Emma Frost

Emma Frost is a powerful mutant telepath born to a rich Boston mercantile family. After parting ways with her family, she began a financial empire with Frost International and became the White Queen of the Hellfire Club. In that position, she also ran the Massachusetts Academy, a preparatory school that secretly housed young mutants, who Frost trained for her own interests.

After the destruction of her school she became an enemy of the X-Men, she later had a tragic accident that changed her heart for the better, leading her to form a partnership with Charles Xavier. Though after all her demise Charles gave her the opportunity to join his faculty for Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. Though it did sound intriguing at first, being able to reignite her passion for teaching again she felt like she needed to reinvent herself and during a mission in the lands of Belgium, Batman, Martian Manhunter, Green Lantern and Storm met face to face with Emma who helped them retrieve Storm after she was possessed by Shadow King. Realizing her talent, Batman recruited Emma seeing her as a powerful asset and so she joined the Infinite Frontier.

Family Background
Emma Grace Frost was born to a Boston mercantile family, which arrived from England in the 1600s and took part in American Revolutionary War. The second of three daughters, Emma also had an older brother named Christian Frost, who had turned to substance abuse as an escape from the drudgery of his life and the abuse of his father. Unknown to their family or themselves, the three Frost sisters were mutants, whose telepathic abilities matured upon reaching their puberty. Deemed unfit in her father's eyes, Emma produced low-grade point averages and was a social outcast while attending the Snow Valley School for Girls. As a result of her emerging powers, Emma began to experience severe migraines. Shortly after this, Emma made everyone in the school unconscious during a mental breakdown, and Charles Xavier detected her presence. Alongside Dr. Moira MacTaggart, he paid Emma's father a visit hoping she could join his school, but the whole trip revealed itself a waste of time when both Emma and her father manifested aversion to the idea.

After the emergence of her powers, Emma used them to excel in all aspects of her life. Due to a crush that Emma had on a teacher of hers, Ian Kendall, Emma decided on a future in teaching, much to her father's disapproval. Being seen kissing Mr. Kendall in front of the Frost estate, Emma's father got Kendall fired and blackmailed Emma to give up her idea of teaching. After her brother's homosexuality was revealed to the family, her father Winston Frost began to alienate Christian, resulting in his further drug abuse and attempted suicide. When it came time for their father to choose a worthy heir to the family fortune, Christian was automatically dismissed due to his drug problem and because he was gay. While the older sister, Adrienne Frost, seemed the most obvious choice, their father chose Emma. At the same time, Christian was sent to a mental institution, and Emma refused to be her father's heir, choosing to make her own way through life instead.

Emma began to work minimum wage jobs and stayed at a hotel in Boston. After attempting to use her telepathy to pay for the meal with a newspaper instead of money, Emma was eventually caught and made to wash dishes, where she met Troy Killkelly, with whom she developed a relationship and moved in with. Unfortunately, Troy owed money and Emma used her telepathy at a casino to erase their financial problems, but the loan shark insisted that they owed more, for interest. Troy suggested that they pretend to kidnap Emma and have Winston pay a ransom, but Winston refused, stating that his daughter was already dead to him. After Troy was killed, Emma absorbed all of the shark's knowledge of business through her telepathy. After her sister Adrienne took Emma's kidnapping video to the news, Winston was forced to pay the ransom. However, Emma freed herself using her abilities, took the money, and moved to New York.

Emma escaped, dyed her hair blonde and enrolled into Empire State University, where she was reunited with Mr. Kendall. While attending class, Emma met a fellow telepath, Astrid Bloom, and Astrid began to train Emma in the use of her abilities. After learning that Mr. Kendall was dating her roommate, Christine McDermott, Emma confessed her love for him and he pursued a relationship with Emma. Christine threatened to expose Mr. Kendall's relationship with students if he did not leave Emma, but Astrid influenced him to choke her. Upon learning the truth, Emma telepathically fought and defeated Astrid, absorbing all her knowledge of telepathy, and thus saving Mr. Kendall's job, revealing her mutant powers to him in the end. Despite having saved his job, Mr. Kendall left Emma in disgust upon learning that she was a mutant.

When Emma's parents found out about her powers, they sent her to a mental institution, the Essex Clinic, where she was drugged. At some point during her stay there, she was kidnapped by the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Magneto took her to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, to use Cerebro and kill all humans, while bringing together all mutants. When the X-Men appeared, Beast created a device that shut off access to the cosmic rays of the Evolutionaries and accidentally killed two of them. With Cyclops vowing to protect mutantkind, the remaining Evolutionary reluctantly left, but not before erasing the memory of their presence from the minds of everyone and vowing to return one day. After the Evolutionaries returned Emma to the clinic, her head was clear and the drugs were out of her system, so she influenced a guard to beat everyone up and escaped the clinic.

The Hellfire Club Beginnings
Starving in New York City, Emma ended up as a stripper for the Hellfire Club, by making men see what they wanted to see. There, she was contacted by Charles and Moira one more time to join a new team of X-Men. She was unable to recognize them, but she refused the offer once again, leading Professor X to erase her memory of the encounter, against Vulcan's judgment that Professor Xavier's doing was wrong and that he should've instead forcibly changed her mind.

One day, tired of being mistreated, she finally snapped against Sebastian Shaw, an important member of the club, and threatened to kill him. To her surprise, he proceeded to invite her to rise in the ranks and rid the club of those who were a threat to mutants. After Shaw chose Emma over two other women and brutally murdered them in front of her, their union was official.

The Demise of the Hellfire Club
After some time of becoming and holding the name of the White Queen she along with the rest of the Hellfire Club fought against the X-Men and of course they lost and were all captured but Emma be the cunning woman that she is manipulated Wolverine into breaking her shackles and knocked him out using her diamond form and ran off.

X-Men vs the Dark Phoenix
After laying low and out of the crime scene for some time Emma decided to start her own school calling it the Massachusetts Academy. There, she became headmistress, teaching many who came across and helped harness their mutant abilities. One day, when was confronted by Charles Xavier, she at first hesitated to attack after being so startled but he ensured that he did not come to fight her but rather to recruit her. He told her that jean had harnessed the power of the Phoenix and they needed her help to break her out of its grasp seeing her capabilities as a telepath. At first she our right refused as she didn't want anything to ruin her life of being headmistress but after some long thinking she agreed to help on the condition that her school be left alone as she cared for all the kids that attended there. And so she suited up alongside Wolverine, Kitty Pride, Cyclops, Iceman, Beast, Angel, Rogue, Colossus, and Charles Xavier. After long and very straining battle against the Phoenix, the X-Men were out matched as even Charles Xavier couldn't stop Jean with his very well-known telepathy capabilities. At the their lowest points, the Phoenix was prepared to destroy all of Massachusetts but that's when Emma saw something far into the distance, it was her students. In shock she saw them step behind the Phoenix and charged at it with all abilities. She cried and yelled telling them to stop as she knew they were out matched and it was a slaughter unlike anything she's seen before which caused her to awaken her true telepathic potential and there, Emma had one of the most devastating telepathic battles that almost costed her own life but she fought back. While her strength was admirable she couldn't defeat the Phoenix and was placed into a telepathic-induced coma from her overusing her powers. But the battle had seemingly stressed the Phoenix out as well and so it flew far into the Earth's stratosphere.

The Clash of X-Men
After 3 months, Emma was still under the coma caused by here battle against the Phoenix and during the period of time the X-Men were having problems on getting jean back which even caused a huge war against X-Men on whether to kill or save Jean. The side of killing her were Wolverine, Rogue, Colossus, and Iceman along with Mystique and Magneto who know of Jean's endangerment to Earth. But the Cyclops alongside Kitty Pride, Beast, Angel, and Charles Xavier sought to save her with also Psylocke, Nightcrawler, and Jubilee, argued that she could still be in there somewhere. This entire situation caused a war which broke out with Wolverine's side winning.

The Return of the Dark Phoenix
After the battle, Cyclops' side willingly agreed and admitted defeat but in reality Cyclops had hope to still be able to save Jean. 5 more months went by with the X-Men readying for the worst and with Cyclops with Beast and Psylocke created something to what would hopefully suppress the Phoenix that was inside of Jean. With a total of 8 months people soon gave up on the fact that Jean may never return to Earth and that perhaps Emma would never wake up from her comma but on a regular day their was boom in the sky as if a bomb had set out in space was rushing towards Earth as the government recognized it as a solar flare but in reality was the Phoenix returning into the Earth that caused a world-wide panic with heroes from across the world trying to do their best to protect their own cities and people.

Upon her return to Earth, the X-Men were even more ready now to face off against the Phoenix and this time it new what it wanted as everything was thrown against it but it's as if the Phoenix was even stronger than it was before. And once again the Phoenix had defeated them, subdued Charles Xavier, and practically almost killed Iceman. With little energy left, Beast ran into the school to grab a neutralizer made to subdue the all-powerful entity. But before he ran off to hand it over to Psylocke as she was the only telepath left he ran into the capsule which he had kept her in to preserve her health after being in a coma for so long and with no other options he had to force her awake. He grabbed her body and placed Cerebro onto her head as he loaded it up to shock her brain. And it actually worked as Emma was mentally shocked out of her coma and was weak for a bit after her limbs felt all sore and tired. But after some time she was able to stand and knew what she had to do. With Emma no awoken and the neutralizer in hand she and Beast ran to where Cyclops is trying to talk to her telling that she's still the Jean and that he loved her. But trying to pry into Jean's mind, Jean awoke from her trance and charged towards the school but specifically at Emma, she turned into her diamond form as she hurried Beat to give Angel to get the neutralizer into her head. While it was more than difficult Emma was able to evade the Phoenix's attacks with minimal scars, Angel was able to put the neutralizer onto her head and Emma shifted out of her diamond form and went full-charge into Jean's mind, placing mental blocks in her mind to reduce Dark Phoenix's powers and allow Jean to regain control.

Redemption
After the incident, Jean and Cyclops moved far away from the X-Men institute as Jean was afraid of her own powers and hen she wanted to go far away from her mutant heritage, Scott persisted that he'd come with her. After the incident Charles Xavier finally reopened Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and around 120 students applied and was accepted. X-Men members such as Henry McCoy, Raven Darkholme, and Warren Worthington became apart of the faculty alongside 2 other mutants. Emma was also offered a position at his school but as excited as she was to get back and reignite her passion for teaching she couldn't relive that moment of almost 61 of her students died in the incident and what was 8 months felt like yesterday to her and told Charles that she wanted to travel the world to find herself before choosing her future. Charles of course agreed and supported her the best he could. As she got ready she was given a farewell party with Kitty who mentioned that she had helped so much and she should at least deserve a goodbye. She was so touched tat she almost fell down crying but held back her tears as she partied with the rest of the X-Men.

The very next day she walked by the classrooms as she relived her past of teaching young minds before leaving as she said goodbye and took a plane to Belgium and lived the next 3 weeks of her life in luxury and peace away from her mutant heritage though she would have constant nightmares of her dead students which caused a lot of stress to the point where she could barely keep it together anymore.

Joining the Infinite Frontier
One day she saw a lot of chaos happening a few miles up ahead her hotel room among the ruckus she saw huge thunder storm heading towards which completely caught her off guard as it was very clear in the sky, curious she headed towards the ruckus as she saw Batman, Martian Manhunter, and Green Lantern fighting against a mutant who could control the weather who was Storm. Not trying to intervene and use her abilities she walked away knowing that they could handle the situation but hat's when storm turned the heavy rain into sleet which almost headed for Emma but she was quickly able to shift into her diamond form protecting her. Angered, she runs after Storm and the Infinite Frontier as she sees them clearly struggling she unshifted and tried to read Storm's mind as she saw her mind was blocked meaning it wasn't her and recognized this familiar power it was Shadow King. Realizing his power to possess bodies through his astral form she quickly sent a distress call to the heroes fighting Storm saying "Don't touch the storm witch!" they were shocked at first but when Martian Manhunter felt Emma's telepathic presence he grabbed her and Storm set off a tornado which blew all 4 away. This knocked them out but when she woke she was greeted by Batman who had her tied up. Knowing she could break out of these ropes easily she instead decides to question Batman so she could enter his mind and really get everything but when she tried she learned that his mind was far too sharp for her to pierce. And that's when Batman turned into Martian Manhunter which confirmed his theory about her being a telepath. And so he questioned her preparing to blaze her and so she decided to show him which overwhelmed his mind and so she was able to escape so she could run after Storm before she causes anymore damage.

She confronted Storm which she then yelled out Shadow King which got his attention. But for merely a second before he blasted her with lightning but she easily blocked it and sent a mind blast towards him which temporarily knocked Storm out. Batman then became more suspicious of her and asked what she did Martian Manhunter to which she replied "I just gave the information he needed" but as Emma and Batman were having this confrontation, Emma sensed this attack and quickly shifted into her astral form to push Shadow King out of Storm's body before he could switch bodies with anyone else. She had a full on dual with Shadow King as she fought valiantly which impressed Batman and Green Lantern and told them move far away from her knowing his one weakness was that if he stayed in astral form for too long he would disintegrate. She eventually got the upper hand and was able to stopped him from a body but caught her off guard and disappeared. She returned to her body which Batman also grabbed and she said that he escaped.

Batman and Emma made a mutual understanding about losses and when she got up to leave saying her business here was done he stopped her an offer to chance to join the Infinite Frontier. She hesitated but remembered what Charles once told her that she should get to explore herself in roots she'd never tried with that she agreed and became an official member of the Infinite Frontier.

Powers
Emma Frost possesses telepathic abilities of a similar 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" Additionally, she has also been referred among the five telepaths on the planet capable of perfectly and seamlessly altering a mind, has demonstrated the ability to stalemate Exodus, and overcome telepaths, such as a young Nate Grey and a young Rachel Summers, through greater experience and skill.

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. Her abilities have been stated to rival that of Charles Xavier himself, this statement only proven in her telepathic defeat of the Professor.

Telepathy: Emma has displayed the telepathic standards of broadcasting and receiving thoughts, mind-control, altering perceptions and memories, projection of offensive blasts of Psionic energy causing mental pain or unconsciousness, astral projection and brain engram modification.


 * Psionic Shield: Emma can erect a psychic shield for protection of herself and other minds she is immune or highly resistant to any/all mental intrusion, including psychic or empathic powers, hypnosis, illusions, deception, etc.
 * Psionic Shields Removal: She stated she could easily take Wolverine's Level 9 Psi-Shields down, though their removal could leave Wolverine as the equivalent of a three-year-old child.
 * Telepathic and Mind Cloaking: Emma can telepathically mask her presence and the use of her abilities from being detected by other mutants and psychic entities. These defenses can be extended to others around them as well. Cloaking via telepathy is not perfect and powerful telepathic mutants may notice and 'see' through this ability. Also including the ability to rearrange the mental engrams of mutants so her distinctive mutant thought patterns cannot be detected by Cerebro-type devises or by other telepaths.
 * Telepathic Illusions: Emma can create realistic telepathic illusions and cause people to experience events which are not actually occurring. These illusions can also be used to help others fight against pain or simply surround them with more pleasant environments.
 * Absorb Information: Emma can quickly process and store information, by mental transference.
 * Download Information: Emma can place large amounts of information in another's mind.
 * Astral Projection: Emma can project one's astral form from their body onto astral planes or the physical planes. In the physical plane, one can travel in astral form over vast distances.
 * Power Inhibition: Emma can place "psychic inhibitors" in the minds of mutant adversaries to prevent them from using their powers.


 * Pain Inducement: Emma can induce mental pain telepathically.
 * Heal Trauma: Emma can 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 person's brain.
 * Intuitive Multilingualism: Emma can intuitively translate and understand any language.
 * Mind Control: The ability to control the thoughts and actions of others.
 * Mind Link: Emma can develop a mental link with one person or a number of people.
 * Mental Paralysis: Emma can induce temporary mental or physical paralysis.
 * Mental Sedation: Emma can telepathically "sedate" one's victims so that, if already rendered unconscious, they remain so for as long as a telepath continues to "sedate" them.
 * Mind Alteration: Emma can alter the minds of others by force of will, changing their personality partially or entirely. This can also be used to implant subconscious thoughts like unexplained aversion to certain words or ideas.
 * Mental Amnesia: Emma can cause loss of particular memories or total amnesia in another person or group of people.
 * Telepathic Detection: Emma can sense the presence of another person, mutant or not, within a small but as yet undefined radius of oneself by perceiving the distinctive mental radiations emitted by such a being.
 * Telepathic Tracking: Enhanced Psionic senses enable Emma to track other sentient beings by their unique Psionic emanations.
 * Psionic Blasts: Emma can project Psionic force bolts or blast waves which can do damage on either a physical or mental level and which can affect a victim's mind so as to cause the victim pain or unconsciousness. Emma has been shown to use this ability as a reflexive response to a physical attack, resulting in the aggressor being thrown across the room.
 * Psionic Lightning: Emma can channel the ambient Psionic energy in the air through a target having a physical effect. She used this ability once against M, knocking her out.

Telekinesis: Emma was also stated to be a potential telekinetic. Emma unintentionally levitated some utensils while facing a nightmare.


 * Telekinetic Blast: Emma has the power to emit blasts of telekinetic energy.
 * Force Field: Emma can project powerful fields of manipulated energy.

Secondary Mutation

Organic Diamond Form: As a result of undergoing a body-wide Secondary Mutation installed by Cassandra Nova, Frost 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 all parts of her 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 transform 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. Emma does not have access to her telepathy while in her diamond form, although she could during her first time after her Secondary Mutation.


 * 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, 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. She has withstood being zapped by Young Cyclops' optic blast, blows from Hulk, and blasts from the Dreaming Celestial. Despite the Celestial's blast breaking her arm off, this showed an incredibly powerful upper limit to Emma's powers, as a Juggernaut powered Colossus was hit by the same blast and was sent flying across the city with a hole through his chest. Her body is also resistant to temperature extremes, able to withstand temperatures as cold as -390 degrees Fahrenheit or as hot as approximately 7362 degrees Fahrenheit before her form begins to melt. Frost is also self-sustained while transformed, requiring no food or water.
 * Psychic Immunity: Emma has shown to be immune to other telepathic powers in her diamond form, but in turn, she is unable to use her own telepathic powers until she turns back.

Abilities
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. During a training session in which Emma did not have access to her powers, Banshee attempted to make an example of her. Emma quickly, efficiently, and easily dispatched Banshee, much to his embarrassment.

Master Astral Combatant: Emma Frost is trained and excels in astral combat.

Pilot: Emma Frost has been seen pilotting a helicopter without trouble.

Weaknesses

 * Telepathic Blockage: While in her diamond form, Frost is unable to access her telepathic abilities.
 * Familial Immunity: As seen during her various attempts to enter Adrienne's mind, Emma's telepathic powers are unable to read or affect her sister's mind. Her other siblings, Cordelia and Christian, were possible to read at first, but have since become "intangible" as well, possibly because of the emergence of their mutant abilities. Adrienne and Cordelia, in particular, would take advantage of this ability during their plots to manipulate/kill Emma
 * Diamond: While her diamond form is impressive if she was shot or hit with diamond while in her diamond form she would start to crack and could even shatter