Every King Falls: Scarface, Sons of Anarchy, and Boyz n the Hood
What Tony Montana, Jax Teller, and Doughboy teach us about power, loyalty, and the price of the crown
Everyone wants the throne until they realize what it costs.
Three different worlds. Three different kings.
One universal truth: the game always ends in blood.
The Rise: Power Born from Pain
Scarface: Tony Montana starts with nothing. He’s got no connections, no status—just a chip on his shoulder and a will to climb. His hunger makes him dangerous. His ambition makes him unstoppable—until it doesn’t.
Sons of Anarchy: Jax Teller inherits the gavel, but not the vision. He’s torn between his father’s dream of a better club and Clay’s brutal pragmatism. Jax doesn’t rise so much as descend—slowly realizing power might be the very thing destroying him.
Boyz n the Hood: Doughboy never gets a rise in the traditional sense. He’s not given options. His world is defined by systemic racism, poverty, and violence. But he finds a place—carving out an identity in a world that erases young Black men before they grow up.
Power is seductive because it promises control in a world built to keep you powerless.
Brotherhood & Betrayal
Each story has a code: loyalty, brotherhood, respect. But codes crack.
Tony turns on Manny, the one man who believed in him from day one.
Jax kills Clay, the stepfather who raised him, and eventually turns the gun on everyone who stood beside him.
Doughboy lives with the trauma of Ricky’s death—committed to avenging it, even as he knows it changes nothing.
Brotherhood is sacred—until it’s not. Every outlaw story has its Judas.
The Fall: Inevitable, Brutal, Necessary
Tony Montana bleeds out in his mansion, surrounded by money, enemies, and the ghosts of his own choices.
Jax Teller drives headfirst into death—one final act of control in a world where control never really existed.
Doughboy delivers the final monologue, days after Ricky's murder and the retaliatory killing of the shooters. He disappears. We never see him again.
None of them walk away clean.
The tragedy isn’t that they fall.
It’s that they never had a real chance.
Why We Watch
We don’t watch these stories for the guns, the drugs, or the bravado.
We watch because we see something deeper:
That power comes at a cost.
That loyalty can be fatal.
That in the end, every king falls.
And the most dangerous weapon?
It’s not a gun.
It’s the story we tell ourselves about who we are—and who we have to become to survive.
If you’ve ever felt caught between survival and self-destruction, between loyalty and ambition—this one’s for you.