The man supervillain emoji is your go-to symbol for cartoonishly evil schemes, petty chaos, and deliciously dramatic energy. On Apple/iOS, he’s shown from the shoulders up with a tight eye mask, a bold purple suit, and a flowing dark-purple cape—front-facing, glossy, and wearing that unmistakable confident smirk that says “mwahaha” without typing it. The color palette screams classic comic-book baddie, and the mask-cape combo makes him instantly recognizable in a sea of polite smileys.
People use this emoji when they’re entering their “villain era,” confessing to chaotic-neutral choices (stole your fries, enabled dark mode forever, maybe binged spoilers), or when a plan is just a little too clever for the heroes to approve. It pairs flawlessly with sarcastic texts, meme captions, and ironic flexes like “I did the thing” or “call me the archnemesis of bedtime.” Flirtatiously, it can signal bad-boy energy without being actually bad—more Saturday-morning cartoon than true crime. You’ll see it next to evil-laugh spellings (mwahaha), “plot twist” jokes, or when someone channels big-boss energy ahead of a presentation, raid, or competitive match.
Culturally, it taps into the purple-clad villain tradition—think comic-book masterminds and caped scene-stealers from Saturday cartoons and blockbuster franchises. Drop it when you’re feeling like the main character with a suspiciously well-timed monologue, or when your group chat needs a dramatic cape swoosh for emphasis.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1651 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture | Image not available |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
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| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 12 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🦹♂️ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 4 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🦹♂️ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🦹 ‍ ♂ ️ |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🦹 ‍ ♂ ️ |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f9b9, 200d, 2642, fe0f |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F9B9, U+200D, U+2642, U+FE0F |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129465, 8205, 9794, 65039 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA6 0xB9, 0xE2 0x80 0x8D, 0xE2 0x99 0x82, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A6 B9, E2 80 8D, E2 99 82, EF B8 8F |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 246 271, 342 200 215, 342 231 202, 357 270 217 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDDB9, 0x200D, 0x2642, 0xFE0F |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83eddb9, 200d, 2642, fe0f |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56761, 8205, 9794, 65039 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F9B9 0x0000200D 0x00002642 0x0000FE0F |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F9B9, 200D, 2642, FE0F |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129465, 8205, 9794, 65039 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F9B9\u200D\u2642\uFE0F" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa6\xb9\xe2\x80\x8d\xe2\x99\x82\xef\xb8\x8f" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDDB9\u200D\u2642\uFE0F" |
