Now while Emma Frost herself may have struggled to make a permanent switch from evil to good, when she has been on the X-Men, she's added some much needed bite to the X-Men's bark, providing a pragmatic perspective to counteract Professor Xavier's ideological blustering.
Is she liked by her teammates? Not in the slightest (save for Cyclops), but she is an effective hero and has always worked best when operating with the best intentions, even if her approach can sometimes be as chilly as her codename, the White Queen, implies.
Frost became a pivotal member of the team back during New X-Men, and goes on to become headmistress in the wake of Jean Grey's death. This lasts for a while, but Frost ended up being one of the more unfortunate victims of Marvel's decision to wind down their commitments to the X-Men. She was the principle architect of the X-Men's war with the Inhumans, ended up leaving the team, and is now the leader of the Hellfire Club, deeming it the best way to help mutant-kind.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
