Emma Frost
Emma Frost is a female comic character who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Origin
Emma Grace Frost was the female Mutant born in the modern age as the daughter of Winston Frost and Hazel Frost of the prestigious Frost Family. She came to have a number of siblings that included her brother Christian Frost and her two sisters named Adrienne Frost as well as Cordellia Frost. (Emma Frost v1 #1)
She came to be enrolled to Snow Valley School for Girls where she was considered a social outcast and her low-grades often got her reprimanded from her father. (Emma Frost v1 #1)
In one instance, stress caused by her bullying schoolmates caused her powers to send a telepathic blast that sent everyone at the site unconscious. This caused Emma to panic and she later went home when the Frost household was visited by Professor Charles Xavier and Dr. Moira MacTaggart. At first, Emma panicked as she thought the authorities had come to take her away but Xavier telepathically spoke to her and informed her that she was a Mutant. He wanted her to enrol at his school for gifted youngsters though her father had turned down but Xavier had said that he could telepathically change his mind if Emma had wanted to do so as he felt she had great potential. However, this caused Emma Frost to be angry and she angrily rejected the offer as well as the idea of him tampering with her father's mind. This led to Xavier and MacTaggart leaving but then her father slapped Emma for eavesdropping on the conversation. In that moment, she could have used her powers to reduce her father into a vegetable state but she decided to instead appear as a dutiful daughter for the time being. (X-Men Origins: Emma Frost v1 #1)
Due to her powers, her parents came to sent their daughter to a facility that the wealthy sent their children to handle any issues that affecting their families. One night, one of the guards looked to take advantage of her in her room when Emma decided to use her newly developed telepathy to take control of the man's mind. He commanded them to take her away from the 'the Clinic' allowing her to escape whereupon she began to use her abilities to her advantage. (Generation X v1 #24)
Her father later attempted to decide on who would be a worthy heir to him with him discarding his son and deciding on his three daughters. He considered Emma and offered her the opportunity to shine with the rebellious girl refusing as she intended to make her own way. She left home with only $400 in her savings account with her deciding to start from the bottom. (New X-Men v1 #139) At the age of sixteen, she was disinherited and homeless but managed to steal a dress for herself in order to enter a club in order to use her powers to take stock information from peoples minds. Whilst there, she met Harry Leland but he came across too strong to her and she ended up running away. She was kidnapped behind the Club where she also encountered the Dark Beast. During this time, Sean Cassidy arrived on the scene with his NYPD partner where they battled the Dark Beast whilst Leland followed them. With so many present, Frost decided to use her powers to wipe the incident from all three peoples mind and made them forget encountering her. (Generation X v1 #-1)
She later went as a dancer at the Hellfire Club where she used her telepathic powers to make people see what they wanted to see. (New X-Men v1 #139) During her time as one of the Club's dancers, Emma was briefly considered for membership in the X-Men again by Charles Xavier and Moira MacTaggert. They attempted to recruit her for a mission to rescue Xavier's original students from Krakoa, and Xavier tried to sway Emma by letting her know the higher-ups in the Hellfire Club were already aware of her mutant status. Still, Emma was reluctant to fight in someone else's war, and complications at the Hellfire Club led Xavier to abandon the idea of recruiting her. He erased Emma's memories of their encounter and moved on to other potential mutants. (X-Men: Deadly Genesis v1 #5) Meeting Sebastian Shaw, who became her patron, Emma rose in the ranks of the Hellfire Club's true network. Sebastian became both Emma's mentor and her lover, instilling in her a sense of depravity and amoral selfishness that would haunt her for years. Shaw entertained Emma's membership application alongside two other candidates, Anne and Rebecca. The three women became friendly competitors as Shaw showed them all the sins of excess the Club had to offer. Finally, Sebastian decided to offer ranking membership to Emma, but only if she chose whether Anne or Rebecca would die first. Fully versed in Shaw's psychology by this point, Emma merely responded that she couldn't care either way. And, with that, Sebastian beat Emma's two rivals to death before her unblinking, uncaring eyes. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #531)
Over the next years, Emma built her own empire, including Frost Enterprises and a private school in Massachusetts. Simply being part of the Club was not enough for Shaw, he wanted to rule it. At first, he tried to buy his way into the Council of the Chosen, as he helped the Club’s leader Ned Buckman to fund Project Armageddon, without knowing that Buckman wanted to use the Project’s Sentinels to totally eradicate mutantkind. When the Sentinels killed Shaw’s lover, Lourdes Chantal, Shaw and Emma wanted revenge. They attacked during a meeting of the Council and Emma took mental control of Ned Buckman’s mind, making him shoot all the members, including the former White Queen, Paris Seville and Buckman himself. That night, Shaw and Frost rose as the Black King and White Queen of the new Inner Circle and they soon started to fill the other positions with their loyal allies, like Harry Leland and Donald Pierce. (Classic X-Men v1 #7) Shaw wanted a king in equal standing, though, and extended an invitation to Prince Namor of Atlantis. Namor attended the Club and was intrigued by Emma, but scoffed at the idea of being labeled a mere mutant when he was of royal blood. He dismissed Shaw's offer out of turn, but Sebastian would not be deterred. He sent out Emma to deal with Namor in his stead. Emma drew Namor's attention on a boat at sea, enticing him to rescue her. She spent some time in Atlantis in Namor's bed, trying to convince him to make the mutant cause his own. Emma thought she had a winning play when Sentinels attacked her and the Sub-Mariner in Atlantis. Whether he considered himself a mutant or not, she argued, Namor would be targeted by those who hated mutants. Unfortunately, it turned out the Sentinels were sent by a jealous Sebastian Shaw, who thought Emma had been out of touch for too long. Shaw had Emma's memories of her time with Namor removed, and confidently taunted Namor that he would remain untouchable if the Sub-Mariner ever sought reprisal against him. (Uncanny X-Men Annual v1 #2)
Shaw decided to use Emma as part of a wager against the elusive Club member Elias Bogan through his minion Oliver Ryland. If Sebastian won, he would gain Elias's fortune but if Shaw lost than Bogan would get Emma Frost as the prize. However, Shaw's aide Tessa helped him cheat in the game allowing him to win with Bogan honouring the bet. (X-Treme X-Men v1 #41)
White Queen
Generation X
Emma came to accept the role of Head Administrator at the Xavier school in Massachusetts where she agreed to help train the next generation of new Mutants. At the Massachusetts Academy, she came to convince Skin and Synch to fight one another by claiming it was a cross-training exercise. (Generation X v1 #1)
New X-Men
Frost was present on Genosha when it was attacked by a new breed of Sentinels and although over 16 million people died. Emma herself came to be among the only person who survived where the experience had triggered a secondary mutation that gave her the ability to coat herself in a layer of organic diamond. (New X-Men v1 #116)
One of her first chances to prove herself and save the school came when Xavier's sister, Cassandra Nova, took over his body and was planning to eliminate all mutants in the world. After he claimed his body back, leaving Cassandra non-corporeal, Frost convinced her that she had brought Cassandra's body to her in exchange for her life and that of the Cuckoos, but in reality Cassandra was tricked into being trapped inside the alien Stuff, that had been programmed to keep her contained. (New X-Men v1 #126)
Meanwhile, with a void growing between Scott Summers and Jean Grey, Frost offered telepathic counseling that then grew into a psychic affair. The Cuckoos took out their anger toward Frost by tipping off Jean. Furious, Jean used the Phoenix power to rifle through Emma’s memories, trying to find out what happened between her and Scott in Hong Kong and made her face up to her self-deceptions. The experience left Emma deeply humiliated and emotionally shattered. In the wake of her volatile confrontation with Jean, Emma confessed to Wolverine that she has fallen in love with Scott Summers. Apparently, she hadn’t felt such genuine feelings towards a man for quite some time. (New X-Men v1 #139)
Later, Beast decided to check up on Frost only to discover her diamond form on her bedroom floor shattered into a thousand pieces by a diamond bullet. Xavier tasked Bishop and Sage to investigate Emma’s murder. They locked down the school and questioned everyone present. Meanwhile, Hank McCoy worked tirelessly reassembling Emma’s shattered body. As the investigation became more intense, one of the students, Barnell Bohusk, confessed to shooting Ms. Frost. He claimed that he killed Emma to protect his secret: that he had gotten his fellow student, Angel Salvatore, pregnant and that their offspring were monsters. Bishop and Sage quickly realized that Beak was lying to protect Angel, who was the one who actually shot Emma. In questioning Angel, however, the couple discovered that she had been mentally influenced by an outside force into shooting Emma. Independently, Jean Grey did some telepathic investigating of her own and realized that one or more of the Stepford Cuckoos were involved. Sensing that Emma’s consciousness still lingered around her shattered body, Jean used the Phoenix Force to fuse the pieces of Emma’s diamond form back together. As Emma’s mind rejoined her body, she called out the name of the true culprit - Esme. However, the truth was revealed a bit too late. When Sage and Bishop confronted Esme about the crime, the skilled Stepford Cuckoo used her mental powers to subdue the pair of mutant detectives, and she left the Xavier Institute with some help from an unseen ally. (New X-Men v1 #141)
Utopia
She later recruited the aid of Iceman to help her brother Christian who remained trapped at the family home due to her father. Emma came to learn that her father had died years ago when Christian's telepathic powers manifested as a cruel version of Winston Frost who masqueraded as the real one. Together with Bobby Drake, they managed to help Christian come to terms with himself whereupon she agreed to go alongside him in managing the family business of Frost Technologies. (Iceman v4 #2) Emma then arranged an elaborate ploy to steal the fortune from Sebastian Shaw in the Hellfire Club in order to place herself as the group's new Black King. (X-Men: Black - Emma Frost v1 #1)
Dawn of X
To secure the Hellfire Trading Company's activities, Frost managed to convince Kitty Pryde to head a mobile ocean-going crew that would deliver Krakoan medicinals to locations whilst smuggling Mutants out of countries that were persecuting them. (Marauders v1 #1) She learnt of Sebastian Shaw's own machinations that involved using mercenaries to divert Krakoa's pharmaceuticals shipments to Africa and instead sell them to wealthy clients in first world nations. Emma informed Captain Pryde of this where she helped stop the theft whilst Frost herself looked to stop Shaw's plans at placing one of his own people on the third Red Queen seat in the company by having Kitty take the position. (Marauders v1 #2)
Afterwards, the Quiet Council came to learn that one of Forge's old engineers had been captured by Virendi who replicated the Mutant power dampening weapons. These were shared with their allies in the Russian and Brazilian governments who looked to mass produce them. To stop the weapons proliferation, Emma Frost led the Marauders in a direct strike against the facility holding the engineer and the weapons which was in Russia. They managed to render the facility's staff unconscious and destroyed the weapons with them taking the engineer away from the scene thus eliminating a threat to Krakoa. (Marauders v1 #10)
From the Ashes
Overview
Personality and attributes
Originally, she was noted for having dark coloured hair. (Emma Frost v1 #1) By adulthood, she stated that she had cosmetic surgery done on herself. (New X-Men v1 #139) At the Hellfire Club, she at first served as a pole dancer where she went by the stage name of Ice Princess. (X-Men Origins: Emma Frost v1 #1)
When she was a child, she had said that her favourite books was Sleeping Beauty. (X-Men Origins: Emma Frost v1 #1)
As a teenager, she was noted for being rebellious by her father. (New X-Men v1 #139)
Emma was said to be shallow, spiteful and manipulative. (New X-Men v1 #139) It was said that she never had to ask for anything twice in her life. (Generation X v1 #24)
Frost had said that she had loved Christmas Eve with her perhaps loving it more than Christmas Day. She said that the reason was because the entire world just seemed to stop for one night in the entire year. In those few hours before dawn, she said everyone waited in anticipation for how badly they were going to be disappointed in the morning. Emma had noted that in its own tragic way that it was kind of romantic. (Generation X v1 #24)
She had watched how Sebastian Shaw had done business with her learning how simple and predictable the desires of men could be. (New X-Men v1 #139)
As a teacher, she claimed that she had loved her students and wanted those children to grow up independent and strong. (New X-Men v1 #139)
After spending sometime with Scott Summers, she came to fall in love with him. (New X-Men v1 #139)
Her father was Winston Frost and her mother was Hazel Frost with Emma having a brother called Christian Frost as well as two sisters who were Adrienne Frost along with Cordellia Frost. (Emma Frost v1 #1)
Emma's father was strict on her and regularly reprimanded her as he often commented on her low-grades. Such grades were said to be unbecoming for a member of the Frost Family. The strict life forced on her made Emma want to die as she could not handle the stress placed on her. (Emma Frost v1 #1) Even as a young child, her father berated her for having a feeble mind and underachievement where he felt such traits were not befitting someone of the Frost lineage. He said that he did not indulge in laziness or failure with him believing that hard work and being the absolute best was the only way to make one's way in this world. Her father once told his daughter Emma that she should stop wasting her time playing games with her dolls and instead focus on looking pretty like her sister Adrienne. Emma noted that her father was always cross with her and picked on her more than anyone else though her mother told her that he loved her the most. He was noted for believing in the accumulation of power and that this was a trait of the Frost family. Despite her hatred of her father, in her youth she protected him from the possibility of Xavier tampering with his mind. (X-Men Origins: Emma Frost v1 #1)
Powers and abilities
She claimed that among her other achievements was being a qualified sex therapist. (New X-Men v1 #139)
When she was young, she was unaware of her telepathic abilities that often manifested as migraines in times of stress and lashed out at random moments. (X-Men Origins: Emma Frost v1 #1)
It was shown that she was capable of scanning the memories of another person telepathically. Emma was capable of hearing the thoughts of a person from the farthest reaches of the world. Her psi-powers allowed her to neutralise a person's neural receptors and prevent a person from feeling pain. (Classic X-Men v1 #7) Frost was said to be a world-class telepath who could turn a persons brains to 'mush' if given the chance. (X-Treme X-Men v1 #22) As an Omega-class telepath, she was able to sense the presence of another Omega-class telepath. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #513)
The Frost House estate of the family was located in Boston, Massachusetts. (Emma Frost v1 #1)
Notes
- Emma Frost was created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne where she made her first appearance in Uncanny X-Men #129 (January, 1980).
Alternate Versions
- In Excalibur v1 #22 (1990), an alternate version of Emma Frost appeared in the Days of Future's Past reality that was designated as Earth-811 in the Multiverse.
- In X-Men: Alpha v1 #1 (1994), an alternate version of Emma Frost appeared in the Age of Apocalypse reality that was designated as Earth-295 in the Multiverse. At some point in her past Emma Frost was lobotomized, eliminating her mutant abilities. To that day, she still had a visible scar on the side of her head where hair no longer grows. She became a primary member of the Human High Council in the Eurasian continent. As a member of the council she developed a romantic relationship with Brian Braddock, who unknown to all was secretly working for Apocalypse.
In other media
Television
- In X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men, the White Queen appeared in the animated television pilot where she was voiced by actress Susan Silo. White Queen joined Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutant Terrorists. When Magneto was captured she ambushed the convoy, under command of Colonel Chaffy, in the desert. She created the illusion that the convoy was sinking into quicksand. When the soldiers had abandoned their vehicles she threw a psychic spear at the truck holding Magneto in a special cell. This releases the master of magnetism and he escapes, after throwing Chaffy into a canal. She did not participate in attacking the Xavier Mansion nor the Deep Space Observatory. After they stole the Mutant Power Circuit and returning to Asteroid M Emma watched Magneto order Toad to instal the circuit. She also watched as he activated the circuit and changed the trajectory of the Scorpio Comet. The X-Men learned of their plans and attacked the asteroid. Magneto, watching them enter, ordered the Brotherhood to attack them. Her allies Pyro, Toad, and Juggernaut took on the X-Men Dazzler, Wolverine, and Colossus respectively. She then attacked Cyclops and Nightcrawler. Cyclops fought with her while Nightcrawler went on ahead. After the comet had been diverted towards the asteroid Magneto gathered his Brotherhood and left before they were all destroyed.
- In X-Men, the White Queen appeared in the 1990s animated television series in the Dark Phoenix Saga where she was voiced by actress Tracey Moore.
- In Wolverine and the X-Men, Emma Frost appeared as a cast member in the animated television series where she was voiced by actress Kari Wahlgren.
Films
- In X-Men: First Class, Emma Frost appeared as a villain in the live-action film where she was portrayed by actress January Jones.
- In X-Men: Days of Future Past, Emma Frost was referenced in the sequel live-action film where it was shown that she was one of the Mutants that were experimented on and killed by Trask Industries.
Video games
- In X-Men Legends, Emma Frost appeared as a playable character in the 2004 video game where she was voiced by actress Bobby Holiday.
- In X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, Emma Frost returned as an NPC character in the 2005 video game where she was voiced by actress Bobby Holiday
- In X-Men: Destiny, Emma Frost appeared as an NPC character in the video game where she was voiced by actress Kari Wahlgren.
- In Marvel: Avengers Alliance, Emma Frost appeared in the video game with her having her own Dossier profile entry.
- In Marvel Heroes, Emma Frost appeared as an NPC character in the MMORPG video game where she was voiced by actress Kari Wahlgren.
Appearances
- Uncanny X-Men v1: (1980)
- Generation X v1:
- New X-Men v1:
- Emma Frost v1:
- Uncanny X-Men:
- New X-Men v1:
- X-Men: Blue:
- Iceman v4:
- X-Men: Black - Emma Frost v1:
- Uncanny X-Men:
- House of X v1:
- Marauders v1:
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