Written by GL
First appearing in January of 1980, Emma Frost is, in my opinion, one of the hottest Marvel babes ever.
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 was a villain-reflection of 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.
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 two Hellions that managed to survive were Warpath and Empath.
The X-Men cared for 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.
After being disrupted from her coma state while the alien group known as the Phalanx invaded the mansion and replaced several X-Men, Frost teamed up with the X-Man Banshee (Sean Cassidy), Jubilee, Sabretooth and future superhero, 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 came to be 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.
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. 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.
Afterwards, Frost traveled to the mutant haven island of Genosha. 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 much more.
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 (including the fact she had breast-enhancement surgery). Frost was traumatized after the attack, the experience left her humiliated and emotionally shattered. She ended up 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 and Jean Grey successfully reassembled and fused Frost's body back together. 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.
Frost did not remain in such a state for long. Following Jean Grey's apparent death, Cyclops and Frost became lovers, despite the criticism from their teammates. The two took over the school after Professor Xavier stepped down. Frost became co-headmaster with Cyclops and advisor to a new team of Hellions. Frost developed a very antagonistic relationship with fellow advisor Danielle Moonstar, who, despite Emma's past record with the X-Men, did not trust her.
Due to Frost's refined telepathic abilities, she beat the daughter of Jean Grey and Cyclops, Rachel Grey, in a contest on the astral plane. Frost then rather peacefully offered Rachel the chance to help her hone her telepathic skills. Rachel, though still wary, accepted the proposal.
Not many are familiar with the White Queen's powers. Emma Frost is actually capable of both telepathic abilities and transformation into 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, all fine-tuned to brutal accuracy. 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. During the Civil War: X-Men series, Emma is considered 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.
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.
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. Also, Emma has no need for water or food while she stays in her diamond form.
For a character as young as Emma Frost, she has managed to transend throughout the Marvel Universe rather well; playing out through the history of the X-Men as friend and foe. Needless to say, she is one of the hottest characters out there and if anyone can recommend me a good place to purchase that little white outfit for my future wife, drop me a line.
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 was a villain-reflection of 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.
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 two Hellions that managed to survive were Warpath and Empath.
The X-Men cared for 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.
After being disrupted from her coma state while the alien group known as the Phalanx invaded the mansion and replaced several X-Men, Frost teamed up with the X-Man Banshee (Sean Cassidy), Jubilee, Sabretooth and future superhero, 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 came to be 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.
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. 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.
Afterwards, Frost traveled to the mutant haven island of Genosha. 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 much more.
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 (including the fact she had breast-enhancement surgery). Frost was traumatized after the attack, the experience left her humiliated and emotionally shattered. She ended up 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 and Jean Grey successfully reassembled and fused Frost's body back together. 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.
Frost did not remain in such a state for long. Following Jean Grey's apparent death, Cyclops and Frost became lovers, despite the criticism from their teammates. The two took over the school after Professor Xavier stepped down. Frost became co-headmaster with Cyclops and advisor to a new team of Hellions. Frost developed a very antagonistic relationship with fellow advisor Danielle Moonstar, who, despite Emma's past record with the X-Men, did not trust her.
Due to Frost's refined telepathic abilities, she beat the daughter of Jean Grey and Cyclops, Rachel Grey, in a contest on the astral plane. Frost then rather peacefully offered Rachel the chance to help her hone her telepathic skills. Rachel, though still wary, accepted the proposal.
Not many are familiar with the White Queen's powers. Emma Frost is actually capable of both telepathic abilities and transformation into 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, all fine-tuned to brutal accuracy. 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. During the Civil War: X-Men series, Emma is considered 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.
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.
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. Also, Emma has no need for water or food while she stays in her diamond form.
For a character as young as Emma Frost, she has managed to transend throughout the Marvel Universe rather well; playing out through the history of the X-Men as friend and foe. Needless to say, she is one of the hottest characters out there and if anyone can recommend me a good place to purchase that little white outfit for my future wife, drop me a line.
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