WHITE QUEEN

WHITE QUEEN

Real Name: Emma Grace Frost

First Appearance: The Uncanny X-Men (Vol. 1) #129, January 1980

Powers: The White Queen is a highly powerful mutant telepath. She can read minds and communicate telepathically, project her astral form, travel to the astral plane, create realistic psionic illusions, fire painful mental bolts of psionic force that can injure or even kill a person, exert partial or full mental control over the minds of others, heal mental trauma or erase memories, and broadcast her thoughts. She can also rearrange a person's brainwaves and stimulate or deaden sections/centers of the brain, telepathically causing others’ hearts to stop beating and “sedate” unconscious/sleeping victims and perpetuate that state for as long as she wills it.

Emma also has a secondary mutation allowing her to physically transmute her entire body into a hardened, organic diamond-like state at will. In this state, her body gains enhanced speed, superhuman strength, endurance, and a high degree of resistance to bodily harm. She can use her indestructible body to smash many kinds of barriers and substances. Despite this, she can be damaged or even shattered, if a projectile strikes a weak point at the proper angle with sufficient force. The transformation to diamond is virtually instantaneous, and she can remain in that state for an undetermined amount of time until she consciously wills herself back to normal; however, she reverts to her normal form if she is rendered unconscious. Her transformation is uniform, Emma cannot become partially or selectively converted, and her body gains additional mass from a presumably extra-dimensional source upon transformation. In her diamond form, she can survive temperature extremes ranging from 70° above absolute zero (-390° Fahrenheit) to approximately 7,362° Fahrenheit before melting.

Her diamond body is virtually tireless since it doesn’t produce fatigue-generating poisons. While in diamond form, her body possesses light reflecting and transmitting properties, known as adamantine luster, which suppresses her telepathy. Emma’s diamond body also emits ultraviolet fluorescence, which triggers photons that end up as molecular vibrations. These vibrations are weakened by Wakandan Vibranium by disrupting her body’s vibrations and slowly reverting to human form. The interaction between her telepathy and diamond skin is inconsistent. Varying instances have her able or unable to use her telepathy when in her diamond state, that her mind is open and vulnerable when in diamond state or that it is mirrored and impenetrable to psychic scans in that form. As part of the Phoenix Five, Emma had the standard powers of cosmic fire enriching extreme telepathy and telekinesis which all Phoenix hosts have had since Jean Grey.

Emma Frost holds a bachelor of science degree in business administration. She is of gifted intelligence and is highly skilled in electronic theory, electronics, and has learned how to build devices that can amplify psionic energy and utilize psionic energy for various effects. A superb businesswoman and highly capable planner, she is the majority stockholder of the multi-billion dollar conglomerate Frost International. She is chairperson of the board of Frost International and its chief executive officer.

Frost International is principally involved in transportation (both the building of ships and aircraft and their use for freight and passenger transport) and electronics. Emma Frost has also become chairperson of the board of trustees of the Massachusetts Academy, a college preparatory school for grades seven through twelve located in the Berkshire Mountains in Snow Valley, Massachusetts. Frost served as the academy's headmistress.