History ComicBook / EmmaFrost

* MsFanservice: She almost always makes it to the top of any list discussing the sexiest women in comics. Since her inception back in the ’80s, she’s pretty much worn variations on white lingerie, sometimes far more revealing than most of the other Marvel women. She gets quite a few scenes where she's wearing even less than usual and seems to be fully GenreSavvy about this.

* HotTeacher: fits this trope to a T.

* MsFanservice: Emma Frost gets quite a few scenes where she's wearing even less than usual.

She's later freed from her custody by Cyclops, SelfDemonstrating/{{Magneto}}, and [[ComicBook/IllyanaRasputin Magik]]. Although she was still furious with Cyclops for what happened in the climax of Avengers vs X-Men above, she agreed to join with Cyclops and Magneto once more and along with Magik, began searching for new Mutants. She becomes one of leader in Cyclops’ new X-Men team and she’s present when Cyclops freed several mutants from their human captors. New Charles Xavier School for Mutants is founded.

** ''ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast'': She is former White Queen of the Hellfire Club. She joined SelfDemonstrating/{{Magneto}} and Jubilee to save ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} and defeat the alternate evil ComicBook/{{Psylocke}} who is also Red Queen of Hellfire Club. She later attempts to rehabilitate Psylocke back to the side of good.

** One of the actions that ultimately led to the dissolution of Generation X was Emma killing her sister, Adrienne, after Adrienne's machinations resulted in Synch's death.

* ''X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse'' (2005): appears as playable hero. Voiced by Bobby Holliday.

* NotAMorningPerson: She has specifically instructed her students (who, keep in mind, are knowingly being taught by a group of fugitives) to never wake her.

* NotAMorningPerson: In ''Uncanny X-Men'' Vol. 3. [[https://31.media.tumblr.com/8857f05fdafc48c1f84e33a12e948fe5/tumblr_mxcd766wnI1re8ijgo5_1280.jpg It has to be seen to be believed]].

* PayEvilUntoEvil: Takes this attitude towards many things.
** DisproportionateRetribution: Towards plenty of regular people who have simply somewhat annoyed her.

* ZettaiRyouiki: Type A.

* DependingOnTheWriter: Scott Lobdell's version had almost nothing in common with the CorruptCorporateExecutive supremacist MindRape ColdBloodedTorture fetishist that she used to be. Instead, she became a excellent teacher doing genuinely good actions while [[GoodFeelsGood feeling good about it]]. However, later in ''ComicBook/GenerationX'', she was strongly hinted to have murdered a police officer looking into her sister's death (at Emma's hands). GrantMorrison and some other writers returned her closer to her roots again, according to some it made her more interesting, but played her as a complete [[TheHedonist hedonistic]] JerkAss, which sat badly with those who were introduced to her through ''Generation X'', because it put all the CharacterDevelopment she had during seven years in a trash bin. Later other writers attempted to either return her to the less extreme portrayal or attempt to integrate the two.

* BoobsOfSteel: Or Diamonds, in her case.

* NonIndicativeName: Just because her surname is 'Frost' doesn't mean she uses [[AnIcePower ice powers]].

** In ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen'', she befriends teen Jean Grey! Everyone on the X-Men were more than a little freaked out by this.

[[caption-width-right:300:Fan Art by [[http://sakimichan.deviantart.com/ sakimichan]]]]

* AnArmAndALeg: In ''Uncanny X-Men'' Vol. 2

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* AnArmAndALeg: In ''Uncanny X-Men'' Vol. 2, she loses an arm against Mr. Sinister. Being in diamond form, she doesn't die from blood loss or anything, and she gets better.
* AntiHero: UnscrupulousHero [[BaseBreaker or]] NominalHero.
* AntiHeroSubstitute: While she never adopted the name or costume, she essentially became this to Jean after the latter's death in ''New X-Men'', replacing her as the team's resident telepath, the Institute's headmistress and Cyclops' bedmate.
* TheAtoner: in ''ComicBook/GenerationX'', and newly focused on by Creator/JossWhedon.
* AttentionWhore: She wears those Stripperific suits [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl on purpose]].
* BadassTeacher: She's already a teacher even before joins the X-Men.
* BattleCouple: With Cyclops, after the death of Phoenix. They tend to lead from the front line together, though not nearly as effective a team as the above couple were.
* BastardGirlfriend: The White Queen's entire deal.
* BerserkButton: Emma's relationship with ComicBook/{{X 23}} is one of her most complicated relationships with fellow X-Women. But mess with the young girl is one of things which will cause Emma enter MamaBear mode and you'll wish you were dead, as Kimura finds out the hard way.
* BettyAndVeronica: Veronica for Cyclops.
* BigBad: One of several in the original run of ''ComicBook/NewMutants''.
* BlondesAreEvil: More intensely during her Hellfire Club days.
* BreakTheCutie: Her [[FreudianExcuse retconned]] backstory qualifies.
* BreakoutCharacter: Easily the most prominent and popular 21st century addition to the X-Men.
* BrokenAce / BrokenBird / TroubledButCute: Again, depending on the writer.
* BrokenPedestal: When Sophie Cuckoo died, the other Cuckoos blames Emma for the death. One of the remaining four even tries to kill Emma.
* [[ByronicHero Byronic Heroine]]: Rare female example, but DependingOnTheWriter, it can be well done or extremely disturbing.
* CainAndAbel: She and her sister, Adrienne.
* TheChick: In ''ComicBook/NewXMen''. Also in ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'' before she becomes Phoenix Five.
* ColdBloodedTorture: One of her favorite psionic experiences is inducing extreme levels of pain, often in people already held captive. She has continued to violate and traumatise people over the years, frequently in combination with SmugSuper {{One Liner}}s.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: She will make you do some really weird things using telepathy: for example, 48 hours of uncontrollable vomiting upon hearing the word "parsley".
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: At one point, she was in the Hellfire Club.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her father was cold, uncaring, sadistic and physically abusive, her mother was a neglectful drug user, her older sister was identical to their father, and her younger sister couldn't care less about her. The only family member who cared about her became a drug addict (thanks to his father's horrible treatment to him), and when she thought things would be better to her, her friend was killed in front of her, another friend was a bitch who manipulated her, and her LoveInterest dumped her because she was a mutant. She also used to enjoy torture, mind-rape, followed by setting hunting dogs on the nightly victims (yes, really), corporate corruption, manipulation, deceit, and forcing opponents to kill themselves during her villain years. Shaw required her to help killing her two best friends to become White Queen.
* TheDarkChick: of ComicBook/NormanOsborn's Cabal in ''ComicBook/DarkReign''. Eventually turns into SixthRangerTraitor.
* DeadpanSnarker: It makes her appear even colder at some points.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She is in no danger of defrosting completely anytime soon. Since she was already defrosting in the ''Generation X'', but then Morrison reverted her into even more of an ice queen than when she was a villain, any defrosting now still seems like a regression. However, in some chapters, she seems to be [[{{Chickification}} melting]].
* DependingOnTheWriter: Scott Lobdell's version had almost nothing in common with the CorruptCorporateExecutive supremacist MindRape ColdBloodedTorture fetishist that she used to be. Instead, she became a excellent teacher doing genuinely good actions while [[GoodFeelsGood feeling good about it]]. However, later in ''ComicBook/GenerationX'', she was strongly hinted to have murdered a police officer looking into her sister's death (at Emma's hands). GrantMorrison and some other writers returned her closer to her roots again, according to some it made her more interesting, but played her as a complete [[TheHedonist hedonistic]] JerkAss, which sat badly with those who were introduced to her through ''Generation X'', because it put all the CharacterDevelopment she had during seven years in a trash bin. Later other writers attempted to either return her to the less extreme portrayal or attempt to integrate the two.
* DominoMask: [[http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140724172834/marveldatabase/images/d/d2/Emma_Frost_%28Earth-20051%29_Marvel_Adventures_Spider-Man_Vol_1_61.jpg Her alternate self]] in ''ComicBook/MarvelAdventures'' wore this when she's in disguise as costumed rogue with the alias "Silencer".
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: The infamous Cyclops/Emma Frost affair essentially started as this. Long story short: Cyke wasn't mentally in the best of health, Emma offered him therapy, then she uses this as an excuse to telepathically bang him. Seriously. Now flip their genders; what would happen to a male therapist if they convinced their female patient to have sex with them to deal with their issues? What makes this example even worse, Emma is treated like the victim and Romantic Sue in the resulting love triangle with all her seriously out-of-order behavior being ignored because 'she was in love with him', and Cyclops is still getting crap, in-universe and out, for cheating on his wife. It might not help that he got together with Emma immediately after his wife's death, but that was literally because Jean (who contacts him telephatically from a distant BadFuture) made him get together with her to avoid the X-Men falling apart.
* TheDragon: After she's possessed by Phoenix Force in ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'', she becomes TheDragon to [[spoiler:Cyclops]]' BigBad.
* DyeHard: InUniverse example. Her natural hair color is brown.
* EvilFeelsGood: More intensely during the Hellfire Club days, but DependingOnTheWriter, still maintains similar patterns.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: As Phoenix Five. Subverted when she becomes Black Queen during ''ComicBook/DarkReign'' as she betrayed ComicBook/NormanOsborn there.
* EvilMentor: Sebastian Shaw
* EvilPaysBetter: Hellfire Club days.
* EvilTeacher: Hellfire Club days.
* ExposedToTheElements: In the miniseries ''Phoenix: Endsong'', Emma Frost doesn't seem the least bit bothered traipsing around the Arctic half-naked. She is Emma ''[[{{Pun}} Frost]]'', after all.
* FireWaterJuxtaposition: Used to contrast her with Jean when she first enters Scott's life. Emma is constantly associated with ice and the cold because of her surname "Frost", her [[WomanInWhite all-white attire]] and her cool temperament, and she resembles an ice sculpture when in her organic diamond form; Jean is constantly associated with fire and warmth because of her red hair, her codename "Phoenix" and her unpredictable temper, and her psionic powers frequently manifest as flames.
* FreakyFridayFlip: Pulled off one with Storm in her Hellfire Club days, in an attempt to destroy the X-Men from within.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Her father had her compete with her sisters for the right to be his heir (her brother had the good sense to stay out of it. Consequently, he was the sibling she was closest to). Her rivalry with her eldest sister, Adrienne, became so bad that it eventually went [[CainAndAbel fatal]].
* GoodFeelsGood: In a number of occasions, she had expressed how much she was trying to be a good person and liked to do "the right things". She does have a bad conscience though, enjoys earning approval from Scott, and has been praised for a number of good deeds, although recurrently [[ShootTheDog a bit extreme]]. However, she seems to enjoy earning approval from Scott, and some of her teammates or students.
* GuiltComplex: As explicitly stated on ''Astonishing X-Men'' #18.
* GrandTheftMe: Happened once involuntarily with Iceman. Back then Iceman really wasn't living up to the potential of his powers. The minute Emma entered his body, she used his abilities in ways he couldn't imagine, which eventually left Iceman more than a little envious.
* TheHedonist: DependingOnTheWriter.
* [[HeroWithAnFInGood Heroine With An F In Good]]: Occasionally improves.
* HeelFaceTurn: After a fashion. It's kind of funny, she just sort of "fell into" hanging with the X-Men. She was comatose for a long while and in their care, and revived right in the middle of the big Phalanx mega-crossover. She escaped with the rest of the X-Men and, having nowhere else to go, just wound up helping them.
* HotTeacher: fits this trope to a T.
* JerkJustifications: Emma was originally presented as a textbook sociopath, somebody extremely inclined towards being very bad, who has no illusions about the "severe warts on her soul", on-off trying to learn how to be good, and stumbling along the way a lot.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite her aloof behavior and extreme methods, she genuinely cares about the mutant race and her students.
* KarmaHoudini: She used to torture captive people to death for sexual gratification. Yet isn't serving multiple life-sentences. She ''pays'' in occasional bad conscience for some of the many horrible things she does, and the tragedies of losing her students, but it's never enough to make her stop doing very morally objectionable things.
* KindheartedCatLover: Maybe not exactly kindhearted, but she's a cat lover.
* KnightTemplar: She's incredibly ruthless, brutal, and uncompromising, but she's fiercely protective of her students and allies and is greatly invested in helping mutantkind advance and have a better tomorrow. She's just FAR less touchy about using extreme force to achieve her goals and deal with anyone who tries to harm her or those she has sworn to protect.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: Invoked. She always wears a white costume whereas Selene, the Black queen, usually wears a black verion of it.
* LiterallyShatteredLives: Done by one of her five cloned daughters, Esme, who shot her with diamond bullet. Thanks to Jean, she gets better.
* MamaBear: Seriously, do NOT threaten her students. ...On the other hand, originally (as per the ''Firestar'' miniseries) she regularly tortured them when dissatisfied with their progress or wanted to get a point across. She is currently trying to be a better teacher, however, but is still not above occasionally violating them if she deems it necessary, such as the Elixir case. In her defense, Elixir had just attacked Colossus, one of her [[http://i45.tinypic.com/xdi0zs.jpg best friends]], and others X-Men had done worst threats to their own students.
** She can even becomes this for teen Jean Grey if she wants to. When teen Jean is among those who have been psychically attacked by Lady Xorn, a.k.a. older Jean Grey in ''ComicBook/BattleOfTheAtom'':
-->'''Emma''': No one said anything about a metal-masked Jean Grey from the future and no one said anything about '''you beating the hell out of yourself'''. You want to psychically battle someone, pick on someone who absolutely despises you.
* ManipulativeBitch: Even after the HeelFaceTurn
* MeaningfulName: In her villain days, she wasn't really evil in an "ice queen" manner, and in fact outwardly played the role of a benevolent friendly and somewhat nerdy headmaster, so "Frost" didn't really mean anything until Morrison decided it did. Post-Morrison, her surname also serves to highlight the OppositesAttract nature of her relationship with Scott ("'''Frost'''" and "'''Summer'''s"--get it?).
* MentalAffair: That one happened in ''ComicBook/NewXMen'' between her and Scott, some time before ComicBook/JeanGrey's death.
* MindRape: [[MoralMyopia She thoroughly loves this trope.]]
** In ''ComicBook/TheChildrensCrusade'', she foolishly tried to do this to [[ComicBook/YoungAvengers Speed and Wiccan]] to made them go with the X-Men. [[ComicBook/ScarletWitch Mama Wanda]] [[MamaBear disagreed]].
-->'''Scarlet Witch''': ''"Auntie Emma, you might want to check with their mother first. Because I hear she can be a real bitch."'' [''Blasts Emma Frost in the face'']
* MostCommonSuperpower: Frost is one of the very few superheroines known to have breast implants.
* MsFanservice: Emma Frost gets quite a few scenes where she's wearing even less than usual.
* MyGreatestFailure: She did not take the deaths of the original Hellions well. In fact, this is partly what precipitated her HeelFaceTurn.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Morrison's run in ''ComicBook/NewXMen'' introduced the concept of "secondary mutations", with a few of the X-Men gaining new powers. Conveniently, Emma discovers her ability to transform into diamond right after a building falls on her.
* NighInvulnerable: She eventually gained a "secondary mutation" that lets her shapeshift into a form that is living diamond. This makes her extremely difficult to hurt, but disables her PsychicPowers until she reverts to her fleshy form.
* NotAMorningPerson: In ''Uncanny X-Men'' Vol. 3. [[https://31.media.tumblr.com/8857f05fdafc48c1f84e33a12e948fe5/tumblr_mxcd766wnI1re8ijgo5_1280.jpg It has to be seen to be believed]].
* OddFriendship: with Wolverine. Also a FanPreferredCouple. In an ironic twist, out of all the ''ComicBook/NewMutants'', she has the most relaxed friendship with Sam Guthrie.
** In ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen'', she befriends teen Jean Grey! Everyone on the X-Men were more than a little freaked out by this.
* OfCorsetsSexy: Hellfire Club days.
* ParentalSubstitute: In ''Anime/XMen'' anime, she plays the role of maternal figure for Hisako Ichiki/Armor, mostly because the girl's parents ask Emma to help control Armor's powers.
* PayEvilUntoEvil: Takes this attitude towards many things.
** DisproportionateRetribution: Towards plenty of regular people who have simply somewhat annoyed her.
* PetTheDog: She has turned very loyal to her students, genuinely loved Cyclops; and although she started out heavily into rape, torture, bondage, brainwashing, and slavery, [[MoralMyopia she was later shown as extremely opposed to the real-world variants]].
* {{Pride}}: Even post HeelFaceTurn she's rather arrogant.
* ProgressivelyPrettier: In-universe example: she was HollywoodHomely in her teenage years (her origin mini-series had her shown and treated as 'girl next door' pretty) but has made several plastic surgeries to look beautiful. She's also one of the few comic book characters to [[MostCommonSuperPower admit that she's had breast implants]].
* PsychicAssistedSuicide: Provides the page image.
* PsychicPowers: which she can't use when in her NighInvulnerable mode.
* ReformedButRejected: In ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'', Kitty Pryde's reaction to Emma as a teacher at the X-Academy is less than enthusiastic. It subsequently turned out that Emma deliberately arranged for Kitty to join the staff, because she needed to have someone around who would notice if she started turning evil again and wouldn't make excuses for her.
* RichBitch: Even post HeelFaceTurn.
* SecondLove: She was Cyclops's second longest lasting girlfriend after Jean Grey, but alas, it didn't work out in the end.
* SecretPublicIdentity: Since joining the X-Men, she dropped her codename "White Queen". Justified in that "White Queen" isn't just a name, it's a rank in the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club. Which she left to join the X-Men.
* SexyMentor: In ''Uncanny X-Men'' Vol. 3, she decides to wear a sexy punk-ish outfit when comforting Benjamin after his fight with Scott. It just makes him incredibly uncomfortable since he's only wearing a towel at the time.
* ShipTease: Besides Cyclops, she was once romantically involved with Sebastian Shaw, [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]], and [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]].
* SmugSuper: Her problem is that she's good and she knows it.
* SoProudOfYou: To Kitty in ''Giant Size Astonishing X-Men'' #1 and Hisako in the anime.
* SpotlightStealingSquad (seems to get more attention in the comics now, than women who've been in the team far longer).
* {{Stripperific}}: She does it on purpose as a way of making it easier to distract and manipulate men; as far as she's concerned, it's just another way of automatically putting the ball in her court.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: During ''ComicBook/GenerationX'', beneath her aloof and apathetic behavior, Emma was a tortured soul who [[IJustWantToBeLoved just wanted to be loved]] and [[IJustWantToHaveFriends trusted by her teammates]]. This was carried over by some writers in later X-Books.
* SurvivorGuilt: Due to being the sole survivor of the Genosha massacre.
* TeamMom: To her students at least.
* [[TragicHero Tragic Heroine]]: Eventually in ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'', she's horrified by her actions as Phoenix Five.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Subverted or played straight, DependingOnTheWriter.
* VaporWear: Her Phoenix Five costume lacks of bra and panties.
* VillainBallMagnet: Emma struggles to fight her darker urges, and on a few occasions she gives in.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Her relationship with certain other X-women. In the mini-series that reintroduced Nova (the flaming Herald of Galactus, not [[ComicBook/{{Nova}} that guy]]), she's this to quite a few superheroines in the Marvel Universe given the number that showed up to her birthday party. They might not like the way she does things, but respect what she can do and she's nothing if not interesting to the more straight-laced heroines.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: She genuinely seeks to help mutantkind and protect her students, but has some serious flaws in the way she goes about it.
* WolverinePublicity: She has been appearing in a great deal of comics, often [[{{Fanservice}} just so that she can be there]]. The worst example is the time when she showed up in one page of one issue of ComicBook/WhiteTiger's miniseries to tell her that white wasn't her color (after several thugs had mistaken her for Emma... because a dark-haired Hispanic woman and a blonde Caucasian woman are so alike).
* WomanInWhite: Her defining visual characteristic, in contrast to Selene's WomanInBlack. In New Charles Xavier School for Mutants, however, she becomes WomanInBlack.
* WorkingWithTheEx: Keeps being a part of the Cyclops-led faction of the X-Men even after they broke up.
* YourMindMakesItReal: The ''Torn'' arc in ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'' is a more complex example than most. At first it seems like Emma [[spoiler:has betrayed the X-men and rejoined the Hellfire club, but it turns out all of them, except for Cassandra Nova, are manifestations of Emma's guilt over being a former villain and her fear of falling back to her old ways. She projects these mental images into the X-men too, so it seems like individual members of the Hellfire club are the ones fighting them and messing with their heads. Cassandra had planted a suggestion in her mind before being imprisoned in a cocoon, and simply took advantage of these doubts and fears.]]
* ZettaiRyouiki: Type A.
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->''"[[ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} Scott]] was trying to be sweet and [[BrokenBird all I felt was cold and alone]] because so many wonderful lights have gone out and I'm so tired from fighting against all this darkness. And I thought, [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments I'll name them Jean and Kurt]]. I'll name my gray hairs after dead friends. Dead friends and ComicBook/XMen."''

* ReformedButRejected: In ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'', Kitty Pryde's reaction to Emma as a teacher at the X-Academy is less than enthusiastic.

* ''VideoGame/{{X-Men Legends}}'' (2004): appears as playable hero. Voiced by Bobby Holliday.

** In ''ComicBook/TheChildrensCrusade'', she foolishly tried to do this to [[ComicBook/YoungAvengers Speed and Wiccan]] to made them go with the X-Men., [[ComicBook/ScarletWitch Mama Wanda]] [[MamaBear disagreed]].

** In ''ComicBook/TheChildrensCrusade'', she foolishly tried mind control [[ComicBook/YoungAvengers Speed and Wiccan]], [[ComicBook/ScarletWitch Mama Wanda]] [[MamaBear disagreed]].