10 X-Men Characters Most SHAFTED By The Movies

3. Emma Frost

Emma Frost is one of the most complex and pivotal X-Men characters in the comics, having evolved from a supervillain into one of the team's leaders in recent times, which makes her poor treatment in the films only more frustrating.

Portrayed by January Jones in X-Men: First Class, the character wasn't really given much to do and, while Jones herself has proven to be a fantastic actor over the years, she wasn't really given the freedom to make the character her own. Instead, she serves as the henchwoman to Kevin Bacon's Sebastian Shaw, lacking the agency of her comics counterpart before being killed off in between the film's climax and the arrival of First Class, where it was revealed she was lost to Trask Industries.

Emma hasn't been heard from since, and though Dark Phoenix would seemingly present the best opportunity to reintroduce the character as a formidable villain-turned-hero, it doesn't look as though she'll be making an appearance there either.

If ever there was a reason to reboot the franchise, Emma Frost's mistreatment would be chief among them.