The Last Great Adventure: Why General Hospital Must Honor Robert Scorpio With a Hero’s Farewell

With the passing of Tristan Rogers, General Hospital has lost not just an actor but one of its core characters. For decades, Robert Scorpio defined what it meant to be a soap hero: suave, unflinching, fiercely loyal, and utterly fearless in the face of danger. He wasn’t just a character; he was an era. But with the devastating death of Tristan Rogers, the question looms: how does GH honor Robert in a way that feels true to his spirit? The answer may lie in rewriting a painful wrong — Luke Spencer’s (Anthony Geary) underwhelming off-screen “death.”

Robert Would Never Accept Luke’s Ending

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General Hospital fans have long been outraged at Luke’s so-called exit: a vague cable car crash in Amsterdam, resolved in dialogue and stripped of the spectacle and gravity the character deserved. That was never Luke’s style — and it certainly wasn’t Robert’s. Robert Scorpio, the ultimate WSB agent and police commissioner, would have never bought such a flimsy story.

Picture it: before settling into a quiet life in Europe with Holly (Emma Samms), and later joined by their daughter, Sasha (Sofia Mattsson), and her baby, Daisy, Robert digs deeper. His instincts scream that Luke’s “accident” wasn’t an accident at all. And of course, he’s right. He had helped Holly deal with her dangerous debts, and so was able to focus on what happened to his best friend. But the bad guys in this would need to be equally legendary. (Check out how Rogers’ castmates paid tribute to him.)

A Villain Worth Their Legends

To elevate this story, it demands a villain of mythic proportions. Cesar Faison (Anders Hove), soap’s eternal boogeyman, could easily be revealed as the mastermind still pulling strings from beyond the grave. While we saw for a fact that he was dead on screen, for Faison, death isn’t the handicap it used to be. Or perhaps remnants of Peter August’s network kept Luke captive, his disappearance part of a larger scheme that ties directly into Britt’s mysterious “boss.” Let’s not forget that Victor Cassadine (ex-Charles Shaughnessy) spoke on the phone to someone, telling them that Luke had been neutralized.

In classic soap fashion, the details almost matter less than the showdown: Robert and Luke, side-by-side once more, forced into one final battle against the darkness that has haunted them for decades. Imagine the poetry: Robert discovers Luke alive, battered but not broken, and together the old friends embark on one last mission. They don’t fade away. They fight, and they win -- but at the ultimate cost. The men who once saved the world time and again die as heroes, not relics.

Their sacrifice would reverberate through Port Charles. Sadly, we would only be able to hear about it. Perhaps Holly and Sasha could return home bearing Robert’s story. Or Britt (Kelly Thiebaud) could reveal to Josslyn (Eden McCoy) and Vaughn (Bryce Durfee) what the two men uncovered, tying Robert and Luke’s deaths to the younger generation’s mission against Professor Dalton (Daniel Goddard). Either way, their legend would live on.

Robert Scorpio and Luke Spencer aren’t just characters; they’re cornerstones of General Hospital history. Tristan Rogers deserves for Robert to be remembered with the same fire and fight he carried onscreen for decades. And Anthony Geary’s Luke deserves better than a one-line cable car write-off. Let them go out the only way they should: together, in the last great adventure. Two heroes of another era, roaring into history, leaving behind a legacy of bravery that no villain could ever extinguish.

General Hospital can be seen weekdays on ABC and Hulu.

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