| Johnny Zacchara | |||||||||||
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| Brandon Barash as Johnny Zacchara | |||||||||||
| General Hospital | |||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Brandon Barash | ||||||||||
| Duration | 2007-present | ||||||||||
| First appearance | September 18, 2007 | ||||||||||
| Created by | Robert Guza Jr. | ||||||||||
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| Gender | Male | ||||||||||
| Occupation | Mob Boss Owner of Vaughn's[1] |
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| Residence | Zacchara Apt. Port Charles, New York |
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John "Johnny" Anthony Zacchara is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera General Hospital and the contract role has been portrayed Brandon Barash since 18 September 2007. Within the series, he is known as the son of mobster Anthony Zacchara.
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Johnny Zacchara arrives in Port Charles and meets Lulu Spencer and the two begin a flirtatitious relationship.[2] His guardian is his father's lawyer, Trevor Lansing, who covered up the fact that Johnny's father Anthony murdered his mother Maria because Anthony was jealous of the bond between mother and son. Although Lulu's friends disapprove, they continued to see each other, and Johnny proved his love for her when he protected her against his father at the Black and White Ball.[3]
After Anthony is paralyzed, Johnny takes the throne of the Zacchara empire, until Trevor calls upon Johnny's sister Claudia[4] to town, and the siblings join forces and fight Sonny Corinthos's organization, which leads to Lulu being caught in dangerous situations.[4][5]
Lulu breaks up with Logan and hooks up with Johnny,[5] despite Claudia's disapproval. As friction develops between the two organizations, Johnny and Claudia arrange for Sonny to be shot but Sonny's son, Michael, is shot in the crossfire, leading the siblings to cover up the botched hit.[6]
Johnny and Claudia lose hold of the empire when their father returns from his incarceration in an asylum. Soon after, Lulu kills Logan in self-defense and Johnny and Maxie cover it up as Johnny tells Claudia it was him who killed Logan. When put on trial, Johnny is threatened with the death penalty, and Claudia perjured herself on the stand, resulting in Johnny's acquittal.[7]
Although Lulu is put in a mental health facility, the couple continue to bond but Johnny continually "treats her like a fragile piece of glass", a perspective that led to ending their relationship.[8] Although Claudia marries Sonny as a business deal that Johnny disapproves, he soon learns that she is pregnant with Sonny's son and that as long as she is, Sonny can't hurt her if he learns of her involvement in Michael's shooting. As retaliation for Claudia marrying Sonny, he dates Sonny's friend and ex, Olivia Falconeri, despite Claudia and Sonny's disapproval. After leaving the mob once, he returns to the Corinthos organization as a favor for Claudia. The chemistry he shared with Olivia proved to be genuine and he fell passionately in love with her, despite objections from Sonny and Claudia. When Michael Corinthos kills Claudia to save his newborn sister, Johnny believes Sonny is the person who killed her. He also discovers Olivia's son Dante Falconeri is an undercover cop posing as Dominic Perelli, a member of Sonny's criminal organization. Johnny also learns that Sonny is Dante's father, and when Sonny shoots Dante, Johnny helps comfort Olivia while he recovers.
When Sonny is on trial for the murder of Johnny's sister Claudia, Sonny's wife. Johnny is brought to the stand by Federal Prosecutor Claire Walsh, in order to push Sonny's buttons. Claire Walsh uses Johnny in order to get a rise out of Sonny in court in order to show his abusive side. Johnny testifies to Sonny's continual verbal abuse towards Claudia, and the terrible events of the night of her death. He goes on to explain that he found bruises all over Claudia because of Sonny, and that Claudia was constantly in fear of him. Sonny then blows up calling Claudia terrible, despicable names and he and Johnny scream at each other. Unknown to everyone in the courtroom, Kristina Davis (Sonny's daughter) was sitting in the back of the courtroom listening to everything. After Sonny is found not guilty when Michael is brought forth by his brother Detective Dante Falconeri, Johnny begins his rampage on Sonny's organization; stealing his allies, his shipments and his money in order to provoke him and torture him for what he did to Claudia.
When Michael Corinthos is sentenced to five years in jail for the murder of Johnny's sister Claudia, Kristina Davis (Michael's sister) starts to harbor great resentment for the part her father Sonny played in his conviction. So, Kristina concocts a plan to get Johnny and her to pretend as though they are going out and are sexually intimate in order to torment her father. Johnny initially refuses to do so, but ultimately gives in when Kristina continues to push the issue, seeing it as an opportunity to get revenge on Sonny for what he did to Claudia. However, Johnny soon realizes that Kristina is taking things too far, and on July 2, she sneaks out during a family dinner at Sonny's, planning to spend the night with Johnny to drive the final nail in Sonny's coffin. Johnny has finally had enough and manages to convince Kristina to end the charade, telling her that he believes that she doesn't hate Sonny as much as she says she does and that she is making the same mistakes Claudia did to win his own father's affection. However, just as Johnny is about to take Kristina home, the two are caught in a car bomb planted by Max and Milo on Sonny's orders; fortunately, both survive with minimal injuries, and Johnny vows never to see Kristina again under these pretenses.
On August 27, 2010, Sonny shoots Johnny in self-defense, but Detective Ronnie Dimestico hides Johnny's gun to make it appear as though Sonny had tried to kill him. However, Jason and Dante find proof that Johnny was attacking Sonny. On September 14, 2010, Sonny and Johnny finally proctor a peace agreement.
On December 3, 2010, Johnny shoots someone working for Jerry Jacks, before being shot by Jason. He has Ethan get Lisa Niles to save him. Johnny blackmails Lisa with the syringe she used to try to kill Robin so that she will help him with his gunshot wounds. On January 26, 2011 Johnny is beat up by Sean Butler, one of The Balkan's mercenaries. He is found by Lulu and she take him to his apartment. On February 21, Johnny and Lisa had sex in his apartment for the first time.
Eventually, fed up with Robin and Lisa's constant squabbling over the syringe, Johnny calls them both to his apartment and arranges a scavenger hunt for it. When Lisa's search nearly causes her to lose her job at General Hospital and delays her greatly, she turns to Johnny for help. Johnny, however, reveals that it wasn't really about the syringe, but to try to get her to finally get over her obsession with Patrick and move on with her life. When Patrick finds out about this, he insists to Johnny that Lisa is too far gone to be helped and just as deranged as Claudia.
On April 22, 2011 Johnny finds his father Anthony Zacchara out of prison and living in his apartment. In May 2011 Johnny helps Michael Corinthos and his girlfriend Abby Haver find the hitwoman his father ordered to kill Abby's ex-boyfriend Brandon. On June 9, 2011 Johnny agrees to help Lisa (who is on the run for the attempted murder of Robin Drake) get out of the country to start her life over. Johnny later learns that Lisa has taken people hostage at the hospital and learns his father Anthony Zacchara help her to do so.
Johnny has also struck up a friendship with Sonny's daughter Kristina Corinthos Davis. Sonny thinks that Johnny is using her to get to him, which was Johnny's original intention. But he has grown to care for her as a friend and has dropped his plans to harm her. He has also begun pushing Ethan Lovett to admit that he has feelings for her. He still taunts Sonny whenever he catches them together which has caused Sonny to pull a gun on him and almost kill him until Olivia intervenes. In November 2011 Johnny begins to flirt with PCPD detective Delores who is investigating the murder of lisa niles. Johnny and Anthony argue over claudia on the anniversary of her murder.