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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.

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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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