Mommie Dearest
It was a good thing that Helena Cassadine looked fantastic in red. The mad, mad matriarch of the family needed all the help that she could get to camouflage the blood splatter that seemed to follow wherever she went.
Bad Bloodline: The Dark History of General Hospital’s Cassadine Family [PHOTOS]
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The Black Sheep
Image Credit: Craig Sjodin/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection Helena never much cared for her and husband Mikkos’ son, Stefan (Stephen Nichols, now back on Days of Our Lives as Steve). Not only did he have an irritating fondness for Laura Spencer, he suffered from intolerable flashes of conscience.
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The Objects of His Obsession
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI Weirdly, Helena didn’t mind nearly as much that her golden boy Stavros was also fixated on Laura… and then her daughter, Lulu. What can we say? The psycho had a type.
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A Prince Among Men
Image Credit: ABC For years, Helena hoped to lure grandson Nikolas over to the dark side. But the best she could do was convince him to visit it now and then; he was more at home in shades of gray.
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Hits and Mrs.
Image Credit: ABC screenshot If anyone but Ava Jerome had married into the Cassadine clan, we’d be worried about them. But the femme fatale to whom Nikolas was most recently hitched had flings with not one but two serial killers; it was her husband we should’ve been scared for!
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A Chip Off the Ol’ Block
Image Credit: ABC screenshot Like Nikolas, Spencer was born into untold wealth… and a lifetime of therapy. Might as well put Kevin Collins on speed-dial now, kid.
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America’s Most Haunted
Image Credit: Sean Smith/JPI Seeing as Spencer’s mother Courtney Matthews died awfully young — and unlike so many of her Port Charles peers, stayed dead — the boy learned early on to…
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Cry Uncle
Image Credit: ABC screenshot In fact, Courtney’s half brother, halo-clad mafioso Sonny Corinthos, is probably Spencer’s closest confidant. So maybe we should mention that no, Spencer, it is not OK to ask a girl out by saying you’re going to make her an offer she can’t refuse.
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White-Out
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI Remember us mentioning how little Helena liked son Stefan? Well, she liked daughter Irina even less — as proven when she had her murdered in cold blood. Doesn’t anybody just disinherit their kids anymore?
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Happy Valentin’s Day
Image Credit: ABC We were told for ages that Valentin was the scariest of all possible Cassadines; he even sent a chill down Helena’s spine. (Hard to detect, as frosty as she was.) But the more we got to know Nikolas’ “killer,” the more we realized that he was just a hopeless romantic whose hobbies included the occasional kidnapping.
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The Apple of His Eye
Image Credit: ABC screenshot Through a sequence of events so complicated, it made splitting an atom seem like child’s play, Valentin wound up the father of Charlotte — the little girl that Stavros had wanted Lulu to give him.
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Baby Mine?
Image Credit: ABC Valentin thought that he’d added a new branch to the family tree with his and Brook Lynn Quartermaine’s daughter, Bailey. One problem: She wasn’t his daughter. One other problem: She wasn’t even Brook Lynn’s daughter.
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Make Room for Daddy
Image Credit: ABC To Valentin’s horror, he learned in 2021 that his father is Mr. Sheffield from The Nanny Mikkos’ dastardly brother, Victor.
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The Cream of the Crop
Image Credit: John Paschal/JPI As Cassadines go, the best of the best is Alexis Davis. Mikkos’ illegitimate daughter is as troubled as hell, sure. But she’s also the Cassadine least likely to stab you with a letter opener.
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Sam I Am
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI Alexis added to the family album daughter Sam McCall, who in turn had two kids of her own, Danny and Scout. Factoring in SORAS (Soap-Opera Rapid-Aging Syndrome), they should be starting to have children of their own in three, two…
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Getting ‘Mobbed’
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI Alexis’ fling with Port Charles’ dimpled don Sonny resulted in the birth of daughter Kristina — and some inordinately lovely selfies. Why do ours never look like this?
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The Next Generation
Image Credit: Howard Wise/JPI Molly — aka Alexis’ daughter with Sonny’s half brother Ric Lansing — shares her passion for the law. To the point that maybe, just maybe, she won’t follow Mom’s footsteps and serve prison time. Hey, we said “maybe.” Twice, even.
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The New Kid On the Block
Image Credit: ABC screenshot Bizarrely, we have Ryan Chamberlain to thank for the existence of little Ace. The ill-fated madman turned daughter Esme Prince loose on Ava’s then-husband Nikolas, and their one-night stand resulted in a visit from the stork.
