As much buzz as the new monsters in Pokemon Sun & Moon have gotten, (ahem, insane long-necked Exeggcutor) it appears that one human character is getting more attention than any Pokémon. Wicke, a new Pokémon researcher whose “caring personality makes her popular among the Foundation’s staff,” has become an object of obsession for horny fans of the game.
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Following the Internet’s infamous Rule 34—”if it exists, there is porn of it”—drooling illustrators have already begun sexualizing Wicke in fan art, just days after the first official drawing of her was released.
A lot of the drawings zoom in on Wicke’s breasts, making them much, much larger than in the one canon image of her:
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“Thicc Wicke,” as some are calling the fan art version of the character, has become such a trend that there’s already a meme criticizing it:
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“People must be so glad to see different body types represented in Nintendo games,” posits geeky news site Dorkly. “Why else would they be so obsessed with this one character?”
It doesn’t stop there, though. There’s also a huge collection of straight-up porn of Wicke, depicting her in a wide variety of sexual situations (both alone and with her Aether Foundation coworkers).
There’s even one extremely disturbing image showing her nude, decapitated and bleeding.
It’s dismaying what the internet will do to female characters in a children’s entertainment franchise, but it’s not exactly surprising at this point. There are also jokes that Wicke’s character design took some pretty obvious inspiration from Scooby-Doo‘s Velma, another cartoon woman who’s been forced into an absurd amount of Rule 34 porn:
The internet’s Wicke obsession isn’t all bad, though. There’s also a lot of cute, positive fan art of the Aether Foundation’s assistant branch chief:
And there are plenty of images that depict her as “thicc,” but not in a drooling, overtly sexualized way. Sure, a lot of the love for Wicke is driven by overeager masturbators, but some of it is genuinely about representing a variety of female body types in games.
