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Jacob Hale Jr.
Mayor Jacob Hale Jr.
"Even if I'm the Devil, it wouldn't be the first time you shook my hand, Wayne."
Played By: Jeff Kober
Clay: Jacob Hale becomes mayor... Charming turns into suburban Disneyland.
A businessman and older brother of Deputy Chief David Hale. He becomes Mayor of Charming and is planning a new set of luxury homes known Charming Heights.
- Beard of Evil: In Season 5, he sports a nifty Van Dyke, because he wasn't enough like the devil.
- Blackmail: He's been on both sides of it.
- The Chessmaster: In Season 3, as he moves players across the board to earn himself the position of Mayor and make Charming Heights a reality. He succeeds in becoming Mayor.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: A real estate executive willing to resort to pay criminals to vandalize places so that they are forced to sell to him.
- Corrupt Politician: Hale became Mayor so he could streamline his real estate deals; he has no real interest in serving Charming.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He might be a sleazy, power-hungry jerk, but when he, Jax and Tara are held hostage by Hector Salazar, it's Hale who helps resolve the situation by stabbing Salazar.
- Deal with the Devil: His deals with LOAN, but the rest of the time he's the devil himself. He even lampshades it.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: As conflicted as their relationship was, Hale loved his brother, David.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Hale might be sleazy, amoral and smug, but he draws the line at outright cold-blooded murderer. He's outraged when Salazar beats Lumpy Feldstein half to death, when he was only supposed to scare him.
- He also agrees without question to Jax's request that Lyla and her (and Opie's) children get subsidized housing in the new Charming Heights neighborhood as part of their deal.
- Faux Affably Evil: He's a smiling devil, but it's hard to ignore the trail of slime he leaves behind him.
- Mayor Pain: As Mayor, he's corrupt to the core and his tenure as Mayor only hurts the town.
- Sleazy Politician: Jacob tries to fund Charming Heights with proceeds from a very sketchy sex industry in Japan that caters to pedophiles.
Ima Tite
Played By: Kristen Renton
"You know how easily I dry out under stress."
A porn star employed by Luann Delaney. At one point, she is infatuated with Jax and tries to make him and Tara break up. Later tries to do the same with Opie and Lyla(her supposed friend).
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: She has a 'thing' for bikers.
- Alpha Bitch: Among her fellow porn actors since she's a popular rising star.
- Asshole Victim: You know what they say about you should never hit a woman? Well, that rule doesn’t apply when it comes to Ima. Right, Jax?
- Even Evil Has Standards: She's more self-interested than truly evil, but still, she shows concern for Lyla when she's abused by Iranian pornographers.
- Has a Type: Bikers, particularly ones who are already in relationships.
- Hate Sink: Is gorgeous, but due to her horrendously ugly personality nobody can put up with her for more than five minutes.
- Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Averted. Ima is a scheming, Manipulative Bitch who seems to have a thing for bikers who have girlfriends or wives.
- Jerkass: She has an obnoxious, bitchy attitude towards everyone for seemingly no reason.
- Laser-Guided Karma:
- There is a scene where Tara and Gemma shoots at Ima's car. Both of whom are fed up with Ima's behaviour.
- At one point she sleeps with Opie despite knowing he is married to her friend Lyla. Not only that but she points her gun towards everyone out of spite. Then Jax comes to her place and smashes her face at a table.
- Manipulative Bitch: How she ends up sleeping with Jax and later Opie.
- Ms. Fanservice: Well she is a porn star.
- The Scrappy: An in-universe example. By the later seasons, pretty much everyone in SAMCRO and even her fellow porn stars hate her.
- The Vamp: She uses her sexuality to mess with the Sons, making a dent in Opie and Lyla's relationship. She has also had sex with Jax, but Jax initiated it in an attempt to drive Tara away from him.
Hector Salazar
Played By: Jose Pablo Cantillo
The former president of the Lodi chapter of the Calaveras Motorcycle Club, a low-ranking club that does dirty work for the Mayans.
- Ax-Crazy: It's obvious the guy is out for blood all the time.
- Beard of Evil: Quite a snazzy one to boot.
- Blackmail: He blackmails Jacob Hale.
- Chew Toy: He's gets a lot of beatings.
- Disc-One Final Boss: Of Season 3.
- The Dragon: Briefly, for Hale.
- Dragon Ascendant: Salazar quickly turns on Hale and blackmails him.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite his bloodthirsty nature, he does care for his equally evil girlfriend.
- Jerkass: Is quick to snap at anyone, be it the Sons, the Mayans or the Grim Bastards.
- Sanity Slippage: Regular humiliation, the death of his ambitions and loss of what little power he had sends Salazar off the deep end.
- Wild Card: Salazar is unstable, unpredictable and feels like the entire world has wronged him. All of this makes him a dangerous enemy.
Georgie Caruso
Played By: Tom Arnold
A rival to Luann Delaney in the pornography business, Caruso took advantage of Luann's legal troubles to steal away her performers, whom he physically abused and threatened to keep them from leaving.
- Cut Himself Shaving: He meets his end by being stuffed into the trunk of his car and shot several times. Somehow, this is ruled a suicide.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: He has a nasty habit of double-crossing everyone he makes a deal with.
- Dirty Coward: His reaction to trouble is usually to run in the opposite direction, even at the expense of his allies.
- Exact Words: Georgie gets Bobby to promise not to kill him, but he doesn't think to get such a promise out of Tig and Opie.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Wears a thick pair of glasses.
- Jerkass: He's a rude, unpleasant coward out for himself.
- Karmic Death: Georgie is meets his end when he's killed by his murder victim's business partners.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: The Sons make light of him, considering him to be little more than a joke. However, Georgie still brutally murders Luann Delaney and evades the Sons for quite a long time before they catch him.
- Slimeball: He's a murderous pornographer who abuses his talent.
Brenan Hefner
Played By: Lyle Kanouse
The Oakland Port Commissioner. He was described as being "very dirty" by Agent June Stahl, a "greedy prick" by Clay, a "piece of shit" by Chibs, an "asshole" by Piney, and was seen to be a frequent womanizer.
- Corrupt Politician: The Irish pay him to look the other way when bringing their guns into Charming via cargo ship.
- Fat Bastard: A portly Port Commissioner that engages in crime and gets greedier with time.
- Greed: Wants the Irish to triple his payoff money. When they refuse, Michael Mc Keavy is killed for his trouble. SAMCRO decides to deal with him as they saw Mc Keavy as a friend as well as owing it to the Irish for their long association and friendship.
- Offstage Villainy: Responsible for the death of Michael Mc Keavy.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: His first and only appearance doesn't even last 10 seconds before he's offed by Bobby.
Venus Van Damme
"Didn't your Daddy ever tell you to never judge a book by its penis?"
Played By: Walton Goggins
A transsexual prostitute born Vincent Noone.
- Abusive Parents: Her mother used Venus (then Vincent) in child pornography, and continues to be a child pornographer who wants to introduce Venus' own son into the 'business'. Thankfully, this doesn't happen.
- Big, Screwed-Up Family: She comes from one.
- Broken Bird: She's led a life of terrible sexual and psychological abuse at the hands of her vile mother.
- The Cameo: For Walton Goggins, one of the many old cast members from The Shield.
- Deadpan Snarker: She is a Walton Goggins character, after all.Gemma: "...wow."Venus: (looks down, then up) "Oh, yes. At the very least."
- Hidden Depths: Her initial appearance was just a hilarious, unexpected cameo, but recent episodes have revealed a tragic backstory.
- Mama Bear: For her nephew, Joey. He's actually her son, making Venus more of a Papa Wolf.
- Parental Incest: Venus' mother tried to make 'him' straight with sex.
- Proper Lady: Venus is quite polite and well-spoken, the latter bordering on Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness.
- Son of a Whore: Her mother Alice was a hooker at some point.
Warren
Played By: Joel McHale
A con man who seduces Gemma.
- Asshole Victim: Becomes a victim of both assault and theft by Jax and Nero. But considering that he regularly seduces women and steals their stuff he definitely has it coming.
- Con Man: He regularly seduces women, including Gemma, so he can rob them.
- Laser-Guided Karma: See above.
Alice Noone
Played By: Adrienne Barbeau
The abusive mother of Venus Van Damme.
- Abusive Parent: To Venus when she was Vincent.
- Asshole Victim: She was a horrendously abusive woman and a child porn director to boot. Nobody, not even Venus, mourns her when Jax blows her brains out.
- Boom, Headshot!: Courtesy of Jax, and boy, did she have it coming.
- Cure Your Gays: Attempted this on her child Venus (then Vincent) by having sex with him.
- Diabolus ex Nihilo: She is never mentioned until the very same episode she appears in, and even after that she is barely brought up again. Yet she is undoubtedly one of the most evil character in the series.
- Evil Matriarch: She's a deeply horrible barely-human creature, and as the Noone matriarch she maintains some control over Venus and Joey.
- Evil Old Folks: Is Venus's abusive mom.
- Hannibal Lecture: Delivers one to Venus about how Joey - Venus' son - will grow to hate him/her when he tells him he's his father. Resulting in the aforementioned Boom, Headshot!.
- Hate Sink: An utterly loathsome woman who made child pornography. She also made Venus' life a living hell. Due to her horrendous actions, she is completely hated in the show, even by a Dirty Cop.
- Holier Than Thou: She has this attitude toward Venus for being a transsexual, but she's a child pornographer.
- Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Averted. She used to be a prostitute, but she sexually abused her son and used him in child pornography. She is one of the most loathsome people in the entire series.
- It Is Dehumanising: How she speaks about Venus.
- Parental Incest: Forced it on her son.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Openly prejudiced against transsexuals and hates Venus for it.
- The Sociopath: Not only is she an extremely abusive mother but she regularly kidnapps children and has them raped in front of a camera.
Red
Played By: Tanner Gill
One of Alice's colleagues/lovers.
- Bald of Evil: He's a child pornographer, yeah, he's evil.
- The Dragon: For Alice.
- Fat Bastard
- Evil Old Folks: Roughly the same age as Alice.
Bachman
Played By: Stephen King
An independent biker and "cleaner" who disposes of unwanted corpses.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He's highly competent, but also very quirky, insisting on having a certain type of music played.
- Lest not forget, even TIG finds him eccentric and creepy but nonetheless regards him as very good at what he does.
- The Cameo: For Stephen King, a self-proclaimed fan of the show.
- Clean Up Crew: Bachman is seemingly the go-to guy when the club needs to dispose of a sudden, unwanted corpse. He works alone, doesn't bring any tools he lists what will be needed and tasks his client to get them and he can make a whole body disappear without moving it from the house.
- Mythology Gag: He's named after his actor's nom de plume
- The Stoic: He doesn't show any emotion at all. It's probably an asset, considering his job.
Greensleeves
A Jewish pimp.
- Jerkass: Is a complete smug Straw Misogynist with attitude problems.
- Kick the Dog: His first scene involves him abusing his prostitute Winsome.
- Kosher Nostra: Being a Jewish pimp.
- Smug Snake: Keeps threatening Jax even though he is defeated.
- Tattooed Crook: Is very inked despite it being against the rules of his religion.
