Top-class breeding, Polygon on Emma Frost across comics and film
A great collection of stories on the X-Men's villain turned hero, or is it anti-hero?
With the casting announcement of Samara Weaving as the MCU’s Emma Frost, Polygon has a fantastic piece comparing Emma Frost in the comics with her on-screen counterpart in X-Men: First Class.
Thomas Hindmarch writes in How Emma Frost became a good guy in X-Men (and why it never happened in the movies):
That leads naturally to the question of whether Weaving's Frost is planned as an antagonist, an ally, or somewhere in between. Since she's apparently playing a significant role in the next era of the MCU, now's as good a time as any to take a look back at Emma's history in the comics, how she evolved from a villain of the week to a front-line member of the X-Men, and how that differs from her history in Fox's X-Men films.
I never considered myself an Emma Frost fan, but as I was reading the list of comics here, I found myself nodding along. There are several stories I really loved when I read them. There are some significant stories in my relationship with the X-Men here. Guess I’m more of an Emma Frost fan that I realized.
That spectacular subhead on this piece, too: “Breeding, darling; top-class breeding.”