History ComicBook / EmmaFrost

In ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'', she's one of five mutants who are possessed by the Phoenix Force and becomes one of the Phoenix Five. Under its influence, she does several terrible things which she later regrets. She lost her portion of the Phoenix Force power after Cyclops, who became more corrupted by the Phoenix Force, forcibly took it from her. She's later in custody of ComicBook/NewAvengers members ComicBook/{{Luke Cage|HeroForHire}}, 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'', she agreed to join with Cyclops and Magneto once more and, along with Magik, began searching for new Mutants. She became a leader in Cyclops’ new X-Men team and was present when Cyclops freed several mutants from their human captors. The New Charles Xavier School for Mutants is founded.

* AbsoluteCleavage: Several of her costumes have gone for this look. An example is her black costume in New Charles Xavier School.

* AloofBigSister: Towards her younger sister Cordelia for whom she has only ''slightly'' less animus than towards Adrienne.
** Deconstructed with Christian Frost, Emma's big brother, who was the only one in Emma's family to love her. When Emma abandoned her family, she also left Christian and never spoke to him again. When Emma returned to check why Christian and his abusive father seemed closer, Christian asked her why she abandoned him. Emma answered that [[EvilParentsWantGoodKids Evil Sisters Want Happy Brothers]] and she was doing things that will hurt Christian. If you see DarkAndTroubledPast, or if you could ask Esme's opinion, you have to concede [[JerkassHasAPoint Emma has a point.]]

** ''ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast'': She is former White Queen of the Hellfire Club. She joined ComicBook/{{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.

** ''ComicBook/MarvelAdventures'': Emma is a young mutant and one of few people who knows Franchise/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.

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

* 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 left her perpetually in Jean's shadow, both InUniverse and out, a status that she was acutly aware of and more than one character (including a teenage Jean) has needled her about it.

* [[BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork Good Guys do the Clean Work]]: Inverted and Invoqued when Emma recruits Iceman to help his brother Christian. Emma invoked AloofBigSister when she abandoned Christian to become the White Queen, and she knows that she of all people is not a good influence on anyone, so she forces Iceman to help Christian to show him a good, well adjusted homosexual... and of course, after Iceman helps Christian, Emma treates Iceman like a JerkAss.

* BeingEvilSucks: Emma abandoned Christian, the only brother she has loved to become Hellfire's club White Queen. She did it on porpuse so the evil actions Emma was planning to do would not make her a DoomMagnet to Christian. When Emma comes back for Christian, she had to manipulate Iceman to help Christian to inspire hope on him, something Emma considers herself incapable to do. The sad part is that if you see DarkAndTrobledPast, or if you could ask Esme's opinion, you have to concede [[JerkassHasAPoint Emma has a point.]]

* 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]].

** How villainous she is post-ComicBook/InhumansVsXMen tends to vary wildly. One comic might portray her as a genocidal lunatic, and the next she'll be palling around with Ice-Man or flirting with Jessica Jones.

* 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 telepathically from a distant BadFuture) made him get together with her to avoid the X-Men falling apart.

* ElementalMotifs: Ice. She is a blonde dressed in all-white, her surname is "Frost", she has a cool and cynical personality, and her organic diamond form can look like ice. It is also [[FireIceDuo a point of contrast]] against her fellow telepath, sometimes-ally, and sometimes-romantic-rival ComicBook/JeanGrey, a FieryRedhead whose

* EvilMentor: Sebastian Shaw. Served as this herself to the Hellions.

* 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.
* 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 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.
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''VideoGame/MarvelHeroes'' with one of her random dialogues near Jean Grey: "Ah, the fiery redhead. Oh, Jean, could you be more trite?"
* FreakyFridayFlip: Pulled off one with Storm in her Hellfire Club days, in an attempt to destroy the X-Men from within.

* GeniusBruiser: Her Diamond form allows her a certain degree of SuperStrength (less than someone like Colossus, whom she is meant to be an [[{{Expy}} expy]] of in that run[[note]]Morrison ''had'' originally wanted to use Colossus, but as the character had recently performed a HeroicSacrifice, he thought it would be bad form to [[DeathIsCheap immediately bring him back]], so he adapted his story and came up with the concept of Secondary Mutations to explain why Emma became the team's muscle.[[/note]]), as Emma can move her dense form just as easily and quickly as she can her flesh and blood body. Her SuperToughness gets more of a spotlight than her strength, and even when she was briefly [[LiterallyShatteredLives shattered]] it's explicitly stated that a specialized bullet was used ''in addition'' to exploiting the literal flaw in her body.

* GuiltComplex: As explicitly stated on ''Astonishing X-Men'' #18.

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

* KilledOffForReal: In the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe, during ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}''

* 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. ... She once erased every happy memory in an assassin's mind to protect X-23 from the assassin. 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 then became 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.

-->'''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.

** Emma's relationship with ComicBook/{{X 23}} is one of her most complicated relationships with fellow X-Women. But mess with the young girl and you'll wish you were dead, as Kimura finds out the hard way.
* ManipulativeBitch: Even after the HeelFaceTurn

* MindRape: [[MoralMyopia She thoroughly loves this trope.]]
** She has done this to a lot of people on many different occassions and for many different reasons, sometimes good, sometimes bad.

* 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 shameless about this.
** [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in [[Comicbook/MarvelAdventures Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man]]. Due to being aged down into a teenager, her outfits are less {{Stripperiffic}}, trading her trademark [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/69/95/05/6995053e3032b3d148ea25d80e17ad83.jpg white lingerie]] for a [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/1/18/Marvel_Adventures_Spider-Man_Vol_1_61.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110605214348 skintight catsuit]] [[https://media.emmafrostfiles.com/comics/covers/u0qdo1L1IdeM.jpg that highlights]] her AdaptationalCurves rather than revealing skin. She's still a MsFanservice, just an age-appropriate one.
* MoralMyopia: Emma started out heavily into torture, bondage, brainwashing, and slavery, but she was later shown as extremely opposed to the real-world variants.

* 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.

* PetTheDog: She has turned very loyal to her students, genuinely loved Cyclops; and although she started out heavily into torture, bondage, brainwashing, and slavery, [[MoralMyopia she was later shown as extremely opposed to the real-world variants]].
** At ''ComicBook/GenerationX'', Emma remembers when [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter Toad asked membership into the Hellfire Club]]. After they stopped laughing, Emma offered Toad her particular house so he can recover without further humilliation. The interesting part is that this happened when Emma was White Queen and a true villainess, so sparing TheGrotesque in this period truly applies for the trope.

* 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.
** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''VideoGame/MarvelHeroes'', in which she may comment upon defeating an enemy "I've had plastic surgery more dangerous than you."

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, 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.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Handed a brutal one out to Kimura.
** And received a brutal one in turn from Teen Jean, who accurately noted that Emma resented her because she knew that while Scott was the love of Emma's life, Jean was the love of Scott's and always would be.

* 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]].

* 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.
** However, in ''[[ComicBook/JonathanHickmansXMen House of X]]'', she has apparently adopted "White Queen" as an actual codename and warns the Stepford Cuckoos to only address her as such while in the human world.

* SpotlightStealingSquad (seems to get more attention in the comics now, than women who've been in the team far longer).

* {{Stripperiffic}}: 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, {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''VideoGame/MarvelHeroes'', where Jean may comment "You know, Emma, I can read minds with my clothes ''on''."

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: At ''ComicBook/XMenBlack'' Emma asks the X men leader, Rogue, for help to destroy the Hellfire Club. Rogue chuckles and orders Emma to go to a corner until she consults with ''her'' team. The X men hangs out with Emma for necessity and proximity, because being a Jerkass ManipulativeBitch has that effect in any team of people. Cue Emma's sudden but inevitable betrayal.

* TooDesperateToBePicky: The one and only reason why she swallowed her pride and asked her older sister Adrienne for a bailout when her school went in financial jeopardy. It was the last resort indeed before having to consider crime.

* VaporWear: Her Phoenix Five costume lacks of bra and panties.

* BigScrewedUpFamily: Winston and Hazel Frost were AbusiveParents. Their four sons were Christian, Adrienne, Emma and Cordelia. Emma and Adrienne become CainAndAbel, Winston was Christian ArchnemesisDad and Christian was forced to become a SelfMadeOrphan. Cordelia cannot care less about Emma and Christian, but that doesn't mean she wouldn't attack them in the future...

* TheThreeFacesOfEve: A rather dark variation with her and her sisters. She's the Mother: caring, nurturing and experienced but also tough-as-nails and pragmatic. Adrienne is the narcissistic, ambitious, manipulative, envious and heartless Seductress. Cordelia is the immature, faithless, AttentionWhore-like and unthinking Child.

** [[BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork Good Guys do the Clean Work]]: Emma manipulates Iceman to help Emma's brother Christian because Iceman is a truly good person capable of giving hope to others, and Emma invoked AloofBigBrother Aloof Big Sister in Christian because Emma knows she is not.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Emma takes mentorship as his true call in life, and is very confused when he offers Kitty Pride her guidance to become like Emma and Kitty rejects her.

* 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.

* WomanInWhite: Her defining visual characteristic, in contrast to Selene's black outfit. In New Charles Xavier School for Mutants, however, she starts wearing an all black outfit.

* [[EvilParentsWantGoodKids Evil Sisters Want Happy Brothers]] The only member of Emma's family she loves is his brother Christian, and she invoked AloofBigSister with him to spare him the consequences of Emma's evil acts.

** At GenerationX, Emma remembers when [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter Toad asked membership into the Hellfire Club]]. After they stopped laughing, Emma offered Toad her particular house so he can recover without further humilliation. The interesting part is that this happened when Emma was White Queen and a true villainess, so sparing TheGrotesque in this period truly applies for the trope.

* GenreSavvy: If you see Emma's JerkJustification, she knows pretty well she is a NominalHero at best, if not the BigBad. So she has to rely on true heros to keep her in check:

** [[[[BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork Good Guys do the Clean Work]]: Emma manipulates Iceman to help Emma's brother Christian because Iceman is a truly good person capable of giving hope to others, and Emma invoked AloofBigBrother Aloof Big Sister in Christian because Emma knows she is not.

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* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: Inverted and Invoqued when Emma recruits Iceman to help his brother Christian. Emma invoked AloofBigSister when she abandoned Christian to become the White Queen, and she knows that she of all people is not a good influence on anyone, so she forces Iceman to help Christian to show him a good, well adjusted homosexual... and of course, after Iceman helps Christian, Emma treates Iceman like a JerkAss.

** Deconstructed with Christian Frost, Emma's big brother, who was the only one in Emma's family to love her. When Emma abandoned her family, she also left Christian and never spoke to him again. When Emma returned to check why Christian and his abusive father seemed closer, Christian asked her why she abandoned him. Emma answered that [[EvilParentsWantGoodKids Evil Sisters Want Happy Brothers]] and she was doing things that will hurt Christian. If you see DarkAndTroubledPast, you have to concede [[JerkassHasAPoint Emma has a point.]]

'''Emma Grace 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.

* 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.

* 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]].

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