Itachi PFP (Profile Pictures)

Itachi's expressions swing between two very different reads in this set — cold and intense on one end, quietly emotional on the other — which lines up with how the character himself is written: a supposed villain who turns out to be one of the more tragic figures in the whole story. Which expression you pick actually says something about which side of that story you're referencing. Because those two moods contradict each other, using an intense, cold-stare shot as your pfp while your bio or posts reference his tragic backstory can send a mixed signal. Match the expression to whichever version of the character you actually want people to think of first.

Crows and the red moon aren't just moody set-dressing here — both are pulled directly from Itachi's actual death scene and the genjutsu he casts on Sasuke, so a pfp built around this symbolism reads as more lore-accurate to anyone who knows the show, compared to a generic dark-aesthetic edit that just borrows the color palette without the reference. If that reference matters to you, the crow needs to actually be identifiable as a crow rather than a vague dark bird shape — a couple of the more abstract or silhouette-heavy versions in this set blur that detail enough that it could pass for any bird, which quietly drops the actual symbolism you were going for.

Minimalist and black-and-white treatments strip out everything except line, contrast, and shape — useful if your whole profile theme runs monochrome and a full-color anime portrait would stick out. Pixel art and newspaper-style versions push that even further, turning the character into more of a design element than a straightforward portrait. Watch for whether the red eyes survive the grayscale treatment. Some versions keep a single spot of red on the Sharingan against an otherwise black-and-white image, and that's usually the better pick — a fully desaturated version can lose the one color cue that signals Itachi specifically rather than any dark-haired character in a monochrome edit.

This is the joke section, essentially — a character built around grief and moral compromise getting a dog filter or a facepalm reaction pfp is funny specifically because it clashes so hard with how he's usually portrayed. It works best on accounts where your followers already know the character well enough to get why it's funny. That context-dependence is the catch: on a public or professional-adjacent account, a stranger who only knows "serious tragic Itachi" from clips might just find a meme version confusing rather than funny. Save these for close friend groups or servers where the reference lands, and use one of the more serious sections if you're representing yourself somewhere more public.