Damon Pope

Evil-doer
Full Name	Damon Pope
Alias	None
Origin	Sons of Anarchy
Occupation	Construction owner Mobster
Powers / Skills	High intelligence Resources Leadership Charisma
Hobby	Be kind to people
Goals	Avenge his daughter (partially succeeded). Start doing business with Jax Teller (failed). Kill Tig (failed).
Crimes	Murder Organized crime Psychological torture
Type of Villain	Vengeful Crime Lord

“	Play it smart, Mr. Teller, it's who you are.	„
	~ Damon Pope to Jax Teller.

Damon Pope is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Clay Morrow) in Season 5 and the overarching antagonist in Season 6 of the FX TV-show Sons of Anarchy. He was a drug kingpin and the most dangerous and powerful gangster in Oakland.

He is portrayed by Harold Perrineau, who also portrayed Michael Dawson in Lost and Calvin Shaw in Criminal Minds

Biography

Alex 'Tig' Trager, in retaliation to an apparent attempt on Clay Morrow's life, attempts to run down and kill One-Niner Leader Laroy Wayne, while he is having lunch together with his girlfriend at a restaurant under heavy One-Niner protection. Tig fails to kill Laroy, but his girlfriend is killed by this attack. It is later confirmed Laroy's girlfriend was Veronica Pope; Damon Pope's daughter. Eli Roosevelt, upon learning this, feared Pope would come to Charming to seek revenge against Tig and SAMCRO.

Veronica's death and the attempted killing of Laroy sparked a war between SAMCRO and the One-Niners. When a group of One-Niners hit and blew up one of the Sons' weapons trucks, as a sign of retaliation. Later, at an empty rail-yard, two of Laroy's lieutenants; Darnell and Tyler, met with August Marks, Pope's muscled and ruthless right hand man, and Pope himself. Pope, furiously calm and collected, reminded the two nervous men that he had specifically told them to lay low in the face of attention from the authorities after Veronica's death, Pope knowing that any reprisals. In an act of revenge for Veronica's death, Pope had Tig captured and he watched helplessly as Pope burned his daughter, Dawn, alive in front of him. When Tig, Chibs, Jax and Opie are imprisoned, Pope offers a deal to Jax that one of the three Sons (minus Tig) must be killed in order for the remaining two to be released (excluding Tig as Pope wants him to suffer in prison forever). This results in the death of Opie, who is killed with a lead pipe during an organized prison fight.

In the season finale, Jax gives up Tig to Pope and his men, who take him into a warehouse to execute him. While on the inside, Jax pulls a gun out of his motorcycle and executes all of Pope's men and goes inside to rescue Tig, handing over the gun to Tig, who shoots and kills Pope just as he threatens that something bad is going to happen to the person who kills them. Tig realizes that the gun Jax gave him was Clay's gun, revealing that it was all a part of Jax's plan to put a target on Clay and get rid of him for good.

Personality

Damon is smart, calm, and persuasive. However, he keeps a brutal and cruel side, killing anyone who disrespects him or stands between him and his goals. He aims to avenge his daughter's death at the hands of Tig Trager, however, upon noticing the vulnerability of the Sons, Damon decides to extort them and demand a huge share of the profits for his own benefit. This shows his greedy and opportunistic side. Damon prefers to stay away from the killings and the blood, having his minions do his dirty work for him.Damon also shows little respect for those who fail him, as he referred to a detective on his payroll who had been killed by Tig Trager as a "sloppy n***er".

Still, Damon shows a great sense of respect for his adversaries. In addition to clearly taking no pleasure in the death of innocents, like Tig's daughter Dawn. His honest prominence in the business world has allowed him to create the image of a martyr in Oakland's black community. He constantly helps poor children and families, truly caring about his community. However, Damon will be willing to commit any act of cruelty to keep his empire stable.