General Hospital’s Big Jason Problem Looks Like It’s About to Be Solved: Here’s How (2024)

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1/14

<p>Even before the Port Charles teenager started hitting the dumbbells extra hard for his future job as literal muscle for the Mafia, he did his damnedest to appeal to the fairer sex by not just wearing his heart on his sleeve, but not wearing any sleeves at all. Sometimes not even a shirt. If that doesn’t scream “Open for business!” what does?</p>

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2/14

<p>Puppy love bit young Jason hard when he fell for his high-school classmate. Back then, though, the aspiring beefcake just couldn’t knock out the competition, boxer Jagger Cates (then Antonio Sabáto Jr.). Not that she seemed to make much of an impression on one of her leading men. (<a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/general-hospital/news/716688/antonio-sabato-jr-book-screws-up-jagger-history/" target="_blank">Read his incredibly vague recollection of her here.</a>)</p>

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3/14

<p>The grandchildren of Lila Quartermaine and Mary Mae Ward made the sweetest couple; Keesha was even willing to overlook her boyfriend’s fondness for denim on denim. But then, something even worse than buttons happened: A devastating car accident left Jason with no memory of his honey or, for that matter, his relatives. (He probably could have used our photo gallery of the Quartermaines’ family tree; <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/gallery/general-hospital-quartermaine-family-how-related-photos/" target="_blank">you can check it out here</a>.)</p>

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4/14

<p>The newly christened Jason Morgan found it terribly difficult to open up to anyone, perhaps owing to the new constraints that came with his suddenly ever-present tiny black T-shirts and Fonzie jacket. The one person who <em>could</em> get through to him? His former high-school classmate. But as he was falling for Robin, he was also sleeping with…</p>

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5/14

<p>Despite the lovers’ compatibly taut tummies, Jason eventually cut the ties of his no-strings affair with the new troublemaker in Port Charles (then Sarah Joy Brown). However, they remained dedicated BFFs and, presumably, workout buddies; those abs <em>never</em> got any flab!</p>

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6/14

<p>Following the “death” of her true love, Lucky Spencer, the future nurse sought comfort in Jason’s increasingly beefy arms. She even got him to wear something besides black now and then. Alas, they wound up being added to our list of <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/soaps/news/643054/new-daytime-soap-couples-teased-but-never-got-together/" target="_blank">couples that we were promised but never really got</a> when she lost him to boss man Sonny Corinthos’ half sister…</p>

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7/14

<p>As would happen in so many of Jason’s relationships — lather, rinse, defeat — his marriage to Courtney crumbled when she realized that “till death do us part” meant something very different to a Mafia hitman than it did to, say, a plumber. After that, all she could do was look back at bygone days. (As illustrated.)</p>

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8/14

<p>Don’t get it twisted. Jason’s marriage to <em>this</em> one of Sonny’s old flames wasn’t born of love but necessity. The onetime school chums tied the knot only so that they wouldn’t have to testify against one another. (Although <a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/general-hospital/news/585055/general-hospital-vanessa-marcil-reaction-brenda-jason-hookup/" target="_blank">Vanessa Marcil had this to say about the future</a>.)</p>

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9/14

<p>There was no love lost between Jason and Sonny’s Mob rival, a femme fatale who really emphasized the “fatale” part of the term. Still, she couldn’t resist taking advantage of the enforcer and stealing a kiss while he was too drugged to refuse.</p>

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10/14

<p>So <em>this</em> is what friends are for! To safeguard Sonny’s reunion with on-again/off-again wife Carly, Jason pretended to be his ex-mistress’ babydaddy. Little did he suspect at the time that the reformed con artist would steal his heart and take him for the ride of his life. Or vice versa; technically, he was driving.</p>

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11/14

<p>OK, so the Jason to whom Liz’s scheming sister briefly pretended to be hitched was really his twin brother, Drew Cain. Once Jason is back among the living, <em>very</em> interesting things could develop between him and Violet’s mom. And where the heck <em>is</em> Hayden, anyway? (<a href="https://soaps.sheknows.com/general-hospital/news/660106/is-general-hospital-rebecca-budig-returning-as-hayden/" target="_blank">Rebecca Budig’s thoughts here.</a>)</p>

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12/14

<p>Sonny’s “death” necessitated that his “widow” and right-hand man exchange vows in order to prove to the Five Families that they were invincible. Or something. But what began as a marriage of convenience became something much more as old feelings soon surfaced between the ex-lovers and longtime pals. In fact, they were just about to consummate their relationship when — d’oh! —Sonny showed up with an inconvenient pulse.</p>

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13/14

<p>Though Sonny’s return from the dead cut short Jason’s reunion with Carly, he had never been one to let sheets go untangled. So he soon distracted himself from his heartache with the doctor who’d once stolen Patrick Drake away from Robin. What? By then, she was reformed.</p>

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14/14

<p>When Jason rises from the grave, he’ll find Britt pushing up daisies, Carly boo’d up with Drew, Sam happily cohabitating with Dante Falconeri and Liz playing doctor with Hamilton Finn. What’s a lustful Lazarus to do? Our money’s on a tryst with Sonny’s babymama Ava, with whom he became acquainted during his stint as Patient Six. And hey, if he isn’t gonna hook up with his bestie’s exes, who in Port Charles <em>is</em> he gonna hook up with?</p>