History ComicBook / EmmaFrost

** In another world visited by ComicBook/{{Exiles}}, she is still in her evil Hellfire Club role and [[spoiler: almost freed the evil Protues from Morph. It's a long story.]]

* AntiHero: UnscrupulousHero 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. This was a status that she was aware of and more than one character (including a teenage Jean) has needled her about it.

* MentalAffair: That one happened in ''ComicBook/NewXMen'' between her and Scott, some time before ComicBook/JeanGrey's death.

** In another world visited by ComicBook/{{Exiles}}, she is still in her evil Hellfire Club stat and [[spoiler: almost freed the evil Protues from Morph. It's a long story.]]

* EvilPaysBetter: Hellfire Club days.
* EvilTeacher: Hellfire Club days.

* SanitySlippage [[spoiler: After Cyclope's death in ''ComicBook/DeathOfX'', she lose her mind (she also fooled everyone into thinking that Scott was alive and, later, ''killed'' by Black Bolt) and this lead to her FaceHeelTurn in ''ComicBook/InhumansVsXMen'' where try to kill all the Inhumans]].

* AbsoluteCleavage: Several of her costumes have gone for this look, most recently her black costume in New Charles Xavier School.

* 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.

* BreakoutCharacter: Easily the most prominent and popular 21st century addition to the X-Men.

She's also one of the main characters in ''ComicBook/NewXMen'' where her infamous MentalAffair with ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} happened, endangering Cyclops' marriage to ComicBook/JeanGrey. In ''New X-Men: Academy X'' (2004), she becomes the leader of a new Hellions Squad, this time associated with the Xavier Institute. Her team is also the rival of a second New Mutants team, echoing the rivalry between the two original groups of the similar names. During the [[ComicBook/HouseOfM M-Day]], most of her team members retain their powers, with the exception of Tag (Brian Cruz) and Specter (Dallas Gibson). Around this time, one of the Cuckoos, Sophie, made a HeroicSacrifice to stop Quentin Quire and his Omega Gang. This prompted another Cuckoo, Esme, to leave, but she later returned to personally try to kill Emma. Emma was [[LiterallyShatteredLives shattered]] while in her organic diamond form by Esme who shot her with a diamond bullet, but ComicBook/JeanGrey managed to repair Emma at the molecular level. Esme herself is later killed by Xorn, who also killed Jean.

Later in ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'' Vol. 3 (2004-2013), she co-leads the X-Men alongside Cyclops after Jean Grey's death. In this series, she also has an antagonistic relationship with Kitty Pryde, who is reluctant to accept Emma as a leader and teacher.

After ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'' and during ''ComicBook/DarkReign'', she's introduced as a member of ComicBook/NormanOsborn's Cabal and X-Men (''Dark X-Men''), only to later betray the team during a confrontation with ComicBook/XForce. She took [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]], [[ComicBook/CloakAndDagger Cloak, and Dagger]] along with her to rejoined the rest of the mutants. An enraged Osborn sent the ComicBook/DarkAvengers and Dark X-Men to kill her and Namor, but failed spectacularly.

** ''ComicBook/MarvelAdventures'': Emma is a young mutant and one of few people who knows ComicBook/SpiderMan's true identity. She had crush on Peter. She also briefly became costumed rogue with the alias "Silencer" (complete with DominoMask!) to see what Spidey capable of. Later, she joined the Blonde Phantom Detective Agency.

* AttentionWhore: She wears those Stripperific suits [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl on purpose]].

* [[ByronicHero Byronic Heroine]]: Rare female example, but DependingOnTheWriter, it can be well done or extremely disturbing.

* TheChick: In ''ComicBook/NewXMen''. Also in ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'' before she becomes Phoenix Five.

* 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.

* 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.

** {{Lampshaded}} in MarvelHeroes with one of her random dialogues near Jean Grey: "Ah, the fiery redhead. Oh, Jean, could you be more trite?"

* 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.

* 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.

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

** {{Lampshaded}} in MarvelHeroes, in which she may comment upon defeating an enemy "I've had plastic surgery more dangerous than you."

* PsychicPowers: Emma Frost possesses telepathic abilities of a similar, or slightly lower, caliber to those of Charles Xavier, over which she had an extremely refined level of skill. Frost has been cited as a "World-class telepath", "Omega Class Telepath" and a "Psi of the Highest Order" capable of extraordinary telepathic feats. When Wolverine thought to be protected from her thanks to Level 9 Psi-Shields created by Charles Xavier, she stated she was herself Level 10.
** More specifically, since her introduction, Emma has displayed the telepathic standards of [[{{Telepathy}} broadcasting and receiving thoughts]], [[MindManipulation mind-control]], [[LaserGuidedAmnesia altering perceptions and memories]], projection of offensive blasts of psionic energy causing mental pain or unconsciousness, [[AstralProjection astral projection]], mind switching, brain engram modification, mental sedation of unconscious victims, induction of mental pain by touch and limited psychometry...in short, every form of MindRape.
** Howewer she can't use when in her NighInvulnerable mode.
* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Handed a brutal one out to Kimura.

* {{Stripperific}}: Her overall body of costumes are some of the most revealing and overtly sexual of any character in the Marvel universe. 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.
** Again, {{Lampshaded}} in MarvelHeroes, where Jean may comment "You know, Emma, I can read minds with my clothes ''on''."

* [[TragicHero Tragic Heroine]]: Eventually in ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'', she's horrified by her actions as Phoenix Five.

* 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.]]

'''Emma Frost''' is a Creator/MarvelComics character associated with the mutant superhero team, ComicBook/XMen. She's introduced in ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' Vol. 1 #129 in 1980. She's created by Creator/ChrisClaremont and Creator/JohnByrne.

* WomanInWhite: Her defining visual characteristic, in contrast to Selene's WomanInBlack. In New Charles Xavier School for Mutants, however, she becomes WomanInBlack.

* {{Adorkable}}: she sleeps like a toddler.

* TheAtoner: in ''ComicBook/GenerationX'', and newly focused on by Creator/JossWhedon.

* TheDarkChick: of ComicBook/NormanOsborn's Cabal in ''ComicBook/DarkReign''. Eventually turns into SixthRangerTraitor.

* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: handed a brutal one out to Kimura.

* ShipTease: Besides Cyclops, she was once romantically involved with Sebastian Shaw, [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]], and [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]].

* PsychicPowers: which she can't use when in her NighInvulnerable mode.

* CleavageWindow: His Phoenix Five costume in ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'' has an enclosed opening on the top portion right above her cleavage.

* AntiHero: UnscrupulousHero [[BaseBreaker or]] NominalHero.

* 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.

* BlondesAreEvil: More intensely during her Hellfire Club days.

* BrainsAndBondage: She worked as a Dominatrix at the Hellfire CLub and has degrees in several fields, including a Bachelor of Science in Education with a minor in Business Administration from the prominent Marvel Universe's Empire State University. SHe was also founder and CEO of Frost Enterprises, a major multinational conglomerate headquartered in New York City that rivaled Stark Enterprises and Worthington Industries and specialized in shipping, aerospace engineering and new technology R&D.

Later, when [[ComicBook/AllNewXMen the time-displaced original five X-Men]] came to join the school, she became the tutor for teen Jean Grey in the use of her power. Again, they began with a restrained relationship, but to everyone’s surprise, they eventually settled their differences and begin to bond, after a fashion.

** ''ComicBook/UltimateMarvel (ComicBook/UltimateXMen)'': She is former student and girlfriend of Charles Xavier. She's in charge of the Academy of Tomorrow and is secretly a part of the Hellfire Club

* 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.

* EvilCostumeSwitch: As Phoenix Five. Subverted when she becomes Black Queen during ''ComicBook/DarkReign'' as she betrayed ComicBook/NormanOsborn there.
* EvilMentor: Sebastian Shaw

* 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.

* 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.

* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: Invoked. She always wears a white costume whereas Selene, the Black queen, usually wears a black verion of it.

* 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.

-->'''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'']

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Emma began her role in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse as an X-Men supervillainess under the title of White Queen of Hellfire Club. She first appeared in the storyline ''ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga'', and later becomes the primary villain in original run of ''ComicBook/NewMutants'' with her own team from Massachussets Academy, Hellions.

After she's recovered from a coma and learns that her Hellions has been slaughtered by the [[KillerRobot Sentinels]] led by a supervillain Trevor Fitzroy during The Phalanx Covenant crossover. Her guilt over her students' deaths led to her eventual reform. Her first role as TheAtoner is in ''ComicBook/GenerationX'' (1994) where she, along with Sean Cassidy a.k.a. Banshee, becomes the mentor for the team.

In the miniseries ''X-Men: Phoenix - Warsong'', it's revealed that during her comatose, her egg cells are used as genetic template to clone several of identical telepath mutant girls, five of which would later known as the Stepford Cuckoos. The clones refer Emma as their "mother", title whose usage she later accepts.

She also personally acts as their tutor. She's also one of main characters in ''ComicBook/NewXMen'' where her infamous MentalAffair with ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} happened, endangering Cyclops' marriage with his wife ComicBook/JeanGrey. In ''New X-Men: Academy X'' (2004), she becomes the leader of new Hellions Squad, this time associated with Xavier Institute. Her team is also the rival of second New Mutants team, echoing the rivalry between the two original groups of the similar names. During the [[ComicBook/HouseOfM M-Day]], most of her team members retain their powers, with the exception of Tag (Brian Cruz) and Specter (Dallas Gibson). Around this time, one of the Cuckoos, Sophie, had HeroicSacrifice to stop Quentin Quire and his Omega Gang. This prompts another Cuckoo, Esme, to leave and she later returned to personally tried to kill Emma. Emma is [[LiterallyShatteredLives literally shattered]] while in her organic diamond form by Esme who shot her with diamond bullet, but ComicBook/JeanGrey managed to repair Emma at the molecular level. Esme herself is later killed by Xorn who also killed Jean.

Later in ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'' Vol. 3 (2004-2013), she co-leads X-Men alongside Cyclops after Jean Grey's death. In this series, she also has antagonistic relationship with Kitty Pryde who is reluctant to accept Emma as a leader and teacher.

After ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'' and during ''ComicBook/DarkReign'', she's introduced as a member of ComicBook/NormanOsborn's Cabal and X-Men (''Dark X-Men''), only to later betray the team during a confrontation with ComicBook/XForce. She took [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]], [[ComicBook/CloakAndDagger Cloak, and Dagger]] along with her to rejoined the rest of the mutants. An enraged Osborn sent ComicBook/DarkAvengers and Dark X-Men to kill her and Namor, but failed spectacularly.

In ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'', she's one of five mutants who are possessed by the Phoenix Force and becomes one of Phoenix Five. Under its influence, she does several terrible things which she later regrets. She lost her portion of Phoenix Force power after Cyclops, who becomes more corrupted by the Phoenix Force, forcibly took it from her. She's later in custody of ComicBook/NewAvengers members [[ComicBook/LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]], ComicBook/{{Mockingbird}}, ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}, and [[ComicBook/FantasticFour the Thing]]. There, she survives an assassination attempt by the Purifiers.

She's later freed from her custody by Cyclops, ComicBook/{{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.

Later, when [[ComicBook/AllNewXMen the timely-displaced original five X-Men]] come to join the school, she becomes the tutor for teen Jean Grey in the use of her power. Again, they began with restrained relationship, but to everyone’s surprise, they eventually settle their differences and begin to bond, after a fashion.

!Tropes associated with her:
* AbsoluteCleavage: Her black costume in New Charles Xavier School, combined with BareYourMidriff.
** Same goes for [[{{Stripperific}} most of her wardrobe]], really.

* ActionMom: for Stepford Cuckoos, her ''five'' cloned daughters. She can be protective to them, and she is quite saddened when two of them is dead (even if one of them, Esme, once betrayed and tried to kill her).
* AdaptationalHeroism: Many animated adaptations, especially the ''Anime/XMen'' anime, take away Emma's more [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] personality traits. Rearranging her backstory, often giving her a HiddenHeartOfGold among other positive qualities.

** ''Marvel Noir'': She is warden of Genosha Bay prison.

* BadassTeacher: She's already a teacher even before joins the X-Men.

* 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.

* {{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.

** ''ComicBook/OldManLogan'': She marries SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom in order to ensure the survival of her species. Together with Doctor Doom, they rule a sector of what once was the United States of America, the only place on Earth where mutants can live without fear of persecution.

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-->--'''Emma Frost, ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' Vol. 1 #529'''