Originally Posted by
RachelGrey
I do think everyone is getting a bit heated when the comic hasn't even come out yet. Also Emma and Storm are supposed to be working together somewhat in the tail end of HoX/PoX so who knows what's going to happen.
It's hard not to be pessimistic about Emma's fate when I know the primary editor and several writers all want Emma to go back to being an all out villain and outright evil. They worship the 80's X-Men and think that no characters should have developed past that point and Emma hasn't changed at all since she was portrayed at the time of Dark Phoenix. Even though later writers in the early 90's portrayed Emma as a bit more sympathetic when she counselled the New Mutants after the Beyonder killed and then resurrected them all. That was one of the things that lead into Emma's eventual change in status after the Massachusetts Academy was attacked and the Hellions were killed. When Emma recovered from her coma she decided to do things more in line with Xavier's dream and worked with Sean to establish Gen X. It's called character progression, characters grow and change and after their backstory is filled in you find out that Emma Frost White Queen of the Hellfire Club loves teaching kids more than any other things she does and that she prioritizes being a teacher over almost everything else. Once you learn that about Emma it gets harder and harder for writers to make her an outright villain, she can be a bit underhanded against people who work against her, but she is always very protective of her kids. I actually liked how during the Onslaught event they revisited her feelings about the Hellions dying and she was obsessively trying to protect the Gen X kids from Onslaught by taking them out of the country to keep them away from Onslaught.