurgency.
O5-4 	The Collector 	An Overseer who successfully gathered all of the Little Misters, causing him to transform into their creator Mr. Collector, and because he became an anomalous individual he was removed from the Council. Possibly became SCP-5760 after being left trapped inside his rotting body.
O5-4 	The Gangster 	A man with ties to organized crime and domestic terrorism, possibly encountering Al Capone and Richard Chappell, who after becoming an Overseer he helped the Foundation manipulating world governments and economic systems. He later defected to the Insurgency, and as a result all of his Foundation staff was dissolved, leading to destabilizations in world economies.
O5-4 	The Veteran 	A former member of the Imperial German Anomalous Matters Examination Agency from the timeline before SCP-001 (Wrong Proposal). He fought during the Fifth Occult War for the German Empire, going against the Militia United in Righteousness, the Daevites and the Mekhanites, and even met the Mekhanite Napoleon Bonaparte.
O5-4 	The Annalist 	A former member of the Commission on Unusual Cargo and brother of the Heretic, expertizing in anomalous history, especially when it came to SCP-1000 and the Faeries.
O5-5 	Blackbird 	An elegant man with a personal blackbird motif, and the head of the Department of Paranormal Organisation Review, he was one of the more friendly and jovial Overseers. He had utilized anomalies interacting with alternate realities to come into contact with alternate versions of himself, helping each other to join organizations focused on anomalies in their respective universes.
O5-5 	The Ordinary Man 	A man wearing ordinary attire who would occasionally travel with SCP-108, possibly intending to use her as a last-ditch escape route.
O5-5 	The Entrepreneur/The Treasurer	A man who oversees the Foundation's front organizations, manipulating economies to benefit the Foundation and making those organizations profitable by paying the unsuspecting normal workers. Probably the same man as the Blackbird.
O5-5 	Manifest Destiny 	A former member of the American Secure Containment Initiative from the timeline before SCP-001 (Wrong Proposal). He personally oversaw the decimation of the Navajo skinwalkers, and possibly created SCP-2000.
O5-5 	The Black Cat 	A sapient black housecat who disguised themself as the pet of a decoy O5-5. Could be similar to the Serpent's Hand's leader Midnight and the Foundation's Prof. Kain Pathos Crow.
O5-6 	Cowboy/The American 	A man with a ponytail, dressed in white cowboy attire, carrying a cane with a carved wolf's head, and was always accompanied by two bodyguards each referred as Thompson and Black. He was either Mikell Bright, a professional and genial jack-of-all-trades, or Rufus King, a patriotic American who acted as a liaison between the Foundation and Pentagon, and oversaw the formation of MTFs Alpha-1 and Omega-7, the latter with General Bowe.
O5-6 	The Figurehead/The Elder 	An ancient man who helped form the Foundation, but became so old SCP-006 was unable to rejuvenate him, forcing his secretary to work on his behalf.
O5-6 	The Puppet 	A double agent sent by the GOC to infiltrate the Council as a future attempt of take. However, all the other members already knew that he was just a puppet but opted to keep him around due to their personal interest.
O5-6 	The Experimenter 	A former member of the Imperial Commission on Transgressive Occurrences from the timeline before SCP-001 (Wrong Proposal). He advocated for scientific methodology and was the chief of the research and development department.
O5-7 	Green 	One of the longer-term Council members who almost always wore green clothes and probably used to be a university professor. Holding a kind, friendly and charismatic demeanor, she was in fact a ruthless and scrupulous tactician who kept to herself, implemented a number of training programs and approved various experimental and dangerous projects and weapons. She played a role in recruiting new Council members, and was dreaded by individuals outside of the Foundation.
O5-7 	The Unlikely 	A dangerous individual who survived every single assassination attempt, personally killing the assassins. He held an interest in anomalous objects pertaining to the Insurgency, causing him to be suspected as the Insurgency's leader.
O5-7 	The Professor/The Heretic 	A major university professor and trained psychologist, he developed numerous training programs and advocated for research into venues forbidden by the rest of the Council, like chaos magics and a reality-warping god-engine nicknamed the Engine, and the weaponization of the anomalies at their disposal. Being convinced that the Foundation needed to use the anomalous to determine the future of humanity, he was accused of having a god complex, leading to him defecting from the Council alongside some of his co-workers to form the Insurgency.
O5-7 	Teeth 	An androgynous Chinese individual who transformed into an eldritch abomination and used their connections with cosmic entities to aid the Foundation.
O5-7 	The Cardinal 	A former member of the Royal Office for Christian Artefacts from the timeline before SCP-001 (Wrong Proposal). He was opposed to the Foundation increasing its presence in the Middle East due to trusting the work of the Office for the Reclamation of Islamic Artifacts.
O5-7 	The Immortal 	Former Prime Minister of Australia, Harold Holt who joined the Council in 1967 to gain access to SCP-006 and achieve immortality. When other immortal versions of him began appearing out of nowhere, he was stripped of his Overseer status and designated SCP-3477-3. He was contained alongside his counterparts until all of them worked together to breach containment and escape.
O5-8 	The Newbie/The Lesser 	American industrialist Baron Leeman Hoadley who lost his fortune following his brother's demise, and used to work as a Foundation Site Director before being elevated to Overseer status. He approved of Dr. Kondraki's decommissioning of SCP-083-D, resulting in great destruction, which forced the Council to have Kondraki assassinated. Following this, the Overseer secluded himself to his personal estate, trying to avoid causing future incidents, and becoming obsessed with modifying himself with anomalous objects.
O5-8 	Magnolia 	A brutal and harsh woman who had been forced to take difficult decisions to protect the world, such as nuking several sites in an event. Because of the trauma she endured, she became ugly as reflected by her emotional state and welcomed any attempt at assassinating her.
O5-8 	Dogwood 	A man who helped expand the funding and recruitment of MTFs following the Omega-7 disaster. At first he seemed to be a chill person, but overtime he would increasingly become more sour and aggressive. May be associated with the Newbie/the Lesser, a underling of O5-8, or an alternate persona of the Cowboy to take all the blame for the dissatisfaction from staff who were fired by O5-6.
O5-8 	The Terse 	A former member of the Special Investigations Board, Dutch East Indies Company from the timeline before SCP-001 (Wrong Proposal). He was opposed to any and all Groups of Interest, advocating for their dissolution, and actively fought to maintain his authority.
O5-8 	The Forgotten 	A man shrouded in complete mystery due to his close work with the Antimemetics Division. As he was plagued by a number of antimemes that caused him to be constantly forgotten, the other council members required to ingest memory-enhancing mnestic drugs to keep remembering him.
O5-8 	The Heretic 	Sister of the Annalist, who used to work for the General Assembly of Thaumaturgists and Theologists Against Queen Mab before helping in the formation of the Foundation. Personally oversaw project pertaining to reality-bending, thaumaturgy and theology, and was suspected that she herself and had these kind of powers.
O5-9 	The Outsider/The Ordinary 	Former geologist Donna Whetu Taylor who discovered geological and geophysical anomalies and attempted to bring her findings to the world, but her project was sabotaged by the Foundation, covering it up as fabricated information, and she was forced to join the Council, replacing Misfortune. After joining the Foundation she advocated for research in anomalous phenomena, wanting to develop a general theory explaining them, and paved way for the expansion of classified technical journals which was later spearheaded by Kate McTiriss.
O5-9 	Misfortune 	An unlucky man whose soul lived on within SCP-963-2, but because his copy was less perfect than the original the memories he gained after the death of his original body would be wiped when possessing a new body, causing his mind to be reset everytime he "died". Because of this, he proved incapable of working for long periods of time and as a result was replaced.
O5-9 	The Lovers/Willow 	A gay couple who interchange the position of Overseer between each other, with the other acting as his boyfriend's bodyguard and assistant. They greatly help the Foundation personnel by providing vast amounts of food and water.
O5-9 	Out-of-Place 	A former member of the Inner Africa Expeditionary Society from the timeline before SCP-001 (Wrong Proposal). He helped declassifying SCP-1851-EX, and researching on counter-ontokinetic stratagems which led to the discovery of Humes.
O5-9 	The Secret Keeper 	The current holder of the title of the Director of the Intelligence Agency, with various personnel previously having held the title. The Overseer was tasked with keeping in line Intelligence Agency, and participated in missions involving several GoIs, like the Mages Academy.
O5-9 	The Oracle 	Daniel Asheworth's mother, Natalie who had been overtaken by the evil deity known as the Beast and infiltrated the Council as a specialist in thaumaturgy and theology. She helped in the case involving Damien Nowak, but in 1985 she attempted to overtake the Foundation and get rid of the other Overseers, putting all the blame on Daniel, only to be killed by both him and the Beast's adversary the Father.
O5-10 	The Archivist 	The Foundation's archivist and record-keeper, recoding previous iterations of the world and timeline after they reset following K-Class Scenarios. Only she had access to these informations, was accompanied by an assistant and decoy referred as "Salt", and took special interest in various anomalies relating K-Class Scenarios like SCP-1985. She also had access to the Wanderer's Library, visiting it whenever she wanted as the Librarians couldn't stop her, and learned great power from reading most of the books.
O5-10 	Stone 	The former archivist who was disposed of after he attempted to activate SCP-003.
O5-10 	The Assassin 	An expert Italian assassin who taught assassination within the Foundation. She came to regret accepting the promotion to Overseer status as she was forced to simply read reports, and later retired.
O5-10 	The Veteran/The Mad General 	One of the early Overseers recruited into the Council. He was either Confederate general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson from the US Civil War, or a Russian general from World War I.
O5-10 	The Grand Master 	A former member of the Knights of the Military Order of Borja y Aragón from the timeline before SCP-001 (Wrong Proposal). He was unfamiliar with the concept of the anomalous, traumatized from the Church of the Broken God, and helped create pension and welfare schemes for Foundation personnel.
O5-11 	The Mailman 	One of the kindest Overseers who may have been an actual mailman. He was the one to decide the fate of Class-D personnel, having those exposed to anomalies either terminated or transferred to another site.
O5-11 	The Liar/Father of Lies 	A individual of varying appearance, most of the time referred by female pronouns. She was the Foundation's chief disinformation officer, tasked with forming coverups, cover stories and rumors that spread both within and outside of the Foundation, though her very existence may be fabricated.
O5-11 	The Senator 	A long-lived high-powered politician who used to be associated with the Shriners, Skull and Bones, among other secret societies which he maneuvered. He had been installed by the Council into the United States Senate to control political matters to benefit the Foundation.
O5-11 	Jings 	A former field agent elevated to Overseer status. He sought to implement changes into the Foundation, but barely achieved anything. Held a bad reputation and was possibly taken out.
O5-11 	The Keeper/The Warden 	Wife of the Trainman/the Conductor, she helped in developing the early containment procedures and extensively researching the anomalous, but was against containing anomalous individuals, deeming it too cruel. After she was dismissed, she alongside her husband and other Overseers broke away from the Foundation to form the Insurgency.
O5-11 	The Recluse 	Roger Sheldon who refused to extend his life and eventually died, at which point he began suffering from SCP-2718. Over a decade later he was resurrected, but after revealing to the rest of the Council what he had experienced he was forced to retreat.
O5-11 	The Bureaucrat 	A former member of the Bureau of Onmyō from the timeline before SCP-001 (Wrong Proposal). He had encountered many instances of SCP-2863 and struggled with self-esteem.
O5-11 	The Turncloack 	A thaumaturgist who had joined and betrayed a variety of GoIs like Marshall, Carter, & Dark, the Serpent's Hand, Herman Fuller's Circus of the Disquieting, and The Factory before becoming a loyal member of the Council.
O5-12 	The Accountant 	An African mathematical genius named Omar Alawe who acted as the Council's accountant. He was a believer in order, had access to certain data and his mathematical ability allowed him to see invisible correlations similar to precognition.
O5-12 	Adam 	Researcher Adam Bright who was the father of SCP-321, his resurrected daughter. He later retired after he was denied to be reunited with his daughter.
O5-12 	The Contractor 	A man who was forced to become an Overseer following his predecessor's departure. He worked in building and maintaining Foundation facilities, and providing human services to the personnel. Despite his good demeanor, he was described as an obsessive shut-in.
O5-12 	The Trainman/The Conductor 	Husband of the Keeper/the Warden who approved of weaponization of anomalies, oversaw their rotation between facilities and preventing the researchers from working on anomalous humanoids for long periods of time. He later defected alongside his wife to form the Insurgency.
O5-12 	The Physician 	A former member of the Chinese Abnormality Institut from the timeline before SCP-001 (Wrong Proposal). He discovered the memory-stealing drug designated SCP-484, which paved way for the utilization of amnestics like the one produced from SCP-3000.
O5-12 	Cyrus 	A living disembodied brain in a jar. As his body was failing, the other Overseers opted to keep him around as an advisor by utilizing SCP-2099's technology.
O5-13 	The Tiebreaker 	A title for a nonexistent Council member, being nothing more than a tiebreaker vote and title another member took in decisions.
O5-13 	Tamlin 	A time traveler of varying gender and appearance who was bound to a location known as the "Tamlin House". He acted as an advisor that served to restore O5-13's vote, but only voted in important decisions.
O5-13 	The Meddler 	A mysterious individual whose only purpose was to interfere with the projects of his fellow Overseers. His body later came to host the embodiment of Death.
O5-13 	Death 	The entity embodying the concept of Death. Although considered an official Council member, it was in fact a prisoner used by the Overseers to attain immortality, and probably resurrect the entire human race after it perished in a calamity. May have a connection to SCP-001 (Tanhony's Proposal), SCP-4260 and SCP-2935.
O5-13 	AI Complex 	An AI constructed through anomalous and non-anomalous means that was only used to break a tie in important decisions.
O5-13 	The Activist 	A former member of the 0th Anti-Cult Regiment from the timeline before SCP-001 (Wrong Proposal). He advocated for meritocratic administration and racial equality within the Foundation, and was closely associated with the Visionary.
O5-13 	The Persian 	An independent consultant on anomalous matters for the Ottoman Empire from the timeline before SCP-001 (Wrong Proposal). He was in charge of the Foundation's Autonomous Administration of the Greater Middle East which appeared to be a counterpart to ORIA as neither organizations existed in the same reality.
O5-13 	The Pedestrian 	A random man taken from the public to give his insight in decisions during Normalcy Confirmation meetings which always required his presence.
The Administrator	The Official 	An individual with an over-the-top reputation who liked suits, fine liquors and loose women, and was associated with governmental heads that collaborated with the Foundation. He was in fact a false front to cover the actual Administrators.
The Administrator	F. Williams 	A mysterious individual who possibly created the position of the Administrator. May be named "Frederick", "Francis", "Fritz", "Friedrich", "Franz", "William Fritz" or "Fritzwillis".
The Administrator	Agnes Peterson 	Siegel's fiance and one of the original founders of the Foundation, having gathered the others into forming the organization and forming or dismissing rules.
The Administrator	Kismet 	A trained mathematician who used her statistics and occultic procedures to track down and recruit new members for the Council. She personally went to new recruits, even assigning them their numbers though this information was kept secret.
The Administrator	Spider 	A nonhuman creature with a human head and a body made of a twisted, weathered charcoal-like material, with atrophied limbs, and wearing SCP-262. He wasn't at the top of the Foundation's hierarchy, rather only played a supporting role, and although softly spoken he was a harsh disciplinarian.
The Administrator	The Middleman 	A man shrouded in mystery who apparently worked as a file clerk for a government organisation dealing with the anomalous before selling his secrets to the Council. However, he possibly sided with the Ethics Committee to oppose the Council and apparently commanded MTF Rēsh-1.
The Administrator	The Archeologist 	An archeologist who discovered SCP-4960 and the Gate Guardian, the latter prompting him to form the Foundation to prepare for the Apocalypse. He was later replaced by a woman as he began assisting the Foundation from the shadows.
The Administrator	The Duke 	An ancient man who was previously known as the Black Moon's representative named BLACKSTAR, and later became an Austrian Duke within the Hapsburg Empire. During the First Occult War he moved to Virginia, America where he formed the Foundation with the Council.
The Administrator	Ethan Horowitz 	A former patron of the Wanderer's Library and friend of the Serpent who inspired him to form the Foundation. He was later anomalously augmented, becoming the embodiment of Death and led the Foundation into conquering all of reality before they were stopped by the Serpent.
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==In Other Media==
===The Breach Goes On: Wrong Tomorrow Vol. 2===
Some members of the he O5 Council appear in the book adaptation "The Breach Goes On: Wrong Tomorrow" with illustrations created by SCP author Harry Blank. In the story, the Council members are seen having a discussion with Dir. Allan J. McInnis regarding SCP-001, the victims of SCP-5243 whose presence was causing alternate timelines to merge with theirs, and what they should do to solve the problem as it was causing a worldwide catastrophe that was also killing the Council. Later on, after all of the Overseers perished and McInnis became the new Administrator, he replaced all the Council members with the All-Sections Chief, Harold Blank, Karen Elstrom, Trevor Bremmel, Melissa Bradbury, Eileen Veiksaar, Delfina Ibanez, Lillian Lillihammer, Ilse Reynders, Noè Nascimbeni, Udo Okorie, Thilo Zwist, Nhung Ngo, Brenda Corbin and Daniil Sokolsky before the problem was solved and things returned to normal, with the previous iteration of the Council restored.
==Gallery==
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===Videos===
Secret Group that Runs the World - SCP O5 Council Explained (SCP Animation) 
The O5 Orientation
SCP-001 The Ouroboros Cycle - The Full Epic Story Explained (SCP Animation)
The O5 Council - EXPLAINED!
Who's In Charge Of The SCP Foundation?
==Trivia==
*There is an official Wiki named O5 Command which is a staff site for the SCP Wiki. This wiki is about the staff team's structure, policies, public records, and how the wiki is maintained.
*The O5 Council being comprised of thirteen members is a reference to the of Jesus Christ.
**Originally there were only twelve council members, but the concept of a thirteenth member was introduce in SCP-001 (Dr Clef's Proposal). This concept was supposed to be solely for the Proposal, but as other writers began using it for their own articles, DrClef changed O5-13 to O5-14 in the article.
*In the "Stealing Solidarity" canon, the Council was depicted as an evil alien race of pyramidal and cycloptic monsters with red skin, green eyes and tentacles. They reproduced by infecting beings with their offsprings, one of which ended up infecting SCP-2085-B. They attempted to manipulate the Foundation and take over the world but were annihilated by SCP-2085.
*Other complex Groups of Interest have their own governing body analogous to the Council such as the Chaos Insurgency's Delta Command, the Global Occult Coalition's Council of 108, the Horizon Initiative's Tribunal, the Cogwork Orthodox Church's Patriarchs, Church of Maxwellism's Hexagons, Anderson Robotics' Board of Directors, the Manna Charitable Foundation's International Board and Valravn Corporation's High Table.
*In the universe of the tale 'Re: KTO-0001-Bellfather "Overwatch Council"' in which the GOC is unrelated to the UN and the Foundation doesn't exist, the leaders from notable GoIs, Chaz Ambrose, Vincent Anderson II, Isabel Wondertainment, Faeowynn Wilson, Jude Kriyot, Nobody, Black Queen, Wilna Fritz, Marion Carter, dado, Tonya Chappell, Icky the Magic Clown, the Critic, ADAM, Maria Jones, Maria Dracu, Gibson and Quinn MacCallister, formed an organization known as Overwatch Council which was somewhat an analogue of the Foundation as their goals are to secure the innocent victims of the GOC, contain operatives of the GOC and protect those victims objects from the GOC since the latter has almost completely eradicated the anomalous world.
*O5-8/The Blackbird bears resemblance to Funny Valentine from JoJo's Bizarre Adventures. The Administrator as depicted in the "Ouroboros Cycle" also bears great resemblance to The Eye from The Magnus Archives.
*In the reality of SCP-2317, moments before the Devourer was unleashed the native Council went to escape into SCP-6805, an alternate version of Site-19 inside a pocket-dimension that originated from another universe that was overrun by SCP-6000. Because of the little time available only this Council and four of their close staff managed to escape and find refuge within SCP-6805 where they became pariahs.
*The names of the O5 Council members seen in SCP-6159 as evident are the usernames of the SCP Wiki users who voted for the article's conclusion in the article's discussion page. Several members of the Council seen in the upcoming SCP-001 (ROUNDERHOUSE's Jade Proposal) were named after the biggest backers of the SCPforCorgo GoFundMe campaign.
*According to O5-3 in SCP-7209, only 0.08% of all Foundation personnel have interacted with the O5 Council.
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