The third-person shooter Marvel Rivals (PC, PS5, Xbox) is one of the most successful recent games on Steam. The hero shooter features heroes from the Marvel superhero universe. Compared to earlier hero shooters like Overwatch, Marvel Rivals has a wide selection of characters with already 37 playable heroes; the 38th is now attracting particularly much attention. On April 11, with Season 2, the new character Emma Frost will join Marvel Rivals.
This is the new heroine: With Season 2 of Marvel Rivals, the character Emma Frost, known as the White Queen, will arrive.
In the comics and films, Emma Frost is mostly an antagonist of the X-Men, belonging to the Hellfire Club. Even in the comics, she is explicitly sexualized, wearing a white corset that shows a lot of skin and using her effect on men to her advantage.
She is a powerful telepath, a capable close-combat fighter, and can transform herself into an almost unbreakable diamond form.
Fans are excited about Emma Frost’s thighs
This is how she appears in Marvel Rivals: In Marvel Rivals, Emma Frost will be played as Vanguard, as a tank. She will appear as the 38th character in Marvel Rivals with Season 2; later in Season 2, Ultron will become playable.
The discussion around Emma Frost mainly revolves around her character design, less about her skills.
In the film X-Men: First Class (2011), Emma Frost was played by January Jones. Compared to the actress, the character was further sexualized in the video game, and, as many fans notice, made “thicc,” meaning fuller. Especially her thighs are generating a lot of comments:
- “As a power creep, she changes the balance of the whole universe in the leg area.”
- “I can’t decide if I want to play as her or if I want an opposing Emma Frost to crush me between her thighs.”
- “I feel like I can just use her thighs to win and don’t even need her diamond form.”
Is this being discussed critically as well? The only criticism is that Marvel Rivals now has 3 female heroes who are blonde and whose color schemes are based on blue and white.
Besides Emma Frost, Dagger and the Invisible Woman, Sue Storm are also designed this way. There are fears of confusion. At the same time, there is a belief that the designers have similar preferences for women.
This is behind it: This tendency to sexualize female characters in hero shooters was also very strong in Overwatch 2016, where Blizzard planned the game to be especially family-friendly and didn’t actually want that. But fans fantasized about the heroes in Overwatch and created fan fiction. In Marvel Rivals, however, the sexualization of the characters seems to be fully planned, and fan service reaches a new level with Emma Frost: Overwatch: Sex – About Porn, Waifus, and Penis Controllers
