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

&#xD83E;&#xDDB9;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

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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