Guzma

About

Guzma is the leader of the antagonistic group Team Skull in the upcoming 2016 Nintendo 3DS video game Pokémon Sun and Moon.

Origin

On August 11th 2016, Nintendo released a trailer on YouTube revealing the villain group Team Skull in Pokémon Sun and Moon, which included a clip of the leader Guzma (shown below). Within three weeks, the video gained over 2.84 million views and 11,300 comments.

Spread

That same day, Twitter user @Fightbeast_^[8] posted a fan illustration Rick Sanchez from the television series Rick and Morty dressed as Guzma (shown below, left). Shorty after, Twitter user @bubbaguyz^[5] posted an emoji spam paragraph written from Guzma's perspective (shown below, right).

Meanwhile, pages for Guzma were created on the Bulbapedia^[2] and Pokemon Wiki.^[3] Also on August 11th, the Internet humor site Dorkly^[4] published an article about the online reaction to the character, which included various fan theories about Guzma's backstory. On August 15th, Redditor ZeroCalorieSoda posted Guzma fan art to /r/pokemon^[6] (shown below, left). On August 26th, Instagram^[7] user h0enn posted a video clip of Guzma followed by an image of the character Junkrat from Overwatch. On August 29th, Tumblr user bechnokid^[1] uploaded several fan illustrations of Guzma, which gathered upwards of 1,600 notes in the first 24 hours (shown below, right).

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