History ComicBook / EmmaFrost

* CainAndAbel: She and her sister, Adrienne.

* 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. In ''[[ComicBook/JonathanHickmansXMen House of X]]'', she has apparently adopted "White Queen" as an actual codename.

* 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. In ''[[JonathanHickmansXMen House of X]]'', she has apparently adopted "White Queen" as an actual codename.

* 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.

* VillainBallMagnet: Emma struggles to fight her darker urges, and on a few occasions she gives in.

* 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). Creator/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.

* ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' (2011): Emma Frost is one of the antagonists from Hellfire Club. Portrayed by January Jones.

* ''VideoGame/MarvelAvengersAlliance'' (2012-present): appears as recruitable playable hero.

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* FaceHeelTurn: Has danced on the edge of this a few times following her Hellfire Club days. [[spoiler:Finally jumped over the edge following her SanitySlippage after Present!Scott's death from Terrigen poisoning, manufactured the events of ''ComicBook/InhumansVersusXMen'' and tried to wipe out the Inhumans.]] However, since then, she has been an ally to mutants and the x-men on several occasions.

* 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. She officially joined the X-Men after the Genosha's genocide caused by Cassandra Nova.

* ContemptibleCover: Her 2003-5 solo series became notorious for hypersexualised pin-up covers that did not reflect the content and actively alienated the young female audience that might have enjoyed it.

* [[InkSuitActor Ink Suit Actress:]] JohnByrne based her look on DianaRigg as [[Series/TheAvengers Emma Peel.]]

->''"[[ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} Scott]] was trying to be sweet and 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, I'll name them Jean and Kurt. I'll name my gray hairs after dead friends. Dead friends and ComicBook/XMen."''
-->-- '''Emma Frost''', ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' Vol. 1 #529

* ''VideoGame/MarvelHeroes'' (2013-present): appears as playable hero. Voiced by Creator/KariWahlgren.

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. However she can't use when in her {{Nigh Invulnerab|ility}}le mode.

* FaceHeelTurn: Has danced on the edge of this a few times following her Hellfire Club days. [[spoiler: Finally jumped over the edge following her SanitySlippage after Present!Scott's death from Terrigen poisoning, manufactured the events of ''ComicBook/InhumansVersusXMen'' and tried to wipe out the Inhumans. However, since then, she has been an ally to mutants and the x-men on several occasions.

* ''VideoGame/SuperHeroSquadOnline'' (2011-present): appears as playable hero. Voiced by Music/GreyDeLisle.

* ''X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men'' (1989): voiced by Susan Silo.

* FaceHeelTurn: Has danced on the edge of this a few times following her Hellfire Club days. [[spoiler: Finally jumped over the edge following her SanitySlippage after Present!Scott's death from Terrigen poisoning, manufactured the events of ''ComicBook/InhumansVersusXMen'' and tried to wipe out the Inhumans. She later tried to MindRape Tykelops into being a ReplacementGoldfish for her Scott. Teen Jean stopped her.]]

* 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 other X-Men had done worst threats to their own students.

*** As of the end of ''ComicBook/InhumansVsXMen'', however, [[spoiler: they're back to being arch-enemies, with a deranged Emma attempting to MindRape Tykelops into serving as a ReplacementGoldfish for her Scott.]]

** 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'']
** She [[spoiler: tried to MindRape Tykelops into being a ReplacementGoldfish for her Scott.]]

* 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]].

In the miniseries ''X-Men: Phoenix - Warsong'', it's revealed that during her coma, her egg cells were used as genetic templates to clone several identical telepath mutant girls, five of which would later known as the Stepford Cuckoos. The clones refer to Emma as their "mother", a title she later accepts. She also personally acts as their tutor.

** ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'': In this universe, Emma never joined the Hellfire Club and is a member of the Human High Council.

* ActionGirl: Emma Frost is easily one of the most powerful mutants on the team.

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

* 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. She join ufficially in the X-Men after the Genosha's genocide caused by Cassandra Nova.

* FaceHeelTurn: Has danced on the edge of this a few times following her Hellfire Club days. [[spoiler: Finally jumped over the edge following her SanitySlippage after Present!Scott's death from Terrigen poisoning, manufactured the events of ''ComicBook/InhumansVersusXMen'' and tried to wipe out the Inhumans. Most recently, tried to MindRape Tykelops into being a ReplacementGoldfish for her Scott. Teen Jean stopped her.]]

* 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.

** Most recently, she [[spoiler: tried to MindRape Tykelops into being a ReplacementGoldfish for her Scott.]]