As I read the X-Men comics I've gotten to know the character Emma Frost a little bit. Now I've chosen my favorites for various reasons other than the fact that I think they have cool powers. As I read through each saga I grew to dislike Emma Frost. I felt as though she was very untrustworthy, and only working for her best interests at heart. In my opinion there is nothing more scary than an evil telepath, and by no means is Emma Frost an amateur telepath. It also irritated me that she just up and joined the X-Men and became co-leader when there were members who had proven their loyalty to the team and Charles Xavier. Not only that, she zones in on Scott Summers and completely disregards the fact that he is married to Jean Grey. Why she did that I do NOT know, what made her think Jean wouldn't find out anyway? But I guess in a lot of ways Emma isn't ALL bad, after all she herself was a teacher for mutants as Xavier was, so she did care about people. But being a member of the hellfire club in my opinion warrants some kind of "evil" reputation. Not to mention she kidnapped and caged the X-Men and switched bodies with Storm (my #1 favorite X-man/woman). But I think Kitty said it best in Astonishing X-Men:Gifted, basically she said that there was nothing she could do to prove that she was "good", in her eyes she's always going to be evil and will never trust her. I thought, now if I were a founding member of that team would I trust her? Probably not.
But I recently read Emma's back story, her X-Men origins. In all three stories it kind of gives you her background and shows you how she became the person she is today. Now aside from her evil doings that we all know about, you can't help but admire her in a sense, it takes a very smart and cunning person to do some of the things shes done. Especially in her history as a teenager and her powers were first starting to emerge. When you read that you see where Emma grew up and what she had to put up with, it explains so much. I guess you could say I misjudged Emma? LOL but after reading her history I have made her one of my favorite X-Men, i guess I kind of liked her all along but never allowed myself to admit it. 
 
I guess the lesson here is don't judge anybody, everyone has a story, this includes fictional characters LOL