ability is on victims who are awake.
In addition, Emma has the ability to take on a diamond-hard, nearly indestructible form. However, while in this state, Emma has no telepathic powers -- and no empathy or compassion, just a cruel sense of humor and a cold, cold heart.
History: Emma Frost is a leading member of an old Boston mercantile family that arrived from England in the 1600s. She inherited a good deal of wealth, but most of her large fortune resulted from her professional success. She ascended rapidly to the upper echelon of the business world on the strength of her intelligence, drive and personal charm... and the secret use of her psionic abilities.
Eventually, Frost became majority stockholder of a multibillion-dollar conglomerate principally involved in electronics and transportation -- both the building of ships and aircraft, and their use for freight and passenger conveyance. Despite her relative youth, she was named chairwoman of the board and chief executive officer of the rechristened Frost International. She also became headmistress and chairwoman of the board of trustees of the Massachusetts Academy -- a college preparatory school for students in grades seven through 12 located in the Berkshire Mountains in Snow Valley, Massachusetts; creating her own version of Xavier's Institute for Gifted Students.
Frost's beauty and talent earned her an invitation to join the Hellfire Club, an elite social organization of the world's wealthiest and most powerful figures. Frost became an ally of Sebastian Shaw -- a member of the club's Council of the Chosen, secretly conspiring to achieve world domination through economic and political means. Like Frost, Shaw was a mutant. Together, they staged a coup and seized control of the Council, renaming it the Inner Cirlce, after Emma learned of their plot to annihilate mutants. She became the White Queen and Shaw the Black King.
As White Queen of the exclusive Hellfire Club, Frost's frequent power plays put her at odds with the heroic X-Men -- an outlaw band of mutant adventurers. Now, she stands with her genetic brethren in defense of a world that hates and fears those who represent the future of evolution! |
