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A trailer park inhabitant, whom accidentally comes across the remnants of a Mexican dug shootout while hunting, and decides to take the money he finds, sparking the events of the movie.
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!!Llewelyn Moss
A trailer park inhabitant, whom accidentally comes across the remnants of a Mexican dug shootout while hunting, and decides to take the money he finds, sparking the events of the movie.
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!!Ed Tom Bell
The elderly sheriff of the unspecified county where the events of the novel takes place, and the narrator of the story.
->'''Played By''': Tommy Lee Jones
* DespairEventHorizon: After [[spoiler: the death of Moss, and presumably Carla Jean, although we don't see him react to it, he retires finding himself incapable of reacting to all the pointless violence around him.]]
* GrumpyOldMan
* NarratorAllAlong
* OldCopYoungCop: With Deputy Wendell
* PinballProtagonist: He has no effect on the plot whatsoever, but is stil the protagonist.
* PoliceAreUseless
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* UselessProtagonist
* WhenIWasYourAge: Does not say it outright, but he laments all the violence spreading in Texas, when compared to in his youth.
The elderly sheriff of the unspecified county where the events of the novel takes place, and the narrator of the story.
->'''Played By''': Tommy Lee Jones
* DespairEventHorizon: After [[spoiler: the death of Moss, and presumably Carla Jean, although we don't see him react to it, he retires finding himself incapable of reacting to all the pointless violence around him.]]
* GrumpyOldMan
* NarratorAllAlong
* OldCopYoungCop: With Deputy Wendell
* PinballProtagonist: He has no effect on the plot whatsoever, but is stil the protagonist.
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!!Ed Tom Bell
The elderly sheriff of the unspecified county where the events of the novel takes place, and the narrator of the story.
->'''Played By''': Tommy Lee Jones
* DespairEventHorizon: After [[spoiler: the death of Moss, and presumably Carla Jean, although we don't see him react to it, he retires finding himself incapable of reacting to all the pointless violence around him.]]
* GrumpyOldMan
* NarratorAllAlong
* OldCopYoungCop: With Deputy Wendell
* PinballProtagonist: He has no effect on the plot whatsoever, but is stil the protagonist.
* PoliceAreUseless
* TheSheriff
* UselessProtagonist
* WhenIWasYourAge: Does not say it outright, but he laments all the violence spreading in Texas, when compared to in his youth.
!!Llewelyn Moss
A trailer park inhabitant, whom accidentally comes across the remnants of a Mexican dug shootout while hunting, and decides to take the money he finds, sparking the events of the movie.
The elderly sheriff of the unspecified county where the events of the novel takes place, and the narrator of the story.
->'''Played By''': Tommy Lee Jones
* DespairEventHorizon: After [[spoiler: the death of Moss, and presumably Carla Jean, although we don't see him react to it, he retires finding himself incapable of reacting to all the pointless violence around him.]]
* GrumpyOldMan
* NarratorAllAlong
* OldCopYoungCop: With Deputy Wendell
* PinballProtagonist: He has no effect on the plot whatsoever, but is stil the protagonist.
* PoliceAreUseless
* TheSheriff
* UselessProtagonist
* WhenIWasYourAge: Does not say it outright, but he laments all the violence spreading in Texas, when compared to in his youth.
!!Llewelyn Moss
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* AxCrazy: A subversion. Even if they [[BlueAndOrangeMorality don't make sense to a normal person]], Chigurh has his reasons, and he's more coldly logical than crazy. He does, however, have one of the primary traits of a true AxCrazy, which is the immense amount of danger involved in even speaking to him.
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-->[[spoiler:'''Carla Jean:''' The coin ain't got no say. It's just ''you''.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Carla Jean:''' The coin ain't got no say. It's just ''you''.]]
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* DoNotTauntCthulhu: He bravely refuses Chigurhs offer, speaking up to him all the while. [[spoiler: It gets him and Carla Jean killed.]]
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* DoNotTauntCthulhu: He bravely refusesChigurhs Chigurh's offer, speaking up to him all the while. [[spoiler: It gets him and Carla Jean killed.]]
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first scene of the movie has him strangling a deputy with his handcuffs, and then killing a random driver with his air canister. Also, when he buys gas at a highway store, he make sthe makes the coin toss on the salesman for trying to small-talk with him.
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* ForTheEvulz: Eith Either this or ForTheLulz.ItAmusedMe. The book describes in the opening, how he allows himself to be arrested, just in order to see if he can escape with his supreme act of will. [[spoiler: He can.]]
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* KickTheDog: Frequently. Notably, making the coin toss on the salesman for smalltalking with him, strangling the deputy to see if he could, killing the driver, and eventuelly [[spoiler: killing Carla Jean.]]
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The elderly sheriff of the unspecified county where the events of the novel takes place, and the narrator of the story.
->'''Played By''': Tommy Lee Jones
* DespairEventHorizon: After [[spoiler: the death of Moss, and presumably Carla Jean, although we don't see him react to it, he retires finding himself incapable of reacting to all the pointless violence around him.]]
* GrumpyOldMan
* NarratorAllAlong
* OldCopYoungCop: With Deputy Wendell
* PinballProtagonist: He has no effect on the plot whatsoever, but is stil the protagonist.
* PoliceAreUseless
* TheSheriff
* UselessProtagonist
* WhenIWasYourAge: Does not say it outright, but he laments all the violence spreading in Texas, when compared to in his youth.
!!Llewelyn Moss
A trailer park inhabitant, whom accidentally comes across the remnants of a Mexican dug shootout while hunting, and decides to take the money he finds, sparking the events of the movie.
->'''Played By''': Josh Brolin
* Anti-Hero: Type III or Type IV, given his Jerkass tendencies, and his willingness to let innocent people die to save himself.
* BadAss: For all in the world, he does manage to battle Anton Chigurh on relatively equal terms, outsmarting him once, and wounding him in a gunfight.
** BadAssMoustache
* DecoyProtagonist: The movie follows him, but Bell is the real protagonist.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu?: In all badassery, he insults Chigurh when he is offered Carla Jeans life in exchange of the money. [[spoiler: Subverted in that it gets both Moss and Carla Jean killed, and leads to a TheBadGuyWinsScenario.]]
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: He bravely refuses Chigurhs offer, speaking up to him all the while. [[spoiler: It gets him and Carla Jean killed.]]
* [[spoiler: DroppedABridgeOnHim: He is unceremoniously killed by Mexican dug runners offscreen.]]
* GenreSavvy: Everything considered, he does figure out how to prepare for the arrival of Chigurh, and outsmarts him twice at the motels and hotel, but in the end, his Genre Savviness failed him when Chigurh made the offer.
* TheHunter: Appearantly lives by hunting pronghorn.
* JerkAss: He is not a sympathetic person, and would be considered the villain against anyone but Anton Chigurh.
* NiceHat
!!Anton Chigurh
A Mexican hitman, and the primary antagonist of the story. He is tasked with obtaining the money lost in the shootout, but he goes rogue, and starts killing everyone in his pursuit of the money.
->'''Played By''': Javier Bardem
* BadAss
** BadAssBaritone
** BadAssSpaniard: His Mexican nationality is not stated, but Bardem is a Spanish actor, and he looks quite Mexican.
* [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins: Moss is killed, though not by him, but Moss' murderers fail to obtain the money, and he instead finds them. He subsequently kills Carla Jean, and escapes justice perfectly.]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: He has his own set of moral codes, completely incomprehensible to everyone else.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy
* Determinator
* DisproportionateRetribution: Inflicted by him on the shop owner early on. He tries smalltalking to Chigurh, whom responds by having him call a coin toss for his life. [[spoiler: The salesman guesses correct, but still....]]
* TheDreaded: In the drug business.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first scene of the movie has him strangling a deputy with his handcuffs, and then killing a random driver with his air canister. Also, when he buys gas at a highway store, he make sthe coin toss on the salesman for trying to small-talk with him.
* FashionVictimVillain: His "fluffy" shoes and audacious haircut serves to make him even more creepy.
* ForTheEvulz: Eith this or ForTheLulz. The book describes in the opening, how he allows himself to be arrested, just in order to see if he can escape with his supreme act of will. [[spoiler: He can.]]
* IGaveMyWord: Villainous case. [[spoiler: He "promises" Moss that Carla Jean will be hurt if he does not comply. He does not, and is killed, and Chigurh retrieves the money, and he still kills Carla Jean just because he gave his word to do so.]]
* ImplacableMan
* [[spoiler: KarmaHoudini]]
* KickTheDog: Frequently. Notably, making the coin toss on the salesman for smalltalking with him, strangling the deputy to see if he could, killing the driver, and eventuelly [[spoiler: killing Carla Jean.]]
* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: Shooting Wells in the groin, and also his pursuit of Moss.]]
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant
* ProfessionalKillers: His profession, though he is much more than that.
* RogueAgent: After killing the drug executives accompanying him to the crime scene with the Mexicans.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: The closest he gets to this, and justice in any way in general, is when Carla Jean refuses to call his coin toss, completely wreaking his moral conception of the world. He kills her anyway.]]
* WeaponOfChoice: His captive bolt pistol, and also his oxygen canister he wields.
!!Carla Jean Moss
The teenage wife of Llewelyn Moss, and involuntary object of a wide range of problems caused by his ordeals.
->'''Played By''': Kelly Macdonald
* TheChick
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: In a similar vein to Sheriff Bell, she is a character sho is not evil at all in any way, but intead powerless in an evil world.
* TheIngenue
* [[spoiler: KillTheCutie: Chigurh resorts to this to keep his word.]]
* TheWoobie: Is completely innocent, has a JerkAss husband whom orders her around without telling her anything, and a useless old mother wit cancer. [[spoiler: Her husband is killed because of his hubris, her mother dies of cancer, and she is finally killed herself by Chigurh.]]
!!Carson Wells
A hitman hired by the same drug runners that previously hired Chigurh, in order to track down the money and kill Chigurh.
->'''Played By''': Woody Harrelson
* AdmiringTheAbomination: Speaks of Chigurh as, in the words of Moss, "The Ultimate BadAss"
* [[spoiler: AintTooProudToBeg: He doesn't resort to full-fledged begging, but at the hands of Chigurh, he, with increasing desperation tries to convince him to let him live, as he knows where the money is, and that he can give extra money to Chigurh. It doesn't help.]]
* ContractOnTheHitman: Is hired to take care of Chigurh, after he goes rogue.
* DeclarationOfProtection: Offers to protect Moss from Chigurh, in exchange of the money.
* HitmanWithAHeart: At least when compared to Chigurh....
* MrExposition: His effect on the plot is limited, but he serves to give some exposition on Chigurh.
* NiceHat
* ProfessionalKillers: A more straightforward example than Chigurh.
* [[spoiler: WehardlyKnewYe: After a short period of action in the middle of the movie, mostly to create exposition for Chigurh, Chigurh kills him.]]
The elderly sheriff of the unspecified county where the events of the novel takes place, and the narrator of the story.
->'''Played By''': Tommy Lee Jones
* DespairEventHorizon: After [[spoiler: the death of Moss, and presumably Carla Jean, although we don't see him react to it, he retires finding himself incapable of reacting to all the pointless violence around him.]]
* GrumpyOldMan
* NarratorAllAlong
* OldCopYoungCop: With Deputy Wendell
* PinballProtagonist: He has no effect on the plot whatsoever, but is stil the protagonist.
* PoliceAreUseless
* TheSheriff
* UselessProtagonist
* WhenIWasYourAge: Does not say it outright, but he laments all the violence spreading in Texas, when compared to in his youth.
!!Llewelyn Moss
A trailer park inhabitant, whom accidentally comes across the remnants of a Mexican dug shootout while hunting, and decides to take the money he finds, sparking the events of the movie.
->'''Played By''': Josh Brolin
* Anti-Hero: Type III or Type IV, given his Jerkass tendencies, and his willingness to let innocent people die to save himself.
* BadAss: For all in the world, he does manage to battle Anton Chigurh on relatively equal terms, outsmarting him once, and wounding him in a gunfight.
** BadAssMoustache
* DecoyProtagonist: The movie follows him, but Bell is the real protagonist.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu?: In all badassery, he insults Chigurh when he is offered Carla Jeans life in exchange of the money. [[spoiler: Subverted in that it gets both Moss and Carla Jean killed, and leads to a TheBadGuyWinsScenario.]]
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: He bravely refuses Chigurhs offer, speaking up to him all the while. [[spoiler: It gets him and Carla Jean killed.]]
* [[spoiler: DroppedABridgeOnHim: He is unceremoniously killed by Mexican dug runners offscreen.]]
* GenreSavvy: Everything considered, he does figure out how to prepare for the arrival of Chigurh, and outsmarts him twice at the motels and hotel, but in the end, his Genre Savviness failed him when Chigurh made the offer.
* TheHunter: Appearantly lives by hunting pronghorn.
* JerkAss: He is not a sympathetic person, and would be considered the villain against anyone but Anton Chigurh.
* NiceHat
!!Anton Chigurh
A Mexican hitman, and the primary antagonist of the story. He is tasked with obtaining the money lost in the shootout, but he goes rogue, and starts killing everyone in his pursuit of the money.
->'''Played By''': Javier Bardem
* BadAss
** BadAssBaritone
** BadAssSpaniard: His Mexican nationality is not stated, but Bardem is a Spanish actor, and he looks quite Mexican.
* [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins: Moss is killed, though not by him, but Moss' murderers fail to obtain the money, and he instead finds them. He subsequently kills Carla Jean, and escapes justice perfectly.]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: He has his own set of moral codes, completely incomprehensible to everyone else.
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy
* Determinator
* DisproportionateRetribution: Inflicted by him on the shop owner early on. He tries smalltalking to Chigurh, whom responds by having him call a coin toss for his life. [[spoiler: The salesman guesses correct, but still....]]
* TheDreaded: In the drug business.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first scene of the movie has him strangling a deputy with his handcuffs, and then killing a random driver with his air canister. Also, when he buys gas at a highway store, he make sthe coin toss on the salesman for trying to small-talk with him.
* FashionVictimVillain: His "fluffy" shoes and audacious haircut serves to make him even more creepy.
* ForTheEvulz: Eith this or ForTheLulz. The book describes in the opening, how he allows himself to be arrested, just in order to see if he can escape with his supreme act of will. [[spoiler: He can.]]
* IGaveMyWord: Villainous case. [[spoiler: He "promises" Moss that Carla Jean will be hurt if he does not comply. He does not, and is killed, and Chigurh retrieves the money, and he still kills Carla Jean just because he gave his word to do so.]]
* ImplacableMan
* [[spoiler: KarmaHoudini]]
* KickTheDog: Frequently. Notably, making the coin toss on the salesman for smalltalking with him, strangling the deputy to see if he could, killing the driver, and eventuelly [[spoiler: killing Carla Jean.]]
* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: Shooting Wells in the groin, and also his pursuit of Moss.]]
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant
* ProfessionalKillers: His profession, though he is much more than that.
* RogueAgent: After killing the drug executives accompanying him to the crime scene with the Mexicans.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: The closest he gets to this, and justice in any way in general, is when Carla Jean refuses to call his coin toss, completely wreaking his moral conception of the world. He kills her anyway.]]
* WeaponOfChoice: His captive bolt pistol, and also his oxygen canister he wields.
!!Carla Jean Moss
The teenage wife of Llewelyn Moss, and involuntary object of a wide range of problems caused by his ordeals.
->'''Played By''': Kelly Macdonald
* TheChick
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: In a similar vein to Sheriff Bell, she is a character sho is not evil at all in any way, but intead powerless in an evil world.
* TheIngenue
* [[spoiler: KillTheCutie: Chigurh resorts to this to keep his word.]]
* TheWoobie: Is completely innocent, has a JerkAss husband whom orders her around without telling her anything, and a useless old mother wit cancer. [[spoiler: Her husband is killed because of his hubris, her mother dies of cancer, and she is finally killed herself by Chigurh.]]
!!Carson Wells
A hitman hired by the same drug runners that previously hired Chigurh, in order to track down the money and kill Chigurh.
->'''Played By''': Woody Harrelson
* AdmiringTheAbomination: Speaks of Chigurh as, in the words of Moss, "The Ultimate BadAss"
* [[spoiler: AintTooProudToBeg: He doesn't resort to full-fledged begging, but at the hands of Chigurh, he, with increasing desperation tries to convince him to let him live, as he knows where the money is, and that he can give extra money to Chigurh. It doesn't help.]]
* ContractOnTheHitman: Is hired to take care of Chigurh, after he goes rogue.
* DeclarationOfProtection: Offers to protect Moss from Chigurh, in exchange of the money.
* HitmanWithAHeart: At least when compared to Chigurh....
* MrExposition: His effect on the plot is limited, but he serves to give some exposition on Chigurh.
* NiceHat
* ProfessionalKillers: A more straightforward example than Chigurh.
* [[spoiler: WehardlyKnewYe: After a short period of action in the middle of the movie, mostly to create exposition for Chigurh, Chigurh kills him.]]
