Five General Hospital characters who deserve coal in their stocking this year

Some of your favorite General Hospital characters have certainly made the naughty list this year with questionable behavior and downright dirty acts. Read on to see who Soap Central has chosen as 2024's Port Charles coal recipients.

Cyrus Renault

Cyrus (Jeff Kober) killed Sam McCall (Kelly Monaco) and probably Dex Heller (Evan Hofer), so enough said. Honestly, anyone who kills a longtime beloved heroine like Sam deserves coal this year and every year for the rest of their fictional life. Cyrus used his bible as a cover and prop as he lurked around GH and Turning Woods up to no good before being right there when Dex was stabbed.

Cyrus started the year as a victim when Sonny (Maurice Benard) beat him to a pulp after learning that he knew the truth about Nina (Cynthia Watros) and her call to the SEC. We wondered if we should feel bad for him, but in the end, he turned out to be exactly who Laura (Genie Francis) always believed he was. There are no more gray areas for this character. He's a bad guy through and through. Coal, meet Cyrus.

Drew Quartermaine

A once fine and upstanding Navy SEAL has been reduced to a self-centered, creepy congressman. Drew (Cameron Mathison) seemed like a sexual predator as he lurked around Willow (Katelyn MacMullen) and seemed to follow her everywhere she went. Having sex with her on the playroom floor on the night his ex-wife died was enough to throw him onto Santa's naughty list for a long, long time.

Drew began his year by physically threatening Nina for her SEC call, but a few months later, he was having hate sex with her on his office floor because apparently Drew has an aversion to beds. Watching him play a stereotypical politician as he paid off people to keep quiet about his sex scandal cemented how far this once kind character has fallen. If Drew still has a stocking on the Q mantle by the time Christmas rolls around, it's going to be very heavy.

Willow Tait

Little Miss Priss showed she wasn't so pure and perfect after all when she proved that once a cheater, always a cheater. People like to forget that at one time, Willow was married to Chase (Josh Swickard) and cheated on him with Michael (Chad Duell), so why should anyone be shocked that she cheated on Michael with his own uncle?

Willow didn't earn any Brownie points when she blamed the people who outed her secrets for her life blowing up rather than blaming herself for her own poor actions. Willow started her year judging Nina for her SEC secret, but maybe if Willow were a little less judgemental, the coal would stay out of her stocking.

Sonny Corinthos

Sonny had a few good years when his softer side came to the forefront while in love with Nina. However, it went downhill just as the year began when he refused to forgive Nina for ratting out Drew and Carly (Laura Wright) to the SEC. Sure, he was unwittingly off his meds, but when he got back on the right mood stabilizers, his behavior didn't improve much.

He killed an unarmed John Cates (Adam Harrington) in cold blood and got away with it, went to war with Ava (Maura West) over Avery (Ava and Grace Scarola) like he has done countless times before, and coddled his crazy daughter and made her feel she could do no wrong. For that, Sonny's Christmas stocking will not have any sweet treats inside.

Kristina Corinthos-Davis

Kristina (Kate Mansi) may have had nothing to do with the infamous SEC debacle, but she still underwent quite a transformation in 2024 — and not a good one. There were few GH characters as delusional and self-absorbed as Kristina in 2024.

After practically forcing Molly (Kristen Vaganos) and TJ (Tajh Bellow) to use her as an egg donor and surrogate, Kristina happily became pregnant with the intention of handing the baby to Molly and TJ once she was born. Then, she changed her mind and didn't see a problem with that.

After falling out of Ava's window and into the pool below cost that baby her life, Kristina showed no regard for Molly and TJ's feelings at all as she whined about "her" baby and insisted on calling her by the name she wanted to give her and not the name Molly and TJ chose for her. Kristina, enjoy that coal.

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