Emma Frost “The white queen”

NAME

Emma Grace Frost[1]

ALIASES Codenames:

White Queen[3]

Titles and Ranks:

Black King[4]

Black Queen[5]

Nicknames: Emmy[6] Em[7]

Other Aliases:

AFFILIATION AND RELATIONSHIPS

GROUP AFFILIATION

Frost International (CEO)

Illuminati[13]

Formerly

RELATIVES

Parents:

Winston Frost (father, deceased)

Hazel Frost (mother)

Siblings:

Adrienne Frost (sister, deceased)

Christian Frost (brother)

Cordelia Frost (sister, deceased)

Children:

Stepford Cuckoos (daughters)

Other Relatives:

Jocasta Frost (cousin)

Family-in-Law:

Steven (brother-in-law, deceased)

HOST OF Phoenix Force (formerly)

MARITAL STATUS Single

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS[280]

GENDER Female

HEIGHT 5′10″ (1.78 m)

Age: 41

WEIGHT 144 lbs (65.32 kg) (human form),

436 lbs (197.77 kg) (diamond form)

EYES

Irises: Blue

HAIR Blond (since resurrection)[16], Brown (formerly)

UNUSUAL FEATURES In her transformed state, all of Frost's bodily tissues become a flexible, diamond-like substance.

ORIGIN AND LIVING STATUS

ORIGIN Mutant

LIVING STATUS Alive; formerly deceased

REALITY Earth-616

PLACE OF BIRTH Boston, Massachusetts

PERSONAL INFORMATION

IDENTITY No Dual

CITIZENSHIP American, Krakoan

OCCUPATION

EDUCATION Qualification in sex therapy,[21] and college degree in Business Administration[22]

Emma Frost is a powerful and influential mutant telepath, most notoriously known as the White Queen of the Hellfire Club[30][33] and occasional headmistress of the Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.[34][35] Born to a rich Boston mercantile family, she parted ways with her family and built a financial empire with Frost International, ascending to a ruling position in the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club.[36][37][38] Demonstrating a particular interest in education,[39] Frost ran the Massachusetts Academy, a preparatory school that secretly housed young mutants trained for her own interests, the Hellions.[29][40][6]

As an adversary of Charles Xavier's X-Men,[37] Frost constantly used to clash with younger mutants she attempted to manipulate, such as Kitty Pryde,[37][29] and members of the New Mutants[40] and the New Warriors.[41] However, the tragic death of her Hellions[42] changed her heart, leading her to form a partnership with Xavier.[43] Putting her love for teaching to good use, but never afraid to cross the line of morality, she became the co-headmistress of Xavier's School, where she trained the latest generation of mutants, known as Generation X.[44][34] As a survivor of the Genoshan genocide due to her new ability to transform her body into nigh-indestructible diamond, she became an inestimable member of the X-Men[45][27] and has grown into a leader to the mutant community in general.[46]

While sitting on the Quiet Council of the mutant nation Krakoa, Frost remained a prominent figure in the thriving mutant society, influencing economic, cultural and diplomatic affairs between mutants and humans.[47] She rebranded the Hellfire Trading Company as a high-level transaction business to serve Krakoa's commercial interests,[33] became the host of the annual Hellfire Gala,[48] and assumed a role to financially and bureaucratically assist the recently reformed super-heroic X-Men.[49][50][10]

History

Family Background

Emma Grace Frost was born to a Boston mercantile family, which arrived from England in the 1600s and took part in the American Revolutionary War.[22][38] The second of three daughters, Emma also had an older brother named Christian Frost, who had turned to substance abuse as an escape from the drudgery of his life and the abuse of their father. Unknown to their family or themselves, the three Frost sisters were mutants, whose telepathic abilities matured upon reaching puberty.[51][52] Deemed unfit in her father's eyes, Emma produced low-grade point averages and was a social outcast while attending the Snow Valley School for Girls. As a result of her emerging powers, Emma began to experience severe migraines.[53]

The first clear manifestation of her powers was when she accidentally rendered her entire school unconscious during a mental breakdown, leading Charles Xavier to detect her presence. Alongside Dr. Moira MacTaggart, he paid Emma's father a visit hoping she would join his school. Neither Emma's father nor Emma herself were interested, however.[6]

After the emergence of her powers, Emma used them to excel in all aspects of her life. Due to a crush that Emma had on a teacher of hers, Ian Kendall, Emma decided on a future in teaching, much to her father's disapproval. After seeing Emma and Mr. Kendall kissing in front of the Frost estate, Emma's father got Kendall fired and blackmailed Emma to give up her idea of teaching. After her brother's homosexuality was revealed to the family, her father began to alienate Christian, resulting in his further drug abuse and attempted suicide. When it came time for their father to choose a worthy heir to the family fortune, Christian was automatically dismissed due to his drug problem and because he was gay. While the older sister, Adrienne Frost, seemed the most obvious choice, their father chose Emma. At the same time, Christian was sent to a mental institution, and Emma refused to be her father's heir, choosing to make her own way through life instead.[54][17]

Emma Frost began to work minimum wage jobs and stayed at a hotel in Boston. After attempting to use her telepathy to pay for the meal with a newspaper instead of money, Frost was eventually caught and made to wash dishes. Here, she met Troy Killkelly, with whom she began a relationship and moved in with. Unfortunately, Troy owed money and Frost used her telepathy at a casino to erase their financial problems, but the loan shark insisted that they owed more, for interest. Troy suggested that they pretend to kidnap Frost and have Winston pay a ransom, but Winston refused, stating that his daughter was already dead to him. After Troy was killed, Frost absorbed all of the shark's knowledge of business through her telepathy. After her sister Adrienne took Frost's kidnapping video to the news, Winston was forced to pay the ransom. However, Frost freed herself using her abilities, took the money, and moved to New York.[55]

Frost escaped, dyed her hair blonde and enrolled into Empire State University, where she was reunited with Mr. Kendall. While attending class, Frost met a fellow telepath, Astrid Bloom, and Bloom began to train Frost in the use of her abilities. After learning that Mr. Kendall was dating her roommate, Christine McDermott, Frost confessed her love for him, and he pursued a relationship with Frost. Christine threatened to expose Mr. Kendall's relationship with students if he did not leave Frost, but Astrid influenced him to choke her. Upon learning the truth, Frost telepathically fought and defeated Astrid, absorbing all her knowledge of telepathy, and thus saving Mr. Kendall's job, revealing her mutant powers to him in the end. Despite having saved his job, Mr. Kendall left Frost in disgust upon learning that she was a mutant.[56]

When Emma's parents found out about her powers, they sent her to a mental institution, the Essex Clinic, where she was drugged. At some point during her stay there, she was kidnapped by the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, working together with the Evolutionaries. The Brotherhood's leader Magneto took her to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, intending her to use Cerebro to kill all humanity and unite mutantkind. The X-Men managed to foil the scheme and break the alliance between the Evolutionaries and the Brotherhood. With Cyclops vowing to protect mutantkind, the remaining Evolutionary reluctantly left, but not before erasing the memory of their presence from the minds of everyone and vowing to return one day. After the Evolutionaries returned Emma to the clinic, her head was clear and the drugs were out of her system, so she influenced a guard to beat everyone up and escaped the clinic.[57][51][58]

The Hellfire Club Beginnings

Starving in New York City, Frost ended up as a stripper for the Hellfire Club,[6] using her powers to make men see what they wanted to see.[17] There, she was contacted by Charles and Moira once again to join a new team of X-Men. Not recognizing the two, she refused the offer once again, leading Professor X to erase her memory of the encounter.[59]

One day, tired of being mistreated, she finally snapped against Sebastian Shaw, an important member of the club, and threatened to kill him. To her surprise, he proceeded to invite her to rise in the ranks and help rid the club of those who were a threat to mutants.[6] After Shaw chose Frost over two other women and brutally murdered them in front of her, their union was official.[60]

The White Queen

On the eve of becoming the Black King, Shaw discovered the White King, Edward Buckman, and the White Queen, Paris Seville, were creating mutant-hunting Sentinels behind his back. During an attack against the mutant members of the club, Emma Frost saw an opportunity to help Shaw's fiancée, Lourdes Chantel, escape the club and the abusive Shaw by making Shaw believe she had died saving him. After defeating the machines, Frost returned to the club with Shaw and mind controlled Buckman to kill everyone in the room, including his lover, Paris. To complete their takeover, Shaw strangled Buckman and became the new head of the club, alongside a new White Queen, Emma Frost. With that chapter closed, Frost met Chantel and sent her to the Kingpin, so he could fix her with a new identity, leaving Frost in his debt.[36][6][61]

Later, when Shaw was searching for a new White King, he threw a party to which he invited the most influential men in the world in. Rejecting the candidacy of Tony Stark, he chose Prince Namor of Atlantis and invited him to join the Club. Namor contemptuously rejected the proposal, saying that if Sebastian ever again dared to waste his time with such a minor thing, he would kill him. This drove Shaw into a frenzy, so he ordered Frost to force Namor into the Club, no matter the cost. A few days later, she acted out a suicide by jumping overboard from a yacht to attract Namor's attention. He rescued her and they spent two weeks together in Atlantis. Shaw, however, tired of waiting for news from Frost, and thinking that Namor had killed or captured her, decided to send Sentinels after her. The Sentinels attacked Namor and Frost and damaged the city, which Namor interpreted as an act of war. After realizing that Shaw was now the man behind the mutant-hunting robots, Emma betrayed him and joined Namor in attacking the club, facing Pierce and Tessa. Tessa mind-wiped Frost to erase the memories of her betrayal and make her loyal to the Club again. Guarded by his two telepaths, Shaw explained to Namor that he would never get close enough to kill him. Namor left but vowed to take revenge one day.[62][63]

With the continuous growth of anti-mutant sentiment, Shaw believed his regular grunts were insufficient as guards and soldiers, so Frost convinced him to open a school and fulfill her lifelong dream. Thus, was born the modern Massachusetts Academy in the Berkshire Mountains in Snow Valley, Massachusetts.[6] During this period, Frost also laid the foundations of a financial empire as the majority stockholder of a multi-billion-dollar conglomerate, which was renamed Frost International after herself. Despite her youth, Frost became a chairperson of the board of Frost International and its CEO. Frost International was principally involved in transportation (both the building of ships and aircraft and their use for freight and passenger transport) and electronics.[43][64]

Frost again encountered the X-Men when she attempted to recruit young mutant Kitty Pryde for her school. The Hellfire Club had hired the mercenary, Warhawk, to battle the X-Men, while leaving a device that enabled the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club to monitor the activities of Cerebro, a mutant-detecting machine Professor X had built. Professor Xavier and Frost would each approach Pryde and her parents as the heads of private schools seeking to recruit her as a talented student. Neither Professor Xavier nor Frost intended to reveal to Kitty's parents that their daughter was a mutant. Frost left after making her pitch to Carmen and Theresa Pryde, noting that whilst Carmen was in favor of her school, Theresa wasn't. As Frost was leaving Professor Xavier arrived accompanied by Storm, Wolverine, and Colossus. While Kitty and the X-Men were at a malt shop, Frost ordered their capture and, while Kitty got away, Frost took the captured X-Men to Frost International. After Kitty phoned the rest of the X-Men, Frost was overpowered by the Phoenix and believed dead.[65][66]

Frost actually survived, but this incident left her in a coma for a month, during which time she had to rebuild her mind from inside out, managing to remember, among other things, the memory of Namor that Tessa had taken from her.[21][62][67]

Later, Kitty's parents reconsidered allowing her to join Xavier's School and enrolled her in the Massachusetts Academy. Frost, now fully recovered, used that opportunity to switch bodies with Storm, who had driven Kitty there, while Shaw attacked the X-Men with a new type of Sentinel. After using Frost's telepathy, Storm was able to gain her body back and the X-Men defeated the Hellfire Club once again.[8]

The Kingpin

Around this time, Elektra began working for the Kingpin[68] and, alongside Frost, the two would help him attain his goals. Elektra (the "bad witch") would deal with the people the Kingpin wanted dead, while Frost (the "good witch") would deal with the honest people who needed persuasion.[10]

One night, a young girl named Isabelle Donovan witnessed Elektra murder someone from her room. To prevent the girl from being killed, Elektra then asked Emma Frost for help in making Isabelle forget about the murder. When they got to her, however, she had already told her foster parents and they had already warned the police, resulting in a squad of corrupt cops being on their way to kill the girl, per Kingpin's orders. Feeling outmatched, Frost telepathically summoned a nearby Spider-Man, and he helped Elektra defeat the policemen, while also preventing her from killing them. In the meantime, Frost got the girl to safety and arranged for her to go to England with a new identity, where she could live peacefully, away from this trouble.[69]

Clashing with the New Mutants

At another time, while attempting to give Shaw an important message, Frost collapsed into catatonic schizophrenia and remained in a coma, due to Mastermind.[70][71] Frost eventually awoke from her coma and invited Doug Ramsey to her school, bringing her back into contact with Kitty.[72] After capturing Kitty and Doug, Frost was unaware that Kitty and Magik shared a psychic rapport, prompting the New Mutants to come to their rescue. After having the New Mutants battle the Hellions, her personally trained team of students, Kitty caused enough chaos for Magik to teleport them all away.[40]

Sebastian Shaw (Earth-616), Sage (Earth-616) and Emma Frost (Earth-616) from Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 169 001 In a coma During the second Secret War, Frost was among the super-villains summoned by Mephisto to battle the Beyonder.[15]

While battling with the virtually omnipotent Beyonder, the New Mutants were killed, then removed from existence by the Beyonder and subsequently recreated by him. In being recreated, the New Mutants somehow lost much of the proficiency in using their superhuman powers that they had learned at Professor Xavier's school and became detached. Frost took advantage of this opportunity and offered Magneto, now the Xavier School's headmaster, her services with rehabilitating the children. Frost also had her student Empath affect Magneto's fears, insecurities, paranoia, and temperament, until he transferred all of the New Mutants, except Mirage and Warlock, to the Massachusetts Academy.[73]

The New Mutants adjusted surprisingly well, and Frost made a lot of progress in their mental therapy, however, upon realizing the manipulation, Magneto raced to get the children back, leading Frost to warn the authorities about an impending attack on her school by the Master of Magnetism. After the New Mutants left to rescue Magneto from the Avengers (unaware of Frost's call), Frost realized they still cared for their old teacher and moved them to neutral ground, where she worked together with Magneto to cure the children of their trauma at the hands of the Beyonder. In the end, they decided to return to Xavier's school, but remained thankful for all the help Frost had given them in their time of need.[74]

Frost encountered Magneto again, when an increase of mutant hostilities led Shaw to offer him a position in the Inner Circle, something which he was later talked into accepting by Storm, thus creating an alliance between the two rival schools.[75][76][77]

Alliance with Magneto

After hearing of an animal creature that was being mistreated after capture, Frost allowed the Hellions to participate in a contest with the New Mutants to abduct Bird Brain, where Magma and Empath revealed their mutual attraction to each other. After returning home victorious, Magma decided to return to the Massachusetts Academy. While picking-up Magma, Frost suggested that Magma was better suited for the Massachusetts Academy and that, since they were supposedly no longer rivals, Magneto could also eventually receive some of her students.[78]

As Magneto and Frost's relationship grew stronger, their relationship with the New Mutants and Shaw grew weaker. After Illyana reverted back to a little girl, Magneto's already strained alliance with Shaw, who believed Illyana was a valuable asset to the club, led to a physical confrontation between the two. With Magneto's victory, the two queens voted Shaw out of the Inner Circle and Magneto assumed the position as the only king of the club, dubbing himself the Grey King. Frost and Magneto then discussed how to get rid of Selene, then the Black Queen, but never had the chance to put their plan into motion.[79]

Reign's End

After an attempt on her life and other assaults against members of the Hellfire Club, Emma Frost informed the X-Men that the Inner Circle was under attack by an unknown source, one that could potentially become a threat to the X-Men as well.[42]

Emma Frost (Earth-616) and Hellions (Earth-616) from Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 281 001 With her Hellions As they met to discuss it, the time-travelling attacker known as Trevor Fitzroy showed up and killed two of the Hellions. After an intense battle, later joined by a horde of Sentinels, Frost was plunged into yet another coma and most of the Hellions met their untimely demise. Frost's consciousness was apparently still active on the material plane and her body was kept in the Med-lab at the X-Men's mansion.[80][81] During her unconscious state, Dr. John Sublime harvested over 1000 eggs from her to use for his experiments.[82]

Almost a year later,[83] an accident caused Emma Frost to possess the body of the X-Man Iceman. Frost believed herself to be a prisoner of the X-Men and tried to escape, using Iceman's powers in unprecedented ways. When she discovered the fate of her Hellions, she broke down and began to realize that her training had been insufficient and that her students would likely have been better off with Xavier.[84]

Phalanx Covenant

After having her mind returned to her body, Frost was held at the institute. When Sean Cassidy came home to Xavier’s school, his colleagues' weird behavior made him suspect something was wrong, and he soon realized the X-Men had been replaced by the Phalanx. After a fight with the Rogue impostor, he freed Sabretooth, who was also being held in the hopes of being rehabilitated, and threatened to explode his head if he didn't free Frost and Jubilee, who was unconscious in the Danger Room.[83]

Emma Frost (Earth-616), Victor Creed (Earth-616) and Jubilation Lee (Earth-616) from Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 316 001 Resisting the Phalanx Meanwhile, Sean discovered the Phalanx had uncovered Xavier's list of new mutants and were planning to capture them in order to learn how to assimilate mutants into their collective. Sean then proceeded to initiate the self-destruct sequence and, when Sabretooth and the others arrived, he screamed a pathway down to the sewers below. As the school exploded, destroying the Phalanx inside, Banshee informed his new allies of their mission to rescue the next generation of Mutants (Homo superior).[83]

After saving the select group of teenage mutants and destroying Phalanx, Frost set out on a righteous path to atone for her past sins and, therefore, turned the Massachusetts Academy into the new Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, where she and Banshee would become the headmasters and where the rescued mutants would study as the new super hero team, Generation X.[85][86]

Attributes

Powers

Emma Frost possesses telepathic abilities of a similar caliber to those of Charles Xavier, over which she has an extremely refined level of skill. Frost has been cited as a "World-class telepath",[207] "Omega Class Telepath"[133][208][209] She has mind controlled a building full of people for over 40 floors of a skyscraper at once casually,[4] and has been shown to communicate telepathically and link the minds of the Hellfire Gala's guests from Earth to the planet Arakko without any strain.[210][211] Additionally, she has also been referred among the five telepaths on the planet capable of perfectly and seamlessly altering a mind,[212] has demonstrated the ability to stalemate Exodus,[213] and overcome more powerful telepaths, such as a young Nate Grey[214] and defeated telepaths of comparable power such as Rachel Summers with ease, through greater experience and skill,[109] or raw power, such as when Emma was unable to control her own powers but her blindly lashing out with her telepathy overwhelmed both Rachel Grey and Quentin Quire.[215] She has even telepathically harmed a weakened Thanos,[216] a well as gotten into the minds of Loki[217] and Lady Death herself,[218] although Death's mind did overwhelm Emma. She has also been shown to be able to channel all of her power at once to be able to harm the Phoenix Force[219] and restrain the Phoenix Force for a few moments longer than Quentin Quire and the Stepford Cuckoos could.[220]

When Wolverine thought to be protected from her thanks to Level 9 Psi-Shields created by Charles Xavier, she stated she was herself Level 10.[221] Her abilities have been stated to rival that of Charles Xavier himself, this statement only proved in her telepathic defeat of the Professor.[222]

Telepathy: Emma has displayed the telepathic standards of broadcasting and receiving thoughts,[223][127] mind-control,[224] altering perceptions[225] and memories,[226] projection of offensive blasts of Psionic energy causing mental pain or unconsciousness,[30] astral projection[227] and brain engram modification.[228]

Psionic Shield: Emma can erect a psychic shield for protection of herself and other minds she is immune or highly resistant to any/all mental intrusion, including psychic or empathic powers, hypnosis, illusions, deception, etc.[214][229][230] Psionic Shields Removal: She stated she could easily take Wolverine's Level 9 Psi-Shields down, though their removal could leave Wolverine as the equivalent of a three-year-old child.[221] In addition to that, Emma can use her telepathy through mutant scanning devices' detection beams such as Sentinels, bypassing the devices' shielding to affect their operators.[11] Telepathic and Mind Cloaking: Emma can telepathically mask her presence and the use of her abilities from being detected by other mutants and psychic entities. These defenses can be extended to others around them as well. Cloaking via telepathy is not perfect and powerful telepathic mutants may notice and 'see' through this ability. Also including the ability to rearrange the mental engrams of mutants so her distinctive mutant thought patterns cannot be detected by Cerebro-type devises or by other telepaths.[34][110][109] Illusions: Emma can create realistic telepathic[109] illusions and cause people to experience events which are not actually occurring.[222] These illusions can also be used to help others fight against pain or simply surround them with more pleasant environments.[231][232][125] Her illusions can also be felt physically, showing they are more than just visual illusions but rather, also influence other senses including inducing pain.[233] Absorb Information: Emma can quickly process and store information, by mental transference.[56] Download Information: Emma can place large amounts of information in another's mind.[109][224] Astral Projection: Emma can project one's astral form from their body onto astral planes or the physical planes. In the physical plane, one can travel in astral form over vast distances.[227] Power Negation: Emma can place "psychic inhibitors" in the minds of mutant adversaries to prevent them from using their powers.[38][234] Rachel Summers (Earth-811) and Emma Frost (Earth-616) from Uncanny X-Men Vol 1 452 001 Transferring the ability to become telepathically invisible to Rachel Pain Inducement: Emma can induce mental pain telepathically.[235][30][38] Heal Trauma: Emma can erase a person’s memories and to heal mental trauma through "psychic surgery", the power to stimulate or deaden the pain and pleasure centers in a person's brain.[74] Intuitive Multilingualism: Emma can intuitively translate and understand any language.[1] Mind Control: The ability to control the thoughts and actions of others.[223][236][237][224] Mind Link: Emma can develop a mental link with one person or a number of people.[238] Paralysis: Emma can induce temporary mental or physical paralysis.[34][228] Mental Sedation: Emma can telepathically "sedate" one's victims so that, if already rendered unconscious, they remain so for as long as a telepath continues to "sedate" them.[52] Mind Alteration: Emma can alter the minds of others by force of will, changing their personality partially or entirely.[239] This can also be used to implant subconscious thoughts like unexplained aversion to certain words or ideas.[240][241] Memory Erasure: Emma can cause loss of particular memories or total amnesia in another person or group of people.[242][228][243] Telepathic Detection: Emma can sense the presence of another person, mutant or not, within a small but as yet undefined radius of oneself by perceiving the distinctive mental radiations emitted by such a being.[225][244] Telepathic Tracking: Enhanced Psionic senses enable Emma to track other sentient beings by their unique Psionic emanations.[245][246] Psionic Blasts: Emma can project Psionic force bolts or blast waves which can do damage on either a physical or mental level and which can affect a victim's mind so as to cause the victim pain or unconsciousness.[247] Emma has been shown to use this ability as a reflexive response to a physical attack, resulting in the aggressor being thrown across the room.[248] She has also shown the ability to create waves of psionic energy that can do both mental and physical damage.[249] Psionic Lightning: Emma can channel the ambient Psionic energy in the air through a target having a physical effect. She used this ability once against M, knocking her out.[223] More recently, Emma has channeled the psionic energy of her empathic student to create psionic lightning.[250] Telekinesis: Emma also appears to has some level of telekinesis.[249]

Secondary Mutation

Organic Diamond Form: As a result of undergoing a body-wide Secondary Mutation,[45] Frost possesses the ability to transform her body into a flexible organic diamond form. In many ways, this is similar to Colossus' organic steel form. She must transform all parts of her body, rather than selectively transforming certain areas and can remain in this form for an undetermined amount of time. If she is rendered unconscious, Frost's body will automatically transform into its normal state. This transformation also alters Frost's personality, causing her to become rather cold-hearted and to lose her empathy for others. Emma does not have access to her telepathy while in her diamond form,[243] although she could during her first time after her Secondary Mutation.[45]

Superhuman Strength: In her diamond form, Frost's physical strength is increased to superhuman levels. Her upper limit has yet to be defined however, she has overwhelmed Jessica Jones,[248] Warpath,[251] broken out of Strong Guys choke hold and punched him across a room,[252] and impaled Blackbolt with a Diamond Punch.[164] Superhuman Stamina: While transformed, her muscles produce almost no fatigue toxins during physical activity, granting her almost limitless superhuman stamina, or at least until or unless she is forced to resume her normal state.[22] Superhuman Durability: Frost's diamond form renders her highly resistant to most forms of physical injury. She is able to resist great impact forces, such as being repeatedly struck with superhuman force, without being injured. She has withstood being zapped by Young Cyclops' optic blast,[253] blows from Hulk,[254] and blasts from the Dreaming Celestial. Despite the Celestial's blast breaking her arm off, this showed an incredibly powerful upper limit to Emma's powers, as a Juggernaut powered Colossus was hit by the same blast and was sent flying across the city with a hole through his chest.[255] Her body is also resistant to temperature extremes, able to withstand temperatures as cold as -390 degrees Fahrenheit or as hot as approximately 7362 degrees Fahrenheit before her form begins to melt.[22] Frost is also self-sustained while transformed, requiring no food or water.[256] Telepathic Immunity: Emma has shown to be immune to telepathic powers in her diamond form, but in turn, she is unable to use her own telepathic powers until she turns back.[209] Her resistance to mental attacks in this form is so great that she withstood an attack from the Void. Although her mind collapsed, the rapid transition to diamond form prevented more severe damage.[134] Immortality: While in her diamond form, Emma does not age, making her effectively immortal.[257]