10 Most Hated Sons Of Anarchy Characters
2. Lee Toric
And now that the problematic three are out of the way, our top two most hated characters in Sons Of Anarchy. It's hardly a surprise, but disgraced ex US Marshall Lee Toric is most assuredly number two.
In any other television show, Otto's random murder of an innocent nurse would be the most horrifying event of the season. In any other television show, when her brother, a retired law enforcement officer with a maverick sensibility showed up to get revenge on the lawless biker gang that caused his sister's death, we'd be rooting for him (and he'd probably be played by Jean Claude Van Damme). Instead, Lee Toric is by far one of the most despised characters on the show.
Part of that is due to the audiences tendency to vote against anyone acting against Jackson and the MC but the vast majority of the ill will against Mr. Toric is simply because he's a very, very bad man. A drug addict who kills an innocent woman through sheer addled incompetence within a day or so of arriving, and who's maverick sensibility essentially amounts to police brutality and doctored evidence and paperwork, Toric arrives in Charming and immediately sets to work obtaining any form of leverage he can against SAMCRO.
To return to the comparison, if this was a Van Damme movie, or a Seagal movie, he'd have gone to a bar, beaten some rednecks up, found out where the bad guys lived and then hit them there. Hard. As it stands, Toric uses the weapons that were always at his disposal: doctored evidence, framed witnesses and forced confessions. Not only is the poor murdered nurses vengeful brother actually worse than most of the bad guys we've seen during the course of the show, we hate him even more because he should be a good guy, working with the law to apprehend the bad guys.
His punishment of Otto should be a just and noble one, we should be encouraging him. Instead we cringe as Otto is, once again, brutalized beyond human endurance, this time beyond even his endurance. It's fitting that Otto got to send Toric to meet his sister the same way he killed her. It shouldn't be fitting, but that's Sons Of Anarchy for you.