Today's Fact
Verified against at least two independent sources. Issue numbers cited below.
Emma Frost's older sister Adrienne Frost was a psychometrist Emma's telepathy could not touch — sibling powers cancelling each other out, much like Cyclops and Havok. When Emma's school finances collapsed, she swallowed her pride and brought Adrienne in as co-headmistress of the Massachusetts Academy. It was the most expensive loan in X-Men history.
Adrienne outed the Academy as a mutant school, incited a riot among its human students, and planted bombs around the campus. In Generation X #70 (2000), student Synch (Everett Thomas) died stopping one of those bombs. Emma had already lost one class — the Hellions. She was not losing a second one the same way.
Knowing her telepathy was useless against Adrienne, Emma did the non-telepathic thing: she shot and killed her own sister, then hid the murder from her students and psychically wiped an investigating policeman. The killing was only clearly depicted later, in Generation X #75. When her students learned the truth, their trust shattered — and Generation X disbanded.
Why It's Obscure
Emma Frost has mind-wiped enemies, rivals, and entire rooms without blinking. Almost nobody remembers the time she skipped the psychic route — picked up a gun she had placed at her hip, and shot her own sister to save her school.
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Sources
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Bullpen Bulletins
- Adrienne Frost (Earth-616) - Marvel DatabaseVerifies: Adrienne's bombs led to Synch's death; Emma confronted and shot her; Emma hid the death and mind-wiped a policeman; the death was alluded to in Generation X #70 and depicted in Generation X #75.
- Adrienne Frost - WikipediaVerifies: Emma eventually shoots and kills Adrienne, citing Generation X #70 (December 2000); Gizmodo account of Adrienne's bombs and Synch's death.
- Adrienne Frost - Comic VineVerifies: Adrienne revealed the Academy harboured mutants, planted bombs, Synch was killed, and Emma — whose telepathy was ineffective on Adrienne — killed her with a gun.