Supervillain: medium-light skin tone Emoji
People
A character wearing a purple mask and a high-collared cape, featuring a medium-light skin tone. The design draws heavily from classic comic book tropes, depicting a classic arch-nemesis or secret antagonist.
Usage Context
Used to denote mischievous behavior, sarcasm, or to play the role of a 'bad guy' in a group chat. People often use it when bragging about a minor prank or joking about having an evil plan. It is frequently paired with 🦹 to represent the general trope, or contrasted with 🦸🏼 when discussing heroes and villains.
History
This emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2018 as part of Emoji 11.0. Its inclusion followed a massive expansion of character-based emojis, allowing for diverse representations of fictional archetypes that had previously been limited to generic faces like 😈.
Details
Glyph
🦹🏼
Unicode
U+1F9B9 U+1F3FC
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9b9_1f3fc:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Microsoft
Category People
Subcategory person-fantasy
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License MIT
Microsoft Fluent License
Emoji graphics by Microsoft. © Microsoft Corporation. Licensed under MIT. Excludes assets such as Clippy, flags, and trademarks.
Microsoft Fluent Emoji assets are licensed under the MIT License. Certain assets—such as Clippy, country flags, and Microsoft product/brand trademarks—are excluded from this license and may not be used without separate permission.
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