{"id":2484,"date":"2026-01-03T17:16:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifefe.com\/?p=2484"},"modified":"2026-01-03T17:16:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:16:26","slug":"general-hospital-worst-resurrections-of-all-time-5-characters-fans-wish-stayed-dead-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifefe.com\/?p=2484","title":{"rendered":"General Hospital: Worst Resurrections of All Time \u2013 5 Characters Fans Wish Stayed DEAD Forever!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

General Hospital<\/em>\u00a0brought back characters from the dead that most fans wish had stayed dead and buried. Sometimes a resurrection is bad, not because of the character, but because bringing them back destroys soap history and undoes major storylines. And sometimes they\u2019re just badly written or flat-out ridiculous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 General Hospital: A Tale of Two Jasons<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Number one, the first resurrection I want to talk about made our worst list, not because of the character himself, but because of how\u00a0GH<\/em>\u00a0handled it because it involved an actor transition. This is about the character of\u00a0Jason Morgan\u00a0(Steve Burton). I\u2019m fine with the return that he just made, the most recent one. That\u2019s not what I\u2019m taking issue with. That resurrection when he got crushed in the tunnel, that\u2019s fine. It\u2019s a past return that\u2019s the issue for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jason Morgan\u2019s Return: A Tale of Two Actors and a Controversial Twin Twist<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Steve Burton\u2019s character has come back from the dead a few times. In 2012, Cesar Faison (Anders Hove), while wearing a Duke Lavery (Ian Buchanan) mask, shot Jason in the back and kicked him off the pier, and he was presumed dead. Then two years later in 2014, Billy Miller stepped into the role. He was first introduced as Jake Doe and then later, through a DNA test, was revealed to be Jason Morgan (played by Billy Miller).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Billy Miller was a phenomenal actor, God rest his soul, but fans were initially torn about him. I thought he was wonderful. I was a fan of his from his Young and the Restless days. He was so good over there as well. But then\u00a0Steve Burton decided to\u00a0come back. He had quit\u00a0General Hospital<\/em>\u00a0and had gone over to Young and the Restless for four years and then abruptly decided to come back. They talked him into it. Also, the producer he followed over there, Jill Farren Phelps, was being pushed out at\u00a0Y&R.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steve Burton Returns as Jason Morgan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

So, GH<\/em> brought Burton back as Jason, but then they had this problem. What to do about Billy Miller? That\u2019s when the GH<\/em> writers invented Drew Cain who was Jason\u2019s twin brother. And from that point, Billy Miller was largely back-burnered. He got a lot less screen time. It wasn\u2019t the role he was hired on to play. He wasn\u2019t too happy about it. And his primary scene partner, Kelly Monaco, reportedly was also defending him and pushing back on Frank Valentini for shaking everything up to make room for Burton\u2019s return. It was nothing against him; it was just about who was hired to play what and then shoving people aside to make room for somebody else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Kelly\u2019s mom and Billy Miller\u2019s mom who made posts on social about it, that\u2019s ultimately why GH<\/em> fired Billy and sidelined Kelly. And of course, that is backstage chatter. But both their moms had a lot to say about how the powers that be at General Hospital<\/em><\/a> treated Billy and Kelly. And then they killed off Drew in 2019. Then they recast him with Cameron Mathison. And of course, then Billy Miller took his own life. Very sad. And now Drew is probably the most hated character on General Hospital.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Unnecessary Resurrection of Jake Webber: Undoing a Heartbreaking Storyline<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The second resurrection that made our bad list is Jason\u2019s son,\u00a0Jake Webber\u00a0(Hudson West). It was an unnecessary return from the dead that destroyed some really heartfelt history. Some stunning\u00a0General Hospital<\/em>\u00a0episodes that if you were watching at the time, I know you remember. If you were watching back in 2011, Ron Carlivati wrote this tragic exit. Little Jake Webber (Hudson West) was run down by his granddad, Luke Spencer (Anthony Geary), who was driving drunk. It was terrible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then Josslyn Jacks (Eden McCoy) was little at the time. She was dying from kidney cancer. So, Carly Corinthos Spencer (Laura Wright) went and asked Jason to get Elizabeth Webber (Rebecca Herbst) and Lucky Spencer (Jonathan Jackson), who was raising Jake as his kid, to donate his kidneys to save Josslyn\u2019s life. Well, Liz was grieving and furious. She didn\u2019t want to donate. She was angry that Jason came and asked when he\u2019d never been a dad to Jake. And ultimately, if I remember, Lucky talked Liz into it. And then we watched Jake, little Jake, little adorable Jake die on screen in 2011. I remember bawling my eyes out. It was so tragic. It was so well-written.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jake Webber Resurrected on General Hospital<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

And then four years later, Ron Carlivati\u2019s gone. Shelly Altman and Jean Passanante took over as co-head writers in 2015, and they dug that poor kid out of his grave and invented this alternate history that he had been kidnapped by Helena Cassadine (Constance Towers). And then of course they had to undo the kidney donation to Josslyn and wrote it that Jasper Jacks (Ingo Rademacher) illegally bought a kidney from Nelle Benson\u2019s (Chloe Lanier) dad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was her kidney and she was young and her dad was greedy. It was awful. This resurrection was an icky redo of what had been such an amazingly sad and tragic soap story. It\u2019s nothing against the character of Jake or the actor that plays him, but honestly, I think this resurrection was one of the worst things Shelly and Jean did in their very unpopular tenure as co-head writers of General Hospital.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nathan West\u2019s Pointless General Hospital Return: From Tragic Death to Boring Storyline<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The third resurrection that fans weren\u2019t feeling is one that just happened. That\u2019s\u00a0Nathan West\u00a0(Ryan Paevey) being dragged back from the grave. And of course, I love Ryan Paevey as an actor, but this was another death that was tragic, poignant, and well-written. His wife, Maxie Jones (Kirsten Storms), was pregnant. Nathan was a great guy. Then his horrible bio-dad Faison shot him, not realizing he was killing his own son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nathan came through the\u00a0surgery. He seemed fine. And then he up and died. And Maxie was devastated. It was so sad. Again, I remember crying. Beautifully done, and now has been undone. Which that\u2019s one thing, but then on the flip of that also,\u00a0GH<\/em>\u00a0has done almost nothing with him. Nathan is boring as heck since he came back. In comparison, his sister, Britt Westbourne\u2019s (Kelly Thiebaud), resurrection has been, although improbable as well, much more exciting. I\u2019m hoping\u00a0GH<\/em>\u00a0makes something better of Nathan\u2019s return soon because right now it\u2019s feeling kind of pointless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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General Hospital: Nathan West \u2013 Peter August<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Victor Cassadine\u2019s Implausible GH Comeback: From an Explosive Death to Global Mayhem<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Number four on our worst resurrection list is\u00a0Victor Cassadine\u00a0(Charles Shaughnessy). And again, so improbable. Liesl Obrecht (Kathleen Gati) shot Victor in 2014 when Thaao Penghlis was in the role. Liesl shot him at\u00a0Crichton-Clark,<\/em>\u00a0made sure Victor was dead to keep the secret of Nathan\u2019s paternity. Not only did Liesl shoot him, she left Victor definitely dead. And then knowing that the clinic was going to blow up because he had a bomb with a dead man\u2019s switch. And when he died, the bomb went off. So, Victor was extra super-duper dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that\u2019s why it made no sense when they brought him back from the dead in 2021 with recast actor Charles Shaughnessy. Mind you, I love the actor, and I actually enjoyed Victor\u00a0when he came back, but this was one of those ludicrous things. That was when we also found out Victor was Valentin Cassadine\u2019s (James Patrick Stuart) father. And then after he tried to kill off a whole bunch of the world\u2019s population, the WSB blew up Victor\u2019s boat. He died once again in 2023. We\u2019ll see if he stays dead. This time they did zip him into a body bag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peter August: The All-Time Worst Resurrection of a Toxic Villain<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The fifth, final, and all-time worst resurrection on our list belongs to Faison\u2019s (Anders Hove) toxic, terrible son,\u00a0Peter August\u00a0(Wes Ramsey). I\u2019m not talking about when he died when Anna Devane (Finola Hughes) watched him after Felicia Scorpio (Kristina Wagner) bashed him in the head. I\u2019m talking about when he was bickering with Hamilton Finn (Michael Easton) and he pushed\u00a0Peter down the stairs at\u00a0General Hospital.<\/em>\u00a0Both Liz and Finn checked Peter\u2019s vital signs and agreed that he was dead. That is, a doctor and a nurse checked him and said definitely dead. And then Finn and stashed Peter in a freezer, in a chest freezer. So he was dead from the fall down the stairs and then pushed into a freezer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, when Finn and Liz went to check on Peter, boom, the freezer was empty. Absolutely ridiculous. And now there\u2019s a chance Faison\u2019s worst child may be not so dead again. With Peter\u2019s siblings, Nathan and Britt, back from the dead, and Faison possibly alive, there\u2019s a chance we could get Peter back, too. Even though Anna sat and watched him draw his last breath. But since the WSB took him away, that\u2019s a red flag of future complications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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