User blog:ARTaylor/35 Years of Kitty Pryde and Emma Frost

January marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of the debut of both Kitty Pryde and Emma Frost. Both first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #129 released in January of 1980. In the issue, Kitty is approached by Frost on behalf of the Hellfire Club and Professor X of the X-Men in the hopes of recruiting the thirteen year-old to their teams. However, Frost's attitude unnerves Kitty and she becomes an X-Man, to eventually be followed by Frost. Both went on to become some of the most popular X-Men characters.

Kitty was first animated for Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends voiced by Sally Julian as Sprite. She was the title character of the failed pilot "Pryde of the X-Men" played by Kath Soucie. Her most significant appearance was by Maggie Blue O'Hara in the series X-Men: Evolution, featuring the first time she was a series' regular character. Kitty's last regular appearance was on Wolverine and the X-Men voiced by Danielle Judovits. A voiceless Kitty made cameo appearances on The Super Hero Squad Show. Most recently, her name appeared briefly on Ultimate Spider-Man.

Emma made her first appearance was as White Queen on "Pryde of the X-Men" voiced by Susan Silo. She made several appearances on X-Men faithfully recreating her role in The Dark Phoenix Saga played by Tracey Moore. Kari Wahlgren made the character's most significant appearance during the run of Wolverine and the X-Men. Currently her last appearance was on Marvel Anime: X-Men played by Kaori Yamagata in Japanese and Ali Hillis in English.