SCP Foundation

For the Cliche contest I thought of a concept for:

"An anomaly so helpful/harmless, the Foundation lets it roam the Site and has minimal containment procedures. Being helpful/harmless is optional."

"An item that is very good at doing the thing its supposed to do, too good in fact"

The concept is similar to SCPs such as http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-294 , an SCP which is a calculator which can solve any equation, calculation and problem. I would imagine that as well as having buttons that a scientific calculator would, it would also have the alphabet as buttons for algebra based problems.

I'm not entirely sure what I should make it do when calulations which by normal calculator logic would be an error (dividing by zero as an example). Please give feedback, thanks.

So with this one, I’m afraid that you’ve leaned into the cliches too heavily. While I’m sure that a calculator which can solve any math problem is super useful, it can’t solve the problem of being inherently boring to read about.

I see one possible avenue to explore with this idea: the calculator is totally correct - but its formulas, methods, and rules are not simply incorrect but utterly alien to humans. The implication, then, would be that all mathematics is a lie and we have forced a rigid system onto a universe that does not accept it.
Unfortunately, executing such an idea requires a level of subtlety and ability to plot out and develop an internal background logic that I’m not sure you possess yet.

I recommend putting this idea on the back burner or tossing it outright, and checking out some recent Cliche-Con articles like SCP-4310 to get a sense for how you can take the cliches in the contest and apply them in such a way to entertain or spook your readers.