Introductions to one’s heretofore-unknown son don’t get much worse than this. Mob boss Sonny Corinthos didn’t find out from old flame Olivia Falconeri that Dante was their secret love child until — d’oh! — after he’d shot the undercover cop in cold blood. That Dante lived isn’t half as surprising as the fact that his and Sonny’s relationship did.
The joke was on Felicia Forrester when she threw mud at dad Eric Forrester’s new love Donna Logan in hopes of splitting them up. Eric was so unfazed by the fact that new Forrester Creations employee Marcus Walton was his honey’s long-lost child, he adopted the young man. What actually did in Eric and Donna’s romance at the time were the feelings that resurfaced when her high-school sweetheart Justin Barber learned that he’d been a father all these years.
Nina Webster had known for years that she had a son out there — he’d been taken from her as a newborn by Rose DeVille’s baby-snatching ring. Yet it didn’t occur to her at first that Ronan Malloy, the Genoa City PD detective who was giving such a hard time to the grown child she still had (Chance Chancellor), could be the kid she’d delivered when she herself was just a kid.
Raised as the son of stand-up guy Shawn Brady, Bo was understandably horrified to find out that he was actually the result of mom Caroline’s love affair with mustache-twirling villain Victor Kiriakis. And, as if the mobster’s many crimes weren’t bad enough, he had the gall to not only propose to but marry his newfound son’s girlfriend, Carly Manning. Needless to say, his Father’s Day card that year was… nonexistent.
By the time Megan Gordon was issued an all-white wardrobe and ushered into the hereafter, she and mom Viki Buchanan were as close as close could be. But before they learned of their connection, sheesh! The prim First Lady of Llanview had no patience whatsoever for the entitled soap diva, whom she’d conceived with childhood honey Roger Gordon while trapped in the underground city of Eterna. What? It could happen.
After waking up from her years-long coma, Nina Reeves thought that she’d missed her chance to be a mother since long-lost daughter Nelle Benson went over the edge — both figuratively and of a cliff — before they ever learned of their blood tie. But lo and behold, Nelle had had a twin, Willow Tait. Silas Clay’s widow could exercise her maternal instincts after all… if she could just turn down the intensity of the young woman’s hatred of her.
“Surprise!” Stephanie Forrester somehow resisted saying to college sweetheart Massimo Marone when the truth came out that, at least biologically speaking, he was the father of her and on-again/off-again husband Eric’s son Ridge (then Ronn Moss). Although if the plot point is ever brought up again, somebody still oughta say “Surprise!” because it’s been mentioned so little in recent years, by now it’s all but forgotten.
Nikki Reed had assumed that what happened in the cult stayed in the cult. How wrong she was. Decades after she and sometime boo Paul Williams “aligned their chakras” as part of Ian Ward’s hella-shady New World Commune, the former lovers came face to face with a living, breathing reminder of their impetuous youth: Dylan McAvoy, the son to whom Nikki had forgotten ever giving birth.
Sold on the black market before he was even a day old, Tripp Dalton wouldn’t be introduced to his biological father Steve Johnson until he was a teenage dream. But Tripp was in for as big a jolt as his pop when he learned that Steve was responsible for the death of mom Ava Vitali. It was a whole thing initially — and a pointless one, too, since half brother Joey had actually killed Ava, and she’d never really been dead in the first place.
Having already been stunned to discover that both Karen Wexler and Logan Hayes were his children, Scotty Baldwin probably should have just shrugged upon learning that his fling with homicidal maniac Heather Webber had also produced a “souvenir.” But since the kid in question was infamous serial killer Franco, we suppose Pop could be forgiven for wondering whether he was being punked. Side note: There are gentler ways to obtain hair for a paternity test, Scotty.
Bill Spencer wasn’t always a lone wolf, he just thought that he was. In short order, the playboy learned that past relationships with Kelly Hopkins and Quinn Fuller had made him a father twice over. Mind you, it took him a heckuva lot longer to forge any kind of bond with Liam and Wyatt, the sons he hadn’t known that he had — and who weren’t remotely sure that they wanted to hang branches on his family tree!
“Who’s your daddy?” was a question that David Vickers often found himself asking. And the answers were always such jaw-droppers that he really should’ve started wearing a chinstrap. First, he was taken aback to discover that his father was late tycoon Asa Buchanan. Then, he was sent reeling — along with his actual dad — by the revelation that Asa’s son Bo was the fella who was decades late to be passing out cigars.
When is a one-night stand not just a one-night stand? When decades after it, you wind up with a family the way that Julian Jerome did. His tryst with Alexis Davis resulted in the birth of Sam McCall, a badass that he wouldn’t get to know, much less know existed, until she was grown. He didn’t make a great first impression, either, what with using the bone marrow that grandson Danny needed as a bargaining chip to keep Sonny Corinthos from sending him swimming with the fishes.
Taking a bite out of the Big Apple, power monger Hollis Kirkland III thought that there couldn’t be a bigger shock in store than his reunion with lost love Rae Woodard… until, that is, he discovered that their long-ago romance had created more than bittersweet memories, it had also brought into the world troublemaking daughter Kimberly Harris. True to form, she wasted no time wrapping Daddy Dearest around her little finger.
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before. During a period when Reva Shayne had amnesia and believed that she was Princess Catherine of San Cristobel, she gave away her newborn to keep him from being killed by his uncle. Years later, Jonathan Randall blazed a trail to Springfield, seduced his cousin and delighted in telling Reva that he’d done so just to hurt his mother. In other words, her.
No one could blame Erica Kane for blocking out the memory of her rape by Richard Fields and subsequent pregnancy. But the trouble with her having done so was that it set her up for even more heartache later. Once Kendall Hart found out that her biomom was her childhood idol, she insinuated herself into Erica’s life but became so jealous of the attention that the supermodel lavished on daughter Bianca that she acted out as horrifically as… Well, as Erica herself had with her own mother, Mona!
When teenage hooker Bobbie Spencer gave up her baby for adoption, the last thing that she ever expected was for the child to grow up to be Carly Benson, a vindictive wrecking ball so hell-bent on sticking it to Mom that she’d seduce her stepfather. So of course that was exactly the thing that happened. As a result, it would take a lot of years — and tears — before Bobbie and Carly would be as close as they are today.
The lesson here is keep your friends close and your eggs closer, we suppose. Daniel Jonas was a full-grown doctor person by the time he was introduced to Maggie Horton, whose eggs — hey, this is no yolk! — had been stolen to conceive him. Luckily, since he was nice and she was even nicer, they formed family ties in about as little time as it took you to read this caption. Maybe less.
Considering that Victoria Lord had traveled back in time, visited the afterlife and forgotten giving birth to one child (Megan Gordon), she probably should’ve dialed down her reaction to the news that when daughter Jessica Buchanan was born, twin sister Natalie Balsom had popped out, too. That was, after all, just the kinda thing that happened to people who had the misfortune of knowing cult leader Mitch Laurence.
We could understand sneaky Cody Bell needing a minute to process the fact that his dad is straight-arrow Mac Scorpio. (Guess that’s one apple that fell pretty far from the tree, eh?) But to keep that information from the old man for any more than a minute? That does not compute. Who doesn’t want a dad like Mac, aka the nicest guy in Port Charles or pretty much any soap town!
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