ExodusCloak
Senior Member
Regarding Emma Frost's Age
Now people unfortunately believe that Emma Frost is around the same age as Sebastian Shaw, Professor Charles Francis Xavier and Magneto due to her being portrayed as one of their peers in terms of power and role during her early appearances. eg She was called an Xavier level telepath in New Mutants, She was White Queen of the Hellfire Club, She ran her own School, she had her own ethos to the Mutant/Human dream and she was/is a multi-billionaire all of this was then reiterated during her years in Generation X etc.. So obviously she had to be there age by default
Even when UXM #151 indirectly stated that she was much younger then Sebastian Shaw people still seem to believe this.
Now recently we have been given an idea of where Emma stands age wise in terms of the other X-Men. Here's some of the recent evidence.
Emma Frost #6
(February 2004)
(Writer): Karl Bollers Artist: Randy Green)
This is High School Emma Frost before she left home. According to the scan near the end of this post from Generation X -1. Emma Frost was 15 when she left home. Emma would be 15 or less in this scan. She see's Xavier's mutants on T.V for the first time. This would actually make her Younger then the Original 4 (Beast, Jean, Cyclops and Angel) and much closer to Iceman's age.
New X-Men #138
(July 2003)
(Writer): Grant Morrison Artist: Frank Quitely with Avalon Studios )
Here's Emma Frost stating that she's 27...she has no reason to lie...
A.) There's no one around.
B.) She's in Diamond Form so the Cuckoo's wouldn't be able to hear that telepathically anyway.
C.) There's more proof that supports this.
Deadly Genesis #5
(May 2006)
(Writer): Ed BrubakerArtist: Pete Woods )
Here again, Emma is being recruited to join the X-Men 1.5. All the recruits were alluded to be around the same age which is:
About 1 year younger then Havok.
Again more proof that she's definitely not Xavier's age:
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Alternate Universes 2005
(September 2005)
(Writer): eff Christiansen, Mark O'English, Sean McQuaid, Eric J. Moreels, Stuart Vandal, Michael Hoskin, Bill Lentz, Anthony Flamini, and Chris Biggs Artist: Tom Grummett and Morry Hollowell)
Firstly we have to establish that Marvel has a sliding timescale Time slides forward by 10-15 years whereby 15 years ago was the FF4's space flight. The X-Men would be a fairly new team in comparison to the FF4 so at worst lets say the X-Men started 14 years ago but it doesn't make a difference here. To understand more of Marvels sliding timescale read this:
Anyway now that that's been established is this a retcon...in short no:
Here are extracts from Generation X #31(October 1997) and Generation X #34(January 1998). (Credit goes to Aimee from the emmafrostfiles.com for scanning and finding these)
Generation X #31
(October 1997)
(Writer): James Robinson Artist: Chris Bachalo )
The writer is actually mistaken with a small bit in the Gen X #31 scan. Emma is actually stated to be 16 in Gen X -1. That would make her 26 at the moment with Marvel's sliding timescale.
Morrison's run made her 27...so nope it wasn't a retcon. And yes Emma achieved a lot when she was younger.
Generation X #34
(January 1998)
(Writer): Larry Hama Artist: Steve Harris and Scott Hanna )
Emma Frost is stated to be between 25-30 here.
Generation X #-1
(July 1997)
(Writer): Scott Lobdell Artist: Chris Bachalo)
Emma's stated to be 16 here when she first encounters the Inner Circle. This isn't her first encounter with the Hellfire Club as the issue alludes that she's been to 2 other parties before. Only this time she doesn't need to use her telepathy to get in. It also states that she left home at the age of 15.(A year ago.)
In short Emma is younger then the Original 4 and this isn't a retcon so Grant Morrison was right. At the moment she'd be around 27 and this will most probably remain stagnant due to Marvels sliding timescale.
