How Old is Emma?

#1 Posted by pixelized (62860 posts) - 5 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

I'm currently reading Ultimate X-men and everyone is in their teens, and yet Emma had already had some Lovin with professor x and now she is the Leader of the Academy of tomorrow....i thought she was in the same age range as Scott and all of them....

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#2 Posted by pixelized (62860 posts) - 5 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

I know i shouldnt....we all know she is in her early millions....but she's still gorgeous.

Sidenote...GOSSIP GIRL ON MONDAY!!! haha

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#3 Posted by Charmcaster (5272 posts) - 5 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

Never ask about a ladies age!!!!! MAO

#4 Posted by Gloom (3653 posts) - 5 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

I'd estimate that Ultimate Emma is about the same age as 616 Emma.

#5 Posted by Gottheit (3460 posts) - 5 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

'Cause that bitch be old. Deal.

#6 Posted by Charmcaster (5272 posts) - 5 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

pixelized says:

"I know i shouldnt....we all know she is in her early millions....but she's still gorgeous.

Sidenote...GOSSIP GIRL ON MONDAY!!! haha"

I KNOW!!!!!

#7 Posted by pixelized (62860 posts) - 5 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

Gloom says:

"I'd estimate that Ultimate Emma is about the same age as 616 Emma."

But why didnt we get to see a more youthful emma frost???? Everyone else dropped in age...even the professor....idk....my feeliungs are a tad hurt.

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#8 Posted by Gloom (3653 posts) - 5 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

pixelized says:

"But why didnt we get to see a more youthful emma frost???? Everyone else dropped in age...even the professor....idk....my feeliungs are a tad hurt."

Probably 'cause they wanted her to be the leader for her own team of mutants, which would be weird if she was 16. ;P

#9 Posted by Gottheit (3460 posts) - 5 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

'Cause she wasn't cute in 616. Goddamned Disco-jumpsuit...

#10 Posted by pixelized (62860 posts) - 5 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

Gloom says:

"pixelized says:
"But why didnt we get to see a more youthful emma frost???? Everyone else dropped in age...even the professor....idk....my feeliungs are a tad hurt."
Probably 'cause they wanted her to be the leader for her own team of mutants, which would be weird if she was 16. ;P"

or maybe her 616 counterpart is significantly older than what we believe it to be.....=/ and why is dazzler so....not cute in ultimate?lol

Post Edited:2008-04-19 16:51:12

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#11 Posted by pixelized (62860 posts) - 5 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

NOT CUTE IN 616????? Are you kidding me? lol her 616 is a Major upgrade from whats going on now......but too each his own...who did the artwork cause they obviously had a fetish for short hair....jean and then they chopped off storms lovely locks.....my feelings were severly hurt

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#12 Posted by Phoenix God (389 posts) - 5 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

I always assumed Emma was always a few years older then Scott and Jean. But that is just me. I assume in Ultimate they made her older then she is in the other series because of the story line.

Maybe Emma is a craddle robber?....

#13 Posted by pixelized (62860 posts) - 5 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

Yeah now that i think about it i think Emma Might be a good decade older then what we believe her to be...i wouldnt be surprised. Whatevs though.

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#14 Posted by Djinn (774 posts) - 5 years, 22 days ago - Show Bio

Emma Frost is like 40 somthing she just gets alot of surgery. Emma Frost was still a grown up when Proffessor created the x-men

#15 Posted by pixelized (62860 posts) - 5 years, 22 days ago - Show Bio

yeah emma is in her upper twenties

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#16 Posted by Constantine (15840 posts) - 5 years, 22 days ago - Show Bio

29-31

#17 Posted by mantoid (2305 posts) - 5 years, 22 days ago - Show Bio

6-7

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#18 Posted by pixelized (62860 posts) - 5 years, 21 days ago - Show Bio

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#19 Posted by danhimself (18961 posts) - 5 years, 21 days ago - Show Bio

you can't base her 616 age on her ultimate age. it's 2 different universes where things can be and usually are significatly different

#20 Posted by pixelized (62860 posts) - 5 years, 21 days ago - Show Bio

true dan, but the subject was changed to her 616 age. Thank you tho

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#21 Posted by pixelized (62860 posts) - 5 years, 21 days ago - Show Bio

true dan, but the subject was changed to her 616 age. Thank you tho

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#22 Posted by MissFrost (1 posts) - 5 years, 20 days ago - Show Bio

well comic book characters dont age so i doubt any1 knows her age or quite frankly who cares???

#23 Posted by pixelized (62860 posts) - 5 years, 17 days ago - Show Bio

MissFrost says:

"well comic book characters dont age so i doubt any1 knows her age or quite frankly who cares???"

pixelized says:

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Chew it up and Swallow it

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#24 Posted by MichonneHack27 (185 posts) - 2 years, 5 months ago - Show Bio

Who really knows. Comics in general slow down aging, she could range from late 20s to early 30s

#25 Posted by PowerHerc (52595 posts) - 2 years, 5 months ago - Show Bio

She's pushing forty.

#26 Posted by StormyWeather (738 posts) - 2 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

@pixelized: she is "older" in that universe, but the 'normal' X-Men universe shes the same age as Scott, Jean, Storm etc etc

#27 Posted by Mercy_ (85118 posts) - 2 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

She's probably around 28 right now.

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#28 Posted by Emperor Gonzo Noir (19681 posts) - 2 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

@The Dark Huntress said:

" She's probably around 28 right now. "

lol sliding timescale

#29 Posted by Mercy_ (85118 posts) - 2 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

@Emperor Gonzo Noir said:

" @The Dark Huntress said:
" She's probably around 28 right now. "
lol sliding timescale "

I love it and hate it at the same time.

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#30 Posted by SC (9996 posts) - 2 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

Old enough to be an Auntie, but not old enough to have children, until Fraction is DC Exclusive.

#31 Posted by pixelized (62860 posts) - 2 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

@pixelized said:

"
MissFrost says:
"well comic book characters dont age so i doubt any1 knows her age or quite frankly who cares???"
pixelized says:
""
Chew it up and Swallow it
"

2 years 9 months later and i still laughed.

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#32 Posted by Alurvelve (3383 posts) - 2 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

Does that make her younger than Scott? I figured him to be in his mid to late 30's now.

#33 Posted by Mercy_ (85118 posts) - 2 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

@Alurvelve: Fairly certain she is.

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#34 Posted by doddy (248 posts) - 2 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

http://www.emmafrostfiles.com/misc/faq/how-old-is-emma-frost/

http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showpost.php?p=9344619&postcount=424

White Queen

1986 July - The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #8 - "Young"
1990/1 ? - Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Master Edition - "Young"
After The Uncanny X-Men #39 (1967 December) - - - Emma Frost #6 - Before leaving home
? - - - Generation X #-1 - Left home at 15/early 16
? - - - Generation X #-1 - Encounters the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club for the first time at 16 (her third visit to the Club)
10 years before July 1997 - - - Generation X #-1 - Ten years earlier (corrected in a letter column in Generation X #31), Emma met Dark Beast at roughly the time she joined the Hellfire Club
? - - - X-Men: Deadly Genesis #5 - Recruited for Moira's X-Men (declined); already at Hellfire club (prior to Gen X #-1?); all other recruits alluded to be around the same age, about 1 year younger than Havok
1998 January - - - Generation X #34 letter column- "Between 25 and 30"
2003 July - - - New X-Men #138 - 27

i think the answer is obvious: emma is clearly 27-28.

oh i almost forgot this...

so emma is 28-29 years old now...lol

#35 Edited by PhoenixoftheTides (2959 posts) - 2 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

I always thought of her as being in her thirties - 30-35, and slightly older than Scott, Jean and Ororo, who would be in their late twenties/early thirties. She seemed older in her initial appearance and during the "New Mutants", she almost seemed a contemporary for Magneto and Charles Xavier.

I guess those scans corrected me LOL, but that was actually one of the few things I didn't like about Morrisons' run, even though I understand that the characters are perpetually young.

#36 Posted by thestepfordcuckoos (142 posts) - 2 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

Emma has to be in her thirties but I think I remember her stating the fact that she lies about her age or many be it was someone else. Lol. But it is known that she is older than Scott.

#37 Posted by riri4life (7189 posts) - 2 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

Y'all are delusional if u think she's still in her 20s. lol

....I'd say she's pushing 67.

#38 Posted by HexThis (713 posts) - 2 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

In her solo series, Emma watches the X-men on a newscast on TV while still in highschool but it appears it's during the original 5's time so she's probably either a bit older or the same age as the X-men.

Though recently in Generation Hope or Uncanny or something she did mention finding gray hairs....

#39 Posted by uncanny89 (821 posts) - 2 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

@HexThis:@thestepfordcuckoos: I think she is in her late 20's early 30's, as for her being older or younger than Scott i don't think she is older purely because in her solo series when she was still in High School she saw the original 5 in their own costumes not the xavier institute ones so id guess at that point they are in their late teens or early 20's there and Jean "died" at the age of 24 this is in issue 138 of uncanny, and they graduated when they got their own costumes didn't they?

#40 Posted by Aero_gt (831 posts) - 2 years, 1 month ago - Show Bio

All this and she's still the sexiest mutant around.

#41 Posted by John Valentine (15815 posts) - 2 years, 1 month ago - Show Bio

I'd estimate early 30s by now, assuming that Scott, Jean and Warren are maybe 30-32, Hank is maybe 34/35, Bobby is 28-30 and Storm is 37-40.

#42 Edited by nikbackm (184 posts) - 2 years, 1 month ago - Show Bio

@John Valentine said:

" I'd estimate early 30s by now, assuming that Scott, Jean and Warren are maybe 30-32, Hank is maybe 34/35, Bobby is 28-30 and Storm is 37-40. "

Sounds quite consistent with the flashback story from Generation X Minus 1 where she was stated to be 16. Marvel published such a -1 issue for most titles back in July 1997, and they were intended to take place 13 years in the past; 3 years before the FF and Spidey got their powers, which was 10 years in the past at that time. Now it's very recently been stated that FF's space flight took place 13 years ago, so about 3 years should have passed in the Marvel Universe since then, making her ca 32 years old right now.

Well, assuming you can rely on stated ages which you generally cannot, since there will always be contradictions and characters that age at different rates (like soaps). Marvel stated in the letter pages of Generation X that Emma's flashback took place only 10 years ago for instance.

At least early thirties matches the view of the current Uncanny writer Kieron Gillen quite well: http://www.formspring.me/KieronGillen/q/2123209771

Edit: Don't know about the other ages you stated though. I'd say Cyclops is about the same age as Spider-Man, which should be around 27-29. At least they both started out at the same age, 15-16 or so. Beast maybe a few years older. Jean's "real" age is pretty much up for grabs considering her many years as dead and occasionally resurrected.

#43 Posted by SUPER-MAN 23 (1526 posts) - 2 years, 1 month ago - Show Bio

Late 30's early 40's

#44 Posted by Mercy_ (85118 posts) - 2 years, 1 month ago - Show Bio

@SUPER-MAN 23: Not at all.

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#45 Posted by SUPER-MAN 23 (1526 posts) - 2 years, 1 month ago - Show Bio

@The Dark Huntress: Early 30's? Comic age is never really talked about.

#46 Posted by RYU/BATMAN (387 posts) - 2 years, 1 month ago - Show Bio

@The Dark Huntress: How can anyone really know? Writers portray the character really at any age see fitting the generation of comic reader. That is why Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman aren't portrayed as 70 years old or older. So it really depends on the generation, writer, and continuity of a comic book

#47 Posted by Mercy_ (85118 posts) - 2 years, 1 month ago - Show Bio

@RYU/BATMAN said:

" @The Dark Huntress: How can anyone really know?

Because her age has been stated on panel before as being 28. There's no way she's in her late thirties at this point. It would make sense for her to be in her early thirties, though.

Writers portray the character really at any age see fitting the generation of comic reader. That is why Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman aren't portrayed as 70 years old or older.

No, the sliding timescale is why they aren't portrayed as that old. Writers don't get to just say "Hey, let's have Wonder Woman be thirty three today" and then in the next run a writer decides to make her mid-twenties. You're making it sound like they just play around with ages all willy nilly and that's not what happens at all.

So it really depends on the generation, writer, and continuity of a comic book

Yes, and in current continuity and going by the person who is currently writing her (Kieron Gillen), Emma is in her early thirties.

@SUPER-MAN 23 said:

" @The Dark Huntress: Early 30's? Comic age is never really talked about. "

Emma's is. She was said to be 28 during Morrison's New X-Men run, placing her around her early thirties now, a few years younger than Scott.

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#48 Posted by RYU/BATMAN (387 posts) - 2 years, 1 month ago - Show Bio

@The Dark Huntress: Early 30's is probably her age, if she isn't currently 35.

#49 Posted by stepford (42 posts) - 2 years, 1 month ago - Show Bio

I always picture her as 30 .

#50 Posted by MutieLover (94 posts) - 1 year, 11 months ago - Show Bio

I was always under the impression that she was a bit older than Hank, Scott, etc. based on her earlier appearances- a little younger than Sebastian Shaw and much younger than Xavier and Magneto. But like Rogue, she was de-aged when she became a good guy.

Emma Frost

The former White Queen of the Hellfire Club, Emma Frost is a powerful mutant telepath who can transform herself into organic diamond. She has become an eminent member among the X-Men. A gifted teacher, Emma is renowned for her beauty, wit, and revealing attire.

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