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Emma Frost, the White Queen of the X-Men and Hellfire Club, lost everything and had a much darker life during in the Age of Apocalypse.
The X-Men are no strangers to dark, dystopian futures and timelines, and one of the most prominent was the Age of Apocalypse storyline. A world in which Charles Xavier is dead and the world is ruled by Apocalypse and his band of tyrannical mutants, this world held drastic changes for even the most familiar mutants.
Emma Frost was a popular part of the X-Men universe whose life was greatly altered in this new world. Stripped of her powers and her closest relationships, the Age of Apocalypse gave the White Queen a substantially darker life than usual. Here’s how the alternate universe switched up the status quo for the former member of the Hellfire Club.
Age of Apocalypse Emma Frost
Like most of the other major characters in this altered timeline, Emma Frost made her debut in the Age of Apocalypse in X-Men Alpha #1, where nearly everything about the character was radically altered. She was no longer a member of the villainous Hellfire Club, nor did she have any ties to the X-Men. This stemmed from the fact that for most of her life, this version of Emma Frost was no longer a mutant.
Emma Frost in this continuity had a lobotomy performed on her at some point in her life. The lobotomy left her otherwise normal except for the fact that the part of her brain that gave her mutant psychic powers was disabled. The procedure left her with a scar where her brain was operated on, with hair no longer growing in this area. This made her effectively human and allowed her to become part of the Human High Council, who were essentially the best of the remaining human population. This council opposed Apocalypse and struck back against him whenever they could.
Emma would also develop a relationship with Brian Braddock (Captain Britain in the mainstream universe), but unbeknownst to her and the others, both Braddock and Bruce Banner were secretly operatives of Apocalypse. Braddock would betray Emma and the rest of the team before being killed by Donald Pierce.
Human High Council
In later stories set in this universe, Emma Frost would go to Latveria, where it was revealed by Victor von Doom that the procedure that nullified her powers was only temporary. She regained her telepathic abilities and eventually joined up with Weapon Omega, the former Weapon X and this universe’s equivalent to Wolverine. She would also be crowned as the Queen of Latveria afterward.
As mentioned, this Emma Frost was far removed from the character’s usual circumstances. Without her mental abilities, she was a less arrogant person, albeit still a proud one due to her wealthy background. Her being on the Human High Council, which sought to elevate humans in a world ruled by mutants, was an inverse of her usually being on the Hellfire Club, which sought the same power and influence for oppressed mutants. Her being a teacher and mentoring a younger generation of mutants is also completely absent, despite that being a central part of her personality. Emma was one of the teachers of Generation X, and her similar relationship to the Stepford Cuckoos is a huge part of her character.
It makes sense, however, that Emma would be removed of these elements of her personality in a darker world where seemingly all was lost. It just goes to show how with the death of Xavier and his dream, life for many other mutants became a nightmare.
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