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General Hospital’s Nina Ought to Start Writing Carly an Especially Effusive Thank-You Note — Here’s Why
Sonny’s former love is doing his current one a huge favor, and she doesn’t even seem to realize it.
Credit where it’s due: General Hospital is moving around its chess pieces brilliantly, in a way that makes sense and that also promises to utterly upend the canvas.
No viewer can be surprised that Carly is keeping from Willow the fact that Nina is her biological mother. It’s a perfect storm. Carly gets to do something that, even if Nina doesn’t know it, hurts her, all the while telling herself that she’s doing it for the right reasons.
Carly’s “Who, me? Lie?” look may need some fine-tuning.
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But obviously, the truth is going to come out, and when it does, the tables will turn in the last way that Carly would ever want. Suddenly, she and not Nina will be Port Charles’ biggest pariah. People will see her as someone so full of hate that she’d keep Michael’s sweetheart from her biomom.
As for Nina, she won’t have to do a damn thing. She can just sit back, pop popcorn and wait. Despite the harsh words that she and Willow have spoken, Nelle’s long-lost sister will ultimately be drawn to the woman who spent the better part of her non-comatose life searching for her. Michael will have no choice but to understand. He won’t like it, but he will. (As the biological son of A.J. Quartermaine, Michael certainly understands what it’s like to have a parent who’s not exactly Mr. Popularity!)
More: Michael’s devastating mistake
“Fun fact: I hate this one so much, it almost makes me like you, Ava. Almost.”
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In the end, Nina will get to keep Sonny, she’ll get to forge a relationship with Willow — and, by extension, play grandma to Wiley — and best of all, savor the spectacle of Carly taking her place as Port Charles’ resident punching bag.
Before the animosity between Nina and Carly gets any more contentious, see where they place on our countdown of soaps’ greatest rivalries in the below photo gallery.
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1/28
<p>What had poor Jenny ever done to snobbish Liza? She’d simply radiated a quantity of decency that teenage dream Greg couldn’t resist.</p>
Image: Jill Johnson/JPI
2/28
<p>Filed under “It goes without saying” is the fact that there was no love lost between Salem’s sweetheart (then Melissa Reeves) and the strumpet who seduced both her son and husband.</p>
Image: CBS/Courtesy of the Everett Collection (2)
3/28
<p>So nasty was Genoa City’s original Mean Girl that she didn’t just go after sweet Traci’s crush Danny, she stole her high-school-yearbook pose, too. Bee-yotch!</p>
Image: Jill Johnson/JPI
4/28
<p>When it comes to feuding — and it inevitably does — these two never choke. Well, unless you mean like this, in which case, yeah, they choke a lot.</p>
Image: Howard Wise/JPI (3)
5/28
<p>If ever you overhear Summer’s tormentor and her mother talking about having drinks and chilling, run for cover — <em>this</em> is what they mean.</p>
Image: CBS/Courtesy of the Everett Collection (2)
6/28
<p>From the moment Josh’s “late” wife rose from the grave, his new missus did everything in her power to make us wish she’d stayed six feet under.</p>
Image: Robert Milazzo/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection, Lisa Rose/JPI
7/28
<p>We couldn’t even risk putting these two together for a photo, not knowing how intense is the animosity stemming from their years of brawling over Bo.</p>
Image: Howard Wise/JPI
8/28
<p>A classic case of “like mothers, like daughters,” the stepsisters have been following in Taylor and Brooke’s footsteps for years, fighting over a guy that they’d <span style="text-decoration: line-through">probably</span> both be better off without!</p>
Image: Ann Limongello/ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection
9/28
<p>What’s that expression on Viki’s face? That’s her realizing that she’d been wrong for years: In fact, she <em>could</em> hate her wicked stepmother more. And at that moment she did.</p>
Image: Aaron Montgomery/JPI
10/28
<p>What the hell — and we <em>do</em> mean hell — did these formidable foes talk about when they found themselves at the same bar at the same time? Nothing much, just… ahem, <em>diss</em> and that.</p>
Image: Jill Johnson/JPI (3)
11/28
<p>Jack and Jennifer’s daughter welcomed to the family her new half sister the only way one really could after the vixen seduced her husband and wrecked her parents’ marriage.</p>
Image: ABC/Courtesy of the Everett Collection
12/28
<p>“Competitive” doesn’t even <em>begin</em> to cover the dynamic between these perpetual romantic rivals. Erica couldn’t so much as let Brooke peek in the mirror without vying for face time!</p>
Image: Sean Smith/JPI
13/28
<p>If looks could kill, Ridge’s most frequent wife would’ve made damn sure that one of those times his favorite ex “died,” she’d <em>stayed</em> dead.</p>
Image: Sean Smith/JPI
14/28
<p>Ever since the redhead became Nick’s “other woman” way back when, she and his first wife have made it their mission to one-shtup each other.</p>
Image: Paul Skipper/JPI
15/28
<p>Like any other sisters, these two probably could have been taught to share. Except that they were both so dang possessive of Austin.</p>
Image: Howard Wise/JPI
16/28
<p>Portraits of determination, Finn’s bride and biological <span style="text-decoration: line-through">monster</span> mother have proven to be as unwilling to lose their war with one another as they are this staring contest.</p>
Image: Sean Smith/JPI
17/28
<p>Know how you can tell that this is a behind-the-scenes shot? On screen, you’d never in a million <em>years</em> catch the hell-on-wheels homewrecker this close to the Cricket that so bugs her. Unless, that is, she’s moving in for a slap.</p>
Image: Howard Wise/JPI
18/28
<p>Thank goodness Jason’s exes eventually buried the hatchet, ’cause you <em>know</em> a feud has gotten out of hand when one of its participants is standing by and letting the other’s child get kidnapped.</p>
Image: Sean Smith/JPI
19/28
<p>Do we have to tell you that Kristen (then Eileen Davidson) didn’t like losing John to his true love, or… What’s that? The picture said all that needs to be said? Yeah, we thought so, too.</p>
Image: Howard Wise/JPI
20/28
<p>Their loathing of one another is so great, flowers wilt in their presence. (Note: The ones behind them in this picture were obviously fake, or they’d be toast.)</p>
Image: Howard Wise/JPI
21/28
<p>And you thought <em>you</em> had a bad relationship with your mother-in-law! (Then again, you probably didn’t marry both of your mother-in-law’s sons as well as her husband. Twice.)</p>
Image: Jill Johnson/JPI
22/28
<p>No wings required: Fur flies anytime Sonny’s moll gets within hissing distance of his babymama. Well, this one in particular. (Sonny has a <em>lot</em> of babymamas.)</p>
Image: Aaron Montgomery/JPI
23/28
<p>As thorny as the frenemies’ relationship tended to be, if either of them ever decided to send the other one flowers, you could bet that this was going to be the means of delivery.</p>
Image: Paul Skipper/JPI
24/28
<p>Something you’ll never hear these two slap-happy nemeses say: Hit me with your best shot. They’ve smacked each other so often, it’s a wonder they still have any cheek left!</p>
Image: ABC screenshot (2)
25/28
<p>After the former let the latter’s daughter plunge to her death, and the latter let the former mourn the “death” of her husband, Webster’s started scrambling for a new, more colorful word for “hatred.”</p>
Image: CBS/Courtesy of the Everett Collection
26/28
<p>So epic were the brawls between the man-stealing baby-swapper and her favorite victim, they took the duo from their original soap all the way to <em>The Bold and the Beautiful.</em></p>
Image: Aaron Montgomery/JPI
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