Supervillain Emoji

People

A masked character wearing a cape and an eye mask, typically associated with the classic comic book depiction of a criminal mastermind. The figure is shown with a confident, slightly smug expression, signaling a classic antagonist role.

Usage Context

Used to denote someone acting mischievous, scheming, or playing the 'bad guy' in a conversation. It frequently appears alongside the 🦹‍♂️ or 🦹‍♀️ variations to gender-specify a character or paired with 🦸 to represent a conflict between hero and foe.

History

Added in 2018 as part of Unicode 11.0, this emoji arrived during a massive expansion of character-based icons designed to help users better represent diverse fictional archetypes in text messaging and social media storytelling.

Details

Glyph

🦹

Unicode

U+1F9B9

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9b9:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDB9;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-fantasy

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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