Passionate and living on the edge, Luke Spencer is the most famous character in soap opera history.
Luke came to Port Charles in order to help out his sister Bobbie. She wanted him to break up Scott Baldwin and Laura Webber, as she was in love with Scott herself. The plan failed. Laura married Scott. Luke went to work for a mobster, Frank Smith, and ran the Campus Disco, where Laura worked. The two formed a strong connection.
Frank Smith ordered Luke to kill politician Mitch Williams. Sure that this would lead to his own death, he told Laura he loved her and wanted to be with her. He raped her on the floor of the Campus Disco.
Luke succumbed to pressure and proposed to Frank Smith's daughter Jennifer. On the day of the wedding on a yacht, Scott found a letter from Laura to Luke; in it, she talked about the rape. As Luke and Jennifer stood ready to say 'I do,' Scott came onto the yacht and attacked Luke, who fell overboard. Everyone thought Luke was dead. Laura was on the dock when something grabbed at her leg - it was Luke. The two stole Frank Smith's black book, evidence of his crimes, and left Port Charles. Smith ordered a hit on them.
Though in danger, Luke and Laura enjoyed an idyllic, if chaste, summer moving from place to place. The hit man, Hutch, befriended them, and the three banded together, Luke and Laura not realizing he had been sent by Frank Smith. Smith sent another hit man. Luke was able to crack the black book code and put Frank Smith in jail. On returning to Port Charles, Laura's guilt drove the two apart, although she wanted to marry Luke.
Luke went to work for the Quartermaine family, specifically Alexandra Quartermaine, who wanted him to search for a stone called the Ice Princess. This led to Luke meeting Robert Scorpio, an agent for the World Security Bureau. Luke learned that the Cassadine family was after the Ice Princess, and that Alexandra was working with them. Victor Cassadine obtained the stone, and he and his brother, Tony, took off for their island. Robert and Luke were stowaways on their yacht. They were surprised to find a third stowaway - Laura. The three observed the brothers meeting their other brother, Mikkos Cassadine, in an underground cave. Reuinted, Luke and Laura reveled in the tropical land. Victor's mistress, Tiffany Hill, led them to the cave.
Mikkos' plan was to a formula inside the Ice Princess to create a substance that could alter the world climates. Luke and Robert were able to stop Mikkos, Tony, and Alexandra who all wound up frozen, while Victor went to prison.
Luke and Laura returned to Port Charles and were married after Laura got her divorce. Unbeknownst to them, the matriarch of the Cassadine family, Helena, Mikkos' widow, put a curse on them. A year later, Laura was on the pier in Port Charles and disappeared. A New York City reporter named Jackie Templeton came to Port Charles trying to find her sister. She and Luke discovered that a thief named David Gray was responsible for Laura's disappearance and that of Jackie's sister. Believing David had killed Laura, Luke killed David. In despair, Luke then left town.
While away, Luke met another woman, an English beauty named Holly Sutton. Luke discovered that she was a con artist. After they fought, Luke left. He was injured during an avalanche and believed to be dead by all of Port Charles. When Luke came back to town, he found Holly and Robert Scorpio had married. Later, Luke was elected mayor. While standing on the mayoral mansion balcony, he saw Laura on the grounds and ran to her. She had been kidnapped by Stavros Cassadine and had been a captive in Greece. Stavros tracked Laura to Port Charles, and during a fight with Luke, fell down a flight of stairs and died.
Luke and Laura took off again, on the run from Frank Smith, who still had a hit out on them. They moved to Canada and had a son, Lucky. When an explosion rocked their world, the Spencers returned to Port Charles. Frank Smith was finally killed, and the family settled down. Luke and Sonny Corinthos opened a blues club, and Luke and Laura had another child, a daughter, Lesley. When Lesley needed a bone marrow transplant, Laura revealed that she and Stavros had a son, Nikolas. Nikolas' bone marrow saved Lesley. Realizing the Cassadines were still after Laura, Luke and Laura faked Laura's death and that of her mother, Leslie, and the two went into hiding.
p]Luke learned that Stefan Cassadine had a computer virus that would enable him to take over the world's finances. Lucky was able to stop the virus. Stefan was in a partnership with his sister Alexis, so Luke broke them up by getting dirt on her and then encouraging her to help him ruin Stefan. Alexis, as it turned out, was actually the illegitimate daughter of Mikkos.
Helena Cassadine then arrived in Port Charles, seeing that with Luke, the Cassadines had a formidable enemy on their hands. Because she hated Alexis, Alexis came over to Luke's side against the Cassadines, and the two plotted Helena's murder. Instead, Katherine Bell was killed, falling through the railing that Luke loosened on the parapet.
Stefan was arrested, and Luke worked hard to frame both Stefan and Helena for the murder. Laura, however, had been on the parapet when Katherine fell and knew that Stefan had not pushed her. Laura was devastated that Luke was responsible for Katherine's death and turned her back on him, as he did on her when he learned that she and Stefan had an affair while she was in captivity and that in fact, Nikolas was Stefan's son. Luke again left Port Charles.
When Luke came back to Port Charles, he found that in fact, Katherine was alive, and Laura was seeing Stefan again. The next thing that happened was that Lucky was lost in a fire and presumed dead. Luke had a series of one-nighters, one of which was with Felicia Jones. She was helping Lila Quartermaine to write her memoirs. She and Luke discovered that Lila killer her fiance in self-defense and Edward covered it up. Luke and Felicia never told anyone.
