Emma Frost: The White Queen
The X-Men's Telepathic Blonde: Origins, Powers, Graphic Novels
Sep 2, 2008
Telepathic mutant Emma Frost made her debut in Uncanny X-Men #129 in May of 1980 as a member of the mutant terrorist group known as the Hellfire Club. She earned the nickname White Queen when she became partner to the group's leader Sebastian Shaw, known as the Black King. She is known for wearing revealing white outfits of mostly lingerie.
Emma Frost has risen to become of one of the most powerful female mutants in the X-Men universe, second only to Jean Grey's Phoenix incarnation.
Emma Frost: The White Queen's Powers
Emma Frost has two interesting powers. She has extraordinarily strong telepathic powers that she uses to read and control people's minds. Frost has the highest ability to influence others' actions with her powers. As a reformed villain, she often stuggles with the tempation to control other people's thoughts for her own personal gain.
Emma Frost also has the unique power to transform her skin into a solid diamond surface, thereby rendering her virtually indestructable in this form.
Emma Frost's Origin
Emma Frost was the daughter of a millionaire. She rejected her inheritance and was determined to make it on her own instead. Much of her early years were chronicled in her short-lived mini-series Emma Frost.
Largely through use of her telepathy powers and personal charm, Emma Frost rose quickly to the top of the business world, eventually attracting the attention of the powerful figures within the elite Hellfire Club.
White Queen and the Hellfire Club
The Hellfire Club first hired her as a stripper at one of their clubs, but through her mind-controlling powers Frost managed to climb into a powerful role next the group's leader, Sebastian Shaw. Throughout the 1980's and 1990's, Emma Frost appears as the White Queen with her fellow Hellifre members as X-Men villains.
While serving as the White Queen, Emma Frost ran a mutant academy and competitor to Professor X's School for Gifted Youngsters. She recruited and trained new mutants to be members of the Hellfire Club. After the death of many of students by the hand of robot mutant hunters known as Sentinels, a devastated Emma Frost appears to give up her Hellfire role and teamed up with the X-Men for several significant events.
Emma Frost and the Stepford Cuckoos
After a massive attack involving the deaths of 16 million mutant inhabitants on the island of Genosha, Emma Frost is recruited by Professor X to join the teaching staff of his School for Gifted Youngsters. There Frost takes a group of blond telepathic quintuplets known as the Stepford Cuckoos under her wing.
The Stepford Cuckoos possess telepathic and psychic abilities and display a hive mind mentality. In the Phoenix War Song #1-5 it was revealed that the Stepford Cuckoos were actually the genetically enhanced daughters of Frost. Emma Frost is very protective of them.
Emma Frost Leads the X-Men, Dates Cyclops (Scott Summers)
Following the death of his wife Jean Grey, X-Men leader Cyclops and Emma Frost start a controversial relationship. Through him, Frost seals her position of power in the X-Men universe. Many members detest the union, as they don't find her fully trustworthy given her relatively recent position of power in the Hellfire Club, and the fact that Cyclops began a relationship with her after Jean Grey had so recently been buried. Her true loyalty serves as a major plot point in the Astronishing X-Men series.
Most recently Emma Frost was revealed to be a Skrull in during the Secret War plot line. Her imposter was killed and she is currently alligned with the X-Men once again in their new home in San Francisco.
Emma Frost Graphic Novels and Key Issues
- Emma Frost #1-18
- Astronishing X-Men #1-24
- New X-Men #123, 128, 139-141
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