Remember in classic comic books where the force of a punch or kick would often be exclaimed with a colourful and shouty phrase such as kapow or blam? These exclamations would often be accompanied by an angular speech bubble much like the Collision Emoji. Therefore, this symbol is appropriate for any situation where you wish to indicate force. Let’s take a boxing match for example, you could show your excitement for the latest heavyweight matchup with something like: Fight night 🥊 💥 The emoji can also be used in certain situations to indicate that someone has just been “wrecked” with a savage comment. Let’s take the example of a friend group, they are discussing the previous night out and the discussion focuses on one participants ridiculous outfit. After much banter about this person outfit, one could insert the devastating final blow with something like: Someone get the towel he’s been rinsed 💥

Collision was approved in Unicode 6.0 and was added as Collision Symbol in Emoji 1.0.