Ah, Emma Frost

[selenak]

I wake up and find not one but two great stories incorporating Emma Frost into the X-Men movieverse. One deals with Scott between movies 2 and 3, and also answers the question as to whether no one tried to help him:

Let Go

The other is set post-X3 and gives us an encounter with Mystique:

Under the Skin

This is as good an excuse as any to post some of my favourite Emma Frost quotes from Astonishing X-Men, which made me fall for the character.

(Logan and Scott fight after Logan taunted Scott about Jean):
Hank: What's this all about?
Emma: What do you think? Superpowers, a scintillating wit and the best body money can buy, and I still rate below a corpse.

The Emma Frost kind of threat to Mutant-Hating-Person-Who-Annoyed her:
Emma: Tell me, dear Walter, would you like the spend the rest of your life obsessed with the works of Leroy Neiman? I mean, sexually?

Emma, reformed (?) villain, about herself: Being an X-Men means a lot to me. But it doesn't always agree with me.

Couple-talk, Emma and Scott style:
Scott (re: dealing with the Cure crisis): We're getting nowhere, Emma.
Emma: Patience, Darling. You're doing fine. Of course Kitty thinks I'm mentally controlling everything you say.
Scott: But you're not, right?
Emma: You will never see me naked again.

Emma meets Dr. Kavita Rao, inventor of the "cure":
Emma: Nothing but noble intentions. You're a veritable Oppenheimer. What's next? Eliminating the gay gene?
Dr. Rao: Homosexuality doesn't represent a threat to human existence.
Emma: We're clearly watching different televangelists.



Ord (menacing villain of the day) to Emma, who has changed to diamond form and is standing next to Dr. Rao: Miss Frost, there is no substance on earth this blade cannot cut through.
Emma (putting Dr. Rao in front of her): Good to know.



Mysterious Hellfire Club Member, as Emma is on her way to Scott as ordered by the Club: I know. The others don't, of course. Not even Cassandra, the great psychic, truly understands what's going on with you and Summers. You really love him.
Emma: With all my predator heart. (goes in to twist Scott inside out)

Comments

[selenak.livejournal.com]

I read the panel the same way - or rather, panels, since we first get one for Emma's remark, then a single one without dialogue where Scott just looks and you see his mouth twitching a bit, and then a third panel where they have the last exchange.*g*

And yes, amen. That's what you get when Joss Whedon writes your romantic relationship...