🦹♂️Man Supervillain Emoji
Generally, it means someone is acting like a playful villain or a mischievous character. People use it to add a bit of humor to their texts.
The 🦹♂️ emoji, often called "Man Supervillain," shows a man in a sheriff’s badge and a wolf mask.
- Unicode
- U+1F9B9 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2018
- Shortcode
- :male_supervillain:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 🦹♂️ Man Supervillain emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 7.
Man Supervillain emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F9B9. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 5.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Man Supervillain emoji skin tones
🦹♂️ supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Man Supervillain emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :male_supervillain:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F9B9.
How to type the 🦹♂️ Man Supervillain emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F9B9 when there is no key at all.
Man Supervillain emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 5. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Man Supervillain emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around man supervillain for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🦹♂️, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🦹♂️ means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🦹♂️ means in other countries
Same mischief imagery here, reads as a joke about scheming rather than pointing at a real character flaw.
teasing about a harmless plan, a petty grudge, or some minor scheme
ties to specific male antagonist characters depending on the actual conversation
common for saying “the enemy team is playing dirty” during a heated match
Before you send it: Fine for lighthearted teasing between friends, just avoid pairing it with an actual accusation.
What 🦹♂️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the man supervillain lands changes how it is taken.
🦹♂️ vs 🦸♂️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Man Supervillain
Code: U+1F9B9 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F · added 2018
Shortcode: :male_supervillain:
Generally, it means someone is acting like a playful villain or a mischievous character.
Unicode name: Man Superhero
Code: U+1F9B8 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F · added 2018
Shortcode: :male_superhero:
Generally, 🦸♂️ means someone is acting like a superhero – brave, strong, or doing something amazing.
Where the 🦹♂️ Man Supervillain emoji came from
It arrived with the 11.0 release of the standard, which dates the man supervillain to 2018.
Same character every time — U+1F9B9 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Man Supervillain was approved as U+1F9B9 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 11.0 (2018). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🦹♂️ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.