Sons of Anarchy
TheSons of Anarchyclub came across various enemies over the course of instruction of the serial , and while some of them had personal issues with one or more member of the club , many of them aim the club as a whole and want to bring it down – and here ’s why . Back in 2008 , Kurt Sutter took viewers intothe macrocosm of bike clubsin the action crime dramatic event television set seriesSons of Anarchy . The show was very well - received by critics and viewers from the commencement , with most praise going towards the performances of the principal cast ( particularly that of Katey Sagal as Gemma Teller - Morrow ) and the base turn to in it , allowingSons of Anarchyto live on for a sum of seven seasons full of action , betrayals , and demise .
plant in the fictional townspeople of Charming , California , Sons of Anarchywas led by Jackson “ Jax ” Teller ( Charlie Hunnam ) , VP of the title of respect club at the beginning of the series and the son ofJohn “ JT ” Teller , one of the founder of the cabaret . The series kicks off when Jax notice his male parent ’s manifesto , in which he detail his idea and views for the order , which were very dissimilar from those of the nightspot ’s current President ( and Jax ’s stepfather ) , Clay Morrow ( Ron Perlman ) . These infringe views , along with job within the club and with other groups , send Jax on a journey that makes him wonder his family relationship , family , and role in the club .
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In addition to his inner struggles and those in his personal life , mostly related to his mother , Gemma , and his wifeTara Knowles ( Maggie Siff ) , Jax sell with various battle with other clubs , constitution , and even authority , of which some looked to destroy SAMCRO for different reasons . Here ’s why everySons of Anarchyvillain wanted to destroy SAMCRO .
June Stahl
June Stahl ( Ally Walker ) was one of the biggest villains inSons of Anarchyas she served as an antagonist across the first three season of the series . Stahl was an agent of the ATF who arrive in Charming inSons of Anarchyseason 1 after being allot to a suit involving SAMCRO and interstate arms trafficking . As the series progressed , Stahl became more and more obsessed with destroy SAMCRO , more so after being hard beat byOtto Delaney ( Sutter ) , who she tried to play a trick on into ratting on the golf club . Stahl was responsible for the death of Opie ’s ( Ryan Hurst ) married woman , Donna , as she made Clay think Opie had rat on the club , which leave Clay to get off Tig ( Kim Coates ) to kill Opie , but he switched places with Donna on the last minute and Tig killed Donna instead . As SAMCRO keep overreach her , Stahl ’s hate for the club and its members only grow , to the point where she did n’t care how many innocent lives she had to take in Holy Order to destroy the gild . Ultimately , SAMCRO proved to be smarter than her and she was arrange up , with Opie kill her in a similar manner to how Donna was murdered .
Ethan Zobelle
Ethan Zobelle ( Adam Arkin ) was the leader of the League of American Nationalists , a lily-white separatist business arrangement ally with the Aryan Brotherhood . Zobelle was premise inSons of Anarchyseason 2 , and he make it in Charming posing as a businessman and owner of Impeccable Smokes , but he actually had other architectural plan . Zobelle wanted to take restraint of Charming , and after the death of his married woman , he was compulsive to take down street crowd , and one of those was SAMCRO . Zobelle went to extremes to force SAMCRO out of Charming , including ship his man to rape Gemma , planting a turkey at the gild ’s auto store , and burn down Cara Cara . Although Jax and the rest of the gild killed his daughter , Polly ( Sarah Jones ) , and his right - hand man , A.J. Weston ( Henry Rollins),Zobelle managed to escape Charming , but it ’s been theorized that he diedshortly after in a plane crash .
Jimmy O’Phelan
Jimmy O’Phelan ( Titus Welliver ) was one ofSons of Anarchy ’s most serious villains . O’Phelan was a street boss and the face of the True IRA , as well as Chibs ' ( Tommy Flanagan ) archenemy , and he was introduced inSons of Anarchyseason 2 and served as an antagonist in seasons 2 and 3 . His rivalry with Chibs was his independent reasonableness to destroy SAMCRO , and even though he cultivate with the baseball club and judge to repair the True IRA ’s kinship with SAMCRO , he took any chance that get up to bring the club down , and he even attempt to kill them all by botch up a hit man cargo they were protect . Just like with Stahl , SAMCRO was smarter than O’Phelan and he was captured by the nightspot along with Stahl , and whileOpie dealt with Stahl , Chibs got his revenge by pass on O’Phelan a Glasgow Smile like the one he give him years ago before last killing him .
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Lincoln Potter
Lincoln Potter ( Ray McKinnon ) is a U.S. Attorney who investigated SAMCRO inSons of Anarchyseason 4 . give the club ’s illegal patronage and links to other clubhouse and criminal brass , SAMCRO was often seen as a threat to Charming , though many occupier actually saw them as the town ’s protectors . thrower , however , was among those who saw the club as a menace , so he arrived in Charming with a task force of FBI , ICE , and ATF agent with the goal of bringing down the entirety of SAMCRO , RIRA , and the ROC . In parliamentary law to attain this , Potter , like Stahl , test to use Otto , but he found more success in blackmailing Juice Ortiz ( Theo Rossi ) , thus manipulating him as he delight . ceramicist ’s programme failed as two members of the Galindo Cartel were revealed to be undercover CIA agents with a legal order that forced Potter to stop his plans and give up all info on the RICO case to them , and he end up leaving Charming .
Galen O’Shay
Galen O’Shay ( Timothy V. Murphy ) , also known as the " Butcher of Belfast " , was a leading extremity of the True IRA , serving as an adversary in seasons 4 , 5 , and 6 ofSons of Anarchy . While O’Shay work with SAMCRO by betray them weapons , he felt betrayed by the club when the Galindo Cartel attacked their warehouse to slip their weapons . The relationship betweenJax ( who by then was already SAMCRO ’s President)and O’Shay became tenser when Jax told him his intentions of getting the golf club out of the guns business organisation though he would try and get the San Bernardino charter to take over , which did n’t sit down well with O’Shay , who had already side with Clay . O’Shay later killed SAMCRO ’s prospects Filthy Phil and V - Lin and beam explosives to the clubhouse during the Sons ’ lockdown , but Jax note them on time and nobody was killed in the explosion . Jax and the cabaret tricked O’Shay and caller into forgather with them thanks to Clay , but they ended up killing not only O’Shay and his men but also Clay , so as to make it look as if they had killed each other .
Damon Pope
Damon Pope ( Harold Perrineau ) was a drug kingpin and the most dangerous and knock-down mobster in Oakland , as well as one of the most horrendous scoundrel inSons of Anarchy . His rivalry with SAMCRO began when Tig , believing the One - Niners ( one of the gangs supervise by Pope ) assail Clay , attempted to run down their leader , Laroy Wayne , but instead , he killed his girlfriend , Veronica , Pope ’s daughter . Pope ’s first motion-picture show was burning Tig ’s girl , Dawn , animated in front of him , and after that came a multipart retaliation that included taking part of SAMCRO ’s profits from running drug for the cartel , sending Tig , Jax , and Chibs to jailhouse , and demand the death of one Sons fellow member in Holy Order to allow them out , though Tig would stay in poky . In the remainder , Opie got himself arrestedin club to conjoin his pal in jail and sacrificed himself for the club , while Jax negotiate Tig ’s freedom by promising Pope to hand him over . The latter was a carefully depend programme by Jax , as he never intended to hand Tig over , and instead , he trap Pope and gave Tig the prospect to vote out the man who burned his girl alive .
August Marks
August Marks ( Billy Brown ) was Pope ’s primary hatchet man and right - hand man , who took over after Pope ’s murder . Although Jax and Marks maintained a good relationship , though not without a span of obstacle at first , Marks decided to bring SAMCRO down after Jax started a state of war with the Lin Triads , which Marks disapprove of . Jax later formed an alignment with the One - Niners and the Mayans to take down Marks and his hoi polloi , so Marks kidnapped Bobby Munson ( Mark Boone Junior ) , tortured him , and killed him in front of Jax as the latter keep lying to him . Ultimately , SAMCRO used the backup leverage they had to have Marks halt , but Jax settle to have his retaliation before hekilled himself in theSons of Anarchyfinaleand shot and belt down Marks on the step of the courthouse .
