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"Scott was trying to be sweet and all I felt was cold and alone because so many wonderful lights have gone out and I'm so tired from fighting against all this darkness. And I thought, I'll name them Jean and Kurt. I'll name my gray hairs after dead friends. Dead friends and X-Men."
— Emma Frost, Uncanny X-Men Vol. 1 #529

Emma Grace Frost is a Marvel Comics character associated with the mutant superhero team, X-Men. She's introduced in Uncanny X-Men Vol. 1 #129 in 1980. She's created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne.

Emma began her role in the Marvel Universe as an X-Men supervillainess under the title of the White Queen of the Hellfire Club. She first appeared in the storyline The Dark Phoenix Saga, and later becomes the primary villain in the original run of New Mutants with her own team from Massachussets Academy, the Hellions.

After she's recovered from a coma and learns that her Hellions has been slaughtered by the Sentinels led by the supervillain Trevor Fitzroy during The Phalanx Covenant crossover, her guilt over her students' deaths led to her eventual reform. Her first role as The Atoner is in Generation X (1994) where she, along with Sean Cassidy a.k.a. Banshee, becomes the mentor for the team.

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

She's also one of the main characters in New X-Men where her infamous Mental Affair with Cyclops happened, endangering Cyclops' marriage to Jean Grey. In New X-Men: Academy X (2004), she becomes the leader of a new Hellions Squad, this time associated with the Xavier Institute. Her team is also the rival of a second New Mutants team, echoing the rivalry between the two original groups of the similar names. During the M-Day, most of her team members retain their powers, with the exception of Tag (Brian Cruz) and Specter (Dallas Gibson). Around this time, one of the Cuckoos, Sophie, made a Heroic Sacrifice to stop Quentin Quire and his Omega Gang. This prompted another Cuckoo, Esme, to leave, but she later returned to personally try to kill Emma. Emma was shattered while in her organic diamond form by Esme who shot her with a diamond bullet, but Jean Grey managed to repair Emma at the molecular level. Esme herself is later killed by Xorn, who also killed Jean.

Later in Astonishing X-Men Vol. 3 (2004-2013), she co-leads the X-Men alongside Cyclops after Jean Grey's death. In this series, she also has an antagonistic relationship with Kitty Pryde, who is reluctant to accept Emma as a leader and teacher.

During a conversation with Iron Man in Civil War, Emma announces that the Xavier Institute and the X-Men will not support the Superhuman Registration Act and remain neutral, as she fears that the registration of mutants would put them in more danger.

After Secret Invasion and during Dark Reign, she's introduced as a member of Norman Osborn's Cabal and X-Men (Dark X-Men), only to later betray the team during a confrontation with X-Force. She took Namor, Cloak, and Dagger along with her to rejoined the rest of the mutants. An enraged Osborn sent the Dark Avengers and Dark X-Men to kill her and Namor, but failed spectacularly.

In Avengers vs. X-Men, 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 New Avengers members Luke Cage, Mockingbird, Daredevil, and the Thing. There, she survives an assassination attempt by the Purifiers.

She's later freed from her custody by Cyclops, Magneto, and 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.

Later, when the time-displaced original five X-Men came to join the school, she became the tutor for teen Jean Grey in the use of her power. Again, they began with a rather strained relationship, but to everyone’s surprise, they eventually settled their differences and actually began to bond, after a fashion.

Notable Comic Books appearance

Solo comics:
  • Emma Frost (2003-2005) (18 issues)
  • X-Men Origins: Emma Frost (2010)

Other comics:

Major storylines:

Animated series

Film
  • Generation X (1996): portrayed by Finola Hughes.
  • X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009): While Emma Frost herself doesn’t appear, a different character loosely based on Emma, named Emma Silverfox, appears in this movie. The character is portrayed by Tahyna Tozzi.
  • X-Men: First Class (2011): Emma Frost is one of the antagonists from Hellfire Club. Portrayed by January Jones.

Video Games

Tropes associated with her:

  • Absolute Cleavage: Several of her costumes have gone for this look, most recently her black costume in New Charles Xavier School.
  • Abusive Parents: Her father was cold and emotionless and encouraged his children to play mindgames with each other. Her mother was a neglectful drug abuser.
  • Action Girl: Emma Frost is easily one of the most powerful mutants on the team.
  • Action Mom: For the Stepford Cuckoos, her five cloned daughters. She can be protective to them, and she is quite saddened when two of them are dead (even if one of them, Esme, once betrayed and tried to kill her).
  • Adaptational Heroism: Many animated adaptations, especially the X-Men anime, take away Emma's more sociopathic personality traits. Her backstory also tends to get changed around, often giving her a Hidden Heart of Gold among other positive qualities.
  • Adorkable: She sleeps like a toddler.
  • Alternate Universe:
    • Age of Apocalypse: In this universe, Emma never joined the Hellfire Club and is a member of the Human High Council.
    • Age of Ultron: She is one of the few superpowered humans hiding in the tunnels beneath Central Park.
    • Days of Future Past: She is former White Queen of the Hellfire Club. She joined Magneto and Jubilee to save Wolverine and defeat the alternate evil Psylocke who is also Red Queen of Hellfire Club. She later attempts to rehabilitate Psylocke back to the side of good.
    • In a reality visited by Exiles, Emma is wheelchair-bound and served as the heroes' chief means of communication by using her telepathy.
    • House of M: Emma is married to Scott and is a child therapist. Franklin Richards is one of her clients.
    • Marvel Adventures: Emma is a young mutant and one of few people who knows Spider-Man's true identity. She had crush on Peter. She also briefly became costumed rogue with the alias "Silencer" (complete with Domino Mask!) to see what Spidey capable of. Later, she joined the Blonde Phantom Detective Agency.
    • Marvel Noir: She is a warden of Genosha Bay prison.
    • In another reality visited by New Exiles, Dame Emma Frost is head of Britain's Department X and founder of Force-X. She's also wheelchair-bound.
    • Old Man Logan: 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.
    • Ultimate Marvel (Ultimate X-Men): 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.
  • An Arm and a Leg: In Uncanny X-Men Vol. 2, she loses an arm against Mr. Sinister. Being in diamond form, she doesn't die from blood loss or anything, and she gets better.
  • Anti-Hero: Unscrupulous Hero or Nominal Hero.
  • Anti-Hero Substitute: 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 was a status that she was aware of and more than one character (including a teenage Jean) has needled her about it.
  • The Atoner: In Generation X, and newly focused on by Joss Whedon.
  • Attention Whore: She wears those Stripperific suits on purpose.
  • Badass Teacher: She's already a teacher even before she joins the X-Men.
  • Bare Your Midriff: Another frequently-used feature of her costumes...the ones that haven't done this to some degree are rare, but her bodysuit in Generation X is the most noteworthy.
  • Battle Couple: With Cyclops, after the death of Phoenix. They tend to lead from the front line together, though not nearly as effective a team as Cyclops and Phoenix were.
  • Bastard Girlfriend: The White Queen's entire deal.
  • Berserk Button: Emma's relationship with X-23 is one of her most complicated relationships with fellow X-Women. But mess with the young girl is one of things which will cause Emma enter Mama Bear mode and you'll wish you were dead, as Kimura finds out the hard way.
  • Betty and Veronica: Veronica for Cyclops.
  • Big Bad: One of several in the original run of New Mutants.
  • Brains and Bondage: She worked as a Dominatrix at the Hellfire Club and has degrees in several fields, including a Bachelor of Science in Education with a minor in Business Administration from the prominent Marvel Universe's Empire State University. She was also founder and CEO of Frost Enterprises, a major multinational conglomerate headquartered in New York City that rivaled Stark Enterprises and Worthington Industries and specialized in shipping, aerospace engineering and new technology R&D.
  • Break the Cutie: Her retconned backstory qualifies.
  • Breakout Character: Easily the most prominent and popular 21st century addition to the X-Men.
  • Broken Ace / Broken Bird / Troubled, but Cute: Again, depending on the writer.
  • Broken Pedestal: When Sophie Cuckoo died, the other Cuckoos blames Emma for the death. One of the remaining four even tries to kill Emma.
  • Byronic Heroine: Rare female example, but Depending on the Writer, it can be well done or extremely disturbing.
  • Cain and Abel: She and her sister, Adrienne.
  • The Chick: In New X-Men. Also in Avengers vs. X-Men before she becomes Phoenix Five.
  • Cleavage Window: Her Phoenix Five costume in Avengers vs. X-Men has an enclosed opening on the top portion right above her cleavage.
  • Cold-Blooded Torture: One of her favorite psionic experiences is inducing extreme levels of pain, often in people already held captive. She has continued to violate and traumatise people over the years, frequently in combination with Smug Super One Liners.
  • Contemptible Cover: Her 2003-5 solo series became notorious for hypersexualised pin-up covers that did not reflect the content and actively alienated the young female audience that might have enjoyed it.
  • Cool and Unusual Punishment: She will make you do some really weird things using telepathy: for example, 48 hours of uncontrollable vomiting upon hearing the word "parsley".
  • Corrupt Corporate Executive: At one point, she was in the Hellfire Club.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Her father was cold, uncaring, sadistic and physically abusive, her mother was a neglectful drug user, her older sister was identical to their father, and her younger sister couldn't care less about her. The only family member who cared about her became a drug addict (thanks to his father's horrible treatment to him), and when she thought things would be better to her, her friend was killed in front of her, another friend was a bitch who manipulated her, and her Love Interest dumped her because she was a mutant. She also used to enjoy torture, mind-rape, followed by setting hunting dogs on the nightly victims (yes, really), corporate corruption, manipulation, deceit, and forcing opponents to kill themselves during her villain years. Shaw required her to help killing her two best friends to become White Queen.
  • The Dark Chick: Of Norman Osborn's Cabal in Dark Reign. Eventually turns into Sixth Ranger Traitor.
  • Deadpan Snarker: It makes her appear even colder at some points.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: 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 melting.
  • Depending on the Writer: Scott Lobdell's version had almost nothing in common with the Corrupt Corporate Executive supremacist Mind Rape Cold-Blooded Torture fetishist that she used to be. Instead, she became a excellent teacher doing genuinely good actions while feeling good about it. However, later in Generation X, she was strongly hinted to have murdered a police officer looking into her sister's death (at Emma's hands). Grant Morrison and some other writers returned her closer to her roots again, according to some it made her more interesting, but played her as a complete hedonistic Jerk Ass, which sat badly with those who were introduced to her through Generation X, because it put all the Character Development she had during seven years in a trash bin. Later other writers attempted to either return her to the less extreme portrayal or attempt to integrate the two.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: Towards plenty of regular people who have simply somewhat annoyed her.
  • Domino Mask: Her alternate self◊ in Marvel Adventures wore this when she's in disguise as costumed rogue with the alias "Silencer".
  • Double Standard: Rape, Female on Male: 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 telephatically from a distant Bad Future) made him get together with her to avoid the X-Men falling apart.
  • The Dragon: After she's possessed by Phoenix Force in Avengers vs. X-Men, she becomes The Dragon to Cyclops' Big Bad.
  • Dude Magnet: Besides Cyclops, she was once romantically involved with Sebastian Shaw, Namor, and Tony Stark.
  • Dye Hard: In-Universe example. Her natural hair color is brown.
  • Emotionless Girl: She frequently comes across as this due to her detached, cynical persona.
  • Evil Feels Good: More intensely during the Hellfire Club days, but Depending on the Writer, still maintains similar patterns.
  • Evil Costume Switch: As one of the Phoenix Five. Subverted when she becomes Black Queen during Dark Reign as she betrayed Norman Osborn there.
  • Evil Mentor: Sebastian Shaw. Served as this herself to the Hellions.
  • Evil Pays Better: Hellfire Club days.
  • Evil Teacher: Hellfire Club days.
  • Exposed to the Elements: In the miniseries Phoenix: Endsong, Emma Frost doesn't seem the least bit bothered traipsing around the Arctic half-naked. She is Emma Frost, after all.
  • Fire/Water Juxtaposition: 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.
    • Lampshaded in Marvel Heroes with one of her random dialogues near Jean Grey: "Ah, the fiery redhead. Oh, Jean, could you be more trite?"
  • "Freaky Friday" Flip: Pulled off one with Storm in her Hellfire Club days, in an attempt to destroy the X-Men from within.
  • The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Her father had her compete with her sisters for the right to be his heir (her brother had the good sense to stay out of it. Consequently, he was the sibling she was closest to). Her rivalry with her eldest sister, Adrienne, became so bad that it eventually went fatal.
  • Good Feels Good: On a number of occasions, she had expressed how much she was trying to be a good person and liked to do "the right things". She does have an uneasy conscience though, enjoys earning approval from Scott, and has been praised for a number of good deeds, although recurrently a bit extreme. However, she seems to enjoy earning approval from Scott, and some of her teammates or students.
  • Guilt Complex: As explicitly stated on Astonishing X-Men #18.
  • Grand Theft Me: Happened once involuntarily with Iceman. Back then Iceman really wasn't living up to the potential of his powers. The minute Emma entered his body, she used his abilities in ways he couldn't imagine, which eventually left Iceman more than a little envious.
  • The Hedonist: Depending on the Writer.
  • Heroine With An F In Good: Occasionally improves.
  • Heel–Face Turn: After a fashion. It's kind of funny, she just sort of "fell into" hanging with the X-Men. She was comatose for a long while and in their care, and revived right in the middle of the big Phalanx mega-crossover. She escaped with the rest of the X-Men and, having nowhere else to go, just wound up helping them.
  • Hot Teacher: She certainly has the attention of all the male students.
  • Immune to Mind Control: Emma Frost's secondary mutation gives her an organic diamond form. While it prevents her from using her own telepathy, it renders her immune to anyone else's.
  • Jerk Justifications: Emma was originally presented as a textbook sociopath, somebody extremely inclined towards being very bad, who has no illusions about the "severe warts on her soul", on-off trying to learn how to be good, and stumbling along the way a lot.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite her aloof behavior and extreme methods, she genuinely cares about the mutant race and her students.
  • Karma Houdini: She used to torture captive people to death for sexual gratification and telepathically manipulated Scott, her patient, into a relationship with her when he was married to Jean. Yet isn't serving multiple life-sentences. She pays in occasional bad conscience for some of the many horrible things she does, and the tragedies of losing her students, but it's never enough to make her stop doing very morally objectionable things.
  • Kindhearted Cat Lover: Maybe not exactly kindhearted, but she's a cat lover.
  • Knight Templar: She's incredibly ruthless, brutal, and uncompromising, but she's fiercely protective of her students and allies and is greatly invested in helping mutantkind advance and have a better tomorrow. She's just FAR less touchy about using extreme force to achieve her goals and deal with anyone who tries to harm her or those she has sworn to protect.
  • Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: Invoked. She (almost) always wears a white costume whereas Selene, the Black queen, usually wears a black version of it.
  • Literally Shattered Lives: Done by one of her five cloned daughters, Esme, who shot her with diamond bullet. Thanks to Jean, she gets better.
  • Lovable Alpha Bitch: She's almost always conceited, extremely critical, and absolutely ruthless in any kind of fight. Not to mention she intentionally wears all those skimpy outfits just to get attention. However, she's a Mama Bear to anyone who's officially or unofficially her student, and she's almost always been a loyal, reliable member of the various teams she's belonged to.
  • Mama Bear: Seriously, do NOT threaten her students. ... On the other hand, originally (as per the Firestar miniseries) she regularly tortured them when dissatisfied with their progress or wanted to get a point across. She is currently trying to be a better teacher, however, but is still not above occasionally violating them if she deems it necessary, such as the Elixir case. In her defense, Elixir had just attacked Colossus, one of her best friends◊, and others X-Men had done worst threats to their own students.
    • She can even becomes this for teen Jean Grey if she wants to. When teen Jean is among those who have been psychically attacked by Lady Xorn, a.k.a. older Jean Grey in Battle of the Atom:
    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.
    • One of the actions that ultimately led to the dissolution of Generation X was Emma killing her sister Adrienne after her machinations caused Synch's death.
  • Manipulative Bitch: Even after the Heel–Face Turn
  • Meaningful Name: In her villain days, she wasn't really evil in an "ice queen" manner, and in fact outwardly played the role of a benevolent friendly and somewhat nerdy headmaster, so "Frost" didn't really mean anything until Morrison decided it did. Post-Morrison, her surname also serves to highlight the Opposites Attract nature of her relationship with Scott ("Frost" and "Summers"—get it?).
  • Mental Affair: That one happened in New X-Men between her and Scott, some time before Jean Grey's death.
  • Mind Rape: She thoroughly loves this trope.
    Scarlet Witch: Auntie Emma, you might want to check with their mother first. Because I hear she can be a real bitch. [Blasts Emma Frost in the face]
  • Most Common Superpower: Frost is one of the very few superheroines known to have breast implants.
  • Ms. Fanservice: 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.
  • My Greatest Failure: She did not take the deaths of the original Hellions well. In fact, this is partly what precipitated her Heel–Face Turn.
  • New Powers as the Plot Demands: Morrison's run in New X-Men introduced the concept of "secondary mutations", with a few of the X-Men gaining new powers. Conveniently, Emma discovers her ability to transform into diamond right after a building falls on her.
  • Nigh Invulnerable: She eventually gained a "secondary mutation" that lets her shapeshift into a form that is living diamond. This makes her extremely difficult to hurt, but disables her Psychic Powers until she reverts to her fleshy form.
  • Non-Indicative Name: Just because her surname is 'Frost' doesn't mean she uses ice powers.
  • Not a Morning Person: She has specifically instructed her students (who, keep in mind, are knowingly being taught by a group of fugitives) to never wake her. Not to mention her sleeping position◊.
  • Odd Friendship: with Wolverine. Also a Fan-Preferred Couple. In an ironic twist, out of all the New Mutants, she has the most relaxed friendship with Sam Guthrie.
  • Of Corsets Sexy: Hellfire Club days.
  • Parental Substitute: In X-Men anime, she plays the role of maternal figure for Hisako Ichiki/Armor, mostly because the girl's parents ask Emma to help control Armor's powers.
  • Pay Evil unto Evil: Takes this attitude towards many things.
  • Pet the Dog: She has turned very loyal to her students, genuinely loved Cyclops; and although she started out heavily into rape, torture, bondage, brainwashing, and slavery, she was later shown as extremely opposed to the real-world variants.
  • Pride: Even post Heel–Face Turn she's rather arrogant.
  • Progressively Prettier: In-universe example: she was Hollywood Homely 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 admit that she's had breast implants.
    • Lampshaded in Marvel Heroes, in which she may comment upon defeating an enemy "I've had plastic surgery more dangerous than you."
  • Psychic-Assisted Suicide: Provides the page image.
  • Psychic Powers: Emma Frost possesses telepathic abilities of a similar, or slightly lower, 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" and a "Psi of the Highest Order" capable of extraordinary telepathic feats. 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.
  • "Reason You Suck" Speech: 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.
  • Reformed, but Rejected: In Astonishing X-Men, 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.
  • Rich Bitch: Even post Heel–Face Turn.
  • Second Love: She was Cyclops's second longest lasting girlfriend after Jean Grey, but alas, it didn't work out in the end.
  • Secret Public Identity: 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.
  • Sexy Mentor: In Uncanny X-Men Vol. 3, she decides to wear a sexy punk-ish outfit when comforting Benjamin after his fight with Scott. It just makes him incredibly uncomfortable since he's only wearing a towel at the time.
  • Shameless Fanservice Girl: Emma flaunts any means of power or control she possesses, whether this be political, intellectual, mental, physical or sexual.
  • Smug Super: Her problem is that she's good and she knows it.
  • So Proud of You: To Kitty in Giant Size Astonishing X-Men #1 and Hisako in the anime.
  • Spotlight-Stealing Squad (seems to get more attention in the comics now, than women who've been in the team far longer).
  • Stripperific: 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.
  • Sugar and Ice Personality: During Generation X, beneath her aloof and apathetic behavior, Emma was a tortured soul who just wanted to be loved and trusted by her teammates. This was carried over by some writers in later X-Books.
  • Survivor Guilt: Due to being the sole survivor of the Genosha massacre.
  • Team Mom: To her students at least.
  • Tragic Heroine: Eventually in Avengers vs. X-Men, she's horrified by her actions as Phoenix Five.
  • Token Evil Teammate: Subverted or played straight, Depending on the Writer.
  • Underwear of Power: Her black costume in Uncanny X-Men vol. 3, followed with Zettai Ryouiki to cover her remaining legs.
  • Vapor Wear: Her Phoenix Five costume lacks of bra and panties.
  • Villain Ball Magnet: Emma struggles to fight her darker urges, and on a few occasions she gives in.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: Her relationship with certain other X-women. In the mini-series that reintroduced Nova (the flaming Herald of Galactus, not that guy), she's this to quite a few superheroines in the Marvel Universe given the number that showed up to her birthday party. They might not like the way she does things, but respect what she can do and she's nothing if not interesting to the more straight-laced heroines.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: She genuinely seeks to help mutantkind and protect her students, but has some serious flaws in the way she goes about it.
  • Wolverine Publicity: She has been appearing in a great deal of comics, often just so that she can be there. The worst example is the time when she showed up in one page of one issue of White Tiger's miniseries to tell her that white wasn't her color (after several thugs had mistaken her for Emma... because a dark-haired Hispanic woman and a blonde Caucasian woman are so alike).
  • Woman in White: 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.
  • Working with the Ex: Keeps being a part of the Cyclops-led faction of the X-Men even after they broke up.
  • Your Mind Makes It Real: The Torn arc in Astonishing X-Men is a more complex example than most. At first it seems like Emma has betrayed the X-men and rejoined the Hellfire club, but it turns out all of them, except for Cassandra Nova, are manifestations of Emma's guilt over being a former villain and her fear of falling back to her old ways. She projects these mental images into the X-men too, so it seems like individual members of the Hellfire club are the ones fighting them and messing with their heads. Cassandra had planted a suggestion in her mind before being imprisoned in a cocoon, and simply took advantage of these doubts and fears.

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