Emma Frost (Earth-616)

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Real Name

Emma Grace Frost

Current Alias

Emma Frost

Aliases

Emms, White Queen, Perfection, Shadow, the Dark Shadow

Identity

Public

Alignment

Good

Affiliation

X-Men formerly Headmistress/Advisor of Hellions Training Squad, Generation X and Hellions, Hellfire Club Inner Circle, Frost International

Relatives

Winston Frost(father, deceased), Hazel Frost (mother, deceased), Cordelia (sister), Adrienne (aka White Queen, sister, deceased), Christian Frost (brother), Steven (brother-in-law, deceased), Stepford Cuckoos (clone daughters)

Universe

Earth-616

Base Of Operations

Xavier Institute, Salem Center, Westchester County, New York; formerly Massachusetts Academy, Snow Valley, Massachusetts

Characteristics

Gender

Female

Height

5' 10"

Weight

125 lbs (57 kg)

Eyes

Blue

Hair

Brown, , dyed platinum blonde

Unusual Features

Crystalline skin, when in diamond form

Status

Citizenship

American

Marital Status

Single

Occupation

Co-Headmistress of Xavier Institute, Chairperson of the Board and Chief Executive of Frost International, Chairman of the Board of Trustees & headmistress of Massachusetts Academy, Multi-Millionaire, Heiress

Education

College Graduate

Origin

Origin

Emma is a mutant, born with her amazing telepathic abilities that developed when she was a teenager.

Place of Birth

Boston, Massachusetts

Creators

Chris Claremont, John Byrne

First appearance

Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 #129 (Dec 1979)

History

Family Background

Emma Frost was a leading member of an old Boston mercantile family which arrived from England in the 1600s. The second of three daughters, Emma also had an older brother named Christian who had turned to substance abuse as an escape from the drudgery of his life. Unknown to their family or themselves, the three Frost sisters were mutants whose telepathic abilities matured upon reaching puberty. When it came time for their father to choose a worthy heir to the family fortune, Christian was automatically dismissed due to his drug problem and because of being gay. While the older sister Adrienne seemed the most obvious choice, their father chose Emma. Surprisingly, she refused, choosing to make her own way through life. She inherited a good deal of wealth, but most of her large fortune was the result of her business successes. She rose rapidly through the world of business thanks to her intelligence, drive, personal charm, and her secret use of her psionic abilities. Also, at some point, the Dark Beast met Emma, and helped her rise to wealth and power.^[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. When she refused Professor X erased her memory of the encounter, against Vulcan's judgement that Xavier should forcible change her mind.^[2]

Frost International

She eventually became the majority stockholder of a multi-billion dollar conglomerate, which was been renamed Frost International after herself. Despite her youth, she became a chairperson of the board of Frost International and its chief executive officer. Frost International was principally involved in transportation (both the building of ships and aircraft and their use for freight and passenger transport) and electronics. Emma Frost also became chairperson of the board of trustees of the Massachusetts Academy, a college preparatory school for grades seven through twelve located in the Berkshire Mountains in Snow Valley, Massachusetts. Frost served as the academy's headmistress and spent a great deal of her time there.

White Queen of the Hellfire Club

Emma Frost as The White Queen

Emma Frost's beauty and talents brought her an invitation to join the Hellfire Club, an elite social organization of the world's wealthy and powerful figures. Frost became the ally of Sebastian Shaw who was a member of the Club's Council of the Chosen, a group which secretly conspired to achieve world domination through economic and political means. Like Frost, Shaw was a mutant. The Leaders of the Club and Council, its foremost Lords Cardinal, were Edward Buckman and the Paris Seville. The Lords Cardinal were given titles corresponding to the names of chess pieces. Buckman threw the Council's support behind Project Armageddon which was scientist Steven Lang's program to build Sentinel robots and have them hunt down superhuman mutants). Knowing Shaw was himself a mutant Buckman told him that the Project was intended to capture superhuman mutants for use by the council in seeking power. However, Frost, through her psionic powers, learned that the Project was actually intended as a means of destroying all superhuman mutants. Together Shaw and Frost staged a coup that gave them control of the Council of the Chosen, which they renamed the Inner Circle. Shaw took the title of Black King and Frost became the new White Queen.

Under Shaw and Frost, the Inner Circle was dominated by superhuman mutants. Frost recruited young superhuman mutants and trained them in the use of their powers at her school so that they might use those powers on the Inner Circle's behalf. Most of these mutant students were members of a team called the [[Hellions (Massachusetts Academy) |Hellions]].

Emma Frost as The White Queen

Frost first encountered the team of mutants called the X-Men when she attempted to recruit young mutant |Katherine "Kitty" Pryde for her school and captured a number of X-Men. She was defeated by Phoenix and disappeared for several months. Since then, Frost crossed paths with the X-Men and their associates, the New Mutants, many times, often as their adversary.

Later, the X-Men joined with the Hellions in order to protect the White Queen from a time-traveling attacker known as Trevor Fitzroy, but not before Fitzroy's brutal assault plunged Frost into a deep coma and brought about the untimely demise of the majority of the Hellions. Frost's consciousness was apparently still active on the material plane and her body was kept in the Med-lab at the X-Men's mansion. Seeking to insure the welfare of her students and the future of the school, Frost foresightedly willed the care of the Academy to Professor Charles Xavier. It was during her psychic incapacitation that The Massachusetts Academy was legally added to the rapidly expanding Xavier Institute. While in the Med-lab an accident caused Emma Frost to possess the body of the X-Man Iceman, and likewise, his mind was transferred into her body.

Generation X

Emma Frost returned to her own body and when she fully recovered from the coma she resumed her role as headmistress of the academy. Together with Banshee, they trained the new class of mutants, Generation X.

the Massachusetts Academy closed its doors following a bold revenge plan by Adrienne Frost that ended in Synch's death and Emma murdering her sister. Emma began teaching in Genosha, and became one of a handful of survivors of the Sentinel massacre due to her Secondary Mutation.

Joining the X-Men

Emma once again returned to the Xavier Institute to teach. She immediately took the quintuplet psychic sisters, the Stepford Cuckoos (Now Three-In-One), under her wing. Emma and Henry McCoy struck up a friendship, while many others resented her presence at the school. During a riot at the school by Quentin Quire and his Omega Gang the Cuckoo Sophie died when using the drug Kick and Cerebra to subdue Quentin. Blaming Emma's emphasis on heroism for Sophie's death the Cuckoos abandoned her.

Cyclops (Scott Summers)

Emma Frost and Cyclops (Scott Summers)

Meanwhile, with a void growing between Scott Summers and Jean Grey, Emma began to have a psychic affair with Scott. The Cuckoos took out their anger by tipping off Jean. When Jean discovered the two together on the astral plane she brutally tore through Emma's memories, forcing her to remember all the things she repressed in her past including her failure to keep the Hellions alive. Breaking down, Emma admitted to Wolverine that she had fallen in love with Scott.

Phoenix was killed by the Magneto impostor, Kuan-Yin Xorn, and she encouraged Cyclops from the White Hot Room to begin a new chapter of his life with Emma. Presently, the couple acts as headmaster and headmistress of the Xavier Institute and are active members on the X-Men squad. Emma also acts as supervisor to a new set of Hellions, as all students that attend the school were assigned to squads.

Due to Emma's extremely refined telepathic abilities, she beat the alternate future daughter of Phoenix and Cyclops, Rachel Summers, in a contest on the astral plane, despite Rachel's vastly superior power. However, she then rather peacefully offered Rachel the chance to help her hone her telepathic skills since there was now no one else to do so. Rachel, though still wary, accepted the proposal. There has been no actual evidence of Rachel's training since.

House of M

Main article: Emma Frost (HoM)

Emma was pivotal to the plot of the House of M event. In this reality, she was married to Scott and the pair had three children. Also notably, she was the first X-Man Wolverine contacted for help after the Scarlet Witch altered reality. She was the only other reawakened individual to side with Wolverine in a controversial opinion to kill the Scarlet Witch in order to return to the world to normal.

The New Hellfire Club

Emma Frost

Emma's unusually antagonistic relationship with Kitty Pryde and possible domination of Scott Summers were given as possible evidence of disloyalty. Her secretive relationship with the surviving Stepford Cuckoos wa also been presented as "evidence," and accusations were frequently made by others having reason to distrust her motives.

The question of Emma's "true loyalties" were brought into focus as Emma abandoned the team during a fight to confer with a shadowy figure, revealed to be one of a group of four individuals watching from the shadows. The group containd Sebastian Shaw, Cassandra Nova, Negasonic Teenage Warhead (a girl who apparently died in Genosha), and a cloaked figure called Perfection, who discussed among themselves Emma's impending betrayal of the team.

It was later revealed that Emma's survival of the destruction of Genosha was due to Cassandra Nova creating Emma's secondary mutation as part of a scheme to infiltrate the X-Men as a sleeper agent, Nova having erased the memory of their encounter and only restoring it recently. Perfection noted that Emma's feelings for Summers were genuine, however. Cassandra noted that Emma is a "predator," that Emma will "do what's best for" Emma, which will mean, "in the long run...planting yourself where you can be of use to me, and, in the short run, surviving (the attack on Genosha)." Emma 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 Emma, Scott revisited that moment in his life and reversed the decision.

It was further revealed that Ellie, Shaw and Perfection were actually psionic projections created by Emma under Cassandra's influence. Cassandra Nova had placed a portion of her mind in Emma's before being trapped in the body of Stuff.

Phoenix Force

For a brief time during, Emma was host to the Phoenix Force.^[3]

Emma Frost on the cover of X-Men:Phoenix Warsong 4

Stepford Cuckoos

After following the Stepford Cuckoos, including the resurrected Sophie and Esme, to The World, Emma Frost discovered that the Cuckoos and hundreds of others had been cloned from her eggs.

Blinded By the Light

During the new Marauders attack on the X-Men, Omega Sentinel was possessed by an entity known as Malice and attacked her. Later, when the new Acolytes team invaded the mansion for the books of Destiny, Shadowcat thought she had the books, but the books had no words, and Exodus realized that Emma Frost was responsible.

Messiah Complex

Due to the Decimation, no new mutants could appear. Messiah Complex Changed that forever. A new mysterious baby was born. In Alaska, where the child was born, Emma Frost was on the X-Men team went to investigate, only to seea town on fire and the baby gone. Emma Frost was next seen with Cyclops telling Madrox of the new child. Knowing that best choice of finding the baby was in Mr. Sinister, Scott sent a team consisting of Angel, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Storm, and Wolverine to attack their Antartic base. Realizing that Mr Sinister had telepathic powers, Emma protected them as the attack began. The X-Men team learned that it was Cable who had the child, and the the Sentinels protecting the mansion attacked, knocking out the telepaths for an unkown reason. During the last battle on Muir Island Emma was there when Cyclops ended the X-men after Proffesor X was shot by Bishop.

Divided We Stand

Emma and Scott are on vacation in the Savage Land, and then are called to San Fransico when Warren realizes someone is telepathicly making everyone think they are in the 60's.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Emma Frost

Telepathy: Emma Frost is a mutant with various telepathic abilities. She is a Psi of high order. She can read minds and project her thoughts into the minds of others.

• Telepathic Illusion: ability to create realistic telepathic illusions and cause people to experience events which are not actually occurring.
• Mind Link: ability to develop a mental link with any person which remains as a connection to that individual.
• Telepathic Camouflage: ability to mask herself, and other peoples' presence from those around her. Can telepathically disguise herself, making her appearance to those around her quite different (changing the appearance of clothing, as well as more involved disguising).
• Mind Control: ability to control the minds of others upon mere concentration.
• Mind Possession: ability to possess the mind of another, and use that beings body as her own.
• Mind Alteration: ability to alter the minds of others by force of will.
• Mental Amnesia: ability to cause loss of particular memories, and amnesia in another person or even in a group of people.
• Psionic Shield: ability to erect a psychic shield for protection of herself and of others minds.
• Psionic Spears: can project psionic force bolts which have no physical effects but which can affect a victim's mind so as to cause the victim pain or unconsciousness and can even kill an adversary.
• Astral Projection: ability to Astral Travel and communicate with others astrally through her own will, or through contact with the thoughts and memories of others.
• Induce Pain: can also induce mental pain merely by touching the brow of her victim.
• Heal Trauma: the ability to erase a person’s memories and to heal mental trauma through “psychic surgery,” the power to stimulate or deaden the pain and pleasure centers in a persons brain, to subtly brainwash susceptible minds and persuade them to do her bidding.
• Cloak Mind: ability to rearrange the “mental engrams” of mutants so their distinctive mutant though patterns cannot be detected by Cerebro-type devises or by other telepaths.
• Mental Sedating: can telepathically "sedate" her victims so that, if already rendered unconscious, they remain so for as long as she continues to "sedate" them.
• Dilate Power: ability to place “psychic inhibitors” in the minds of mutant adversaries to prevent them from using their powers.

Emma Frost - Organic Diamond Form

Organic Diamond Form: ability to transform herself into a flexible, translucent diamond-like substance while retaining mobility. In this form, her skin is as hard as real diamond. While in this form, she becomes cold-hearted and loses empathy for those around her. In this state, food and water are not needed for a undetermined amount of time. Her diamond form does not require a conscious hold and thus will remain until it is voluntarily triggered back.

• Telepathic Immunity: Enclosed in diamond skin, Emma cannot give or receive telepathic attacks.
• Superhuman Durability: Skin, bone and muscle augmented to make it stronger and harder than human; impervious to injury to an extraordinary extent. However, like every diamond Emma has a flaw that can be exploited.
• Superhuman Stamina: ability to sustain peak exertion for up to a day.
• Superhuman Strength
  

Abilities

Expert Technician: Emma Frost is highly skilled in electronic theory and electronics and has learned how to build devices that can amplify psionic energy and utilize psionic energy for various effects. She devised the mechanism by which Mastermind projected his illusions directly into the mind of the Phoenix.

Defense Training: Emma Frost is an above average athlete and has had some training in hand-to-hand combat.

Master Astral Combatant: Emma Frost is trained and excels in astral combat.

Strength level

Emma Frost possesses the normal human strength of a woman of her age, height, and build who engages in moderate regular exercise. In diamond form, Emma possesses the strength to lift 50 tons in optimal conditions.

Weaknesses

Diamond Flaw: While in diamond form Emma has a flaw like most diamonds. If one knew where to hit her she would shatter in thousands of pieces and for all purposes be dead. But in case of her diamond form (diamond is the hardest substance in the world), Xorn did shoot her at her flaw with a diamond bullet also.

Paraphernalia

Equipment: Mini-Cerebro.
Transportation: X-Men Blackbird.
Weapons: The White Queen has designed a gun-like device, which she once used to exchange minds for a period of time with Storm.

Notes

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Trivia

• Emma is a Cigarette Smoker.
• Renowned for her extremely revealing costumes
• Is not a stranger to plastic surgery, confessing to having had it on numerous occassions.
• Emma has breast implants ^{[citation needed]}

• Currently dating Cyclops
• Emma once spent a extended amount of time in control of Iceman's body and used his powers like he never had before.
• 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, an Emma Frost ongoing series depicted Frost's early years, and seems to refute this. 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.
  
  

Appearances in Other Media

Video Games

Emma Frost (by Glen Angus) - X-Men Legends

She appears in the X-Men (video game) game for NES, 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.

Emma Frost 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 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 Master Mold, inside Magneto's base in Asteroid M.

Emma Frost is a playable character in the computer role playing game X-Men Legends and returns as a non-playable character in the sequel X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse.

In Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Emma Frost appears as a non-player character. She is seen unconscious alongside other X-Men in Dr. Doom's castle.

Cartoons

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.

Emma 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). Emma 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.

Films

Finola Hughes, with the help of a white wig, portrayed Emma Frost in a 1996 live-action television movie titled Generation X. As in the Generation X series, Frost still went by the code name White Queen.

Emma was originally considered as a character in X-Men: The Last Stand. After the success of the X-Men trilogy of movies, there has been talk that an Emma Frost film being done by David O. Russell is being considered by 20th Century Fox.

Merchandise

Emma Frost - White Queen Comiquette

There are several Statues and Busts depicting Emma Frost. The main companies producing Emma Frosts Statues and Busts are Diamond Select, Dynamic Forces and Sideshow Collectibles.

Statues

The "Emma Frost - White Queen Comiquette" by Sideshow Collectibles was featured in Wizard Magasine #185 and named the best Emma Frost statue to this date. The White Queen Comiquette is cast in polysone, then hand-finished and hand-painted. It's 16 inches and made after the designs of artist Adam Hughes. [1]

Diamond Select has released a Emma Frost White Queen Retro Statue, sculpted by Clayburn Moore. Standin 11 inches tall, painted and ready to display, this statue is limited to 3,000 pieces worldwide and features a hand-numbered base with matching hand-numbered certificate of authenticity. [2]

Emma frost has also a more modern statue by Diamond Select. The statue is based on Greg Horn’s cover art created for Marvel Comics’ Emma Frost series, and donning the costume designed for her by Frank Quitely. Premier Collection White Queen Statue was sculpted by Clayburn Moore and stands over 15" high with base [3].

Emma Frost and Beast (Hank McCoy) are featured in X-Men VS. Sentinel Statue No. 2. The White Queen hovers triumphantly over the chest of the fallen robot, while Beast calculates his next move. The second X-Men VS Sentinel Diorama by Sideshow Collectibles stands over 15" tall. Each piece is hand cast and hand painted. [4]

Busts

Marvel Universe: Astonishing X-Men Emma Frost Bust

"Marvel Universe: Astonishing X-Men Emma Frost Bust" from Diamond Select is sculpted by Steve Kiwus and inspired by the artwork of John Cassaday, from the Joss Whedon-written series "Astonishing X-Men,". The Regular Edition of this piece is limited to 2,500. [5] A Clear Variant Edition is exclusively available through Wizard Magazine and limited to 500 pieces. [6]

Dynamic Forces has released a X-Men: White Queen - Emma Frost Bust, sculpted by Gabriel Marquez and based on Frank Quitely artwork. This bust resembles Emma Frost's New X-Men appearance.

Action Figures

Marvel Select: Emma Frost Action Figure comes in 2 versions 'Diamond' Variant or 'Human' Variant [7]. Designed by Toy Biz and Diamond Select this figure pays tribute to Emma Frost as she stands before a fireplace decorated with remembrances of her past incarnations. Sculpted by Steve Kiwus, this figure features 16 points of articulation and includes a detailed fireplace and mantle display base. [8]

See Also

• Appearances of Emma Frost (Earth-616) (Chronological)
• Appearances of Emma Frost (Earth-616) (Unordered)
• Character Gallery: Emma Frost (Earth-616)
• Fan-Art Gallery: Emma Frost (Earth-616)
• Quotations by Emma Frost (Earth-616)
• Images that include Emma Frost (Earth-616)

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Links and References

• UncannyXmen.net, Spotlight feature on Emma Frost
• White Queen feature on X-Peoples Central
• IGN Votes for Hottest Comic Book Babe - Winner: Emma Frost
• Emma Frost at Wikipedia