As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.
- Anton Chigurh blowing up a car in front of a store using a piece of torn cloth and a lighter.
- This is one of the few movies that starts with a Moment of Awesome, Ed Tom's voiceover speech, which so perfectly encapsulates the feel of the movie and the despair of his situation that it leaves you breathless.
- Carla calling Anton's bullshit about choice and his "moral code" even if he later kills her anyway. It's a combination of "The Reason You Suck" Speech and You Keep Telling Yourself That. Chigurh even suffers a brief and subtle Villainous Breakdown.Chigurh: [flips coin] This is the best I can do. Call it.
Carla: ...I knowed you was crazy when I saw you sittin' there. I knowed exactly what was in store for me.
Chigurh: [smiling] Call it.
Carla: No. I ain't gonna call it.
Chigurh: [smile slowly fades] ...Call it.
Carla: The coin don't have no say. It's just you. - It's pretty impressive how long Moss is able to survive while on the run from Anton. Not only that, but he's also able to wound him a few times! He gets killed by the Mexican cartel in the end, but Moss is the only person whom Anton was unable to personally kill.
- And another kind of victory is achieved by the lady clerk who refuses (with increasing sternness) to disclose where Moss worked. She made Chigurh back down, plain and simple. This humble clerk is the only character who defeated Chigurh in any meaningful way.
- Anton getting T-boned with a car. Sure, he survives (and even acts like it was just a scratch despite how the boys are freaked out), but it shows that the "badass psycho" is still a human being and is equally vulnerable to life as his victims.
