Supervillain

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Shortcode
:supervillain:
Unicode
U+1F9B9
HTML
🦹
CSS
\1F9B9
JavaScript
"\u{1F9B9}"
URL
%F0%9F%A6%B9

badcriminalevilsuperpowervillain

What 🦹 means

A masked, caped villain, standing for evil plans, bad guys and playful wickedness.

People use it for a “villain era”: choosing to stop being nice and put themselves first. A small annoyance becomes a “villain origin story”. It also marks a petty plan, a plot twist, or a friend who spoiled a show. Pair with 😈 for extra menace.

Facts

Supervillain 🦹 is an emoji in the people and body category, under person fantasy. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. 2 other emoji use it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :supervillain:. People also look for it with words like “bad”, “criminal”, “evil”, or “superpower”.

Timeline

  1. 2018Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 11.0)
  2. 2018Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 11.0)
  3. 20182 new emoji built from it (Emoji 11.0)🦹‍♂️🦹‍♀️

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. supervillain, Google (Noto) design from 20192019

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. supervillain, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20182018
  2. supervillain, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20192019

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

people & body · Emoji 11.0