Even though it has been 17 years since the conclusion of The Sopranos television audiences continue to discuss and debate Tony Soprano’s fate and potential death in the series finale. One of the best and most influential television series of all time, when it was released, The Sopranos represented the starting point of the Golden Age of television and stood as a testament to the quality of HBO’s programming. With such a committed and interested audience as The Sopranos had amassed, there are, of course, many theories about how Tony met his end following the infamous cut to black ending of The Sopranos.
In The Sopranos final scene, there are several different customers in the diner who could all potentially be planning to assassinate Tony. While some characters like the guy in the “Members Only” jacket look menacing, others appear more benign. However, it leads to the question of who had a motive to kill Tony and if a hit on his life could be coming from inside his own crew, members of his family, or his past bad deeds finally catching up with him. Whatever the truth genuinely was, there were plenty of theories that could explain Tony’s death.