History Trivia / SonsOfAnarchy

** Jax and Tig. Creator/CharlieHunnam is from Newcastle, [[UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} UK]], while Creator/KimCoates is from [[CanadaEh Saskatoon, Saskatchewan]].

* DuelingShows: A very narrowly averted example. Right around the same time Sons was being produced, HBO had a show titled ''1%'' in the pipeline. The show would have starred Donal Logue as Misfit, a biker who is forced to move to another charter after they start trouble for the club. Sutter himself, on the "[=SutterInk=]" blog, voiced approval for the show. A pilot was filmed, but the show never made it to the airwaves, since Sonny Barger sued HBO for turning to Michael Tolkin to write it and trying to cut him out, even though both men had pitched the show together. Additionally, Barger's lawsuit stated that the script depicted characters too closely resembling living persons and locations too identifiable with the Hells Angels. The suit was successful and the show never saw the light of day, aside from a script that can be found online and a Vimeo video with a few clips from one of the stars, which is no longer available for viewing.

* ActingForTwo: Mario Perez played a Calavera on Season 3, a Lobos Sonora gunman on Season 4, and a Byz Lat on Season 5 and 6.

** Likewise, Hale was supposed to be around much longer than he ended up being. He was only killed off so abruptly because Hale's actor was considering leaving the show, so Sutter wrote two story lines. The actor ended up deciding to stay, but because Sutter liked the plot where his character died so much, they filmed that one anyways.

* DescendedCreator: Creator/KurtSutter plays a recurring character in Big Otto, going uncredited as an actor.

** Creator/PeterWeller of Film/RoboCop fame as a corrupt cop who only cares about money.

* NamesTheSame:
** Clay is also the name of one of the bikers in the similarly themed ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheLostAndDamned.''
** Hector Salazar is the same name as one of the Mexican drug runners trying to obtain the Cordella virus in ''Series/TwentyFour,'' whose brother Ramon is a nutcase just like Ramon Salazar, a Spanish nut job involved with viruses in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4.''

* McLeaned:
** Half Sack was intended to be around the entire series. He was only killed off because Johnny Lewis wanted to leave the show.
** Likewise, Hale was supposed to be around much longer than he ended up being. He was only killed off so abruptly because Hale's actor was considering leaving the show, so Sutter wrote two story lines. The actor ended up deciding to stay, but because Sutter liked the plot where his character died so much, they filmed that one anyways.

* ActorInspiredElement: Tommy Flanagan's real-life nickname is "Chibs," which is Scottish slang for "knife." Kurt Sutter apparently found out and used it for the character.

** Creator/DavidHasselhoff makes a single-episode cameo as a porn star-turned-director.

** Not within this show but within the shared universe of SOA and Series/MayansMC; Joe Ordaz plays an unnamed Mayan who is shot in the throat by Clay in the pilot episode of Sons. In Mayans MC, he plays Paco, an enforcer of Miguel Galindo and friend of Alvarez, who is shot in the throat by Galindo for his perceived failures. Also doubles as ActorAllusion.

** Not within this show but within the shared universe of SOA and Mayans MC; Joe Ordaz plays an unnamed Mayan who is shot in the throat by Clay in the pilot episode of Sons. In Mayans MC, he plays Paco, an enforcer of Miguel Galindo and friend of Alvarez, who is shot in the throat by Galindo for his perceived failures. Also doubles as ActorAllusion.

** Sonny Barger (Lenny Janowitz) is not only a real Hells Angel, but he is also the founding member of Oakland, one of its initial charters, and at one point was its president. He moved to Arizona in 1998 and became a member of the Cave Creek charter, which was sprouted from a patch-over of the Dirty Dozen MC in 1997.

** Not within this show but within the shared universe of SOA and Mayans MC; Joe Ordaz plays an unnamed Mayan who is shot in the throat by Clay in the pilot episode of Sons. In Mayans MC, he plays Paco, an enforcer of Miguel Galindo, who is shot in the throat by him for his perceived failures. Also doubles as ActorAllusion.

** Jury and the Indian Hills charter were intended to appear more over the years, but for some reason disappeared after their first appearance, only to reappear once in season six before being regular in the final season.