- NOTE: This article is about the incarnation of Emma Frost from the X-Men film series. The mainstream version can be found here: Emma Frost (Marvel).
| “ | Excellent question. Though I wouldn't call it a war, exactly. That suggests both sides stand an equal chance of winning. | „ |
| ~ Emma Frost to the CIA. |
| “ | You can stop trying to read my mind, sugar. You're never going to get anything from me while I'm like this. | „ |
| ~ Emma to Professor X. |
Emma Frost is the secondary antagonist of the 2011 superhero film X-Men: First Class, the fifth instalment of 20th Century Studios‘s X-Men film series.
She is Sebastian Shaw's consort and second in-command of the Hellfire Club and is a powerful telepath as well as possessing her diamond skin.
She was portrayed by January Jones, who also played Elizabeth Harris in Unknown.
Biography[]
X-Men: First Class[]
When CIA agent Moira MacTaggert is investigating the Hellfire Club in Las Vegas, she infiltrates a function Sebastian Shaw is hosting disguised as one of Frost's dancers. While there, she witnesses Frost turn into her diamond form, which alerts MacTaggert to the existence of mutants and prompts her to contact Charles Xavier.
When Erik Lehnsherr comes to kill Shaw aboard his yacht, she goes into his mind, hurting him and throws him off the boat. She then escapes with Shaw into the submarin where she is shown Shaw's helmet the Soviets had given him and asks her to read his mind. She says that she can not while he is wearing the helmet. Shaw then tells her she is the most beautiful woman in the world, then says that his drink needs ice. As Emma feels Xavier's telepathy expand, she looks to see whether he is close by and asks Azazel if there is anything on radar or sonar. After he says no, she tells Shaw about it. Shaw tells her to go to Russia while he takes care of the mutants at the CIA.
While in Russia, Emma uses her seduction skills to get the Russian General into bed where she uses her telepathy to make the General believe that he and Emma are groping and kissing one another, with her sexually straddling him on his bed, wearing only her lingerie, but she is really sitting and eating crackers, watching him hugging and kissing the air. Xavier and Lehnsherr barge in and she turns into diamond form. She attempts to escape but Charles and Erik stop her and Erik makes the metal bed hold her. Magneto starts to crack her diamond form but Charles tells him to stop. Under the pressure, her diamond form starts to break but after the release, she goes back to normal form and gets sent to the CIA headquarters.
After the death of Shaw, Lehnsherr (now known as Magneto) starts his own team called the Brotherhood of Mutants and invites Emma to join after setting her free. Seeing her remaining Hellfire teammates with Magneto, she accepts.
X-Men: Days of Future Past[]
Erik mentions that Emma Frost, along with Azazel, Banshee and Angel Salvadore died in between 1962 and 1973 and blames Charles for their deaths. She is among those experimented on and killed by Bolivar Trask, since Mystique seeks revenge on Trask and a Sentinel is shown to use her powers.
Powers[]
- Telepathy: Emma has displayed the telepathic standards of broadcasting and receiving thoughts, mind-control, and altering perceptions and memories.
- Telepathic Communication: She is able to speak to the minds and was talking with Colonel Hendry.
- Telepathic Illusion: Also she can create realistic and powerful illusions which use to please the Russian General.
- Psionic Blasts: Emma can produce telepathic blasts which can induce pain or knock out a person.
- Organic Diamond Form: Emma possesses the ability to transform her body into a flexible organic diamond form. She can also selectively transform parts of her body into diamond. However, it is not invulnerable as Magneto was able to crack her diamond form by contracting metal bars around her neck.
- Psychic Immunity: Emma has shown to be immune to other telepathic powers in her diamond form.
- Enhanced Strength: Her diamond form allows her augmented strength. She is able to send Erik flying several yards off of the boat with a one handed push. She could be overpowered, however, by two people, as both Charles and Eric pulled her to the floor for Eric to restrain her with metal bars.
Relationships[]
Friends[]
- Sebastian Shaw † - Former Leader and Love Interest
- Magneto - Enemy turned Fomer Leader
- Azazel † - Former Teammate
- Riptide - Former Teammate
- Angel Salvadore † - Enemy turned Former Teammate
- Mystique - Enemy turned Former Teammate
Enemies[]
- Colonel Hendry † - Enemy
- Havok † - Enemy
- Professor X - Enemy
- Beast - Enemy
- Banshee - Enemy
- Moira MacTaggert - Enemy
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Before January Jones got the part. Alice Eve was originally cast as Emma Frost, but a deal couldn't be reached and Sarah Harding was called back three times for the role of Emma Frost.
- While the film was a critical and commercial success, the poor reception of the film's depiction of Emma Frost permanently killed off January Jones's film career, with Jones only working in low-budget/straight-to-DVD films and TV shows since her time as Emma Frost.
- It is unclear if she has any possible relation to the Emma who appears in X-Men Origins: Wolverine as they appear to be two different characters, given that Emma Frost is significantly younger in Origins at a time when she should be older.
- A Blu-Ray featurette of X-Men: First Class depicts Tahyna Tozzi's Emma as the younger self of January Jones' Emma Frost, which coincides with a Blu-ray extra of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, where the character calls herself "Emma Frost". The timeline of the two films are inconsistent, considering the fact that Jones' Emma Frost was an adult in 1962 and stated to be dead by 1973, whereas Tozzi's Emma was portrayed as a teenager in 1979. Bryan Singer, a producer on X-Men: First Class, revealed that they took some creative liberties regarding the film's continuity with other movies in the series. Executive producer Lauren Schuler Donner has also stated that the two characters have no connection to each other. The only aspect Tozzi's Emma shares with Jones' Emma Frost is that they are both blonde-haired, blue-eyed mutants who can shift into diamond form. Tozzi's Emma, however, lacks the telepathic abilities of Jones' Emma Frost.
- In the comic books and various animated versions, Emma Frost was depicted with an English accent, but this accent is not present in X-Men: First Class.
- Emma's diamond form shows a different resemblance to her Earth-616 universe counterpart. In the movie, she has a low level of super strength and she can't keep her diamond hardness without enough air.
- Unused concept art by Phil Bouette, based off costume designs by Daniel Orlandi, revealed that Emma was originally going to appear with a new iteration of the Hellfire Club in Dark Phoenix. The art was designed off the likeness of January Jones, who previously portrayed Emma in X-Men: First Class.
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