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Origin

Emma Frost was born into a wealthy family in Boston, Massachusetts. She was the second of three daughters and third of four children. The dynamics of Emma's family life played a profound role in shaping her future goals and future personality. Her father, Winston, was a domineering figure who had impossibly high standards for his children. He was cold, ruthless and unflinchingly demanding of his family. He offered little support, encouragement or love to his children. Emma's mother was a fragile woman who numbed herself to the tensions in her marriage and household by abusing prescription drugs. The beautiful and vain Adrienne Frost was the ambitious one, always scheming to win her father's favor, as well as his fortune. Cordelia Frost was the rebellious one, willing to do whatever it took to win a little of her father's attention, no matter who might get hurt as a result. Their older brother, Christian Frost was carefree and playful. He was Emma's sole friend and ally in their dysfunctional family, filled with power games, manipulation and secrets. As a teenager, Emma tried to reason with her father. She did the things he asked of her as best she could, not out of a desire for personal gain so much as from a need for a normal teenage existence.

The emergence of her telepathic powers only added to the mounting tensions that Emma already faced on a daily basis. She subconsciously used her powers to excel at school, picking up ideas and thoughts from her classmates. Emma achieved academic success and received validation from her teacher, Ian Kendall. Emma announced to her father that she wanted to pursue a career in teaching. Naturally, her father was infuriated by this idea. Thinking that Mr. Kendall was influencing Emma, Winston Frost had him fired.

Emma began to see the deceit and manipulations of her father and sisters when she, herself, became a target of their malicious power plays. Angered by the hurt and pain they had caused her and those she cared for, Emma fought back. She discovered her father's affairs and blackmailed him, exposed Adrienne's secret modelling career and more. In retaliation, Adrienne revealed to their father that Christian was gay, a secret Emma herself had only recently learned. When Winston Frost learned this, he arranged for Christian's lover to be framed for dealing drugs and deported. In utter despair, Christian attempted suicide. Emma found Christian and called for help. He survived but fell into a deep depression and drug addiction. Desperate to save the only person in her life she truly loved, Emma went to her father in the hopes he might help Christian. Winston confessed to Emma that he was surprised and impressed by her guile and attempts at deceitfulness. He agreed to get Christian the help that he needed.

That same night, he decided to name his heir. Emma's father considered which of the girls to choose, with Christian obviously being a non-acceptable option. Finally, much to the surprise of the others, he settled on "rebellious, little Emma." His announcement was interrupted by a doctor from a mental institution, who had come to collect Christian. Emma was enraged and, to the surprise of everyone, refused the family fortune. She decided to make her own way instead, with her entire fortune consisting of 400 Dollars.

Determined to make it on her own, Emma left the family home and moved to Boston, taking odd jobs as a sales girl and dishwasher to try and survive. The pampered Emma was not cut out for such work and fell on hard times, until she met a young man named Troy Killkelly. Troy took Emma in and the two became romantically involved. However, Troy owed money to a local gangster named Lucien and Emma's happiness was to be short-lived.

Various other schemes to make money having failed, Troy came up with the idea to have Lucien's gang pretend to kidnap Emma and extort ransom money from her father. Lucien tried to blackmail Winston Frost into paying for Emma's safe release, but Winston refused to pay, claiming that his daughter was worth nothing to him. Enraged, Lucien decided to hold Emma hostage for real. When Troy tried to stop him, he was shot and killed. Seeing an opportunity to burn her father, Adrienne released the ransom video to the media. Winston was left with no choice but to pay in order to avoid a public disgrace.

Realizing that the gang planned to kill her once they received the ransom, Emma used her mental powers to subtly turn them against each other. Their greed, mistrust and anxiety amplified by Emma's powers, the gang members killed each other off one by one. Emma escaped and used knowledge gleaned from her captors to claim the ransom money herself. With 160,000 dollars, she embarked on a new life as a student at Empire State University in New York City.

Along with her new life, Emma also adopted a new look - she bleached her hair blonde. According to one flashback, she also had plastic surgery to improve her looks. At university, Emma quickly befriended her room-mate, Christie McDermott, but it was two other people who would shaper her life for years to come.

One was a telepath by the name of Astrid Bloom. Though around Emma's age, she was much more skilled in the use of her powers, and she taught Emma new tricks, such as reading people's past memories instead of just their present thoughts, and how to speed-learn by piggybacking on other student's focused and organized thoughts when they were learning in the library. The other important person was Ian Kendall, Emma's old high school teacher, who was now working as a university mentor, and briefly in a relationship with Christie before Emma seduced him back. When Christie threatened to report their relationship, Ian suddenly went mad and almost strangled her. However, Emma discovered all of this was Astrid's doing - afraid of losing Emma's companionship, Astrid had manipulated the people around her for weeks, determined to show her that mutants were superior and had to stick together.

In a direct conflict, though, Emma turned out to be the more powerful telepath, leaving Astrid in a catatonic state. Afterwards, Emma confided in Ian about her being a mutant and what all went on. She was looking for love and comfort, but the man had only hatred and disgust for her. The only person that meant something to her having ditched her, Emma grew cold and bitter, and she began to share the idea of mutant superiority.

It didn't help that, around the same time, the general public had learned of the existence of mutants, leading to some massive anti-mutant hysteria. In the times that followed, Emma had no more scruples to use her mental powers for her own advantage and to take whatever she wanted. Parallel to earning her degrees in business and education, she attended the parties of Manhattan's high society with faked invitations. Standing next to the Wall Street elite, Emma mentally gained enough inside knowledge to make a fortune. During one of these parties, she got to know Harry Leland and immediately realized that, although he was a dangerous man, he would be very useful to her.

Having overtaxed her telepathy, Emma left the party, only to run into some bullies who wanted to have some fun with the beautiful teenager. Before anything serious happened, Emma was saved by Dark Beast. McCoy had been transported from his own reality twenty years into the past of the main Marvel Universe, but his memory was fractured and he was partially amnesiac. He only remembered that he had performed some experiments and was trying to do the same in New York's sewers.

He and Emma decided to help each other; she telepathically helped restore his mind and, with her growing fortune, set him up a new lab. It is not fully known how long their partnership lasted and what exactly Emma did get in return, though he may have helped her further hone her mental powers and possibly provided her with some special equipment.

Hellfire Club and the Hellions

When the Hellfire Club was hiring dancers, Emma auditioned, dressed in what would later become her White Queen outfit. With her telepathy, she could make the audience believe she was a brilliant dancer. Meeting Sebastian Shaw, who became her mentor, Emma rose in the ranks of the Hellfire Club, also undergoing cosmetic surgery to become perfect.

Unlike most other women, Emma was not ashamed by the Hellfire Club's strict dress code that forced females to walk around in nothing more than lingerie. Actually, she liked it as it gave her psychological power. Because of her revealing outfit, men were easily distracted and usually underestimated her, thinking her to be nothing more than a mere waitress.

Over the next years, Emma built her own empire, soon becoming the majority stockholder of a multi-billion dollar conglomerate, CEO of Frost International, which she soon renamed Frost Enterprises, and owned a private school in Massachusetts.

Simply being part of this organization was not enough for Shaw, he wanted to rule it. At first, he tried to buy his way into the Council of the Chosen, as he helped the Club's leader Ned Buckman to fund Project Armageddon, without knowing that Buckman wanted to use the Project's Sentinel to totally eradicate mutantkind. When the Sentinels killed Shaw's lover, Lourdes Chantal, Shaw and Emma wanted revenge. They attacked during a meeting of the Council and Emma took mental control of Ned's mind, making him shoot all the members, including the former White Queen, Paris Seville, and Buckman himself. That night, Shaw and Frost rose as the Black King and White Queen of the new Inner Circle and soon filled the other positions with their friends, like Harry Leland and Donald Pierce. The Inner Circle's last recruit was Jason Wyngarde (Mastermind), who claimed to be able to seduce Jean Grey (who was in possession of the Phoenix Force force) into serving the Hellfire Club as their Black Queen. Jason slowly wormed his way into her head over time.

The Club had also planted a bug within Xavier's (Professor X's) mansion and, when Cerebro alerted the X-Men of two new mutant signatures, the Hellfire Club tried to recruit them too. In Chicago, Emma got to the parents of Kitty Pryde, even before the X-Men managed too, and offered her parents to have Kitty educated at her Massachusetts Academy. Upon leaving, Emma ran into Professor Xavier, Colossus, Storm and Wolverine. While the Professor talked with the Pryde family, the three X-Men took Kitty to a nearby mall, where they were ambushed by Emma's Hellfire Club forces. Only Kitty escaped and she altered the other half of the X-Men, who had gone to New York to contact Dazzler.

Finally, it came down to a telepathic battle between the White Queen and Phoenix, after Emma had tried to destroy the mind of her prisoner, Storm. At first, it seemed that the two women were evenly matched, but finally Emma was overpowered and the rest of the building crashed in on her. When the X-Men later encountered the rest of the Hellfire Club, Emma Frost was still recovering from Phoenix's mental attack.

With Frost back at full health, and Phoenix having committed suicide, the Hellfire Club wanted a rematch with the X-Men. The White Queen telepathically forced Kitty Pryde's parents to transfer her to the Massachusetts Academy. Because Kitty was still a minor, she had to obey and Ororo agreed to drive her over. Once there, Emma Frost switched minds with Storm. Meanwhile, Shaw's Sentinels attacked the rest of the X-Men. After "Storm" helped to defeat them, she turned on the X-Men, who ended as helpless prisoners of the Hellfire Club. However, the real Ororo, stuck in Frost's body, was able to get a handle on her telepathic powers and took Kitty back to the mansion.

In the final battle, Storm proved to be the better woman and got her body back. When Emma again used her telepathy for another attack, Storm fried her with an electric bolt and was ready to kill her, but her fellow X-Men held her back. Instead, they made Emma promise to leave Kitty and the X-Men alone.

Emma beat Xavier in the race to contact the newly discovered mutant, Angelica Jones. She enlisted her in the Massachusetts Academy and, once she had realized Angelica's high power potential, she decided to keep her separate from the other young mutants she was secretly training at the Academy. Soon after, Emma was attacked by an unseen assailant, who later turned out to be Mastermind.

Blaming others for his own failures, he was on a personal revenge mission against Emma, Mystique and the X-Men. he probably blamed Emma's mind tap device for him losing control over Phoenix and, with his mental illusions, he caused Emma to fall into a coma for months. When Professor Xavier learned of Emma's state, he offered to help but was refused. The Hellfire Club didn't want to be in their enemy's debt.

Shortly afterwards, Kitty Pryde's friend, [[Doug Ramsey:char:14886]], received an invitation to the Massachusetts Academy and wanted to accept. Since they could not reveal the Academy's dark secrets to the boy, Kitty at least wanted to accompany him for a visit and, given the condition the White Queen was last seen in, the X-Men believed them safe. When Emma Frost was revealed to have made a full recovery, Kitty was easily defeated, especially since the villain could threaten to harm Doug Ramsey.

Learning of her friend's fate, Illyana Rasputin alerted her fellow New Mutants and, since none of the big hero teams were still on Earth, they themselves travelled to the Massachusetts Academy for a rescue mission. Still, most of the New Mutants:char were caught, as they were surprised by the White Queen and her Hellions. While Emma Frost went to visit Shaw to inform him about their potential new recruits, the Hellions and the Mutants settled for a duel between Jetstream and Cannonball. Even though Sam won, Frost and Shaw didn't want to let the mutants go. Fortunately, Kitty was able to cause a confusion that allowed Magik to teleport them all to safety.

Emma continued to isolate Firestar from the other students and trained her secretly and alone. However, she introduced her to the other Hellions and used a possible future membership as incentive for Angelica to make fast progress. Also, she gave her a special bracelet, which caused the girl nightmares that increased her own doubts and made her easier to control.

When Selene joined the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club as the new Black Queen, Frost and Shaw regarded her as too powerful and a potential threat to their own positions. Therefore, they planned to make Angelica kill Selene. Yet, shortly before she performed the murder, Firestar saw through the deception and left the Massachusetts Academy. Threatening to reveal the academy's secrets, she made Emma Frost promise to never interfere with her again.

After being killed and later again resurrected by the Beyonder, the New Mutants were left shocked and apathetic, most of the team totally lost their will to live. This seemed like the perfect opportunity for Emma Frost. She offered telepathic treatment in case they joined the Hellions. Giving in to feelings of guilt, fear and helplessness, Magneto accepted; unaware that he was emotionally manipulated by Frost's student Empath. Emma welcomed her new students at the Massachusetts Academy and immediately started to erase their memories of the painful events. On a surface level, it seemed that the teenagers were themselves again but Emma sensed that there was still something amiss.

Meanwhile, Magneto found out that he had been tricked by Empath and tried to get the kids back. Emma called the local authorities, who in turn summoned the Avengers to detain Magneto. Luckily, the New Mutants learned about the fight and, after Illyana Rasputin teleported them to the battle site, they helped him. The White Queen decided to try another approach and offered to help the kids together with Magneto. This time, they were successful. Her telepathic powers and Magneto’s emotional concern restored them to their old selves. With the Mutants deciding to return to Xavier’s school, Emma departed peacefully. However, she left her invitation open, well aware that she now seemed generous in the New Mutants’ eyes and they possibly would not believe Magneto when he would try to tell them about her being evil.

With the rise of more and more threats to mutants in general, the Hellfire Club and the X-Men decided to ally themselves after they successfully worked together to battle Nimrod, a super Sentinel from the future. Magneto was offered the seat of White King and, after pondering on whether to accept or not, he joined the club together with Storm, who was the leader of the X-Men at that time. Emma was one of those who welcomed the addition and she took great effort to bring Magneto up to date in the club’s affairs. Soon, Magneto and his students found themselves invited to one of the many parties at the Hellfire Club and the former enmity between the New Mutants and the Hellions developed into a friendly rivalry.

Much to the surprise of her team-mates, Magma even transferred to the Massachusetts Academy after finding that she had feelings for Empath and Emma commented that the young woman from Nova Roma would be more at home with the Academy’s elegant environment anyway. Though she apparently really cared for him, Empath subtly influenced Magma on Emma’s orders, as she had certain business interests in the area of the Amazons and needed Amara’s father on her side.

After the X-Men supposedly died in Dallas, the balance within the Inner Circle was in danger. Now, Magneto no longer was the representative of the hero team, he was only in charge of an untrained bunch of trainees that repeatedly disobeyed his orders. Emma realized that Shaw and Magneto did not get along and carefully pitted them against each other. Finally, after Inferno, Shaw blamed Magneto that the demonic mess was his fault, as he apparently did not have full control over Magik. With her reduced to early childhood, the most promising of the New Mutants was lost to them. Shaw wanted Magneto out of the Circle and challenged him to a duel, but lost. Knowing that only one of them could remain as King, the matter was put to a vote. Promising her a free hand in the Amazonian area, Emma dragged Selene to her side and, together, the three voted Shaw out of the Hellfire Club. In retrospect, this might have been a bad move as Magneto soon lost interest in the Inner Circle and departed. On the other hand, though, Shaw was almost assassinated by his own son, forcing him to go into hiding and let everyone else believe him dead. Neither King would have remained with Emma for long.

Around the same time, Firestar had to learn that the White Queen was a woman who carried grudges. Still bound by her promise to never interfere with her again, Emma tipped off Firestar’s real name and location to Freedom Force, who immediately wanted to make her sign the Mutant Registration Act. Yet, the resourceful young woman managed to avoid it and, several weeks later, joined the New Warriors. Discovering that somebody had hacked into her data banks, Emma thought that she was no longer bound by her vow and she investigated together with her Hellions. They tracked the hacker down to the New Warriors headquarters and, wanting Firestar back; they fought the team over her fate. However, the Warriors beat the Hellions and the White Queen left, though not before laughing at Firestar’s idealism, telling her that one-day she would come back to her and apologize.

Learning that the members of the Hellfire Club were under attack by the Upstarts, Emma contacted the X-Men for help and they came to another party she was hosting. Suddenly, Trevor Fitzroy teleported in, ready to attack the White Queen while his personal Sentinels were slaughtering the Reavers in Australia. Donald Pierce tried to escape and ordered Gateway to take him to the person responsible, but a few Sentinels followed him into the warpgate. They emerged at the Hellfire party and one of the first Sentinel blasts hit Emma Frost. Empath thought her dead, not feeling any emotions from her. Despite the X-Men’s good intentions, the Hellions were killed one by one by either Fitzroy or the mutant hunting robots.

Loss Of The Hellions

They finally started to attack Jean Grey. In the last instant, Jean managed to transfer her consciousness into Frost's comatose body. When she awoke, she discovered that Fitzroy had claimed it as a prize but she took him by surprise when she managed to generate a telekinetic field in the White Queen's body. Later, the X-Men retrieved her and Xavier helped her back into her own body, while the comatose Emma was brought to the mansion's sickbay.

Several months later, Iceman was checking on Emma when, suddenly, the mansion's power generators short-circuited. The shock caused Emma to awaken and, by instinct, she lashed out with her telepathic powers, resulting in a body switch between her and Iceman. Thinking herself a prisoner of Xavier, she immediately tried to escape and used Bobby's powers in ways never imagined. By melting into a river and emerging from it many miles away after only a few seconds, she lost the X-Men who were in pursuit and made her way to a building of her company.

Yet, when her computer systems told her the fate of her Hellions, she broke down. Realizing that her training had been insufficient and possibly Xavier's way was the right one, she awaited the X-Men and turned herself in. The switch of minds was undone and Bobby was himself again, though he now had to deal with the knowledge that, although only inhabiting the body for a few hours, Emma Frost had used his powers in ways he never thought of.

Shortly afterwards, the X-Men were surprised and attacked by the Phalanx and taken prisoner. The techno-organic aliens could not absorb mutants into their collective, so they replaced the team with some of their own representatives, while trying to find a way to get past the genetic code that prevented the absorption. Apparently, they didn't know about Emma, Sabretooth and Wondra living at the mansion, since, when Banshee returned and ran a scan, he found that these three were the only ones still themselves.

He freed them and destroyed the computer system to prevent Xavier's information from falling into the Collective's hands. Since Cyclops, Phoenix, Wolverine and Cable tried to free the captive X-Men, Emma and Banshee went to rescue a few new mutants who had been hunted by the Phalanx, as they hoped that the absorption might be possible with one of them. In the end, Emma, Banshee and Sabretooth rescued the kids from the Phalanx Operative called Harvest, though at the cost of one of these mutants’ life.

Generation X

The other kids remained together as Generation X and Xavier decided that they should be trained by Emma and Sean at the Massachusetts Academy, now called School for Gifted Youngsters, while the mansion in Westchester was renamed to Xavier's School for Higher Learning. The two headmasters soon found their methods of teaching clashed and they got into arguments more than once.

Emma had many problems with M, who always acted very snotty and arrogant, clearly disliked Emma and was keeping her secrets. Since she too had telepathy, Emma could not access her mind and was bothered by it. At the same time, she was reminded of herself by observing Husk. The young girl was determined to prove herself and kept pushing herself too hard.

Before long, Emma's younger sister, Cordelia, came asking for help. Claiming that she had befriended a young mutant called Mondo and that he had been kidnapped by a man called Barrington, she wanted Emma and the team to rescue him. Since her telepathy didn't work on her sister, Emma had no way of knowing whether she was telling the truth. In fact, she wasn't, as Cordelia herself had kidnapped Mondo and wanted to give him as a present to Shinobi Shaw to become the Hellfire Club's next White Queen. Yet Shaw wasn't interesting and then Mondo had been stolen from her. After Mondo had been freed, Emma, who had been suspecting such a treachery, told Cordelia to leave and never come back. What none could know at this point was that Barrington had replaced Mondo with a fake, who would later betray the school.

However, Cordelia was not the only one needing help. During one of the X-Men's missions, Iceman had received a massive chest wound and he dared not transform back to flesh, fearing that he would die. Bobby demanded to know how she would use his powers to repair such damage, but Emma refused to aid him, even though he captured her with his ice powers. She knew that Bobby would have to do it himself, so she confronted him with his own innermost insecurities in the forms of ex-girlfriend Opal and his father until Bobby realized that he himself had been holding back all this time. He then managed to transform back with his chest fully intact.

The White Queen was more traumatized by the loss of the Hellions than anybody suspected. This showed during the Onslaught crisis. Sensing the danger in New York and not wanting to lose another class of mutants, Emma snapped and took the kids to a safe house in Canada. There, she took telepathic control of them and made them feel happy. Finally falling asleep from all this strain, the kitchen equipment suddenly started to float around her - it was never fully explained if this was some residual energy of Jean Grey inhabiting her body or an early sign of Nightmare approaching her later on.

Whatever the case, M telepathically entered Emma's mind and showed her that protecting the kids by taking away their freedom was not the right decision. Still, she was willing to take drastic measures for the students' well being, such as when all the kids except Penance were missing during Operation: Zero Tolerance.

Whlie on the run from the mutant hunting troops, Banshee and Emma were approached by the villain, Emplate, who offered them the kids location in exchange for Penance. Sean was against the idea, but Emma claimed that saving one for the sake of the rest would be the only option they had left. Since he didn't follow her line of reasoning, Emma knocked Banshee out telepathically and agreed to the deal. Before she could hand over the confused girl, Banshee awoke and spoiled Emma's plan to lure Emplate into a trap; at least that is what Emma later claimed to have intended.

Like every other telepath on the planet, Emma was affected by the Psi-War between Psylocke and the Shadow King and she temporarily lost her powers. Banshee decided to teach the kids a lesson by showing that one should not solely rely on his/her powers and, to better demonstrate his point, he attempted to punch Emma. However, the White Queen surprised him and the students with her excellent hand-to-hand fighting skills and easily defeated Banshee. After a while without her telepathy, she began to give in to feelings of despair. Sean comforted her and, after he convinced her that her telepathy did not define her, the mutant abilities returned.

Emma did not have the time to run both the school and her company, so she left much of her fortune in the hands of her bankers; a bad decision, since some wrong investments cost her a lot of money and she no longer could properly fund the Academy. She easily could have again used her mental powers to gain inside knowledge, but Banshee asked her not to, since it would have set a bad example for the kids.

Surprisingly, Emma followed his request and instead asked her older sister, Adrienne, for help. The sisters hadn't seen each other for years and Adrienne at first turned Emma down. Yet, touching her sister's purse, Adrienne learned of the real purpose of the school, since she had the mutant power of psychometry, meaning she could "read" objects. Adrienne found that she could benefit from having a group of mutant operatives at her disposal, so she agreed to provide the needed money; in exchange she demanded to become the new headmistress.

Not before long, another person from Emma's past came back to haunt her in the form of the Dark Beast. Needing new subjects for his cruel experiments, he had his team, Gene Nation, kidnap the members of Generation X, forcing Emma to team up with X-Man (Nate Grey) to go after him. In her mind, Nate found that she had a history with McCoy, but she tried to avoid talking about it. While X-Man and Gaia freed the team, Emma tried to take on the Dark Beast. From the way they talked, it seemed like they didn't part on the best terms years ago, and even now he tricked her, as Emma had been fighting a hard-light hologram of McCoy, who had long escaped.

Mere weeks later, Adrienne revealed her true colors and her reason for joining the school. She wanted to hurt Emma in every possible way, so she designed a Danger Room modelled after the day the Hellions died at the hands of Trevor Fitzroy and the Sentinels. In the session, the Generation X kids had to act the parts of the Hellions and Emma played her old self.

Adrienne had disengaged the Room's security protocols, meaning they all could die while the program was running. Together, the team and Emma found a way out, but then faced Adrienne who was now wearing a White Queen costume. She claimed the name for herself and departed to return with a better plan when least expected.

During a day off, Emma took some of the kids to New York, where they ran into the Avengers, who by then had Firestar on their active roster. Emma apologized to Angelica for her former behavior and explained how the Hellions' death affected her and that Xavier gave her this second chance. Firestar forgave her, but also reminded her never to fall back to her old habits or she would personally come after her.

Adrienne kept her promise and did return. She outed the school's secret of harboring mutants and, during a riot caused by concerned parents that wanted to pick up their human child attending the Academy as well, she hid many bombs in the building. Banshee did his best to find and disarm them, but Synch was killed when the final bomb exploded in front of him.

Emma became very angry that she again had somebody get so close that she could kill one of her charges. Since her telepathic powers did not work on Adrienne, she killed her with a gun and, afterwards, even inherited her older sister's fortune, solving the problem of funding Generation X at the same time. Emma avoided the police's questions by mind wiping the interrogating detective. Upon finding out about the murder, Generation X disbanded, as they no longer wanted to be taught by her.

Aftermath

Learning of the group's demise, Emma was contacted by Xavier to take over teaching a class of telepaths in Genosha. However, before she followed Xavier's request, Emma went on a short vacation, during which she came to terms with the murder of her sister. At first, she was haunted by her deed but, when her telepathy began playing tricks on her and she started talking to a mental illusion of Adrienne, she realized that she did not regret killing Adrienne. Quite the opposite: she only regretted not having killed her before she endangered her students.

Emma was present when Genosha was attacked by a new breed of Sentinels and although over 16 million people died, Emma survived. The experience triggered a secondary mutation; she is now able to transform into a living, organic diamond - however, a genetic flaw prevents her from accessing her telepathy while in this form.

After the tragedy in Genosha, Emma joined the X-Men and seemed to have dropped her notorious "White Queen" codename. She began teaching at the Xavier Institute and personally trained the Stepford Cuckoos who became her prized pupils. They would later battle together with the X-Men against Cassandra Nova. Emma began giving psychic therapy for Cyclops (Who had become distant from his wife, Jean). The therapy would soon become a secret psychic affair between the two.

Having nowhere else to go, Emma joined the X-Men full-time and started teaching the many new students at the academy. She quickly became attracted to Cyclops, whose marriage to Phoenix was on the rocks after his nightmarish experience of being merged with En Sabah Nur. During a shared adventure in Hong Kong, Emma tried to seduce Scott - to no avail. However, he found that he could talk to Emma about his problems and fears in a way he felt he couldn't with Jean. Emma, who labelled herself a sex therapist, tried to help Scott with his relationship problems and his mental baggage. As a consequence, they embarked on an odd kind of psychic affair, mentally exchanging caresses, and Emma slowly fell in love with Scott.

Emma's prime pupils were five identical-looking sisters called the Stepford Cuckoos, who could form a telepathic gestalt. During a student revolt at Xavier's Emma's favorite students, the Cuckoos, egged on by some careless witty remarks of Emma, took part in the fighting, resulting in the death of one of the sisters, Sophie. Angrily, the rest of the Cuckoos disavowed Emma, feeling she was a heartless, bad teacher and a danger to children.

Dejected, Emma tried to make a new project of problem student Angel Salvadore and looked for comfort in Cyclops' arms (on the astral plane). Thanks to a tip-off by the Cuckoos, they were discovered by an angry Jean Grey. Furious, Jean used the Phoenix power to rifle through Emma's memories trying to find out what happened between her and Scott in Hong Kong and made her face up to her self-deceptions. The experience left Emma deeply humiliated and emotionally shattered.

In the wake of her volatile confrontation with Jea