Emma Frost Is My Queen

- Aren’t you a genius?

- Not when it comes to money.

- Why?

- Because I don’t value it.

- You don’t value… money?

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It tore once and I had to stay up until three in the morning sewing it back together

Tony: Just get your butler to do it

Peter: I don’t have a butler Tony

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“I’m…sorry?

Spider-Man is fighting Doctor Octopus, as tends to happen, and they’re in mid-rumpus when the White Queen shows up and is all ‘if you two so much as scratch my building I am going to do TERRIBLE things to you’. 

And they’re both all ‘oh, okay, uh, fine, we can go the other way’ and some awkward conversation ensues while Emma is just rifling through their brains as one does when one is an amoral telepath presented with an opportunity. 

And Emma comes away with two strong impressions, 1) Spider-Man is honourable, kind, stupid and, in fact, Baby, and 2) Otto Octavius is a genius who appears to be Extremely Affordable. So she tracks him down and suggests that they work together and make a shit-ton of money. 

Otto is not, when she lays out the proposition, opposed to making a shit-ton of money while also being concealed from the authorities by a woman with a lot of investable capital and no scruples whatsoever. He can have a nice lab and all the raw materials he wants and Spider-Man will never interfere, hurray! 

After this, Emma keeps an eye on the Stupid Spider-Baby, and now and then shows up to his fights with this or that Thwarted Scientist Supervillain to recruit them. Spider-Man is confused by this but he’s all in favour of their getting a chance to Go Legit and Turn Their Lives Around, so okay, he’ll go along with this. To a point.

Spider-Man: You’re not…. killing them, are you? Or brainwashing them? Because I never see them again after you talk to them and I Have Concerns.

White Queen: They’re in a lovely private research facility in Massechusetts. If you like I can arrange a tour for your alter-ego.

Spider-Man:… my who? 

White Queen: If you ever get tired of working lousy jobs and saving ungrateful people, Peter Parker has real promise. He could work for me instead.

Spider-Man:… I have Even More Concerns.

And then one day Peter gets a letter in the mail from a bank he doesn’t have an account with congratulating him on his new account which has more zeroes than he has ever seen on a bank statement before and he is in mid panic-attack when his phone rings. 

Peter: WHAT

White Queen: Calm down, it’s your cut. 

Peter: CUT OF WHAT

White Queen: You keep finding morally questionable inventors for me. They’re paying off, so here’s your finder’s fee. 

Peter: THAT IS TOO MUCH MONEY YOU ARE TRYING TO BRIBE ME OR SOMETHING

White Queen: It’s five percent.

Peter: …. of what?

White Queen: Of what my private stable of geniuses made for me this quarter.

Peter: …. I do not know how to imagine that much money. 

White Queen: Well, work on that, because next quarter’s profits are going to be higher. 

Peter: NeXT quArTeR?

It is *years* before the Stable Of Amoral Geniuses find out that they’re secretly bankrolling Spider-Man. Peter lives in terror of the IRS finding out that he’s receiving money from supervillains, and gets dragged in by both the Avengers and the Fantastic Four at different times under suspicion of having Somehow Disposed Of assorted supervillains. Fortunately for him, his defense that the White Queen suborned them with money sounds Extremely Plausible.

At some point Jonah finds out that Peter’s getting a quarterly stipend from Frost Enterprises and goes Bananas trying to find out why. Peter comes up with an increasingly desperate series of implausible excuses that make him even more suspicious. Eventually Jonah manages to meet with Emma Frost herself, who looks puzzled and tells him Peter sold a couple of patents.

Jonah: WHY DIDN’T YOU JUST TELL ME YOU SOLD SOMETHING TO THE EVIL WOMAN.

Marvel’s Voices #1 - “A Diamond’s Worth” (2020)

A new series of one-shots will be coming out in February starting will Giant-Size X-Men: Jean Grey & Emma Frost. Each issue will combine Hickman’s captivating storytelling with the iconic art of a different superstar artist to depict grand-scale adventures focused on specific X-Men characters.

The new mutant nation of Krakoa is the place for fresh starts, and Jean and Emma, known for their fierce rivalry, will unite to rescue Storm from danger. 

Powers of X # 3 variant by Bengal

The Emma pick ups from C2E2 darlings. Respectively by:

Gene Ha and Matt Wilson on colors, Aaron Kuder, Bill Walko , Ray Fawkes

Oops, just realized I didn’t post this one after I edited it.