10 Movie Characters That Suffered Unnecessarily Cruel Fates

"I knowed you was crazy when I saw you sittin' there," says a resolute Carla Jean to her eventual killer. "I knowed exactly what was in store for me." Refusing to play along with Anton Chigurh's coin toss ritual, she tells the assassin that the decision to murder is his and his alone, not the result of the flip of a quarter. Chigurh leaves the house, checking his shoes for blood, suggesting that Carla Jean should maybe have hedged her bets.

Up until this showdown with the film's antagonist poor Carla Jean, played to perfection by Kelly Macdonald, had not had first-hand experience of the action that led to any consequence; everything that preceded this was the architecture of someone else, whether it was her husband's pride or her mother's loose lips. The instant Llewellyn decided to take the money he'd sealed his own fate, and in doing so set up a chain of events that would lead to the execution of his innocent, bereaved wife.

Carla Jean's reminder that Chigurh could just as easily decide not to kill her is the central tragedy of this story. She is collateral damage of the highest order. But the villain had made a promise, and despite the man he made that promise to being long dead, he decided to make a victim of the film's most morally uncompromised character.