History Awesome / SonsOfAnarchy

* Meta: The original song "Lullaby for a Soldier" went on to so much acclaim that it was eventually used in the official trailer for ''Film/AlitaBattleAngel'' in 2018. Which is even more impressive when you know that Maggie Siff is ''not'' a professional singer, and that was the first song that she ever recorded professionally. Not many performers get to see their very first song used in a major Hollywood movie.

* [[spoiler: Gemma's confession of her rape to Jax and Clay in "Balm".]] Also qualifies as {{Tearjerker}}.

* [[spoiler: Tara's beatdown, physical and psychological of Margaret Murphy in "The Culling".]]

* Gemma and Fiona versus [[spoiler: Jimmy]] in the kitchen.

[[spoiler: Or so it seems. As soon as Stahl drives off with Jimmy, Unser tricks her into stopping on the side of the road by claiming that there's an IRA ambush waiting for her. Minutes later, Piney, Opie and Chibs--the only club members who ''weren't'' arrested for the church shooting--arrive in a school bus. [[LaserGuidedKarma Opie kills Stahl in exactly the same way Donna was killed, Chibs gives Jimmy a "Glasgow Grin" to match his own before slitting his throat]], and Piney tears up Jax's statement of cooperation.]] As Ratboy and Filthy Phil follow the boys in the paddy wagon, they begin honking their horns at them to signal that their plan succeeded, and the Sons all burst out laughing. [[spoiler: [[UnspokenPlanGuarantee Turns out that their anger was just an act, and they were all in on Jax's plan.]] They got their sentences reduced, Jax doesn't have to testify to the Feds, and they got their revenge against the two people who hurt them the most]]. '''''[[WhamEpisode Damn.]]'''''

* Creator/KateySagal's cover of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDSx3XXDonE Strange Fruit]]. Ye GADS. SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic and NightmareFuel all in one (the song is about lynching, and is played over [[spoiler: Juice's attempt to commit suicide by hanging for fear of being found out as half-black.]]).

* [[spoiler: Jax double-crossing [[TheChessmaster Pope]], saving Tig, and setting up Clay as the fall guy.]]

* [[spoiler: Otto killing Toric. He didn't see it coming.]]
* Clay, Gemma, Zobelle, Potter...all master manipulators. And Tara manages to pull off perhaps the greatest and most devastating move in the entire show by [[spoiler:faking her pregnancy and miscarriage.]]

* The Sons [[spoiler: voting to get out of the gun trade.]] Particularly Jax's speech and the Sons showing their support. Good job kid, you're one step closer to fulfilling your old man's legacy.

** Jax's running to save Abel before [[spoiler: Teller-Marrow gets blown to hell.]]

* Seeing Tig still alive after getting [[spoiler: sold out by Jax]]. Be honest - you rejoiced when you saw it too.

* Jax luring [[spoiler: Galen]] into a meeting and killing him.
* In Los Fantasmas (Season 6) when [[spoiler: one of the school shooting victim's father]] tries to run down the Sons and Nero's gang, Juice holds his ground as the car barely veers past him without even flinching. Easy to forget that this is the same guy who was [[Funny/SonsofAnarchy left unconscious wearing a diaper with a sign stapled to his chest in the middle in Charming back in season one.]]

* The final episode where Jax ties up loose ends on his way out of the club. He kills [[spoiler: August and Barosky]] before leading the police on an epic chase, where he comes across the trucker who helped Gemma. Not only was it an epic way to go, [[spoiler: dying in a blaze of glory that would make him remembered forever,]] but shows what a MagnificentBastard he is in that such infamy would deter his sons from following in his footsteps.
** The way Jax killed [[spoiler: August]] was particularly awesome. [[spoiler: He sat on the steps of the courthouse draped under the blanket given to him by the homeless woman, looking very much like the Grim Reaper, before he cast off the blanket and shot August to death.]]

* The Sons, the Aryans and Tyler setting up an ambush for August Mark's second-in-command Moses and his hit-squad at a compound, first Tyler kills the lone soldier guarding Rat and TO, then Moses has his men clear out the house and when one of them opens the door to an RV it turns out to be booby-trapped with a bomb and then everyone emerges from the cellar and from the roof and blasts Marks and his soldiers to holy hell, to top it off before killing Moses Jax mutilates him in the exact same way that Moses [[spoiler:mutilated Bobby before killing him]].
* Juice killing [[spoiler:Lin]] in cold blood after extracting a confession from him and promising he would live.

* [[spoiler: Otto killing Toric. [[FamousLastWords He didn't see it coming.]]]]

* Katey Sagal's cover of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDSx3XXDonE Strange Fruit]]. Ye GADS. SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic and NightmareFuel all in one (the song is about lynching, and is played over [[spoiler: Juice's attempt to commit suicide by hanging for fear of being found out as half-black.]]).

* Juice killing[[spoiler:Lin]] in cold blood after extracting a confession from him and promising he would live.

* Tara gets a pretty awesome moment in "Fix". Towards the end of the episode, she gets humiliated by a pornstar named Irma after she tries to walk into a private party at Caracara to talk to Jax, only for Irma to refuse to let her in--[[DramaticIrony insisting that Jax Teller can't be bothered to talk to her]]. A distraught Tara walks into the bathroom to collect herself, and Jax goes into the bathroom to comfort her when he finds out that she came to see him. One thing leads to another, and the two of them end up having loud, rough sex against a wall. A few minutes later, Irma walks into the bathroom to find ''the owner of the studio'' passionately making love to the woman whom she'd just told to take a hike. [[CoitusUninterruptus Jax doesn't hear her come in, and keeps going right at it.]] But Tara makes eye contact with her and grins maliciously, as if to say ''"How do you like me now, bitch?"''

* Katey Sagal's cover of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDSx3XXDonE Strange Fruit]]. Ye GADS. CrowningMusicOfAwesome and NightmareFuel all in one (the song is about lynching, and is played over [[spoiler: Juice's attempt to commit suicide by hanging for fear of being found out as half-black.]]).

* The Season 3 finale, particularly when Chibs gets revenge on Jimmy and Opie gets revenge on Stahl.

* Pictured above, SAMTAZ's crafty way of losing the tail by blowing up a grease truck.

[[caption-width-right:280:''"That's how we do it down in Mexizona, Mr. Crow!"'']]

* [[spoiler: Gemma's confession of her rape to Jax and Clay.]] Also qualifies as {{Tearjerker}}

* [[spoiler: Tara's beatdown, physical and psychological of the administrator]]

* Ally Walker (the actress playing Agent Stahl) gets one in season 2. Jax taunts her by asking about fellow agent Kohn (whom he has murdered) "Ever hear from Kohn? ({{Beat}}) Dangerous being a fed." Her facial expression is completely unchanged, the only thing revealing her recognition and seething rage is the subtlest of facial tics.
* Gemma literally not even flinching as she's dropped into an ice bath while faking a fever in season 3.

* Lincoln Potter walks into a session of the city council and dumps a bag full of sex toys and porn on the table to illustrate where exactly Jacob Hale is getting the funding for his new housing development. He then points out that one of the sex dolls manufactured by Hale's Japanese backers is that of a child and sold to pedophiles.
* The season two finale would definitely qualify. As all around megalomaniacal super villain Ethan Zobelle begins his escape guarded by several unfriendly looking Mayans, The Sons are seen off by their respective women. On the highway, they meet up for what looks to be a motorcycle mounted very blood battle. Suddenly, Zobelle notices a passing truck with Unser printed very clearly on the back hatch. Qualifying as one of the most epic Oh Shit moments in television, the back hatch flies open and a truck full of heavily armed Sons unleashes hell on Zobelle's escort well the rest of the Sons begin firing at them from behind. Shakespeare himself couldn't have planned a more perfect ambush.

* The season three finale, particularly when Chibs gets revenge on Jimmy and Opie gets revenge on Stahl.

* The Sons getting back at those dirty cops for trying to scam them and chopping up poor Juice's Harley. Made better when they're forced to apologize to each of the members individualy.

* In Los Fantasmas, when [[spoiler: one of the school shooting victim's father]] tries to run down the Sons and Nero's gang, Juice holds his ground as the car barely veers past him without even flinching. Easy to forget that this is the same guy who was [[Funny/SonsofAnarchy left unconscious wearing a diaper with a sign stapled to his chest in the middle in Charming back in season one.]]

* Jax killing Alice Noon. She's a CompleteMonster that would give [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Angelus,]] [[TwentyFour Nina Myers]] or anyone else on TV a run for their money. In her sole episode. Kind of hard not to cheer after it's shown she ''raped babies.''

* Seeing Tig still alive after getting [[spoiler: sold out by Jax]]. Be honest you rejoiced when you saw it to.

** Extra points for going about the right way and not the crooked way like Stahl, Potter, and Toric.

* Jax killing Alice Noon. She's a CompleteMonster that would give [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Angelus, [[TwentyFour Nina Myers]] or anyone else on TV a run for their money. In her sole episode. Kind of hard not to cheer after it's shown she ''raped babies.''