Supervillain: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A character wearing a purple mask and cape, shown with a medium skin tone. The figure is designed to represent the classic comic book antagonist trope, complete with a mysterious, hidden identity.

Usage Context

Used to joke about being 'up to no good,' planning a mischievous prank, or roleplaying as a rival in a game. It is frequently sent alongside the 🦹 or 💥 emojis when someone wants to highlight a bit of playful rebellion or a 'villain era' moment.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2018 as part of the expansion of the superhero and supervillain character sets. This update was a direct response to the massive cultural popularity of comic book movies and the need for more diverse character representation in digital communication.

Details

Glyph

🦹🏽

Unicode

U+1F9B9 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9b9_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDB9;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

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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