10 Most Hated Sons Of Anarchy Characters
7. Galen O'Shay
Rarely has any television antagonist come with such a sinister gaze and punchable face as the serpentine Galen O'Shay, Clay's link to the Real IRA. Nominally on SAMCROs side, as they have a gun-running connection to keep alive, Galen and Jax do not see eye to eye at all, O'Shay blaming Teller for the events of season three, where Jackson's pursuit of his kidnapped baby boy to Belfast resulted in the deaths of several of his friends.
Since Galen won't deal with Jax, Jax has to keep Clay alive to keep the gun connection afloat. The gun connection has to stay afloat because Jax has problems with Damon Pope, amongst many others, and so he needs all the balls to stay in the air while he tries to arrange a way out for the MC. Trust us, by this point the plot has become more tangled than a kitten's ball of wool, but the upshot is that Galen and his scary eyes and irritating smile prevent Clay from meeting Mister Mayhem at the end of season four. That alone would be reason to loathe Galen, even if you couldn't see his face: but he spends the next two seasons carefully placing more and more spanners in the works too, even killing a club member and a prospect.
This isn't through any genuine malice towards our boys in leather, you understand. Galen's just a jerk with a power complex. When Jax shoots him towards the end of season six, its a relief as well as a blessing.