This one wins the award for most random, as the Charming police office was fatally run over during a drive-by at Half-Sack's funeral.
One of our favorite deaths of the series, Kozik wasn't taken out by a rival gang or anything. No, he died courtesy of a land mine after saying, "You gotta be shittin' me."
Truly one of the show's most shocking deaths, mostly because it came out of left field, with Otto offing the former U.S. Marshal (and eternal thorn in the club's side) in jail. How fitting then that Toric's last words were, "I didn't even see that coming."
Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The sheriff of Charming was killed by Juice after he walked in on Gemma standing over Tara's dead body in the season six finale.
Chibs got the ultimate revenge on the leader of the REAL IRA group after he was banished from Ireland and lost his wife to the baddie. (It's also why he has the scars on his face.) Before stabbing Jimmy to death after he tried to use Jax's son Abel as leverage, Chibs carved a Glasgow smile on his face.
Oakland's drug kingpin, season five's main villain was out for the club's blood, specifically Tig's, after the death of his daughter. And revenge he was able to get when he burned Tig's daughter alive right in front of him. Ultimately, Tig killed Pope (using Clay's gun), after a major double-cross from Jax.
One of SAMCRO's most formidable legal foes, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent was brutally shot in the back of the head by Opie, the same way his wife was killed, a death caused by her actions.
While it nice to finally get rid of Tara's obsessive ex (Jax killed him after Tara shot him), Jax and Tara's decision to have sex in the same room as his dead body overshadowed the death itself in season one.
Who didn't cheer when Jax killed the white supremacist, who raped Gemma, along with his men, in the season two finale?
After helping SAMCRO for most of his life, the former Chief of Charming PD was killed by none other than Jax when he refused to leave the revenge-seeking son alone with Gemma, knowing he would kill her for murdering Tara. While Unser's murder was shocking and heartbreaking, his days were already numbered thanks to his cancer, hence why his death isn't ranked higher on this list.
The prospective SAMCRO member Half-Sack was stabbed in the stomach and killed while trying to protect Tara and Abel in the season-two finale. Sutter later revealed that actor Johnny Lewis, who passed away in 2012, asked to be written off the show, a strange prelude to the actor's own horrific death scene.
Creator Kurt Sutter doesn't just kill his darlings, he kills his even the character he plays. Sutter's on-screen alter ego bit the dust in season six after killing Lee Toric in prison, being gunned down by guards after the act, finally bringing his seasons worth of torture and suffering to a most-welcome end.
One of SAMCRO's co-founders is killed by one of its other co-founders in one of the series' saddest deaths. Clay shot Piney and then marked the cabin wall with an "LS" written in the fallen's blood to make it look like the Lobos Sonora, a rival drug cartel, made the kill.
After getting his eye cut out and his clutch hand cut off, Bobby Elvis was shot in the head right in front of Jax by August Marks to prove to the club that he meant business, and if they betrayed him they'd suffer the same fate. Seeing as how Bobby was the last moral member of SAMCRO, his death meant that literally no one was getting out of this alive, and at this point, no one really deserved to get out unscathed.
One of the sweetest members of SAMCRO, Juice spent the entire final season first on the run from the club after helping Gemma cover up Tara's murder and then in prison paying for his sins, trying to make things right with Jax and the rest of the club. And pay he did, by getting raped over and over again by Tully (Marilyn Manson), the leader of the Aryan Brotherhood in prison, and then by the Chinese gang members in prison as retaliation for the murder of their boss, Henry Lin (Kenneth Choi). When Jax gave the AB the okay to kill Juice, he met his end with a detached acceptance, and finished one last slice of pie before Tully stabbed him in the neck during a prison riot.
In a truly tragic twist, Tig ended up killing Opie's wife when Clay sent him to kill Opie, who is wracked with guilt as Donna, the mother of his two children, pushed him to leave the Sons behind. Hindsight, it's such a you-know-what.
It was the death six seasons in the making and yet it still hurt like a, well, you know. Especially because it was Jax who offed Clay, shooting him six times in front of a shocked Gemma, Tara and Nero…two episodes before the season finale.
The mother of SAMCRO, Gemma was the reason for so much violence and bloodshed over the entire series, but most of all in the final season after her lie about Tara's murder sparked an all-out gang war. When Jax finally learned the truth, he put a bullet in his own mother's head. The entire seventh season led up to this moment, but seeing it play out in the penultimate episode resulted in one of the most shocking and game-changing deaths of the entire series.
Oof, this one still hurts. After attempting to leave Charming all season in order to protect the boys, Tara dies at the hands (or meat carving fork, we should clarify) of her mother-in-law Gemma, who wrongly believes Jax's wife ratted on the club.
Watching a sobbing Jax cradle Tara's dead body in his arms was just devastating, and perfectly teed up the biker drama's final season.
Like father, like son, the Club was ultimately the death of both Piney and Opie. The fan favorite died in particularly brutal fashion (a pipe to the back of the head) after volunteering to take one for the team, especially his best friend Jax, while they are in prison. It was violent. It was brutal. It was devastating. And it shocked an entire fanbase.
After everything that went down in the final season, there was no other outcome: Jax had to die. But instead of putting that dark responsibility on his friends, family and the club, he went out on his own terms and rode his father's bike into an oncoming truck. While it wasn't unexpected (SAMCRO already voted to have Jax meet Mr. Mayhem), his death is the series' most important because he cleaned up all the loose ends and settled both his club and family business before dying, righting every wrong, taking out every bad guy still standing and finally accomplishing what his father died trying to do: make the club legit. It was the perfect ending to an imperfect life, and his legacy will live on forever. RIP Jax Teller, it was one hell of a ride.
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