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White Queen
Emma Frost
Fighting: Excellent
Agility: Good
Strength: Typical
Endurance: Amazing
Reason: Remarkable
Intuition: Incredible
Psyche: Monstrous
Health 86
Karma 145
Resources IncredibleEnterprises
Popularity 0
Powers
Telepathic Defense: She can manifest her telepathy in a number of defensive ways.
Telepathic Cloak: She can mask her presence and the use of her abilities from being detected by other psions and psychic entities. She can extend these defenses to others around her as well. Cloaking via telepathy is not perfect and powerful psis may notice and 'see' through this ability.
Cloak Mind: Ability to rearrange the “mental engrams” of mutants so their distinctive mutant thought patterns cannot be detected by Cerebro-type devises or by other telepaths.
Psionic Shield: Ability to erect a psychic shield for protection of herself and of others minds.
Telepathic Illusions: She can create realistic telepathic illusions and cause people to experience events which are not actually occurring.
Telepathic Camouflage: She can alter the apparent physical appearance of herself and other people by altering the perceptions of those around her. This can go so far as to make other people believe that the camouflaged people are not there (invisible). A limit, if one exists, is only imposed by the number of people she is trying to fool, not the number of people she is camouflaging.
Telepathic Control & Manipulation: She can control and manipulate other people's minds easily, achieving a variety of effects.
Mind Control: She can control the thoughts and actions of others.
Mind Possession: She can possess the mind of another, and use that being's body as her own.
Personality Alteration: She can alter the minds of others by force of will, permanently changing their personality, partially or entirely.
Mental Paralysis: She can induce temporary mental or physical paralysis.
Mental Amnesia: She can erase any awareness of particular memories or cause total amnesia.
Mind Transferal: She can transfer both her mind and powers into other host bodies if her own physical body could be somehow killed.
Healing Trauma: The ability to erase a person’s memories and to heal mental trauma through “psychic surgery,” the power to stimulate or deaden the pain and pleasure centers in a persons brain.
Mental Sedating: Can telepathically "sedate" her victims so that, if already rendered unconscious, they remain so for as long as she continues to "sedate" them.
Neural Jumpstart: She can increase the speed of neural signals in the brain, she could increase another mutants powers to incredible levels, but the effect was only temporary.
Dilate Power: Ability to place “psychic inhibitors” in the minds of mutant adversaries to prevent them from using their powers.
Mind Link: Ability to develop a mental link with any person which remains as a strong telepathic/empathic connection to that individual.
Psionic Blasts: She can project psionic force bolts which have no physical effects but which can affect a victim's mind so as to cause the victim pain or unconsciousness and turning someone brain-dead.
Astral Projection: She can project her astral form from her body onto astral planes or the physical planes. In the physical plane she can travel in astral form over vast distances. In the astral plane, she can mentally create psionic objects and manipulate the aspects of her environment. She can communicate with others astrally through her own will, or through contact with the thoughts and memories of others.
Mental Detection: She can sense the presence of another superhuman mutant within a small but as yet undefined radius of himself by perceiving the distinctive mental radiations emitted by such a being
The Phoenix Force: Emma is shown to be able to be possesed by the Phoenix Force on seperate occaisions, the latest being during the events of Avengers Vs X-Men. Unlike Jean Grey, Emma does not control the Phoenix Force, rather on the occasions that it has inhabited her, it takes full possession of her.
Secondary Mutation Organic Diamond Form: As a result of undergoing a body-wide secondary mutation, Frost now possesses the ability to transform her body into a flexible, organic diamond form. In many ways, this is similar to Colossus' organic steel form. She must transform her entire body, rather than selectively transforming certain areas and can remain in this form for an undetermined amount of time. If she is rendered unconscious, Frost's body will automatically revert into its normal state. This transformation also alters Frost's personality, causing her to become rather cold hearted and to lose her empathy for others.
Superhuman Strength: In her diamond form, Frost's physical strength is increased to superhuman levels. At her peak, she is able to lift approximately 2 tons.
Superhuman Stamina: While transformed, Frost's muscle tissue becomes infinitely more efficient than the organic musculature of normal humans, or most other organic beings for that matter. Her muscles produce almost no fatigue toxins during physical activity, granting her almost limitless superhuman stamina, or at least until or unless she is forced to resume her normal state.
Superhuman Durability: Frost's diamond form renders her highly resistant to most forms of physical injury. She is able to resist great impact forces, such as being repeatedly struck with superhuman force, without being injured. Her body is also resistant to temperature extremes, able to withstand temperatures as cold as -320 degrees Farenheit or as hot as approximately 7,362 degrees Fahrenheit before her form begins to melt. Frost is also self contained while transformed, requiring no food, water or oxygen.
Telepathic Negation: Emma can prevent others from using their telepathic abiltilies to lower the enemy's defenses.
Psychic Torture: Emma can mentally torture enemies.
Psychic Inhibitors: Emma can create psychic barriers around a person's mind to block things like memories to make them harmless.
Psychic Constructs: Emma can create objects out of solid psionic energy to use in different situations, like blades or staffs. The objects can warp and damage a person's mind.
Psionic Manipulation: Emma can use any or all mental abilitiies at any given time.
Personality Control: Emma can alter a person's mind to change their personality.
Weaknesses: While in her normal state, Frost has all the physical frailties and vulnerabilities any ordinary human has. While she is much stronger and more durable in her diamond form, her body can be shattered if she were to be hit in a certain area that has a flaw, much as an actual diamond will. Also, while in her diamond form, Frost is unable to access her telepathic abilities.
Equipment:
None
Talents:
Administration, Business, Finance, Education, Electronics, Teaching, Hand Guns, Psychology, Seduction, Heir to Fortune (Cordelia Frost's business)
Expert Technician: Emma Frost is highly skilled in electronic theory and electronics and has learned how to build devices that can amplify psionic energy and utilize psionic energy for various effects. She devised the mechanism by which Mastermind projected his illusions directly into the mind of the Phoenix Force.
Defense Training: Emma Frost is an above average athlete and has had some training in hand-to-hand combat.
Master Astral Combatant: Emma Frost is trained and excels in astral combat.
Contacts:
HellFire Club
History
Emma Frost was born into a wealthy family in Boston, Massachusetts. She was the second of three daughters and third of four children. The dynamics of Emma's family life played a profound role in shaping her future goals and future personality. Her father, Winston, was a domineering figure who had impossibly high standards for his children. He was cold, ruthless and unflinchingly demanding of his family. He offered little support, encouragement or love to his children. Emma's mother was a fragile woman who numbed herself to the tensions in her marriage and household by abusing prescription drugs. The beautiful and vain Adrienne Frost was the ambitious one, always scheming to win her father's favor, as well as his fortune. Cordelia Frost was the rebellious one, willing to do whatever it took to win a little of her father's attention, no matter who might get hurt as a result. Their older brother, Christian Frost was carefree and playful. He was Emma's sole friend and ally in their dysfunctional family, filled with power games, manipulation and secrets. As a teenager, Emma tried to reason with her father. She did the things he asked of her as best she could, not out of a desire for personal gain so much as from a need for a normal teenage existence.
The emergence of her telepathic powers only added to the mounting tensions that Emma already faced on a daily basis. She subconsciously used her powers to excel at school, picking up ideas and thoughts from her classmates. Emma achieved academic success and received validation from her teacher, Ian Kendall. Emma announced to her father that she wanted to pursue a career in teaching. Naturally, her father was infuriated by this idea. Thinking that Mr. Kendall was influencing Emma, Winston Frost had him fired.
Emma as teenager
Emma began to see the deceit and manipulations of her father and sisters when she, herself, became a target of their malicious power plays. Angered by the hurt and pain they had caused her and those she cared for, Emma fought back. She discovered her father's affairs and blackmailed him, exposed Adrienne's secret modelling career and more. In retaliation, Adrienne revealed to their father that Christian was gay, a secret Emma herself had only recently learned. When Winston Frost learned this, he arranged for Christian's lover to be framed for dealing drugs and deported. In utter despair, Christian attempted suicide. Emma found Christian and called for help. He survived but fell into a deep depression and drug addiction. Desperate to save the only person in her life she truly loved, Emma went to her father in the hopes he might help Christian. Winston confessed to Emma that he was surprised and impressed by her guile and attempts at deceitfulness. He agreed to get Christian the help that he needed.
That same night, he decided to name his heir. Emma's father considered which of the girls to choose, with Christian obviously being a non-acceptable option. Finally, much to the surprise of the others, he settled on "rebellious, little Emma." His announcement was interrupted by a doctor from a mental institution, who had come to collect Christian. Emma was enraged and, to the surprise of everyone, refused the family fortune. She decided to make her own way instead, with her entire fortune consisting of 400 Dollars.
Determined to make it on her own, Emma left the family home and moved to Boston, taking odd jobs as a sales girl and dishwasher to try and survive. The pampered Emma was not cut out for such work and fell on hard times, until she met a young man named Troy Killkelly. Troy took Emma in and the two became romantically involved. However, Troy owed money to a local gangster named Lucien and Emma's happiness was to be short-lived.
Various other schemes to make money having failed, Troy came up with the idea to have Lucien's gang pretend to kidnap Emma and extort ransom money from her father. Lucien tried to blackmail Winston Frost into paying for Emma's safe release, but Winston refused to pay, claiming that his daughter was worth nothing to him. Enraged, Lucien decided to hold Emma hostage for real. When Troy tried to stop him, he was shot and killed. Seeing an opportunity to burn her father, Adrienne released the ransom video to the media. Winston was left with no choice but to pay in order to avoid a public disgrace.
Realizing that the gang planned to kill her once they received the ransom, Emma used her mental powers to subtly turn them against each other. Their greed, mistrust and anxiety amplified by Emma's powers, the gang members killed each other off one by one. Emma escaped and used knowledge gleaned from her captors to claim the ransom money herself. With 160,000 dollars, she embarked on a new life as a student at Empire State University in New York City.
Along with her new life, Emma also adopted a new look - she bleached her hair blonde. According to one flashback, she also had plastic surgery to improve her looks. At university, Emma quickly befriended her room-mate, Christie McDermott, but it was two other people who would shaper her life for years to come.
One was a telepath by the name of Astrid Bloom. Though around Emma's age, she was much more skilled in the use of her powers, and she taught Emma new tricks, such as reading people's past memories instead of just their present thoughts, and how to speed-learn by piggybacking on other student's focused and organized thoughts when they were learning in the library. The other important person was Ian Kendall, Emma's old high school teacher, who was now working as a university mentor, and briefly in a relationship with Christie before Emma seduced him back. When Christie threatened to report their relationship, Ian suddenly went mad and almost strangled her. However, Emma discovered all of this was Astrid's doing - afraid of losing Emma's companionship, Astrid had manipulated the people around her for weeks, determined to show her that mutants were superior and had to stick together.
In a direct conflict, though, Emma turned out to be the more powerful telepath, leaving Astrid in a catatonic state. Afterwards, Emma confided in Ian about her being a mutant and what all went on. She was looking for love and comfort, but the man had only hatred and disgust for her. The only person that meant something to her having ditched her, Emma grew cold and bitter, and she began to share the idea of mutant superiority.
It didn't help that, around the same time, the general public had learned of the existence of mutants, leading to some massive anti-mutant hysteria. In the times that followed, Emma had no more scruples to use her mental powers for her own advantage and to take whatever she wanted. Parallel to earning her degrees in business and education, she attended the parties of Manhattan's high society with faked invitations. Standing next to the Wall Street elite, Emma mentally gained enough inside knowledge to make a fortune. During one of these parties, she got to know Harry Leland and immediately realized that, although he was a dangerous man, he would be very useful to her.
Having overtaxed her telepathy, Emma left the party, only to run into some bullies who wanted to have some fun with the beautiful teenager. Before anything serious happened, Emma was saved by Dark Beast. McCoy had been transported from his own reality twenty years into the past of the main Marvel Universe, but his memory was fractured and he was partially amnesiac. He only remembered that he had performed some experiments and was trying to do the same in New York's sewers.
He and Emma decided to help each other; she telepathically helped restore his mind and, with her growing fortune, set him up a new lab. It is not fully known how long their partnership lasted and what exactly Emma did get in return, though he may have helped her further hone her mental powers and possibly provided her with some special equipment.
Hellfire Club and the Hellions
The White Queen
When the Hellfire Club was hiring dancers, Emma auditioned, dressed in what would later become her White Queen outfit. With her telepathy, she could make the audience believe she was a brilliant dancer. Meeting Sebastian Shaw, who became her mentor, Emma rose in the ranks of the Hellfire Club, also undergoing cosmetic surgery to become perfect.
Unlike most other women, Emma was not ashamed by the Hellfire Club's strict dress code that forced females to walk around in nothing more than lingerie. Actually, she liked it as it gave her psychological power. Because of her revealing outfit, men were easily distracted and usually underestimated her, thinking her to be nothing more than a mere waitress.
Over the next years, Emma built her own empire, soon becoming the majority stockholder of a multi-billion dollar conglomerate, CEO of Frost International, which she soon renamed Frost Enterprises, and owned a private school in Massachusetts.
Simply being part of this organization was not enough for Shaw, he wanted to rule it. At first, he tried to buy his way into the Council of the Chosen, as he helped the Club's leader Ned Buckman to fund Project Armageddon, without knowing that Buckman wanted to use the Project's Sentinel to totally eradicate mutantkind. When the Sentinels killed Shaw's lover, Lourdes Chantal, Shaw and Emma wanted revenge. They attacked during a meeting of the Council and Emma took mental control of Ned's mind, making him shoot all the members, including the former White Queen, Paris Seville, and Buckman himself. That night, Shaw and Frost rose as the Black King and White Queen of the new Inner Circle and soon filled the other positions with their friends, like Harry Leland and Donald Pierce. The Inner Circle's last recruit was Jason Wyngarde (Mastermind), who claimed to be able to seduce Jean Grey (who was in possession of the Phoenix Force force) into serving the Hellfire Club as their Black Queen. Jason slowly wormed his way into her head over time.
The first Hellions
The Club had also planted a bug within Xavier's (Professor X's) mansion and, when Cerebro alerted the X-Men of two new mutant signatures, the Hellfire Club tried to recruit them too. In Chicago, Emma got to the parents of Kitty Pryde, even before the X-Men managed too, and offered her parents to have Kitty educated at her Massachusetts Academy. Upon leaving, Emma ran into Professor Xavier, Colossus, Storm and Wolverine. While the Professor talked with the Pryde family, the three X-Men took Kitty to a nearby mall, where they were ambushed by Emma's Hellfire Club forces. Only Kitty escaped and she altered the other half of the X-Men, who had gone to New York to contact Dazzler.
Finally, it came down to a telepathic battle between the White Queen and Phoenix, after Emma had tried to destroy the mind of her prisoner, Storm. At first, it seemed that the two women were evenly matched, but finally Emma was overpowered and the rest of the building crashed in on her. When the X-Men later encountered the rest of the Hellfire Club, Emma Frost was still recovering from Phoenix's mental attack.
With Frost back at full health, and Phoenix having committed suicide, the Hellfire Club wanted a rematch with the X-Men. The White Queen telepathically forced Kitty Pryde's parents to transfer her to the Massachusetts Academy. Because Kitty was still a minor, she had to obey and Ororo agreed to drive her over. Once there, Emma Frost switched minds with Storm. Meanwhile, Shaw's Sentinels attacked the rest of the X-Men. After "Storm" helped to defeat them, she turned on the X-Men, who ended as helpless prisoners of the Hellfire Club. However, the real Ororo, stuck in Frost's body, was able to get a handle on her telepathic powers and took Kitty back to the mansion.
In the final battle, Storm proved to be the better woman and got her body back. When Emma again used her telepathy for another attack, Storm fried her with an electric bolt and was ready to kill her, but her fellow X-Men held her back. Instead, they made Emma promise to leave Kitty and the X-Men alone.
Emma beat Xavier in the race to contact the newly discovered mutant, Angelica Jones. She enlisted her in the Massachusetts Academy and, once she had realized Angelica's high power potential, she decided to keep her separate from the other young mutants she was secretly training at the Academy. Soon after, Emma was attacked by an unseen assailant, who later turned out to be Mastermind.
Blaming others for his own failures, he was on a personal revenge mission against Emma, Mystique and the X-Men. he probably blamed Emma's mind tap device for him losing control over Phoenix and, with his mental illusions, he caused Emma to fall into a coma for months. When Professor Xavier learned of Emma's state, he offered to help but was refused. The Hellfire Club didn't want to be in their enemy's debt.
Shortly afterwards, Kitty Pryde's friend, [[Doug Ramsey]], received an invitation to the Massachusetts Academy and wanted to accept. Since they could not reveal the Academy's dark secrets to the boy, Kitty at least wanted to accompany him for a visit and, given the condition the White Queen was last seen in, the X-Men believed them safe. When Emma Frost was revealed to have made a full recovery, Kitty was easily defeated, especially since the villain could threaten to harm Doug Ramsey.
Learning of her friend's fate, Illyana Rasputin alerted her fellow New Mutants and, since none of the big hero teams were still on Earth, they themselves travelled to the Massachusetts Academy for a rescue mission. Still, most of the New Mutants:char were caught, as they were surprised by the White Queen and her Hellions. While Emma Frost went to visit Shaw to inform him about their potential new recruits, the Hellions and the Mutants settled for a duel between Jetstream and Cannonball. Even though Sam won, Frost and Shaw didn't want to let the mutants go. Fortunately, Kitty was able to cause a confusion that allowed Magik to teleport them all to safety.
Emma continued to isolate Firestar from the other students and trained her secretly and alone. However, she introduced her to the other Hellions and used a possible future membership as incentive for Angelica to make fast progress. Also, she gave her a special bracelet, which caused the girl nightmares that increased her own doubts and made her easier to control.
When Selene joined the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club as the new Black Queen, Frost and Shaw regarded her as too powerful and a potential threat to their own positions. Therefore, they planned to make Angelica kill Selene. Yet, shortly before she performed the murder, Firestar saw through the deception and left the Massachusetts Academy. Threatening to reveal the academy's secrets, she made Emma Frost promise to never interfere with her again.
After being killed and later again resurrected by the Beyonder, the New Mutants were left shocked and apathetic, most of the team totally lost their will to live. This seemed like the perfect opportunity for Emma Frost. She offered telepathic treatment in case they joined the Hellions. Giving in to feelings of guilt, fear and helplessness, Magneto accepted; unaware that he was emotionally manipulated by Frost's student Empath. Emma welcomed her new students at the Massachusetts Academy and immediately started to erase their memories of the painful events. On a surface level, it seemed that the teenagers were themselves again but Emma sensed that there was still something amiss.
The Hellfire Club
Meanwhile, Magneto found out that he had been tricked by Empath and tried to get the kids back. Emma called the local authorities, who in turn summoned the Avengers to detain Magneto. Luckily, the New Mutants learned about the fight and, after Illyana Rasputin teleported them to the battle site, they helped him. The White Queen decided to try another approach and offered to help the kids together with Magneto. This time, they were successful. Her telepathic powers and Magneto’s emotional concern restored them to their old selves. With the Mutants deciding to return to Xavier’s school, Emma departed peacefully. However, she left her invitation open, well aware that she now seemed generous in the New Mutants’ eyes and they possibly would not believe Magneto when he would try to tell them about her being evil.
With the rise of more and more threats to mutants in general, the Hellfire Club and the X-Men decided to ally themselves after they successfully worked together to battle Nimrod, a super Sentinel from the future. Magneto was offered the seat of White King and, after pondering on whether to accept or not, he joined the club together with Storm, who was the leader of the X-Men at that time. Emma was one of those who welcomed the addition and she took great effort to bring Magneto up to date in the club’s affairs. Soon, Magneto and his students found themselves invited to one of the many parties at the Hellfire Club and the former enmity between the New Mutants and the Hellions developed into a friendly rivalry.
Much to the surprise of her team-mates, Magma even transferred to the Massachusetts Academy after finding that she had feelings for Empath and Emma commented that the young woman from Nova Roma would be more at home with the Academy’s elegant environment anyway. Though she apparently really cared for him, Empath subtly influenced Magma on Emma’s orders, as she had certain business interests in the area of the Amazons and needed Amara’s father on her side.
After the X-Men supposedly died in Dallas, the balance within the Inner Circle was in danger. Now, Magneto no longer was the representative of the hero team, he was only in charge of an untrained bunch of trainees that repeatedly disobeyed his orders. Emma realized that Shaw and Magneto did not get along and carefully pitted them against each other. Finally, after Inferno, Shaw blamed Magneto that the demonic mess was his fault, as he apparently did not have full control over Magik. With her reduced to early childhood, the most promising of the New Mutants was lost to them. Shaw wanted Magneto out of the Circle and challenged him to a duel, but lost. Knowing that only one of them could remain as King, the matter was put to a vote. Promising her a free hand in the Amazonian area, Emma dragged Selene to her side and, together, the three voted Shaw out of the Hellfire Club. In retrospect, this might have been a bad move as Magneto soon lost interest in the Inner Circle and departed. On the other hand, though, Shaw was almost assassinated by his own son, forcing him to go into hiding and let everyone else believe him dead. Neither King would have remained with Emma for long.
Around the same time, Firestar had to learn that the White Queen was a woman who carried grudges. Still bound by her promise to never interfere with her again, Emma tipped off Firestar’s real name and location to Freedom Force, who immediately wanted to make her sign the Mutant Registration Act. Yet, the resourceful young woman managed to avoid it and, several weeks later, joined the New Warriors. Discovering that somebody had hacked into her data banks, Emma thought that she was no longer bound by her vow and she investigated together with her Hellions. They tracked the hacker down to the New Warriors headquarters and, wanting Firestar back; they fought the team over her fate. However, the Warriors beat the Hellions and the White Queen left, though not before laughing at Firestar’s idealism, telling her that one-day she would come back to her and apologize.
Learning that the members of the Hellfire Club were under attack by the Upstarts, Emma contacted the X-Men for help and they came to another party she was hosting. Suddenly, Trevor Fitzroy teleported in, ready to attack the White Queen while his personal Sentinels were slaughtering the Reavers in Australia. Donald Pierce tried to escape and ordered Gateway to take him to the person responsible, but a few Sentinels followed him into the warp gate. They emerged at the Hellfire party and one of the first Sentinel blasts hit Emma Frost. Empath thought her dead, not feeling any emotions from her. Despite the X-Men’s good intentions, the Hellions were killed one by one by either Fitzroy or the mutant hunting robots
Emma Frost
Fighting: Excellent
Agility: Good
Strength: Typical
Endurance: Amazing
Reason: Remarkable
Intuition: Incredible
Psyche: Monstrous
Health 86
Karma 145
Resources IncredibleEnterprises
Popularity 0
Powers
Telepathic Defense: She can manifest her telepathy in a number of defensive ways.
Telepathic Cloak: She can mask her presence and the use of her abilities from being detected by other psions and psychic entities. She can extend these defenses to others around her as well. Cloaking via telepathy is not perfect and powerful psis may notice and 'see' through this ability.
Cloak Mind: Ability to rearrange the “mental engrams” of mutants so their distinctive mutant thought patterns cannot be detected by Cerebro-type devises or by other telepaths.
Psionic Shield: Ability to erect a psychic shield for protection of herself and of others minds.
Telepathic Illusions: She can create realistic telepathic illusions and cause people to experience events which are not actually occurring.
Telepathic Camouflage: She can alter the apparent physical appearance of herself and other people by altering the perceptions of those around her. This can go so far as to make other people believe that the camouflaged people are not there (invisible). A limit, if one exists, is only imposed by the number of people she is trying to fool, not the number of people she is camouflaging.
Telepathic Control & Manipulation: She can control and manipulate other people's minds easily, achieving a variety of effects.
Mind Control: She can control the thoughts and actions of others.
Mind Possession: She can possess the mind of another, and use that being's body as her own.
Personality Alteration: She can alter the minds of others by force of will, permanently changing their personality, partially or entirely.
Mental Paralysis: She can induce temporary mental or physical paralysis.
Mental Amnesia: She can erase any awareness of particular memories or cause total amnesia.
Mind Transferal: She can transfer both her mind and powers into other host bodies if her own physical body could be somehow killed.
Healing Trauma: The ability to erase a person’s memories and to heal mental trauma through “psychic surgery,” the power to stimulate or deaden the pain and pleasure centers in a persons brain.
Mental Sedating: Can telepathically "sedate" her victims so that, if already rendered unconscious, they remain so for as long as she continues to "sedate" them.
Neural Jumpstart: She can increase the speed of neural signals in the brain, she could increase another mutants powers to incredible levels, but the effect was only temporary.
Dilate Power: Ability to place “psychic inhibitors” in the minds of mutant adversaries to prevent them from using their powers.
Mind Link: Ability to develop a mental link with any person which remains as a strong telepathic/empathic connection to that individual.
Psionic Blasts: She can project psionic force bolts which have no physical effects but which can affect a victim's mind so as to cause the victim pain or unconsciousness and turning someone brain-dead.
Astral Projection: She can project her astral form from her body onto astral planes or the physical planes. In the physical plane she can travel in astral form over vast distances. In the astral plane, she can mentally create psionic objects and manipulate the aspects of her environment. She can communicate with others astrally through her own will, or through contact with the thoughts and memories of others.
Mental Detection: She can sense the presence of another superhuman mutant within a small but as yet undefined radius of himself by perceiving the distinctive mental radiations emitted by such a being
The Phoenix Force: Emma is shown to be able to be possesed by the Phoenix Force on seperate occaisions, the latest being during the events of Avengers Vs X-Men. Unlike Jean Grey, Emma does not control the Phoenix Force, rather on the occasions that it has inhabited her, it takes full possession of her.
Secondary Mutation Organic Diamond Form: As a result of undergoing a body-wide secondary mutation, Frost now possesses the ability to transform her body into a flexible, organic diamond form. In many ways, this is similar to Colossus' organic steel form. She must transform her entire body, rather than selectively transforming certain areas and can remain in this form for an undetermined amount of time. If she is rendered unconscious, Frost's body will automatically revert into its normal state. This transformation also alters Frost's personality, causing her to become rather cold hearted and to lose her empathy for others.
Superhuman Strength: In her diamond form, Frost's physical strength is increased to superhuman levels. At her peak, she is able to lift approximately 2 tons.
Superhuman Stamina: While transformed, Frost's muscle tissue becomes infinitely more efficient than the organic musculature of normal humans, or most other organic beings for that matter. Her muscles produce almost no fatigue toxins during physical activity, granting her almost limitless superhuman stamina, or at least until or unless she is forced to resume her normal state.
Superhuman Durability: Frost's diamond form renders her highly resistant to most forms of physical injury. She is able to resist great impact forces, such as being repeatedly struck with superhuman force, without being injured. Her body is also resistant to temperature extremes, able to withstand temperatures as cold as -320 degrees Farenheit or as hot as approximately 7,362 degrees Fahrenheit before her form begins to melt. Frost is also self contained while transformed, requiring no food, water or oxygen.
Telepathic Negation: Emma can prevent others from using their telepathic abiltilies to lower the enemy's defenses.
Psychic Torture: Emma can mentally torture enemies.
Psychic Inhibitors: Emma can create psychic barriers around a person's mind to block things like memories to make them harmless.
Psychic Constructs: Emma can create objects out of solid psionic energy to use in different situations, like blades or staffs. The objects can warp and damage a person's mind.
Psionic Manipulation: Emma can use any or all mental abilitiies at any given time.
Personality Control: Emma can alter a person's mind to change their personality.
Weaknesses: While in her normal state, Frost has all the physical frailties and vulnerabilities any ordinary human has. While she is much stronger and more durable in her diamond form, her body can be shattered if she were to be hit in a certain area that has a flaw, much as an actual diamond will. Also, while in her diamond form, Frost is unable to access her telepathic abilities.
Equipment:
None
Talents:
Administration, Business, Finance, Education, Electronics, Teaching, Hand Guns, Psychology, Seduction, Heir to Fortune (Cordelia Frost's business)
Expert Technician: Emma Frost is highly skilled in electronic theory and electronics and has learned how to build devices that can amplify psionic energy and utilize psionic energy for various effects. She devised the mechanism by which Mastermind projected his illusions directly into the mind of the Phoenix Force.
Defense Training: Emma Frost is an above average athlete and has had some training in hand-to-hand combat.
Master Astral Combatant: Emma Frost is trained and excels in astral combat.
Contacts:
HellFire Club
History
Emma Frost was born into a wealthy family in Boston, Massachusetts. She was the second of three daughters and third of four children. The dynamics of Emma's family life played a profound role in shaping her future goals and future personality. Her father, Winston, was a domineering figure who had impossibly high standards for his children. He was cold, ruthless and unflinchingly demanding of his family. He offered little support, encouragement or love to his children. Emma's mother was a fragile woman who numbed herself to the tensions in her marriage and household by abusing prescription drugs. The beautiful and vain Adrienne Frost was the ambitious one, always scheming to win her father's favor, as well as his fortune. Cordelia Frost was the rebellious one, willing to do whatever it took to win a little of her father's attention, no matter who might get hurt as a result. Their older brother, Christian Frost was carefree and playful. He was Emma's sole friend and ally in their dysfunctional family, filled with power games, manipulation and secrets. As a teenager, Emma tried to reason with her father. She did the things he asked of her as best she could, not out of a desire for personal gain so much as from a need for a normal teenage existence.
The emergence of her telepathic powers only added to the mounting tensions that Emma already faced on a daily basis. She subconsciously used her powers to excel at school, picking up ideas and thoughts from her classmates. Emma achieved academic success and received validation from her teacher, Ian Kendall. Emma announced to her father that she wanted to pursue a career in teaching. Naturally, her father was infuriated by this idea. Thinking that Mr. Kendall was influencing Emma, Winston Frost had him fired.
Emma as teenager
Emma began to see the deceit and manipulations of her father and sisters when she, herself, became a target of their malicious power plays. Angered by the hurt and pain they had caused her and those she cared for, Emma fought back. She discovered her father's affairs and blackmailed him, exposed Adrienne's secret modelling career and more. In retaliation, Adrienne revealed to their father that Christian was gay, a secret Emma herself had only recently learned. When Winston Frost learned this, he arranged for Christian's lover to be framed for dealing drugs and deported. In utter despair, Christian attempted suicide. Emma found Christian and called for help. He survived but fell into a deep depression and drug addiction. Desperate to save the only person in her life she truly loved, Emma went to her father in the hopes he might help Christian. Winston confessed to Emma that he was surprised and impressed by her guile and attempts at deceitfulness. He agreed to get Christian the help that he needed.
That same night, he decided to name his heir. Emma's father considered which of the girls to choose, with Christian obviously being a non-acceptable option. Finally, much to the surprise of the others, he settled on "rebellious, little Emma." His announcement was interrupted by a doctor from a mental institution, who had come to collect Christian. Emma was enraged and, to the surprise of everyone, refused the family fortune. She decided to make her own way instead, with her entire fortune consisting of 400 Dollars.
Determined to make it on her own, Emma left the family home and moved to Boston, taking odd jobs as a sales girl and dishwasher to try and survive. The pampered Emma was not cut out for such work and fell on hard times, until she met a young man named Troy Killkelly. Troy took Emma in and the two became romantically involved. However, Troy owed money to a local gangster named Lucien and Emma's happiness was to be short-lived.
Various other schemes to make money having failed, Troy came up with the idea to have Lucien's gang pretend to kidnap Emma and extort ransom money from her father. Lucien tried to blackmail Winston Frost into paying for Emma's safe release, but Winston refused to pay, claiming that his daughter was worth nothing to him. Enraged, Lucien decided to hold Emma hostage for real. When Troy tried to stop him, he was shot and killed. Seeing an opportunity to burn her father, Adrienne released the ransom video to the media. Winston was left with no choice but to pay in order to avoid a public disgrace.
Realizing that the gang planned to kill her once they received the ransom, Emma used her mental powers to subtly turn them against each other. Their greed, mistrust and anxiety amplified by Emma's powers, the gang members killed each other off one by one. Emma escaped and used knowledge gleaned from her captors to claim the ransom money herself. With 160,000 dollars, she embarked on a new life as a student at Empire State University in New York City.
Along with her new life, Emma also adopted a new look - she bleached her hair blonde. According to one flashback, she also had plastic surgery to improve her looks. At university, Emma quickly befriended her room-mate, Christie McDermott, but it was two other people who would shaper her life for years to come.
One was a telepath by the name of Astrid Bloom. Though around Emma's age, she was much more skilled in the use of her powers, and she taught Emma new tricks, such as reading people's past memories instead of just their present thoughts, and how to speed-learn by piggybacking on other student's focused and organized thoughts when they were learning in the library. The other important person was Ian Kendall, Emma's old high school teacher, who was now working as a university mentor, and briefly in a relationship with Christie before Emma seduced him back. When Christie threatened to report their relationship, Ian suddenly went mad and almost strangled her. However, Emma discovered all of this was Astrid's doing - afraid of losing Emma's companionship, Astrid had manipulated the people around her for weeks, determined to show her that mutants were superior and had to stick together.
In a direct conflict, though, Emma turned out to be the more powerful telepath, leaving Astrid in a catatonic state. Afterwards, Emma confided in Ian about her being a mutant and what all went on. She was looking for love and comfort, but the man had only hatred and disgust for her. The only person that meant something to her having ditched her, Emma grew cold and bitter, and she began to share the idea of mutant superiority.
It didn't help that, around the same time, the general public had learned of the existence of mutants, leading to some massive anti-mutant hysteria. In the times that followed, Emma had no more scruples to use her mental powers for her own advantage and to take whatever she wanted. Parallel to earning her degrees in business and education, she attended the parties of Manhattan's high society with faked invitations. Standing next to the Wall Street elite, Emma mentally gained enough inside knowledge to make a fortune. During one of these parties, she got to know Harry Leland and immediately realized that, although he was a dangerous man, he would be very useful to her.
Having overtaxed her telepathy, Emma left the party, only to run into some bullies who wanted to have some fun with the beautiful teenager. Before anything serious happened, Emma was saved by Dark Beast. McCoy had been transported from his own reality twenty years into the past of the main Marvel Universe, but his memory was fractured and he was partially amnesiac. He only remembered that he had performed some experiments and was trying to do the same in New York's sewers.
He and Emma decided to help each other; she telepathically helped restore his mind and, with her growing fortune, set him up a new lab. It is not fully known how long their partnership lasted and what exactly Emma did get in return, though he may have helped her further hone her mental powers and possibly provided her with some special equipment.
Hellfire Club and the Hellions
The White Queen
When the Hellfire Club was hiring dancers, Emma auditioned, dressed in what would later become her White Queen outfit. With her telepathy, she could make the audience believe she was a brilliant dancer. Meeting Sebastian Shaw, who became her mentor, Emma rose in the ranks of the Hellfire Club, also undergoing cosmetic surgery to become perfect.
Unlike most other women, Emma was not ashamed by the Hellfire Club's strict dress code that forced females to walk around in nothing more than lingerie. Actually, she liked it as it gave her psychological power. Because of her revealing outfit, men were easily distracted and usually underestimated her, thinking her to be nothing more than a mere waitress.
Over the next years, Emma built her own empire, soon becoming the majority stockholder of a multi-billion dollar conglomerate, CEO of Frost International, which she soon renamed Frost Enterprises, and owned a private school in Massachusetts.
Simply being part of this organization was not enough for Shaw, he wanted to rule it. At first, he tried to buy his way into the Council of the Chosen, as he helped the Club's leader Ned Buckman to fund Project Armageddon, without knowing that Buckman wanted to use the Project's Sentinel to totally eradicate mutantkind. When the Sentinels killed Shaw's lover, Lourdes Chantal, Shaw and Emma wanted revenge. They attacked during a meeting of the Council and Emma took mental control of Ned's mind, making him shoot all the members, including the former White Queen, Paris Seville, and Buckman himself. That night, Shaw and Frost rose as the Black King and White Queen of the new Inner Circle and soon filled the other positions with their friends, like Harry Leland and Donald Pierce. The Inner Circle's last recruit was Jason Wyngarde (Mastermind), who claimed to be able to seduce Jean Grey (who was in possession of the Phoenix Force force) into serving the Hellfire Club as their Black Queen. Jason slowly wormed his way into her head over time.
The first Hellions
The Club had also planted a bug within Xavier's (Professor X's) mansion and, when Cerebro alerted the X-Men of two new mutant signatures, the Hellfire Club tried to recruit them too. In Chicago, Emma got to the parents of Kitty Pryde, even before the X-Men managed too, and offered her parents to have Kitty educated at her Massachusetts Academy. Upon leaving, Emma ran into Professor Xavier, Colossus, Storm and Wolverine. While the Professor talked with the Pryde family, the three X-Men took Kitty to a nearby mall, where they were ambushed by Emma's Hellfire Club forces. Only Kitty escaped and she altered the other half of the X-Men, who had gone to New York to contact Dazzler.
Finally, it came down to a telepathic battle between the White Queen and Phoenix, after Emma had tried to destroy the mind of her prisoner, Storm. At first, it seemed that the two women were evenly matched, but finally Emma was overpowered and the rest of the building crashed in on her. When the X-Men later encountered the rest of the Hellfire Club, Emma Frost was still recovering from Phoenix's mental attack.
With Frost back at full health, and Phoenix having committed suicide, the Hellfire Club wanted a rematch with the X-Men. The White Queen telepathically forced Kitty Pryde's parents to transfer her to the Massachusetts Academy. Because Kitty was still a minor, she had to obey and Ororo agreed to drive her over. Once there, Emma Frost switched minds with Storm. Meanwhile, Shaw's Sentinels attacked the rest of the X-Men. After "Storm" helped to defeat them, she turned on the X-Men, who ended as helpless prisoners of the Hellfire Club. However, the real Ororo, stuck in Frost's body, was able to get a handle on her telepathic powers and took Kitty back to the mansion.
In the final battle, Storm proved to be the better woman and got her body back. When Emma again used her telepathy for another attack, Storm fried her with an electric bolt and was ready to kill her, but her fellow X-Men held her back. Instead, they made Emma promise to leave Kitty and the X-Men alone.
Emma beat Xavier in the race to contact the newly discovered mutant, Angelica Jones. She enlisted her in the Massachusetts Academy and, once she had realized Angelica's high power potential, she decided to keep her separate from the other young mutants she was secretly training at the Academy. Soon after, Emma was attacked by an unseen assailant, who later turned out to be Mastermind.
Blaming others for his own failures, he was on a personal revenge mission against Emma, Mystique and the X-Men. he probably blamed Emma's mind tap device for him losing control over Phoenix and, with his mental illusions, he caused Emma to fall into a coma for months. When Professor Xavier learned of Emma's state, he offered to help but was refused. The Hellfire Club didn't want to be in their enemy's debt.
Shortly afterwards, Kitty Pryde's friend, [[Doug Ramsey]], received an invitation to the Massachusetts Academy and wanted to accept. Since they could not reveal the Academy's dark secrets to the boy, Kitty at least wanted to accompany him for a visit and, given the condition the White Queen was last seen in, the X-Men believed them safe. When Emma Frost was revealed to have made a full recovery, Kitty was easily defeated, especially since the villain could threaten to harm Doug Ramsey.
Learning of her friend's fate, Illyana Rasputin alerted her fellow New Mutants and, since none of the big hero teams were still on Earth, they themselves travelled to the Massachusetts Academy for a rescue mission. Still, most of the New Mutants:char were caught, as they were surprised by the White Queen and her Hellions. While Emma Frost went to visit Shaw to inform him about their potential new recruits, the Hellions and the Mutants settled for a duel between Jetstream and Cannonball. Even though Sam won, Frost and Shaw didn't want to let the mutants go. Fortunately, Kitty was able to cause a confusion that allowed Magik to teleport them all to safety.
Emma continued to isolate Firestar from the other students and trained her secretly and alone. However, she introduced her to the other Hellions and used a possible future membership as incentive for Angelica to make fast progress. Also, she gave her a special bracelet, which caused the girl nightmares that increased her own doubts and made her easier to control.
When Selene joined the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club as the new Black Queen, Frost and Shaw regarded her as too powerful and a potential threat to their own positions. Therefore, they planned to make Angelica kill Selene. Yet, shortly before she performed the murder, Firestar saw through the deception and left the Massachusetts Academy. Threatening to reveal the academy's secrets, she made Emma Frost promise to never interfere with her again.
After being killed and later again resurrected by the Beyonder, the New Mutants were left shocked and apathetic, most of the team totally lost their will to live. This seemed like the perfect opportunity for Emma Frost. She offered telepathic treatment in case they joined the Hellions. Giving in to feelings of guilt, fear and helplessness, Magneto accepted; unaware that he was emotionally manipulated by Frost's student Empath. Emma welcomed her new students at the Massachusetts Academy and immediately started to erase their memories of the painful events. On a surface level, it seemed that the teenagers were themselves again but Emma sensed that there was still something amiss.
The Hellfire Club
Meanwhile, Magneto found out that he had been tricked by Empath and tried to get the kids back. Emma called the local authorities, who in turn summoned the Avengers to detain Magneto. Luckily, the New Mutants learned about the fight and, after Illyana Rasputin teleported them to the battle site, they helped him. The White Queen decided to try another approach and offered to help the kids together with Magneto. This time, they were successful. Her telepathic powers and Magneto’s emotional concern restored them to their old selves. With the Mutants deciding to return to Xavier’s school, Emma departed peacefully. However, she left her invitation open, well aware that she now seemed generous in the New Mutants’ eyes and they possibly would not believe Magneto when he would try to tell them about her being evil.
With the rise of more and more threats to mutants in general, the Hellfire Club and the X-Men decided to ally themselves after they successfully worked together to battle Nimrod, a super Sentinel from the future. Magneto was offered the seat of White King and, after pondering on whether to accept or not, he joined the club together with Storm, who was the leader of the X-Men at that time. Emma was one of those who welcomed the addition and she took great effort to bring Magneto up to date in the club’s affairs. Soon, Magneto and his students found themselves invited to one of the many parties at the Hellfire Club and the former enmity between the New Mutants and the Hellions developed into a friendly rivalry.
Much to the surprise of her team-mates, Magma even transferred to the Massachusetts Academy after finding that she had feelings for Empath and Emma commented that the young woman from Nova Roma would be more at home with the Academy’s elegant environment anyway. Though she apparently really cared for him, Empath subtly influenced Magma on Emma’s orders, as she had certain business interests in the area of the Amazons and needed Amara’s father on her side.
After the X-Men supposedly died in Dallas, the balance within the Inner Circle was in danger. Now, Magneto no longer was the representative of the hero team, he was only in charge of an untrained bunch of trainees that repeatedly disobeyed his orders. Emma realized that Shaw and Magneto did not get along and carefully pitted them against each other. Finally, after Inferno, Shaw blamed Magneto that the demonic mess was his fault, as he apparently did not have full control over Magik. With her reduced to early childhood, the most promising of the New Mutants was lost to them. Shaw wanted Magneto out of the Circle and challenged him to a duel, but lost. Knowing that only one of them could remain as King, the matter was put to a vote. Promising her a free hand in the Amazonian area, Emma dragged Selene to her side and, together, the three voted Shaw out of the Hellfire Club. In retrospect, this might have been a bad move as Magneto soon lost interest in the Inner Circle and departed. On the other hand, though, Shaw was almost assassinated by his own son, forcing him to go into hiding and let everyone else believe him dead. Neither King would have remained with Emma for long.
Around the same time, Firestar had to learn that the White Queen was a woman who carried grudges. Still bound by her promise to never interfere with her again, Emma tipped off Firestar’s real name and location to Freedom Force, who immediately wanted to make her sign the Mutant Registration Act. Yet, the resourceful young woman managed to avoid it and, several weeks later, joined the New Warriors. Discovering that somebody had hacked into her data banks, Emma thought that she was no longer bound by her vow and she investigated together with her Hellions. They tracked the hacker down to the New Warriors headquarters and, wanting Firestar back; they fought the team over her fate. However, the Warriors beat the Hellions and the White Queen left, though not before laughing at Firestar’s idealism, telling her that one-day she would come back to her and apologize.
Learning that the members of the Hellfire Club were under attack by the Upstarts, Emma contacted the X-Men for help and they came to another party she was hosting. Suddenly, Trevor Fitzroy teleported in, ready to attack the White Queen while his personal Sentinels were slaughtering the Reavers in Australia. Donald Pierce tried to escape and ordered Gateway to take him to the person responsible, but a few Sentinels followed him into the warp gate. They emerged at the Hellfire party and one of the first Sentinel blasts hit Emma Frost. Empath thought her dead, not feeling any emotions from her. Despite the X-Men’s good intentions, the Hellions were killed one by one by either Fitzroy or the mutant hunting robots