Other accolades include Chigurh's presence on numerous Greatest Villain lists, most notably in Empire's list of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time, in which he was ranked #44,[1] as well as being named the most realistic film depiction of a psychopath by an independent group of psychologists in the Journal of Forensic Sciences.

His signature weapon is a captive bolt pistol, which he uses to kill his victims and also as a tool to shoot out door locks.

"[5] When Joel and Ethan Coen approached Javier Bardem about playing Chigurh, he replied, "I don't drive, I speak bad English and I hate violence."

LeBlanc based the style on the mop tops of the English warriors in the Crusades as well as the Mod haircuts of the 1960s.

When writer Cormac McCarthy visited the set of the film adaptation of his novel, the actors inquired about Chigurh's background and the symbolic significance of his name.

Chigurh discovers that another bounty hunter, former colleague Carson Wells, has been hired to retrieve the money and eliminate him.

While driving away from her house, Chigurh is badly injured in a car accident, sustaining a compound fracture of his left ulna and walking away with a limp.

At the scene of the accident, before the authorities arrive, a teenager on a bicycle sees a wounded Chigurh and offers him his shirt.

Critics have praised Bardem's portrayal of Chigurh, for which he received an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and a BAFTA.

UGO.com ranked him in its list of top 11 "silver screen psychos", saying, "Chigurh is an assassin of little words and interesting choices of weaponry—is a man without a sense of humor.

And apparently, the only way you can survive a run-in with the man is the 50–50 chance of a coin toss, but Dear God, don't question his motives, it just seems to irritate him even more so.

With the kind of unholy relentlessness usually reserved for horror icons, the hired killer has an almost supernatural ability to track his prey, and is rather short in the mercy department, preferring to leave the tough decisions to a coin toss.