Man supervillain: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A man with a medium-dark skin tone wearing a domino mask and a hooded cape, signaling a classic comic book antagonist. The design leans into traditional tropes of mysterious, cape-wearing characters found in serialized media.

Usage Context

Used to denote someone acting mischievous, scheming, or playing the role of a troublemaker in a conversation. It frequently appears when people share movie spoilers, talk about comic book lore, or jokingly describe their own 'evil' plans. It is often used alongside 🦸‍♂️ when discussing heroes or 💥 to illustrate a dramatic confrontation.

History

This emoji was added in 2018 as part of Emoji 11.0. It arrived during a push to expand the catalog of professions and character types to include more diverse representations of skin tones and gender roles in pop culture, specifically moving beyond the hero-only archetype.

Details

Glyph

🦹🏾‍♂

Unicode

U+1F9B9 U+1F3FE U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9b9_1f3fe_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDB9;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍♂

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-fantasy

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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