Emma Frost (Marvel)

Emma Grace Frost is a character from Marvel comics and the X-Men franchise. She is a mutant with the ability to read minds, and can turn into a diamond form to protect herself. At first she is a villainess called the White Queen, but later becomes a heroine and ally for the X-Men.
The second daughter of Boston's wealthiest couple, Winston and Hazel Frost, Emma telepathic powers manifested when she attended Snow Valley School for Girls. After numerous experiences while on her own, she found herself as the Hellfire Club's exotic dancer turned highest-ranking member as the White Queen. Though initially an enemy to the X-Men and New Mutants, Frost has found herself an ally to both teams in stopping greater threats. She ultimately found her redemption, becoming the co-headmistress of the Xavier Institute and members of other teams, such as the Hellions, Generation X and the Cosmic Avengers. Additionally, Frost is considered one of Marvel's most powerful mutants and heroines.
She was created by and , and first appeared in X-Men #129 in October of 1979.
==History==
Emma ultimately inherited a good deal of wealth, but most of her large fortune resulted from her professional success. She ascended rapidly to the upper echelon of the business world on the strength of her intelligence, drive, and personal charm, as well as the secret use of her mental powers. Also, at some point, the Dark Beast met Emma, and helped her rise to wealth and power.
Under Shaw and Frost's leadership, mutants dominated the Inner Circle. To strengthen the Club's power base, Emma recruited genetically gifted youngsters and helped them hone their abilities at her school. Most of these students were members of the Hellions, Emma's first mutant super-team. She initially encountered the outlaw band of heroic mutant adventurers known as the X-Men when she unsuccessfully attempted to recruit young Kitty Pryde, the phase-shifting mutant then known as Shadowcat. Subsequently, Emma crossed paths with the X-Men - and their protégés, the New Mutants - on a number of occasions, often as their adversary. Later, the X-Men joined with the Hellions to protect the White Queen from the time-traveling terrorist named Trevor Fitzroy. However, the madman's brutal assault plunged Emma into a deep coma and brought about the Hellions' untimely demise.
Whilst Emma's consciousness still active on the material plane, her body was kept in the med-lab at the X-Men's mansion. Seeking to ensure her students' welfare and the school's future, Emma had willed responsibility for the Massachusetts Academy to Professor Charles Xavier, the X-Men's telepathic founder. During her psychic incapacitation, the school was added to the rapidly expanding Xavier Institute. While Emma’s corporeal form was in stasis, a short-circuit in the mansion inadvertently caused her psyche to possess the X-Man named Iceman, whilst his mind was transferred into her body.
Coerced by Professor X, Emma eventually reclaimed her own form. After making a full recovery, she resumed her role as headmistress of the academy. Ably assisted by Sean Cassidy, the sonically empowered former X-Man known as Banshee, she set out to train a new crop of young mutants: Generation X. When the sinking stock market dealt Frost International a major blow, Emma swallowed her pride and sought the help of her older sister, Adrienne, who agreed to support her sibling's flagging financial interests only if she were named co-headmaster.
But Adrienne's power play did not wind down when Emma acceded to her request, nor did it end when she supplanted her sister as the Hellfire Club's White Queen. Only after Adrienne telepathically incited a riot at the school did Emma find a way to upset her ascension: the way of the gun. Emma shot and killed her sister, thereby laying claim to Adrienne's inheritance.
Following the dissolution of Generation X and the closure of the Massachusetts Academy, Emma moved to the island nation of Genosha where she began teaching mutant children again. Soon after, a Sentinel attack wiped out Genosha's entire mutant population. Emma was found by the X-Men alive in the rubble, having undergone a secondary mutagenic change that allowed her to survive the onslaught. Following this incident, Emma came to teach at the Xavier Institute, and soon took on the responsibility of personally mentoring the telepathic quintuplets known as the Stepford Cuckoos.
Emma later counseled her teammate Cyclops following his possession by the eternal mutant warlord Apocalypse. This soon turned into a telepathic affair between the two which was short-lived after Summers' wife, Jean Grey, discovered what was happening.
During the riot at the Xavier Institute, Sophie of the telepathic sisters the Stepford Cuckoos died. The remaining sisters blamed Emma for this and told Jean Grey-Summers of Emma's affair with her husband. When Emma was confronted by Jean, she was forced to relive various moments of her past. Following this confrontation, Emma was shot with a diamond bullet whilst in her diamond form, shattering it. Though she was believed to be dead at first, Emma's consciousness was trapped in her shattered remains. Phoenix discovered this and telekinetically fused Emma's body back together. Upon being reassembled, Emma identified Esme of the Cuckoos as the culprit behind her assassination. However, Esme was working with the X-Man Xorn, who believed himself to be Magneto at the time, and it was he who shot Emma as she had learned of his dual identity.
Following the death of Jean Grey, Emma has assumed the position of co-headmaster of the Xavier Institute alongside Cyclops.
When a band of Shi'ar reconstituted the Phoenix Force in order to destroy it, they ended up shattering it and driving it insane. It went to earth and forcefully resurrected Jean Grey, believing it needed Scott Summers when what it needed was the energy from his optic blasts. Emma attempted to shield Scott with her mind, but was stopped by Quentin Quire, who sought to use the Phoenix Force to resurrect Sophie of the Cuckoos. Emma offered herself as a host for the Phoenix Force so it could be contained but was quickly overpowered and her body was completely taken over by the Force. After temporarily resurrecting Sophie, who rejected Quentin, the Phoenix proceeded to burn the planet. Jean Grey separated Emma and remerged with the Force, only to fall into insanity. Emma used her powers to contact every X-Man in the world and their love for Jean restored the Phoenix's sanity, who became the White Phoenix and returned to the White Hot Room to find her missing pieces.
==Biography==
===Early Life===
Emma Grace Frost was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Winston and Hazel, a couple who were the second most wealthy people in the city. She's also the second daughter of the couple, being the sister to Christian, Adrienne and Cordelia Frost. Unbeknownst to the family, the daughters were born with the mutant gene, with them developing telepathic abilities as they grew older. During her youth, Emma was abused by her father, whom considered her unfit to be one of his children. Winston's abuse was also directed towards Christian, whom he later disowned once he learned of his sexuality.
As she attended Snow Valley School for Girls, Emma's powers manifested when she rendered the entire school unconscious when suffering from a breakdown. The incident drew the attention of Professor Charles Xavier and his colleague Moira MacTaggert, and they tried to convince Emma to attend the Xavier Institute to no avail. Learning of her telepathic powers, Emma used them to succeed in school, and developed a crush with her teacher, Ian Kendall. Winston learned of their relationship, and had Kendall fired and forced Emma to give up her dream of teaching.
===On her Own===
When Winston decided to make Emma his heir, she refused and decided to make it on her own, much to his chagrin. She remained in Boston while working small jobs, but left to New York after a failed attempt to help Troy Killkelly pay off his debt to loan sharks. In New York, Frost befriended Astrid Bloom, a fellow mutant telepath and reunited with Kendall while attending Empire State. Emma's attempt to re-pursue her relationship with Kendall caused conflict with Christine McDermott, a student who was having a romance with Ian. The conflict led to Emma revealing her powers to Kendall when stopping Astrid, resulting in Kendall leaving in disgust for Frost being a mutant.
Winston and Hazel learned of Emma's powers, and sent her to the Essex Clinic, where she was drugged and kidnapped by the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. The group's leader, Magneto, decided to send her to Xavier's institute in an attempt to have her enter Cerebro and kill mankind. However, the X-Men stopped Magneto's plans, and the Evolutionaries, whom were working with the Brotherhood, brought Emma back to the clinic. 
===Becoming the White Queen===
After escaping from the clinic, Emma became an exotic dancer for the Hellfire Club, and once again refused Xavier's attempts to have her join the X-Men. She later confronted Sebastian Shaw on her mistreatment at the club, who instead decided to invite her to become a high-ranking member. The two killed Edward Buckman and Paris Seville, the White King and White Queen, after learning that they were creating Sentinels. After overthrowing the club's heads, Emma became the new White Queen as Shaw became the Black King. During this time, Emma sent Shaw's fiancée to Wilson Fisk to protect him from Sebastian's abuse.
As the Black King, Shaw wanted Namor to join the club, but the Sub-Mariner refused and vowed to kill Sebastian if he ever wasted his time again. Angered, Shaw sent Emma to influence the ruler of Atlantis, but later sent Sentinels when he thought Frost had been captured or killed. Realizing that Shaw created the Sentinels, Emma betrayed the Hellfire Club to stop the Sentinels. However, her memories were wiped by Sage, making her loyal to the club and Namor vowing to get revenge. Once again the White Queen, Emma started the Massachusetts Academy to become a teacher, and later started Frost International as its CEO. 
Wanting mutants at her academy, Frost attempted to recruit Kitty Pryde, but met resistance from Professor X's attempts to have the young mutant join the institute. The White Queen later captured the X-Men after they spoke with Kitty, but Pryde informed the other X-Men about the situation, leading to Emma being comatose from a battle with Phoenix. Frost managed to regain her memoires, including the ones Tessa wiped, whilst under and return to the club. She then swapped bodies with Storm, but was returned to her body and defeated alongside the Hellfire Club during the incident.
At some point, Frost worked with Elekta in helping the Kingpin in his dealings, being named "the good witch" in persuading others who were decent people. While doing this, Frost helped a young girl escape from corrupt police officers and had Spider-Man assist Elektra in stopping them. Despite her moment of compassion, Emma continued her villainous ways when she captured Kitty by tricking Doug Damsey, but was stopped by Magik and the New Mutants. Afterward, Frost was contacted by Mephisto to battle the Beyonder, whom killed the New Mutants during the battle. Upon their recreation, Emma manipulated Magneto into letting her teach the New Mutants, as they returned with less skill with their powers.
Magneto later learned of Frost's ruse to make the New Mutants be students of her academy, and she contacted the authorities to await for his arrival. However, she had a change of heart when seeing the young mutants try to rescue Magneto from the Avengers, and helped the Brotherhood's leader cure them from their experience with the Beyonder. Later on, she made an alliance with Magneto after helping Magma, which strained their relationships with the New Mutants and Shaw. The two decided to out-vote Shaw from the Hellfire Club, allowing Magneto to become its leader.
==Physical Appearance==
Emma is a woman with blonde hair (naturally brown) and blue eyes. She is dressed in white and has a midriff and her belly button.
==Powers and Abilities==
===Powers===
Emma Frost possesses telepathy abilities matching those of Charles Xavier. Frost has been cited as a World-class telepath, Omega Class Telepath and a Psi of the Highest Order capable of extraordinary telepathic feats.
Telepathy: Since her introduction, Frost has displayed the telepathic standards of broadcasting and receiving thoughts, mind-control, altering perceptions and memories, projection of offensive blasts of psionic energy causing mental pain or unconsciousness, astral projection, mind switching, brain engram modification, mental sedation of unconscious victims, induction of mental pain by touch, and limited psychometry. 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, the nervous system, etc), a sub-skill of telepathy unusual for even the most powerful of telepaths, but one that Emma is keen to utilize whenever the occasion benefits her. Frost's abilities rival that of Charles Xavier, her incredible power and conniving ways are evident in her first appearance whereby she manages to capture and sedate him. Frost has been cited as a "World-class telepath" and a "Psi of the Highest Order" capable of extraordinary telepathic feats.
*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, the nervous system, etc), a sub-skill of telepathy unusual for even the most powerful of telepaths, but one that Emma is keen to utilize whenever the occasion benefits her.
*Limited psychometry
Latent Telekinesis: Emma was also stated to be a potential telekinetic. During the Onslaught Saga, Emma unintentionally levitated some utensils while facing a nightmare. Synch then used this ability to telekinetically levitate objects. After further clarifications, it was stated that this phenomenon is one of Frost's powers that potentially lies within her mutation.
Organic Diamond Form: As a result of undergoing a body-wide secondary mutation, Frost now possesses the ability to transform her body into a flexible organic diamond form. In many ways, this is similar to Colossus's organic steel form. She must transform all parts of her body, rather than selectively transforming certain areas and can remain in this form for an undetermined amount of time. If she is rendered unconscious, Frost's body will automatically transform into its normal state. This transformation also alters Frost's personality, causing her to become rather cold hearted and to lose her empathy for others. Emma does not have access to her telepathy while in her diamond form.
*Superhuman Strength: In her diamond form, Frost's physical strength is increased to superhuman levels. At her peak, she is able to lift approximately 2 tons.
*Superhuman Stamina: While transformed, Frost's muscle tissue becomes infinitely more efficient than the organic musculature of normal humans, or most other organic beings for that matter. Her muscles produce almost no fatigue toxins during physical activity, granting her almost limitless superhuman stamina, or at least until or unless she is forced to resume her normal state.
*Superhuman Durability: Frost's diamond form renders her highly resistant to most forms of physical injury. She is able to resist great impact forces, such as being repeatedly struck with superhuman force, without being injured. Her body is also resistant to temperature extremes, able to withstand temperatures as cold as -320 degrees Fahrenheit or as hot as approximately 7,362 degrees Fahrenheit before her form begins to melt. Frost is also self contained while transformed, requiring no food, water or oxygen.
==Relationships==
*Scott Summers
*Tony Stark
*Namor
*Sebastian Shaw
*Ian Kendall
*Troy Killkelly
==Portrayals==
===Films===
*In the television film, Generation X, she was portrayed by Fiona Hughes.
*In the X-Men films, a character inspired by Emma Frost appears, being portrayed by Tahyna Tozzi. 
**In X-Men: First Class, she was portrayed by January Jones.
===Television===
*In X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men, she was voiced by Susan Silo.
*In X-Men: The Animated Series, she was voiced by Tracey Moore, who also voiced Cheer Bear in The Care Bears Family, Princess Toadstool in The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World, Sailor Moon in the titular 1995 animated series, Strawberry Shortcake in Strawberry Shortcake: The Berryfest Princess, Strawberry Shortcake: The Glimmerberry Ball Movie and Strawberry Shortcake's Berry Bitty Adventures, and Share Bear in Care Bears: Oopsy Does It!, Care Bears: Oopsy Does It!, Care Bears: Adventures in Care-a-lot, Care Bears: Share Bear Shines, Care Bears: The Giving Festival Movie, and Care Bears to The Rescue.
*In Wolverine and the X-Men, she was voiced by Kari Wahlgren, who also voiced Charmcaster in the Ben 10 series, Chloe Carmichael in The Fairly OddParents, Mina Monroe in Bunnicula, Jill Valentine in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Starfire in Injustice 2, and Kitana in Mortal Kombat 11.
**Wahlgren reprised her voice for the character in X-Men: Destiny, Marvel Heroes and Lego Marvel Super Heroes.
*In Marvel Anime: X-Men, she was voiced by Kaori Yamagata in Japanese and by Ali Hillis (who also voiced Karin in Naruto, Liara T'Soni in the Mass Effect series, and Lighting in the Final Fantasy series) in English.
===Video Games===
*In X-Men Legends, she was voiced by Bobby Holliday.
**Holliday reprised her voice for the character in X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse.
*In Marvel Super Hero Squad Online, she as voiced by Grey DeLisle, who voices Daphne Blake in the Scooby-Doo franchise, Sam Manson in Danny Phantom, Mandy in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, and Catwoman in the Arkhamvrerse and the Injustice series.
===Motion Comics===
*In Astonishing X-Men, she was voiced by Erica Schroeder (who also voiced Bianca in Pokémon, Mai Valentine in Yu-Gi-Oh!, Monkey D. Luffy in One Piece and Blaze the Cat in the Sonic franchise) and Lara Gilchrist.
*In Wolverine vs. Sabretooth, she was voiced by Heather Doerksen, who also voiced Skylor in Ninjago, and Leia Organa, Mon Mothma and Shmi Skywalker in Lego Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles and Lego Star Wars: Droid Tales.
===Podcast===
*In Marvel's Wastelanders: Old Man Star-Lord, she was voiced by Vanessa Williams, who also voiced Ms. Brown in the M&M candy commercials.
==Quotes==
==Trivia==
*She is ranked as an Omega Level Telepath.
==See also==
*Emma Frost at the Villains Wiki
*For Emma Frost's incarnation in the animated series Wolverine and the X-men, check here.
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