Supervillain: light skin tone Emoji

People

A character wearing a purple eye mask and a cape, representing a classic comic book antagonist. This version features a light skin tone, highlighting the persona of a mastermind or lawbreaker.

Usage Context

Used to describe someone acting devious, playing the 'bad guy' in a scenario, or referencing superhero tropes. It is frequently sent alongside 🦸🏻 to play out hero-versus-villain narratives or to poke fun at someone being overly dramatic or mischievous.

History

This emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2018 as part of the expansion of the superhero and supervillain character sets. The inclusion of skin tone modifiers was a push to allow users to better reflect their own likeness or specific character archetypes within the expanding library of pop culture icons.

Details

Glyph

🦹🏻

Unicode

U+1F9B9 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9b9_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDB9;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-fantasy

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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