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schnoz

A head with an abnormally large nose, and two legs.

Chimimoryo  ·  Berserk ch. 215  ·  unnamed by the author

Unnamed by the author.
Explained by a machine.

Google's AI Overview for schnoz, giving both the slang definition and the Berserk meme character
Pl. IGoogle AI Overview  ·  both senses, one panel

Four panels,
then nothing.

Chapter 215. Qliphoth.
Guts goes down into a cave.
He’s there.
Then he isn’t.

Berserk — ch. 215, “Qliphoth”  ·  Kentaro Miura Chimimoryo  ·  minor demon

The Schnoz standing in a cave under stalactites, drawn in black and white screentone
The hat is somebody else’s idea.
A closer black and white drawing of the creature, scowling
Same nose.

Both are edits, not scans. The chapter is the checkable part.

A forum named him
in 2003.

Not Miura.
A user called Walter Bennet started a thread on SkullKnight.net.
He called it “The Schnoz Dance”.
It stuck.

Seventeen years before Urban Dictionary.
Twenty-two before Blizzard.

The thread was an animation.
It did not survive.

What is playing is the turntable — sixty photographs of a sculpt — in an order decided on this page. It is a reconstruction of something nobody has seen since 2003. It is not the original and it is not evidence of one.

Drawn, sculpted,
then printed.

None of it official. All of it fan-made.

The best-known 3D render of the Schnoz: pink, one eye, two legs
The one everyone knows
High-resolution close-up render of the creature's face
Pore level
The creature edited to wear a blue cap, used as a profile avatar
Avatar edit
A fan-made 3D model of the creature
Fan model
A printable 3D model listing for the creature
Printable
An untextured grey sculpt of the creature standing on a desk
Untextured sculpt

Twenty-two years,
four entries.

2003
Schnoz gets a name.
“The Schnoz Dance”  ·  SkullKnight.net
2020
Someone writes it down.
Urban Dictionary  ·  14 May 2020  ·  entry
2025
Blizzard sells him.
Diablo IV × Berserk  ·  “Chimimoryo’s Resemblance”  ·  6 May 2025
Now
Still unnamed by Miura.
Berserk  ·  ch. 215  ·  four panels, no caption
The Urban Dictionary entry for Schnoz, submitted 14 May 2020 by Kaiman best boi, 43 up and 4 down
Pl. IIUrban Dictionary  ·  14 May 2020  ·  43 ↑  4 ↓

schnoz

/SHnäz/  ·  noun
1

A nose. Especially a large one.

informal  ·  often humorous
schnozz  ·  schnozzle  ·  schnozzola

Merriam-Webster
2

A monster composed of a head with an abnormally large nose, and two legs.

Berserk ch. 215  ·  named 2003  ·  written down 2020

Urban Dictionary

The word is about seventy years older than the creature. The creature is about thirty years older than the name. They met in a cave.