Emma Frost
| Emma Frost | |
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| File:Emmaf165.png Emma Frost Salvador Larroca, artist | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Uncanny X-Men #129 (January 1980) |
| Created by | Chris Claremont John Byrne |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Emma Grace Frost |
| Species | Human Mutant |
| Team affiliations | Hellfire Club X-Men Xavier Institute The 198 Frost International Hellions Generation X |
| Notable aliases | White Queen |
| Abilities | Telepathy, Ability to morph into indestructible diamond, Superhuman strength in diamond form |
Emma Grace[1] Frost, also known as the White Queen, is a fictional character appearing in the
. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne, she first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #129 (January 1980).
An urbane, mutant telepath known for her revealing white attire, Frost has been both friend and foe of the X-Men. She was originally one of the wealthy, mutant elites who comprised the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club. She has had a lifelong interest in teaching the next generation and led the club’s junior team the Hellions.
After her students’ deaths, she joined Charles Xavier’s cause, mentoring the X-Men junior team Generation X. She later joined the X-Men and became headmistress of the Xavier Institute, although her ethics remain questionable.
Publication history
From her initial appearance as the White Queen, Frost appeared in a few major storylines over the years. She frequently appeared in Uncanny X-Men and the original volume of the New Mutants alongside her Hellions. With Generation X and Grant Morrison's run of New X-Men, she was brought into the spotlight and has become a mainstay in the X-Men universe.
In March 1986, Tom DeFalco, Mary Wilshire and Stevie Leialoha were the creative team for the four issue Firestar mini-series, where Emma predominantly appeared alongside her Hellions. This series showcased the deceptiveness of her personality as she attempted to turn Angelica Jones into her own personal weapon.
After recovering from her coma and aiming to redeem herself upon the knowledge her former students had been slaughtered, Frost played a pivotal role in the Phalanx Covenant which saw her team up with Banshee, Jubilee and Sabretooth in an attempt to save the next generation of mutants. This lead to her becoming a main character of the spin-off series Generation X which began in November 1994 under the creative eyes of Scott Lobdell, Chris Bachalo and Mark Buckingham. The series ended after 75 issues and a minus one issue with Brian Wood, Ron Lim, Sandu Florea and Randy Elliott ending the series. During the -1 issue, it is revealed that Emma was homeless and had met Banshee, who was working for the NYPD and an amnesiac Dark Beast from the Age of Apocalypse. After the series ended and all the X-Titles were revamped, Emma appeared in the first series of New X-Men where she started an affair with Cyclops.
In August 2003, writer Karl Bollers penned an ongoing series showcasing her origins titled Emma Frost. The series, which lasted for 18 issues, began during her days as a private school student and ended before her days as a Hellfire Club member. It introduced her father Winston as well as her brother Christian, also exploring the early days of her two sisters Adrienne and Cordelia.
Under Joss Whedon and John Cassaday, Emma became a main character in the third volume of Astonishing X-Men. She has been a major character in the on-going series, specifically during its third arc Torn. She also frequently makes guest appearances in other Marvel titles, New X-Men in particular.
Background explored
Art by Greg Horn.
In a flashback story told by Frost herself in Generation X #24, Frost details a time she spent in a mental institution after being sent there by her parents. However, the now cancelled Emma Frost series depicted Frost's early years. The series was supposed to cover Frost's life from high school until her first appearance as the White Queen, however, it was cancelled at issue #18.
Generation X #-1, a part of the "Flashback" event which showed the first meeting of Emma Frost and the Dark Beast, seems to take place after the series.
In X-Men: Deadly Genesis, Frost is shown after the events of her series and Generation X #-1. As a stripper at the Hellfire Club, Frost was approached by Professor X and Moira MacTaggart to join a new team of X-Men along with other characters introduced in the series. When she refused Professor X erased her memory of the encounter.
Fictional character biography
Emma Frost was born in Boston, Massachusetts to the wealthy Winston and Hazel Frost, she was the second of three daughters and also had an older brother, Christian. Winston was cold, ruthless and domineering, often imposing impossibly high standards on his children, while Hazel abused prescription drugs to cope with the tensions of her household. Thus, Emma obtained no emotional support from her parents. The one sibling she got along with was Christian.
White Queen of the Hellfire Club
Emma Frost first appeared as the White Queen of the Hellfire Club, a group of superhumans who dressed in 18th century clothing and plotted world domination. Frost and the Club's agents captured several members of the X-Men. Frost engaged Phoenix in a psychic battle, lost badly, but later recovered.
During her time with the Hellfire Club, Frost also ran the Massachusetts Academy, a school for mutants which served as a counterpoint to that of X-Men founder Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. Frost's trainees became the super-villain team known as the Hellions and fought Xavier's young students, the New Mutants. At one point, Frost began privately training a young mutant named Angelica Jones to be her personal bodyguard and assassin in reaction to political in-fighting among the Hellfire Club. Jones eventually discovered Frost was manipulating her and broke free from her control to later become the super-heroine Firestar.
Death of the Hellions
When the time traveling mutant Trevor Fitzroy unleashed the mutant-hunting robots called the Sentinels on Frost and the Hellions, Frost was left in a coma by the attack and nearly all of her students were killed. One of the Hellions, Tarot, somehow returned to life several months later. The other two Hellions that managed to survive were Warpath and Empath.
It was also during this period (behind the scenes) that Emma's egg cells were harvested by John Sublime.
The X-Men cared for the comatose Frost at the Xavier Academy. Later, she awoke and possessed the body of the X-Man Iceman (Bobby Drake). In Drake's body, Frost made use of his ice powers in ways he had never dreamed and pushed the limits of his powers to escape the X-Mansion. When she discovered the deaths of her students, Xavier was able to coax the devastated Frost back into her own body.
Later, Frost was attacked in one of her buildings by Iceman, who wanted to know how to utilize his untapped powers to fix damage he had undergone. His ice-form had been severely damaged and he feared if he turned to human, he would die. Despite the danger, Emma managed to talk Iceman into realizing it was simply pure willpower. With her emotional support, he was able to cure himself and return to normal.
Generation X
After being disrupted from her comatose state while the Phalanx invaded the mansion and replaced several X-Men, Frost teamed up with the X-Men Banshee (Sean Cassidy), Jubilee, as well as Sabretooth and future student Synch. They battled the techno-organic lifeforms in order to rescue a select group of teenage mutants known as 'Generation X'. Emma agreed, after resolving that the Hellions might have survived Fitzroy's Sentinel siege had they been exposed to Xavier's teachings as well as her own.
The group of students became a superhero team known as Generation X and studied at Frost's Massachusetts Academy. Cassidy's trust of Frost was intermittent — at times he was suspicious of her, and at others he trusted her implicitly. Her students were also initially skeptical of her. Slowly, the headmistress earned their trust. Around this time, Frost also worked to earn back Firestar's trust.
Emma became involved in the lives of many other young mutants besides her initial charges, including Marrow, Artie, Leech and even Franklin Richards for a time. Unfortunately, for Leech, he was being used by evil forces to dampen Emma's powers and she had to knock him out with a kick to the head.
Later, Leech, Artie, Franklin and several other heroes would live in Emma's Danger Grotta (a version of the Danger Room) for some time.
Frost seemingly enjoyed flirting with Banshee, though this may have been for pure fun.
After Frost's business ventures took a bad turn, she turned to her estranged sister Adrienne for help. Adrienne, a psychometrist, offered financial assistance but demanded to be co-headmistress of the school in return. Adrienne secretly plotted against Emma and planted a bomb at the school, which killed Generation X member Synch. Frost tracked down and murdered Adrienne and then returned to the Academy, growing increasingly distant from her students in an effort to hide her crime. Monet even came to the realization that Emma had murdered her sister and informed the other students that they could no longer trust her. This, combined with Banshee's increasing depression and drunkenness following the death of his long-time lover Moira MacTaggert, led the students to leave, disbanding Generation X.
Joining the X-Men
Afterwards, Frost traveled to the mutant haven island of Genosha, possibly at the request of Xavier due to her receiving an unrevealed request by him at the end of Generation X. There, Frost ran and taught at a mutant school until a genocidal Sentinel attack killed most of the island's population. Frost survived only due to the sudden manifestation of her secondary mutation: the power to transform herself into a flexible, diamond-like substance that provides her near-invulnerability.
Frost then joined the X-Men and taught at Xavier's newly-reopened school and shortly thereafter dropped her "White Queen" codename. She also started to look after and train a group of telepathic quintuplets known as the Stepford Cuckoos, who quickly became her prized pupils. Frost and the Cuckoos proved themselves when they helped fight against the entity known as Cassandra Nova. As a member of the X-Men, Frost began a psychic, quasi-sexual relationship with the X-Man Cyclops (Scott Summers), who had become distant from his wife Jean Grey as a result of his temporary physical and mental merger with the mutant immortal, Apocalypse. At first the psychic meetings had been a form of therapy, but soon de-evolved into a full blown telepathic affair.
While quelling a riot at the school, one of the Cuckoos was killed and the others left Frost, blaming her for the death. In the aftermath of the riot, Jean Grey discovered Frost and Summers' affair, became enraged and confronted Frost. Unleashing her re-ignited Phoenix abilities, Grey tore through Frost's mental defenses and forced her to face the self-denials of her past. Frost was traumatized after the attack, the experience left her humiliated and emotionally shattered. However, in the end, the confrontation with Jean resulted in Emma confessing to Wolverine that she truly loved Scott Summers.
Soon afterwards, fellow X-Man Beast found her physically shattered in her diamond form. While other members of the school investigated the murder, Beast attempted to reassemble Emma piece by piece. Surprisingly however it was Jean Grey who successfully reassembled and fused Frost's body back together as she realized that Emma truly did love Scott and that Emma could help him in a way that Jean could not. Alive again, Frost was able to name her murderer - Esme of the Stepford Cuckoos. Esme had shot Frost in her single flaw with a diamond bullet, under the direction of Xorn/Magneto. Esme fled, and after her subsequent murder by Xorn/Magneto, the three remaining Cuckoos returned to Frost.
Leading Xavier's
Art by Clayton Henry
At the climactic battle against Xorneto, Jean Grey was killed by the villain. Following her funeral, Emma approached Scott with the hopes of furthering their relationship and rebuilding the school. Initially Cyclops said no and walked away from Emma, which resulted in a horrible alternate future. Jean Grey, who had been reborn as the White Phoenix of the Crown, realized that in order to prevent that future, Cyclops needed a reason to stay. Using her cosmic powers, Jean Grey urged Cyclops to 'live' and start a new life with Emma. Afterwards Cyclops and Frost became lovers, despite the criticism from their teammates and family members, and the two took over the school after Professor Xavier stepped down. Frost became co-headmaster with Cyclops and adviser to a new team of Hellions. Frost developed a very antagonistic relationship with fellow adviser Danielle Moonstar, who, despite Emma's past record with the X-Men, did not trust her.
Emma also had an antagonistic relationship with the daughter of Jean Grey and Cyclops, Rachel Grey, who was furious at her father for betraying Jean and for starting a relationship with Emma immediately after her death. This anger led to a telepathic battle on the astral plane. Although Rachel was far more powerful than her, Frost's telepathy was more refined and trained, allowing her to beat Rachel. Frost then rather peacefully offered Rachel the chance to help her hone her telepathic skills. Rachel, though still wary, accepted the proposal.
Following Decimation the student population has gone drastically down. Frost and Cyclops decide to have one team of students to train as New X-Men. To pick who is on this team they put all the students in the danger room to fight each other. Frost chooses six students, four from her Hellions squad, to be New X-Men. Cyclops lets X-23 join the New X-Men squad which Frost greatly opposes because X-23 is too dangerous. At this time the racist preacher William Stryker causes the subsequent deaths of most of the depowered students and tries to eliminate mutant kind. Once again Frost feels responsible for the loss of young lives.
House of M and Civil War
Frost was pivotal to the plot of the House of M event. In this reality, she was married to Scott. Frost was the first X-Man Wolverine contacted for help after the Scarlet Witch altered reality, but it is unknown if Logan was actually trying to contact Scott. She was the only other reawakened individual to side with Wolverine in a controversial opinion to kill the Scarlet Witch in order to return the world to normal.
Frost announced to Iron Man that the Xavier Institute and the X-Men would not support the Superhuman Registration Act and remain neutral (see Civil War) as she fears that the registration of mutants would put them in more danger. Ms. Marvel's visit to the Institute in order to convince the X-Men to support the pro-registration heroes caused Frost to harshly criticize the Avengers for not showing any kind of support following the Genoshan genocide, which she had already done with Iron Man, and the mass deaths of the depowered students while showing her psychic images to illustrate her point.
Phoenix - Endsong
In X-Men: Phoenix - Endsong the X-Men found themselves facing off against the Phoenix again. The Phoenix Force returned to Earth and resurrected Jean Grey from her grave. In a plan to trap the Phoenix Force, Frost offered her body as vessel. Frost is temporarily possessed by the Phoenix, though she is unable to host it without being overwhelmed by it due to not being an Omega level mutant. The Phoenix refuses to leave Frost's body however until Jean Grey removes it. When Jean and the Phoenix Force merged together, Jean began to lose control. Under Cyclops' direction, Emma uses her telepathy to contact the remaining Stepford Cuckoos, who are using Cerebra, and connect them all with every X-Man who ever loved Jean. They direct all that love and support into Jean's mind in order to keep her grounded. This results in Jean gaining full control of the Phoenix Force, and allows her to regain her position as the White Phoenix of the Crown, before returning to the White Hot Room.
Phoenix - Warsong
The third issue of X-Men: Phoenix - Warsong reveals that Emma's ova were the genetic templates used to clone thousands of identical female telepaths, five of which would become the Stepford Cuckoos. At the issue's conclusion, the encapsulated offspring, as well as Celeste Cuckoo, begin to refer to Frost as "mother" -- a title whose usage she later accepts. At the end of the Warsong Series, Emma and the Cuckoos manage to destroy the thousands of additional clones, and seal a fragment of the Phoenix Force within the three remaining girls. Emma, pained by the loss of her cloned children, declares revenge against the Phoenix, whether its form be that of the Force or Jean Grey.
A New Hellfire Club
Art by John Cassaday.
An ongoing subplot in Astonishing X-Men depicts Frost's unusually antagonistic relationship with Kitty Pryde and possible domination of Scott Summers as possible evidence of disloyalty. Her secretive relationship with the surviving Stepford Cuckoos has also been presented as "evidence," and accusations are frequently made by other characters having reason to distrust her motives. In issue #12 (August 2005), the question of Frost's "true loyalties" are brought into focus as Frost abandons the team during a fight to confer with a shadowy figure, revealed on the final page to be one of a group of four individuals watching from the shadows. The group contains Sebastian Shaw, Cassandra Nova, Negasonic Teenage Warhead (a young telepath and former student of Frost's, who apparently died in Genosha), and a cloaked figure called Perfection, who discuss among themselves Frost's impending betrayal of the team.
Art by John Cassaday.
In Astonishing X-Men #13 (February, 2006), we are shown a vision of Frost's survival of the destruction of Genosha in New X-Men #115 portrayed as being due to Cassandra Nova creating Frost's secondary mutation, while in exchange, she was to assist Nova as part of a scheme to infiltrate the X-Men as a sleeper agent (Nova having supposedly erased the memory of their encounter and only restoring it recently). This may have occurred when Emma allowed a part of Nova to escape into her brain while she was trapping Nova into the Alien form Stuff during the X-men's last battle with Nova. She then played upon Emma's survivors guilt at surviving Genosha while her students died, her suppressed fear of her being evil while still seeking redemption, while trying to reconcile her real love for Cyclops and that she could possibly betray him by turning back to her roots.
Using this and other elements of Emma's consciousness, she created physical manifestations of Cassandra in her human form, Sebastian Shaw, Emma's younger evil self in the Hellfire club calling itself "Perfection", and Negasonic Teenage Warhead, a former student of hers that was killed in Genosha. First, she began using her telepathy on Cyclops to appear as Phoenix, trying to reveal the lack of control he had over his optic blasts. It was revealed that shortly after he fell out of a plane with his younger brother Havok, Scott placed a deep mental block in his mind which prevented the controlled use of his powers. Encouraged by Frost, Scott revisits that moment in his life and reverses the decision, leaving him comatose. With Cyclops out of the way Frost/Nova, and the physical manifestations calling themselves the "Hellfire Club", assault the X-Mansion, incapacitating every X-Man, with the exception of Shadowcat, who manages to elude capture, but was eventually tricked by Nova/Emma Frost into helping Emma/Nova retrieve the "Stuff" body containing the rest of Nova. A depowered Cyclops with the help of Blindfold, and Hisako Ichiki, were able to defeat the "Hellfire Club" by figuring out they were fake, while Emma herself tried to get Kitty to shoot her in order to block Cassandra's escape, but was stopped by Cyclops. Undeterred, Nova then attempted to transfer her mind into Hisako. The ending was interrupted as everyone present was teleported away by S.W.O.R.D. on to their ship which was headed towards the Breakworld.
Breakworld
Emma, along with Cyclops, Colossus, Wolverine, Beast, Shadowcat, Hisako, Ord, and Danger, were taken to deep space by S.W.O.R.D. and Agent Brand. The psychics on the S.W.O.R.D. ship did not detect Cassandra Nova in Emma's shattered psyche, effectively proving Emma's loyalty to the X-Men by her refusal to allow Nova into Hisako. Though emotionally wounded, Emma recovered fast enough to be present for the team's departure to the Breakworld. Separated, Emma, Scott, Beast, and Agent Brand discovered the temple of Attur-Hei ("The Palace of the Corpse.") Joined by teammates Wolverine and Hisako (now code named "Armor"), Emma conceded to Agent Brand's plan of separation. She and Scott left Attur-Hei on a single S.W.O.R.D. armed jet to rendezvous with the rest of the S.W.O.R.D. operatives on the Breakworld.
While flying, several Breakworld fighter jets approached, attempting to knock Emma and Scott out of the air. The couple successfully repelled the Breakworld onslaught, exchanging heated words in the process. Amidst Emma's protestations that Scott was "acting as though [he knew] what [she's] been through," he finally professed his true love for Emma. Stunned, Emma could barely speak, except to utter an apology. Before her reasons behind apologizing were discussed, Scott noticed a blip on their radar. Danger appeared, utterly destroying the S.W.O.R.D. cruiser. Switching to diamond form in the nick of time, Emma was spared, however Scott was mortally injured. Cradling a dying Scott in her arms, Emma shed a tear for the man who truly loved her.
As Danger approached, ready to finish Frost as well, Emma turned and faced her, asking Danger to kill her, adding "please do try to make it quick."
Powers and abilities
Emma Frost is capable of accessing both a human form with telepathic abilities and an organic diamond form with enhanced strength and durability.
Since her introduction, Frost has displayed the telepathic standards of broadcasting and receiving thoughts, mind control, altering perceptions and memories, astral projection, etc... all honed to brutal precision. She is highly skilled at creating electronic devices that amplify/block/engage psionic powers, as well as exploiting flaws in most electronic equipment.
Frost is also very adept at performing 'psychic surgery': the utilization of pin-pointed psionic energy to exert absolute control over individual brain functions such that the physical form can be manipulated (i.e., injuries healed, disabilities repaired, activation of sexual response, stimulation or retardation of growth and aging, etc). This is an unusual feat for even the most powerful of telepaths, but one that Frost is keen to utilize whenever the occasion suits her.
Upon their meeting in the rainforests of Ecuador, Cassandra Nova labeled Frost's psychic abilities as 'bush league' in comparison to herself. Regardless of that statement, Frost can formidably hold her own even against those of more considerable might. An example of this was her victory over Rachel Grey (Marvel Girl) on the Astral Plane; while Rachel possessed significantly more raw power, Frost's refined skills enabled her to claim victory over the relatively inexperienced Rachel. In contrast to Cassandra Nova's claim, Frost has been cited as a "World-class telepath" and a "Psi of High Order", capable of extraordinary telepathic feats. During the Civil War: X-Men series, Valerie Cooper referred to Emma as one of the most powerful telepaths on Earth. Most recently in X-Men Annual 1, Emma was labeled as the most powerful telepath on the planet-- a position she no longer holds seeing as Professor X recently regained his telepathy.
During the massacre of over 16 million mutants in Genosha, Frost developed a secondary mutation: the ability to transform herself into a perfectly smooth, flexible, translucent diamond-like substance. Her abilities have been inconsistent in this form. Although initially only her skin turns into diamond, she was shattered by a diamond bullet, indicating that her entire body turns into organic diamond. Frost is virtually impervious to all forms of physical damage and can use her indestructible body to support incredible amounts of weight, though different writers have shown varying accounts of her strength. Her diamond form also has a physical flaw, which, if exploited, can and has caused her to shatter. Though the exact location of the flaw in her diamond body has not been stated outright, several clues point to it being located in her face. In New X-Men, Dr. Sublime breaks Emma's nose, stating afterwards when she has shifted to her diamond form that one of his U-Men has located Emma's flaw with his microscopic vision. Sublime proceeds to claim that Frost's flaw is her vanity, insinuating that the flaw lies in her face. When she is shot and shattered by a diamond bullet, the perpetrator, Angel Salvador, confesses that she took the gun and shot Emma in the face. Finally, in Astonishing X-Men during the "Dangerous" arc, Danger is shown pressing a drill to diamond Emma's forehead, threatening to cause her to shatter again.
Frost's full range of abilities between her diamond state and regular form have also been inconsistent; while some occurrences would have some readers believe that due to a genetic flaw Frost cannot access her telepathy in diamond form, later stories have contradicted this. X-Men #190 and Astonishing X-Men reflect Morrison's initial depiction of her powers: that Frost cannot access her psychic powers in diamond form and vice versa. Her mind's condition when in diamond form has also been inconsistent, but Phoenix: Warsong #3 confirms that Emma's mind is immune to at least low-level telepathy while diamond. Also, Emma has no need for water or food while she stays in her diamond form.
Throughout the years, it has been strongly hinted that Frost is also a latent telekinetic. In a battle with the Phoenix Force, Frost channeled her mental energy into a "psi-bolt" directed at Phoenix, immediately afterwords the building around her collapses, Phoenix refers to this as a "suicide" and takes no credit for the building's destruction. To save herself from Trevor Fitzroy, Jean Grey's displaced psyche was able to use Frost's brain to generate a strong telekinetic force-field and fly while it inhabited the White Queen's body.[2] Generation X #19 takes this even further, wherein an unconscious Frost telekinetically levitated several kitchen utensils around her while having a bad dream.
As Emma's mutant abilities are her telepathy and diamond form, it is still unclear as to how these feats were accomplished. X-Man #28 offers a suggestion however: within which Hank McCoy explains to Nate Grey that there exists a "thin line between telekinesis and telepathy", one composed of "artificially defined distinctions" which quite possibly are subconsciously put in place by a psi (within his or her own mind) for any number of reasons. This theory is well-supported throughout the history of the X-Men; as various psi-talents have indeed "switched" mental powers, or utilized various forms of psionic energies which they typically were not able to wield, particularly in times of extreme stress/duress.
Other versions
Age of Apocalypse
In the Age of Apocalypse, Emma Frost never joined the Hellfire Club, and was neither part of the X-Men nor of Apocalypse's forces. Instead, she was a member of the Human High Council, despite being a mutant. The AoA Frost had no psychic powers due to a lobotomy, which, regardless of it having been forced, saved her from Apocalypse's psychic mutants purge.
Frost was one of the HHC leaders that lead the attack against Apocalypse, alongside Mariko Yashida and Brian Braddock, whom Frost both distrusted and disliked for his extreme anti-mutant stance.
Ultimate Universe
First appearing in Ultimate X-Men #42, the Emma Frost of the Ultimate Universe is a former student of Professor Charles Xavier. The two became romantically involved, but they eventually split over ideological differences: Whereas Xavier believes in aggressive action and in protecting his students from society, Frost believes in an integrated approach to mutant/human relations. Frost believes Xavier to be too violent.
Frost returned to Chicago and became a teacher, giving mutant education seminars. The governor supported her cause and introduced her to the White House chief of staff. Through him, she meets the American president and organizes the New Mutants program, designed to educate humans about mutants and to cut the government's ties to Charles Xavier, whose reputation has been tarnished. During the group's first media appearance, they and the president are attacked by Sentinels and must be rescued by the X-Men. Xavier tries to convince Frost to stay with the X-Men, but she returns to her own school in Chicago. Her new program, the Academy of Tomorrow, accepts all talented students, regardless of genetic status.
In the Ultimate X-Men comics, Frost can transform her skin into an organic diamond form, like her secondary mutation in the Marvel Universe; however, she does not display telepathic abilities, although, in her initial display to the President, she appears as though she is going on to mention other powers before she is cut off, so it remains to be seen whether there will be any similarities between the Ultimate and 616 Versions.
She dresses much more conservatively than her 616 counterpart; generally wearing buttoned up shirts and knee-length skirts, as opposed to the main continuities' very revealing costumes. Even when appearing in a costume reminiscent of the original's outfit for a press conference, she still manages to show far less skin.
Exiles
In a reality where the Legacy virus became the black plague of mutantkind, Warlock bonded with Cypher in order to save him. However, the legacy virus mutated into a non-lethal techno-organic plague that infected mutants and humans alike, transforming them into Vi-locks, with Forge as its central consciousness. A crippled Emma is a member of the Avengers, the only superhero group remaining and that gathers all the non-infected superhumans of the reality.
In another reality (Earth-27538), Emma is still a member of the Hellfire Club, alongside Donald Pierce, Sebastian Shaw and Harry Leland. The Exiles fight them to prevent the crashing of that reality. Emma senses the presence of something powerful (Proteus) in the mind of Morph and tries to unleash it, though she's stopped by Longshot, who throws a dagger in her head. Thanks to his luck powers, Emma, whose survival is vital for the fate of her native reality, survives the wound. However, the damage Morph/Proteus' conditioning causes a fragment of Proteus' mind to manifest, causing Morph to speak with Proteus' Scottish accent.
What If?
In What If Legion Had Killed Magneto? (Vol 2 #77), Emma is married to or dating Warren Worthington, and they are both members of the Hellfire Club. The Hellfire Club is quickly decimated by the forces of Apocalypse.
In other media
As White Queen
- She appears in the X-Men game for NES, in at the end of the fourth level, "Battle on a Living Starship." As a boss, Frost morphs into the player's chosen character and mimics their attacks, periodically returning to her normal form. Unless players were able to decipher the hidden code written on the front of the game, this was the final level of the game.
- In the 1989 animated television pilot, Pryde of the X-Men, she was portrayed as a member of Magneto's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, with no mention of the Hellfire Club. Susan Silo provided her voice.
- She is the mid-boss of stage five in Konami's X-Men arcade game, which was largely based on Pryde of the X-Men series. Susan Silo added her voice talents to the game with such infamous engrish quotes as, "The White Queen welcomes you to die!" In the final stage Frost returns as the third boss of five (after Wendigo and before Nimrod inside of Magneto's base in Asteroid M.
- Frost made appearances in the 1992 X-Men animated series as the White Queen of the Inner Circle Club (the name used for the Hellfire Club in the series). Frost appears in the first three parts of the series' adaptation of the Dark Phoenix Saga; and is shown briefly among a group of telepaths in the episode, Beyond Good and Evil Part 4: End and Beginning.
- Finola Hughes portrayed Emma Frost in a 1996 live-action television movie Generation X. As in the Generation X comics, Frost still used the code name White Queen.
- Frost appeared as White Queen in the Generation X series of action figures.
As Emma Frost
- Emma Frost is a playable character in the role playing game X-Men Legends and returns as a non-player character in the sequel X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse. In Marvel: Ultimate Alliance she appears briefly in a "Doomsday" cinematic where she was among the heroes who were defeated by Doctor Doom.
- After the success of the X-Men trilogy of movies, an Emma Frost film by David O. Russell is being considered by 20th Century Fox[1].
- Sigourney Weaver was set to play Frost in Bryan Singer's X-Men 3 but after he left the project for Superman Returns, the story changed considerably and the character was dropped. Singer's version was to have Frost as an old flame and colleague of Charles Xavier who had empathic and other telepathic abilities and would play a major role in the Jean Grey's transformation into the Dark Phoenix.[citation needed]
- Ashley Hartman was rumored to play Emma Frost as a side character in X-Men: The Last Stand. However, she was a last minute addition, and the idea was later dropped.[citation needed]
- In Wolverine and the X-Men, press materials show that Emma Frost will appear voiced by Kari Wahlgren.[citation needed]
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