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!!Charles 'Charlie' Barosky
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/PeterWeller
A corrupt former police officer who still has ties with the local police agency and controls rackets in Stockton.
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* AffablyEvil: Charlie's actually a pretty genial fellow. He's even politically correct, correcting Jax on the ethnicity of the torture porn directors.
* {{Badass}}: He's not just a talker, he's a doer, proven when he kills Amir's right-hand man in such a sudden and brutal way that even Jax is shocked.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: His hair might be thinning, but there's still a blonde hint to it.
* CigarChomper: He's usually seen with a cigar.
* CoolOldGuy: He's first seen smoking a cigar in the donut shop he owns, and from there on proves himself to be a reasonable and highly competent man.
* DirtyCop: He's an ex-cop, but he retired to avoid being brought up on corruption charges.
* DirtyOldMan: With Collette, a prostitute half his age.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: When he and Jax break into the child pornography studio, he's absolutely furious and tells Jax he would've killed Alice if Jax hadn't. Later on when Jax asks Charlie what he did with Alice's body, Charlie replies that she was chopped up, burned, and buried "like a child pornographer deserves."
* KnifeNut: Although handy with a gun, Barosky also has a knife on-hand for close encounters.
* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters: He's concerned with protecting his community, and doesn't take kindly to Iranian gangsters making torture porn. Later on he is absolutely outraged to find out that a child pornography studio had been operating on his turf.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: As the king of Stockton, he likes to have strict control over his territory and reacts violently to intruders but still allows the Sons to explain their honest mistake and even offers to help them out.
* {{Troll}}: When Jax walks in on him having sex with Collette, he turns his head and gives him a great big mocking smile.
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!!Charles 'Charlie' Barosky
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/PeterWeller
A corrupt former police officer who still has ties with the local police agency and controls rackets in Stockton.
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* AffablyEvil: Charlie's actually a pretty genial fellow. He's even politically correct, correcting Jax on the ethnicity of the torture porn directors.
* {{Badass}}: He's not just a talker, he's a doer, proven when he kills Amir's right-hand man in such a sudden and brutal way that even Jax is shocked.
* BlondGuysAreEvil: His hair might be thinning, but there's still a blonde hint to it.
* CigarChomper: He's usually seen with a cigar.
* CoolOldGuy: He's first seen smoking a cigar in the donut shop he owns, and from there on proves himself to be a reasonable and highly competent man.
* DirtyCop: He's an ex-cop, but he retired to avoid being brought up on corruption charges.
* DirtyOldMan: With Collette, a prostitute half his age.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: When he and Jax break into the child pornography studio, he's absolutely furious and tells Jax he would've killed Alice if Jax hadn't. Later on when Jax asks Charlie what he did with Alice's body, Charlie replies that she was chopped up, burned, and buried "like a child pornographer deserves."
* KnifeNut: Although handy with a gun, Barosky also has a knife on-hand for close encounters.
* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters: He's concerned with protecting his community, and doesn't take kindly to Iranian gangsters making torture porn. Later on he is absolutely outraged to find out that a child pornography studio had been operating on his turf.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: As the king of Stockton, he likes to have strict control over his territory and reacts violently to intruders but still allows the Sons to explain their honest mistake and even offers to help them out.
* {{Troll}}: When Jax walks in on him having sex with Collette, he turns his head and gives him a great big mocking smile.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: In one of the most frightening, intense and horrific scenes in the entire series, Jax dispassionatly tortures [[spoiler:an innocent man who he thought was responsible for Tara's death. He only shows blatant emotion when he finally kills him.]]
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: She gets her head dunked into a sink full of dirty dish water and is then ''repeatedly '''stabbed in the back of the head''' with a carving fork''! One of the most brutal deaths in this series, for sure.]]
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* HeroicBSOD: When she's arrested for her role in the death of Pamela Toric in Season 5, [[spoiler:and in Season 6 when her last ditch attempt to get her sons away from the club fails. Her face as she leaves the DA's office in Episode 10 says it all.]]
* {{Expy}}[[spoiler: The second half of Season 6 sees her become one of Ophelia from ''Hamlet''. Gemma dunking her in the sink evokes the original Ophelia drowning.]]
* HeroicBSOD: When she's arrested for her role in the death of Pamela Toric in Season 5, [[spoiler:and in Season 6 when her last ditch attempt to get her sons away from the club fails. Her face as she leaves the DA's office in Episode 10 says it all.]]
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* ImportantHaircut: Two, one in season Season 5, which copies Gemma's and signifies her accepting her role as the biker queen, and then in season Season 6, [[spoiler: where she cuts her hair short, and wants nothing but to get her family out of this life.]]
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* NotSoDifferent: From Gemma. Lampshaded in the Season 5 finale with a fade from Tara to Gemma, with the same hairdo, and a similar expression on their faces. [[spoiler:and and faking Gemma attacking her in "Sweet and Vaded"... straight from Gemma's ManipulativeBitch book.]]
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* DeathSeeker: Becomes this in Season 4 after being forced to become TheMole. Again in season six, after [[spoiler:Jax tasks him with Darvany's murder. He very nearly becomes roadkill on two occasions.]]
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* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Following Following Phil's death, Ratboy has picked up the slack, becoming competent and reliable. He's a quick-thinker and doesn't hesitate to take action when it's needed, as seen when Juice and Darby are held at gunpoint by Neo-Nazis. Rat instantly takes a hostage, allowing everyone to escape unharmed.]]
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* DirtyOldMan: [[spoiler:With With Collette, a prostitute half his age.]]
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* BadassGrandpa: Clay's advancing age has impacted his abilities, but not enough to make him anything less than a dangerous opponent.
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** After the death of his daughter, any comment regarding them in a negative way will [[PapaWolf provoke a violent, murderous reaction]].
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* DualWielding: Has been seen wielding two scalpels and wears a holster with two guns. Later, in season 5 when the club is trying to convince a councilman's stepson to have sex with a transvestite, the club claim to have all engaged in homosexual activity occasionally, with each member talking about how they've all had "dicks". Chibs, hilariously, is the one to yell "Two dicks!", while making the universal gesture for oral sex... with each hand.
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* DualWielding: Has been seen wielding two scalpels and wears a holster with two guns. Later, in season Season 5 when the club is trying to convince a councilman's stepson to have sex with a transvestite, the club claim to have all engaged in homosexual activity occasionally, with each member talking about how they've all had "dicks". Chibs, hilariously, is the one to yell "Two dicks!", while making the universal gesture for oral sex... with each hand.
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* ManlyTears: When [[spoiler:Jax turns himself in the Season 6 finale.]]
* MeaningfulName: Implicitly, his name refers to his custom of getting a smiley face tattoo for every hit he carries out for the club.
* MeaningfulName: Implicitly, his name refers to his custom of getting a smiley face tattoo for every hit he carries out for the club.
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* ManlyTears: When [[spoiler:Jax [[spoiler:When Jax turns himself in the Season 6 finale.]]
* MeaningfulName: Implicitly, his name refers to his custom of getting a smiley face tattoo for every hit he carries out for the club. It's eventually subverted when it's revealed that Happy is his real name.
* MeaningfulName: Implicitly, his name refers to his custom of getting a smiley face tattoo for every hit he carries out for the club. It's eventually subverted when it's revealed that Happy is his real name.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Season 5 is starting to change that however.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Season 5 is starting Jax might be a criminal who doesn't hesitate to change that however.kill, but he doesn't kill needlessly or impulsively and desperately wants to get the club out of gun-running. However, as the series progresses Jax becomes more willing to cross moral boundaries.
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* HeroicBSOD: After Abel is kidnapped. [[spoiler: And when he discovers Tara's dead body at the end of Season 6]]
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* HeroicBSOD: After Abel is kidnapped. [[spoiler: And [[spoiler:It happens again when he discovers Tara's dead body at the end of Season 6]]6.]]
* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: Jax takes small steps at first, but gradually he becomes a ManipulativeBastard responsible for dozens of deaths.
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* YouAreInCommandNow: In the season 4 finale he assumes the role of Club President after stripping Clay of his patch.
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* YouAreInCommandNow: In Following the season 4 finale he events of Season 4, Jax assumes the role of Club President after stripping Clay of his patch.
* AffablyEvil: He might be a scheming murderer, but Clay does have a sense of honor, morality and even feels genuine guilt for the terrible things he's done. Personality-wise, he's an easy blend of casual charm and subdued menace.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: Gets one of these courtesy of Jax when he strips Clay of his president's patch, effectively castrating the character. After admitting to everything he did in season 4, Clay is kicked out of the club and gets his inked blacked out by [[TortureTechnician Happy]]. One vote saved him from being executed by the club, but one wonders if subjecting him to "Mr. Mayhem" would have been more merciful.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: Gets one of these courtesy of Jax when he strips Clay of his president's patch, effectively castrating the character. After admitting to everything he did in season Season 4, Clay is kicked out of the club and gets his inked blacked out by [[TortureTechnician Happy]]. One vote saved him from being executed by the club, but one wonders if subjecting him to "Mr. Mayhem" would have been more merciful.
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The childhood sweetheart of Jax Teller, Tara left Charming to escape the criminal lifestyle and became a successful surgeon. However, she ends up returning to the town and falling deeper in than ever before. She eventually marries Jax Teller, and tries to get him and their children out of Charming. Every time it seems like she'll finally get them out, something else pops up to keep it from happening, including getting her arm broken, getting arrested, and [[spoiler: ultimately, being brutally murdered by her mother-in-law.]]
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The childhood sweetheart of Jax Teller, Tara left Charming to escape the criminal lifestyle and became a successful surgeon. However, she ends up returning to the town and falling deeper in than ever before. She eventually marries Jax Teller, and tries to get him and their children out of Charming. Every time it seems like she'll finally get them out, something else pops up to keep it from happening, including getting her arm broken, getting arrested, and [[spoiler: ultimately, being brutally murdered by her mother-in-law.]]happening.
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* NotSoDifferent: From Gemma. Lampshaded in the season 5 finale with a fade from Tara to Gemma, with the same hairdo, and a similar expression on their faces. [[spoiler:and faking Gemma attacking her in "Sweet and Vaded"... straight from Gemma's ManipulativeBitch book.]]
* SanitySlippage: Happens in season 4 after her hand is injured during her attempted abduction.
* SanitySlippage: Happens in season 4 after her hand is injured during her attempted abduction.
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* NotSoDifferent: From Gemma. Lampshaded in the season Season 5 finale with a fade from Tara to Gemma, with the same hairdo, and a similar expression on their faces. [[spoiler:and faking Gemma attacking her in "Sweet and Vaded"... straight from Gemma's ManipulativeBitch book.]]
* SanitySlippage: Happens inseason Season 4 after her hand is injured during her attempted abduction.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Frequently, but the biggest mistake he's made is his killing of Veronica Pope, thus causing her not-to-be-fucked-with father to tear the sons (and Charming) apart in season 5.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Frequently, but the biggest mistake he's made is his killing of Veronica Pope, thus causing her not-to-be-fucked-with father to tear the sons (and Charming) apart in season Season 5.
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* TheDragon: Fits this role most to Jax in season 5. Specially [[spoiler:after Opie To Jax, since Chibs is killed]]a more stable and trustworthy ally than the guilt-ridden Tig or disillusioned Bobby.
* HonestAdvisor: To Jax; he's unafraid to tell him when he's making a bad decision and doesn't mince words.
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* OnlySaneMan: In season 4 he emerges as the most grounded and no-nonsense member of the club.
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* AscendedFanboy: After Half-Sack's death, he and a few others become prospects. [[spoiler:Becomes Ascended Prospect following the inclusion of Quinn, Montez and West.]]
* AscendedFanboy: After Half-Sack's death, he and a few others become prospects. [[spoiler:Becomes Ascended Prospect following the inclusion of Quinn, Montez and West.]]
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* TheQuietOne: Rat isn't exactly TheVoiceless, but he tends to speak only when spoken to.
* TookALevelInBadass:He's grown more [[spoiler:Following Phil's death, Ratboy has picked up the slack, becoming competent in recent episodes following [[spoiler:Phil's death.and reliable.]]
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* DirtyCop: He's an ex-cop, but he retired to prevent from avoid being charged for corruption.
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[[folder:Jax]]
!!Jackson 'Jax' Teller
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm an okay mechanic with a GED. The only thing I do well is outlaw."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Charlie Hunnam
->'''Rank:''' President (formerly Vice President)
->'''Years Active:''' 1995 - Present
->''"SAMCRO's got to change to survive."''
The current president (former vice president) of the Sons of Anarchy mother charter, having taken that rank from the previous president, Clay Morrow, by force. Born in 1978 to John and Gemma Teller, he has lived his whole life in Charming and has been raised in the club. While committed to his one percenter club's lifestyle and his fellow outlaw biker brothers, Jax still yearns to steer the organization onto a path toward long-term stability. His day job is a mechanic at Teller-Morrow Automotive Repair.
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* AntiHero: Straddles the line between Type IV and V. By the end of Season 5, it could be said that he's firmly Type V if not a VillainProtagonist.
* {{Badass}}: In every fight he's been in, with two exceptions, he's absolutely dominated, even against a trained federal agent. The only exceptions are Clay, who fought him to a standstill, and [[BadassPreacher Father Ashby]], who handed him a brief but decisive beatdown. In season 5, he gets into a fight with one of the Irish Kings, and while he holds his own it's clear that the Irishman has the advantage, though the end of the bout isn't shown.
%%* BadassBeard
%%* BadassBiker
* {{Blackmail}}: Very fond of this tactic in season 5.
%%* ByronicHero
* CorruptTheCutie: While far from being innocent, he was more idealistic and fair than the rest of the members before becoming president at the end of Season 4. By the end of Season 5, the gavel has corrupted him '''BIG''' time.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: At the end of Season 6, he seems to have crossed it with Tara's death completely shattering him.]]
%%* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Season 5 is starting to change that however.
* {{Expy}}: Of Hamlet. His corruption in Season 5 shows some shades of Macbeth as well
* FallenHero: Spends 4 seasons either wanting to take the club in a more peaceful, legitimate direction or just wanting to leave the club permanently; by Season 5, after becoming president, he ditches leaving the club and becomes more ruthless, manipulative, and self-righteous while being oblivious to the dangers he's putting his family in and the problems happening in his home-life. In the season finale, he even admits he's NotSoDifferent from Clay.
* GoodHairEvilHair: Subtle, but his slicked back blonde hair in Season 5 resembles Clay's slicked back gray hair in Season 4, signifying his transformation into Clay.
%%* GuileHero
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Becomes this in Season 5.
* [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim If You Kill Clay You Will Be Just Like Him]]: In "Darthy", Bobby gets Clay to confess in exchange for his life to prevent Jax from killing him behind the club's back and become Clay 2.0. Opie and Chibs also begin to notice how Jax is changing slowly into Clay, even using the same justifications such as 'protecting the Club'.
* ImportantHaircut: Not really important to him but more to the viewers who were surprised.
%%* TheHero
* HeroicBSOD: After Abel is kidnapped. [[spoiler: And when he discovers Tara's dead body at the end of Season 6]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Opie. He even tells Opie he loves him during a heart-to-heart.
* ManipulativeBastard: As part of his NotSoDifferent with Clay, Jax does know how to manipulate. Put in full force in Season 5 both the Manipulative and Bastard part, successfully pushing Pope, Tig, Juice and Gemma in the directions he desires so that Clay is toppled. Keeps it going in Season 6.
* MrFanservice: He has more shirtless scenes than any other character.
* PapaWolf: To his sons, Abel and Thomas.
* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: He begins the series as a voice of sanity, trying to be the angel on Clay's shoulder. Gradually he becomes more and more emotionally compromised as he goes head-to-head with Clay.
* RevengeBeforeReason: He kills Randall Hightower despite knowing it would damage his relationship with TO Cross.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After Opie's death, he decides to kill everyone involved.
* ShirtlessScene: He has a lot of these.
* TheUnfettered: In Season 5 he will do anything to see Clay dead.
* TragicBromance: Opie's death is what causes him to finally [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope jump off the slippery slope]].
* TranquilFury: Played with. Jax has no problem raising his voice in anger. But he has a tendency of speaking quietly and smirking when he is REALLY angry.
* VillainProtagonist: After Opie's death, Jax seems to be heading right into HeWhoFightsMonsters territory.
%%* WarriorPoet: Pre-Season 5.
* WeaponOfChoice: He favors using a knife.
* WouldHitAGirl: Not his wife, but Ima is another story. Also Wendy, whom he forces to take a speedball in one of the most distressing scenes in the series.
* YouAreInCommandNow: In the season 4 finale he assumes the role of Club President after stripping Clay of his patch.
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[[folder:Clay]]
!!Clarence 'Clay' Morrow
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Whatever you may think, the truth is, everything I do is to protect what we got."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/RonPerlman
->'''Rank:''' First 9
->'''Years Active:''' 1969 - 2012
The President of SAMCRO and one of the 9 founding members, Clay is Jax Teller's stepfather and Gemma Teller's husband. Suffering from arthritis in his declining age, Clay frequently disagrees with his stepson about the direction the club is going.
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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Clay's death may have been a long-time coming, but it's a solemn affair. Only Jax and Tara seem to relish his death; Gemma is distraught although understanding, and even Nero is somewhat phased by it. Clay himself faces the decision bravely, makes final peace with Gemma, and selflessly allows himself to be killed to save the club.]]
%%* AmbitionIsEvil
%%* BadassBeard
%%* BadassBiker
%%* BadassGrandpa
* BigBad: Of Season 4 and for a portion of Season 5.
%%* CoolShades
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* DentedIron: Old age and the cumulative effects of a violent life have left Clay in a sorry state; he still has his offense, but he completely lacks defense.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Like everything with Clay, his standards are ass-backwards. He's all about selling guns, but considers a legitimate porn business to be 'dirty'. It's played a little more straight when he balks at the idea of allying with white supremacists and desires to keep rapists out of his town.
* {{Expy}}: Of Claudius from ''Hamlet''
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:When it becomes clear that the Club had a vote to kill him, Clay is accepting. For once in his life, he doesn't try anything or make another play. He simply walks with them into a room, stands perfectly still and looks sorrowfully at Gemma as he waits.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: Gets one of these courtesy of Jax when he strips Clay of his president's patch, effectively castrating the character. After admitting to everything he did in season 4, Clay is kicked out of the club and gets his inked blacked out by [[TortureTechnician Happy]]. One vote saved him from being executed by the club, but one wonders if subjecting him to "Mr. Mayhem" would have been more merciful.
%%* FauxAffablyEvil
* GeniusBruiser: Clay is a big guy and an extremely dangerous fighter, but it's his cunning that makes him a true threat.
* HappilyMarried: To Gemma, but not anymore.
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* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Some of the club (especially Bobby and Piney) seem to feel this way about Clay getting in bed with the Mexican cartel in Season 4.
* KarmaHoudini: Clay has done some pretty horrible things over the course of the show, but whenever you think he's finally going to pay for his sins something ends up saving him. It's eventually subverted when he ends up framed and sent to prison for the murder of Damon Pope. [[spoiler:When he's later broken out, it's to kill him.]]
* KlingonPromotion: How he took over the club from John Teller.
* ManipulativeBastard: Takes it to new levels in Season 5, manipulating Juice and Gemma while playing the lion-in-winter.
* MoralMyopia: Either this or a truly odd example of EvenEvilHasStandards. While he has no problem running guns, or even drugs if it suits his agenda he objects to getting involved in the completely legal porn industry because it's "dirty".
* ObfuscatingDisability: After he finally recovers from his lung damage, he keeps wearing the oxygen tank so no one knows he's actually okay.
* OutlawCouple: With Gemma, at first.
* TheStarscream: To John Teller. [[spoiler:He also pulls it off in Season 6 by killing Carson, head of the white prison gang of Stockton State Prison to save his own ass from the black prison gang.]]
* SickbedSlaying: Attempted by Jax but subverted in the Season 4 finale.
* TookALevelInJerkass: In Season 4 when he graduates to a true antagonist and all his dirty dealings come to the forefront, his sins laid bare for the Club to see.
* TheUsurper: Clay murdered John Teller and took leadership of the club from him. It ties into his status as an {{Expy}} of Hamlet's Claudius.
* WouldHitAGirl: One of the signs that he's jumped off the slippery slope is his vicious, brutal beatdown of Gemma in Season 4.
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[[folder:Gemma]]
!!Gemma Teller Morrow
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I believe in family."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Katey Sagal
->''"I'm protecting the innocent. If I step on a few toes in the meanwhile, so be it."''
The queen of Charming under Clay's rule. A Machiavellian schemer and expert in psychological manipulation, Gemma is the wife of Clay Morrow and the widow of John Teller. Gemma is extremely protective of her son Jax and grandsons Abel and Thomas and longs for the day when Jax will, in her eyes, be ready to assume control of SAMCRO in order to ensure the organization's survival for another generation. She adores her husband, Clay, and does her best to make things work out his way.
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* BerserkButton: Clay stepping out on her while on the road is one thing. Rubbing her face in it (or so she thought) is another.
* BiTheWay: In the first season this was mostly just implied, as she enjoyed threatening other women by acting overtly sexual to them. Though Season 5 showed her having a fling or two with unnamed women.
* EasyEvangelism: Averted and then subverted. She has been slowly reconsidering her life and lack of belief but it took a gang rape, the entire second season, talking things over with several people, a character that [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane may or may not be an angel]] nudging her to do it and she's still not all the way. And then when she does get convinced God is pushing her she thinks he's telling her to kill Polly.
* EvilMatriarch: She gave the go-ahead to [[spoiler:have John Teller killed,]] and wants to raise her family in the criminal lifestyle.
* {{Expy}}: Of Gertrude from ''Hamlet''. With a good deal of LadyMacBeth thrown in.
* HollywoodAtheist: "Jesus is just the guy who mows my lawn."
* MamaBear: Or Grandma Bear in the case of her grandson.
* KnightTemplarParent and [[KnightTemplarParent Knight Templar Grandparent]]
* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]: On ''any given day'' she could plot to kill you, declaring you an enemy to the club and her family, and that you are dead to her... and then shortly after give you a hug and a reassuring speech about how you're family to her.
%%* OutlawCouple: With Clay.
* PetTheDog: From time to time, she has her moments of kindness such as comforting Tristan Oswald.
* PlatonicLifePartners: She and Unser move towards this during the second season. By the end when she's on the run from the law this has pretty much become fact. After Unser's season five callout of Gemma's habitual manipulation of everyone around her... not so much.
* PrincessInRags: Season 5 seems to largely be about Gemma struggling to find what to do with herself now that she lost her crown as the biker queen to Tara, and no longer having pull with the club.
* RapeAsDrama: She's gang-raped by Zobelle's men, sending her into a spiral of post-traumatic shock, shame, fear, vulnerability and eventually recovery.
%%* TeamMom
* WomanScorned: Clay made a suicidal mistake when he beat her up.
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[[folder:Tara]]
!!Dr. Tara Knowles Teller
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I have created this very serious life for myself. And when I'm inside it, I barely know myself."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Maggie Siff
->''"You know why I run away from shit all the time? Cause I don't trust anyone. If I'm gonna stay, I need to know the truth."''
The childhood sweetheart of Jax Teller, Tara left Charming to escape the criminal lifestyle and became a successful surgeon. However, she ends up returning to the town and falling deeper in than ever before. She eventually marries Jax Teller, and tries to get him and their children out of Charming. Every time it seems like she'll finally get them out, something else pops up to keep it from happening, including getting her arm broken, getting arrested, and [[spoiler: ultimately, being brutally murdered by her mother-in-law.]]
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Largely deconstructed. Tara was Jax's sweetheart, and eventually marries him, but Jax's lifestyle gradually destroys and corrupts the good person she once was.
%%* {{Badass}}
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Few could really expect the sweet and scared doctor in season one would transform into a tiny Gemma, complete with the hair.
* BreakTheCutie: When the Galindo cartel breaks her hand, effectively ruining her medical career since she seemingly wont't be able to operate anymore. Borders on DespairEventHorizon.
* BrokenBird: Even before the start of the show, she fled back to Charming because she was scared for her safety by an abusive ex who was stalking her.
* ButtMonkey: Anytime something might go right for her, the club's sins slam the door on it. Sometimes literally.
* CorruptTheCutie: Started the show as the moral center and the {{Only Sane Man}} to Jax. By Season 5, while not entirely corrupted, she definitely has her share of blood on her hands. This all culminates in season 6, when she sees how far she has gone and is scared by it.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: She gets her head dunked into a sink full of dirty dish water and is then ''repeatedly '''stabbed in the back of the head''' with a carving fork''! One of the most brutal deaths in this series, for sure.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: Season 6, Episode 10. See Heroic BSOD below.
* DidntSeeThatComing: [[spoiler: It really was surprising to see her killed, rather brutally, by Gemma with a carving fork.]]
* {{Expy}}[[spoiler: The second half of Season 6 sees her become one of Ophelia from ''Hamlet''. Gemma dunking her in the sink evokes the original Ophelia drowning.]]
* HeroicBSOD: When she's arrested for her role in the death of Pamela Toric in Season 5, [[spoiler:and in Season 6 when her last ditch attempt to get her sons away from the club fails. Her face as she leaves the DA's office in Episode 10 says it all.]]
* HospitalHottie: As noticed by Jax and Kohn.
* ImportantHaircut: Two, one in season 5, which copies Gemma's and signifies her accepting her role as the biker queen, and then in season 6, [[spoiler: where she cuts her hair short, and wants nothing but to get her family out of this life.]]
%%* MamaBear
* TheMedic: Eventually, she becomes 'mob doctor' for the Sons.
* NotSoDifferent: From Gemma. Lampshaded in the season 5 finale with a fade from Tara to Gemma, with the same hairdo, and a similar expression on their faces. [[spoiler:and faking Gemma attacking her in "Sweet and Vaded"... straight from Gemma's ManipulativeBitch book.]]
* SanitySlippage: Happens in season 4 after her hand is injured during her attempted abduction.
* TookALevelInBadass: And at the same time...
%%* TookALevelInJerkass
* TraumaCongaLine: Specially in Season 4, it continues at the end of Season 5, and then again toward the end of Season 6. [[spoiler: Culminating in her death in the Season 6 finale, by the hands of a drunk Gemma]].
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[[folder:Tig]]
!!Alex 'Tig' Trager
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Oh come on, there's nothing wrong with the occasional skank."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/KimCoates
->'''Rank:''' Soldier (formerly Sergeant-at-Arms)
->'''Years Active:''' ? - Present
A member of SAMCRO, a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and was previously Sergeant-at-Arms under Clay's presidency. While he is one of the club's more violent members, discussion of Tig's penchant for bizarre and disturbing activities is often played for comic effect. While initially very loyal to Clay, Tig's loyalties have shifted toward the greater club's interests, and he has apparently acclimated himself to Jax's new role as leader after initially questioning his ferocity.
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%%* AffablyEvil
* AnythingThatMoves: On the subject of necrophilia: "You know it's weird ''at first'' but..."
%%* BadassBeard
%%* BadassBiker
* BerserkButton:
** Mistreatment of dogs really gets to him as evident in the Season 5 finale when they find the dog fighting ring.
** After the death of his daughter, any comment regarding them in a negative way will [[PapaWolf provoke a violent, murderous reaction]].
* TheBrute: To Jax in Season 5, post-Opie's death.
* ButtMonkey: In a very literal way. He keeps getting injured near the buttocks area.
* ChivalrousPervert: Although he's portrayed as a total horndog and sexual deviant, his is very kind and gentle towards women during his on-screen interactions with them.
* ComedicSociopathy: In a resigned sigh, "This is why I beat hookers."
%%* CoolShades
* CreepyBlueEyes: Has a very disconcerting set of pale blue ones.
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* TheDragon: To Clay. Until Season 4's end, in which he's no longer Sgt-at-Arms.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: See how he reacts to the dog fights in the Season 5 finale. He's also disgusted by the torture porn studio in the season six premier. Seeing how badly [[spoiler:Gemma]] was beaten was enough to make him forget his loyalty to Clay.
* ExtremeOmnisexual. Has shown or expressed interest in drag queens, sex dolls, horses and ''the dead''.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Arguably, the whole club can be seen as this to each other to varying degrees but Tig and Clay are the best example other than perhaps Jax and Opie.
%%* KavorkaMan
* KickTheDog: Killing Macky's wife.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Frequently, but the biggest mistake he's made is his killing of Veronica Pope, thus causing her not-to-be-fucked-with father to tear the sons (and Charming) apart in season 5.
* PapaWolf: In Season 5 Tig is forced to watch as his daughter is burned alive on the orders of Damon Pope. Shortly afterward he escapes and kills one of Pope's henchman as well as the "cleaner" they sent to remove the evidence of the murder. Tig also vowed that he's going to cut Pope's head off...and then lives up to his word in the season finale, if by blowing Pope's brains out instead.
* PetTheDog: His adoration of Gemma and saving Chucky. Also, despite his alleged sexual deviancy, most of his on-screen treatment of women is surprisingly gentle. There's also his rescuing and healing of a dog from the dog-fights ring operated by Dante.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: After Pope murdered his daughter he makes liberal use of the word "nigger" in a hostile manner.
* RevengeBeforeReason: When he thinks that the Niners shot Clay he rushes to exact revenge with no consideration of innocent bystanders, witnesses, how he is going to get away or whether the Niners are actually guilty.
* TooKinkyToTorture: He actually seemed to ''enjoy'' being beat up by those bounty hunters.
* UndyingLoyalty: He may be a total psychopath, but he's loyal to the club almost to a fault. Letting himself get chased by police as a distraction while the others go to Ireland is a big example.
* VillainousBSOD: His guilt over accidentally killing Donna leads him to confess to Opie.
* VillainousBreakdown: After killing Pope, and realizing he has done it with Clay's gun.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: It's never specifically explained, but it's shown frequently that he has a phobia of dolls. Seeing a sexdoll caused him extremely torn emotions.
* YesMan: To Jax post Season 5; after Jax saves him from Pope's reprisal, Jax tells him plainly that he can never go against Jax on any vote or action as payment.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Chibs]]
!!Filip 'Chibs' Telford
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->'''Played By:''' Tommy Flanagan
->'''Rank:''' Vice President (former Sergeant-at-Arms)
->'''Years Active:''' 1989 - Present
SAMCRO's vice president. Chibs is extremely loyal to Jax. Originally from Glasgow, Scotland, he grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He served as a medic with the British Army, but only lasted five months before he was expelled after a court martial. His battlefield experience makes him the club's medic for backroom emergency surgery. The word "chib" is Scottish street slang for a blade, a slash or a cut.
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%%* BadassBiker
%%* BadassMustache
%%* BritishAccent: Scottish.
* TheConsigliere: By Season 6 he's the new Vice President of SAMCRO. He's much more proactive about it than Bobby was, up to the point of physically putting his hands on Jax and throwing him against the wall when Jax made a particularly stupid move without consulting him first.
%%* CoolShades
* TheDragon: Fits this role most to Jax in season 5. Specially [[spoiler:after Opie is killed]]
* DualWielding: Has been seen wielding two scalpels and wears a holster with two guns. Later, in season 5 when the club is trying to convince a councilman's stepson to have sex with a transvestite, the club claim to have all engaged in homosexual activity occasionally, with each member talking about how they've all had "dicks". Chibs, hilariously, is the one to yell "Two dicks!", while making the universal gesture for oral sex... with each hand.
%%* GenreSavvy
* GlasgowSmile: Bonus points for real-life authenticity.
%%* HotBlooded
%%* KnifeNut
%%* TheMedic
%%* PapaWolf
* OnlySaneMan: In season 4 he emerges as the most grounded and no-nonsense member of the club.
* ScarsAreForever: Where he gets his nickname (Scottish slang)
* {{Scotireland}}: Scottish-born, raised in Ireland and married an Irish woman, though he retains a Scottish accent. He served in the British Army but became a fanatical Irish Republican.
%%* SkunkStripe
%%* TookALevelInJerkass:[[spoiler: In Season 6]]
%%* ViolentGlaswegian
%%* WarriorPoet
* WorkingWithTheEx: Briefly when SAMCRO travels to Ireland
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bobby]]
!!Robert 'Bobby Elvis' Munson
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"When you want blind action, you go to [[AxCrazy Tig]]. When you want the truth, you come to me."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Mark Boone Junior
->'''Rank:''' Soldier (formerly Secretary & Vice President)
->'''Years Active:''' ? - Present
The even-tempered treasury secretary of SAMCRO, and remains in the position after Clay is voted out. The son of a Jewish accountant who worked with the Mafia, Munson brings a level of practicality to the group, offering advice to the younger Jax on a frequent basis. Munson is also known as "Bobby Elvis" for his infrequent dressing up as an Elvis Presley impersonator at toy rallies and other events where children are present. Though he frequently maintains calm among the group, Bobby is more than capable of doing violence.
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%%* BadassBeard
%%* BadassBiker
%%* BadassGrandpa
* TheConsigliere: To Clay and later to Jax in Season 5.[[spoiler:Returns to it in mid Season 6, with Jax even referring to him as such]]
%%* CoolOldGuy
%%* CoolShades: In Season 6.
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* ElvisImpersonator: How he makes his money on the side.
* GeniusBruiser: In addition to being a badass who can hold his own in a fight, Bobby also has enough business know-how to manage Cara Cara.
* HonestAdvisor: To Clay and Jax. He'll always tell them how he sees things, even if they don't want to hear it.
%%* HiddenDepths
* InformedJudaism: Apart from his appearances as fat Elvis on Bar Mitzwa parties, there's literally nothing that points at Bobby being from a Jewish background.
* KavorkaMan: Likely due to his power and position within the club.
%%* KnightInSourArmour
* NumberTwo: To Jax in Season 5 when he serves as SAMCRO's VP. Until the season finale in which he resigns to the position.
* OnlySaneMan: From Season 2 onward.
* RealMenWearPink: Do not let the pompadour, the detailing on his jacket or the organic cooking fool you. Really. Don't.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After the events of season 5, Bobby apparently leaves SAMCRO and begins trying to rebuild the Nomad charter. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}: Bobby was really trying to recruit for SAMCRO to get some level headed thinkers into the charter. He rejoins part way through season 6.]]
%%* TeamChef
* WhatTheHellHero: Comes down pretty hard with this on Jax towards the end of season 5 for his actions towards Clay.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Unser]]
!!Wayne Unser
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm not sure which cancer is worse: the one in me or the one in Charming."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Dayton Callie
->''"Charming is a special town. Not many folks take to it. I like to think the town chooses its occupants. The right ones stay…wrong ones disappear."''
The former Chief of the Charming Police Department, he is corrupt in that he deals with the Sons of Anarchy whom he sees as a benefit to the town, because the Sons successfully keep drugs and violence out of Charming, and protect the population from many other unwanted things like ruthless developers, such as Jacob Hale Jr.
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%%* BaldOfAwesome
* BerserkButton: Minor one after seeing Gemma has been beat up by Clay.
* ConvenientTerminalIllness: He's been dying of cancer for years now.
* CorruptCop: He has been covering for the Sons for decades and is almost a honorary member of the club. Unlike most examples of this trope, though, he still has a strong moral compass and assists the Sons not out of greed, but because he honestly believes that the police working with the Sons is what's best for Charming.
%%* CoolOldGuy
%%* DealWithTheDevil
* DespairEventHorizon: Between the end of Season 3 and the beginning of Season 4 when he loses his job. [[PetTheDog Gemma and Clay drag him back from it.]]
%%* GenreSavvy
* JustFriends: It's implied a few times in the series that Wayne has a crush on Gemma. Gemma is aware of this as well, and occasionally uses it to manipulate Wayne into doing her bidding.
* LastDance: He is dying of cancer and is spending what time he has left trying to protect Gemma and Tara.
* PlatonicLifePartners: See Gemma. By Season 6 however, Unser admits he's doesn't just love Gemma, he's ''in'' love with her, upgrading him to DoggedNiceGuy.
%%* PromotionToOpeningTitles: In season 3.
%%* TookALevelInBadass
* WildCard: He becomes one for Clay. He will help Clay one moment and then sabotage him the next. He is no longer afraid of Clay and his real loyalties lie with Gemma and Tara.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Opie]]
!!Harry 'Opie' Winston
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Feel like I'm missin' on every front."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Ryan Hurst
->'''Rank:''' Soldier
->'''Years Active:''' 1995 - 2012
The son of SAMCRO co-founder Piney, a member of SAMCRO, and best friend of Jax since childhood. Opie's mother took him away from Piney and Charming when he was 16, but he left her and returned to his father and the club.
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%%* BadassBeard
%%* BadassBiker
%%* BeardOfSorrow
%%* ButtMonkey
* {{Expy}}: Started off as the Horatio to Jax's Hamlet, but sliding more into a Laertes sort of relationship with Clay/Claudius. By the end of Season 3 he reconciles with Jax.
* DueToTheDead: The "In memory of "OPIE"" patch Jax wears on his cut.
* DeathSeeker: Becomes this after Donna's death. He gets better eventually, but his father's death at Clay's hands, and being stopped from killing him by Jax himself gets him back to this territory, leading to... (see just below)
* HeroicSacrifice: In Season 5 when he volunteers to be the club member to die at the hands of Damon Pope.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Jax. When Jax talks to Opie about leaving the club, Opie tells Jax that he ''needs'' him.
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: During an attempt to intimidate a judge into giving a favorable verdict in a case by threatening the judge's son, Opie suffers a HeroicBSOD that hints this may be why he's been distancing himself from his own kids when it becomes clear how little the judge cares for his [[TheUnFavorite own son]].
%%* TheLancer: To Jax.
%%* PromotionToOpeningTitles: In Season 2.
%%* SacrificialLion
* TraumaCongaLine: If spending five years in prison for somebody else's rap wasn't enough, then his wife Donna gets murdered by Tig, because he'd been framed as a rat. Jump to season 4 and his dad gets murdered by Clay for threatening to expose him, and then Jax shoots him before he can avenge Piney's death. Topped off by going to prison again and being brutally beaten to death by the enemies of the club.
* YourCheatingHeart: He slept with Ima Tite while still married to Lyla.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Piney]]
!!Piermont 'Piney' Winston
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Your father saw this coming. He saw the feds, the Irish, guys like Zobelle. And he knew we were going to die bloody."'']]
->'''Played By:''' William Lucking
->'''Rank:''' First 9
->'''Years Active:''' 1967 - 2011
A co-founder of SAMCRO and father of Opie Winston. He was a veteran of the Vietnam War and must carry an oxygen tank with him at all times due to emphysema.
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%%* BadassBiker
%%* BadassGrandpa
* BerserkButton: Hurting or treating women badly seems to be one. He's distraught at Donna's death and when Opie cheats on Lyla, he straight up slugs him.
%%* BewareTheQuietOnes
%%* CoolOldGuy
* DrowningMySorrows: Prone to bouts of depression in which he does this.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: His oxygen tank.
* PapaWolf: To Opie, but he knows how tough Opie is so he mostly directs his protection toward his grandchildren, Donna and Lyla.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: In Season 2.
%%* TeamDad
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Juice]]
!!Juan-Carlos 'Juice' Ortiz
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->'''Played By:''' Theo Rossi
->'''Rank:''' Soldier
->'''Years Active:''' 2003 - Present
The club's hacker and intelligence officer. He has proven to be somewhat simple-minded when it comes to other tasks, which often prompts hazing from the other members. He is in charge of club surveillance and manages some of the club's intelligence and communication.
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%%* BadassBiker
%%* BaldOfAwesome
* BreakTheCutie: As of [[spoiler:season six, episode two. Jax tasking him with Darvany's murder isn't helping his already fragile psyche.]] And again as of [[spoiler:Clay's death in season six, episode eleven]].
%%* ButtMonkey
%%* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass
* DespairEventHorizon: After Clay gives him his Men of Mayhem patch for having the stones to kill Miles. This leads to...
* DrivenToSuicide: He makes several failed attempts to kill himself to the point where he becomes a DeathSeeker.
** At the end of "Fruit for the Crows". Becomes a BungledSuicide when the tree branch he is trying to hang himself from snaps.
** His hopscotching through the cartel's minefield in season four, episode twelve was almost definitely another suicide attempt.
** Repeated in [[spoiler:season six, episode twelve, via a handful of oxy]], after [[spoiler:Bobby waxes rhapsodic about why Clay had to die]].
* TheCracker: Played fairly realistically.
* DeathSeeker: Becomes this in Season 4 after being forced to become TheMole. Again in season six, after [[spoiler:Jax tasks him with Darvany's murder. He very nearly becomes roadkill on two occasions.]]
* DisappearedDad: Probably why he tailed Clay around like a puppy in Season 5.
* HairTriggerTemper: As a result of his BreakTheCutie, he's developed this.
* ManlyTears: Especially in seasons four and five.
* TheMole: Blackmailed by Roosevelt. Then by Potter.
* OutDamnedSpot: [[spoiler:After killing Darvany on Jax's orders.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: True of the actors, anyway - would you believe Theo Rossi is actually six years older than Charlie Hunnam and two years older than Ryan Hurst?
%%* PromotionToOpeningTitles: In Season 2.
%%* TattooedCrook
%%* TechnoWizard
%%* TokenMinority
* TokenGoodTeammate: Kinda, at least pre-BreakTheCutie. [[spoiler: By the end of season 6, he definitely jumped off the slippery slope.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: While he was always pretty badass, he's stepped it up a notch in season 6, rivalling Chibs, Tig, and Happy.
%%* TraumaCongaLine
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Half-Sack]]
!!Kip 'Half-Sack' Epps
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->'''Played By:''' Johnny Lewis
->'''Rank:''' Prospect (patched-in posthumously)
->'''Years Active:''' 2008 - 2009
An army veteran of the Iraq War and prospective member. He is killed by Cameron Hayes in season 2.
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%%* BadassBiker
* ButtMonkey: He's caught in a cycle where the club makes fun of him for being stupid, so he does something ''really'' stupid to try and impress them, and thus they mock him even more.
* ChewToy: Being a prospect means it's his job to be belittled by the club and given all the horrible jobs nobody else wants to do.
%%* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: The actor left because he was dissatisfied with how the character was being treated.
%%* NiceGuy
* PermaStubble: Unlike the other regular cast members, he never changes his physical appearance.
* ScarsAreForever: His nickname refers to a war wound. [[GroinAttack A really nasty one.]] This trope hits even harder on the nail later on after he tries to get an artificial testicle put in, but his body rejects it and it has to be removed.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nero]]
!!Neron 'Nero' Padilla
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->'''Played By:''' Jimmy Smits
A Mexican-American pimp (who refers to himself as a "companionator") and the head of a gang of Mexicans known as the Byz Lats.
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* AffablyEvil: Very much so. Nero is a pimp and a killer, but he's an extremely charming pimp and killer who is genuine in his good intentions and wants to leave the criminal life.
%%* BadassBeard
%%* ChristianityIsCatholic
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* {{Foil}}: For Clay. He steps in and more or less fills his primary roles by becoming a mentor and alternative father figure to Jax and Gemma's lover. His more gentle ways and desire to step away from the criminal lifestyle directly contrast Clay. It is also worth noting that he slips back into his old gangster ways almost at exactly the same time that Clay is booted out of the club.
%%* HonorBeforeReason
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: [[spoiler:His killing of Arcadio is justified in this way..]]
%%* GenreSavvy
%%* LatinLover
* TheMentor: He swiftly becomes one for Jax.
%%* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters
* NiceGuy: Subverted. While he is probably one of the nicest and most likable characters in the show (polite to everyone, trying to reconciliate people with each other and avoiding bad blood, bonding with her lover's son Jax and her friend Unser etc.), he lacks the throwaway characteristics of the nice guy.
* PapaWolf: To his son, Lucius.
* PimpDuds: Averted. Nero doesn't dress poorly, but he doesn't dress garishly or draw attention to himself.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Sort of. He's now listed under "Starring" after the opening credits, so he is main cast now, but he's not in the opening titles.
* RetiredBadass: At first.
* TakingTheHeat: [[spoiler:He blames himself for the guns issue, telling Patterson he bought the gun and gave it to Darvany.]]
%%* WarriorPoet
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Happy]]
!!Happy Lowman
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->'''Played By:''' David [=LaBrava=]
->'''Rank:''' Sergeant-at-Arms
->'''Years Active:''' ? - Present
SAMCRO's Sergeant-at-Arms. Formerly part of the Tacoma and Nomad charters, Happy is a ruthless killer and sports a happy face tattoo for each one of his assassinations. Like Tig, he is often asked to take on jobs for which no one else has the stomach.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Just what race ''is'' Happy? There was a reference to "his people" once, and they apparently live on a reserve, but he's never been officially identified as Native American. Whatever he is, he clearly isn't Caucasian.
* AscendedExtra: Shows up long before his official introduction as the hitman who kills Alvarez's son.
%%* BadassBiker
%%* BaldOfAwesome
* TheBigGuy: In Season 6 he's the new Sgt-at-Arms for SAMCRO.
* CombatSadomasochist: A bullet scrapes his head... his response: "I am rapturous!"
* ComicallySerious: Happy has his moments....
%%* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas
%%* GutturalGrowler
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Happy is the club's go-to guy when they need to wring information out of somebody.
* ManlyTears: When [[spoiler:Jax turns himself in the Season 6 finale.]]
* MeaningfulName: Implicitly, his name refers to his custom of getting a smiley face tattoo for every hit he carries out for the club.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickName: Subverted. One assumes Happy isn't his real name. Turns out, Happy is his real name - according to the rap sheets released on the official SOA app, anyway. Every other character is referred to as Firstname "Nickname" Lastname, even when it's barely a nickname like Clay or Bobby, but Happy's just Happy Lowman.
* ProfessionalKiller: Of the hitman type.
* PsychoForHire:
-->'''Bobby''': What are we going to do, walk up to him in the middle of Main street and cut off his head?
-->'''Happy''': Okay.
%%* SociopathicHero
* TattooedCrook: Most notably, though rarely seen, are the twenty or so smiley face tattoos he has; one for every official hit he's carried out for the club.
%%* TortureTechnician
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ratboy]]
!!George 'Ratboy' Skogstrom
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->'''Played By:''' Niko Nicotera
->'''Rank:''' Soldier
->'''Years Active:''' 2011 - Present
!!Tropes
* AscendedFanboy: After Half-Sack's death, he and a few others become prospects. [[spoiler:Becomes Ascended Prospect following the inclusion of Quinn, Montez and West.]]
* ButtMonkey: Like most Prospects, he's given all the dirty jobs that nobody else wants to do.
* LeanAndMean: He's one of the thinner SAMCRO members.
* TookALevelInBadass: He's grown more competent in recent episodes following [[spoiler:Phil's death.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: When listing off his positive traits, Jax notes that he's both loyal to the club and knows how to keep his mouth shut.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Wendy]]
!!Wendy Case
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/DreaDeMatteo
Jax Teller's ex-wife and the biological mother of Abel Teller. Wendy intentionally became pregnant in hopes that it would keep Jax with her. She is a drug addict who used methamphetamine during her pregnancy, which nearly killed Abel, who was born 10 weeks premature with a hereditary heart malfunction and a hole in his stomach.
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* BiTheWay: She has a throwaway line about having a girlfriend, but the girlfriend has never been seen. In Season 6 someone finally asks her about this girlfriend, who apparently ditched her offscreen at some point.
* ButtMonkey: Her life is a series of tragic mistakes. While she has cleaned her life together very well and found a good place for herself, living healthy and sober, the club members forever insist that she is the same reckless junkie she once was.
* TheBusCameBack: In Season 4, clean and sober, and a lesbian. Though it's not until Season 5 that she really comes back to stay.
* GenreBlind: Telling Jax to his face that she'll get Abel from him.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:For Tara in Season 6.]]
* PutOnABus: To rehab, in season one. Where she was promptly never heard from again for two seasons.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives a very accurate one to Jax and Tara.
* TookALevelInKindness: When she returns from rehab, she's a much more selfless person who feels remorse for her old days. It's implied this is what she was like pre-drug abuse.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Barosky]]
!!Charles 'Charlie' Barosky
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/PeterWeller
A corrupt former police officer who still has ties with the local police agency and controls rackets in Stockton.
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* AffablyEvil: Charlie's actually a pretty genial fellow. He's even politically correct, correcting Jax on the ethnicity of the torture porn directors.
* {{Badass}}: He's not just a talker, he's a doer, proven when he [[spoiler:kills Amir's right-hand man in such a sudden and brutal way that even Jax is shocked.]]
* BerserkButton: He is ''not'' happy when he learns that people are making child porn in his community.
%%* BlondGuysAreEvil
* CigarChomper: Usually seen with a cigar.
* CoolOldGuy: He's first seen smoking a cigar in the donut shop he owns, and from there on proves himself to be a reasonable and highly competent man.
* DirtyCop: He's an ex-cop, but he retired to prevent from being charged for corruption.
* DirtyOldMan: [[spoiler:With Collette.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: When he and Jax break into the child pornography studio, he's absolutely furious and tells Jax [[spoiler:he would've killed Alice if Jax hadn't. Later on when Jax asks Charlie what he did with Alice's body, Charlie replies that she was chopped up, burned, and buried "like a child pornographer deserves."]]
%%* KnifeNut
* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters: He's concerned with protecting his community, and doesn't take kindly to Iranian gangsters making torture porn. Later on he is absolutely outraged to find out that a child pornography studio had been operating on his turf.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: As the king of Stockton, he likes to have strict control over his territory and reacts violently to intruders but still allows the Sons to explain their honest mistake and even offers to help them out.
* {{Troll}}: [[spoiler:When Jax walks in on him having sex with Collette, he turns his head and gives him a great big mocking smile.]]
%%* WildCard
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Jax]]
!!Jackson 'Jax' Teller
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm an okay mechanic with a GED. The only thing I do well is outlaw."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Charlie Hunnam
->'''Rank:''' President (formerly Vice President)
->'''Years Active:''' 1995 - Present
->''"SAMCRO's got to change to survive."''
The current president (former vice president) of the Sons of Anarchy mother charter, having taken that rank from the previous president, Clay Morrow, by force. Born in 1978 to John and Gemma Teller, he has lived his whole life in Charming and has been raised in the club. While committed to his one percenter club's lifestyle and his fellow outlaw biker brothers, Jax still yearns to steer the organization onto a path toward long-term stability. His day job is a mechanic at Teller-Morrow Automotive Repair.
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* AntiHero: Straddles the line between Type IV and V. By the end of Season 5, it could be said that he's firmly Type V if not a VillainProtagonist.
* {{Badass}}: In every fight he's been in, with two exceptions, he's absolutely dominated, even against a trained federal agent. The only exceptions are Clay, who fought him to a standstill, and [[BadassPreacher Father Ashby]], who handed him a brief but decisive beatdown. In season 5, he gets into a fight with one of the Irish Kings, and while he holds his own it's clear that the Irishman has the advantage, though the end of the bout isn't shown.
%%* BadassBeard
%%* BadassBiker
* {{Blackmail}}: Very fond of this tactic in season 5.
%%* ByronicHero
* CorruptTheCutie: While far from being innocent, he was more idealistic and fair than the rest of the members before becoming president at the end of Season 4. By the end of Season 5, the gavel has corrupted him '''BIG''' time.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: At the end of Season 6, he seems to have crossed it with Tara's death completely shattering him.]]
%%* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Season 5 is starting to change that however.
* {{Expy}}: Of Hamlet. His corruption in Season 5 shows some shades of Macbeth as well
* FallenHero: Spends 4 seasons either wanting to take the club in a more peaceful, legitimate direction or just wanting to leave the club permanently; by Season 5, after becoming president, he ditches leaving the club and becomes more ruthless, manipulative, and self-righteous while being oblivious to the dangers he's putting his family in and the problems happening in his home-life. In the season finale, he even admits he's NotSoDifferent from Clay.
* GoodHairEvilHair: Subtle, but his slicked back blonde hair in Season 5 resembles Clay's slicked back gray hair in Season 4, signifying his transformation into Clay.
%%* GuileHero
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Becomes this in Season 5.
* [[IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim If You Kill Clay You Will Be Just Like Him]]: In "Darthy", Bobby gets Clay to confess in exchange for his life to prevent Jax from killing him behind the club's back and become Clay 2.0. Opie and Chibs also begin to notice how Jax is changing slowly into Clay, even using the same justifications such as 'protecting the Club'.
* ImportantHaircut: Not really important to him but more to the viewers who were surprised.
%%* TheHero
* HeroicBSOD: After Abel is kidnapped. [[spoiler: And when he discovers Tara's dead body at the end of Season 6]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Opie. He even tells Opie he loves him during a heart-to-heart.
* ManipulativeBastard: As part of his NotSoDifferent with Clay, Jax does know how to manipulate. Put in full force in Season 5 both the Manipulative and Bastard part, successfully pushing Pope, Tig, Juice and Gemma in the directions he desires so that Clay is toppled. Keeps it going in Season 6.
* MrFanservice: He has more shirtless scenes than any other character.
* PapaWolf: To his sons, Abel and Thomas.
* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: He begins the series as a voice of sanity, trying to be the angel on Clay's shoulder. Gradually he becomes more and more emotionally compromised as he goes head-to-head with Clay.
* RevengeBeforeReason: He kills Randall Hightower despite knowing it would damage his relationship with TO Cross.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After Opie's death, he decides to kill everyone involved.
* ShirtlessScene: He has a lot of these.
* TheUnfettered: In Season 5 he will do anything to see Clay dead.
* TragicBromance: Opie's death is what causes him to finally [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope jump off the slippery slope]].
* TranquilFury: Played with. Jax has no problem raising his voice in anger. But he has a tendency of speaking quietly and smirking when he is REALLY angry.
* VillainProtagonist: After Opie's death, Jax seems to be heading right into HeWhoFightsMonsters territory.
%%* WarriorPoet: Pre-Season 5.
* WeaponOfChoice: He favors using a knife.
* WouldHitAGirl: Not his wife, but Ima is another story. Also Wendy, whom he forces to take a speedball in one of the most distressing scenes in the series.
* YouAreInCommandNow: In the season 4 finale he assumes the role of Club President after stripping Clay of his patch.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Clay]]
!!Clarence 'Clay' Morrow
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Whatever you may think, the truth is, everything I do is to protect what we got."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/RonPerlman
->'''Rank:''' First 9
->'''Years Active:''' 1969 - 2012
The President of SAMCRO and one of the 9 founding members, Clay is Jax Teller's stepfather and Gemma Teller's husband. Suffering from arthritis in his declining age, Clay frequently disagrees with his stepson about the direction the club is going.
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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Clay's death may have been a long-time coming, but it's a solemn affair. Only Jax and Tara seem to relish his death; Gemma is distraught although understanding, and even Nero is somewhat phased by it. Clay himself faces the decision bravely, makes final peace with Gemma, and selflessly allows himself to be killed to save the club.]]
%%* AmbitionIsEvil
%%* BadassBeard
%%* BadassBiker
%%* BadassGrandpa
* BigBad: Of Season 4 and for a portion of Season 5.
%%* CoolShades
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* DentedIron: Old age and the cumulative effects of a violent life have left Clay in a sorry state; he still has his offense, but he completely lacks defense.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Like everything with Clay, his standards are ass-backwards. He's all about selling guns, but considers a legitimate porn business to be 'dirty'. It's played a little more straight when he balks at the idea of allying with white supremacists and desires to keep rapists out of his town.
* {{Expy}}: Of Claudius from ''Hamlet''
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:When it becomes clear that the Club had a vote to kill him, Clay is accepting. For once in his life, he doesn't try anything or make another play. He simply walks with them into a room, stands perfectly still and looks sorrowfully at Gemma as he waits.]]
* FateWorseThanDeath: Gets one of these courtesy of Jax when he strips Clay of his president's patch, effectively castrating the character. After admitting to everything he did in season 4, Clay is kicked out of the club and gets his inked blacked out by [[TortureTechnician Happy]]. One vote saved him from being executed by the club, but one wonders if subjecting him to "Mr. Mayhem" would have been more merciful.
%%* FauxAffablyEvil
* GeniusBruiser: Clay is a big guy and an extremely dangerous fighter, but it's his cunning that makes him a true threat.
* HappilyMarried: To Gemma, but not anymore.
%%* HotBlooded
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Some of the club (especially Bobby and Piney) seem to feel this way about Clay getting in bed with the Mexican cartel in Season 4.
* KarmaHoudini: Clay has done some pretty horrible things over the course of the show, but whenever you think he's finally going to pay for his sins something ends up saving him. It's eventually subverted when he ends up framed and sent to prison for the murder of Damon Pope. [[spoiler:When he's later broken out, it's to kill him.]]
* KlingonPromotion: How he took over the club from John Teller.
* ManipulativeBastard: Takes it to new levels in Season 5, manipulating Juice and Gemma while playing the lion-in-winter.
* MoralMyopia: Either this or a truly odd example of EvenEvilHasStandards. While he has no problem running guns, or even drugs if it suits his agenda he objects to getting involved in the completely legal porn industry because it's "dirty".
* ObfuscatingDisability: After he finally recovers from his lung damage, he keeps wearing the oxygen tank so no one knows he's actually okay.
* OutlawCouple: With Gemma, at first.
* TheStarscream: To John Teller. [[spoiler:He also pulls it off in Season 6 by killing Carson, head of the white prison gang of Stockton State Prison to save his own ass from the black prison gang.]]
* SickbedSlaying: Attempted by Jax but subverted in the Season 4 finale.
* TookALevelInJerkass: In Season 4 when he graduates to a true antagonist and all his dirty dealings come to the forefront, his sins laid bare for the Club to see.
* TheUsurper: Clay murdered John Teller and took leadership of the club from him. It ties into his status as an {{Expy}} of Hamlet's Claudius.
* WouldHitAGirl: One of the signs that he's jumped off the slippery slope is his vicious, brutal beatdown of Gemma in Season 4.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Gemma]]
!!Gemma Teller Morrow
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I believe in family."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Katey Sagal
->''"I'm protecting the innocent. If I step on a few toes in the meanwhile, so be it."''
The queen of Charming under Clay's rule. A Machiavellian schemer and expert in psychological manipulation, Gemma is the wife of Clay Morrow and the widow of John Teller. Gemma is extremely protective of her son Jax and grandsons Abel and Thomas and longs for the day when Jax will, in her eyes, be ready to assume control of SAMCRO in order to ensure the organization's survival for another generation. She adores her husband, Clay, and does her best to make things work out his way.
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%%* BadassGrandma
* BerserkButton: Clay stepping out on her while on the road is one thing. Rubbing her face in it (or so she thought) is another.
* BiTheWay: In the first season this was mostly just implied, as she enjoyed threatening other women by acting overtly sexual to them. Though Season 5 showed her having a fling or two with unnamed women.
* EasyEvangelism: Averted and then subverted. She has been slowly reconsidering her life and lack of belief but it took a gang rape, the entire second season, talking things over with several people, a character that [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane may or may not be an angel]] nudging her to do it and she's still not all the way. And then when she does get convinced God is pushing her she thinks he's telling her to kill Polly.
* EvilMatriarch: She gave the go-ahead to [[spoiler:have John Teller killed,]] and wants to raise her family in the criminal lifestyle.
* {{Expy}}: Of Gertrude from ''Hamlet''. With a good deal of LadyMacBeth thrown in.
* HollywoodAtheist: "Jesus is just the guy who mows my lawn."
* MamaBear: Or Grandma Bear in the case of her grandson.
* KnightTemplarParent and [[KnightTemplarParent Knight Templar Grandparent]]
* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]: On ''any given day'' she could plot to kill you, declaring you an enemy to the club and her family, and that you are dead to her... and then shortly after give you a hug and a reassuring speech about how you're family to her.
%%* OutlawCouple: With Clay.
* PetTheDog: From time to time, she has her moments of kindness such as comforting Tristan Oswald.
* PlatonicLifePartners: She and Unser move towards this during the second season. By the end when she's on the run from the law this has pretty much become fact. After Unser's season five callout of Gemma's habitual manipulation of everyone around her... not so much.
* PrincessInRags: Season 5 seems to largely be about Gemma struggling to find what to do with herself now that she lost her crown as the biker queen to Tara, and no longer having pull with the club.
* RapeAsDrama: She's gang-raped by Zobelle's men, sending her into a spiral of post-traumatic shock, shame, fear, vulnerability and eventually recovery.
%%* TeamMom
* WomanScorned: Clay made a suicidal mistake when he beat her up.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tara]]
!!Dr. Tara Knowles Teller
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I have created this very serious life for myself. And when I'm inside it, I barely know myself."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Maggie Siff
->''"You know why I run away from shit all the time? Cause I don't trust anyone. If I'm gonna stay, I need to know the truth."''
The childhood sweetheart of Jax Teller, Tara left Charming to escape the criminal lifestyle and became a successful surgeon. However, she ends up returning to the town and falling deeper in than ever before. She eventually marries Jax Teller, and tries to get him and their children out of Charming. Every time it seems like she'll finally get them out, something else pops up to keep it from happening, including getting her arm broken, getting arrested, and [[spoiler: ultimately, being brutally murdered by her mother-in-law.]]
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Largely deconstructed. Tara was Jax's sweetheart, and eventually marries him, but Jax's lifestyle gradually destroys and corrupts the good person she once was.
%%* {{Badass}}
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Few could really expect the sweet and scared doctor in season one would transform into a tiny Gemma, complete with the hair.
* BreakTheCutie: When the Galindo cartel breaks her hand, effectively ruining her medical career since she seemingly wont't be able to operate anymore. Borders on DespairEventHorizon.
* BrokenBird: Even before the start of the show, she fled back to Charming because she was scared for her safety by an abusive ex who was stalking her.
* ButtMonkey: Anytime something might go right for her, the club's sins slam the door on it. Sometimes literally.
* CorruptTheCutie: Started the show as the moral center and the {{Only Sane Man}} to Jax. By Season 5, while not entirely corrupted, she definitely has her share of blood on her hands. This all culminates in season 6, when she sees how far she has gone and is scared by it.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: She gets her head dunked into a sink full of dirty dish water and is then ''repeatedly '''stabbed in the back of the head''' with a carving fork''! One of the most brutal deaths in this series, for sure.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: Season 6, Episode 10. See Heroic BSOD below.
* DidntSeeThatComing: [[spoiler: It really was surprising to see her killed, rather brutally, by Gemma with a carving fork.]]
* {{Expy}}[[spoiler: The second half of Season 6 sees her become one of Ophelia from ''Hamlet''. Gemma dunking her in the sink evokes the original Ophelia drowning.]]
* HeroicBSOD: When she's arrested for her role in the death of Pamela Toric in Season 5, [[spoiler:and in Season 6 when her last ditch attempt to get her sons away from the club fails. Her face as she leaves the DA's office in Episode 10 says it all.]]
* HospitalHottie: As noticed by Jax and Kohn.
* ImportantHaircut: Two, one in season 5, which copies Gemma's and signifies her accepting her role as the biker queen, and then in season 6, [[spoiler: where she cuts her hair short, and wants nothing but to get her family out of this life.]]
%%* MamaBear
* TheMedic: Eventually, she becomes 'mob doctor' for the Sons.
* NotSoDifferent: From Gemma. Lampshaded in the season 5 finale with a fade from Tara to Gemma, with the same hairdo, and a similar expression on their faces. [[spoiler:and faking Gemma attacking her in "Sweet and Vaded"... straight from Gemma's ManipulativeBitch book.]]
* SanitySlippage: Happens in season 4 after her hand is injured during her attempted abduction.
* TookALevelInBadass: And at the same time...
%%* TookALevelInJerkass
* TraumaCongaLine: Specially in Season 4, it continues at the end of Season 5, and then again toward the end of Season 6. [[spoiler: Culminating in her death in the Season 6 finale, by the hands of a drunk Gemma]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tig]]
!!Alex 'Tig' Trager
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Oh come on, there's nothing wrong with the occasional skank."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/KimCoates
->'''Rank:''' Soldier (formerly Sergeant-at-Arms)
->'''Years Active:''' ? - Present
A member of SAMCRO, a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and was previously Sergeant-at-Arms under Clay's presidency. While he is one of the club's more violent members, discussion of Tig's penchant for bizarre and disturbing activities is often played for comic effect. While initially very loyal to Clay, Tig's loyalties have shifted toward the greater club's interests, and he has apparently acclimated himself to Jax's new role as leader after initially questioning his ferocity.
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%%* AffablyEvil
* AnythingThatMoves: On the subject of necrophilia: "You know it's weird ''at first'' but..."
%%* BadassBeard
%%* BadassBiker
* BerserkButton:
** Mistreatment of dogs really gets to him as evident in the Season 5 finale when they find the dog fighting ring.
** After the death of his daughter, any comment regarding them in a negative way will [[PapaWolf provoke a violent, murderous reaction]].
* TheBrute: To Jax in Season 5, post-Opie's death.
* ButtMonkey: In a very literal way. He keeps getting injured near the buttocks area.
* ChivalrousPervert: Although he's portrayed as a total horndog and sexual deviant, his is very kind and gentle towards women during his on-screen interactions with them.
* ComedicSociopathy: In a resigned sigh, "This is why I beat hookers."
%%* CoolShades
* CreepyBlueEyes: Has a very disconcerting set of pale blue ones.
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* TheDragon: To Clay. Until Season 4's end, in which he's no longer Sgt-at-Arms.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: See how he reacts to the dog fights in the Season 5 finale. He's also disgusted by the torture porn studio in the season six premier. Seeing how badly [[spoiler:Gemma]] was beaten was enough to make him forget his loyalty to Clay.
* ExtremeOmnisexual. Has shown or expressed interest in drag queens, sex dolls, horses and ''the dead''.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Arguably, the whole club can be seen as this to each other to varying degrees but Tig and Clay are the best example other than perhaps Jax and Opie.
%%* KavorkaMan
* KickTheDog: Killing Macky's wife.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Frequently, but the biggest mistake he's made is his killing of Veronica Pope, thus causing her not-to-be-fucked-with father to tear the sons (and Charming) apart in season 5.
* PapaWolf: In Season 5 Tig is forced to watch as his daughter is burned alive on the orders of Damon Pope. Shortly afterward he escapes and kills one of Pope's henchman as well as the "cleaner" they sent to remove the evidence of the murder. Tig also vowed that he's going to cut Pope's head off...and then lives up to his word in the season finale, if by blowing Pope's brains out instead.
* PetTheDog: His adoration of Gemma and saving Chucky. Also, despite his alleged sexual deviancy, most of his on-screen treatment of women is surprisingly gentle. There's also his rescuing and healing of a dog from the dog-fights ring operated by Dante.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: After Pope murdered his daughter he makes liberal use of the word "nigger" in a hostile manner.
* RevengeBeforeReason: When he thinks that the Niners shot Clay he rushes to exact revenge with no consideration of innocent bystanders, witnesses, how he is going to get away or whether the Niners are actually guilty.
* TooKinkyToTorture: He actually seemed to ''enjoy'' being beat up by those bounty hunters.
* UndyingLoyalty: He may be a total psychopath, but he's loyal to the club almost to a fault. Letting himself get chased by police as a distraction while the others go to Ireland is a big example.
* VillainousBSOD: His guilt over accidentally killing Donna leads him to confess to Opie.
* VillainousBreakdown: After killing Pope, and realizing he has done it with Clay's gun.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: It's never specifically explained, but it's shown frequently that he has a phobia of dolls. Seeing a sexdoll caused him extremely torn emotions.
* YesMan: To Jax post Season 5; after Jax saves him from Pope's reprisal, Jax tells him plainly that he can never go against Jax on any vote or action as payment.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Chibs]]
!!Filip 'Chibs' Telford
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->'''Played By:''' Tommy Flanagan
->'''Rank:''' Vice President (former Sergeant-at-Arms)
->'''Years Active:''' 1989 - Present
SAMCRO's vice president. Chibs is extremely loyal to Jax. Originally from Glasgow, Scotland, he grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He served as a medic with the British Army, but only lasted five months before he was expelled after a court martial. His battlefield experience makes him the club's medic for backroom emergency surgery. The word "chib" is Scottish street slang for a blade, a slash or a cut.
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%%* BadassBiker
%%* BadassMustache
%%* BritishAccent: Scottish.
* TheConsigliere: By Season 6 he's the new Vice President of SAMCRO. He's much more proactive about it than Bobby was, up to the point of physically putting his hands on Jax and throwing him against the wall when Jax made a particularly stupid move without consulting him first.
%%* CoolShades
* TheDragon: Fits this role most to Jax in season 5. Specially [[spoiler:after Opie is killed]]
* DualWielding: Has been seen wielding two scalpels and wears a holster with two guns. Later, in season 5 when the club is trying to convince a councilman's stepson to have sex with a transvestite, the club claim to have all engaged in homosexual activity occasionally, with each member talking about how they've all had "dicks". Chibs, hilariously, is the one to yell "Two dicks!", while making the universal gesture for oral sex... with each hand.
%%* GenreSavvy
* GlasgowSmile: Bonus points for real-life authenticity.
%%* HotBlooded
%%* KnifeNut
%%* TheMedic
%%* PapaWolf
* OnlySaneMan: In season 4 he emerges as the most grounded and no-nonsense member of the club.
* ScarsAreForever: Where he gets his nickname (Scottish slang)
* {{Scotireland}}: Scottish-born, raised in Ireland and married an Irish woman, though he retains a Scottish accent. He served in the British Army but became a fanatical Irish Republican.
%%* SkunkStripe
%%* TookALevelInJerkass:[[spoiler: In Season 6]]
%%* ViolentGlaswegian
%%* WarriorPoet
* WorkingWithTheEx: Briefly when SAMCRO travels to Ireland
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bobby]]
!!Robert 'Bobby Elvis' Munson
[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/munson_robert_561.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"When you want blind action, you go to [[AxCrazy Tig]]. When you want the truth, you come to me."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Mark Boone Junior
->'''Rank:''' Soldier (formerly Secretary & Vice President)
->'''Years Active:''' ? - Present
The even-tempered treasury secretary of SAMCRO, and remains in the position after Clay is voted out. The son of a Jewish accountant who worked with the Mafia, Munson brings a level of practicality to the group, offering advice to the younger Jax on a frequent basis. Munson is also known as "Bobby Elvis" for his infrequent dressing up as an Elvis Presley impersonator at toy rallies and other events where children are present. Though he frequently maintains calm among the group, Bobby is more than capable of doing violence.
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%%* BadassBeard
%%* BadassBiker
%%* BadassGrandpa
* TheConsigliere: To Clay and later to Jax in Season 5.[[spoiler:Returns to it in mid Season 6, with Jax even referring to him as such]]
%%* CoolOldGuy
%%* CoolShades: In Season 6.
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* ElvisImpersonator: How he makes his money on the side.
* GeniusBruiser: In addition to being a badass who can hold his own in a fight, Bobby also has enough business know-how to manage Cara Cara.
* HonestAdvisor: To Clay and Jax. He'll always tell them how he sees things, even if they don't want to hear it.
%%* HiddenDepths
* InformedJudaism: Apart from his appearances as fat Elvis on Bar Mitzwa parties, there's literally nothing that points at Bobby being from a Jewish background.
* KavorkaMan: Likely due to his power and position within the club.
%%* KnightInSourArmour
* NumberTwo: To Jax in Season 5 when he serves as SAMCRO's VP. Until the season finale in which he resigns to the position.
* OnlySaneMan: From Season 2 onward.
* RealMenWearPink: Do not let the pompadour, the detailing on his jacket or the organic cooking fool you. Really. Don't.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After the events of season 5, Bobby apparently leaves SAMCRO and begins trying to rebuild the Nomad charter. [[spoiler:{{Subverted}}: Bobby was really trying to recruit for SAMCRO to get some level headed thinkers into the charter. He rejoins part way through season 6.]]
%%* TeamChef
* WhatTheHellHero: Comes down pretty hard with this on Jax towards the end of season 5 for his actions towards Clay.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Unser]]
!!Wayne Unser
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I'm not sure which cancer is worse: the one in me or the one in Charming."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Dayton Callie
->''"Charming is a special town. Not many folks take to it. I like to think the town chooses its occupants. The right ones stay…wrong ones disappear."''
The former Chief of the Charming Police Department, he is corrupt in that he deals with the Sons of Anarchy whom he sees as a benefit to the town, because the Sons successfully keep drugs and violence out of Charming, and protect the population from many other unwanted things like ruthless developers, such as Jacob Hale Jr.
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%%* BaldOfAwesome
* BerserkButton: Minor one after seeing Gemma has been beat up by Clay.
* ConvenientTerminalIllness: He's been dying of cancer for years now.
* CorruptCop: He has been covering for the Sons for decades and is almost a honorary member of the club. Unlike most examples of this trope, though, he still has a strong moral compass and assists the Sons not out of greed, but because he honestly believes that the police working with the Sons is what's best for Charming.
%%* CoolOldGuy
%%* DealWithTheDevil
* DespairEventHorizon: Between the end of Season 3 and the beginning of Season 4 when he loses his job. [[PetTheDog Gemma and Clay drag him back from it.]]
%%* GenreSavvy
* JustFriends: It's implied a few times in the series that Wayne has a crush on Gemma. Gemma is aware of this as well, and occasionally uses it to manipulate Wayne into doing her bidding.
* LastDance: He is dying of cancer and is spending what time he has left trying to protect Gemma and Tara.
* PlatonicLifePartners: See Gemma. By Season 6 however, Unser admits he's doesn't just love Gemma, he's ''in'' love with her, upgrading him to DoggedNiceGuy.
%%* PromotionToOpeningTitles: In season 3.
%%* TookALevelInBadass
* WildCard: He becomes one for Clay. He will help Clay one moment and then sabotage him the next. He is no longer afraid of Clay and his real loyalties lie with Gemma and Tara.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Opie]]
!!Harry 'Opie' Winston
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Feel like I'm missin' on every front."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Ryan Hurst
->'''Rank:''' Soldier
->'''Years Active:''' 1995 - 2012
The son of SAMCRO co-founder Piney, a member of SAMCRO, and best friend of Jax since childhood. Opie's mother took him away from Piney and Charming when he was 16, but he left her and returned to his father and the club.
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%%* BadassBeard
%%* BadassBiker
%%* BeardOfSorrow
%%* ButtMonkey
* {{Expy}}: Started off as the Horatio to Jax's Hamlet, but sliding more into a Laertes sort of relationship with Clay/Claudius. By the end of Season 3 he reconciles with Jax.
* DueToTheDead: The "In memory of "OPIE"" patch Jax wears on his cut.
* DeathSeeker: Becomes this after Donna's death. He gets better eventually, but his father's death at Clay's hands, and being stopped from killing him by Jax himself gets him back to this territory, leading to... (see just below)
* HeroicSacrifice: In Season 5 when he volunteers to be the club member to die at the hands of Damon Pope.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Jax. When Jax talks to Opie about leaving the club, Opie tells Jax that he ''needs'' him.
* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: During an attempt to intimidate a judge into giving a favorable verdict in a case by threatening the judge's son, Opie suffers a HeroicBSOD that hints this may be why he's been distancing himself from his own kids when it becomes clear how little the judge cares for his [[TheUnFavorite own son]].
%%* TheLancer: To Jax.
%%* PromotionToOpeningTitles: In Season 2.
%%* SacrificialLion
* TraumaCongaLine: If spending five years in prison for somebody else's rap wasn't enough, then his wife Donna gets murdered by Tig, because he'd been framed as a rat. Jump to season 4 and his dad gets murdered by Clay for threatening to expose him, and then Jax shoots him before he can avenge Piney's death. Topped off by going to prison again and being brutally beaten to death by the enemies of the club.
* YourCheatingHeart: He slept with Ima Tite while still married to Lyla.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Piney]]
!!Piermont 'Piney' Winston
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Your father saw this coming. He saw the feds, the Irish, guys like Zobelle. And he knew we were going to die bloody."'']]
->'''Played By:''' William Lucking
->'''Rank:''' First 9
->'''Years Active:''' 1967 - 2011
A co-founder of SAMCRO and father of Opie Winston. He was a veteran of the Vietnam War and must carry an oxygen tank with him at all times due to emphysema.
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%%* BadassBiker
%%* BadassGrandpa
* BerserkButton: Hurting or treating women badly seems to be one. He's distraught at Donna's death and when Opie cheats on Lyla, he straight up slugs him.
%%* BewareTheQuietOnes
%%* CoolOldGuy
* DrowningMySorrows: Prone to bouts of depression in which he does this.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: His oxygen tank.
* PapaWolf: To Opie, but he knows how tough Opie is so he mostly directs his protection toward his grandchildren, Donna and Lyla.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: In Season 2.
%%* TeamDad
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Juice]]
!!Juan-Carlos 'Juice' Ortiz
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->'''Played By:''' Theo Rossi
->'''Rank:''' Soldier
->'''Years Active:''' 2003 - Present
The club's hacker and intelligence officer. He has proven to be somewhat simple-minded when it comes to other tasks, which often prompts hazing from the other members. He is in charge of club surveillance and manages some of the club's intelligence and communication.
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%%* BadassBiker
%%* BaldOfAwesome
* BreakTheCutie: As of [[spoiler:season six, episode two. Jax tasking him with Darvany's murder isn't helping his already fragile psyche.]] And again as of [[spoiler:Clay's death in season six, episode eleven]].
%%* ButtMonkey
%%* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass
* DespairEventHorizon: After Clay gives him his Men of Mayhem patch for having the stones to kill Miles. This leads to...
* DrivenToSuicide: He makes several failed attempts to kill himself to the point where he becomes a DeathSeeker.
** At the end of "Fruit for the Crows". Becomes a BungledSuicide when the tree branch he is trying to hang himself from snaps.
** His hopscotching through the cartel's minefield in season four, episode twelve was almost definitely another suicide attempt.
** Repeated in [[spoiler:season six, episode twelve, via a handful of oxy]], after [[spoiler:Bobby waxes rhapsodic about why Clay had to die]].
* TheCracker: Played fairly realistically.
* DeathSeeker: Becomes this in Season 4 after being forced to become TheMole. Again in season six, after [[spoiler:Jax tasks him with Darvany's murder. He very nearly becomes roadkill on two occasions.]]
* DisappearedDad: Probably why he tailed Clay around like a puppy in Season 5.
* HairTriggerTemper: As a result of his BreakTheCutie, he's developed this.
* ManlyTears: Especially in seasons four and five.
* TheMole: Blackmailed by Roosevelt. Then by Potter.
* OutDamnedSpot: [[spoiler:After killing Darvany on Jax's orders.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: True of the actors, anyway - would you believe Theo Rossi is actually six years older than Charlie Hunnam and two years older than Ryan Hurst?
%%* PromotionToOpeningTitles: In Season 2.
%%* TattooedCrook
%%* TechnoWizard
%%* TokenMinority
* TokenGoodTeammate: Kinda, at least pre-BreakTheCutie. [[spoiler: By the end of season 6, he definitely jumped off the slippery slope.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: While he was always pretty badass, he's stepped it up a notch in season 6, rivalling Chibs, Tig, and Happy.
%%* TraumaCongaLine
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[[folder:Half-Sack]]
!!Kip 'Half-Sack' Epps
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->'''Played By:''' Johnny Lewis
->'''Rank:''' Prospect (patched-in posthumously)
->'''Years Active:''' 2008 - 2009
An army veteran of the Iraq War and prospective member. He is killed by Cameron Hayes in season 2.
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%%* BadassBiker
* ButtMonkey: He's caught in a cycle where the club makes fun of him for being stupid, so he does something ''really'' stupid to try and impress them, and thus they mock him even more.
* ChewToy: Being a prospect means it's his job to be belittled by the club and given all the horrible jobs nobody else wants to do.
%%* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: The actor left because he was dissatisfied with how the character was being treated.
%%* NiceGuy
* PermaStubble: Unlike the other regular cast members, he never changes his physical appearance.
* ScarsAreForever: His nickname refers to a war wound. [[GroinAttack A really nasty one.]] This trope hits even harder on the nail later on after he tries to get an artificial testicle put in, but his body rejects it and it has to be removed.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Nero]]
!!Neron 'Nero' Padilla
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->'''Played By:''' Jimmy Smits
A Mexican-American pimp (who refers to himself as a "companionator") and the head of a gang of Mexicans known as the Byz Lats.
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* AffablyEvil: Very much so. Nero is a pimp and a killer, but he's an extremely charming pimp and killer who is genuine in his good intentions and wants to leave the criminal life.
%%* BadassBeard
%%* ChristianityIsCatholic
%%* DeadpanSnarker
* {{Foil}}: For Clay. He steps in and more or less fills his primary roles by becoming a mentor and alternative father figure to Jax and Gemma's lover. His more gentle ways and desire to step away from the criminal lifestyle directly contrast Clay. It is also worth noting that he slips back into his old gangster ways almost at exactly the same time that Clay is booted out of the club.
%%* HonorBeforeReason
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: [[spoiler:His killing of Arcadio is justified in this way..]]
%%* GenreSavvy
%%* LatinLover
* TheMentor: He swiftly becomes one for Jax.
%%* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters
* NiceGuy: Subverted. While he is probably one of the nicest and most likable characters in the show (polite to everyone, trying to reconciliate people with each other and avoiding bad blood, bonding with her lover's son Jax and her friend Unser etc.), he lacks the throwaway characteristics of the nice guy.
* PapaWolf: To his son, Lucius.
* PimpDuds: Averted. Nero doesn't dress poorly, but he doesn't dress garishly or draw attention to himself.
* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Sort of. He's now listed under "Starring" after the opening credits, so he is main cast now, but he's not in the opening titles.
* RetiredBadass: At first.
* TakingTheHeat: [[spoiler:He blames himself for the guns issue, telling Patterson he bought the gun and gave it to Darvany.]]
%%* WarriorPoet
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[[folder:Happy]]
!!Happy Lowman
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->'''Played By:''' David [=LaBrava=]
->'''Rank:''' Sergeant-at-Arms
->'''Years Active:''' ? - Present
SAMCRO's Sergeant-at-Arms. Formerly part of the Tacoma and Nomad charters, Happy is a ruthless killer and sports a happy face tattoo for each one of his assassinations. Like Tig, he is often asked to take on jobs for which no one else has the stomach.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Just what race ''is'' Happy? There was a reference to "his people" once, and they apparently live on a reserve, but he's never been officially identified as Native American. Whatever he is, he clearly isn't Caucasian.
* AscendedExtra: Shows up long before his official introduction as the hitman who kills Alvarez's son.
%%* BadassBiker
%%* BaldOfAwesome
* TheBigGuy: In Season 6 he's the new Sgt-at-Arms for SAMCRO.
* CombatSadomasochist: A bullet scrapes his head... his response: "I am rapturous!"
* ComicallySerious: Happy has his moments....
%%* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas
%%* GutturalGrowler
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Happy is the club's go-to guy when they need to wring information out of somebody.
* ManlyTears: When [[spoiler:Jax turns himself in the Season 6 finale.]]
* MeaningfulName: Implicitly, his name refers to his custom of getting a smiley face tattoo for every hit he carries out for the club.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickName: Subverted. One assumes Happy isn't his real name. Turns out, Happy is his real name - according to the rap sheets released on the official SOA app, anyway. Every other character is referred to as Firstname "Nickname" Lastname, even when it's barely a nickname like Clay or Bobby, but Happy's just Happy Lowman.
* ProfessionalKiller: Of the hitman type.
* PsychoForHire:
-->'''Bobby''': What are we going to do, walk up to him in the middle of Main street and cut off his head?
-->'''Happy''': Okay.
%%* SociopathicHero
* TattooedCrook: Most notably, though rarely seen, are the twenty or so smiley face tattoos he has; one for every official hit he's carried out for the club.
%%* TortureTechnician
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ratboy]]
!!George 'Ratboy' Skogstrom
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->'''Played By:''' Niko Nicotera
->'''Rank:''' Soldier
->'''Years Active:''' 2011 - Present
!!Tropes
* AscendedFanboy: After Half-Sack's death, he and a few others become prospects. [[spoiler:Becomes Ascended Prospect following the inclusion of Quinn, Montez and West.]]
* ButtMonkey: Like most Prospects, he's given all the dirty jobs that nobody else wants to do.
* LeanAndMean: He's one of the thinner SAMCRO members.
* TookALevelInBadass: He's grown more competent in recent episodes following [[spoiler:Phil's death.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: When listing off his positive traits, Jax notes that he's both loyal to the club and knows how to keep his mouth shut.
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[[folder:Wendy]]
!!Wendy Case
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/DreaDeMatteo
Jax Teller's ex-wife and the biological mother of Abel Teller. Wendy intentionally became pregnant in hopes that it would keep Jax with her. She is a drug addict who used methamphetamine during her pregnancy, which nearly killed Abel, who was born 10 weeks premature with a hereditary heart malfunction and a hole in his stomach.
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* BiTheWay: She has a throwaway line about having a girlfriend, but the girlfriend has never been seen. In Season 6 someone finally asks her about this girlfriend, who apparently ditched her offscreen at some point.
* ButtMonkey: Her life is a series of tragic mistakes. While she has cleaned her life together very well and found a good place for herself, living healthy and sober, the club members forever insist that she is the same reckless junkie she once was.
* TheBusCameBack: In Season 4, clean and sober, and a lesbian. Though it's not until Season 5 that she really comes back to stay.
* GenreBlind: Telling Jax to his face that she'll get Abel from him.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:For Tara in Season 6.]]
* PutOnABus: To rehab, in season one. Where she was promptly never heard from again for two seasons.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives a very accurate one to Jax and Tara.
* TookALevelInKindness: When she returns from rehab, she's a much more selfless person who feels remorse for her old days. It's implied this is what she was like pre-drug abuse.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Barosky]]
!!Charles 'Charlie' Barosky
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/PeterWeller
A corrupt former police officer who still has ties with the local police agency and controls rackets in Stockton.
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* AffablyEvil: Charlie's actually a pretty genial fellow. He's even politically correct, correcting Jax on the ethnicity of the torture porn directors.
* {{Badass}}: He's not just a talker, he's a doer, proven when he [[spoiler:kills Amir's right-hand man in such a sudden and brutal way that even Jax is shocked.]]
* BerserkButton: He is ''not'' happy when he learns that people are making child porn in his community.
%%* BlondGuysAreEvil
* CigarChomper: Usually seen with a cigar.
* CoolOldGuy: He's first seen smoking a cigar in the donut shop he owns, and from there on proves himself to be a reasonable and highly competent man.
* DirtyCop: He's an ex-cop, but he retired to prevent from being charged for corruption.
* DirtyOldMan: [[spoiler:With Collette.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: When he and Jax break into the child pornography studio, he's absolutely furious and tells Jax [[spoiler:he would've killed Alice if Jax hadn't. Later on when Jax asks Charlie what he did with Alice's body, Charlie replies that she was chopped up, burned, and buried "like a child pornographer deserves."]]
%%* KnifeNut
* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters: He's concerned with protecting his community, and doesn't take kindly to Iranian gangsters making torture porn. Later on he is absolutely outraged to find out that a child pornography studio had been operating on his turf.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: As the king of Stockton, he likes to have strict control over his territory and reacts violently to intruders but still allows the Sons to explain their honest mistake and even offers to help them out.
* {{Troll}}: [[spoiler:When Jax walks in on him having sex with Collette, he turns his head and gives him a great big mocking smile.]]
%%* WildCard
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