Friday, October 17, 2014

Mutant of the Week: Emma Frost

Name: Emma Frost
Aliases: The White Queen
First Appearance: X-Men #129
Powers and Abilities: Telepathy.  Can telepathically sedate enemies if they are already unconscious -they will stay that way until she un-sedates them.  After the attack on Genosha she can transform her body into organic diamond.
Other attributes: Highly skilled with electronics and and electronic theory.

Emma Frost was born into a rich family in Massachusetts.  When she was older she became a stockholder in a multi-billion dollar conglomerate.  Her success caught the attention of the group the Hellfire Club which she joined.  She became a ally of Sebastian Shaw who was conspiring for world domination.
Emma would later recruit young mutants and teach them to hone their abilities at her school.  These students became the Hellions and Emma's mutant super team.  The Hellions would meet the X-Men when Emma tried to recruit a young Kitty Pryde. They would meet on several occasions and joined forces to protect Emma from a terrorist by the name of Trevor Fitzroy.  The attempt to save Emma wasn't completely successful as Emma was sent into a coma.  While in the coma she was kept at Xavier's School and her school was will to Xavier who added it to the quickly expanding Xavier Institute.  During her coma Emma also took control of Iceman's body and his mind took over her body.  She would awake and become Headmistress of her school once again.

Other important notes to include is that she had a romance with Scott Summers.  She also suffered the attack on the island of Genosha which wiped out the rest of the islands mutant population.
Emma appeared in X-Men First Class and Days of Future past portrayed by January Jones.

As with the previous Mutant of the Week's this is just a quick, incomplete background on the character.  For more information check out Emma Frost's full biography here.

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