Lucas Lorenzo "Lucky" Spencer Jr. and Elizabeth Imogene Webber are fictional characters and a supercouple[1] from the ABC Daytime soap opera, General Hospital.

Lucky Spencer is the son of legendary supercouple, Luke and Laura, played by Anthony Geary and Genie Francis.

The couple reunites and marries in 2005, facing financial struggles, and Lucky becomes a father figure to Elizabeth's son Cameron.

[4] Jackson briefly extended his contract in early 1999, stating to Soap Opera Digest: "Seeing how much the fans are enjoying [the Lucky and Liz relationship], I wanted to do a little more with it before I left.

[14] In November 2000, Young and Herbst guest starred on the FOX network sketch comedy series MADtv, making small cameos as Lucky and Elizabeth.

[23] TV Guide reported that on top of lighter scheduling requests, Jackson had also attempted to negotiate with the network to be repaired with on-screen love interest Herbst, but was denied.

Lucky is so furious with his parents for hiding the truth that he moves out of their home and begins to crash in various places around Port Charles.

However, their physical relationship is slow moving, with Elizabeth coping with her rape, and Lucky dealing with his fear of having similar sexually violent tendencies as his father.

Herbst explained in a 1998 interview that Jackson helped plan the scene, wanting there to be "acknowledgement that they were each crossing a line and it felt comfortable and right.

Nikolas (then Stephen Martines, credited as Coltin Scott) pretends to go back to the Cassadine family in order to learn Helena's plan.

They eventually move in together, and their financial struggles prompt Elizabeth to serve as a surrogate mother for Courtney (Alicia Leigh Willis) and Jasper Jacks (Ingo Rademacher),[32] upsetting Lucky.

Lucky makes a drastic character change away from his previously known quick thinking and street smarts, he is oblivious to Elizabeth's lies of Jake's paternity, and also when Maxie Jones fakes a pregnancy.

TVSource Magazine called Lucky “Port Charles' bumbling police detective who just can't catch a break,”[7] while Entertainment Weekly stated he was “a character who's been written as earnest (he's Johnny Law to his father's rebel) if not the brightest bulb (a girlfriend’s fake pregnancy, Elizabeth’s carrying another man’s child).”[34] Liz and Lucky remarry in March 2007 and Elizabeth gives birth to Jacob Spencer that May.

On the other hand, whenever Lucky was with Elizabeth or Nikolas he was cold and detached, imbuing just enough of Jackson's trademark sincerity (some would say over-earnestness) to knock the two cheatin' hearts off-kilter.

[36]In 2011, head writer at the time Garin Wolf hinted: "Lucky and Elizabeth both have a huge journey in front of them – fun, different paths that they're going to take that no one will see coming.

"[43] In March 2011, Elizabeth is reading a new DNA test that shows Lucky to be Aiden's father when Jake wanders outside and is rendered braindead from a hit and run accident.

Meanwhile, in the aftermath of Jake's death, Elizabeth does not tell Lucky about Aiden's paternity, especially after she sees him happy with Siobhan McKenna (Erin Chambers) at the ceremony of their green card marriage.

After an unsuccessful trip to bring Luke home, Lucky sets the Spencer house on fire and accidentally injures Siobhan.

In the aftermath of Jake's death, Jackson responded to inquiries of a reunion between Lucky and Elizabeth: I have no idea in terms of where the show is going with that, but from my little subjective corner, I think that's absolutely a possibility.

[51][52] The slow progression made viewers feel the relationship was honest and innocent, something unique among soap opera couples at the time.

[30] The gradual pacing continued when the couple decided to wait to have sex, shortly before Lucky is presumed dead in April 1999 and off-screen for close to a year.

Herbst and Jackson’s popularity continued after his departure; that July they were still voted number one actor, actress and couple by fans of Soaps In Depth.

[62] Soap Opera Magazine named Herbst Star of the Week in October 1998 when Elizabeth confronted her teacher, mistakenly believing him to be her rapist.

Executive producer at the time Wendy Riche explained her intent on showing the decisions about sex that teenagers are faced with, such as whether or not they are ready and using protection.

Head writer at the time Robert Guza, Jr. explained to Soap Opera Weekly: "They are young people, but they are old beyond their age – very wise souls.

We didn't need to do anything special.” When Jackson returned to the series in 2009, he stated the chemistry with Herbst was still there[57] and thought it would help with whichever direction their storyline went.

[7][71][72][73] Abby West from Entertainment Weekly commented that Jackson and Herbst still had an easy rapport, but wondered if the couple's chemistry would translate to the characters as adults.

7 Worst Soap Couple of 2009, stating: "The return of Jonathan Jackson as the original Lucky (...) has only made this ridiculous affair even more unbearable.

In 1999, both Jackson and Herbst won Soap Opera Digest Awards for Outstanding Young Lead Actor and Actress, respectively.

[88] In March 2011, TV Guide's Nelson Branco proclaimed Lucky and Liz as one of the only remaining supercouples on General Hospital.