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Marvel.com interviewed Matt Fraction and asked various questions about the X-Men’s role in Dark Reign. Emma Frost is mentioned a few times:

Marvel.com: The first immediate question that comes to mind is that considering Emma Frost’s position on the Cabal, it seems that normally Norman wouldn’t go after the X-Men. So, why now? Obviously, something must have gone down.

Matt Fraction: Yeah. [Laughs] I guess we’ll have to see. Without getting too much into it, it’s a very natural extension. It’s a logical story that comes next. It’s weird because we’re locked in that place where press and solicitations are further ahead than story. So, we’re looking at the narrative like Algebra. There [are] a lot of blanks that need to be filled in. I think where we’re going is going to be a crazy time.

Marvel.com: Who would you say Norman sees as the biggest threat of the X-Men?

Matt Fraction: What if it wasn’t about who but where? What if Norman considered the biggest threat their proximity?

Marvel.com: Their proximity?

Matt Fraction: Did I stutter? [Laughs] You’ve got 200 super-powered people living together in one place. The root of [Norman's] deal with Emma is, “You keep your people out of my business and I’ll keep my people out of your business. You keep mutants quiet and I’ll keep H.A.M.M.E.R. away and won’t come and make you register and go into camps.” Throughout [the crossover]—again I wish I could talk more about it—things happen that irrevocably put Osborn in the X-Men’s business and the X-Men in Osborn’s business. He understands that they had the potential to be a threat and throughout the course of the story, Osborn begins treating them as a military powerbase that has to be dealt with. Imagine an army of 200 disenfranchised, scared, alienated, hated, super-powered lunatics in one place—on American soil, in your country, in your state, in your town. It’s a huge problem when the X-Men become mad and organized. So, rather than looking at any one particular X-Men as being the real power, it’s like the analogy of “you can snap one dry stick across your knee, but if you put a bundle of them together they’re unbreakable.” He’s looking at them as a united army that lives on his turf. So, it’s their collectiveness and their proximity that is primary issue to him.

Marvel.com: We mentioned earlier Emma’s position on the Cabal, but what about the other members? Are we going to see their reactions to all this?

Matt Fraction: Yeah. Believe it or not, we’re very much like the Cylons [from "Battlestar Galactica"]; we have a plan. This is all building and growing toward one nodal point in Marvel history. These will have echoes and reverberations all across Norman’s empire—whether that’s him being the boss of H.A.M.M.E.R., whether that’s him being the schizoid lunatic trying to keep the Green Goblin at check or him being the cornerstone of the Cabal.

» Making the List: Matt Fraction via Marvel.com

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