Every new person that comes to town is an enemy of Sonny Corinthos. Unfortunately the last real good enemy Sonny had was Hernando Rivera. Back in the day Sonny cut a deal with Rivera to marry his daughter Lily to get a get out of jail card free, but in the bargain he had to give up his true love Brenda, something Sonny had big problems doing. Sonny was actually afraid and intimidated by Rivera. You could see it in the scene when Rivera told Sonny if he didn’t stay away from Brenda he would kill her. I think to have a really good and believable enemy there has to be a fear factor present. An enemy has to present a threat to you in some way to up the ante. It ups the risk factor in the adversarial relationship between enemies if you feel personally threatened by the other person in some way.

The crop of enemies that came down the pike after Rivera are laughable. From Jax to Alcazar, none of these people intimidated or even scared Sonny and why should they. As enemies, these people came off as big jokes. Alcazar and Ric’s reasons for being out to get Sonny are ridiculous to the extreme. Sonny didn’t off Alky 1, but Alky 2 is supposedly out to get him because he holds him to blame for his brother’s death. Duh, if someone didn’t kill someone than how are they to blame for someone’s death. What makes it even more ludicrous is Alky 2 knows who really killed his brother and he’s not out to get that person. The whole Alky/Sonny got a little better when Alky 2 fell in love with Sonny’s disloyal wife and now he actually has a real reason to be out to get Sonny. He wants Sonny’s wife for himself, but the enemy thing still isn’t working. Enemies are like making love. It’s takes two and the so-called enemy thing is all on one side. Sonny has no reason to hate Alky or to feel the intense passion enemies feel for each other. If they keep building this thing between Sonny/Alky they may eventually emerge as real enemies.

As for Ric, apparently he had a womb with a view not to mention a memory like an elephant, as he remembers how Sonny pushed his pregnant mother down the stairs and had almost killed him. Now he blames Sonny for every imagined wrong in his life. Most times Ric comes off like a sociopathic whiner. He’s done some nasty things to Sonny like Alky has, but Sonny sees him as a weakling and there’s just no threat or risk factor with these two. At this point I don’t think anything could help make them come off as real enemies. It’s just not there.

Sonny also inherited AJ as an enemy from Jason. AJ’s jealousy of the favored brother Jason has always been there. It was ridiculous trying to put it off on Sonny. As for Sonny, like brother Ric, Sonny isn’t the least bit threatened or intimidated by AJ. Sonny treats AJ like an insect Sonny could easily squash if the mood should strike him. And every time these two have gone up against each other, Sonny has won. The enemy has to occasionally win a battle or there’s no reason to feel threatened by them and they pose no threat to you.

But the most ridiculous enemy of all that Sonny was subjected to was the wussy womanizer, Jasper Jacks. Watching this gnat of a character constantly threatening the head of the mob was a bad joke. To say the guy was a lover, not a fighter, was the understatement of the year. And every time there was a scene of Jax getting in Sonny’s face and trying to threaten him, you had to stop yourself from laughing at the ridiculousness of it all. He wasn’t even a threat to Sonny romantically, as most of the women seemed to prefer Sonny over Jax. In the end, Jax was little more than an annoying fly buzzing around Sonny’s face. He was just not the material a true enemy is made of.

(.....to be continued)

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