schnoz
A head with an abnormally large nose, and two legs.
Unnamed by the author.
Explained by a machine.
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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
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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.
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⤢Twenty-two years,
four entries.
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schnoz
A nose. Especially a large one.
informal · often humorous
schnozz · schnozzle · schnozzola
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.