History Characters / KingsmanTheSecretService

** [[spoiler: What's even more amusing is that he really may have survived, if [[LateArrivalSpoiler the poster for]] [[Film/KingsmanTheGoldenCircle the sequel]] [[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated is any indication.]]

* {{Badass}}: As the climax of the film shows where he goes up against Valentine's private army as well as the incredibly deadly [[TheDragon Gazelle]].

* {{Badass}}: Roxy was ''the one'' [[spoiler:to become the new Lancelot]] and manages to shoot down a satellite with twenty year old plus equipment from the '''stratosphere'''. [[spoiler:Her equipment was falling apart, she had to aim manually while falling because of that, and she is afraid of heights.]]

* {{Badass}}: His effortless CurbStompBattle against Dean's goons in the tavern shows him as one early on. [[spoiler:The battle in the church against nearly the entire congregation where they all die and he barely takes a scratch just cements it.]]

* {{Badass}}: Damn well holds his own during the [[spoiler: siege on Valentine's base]], proving himself to be a BadassBookworm.

* {{Badass}}: He's only in the movie for a couple of minutes at the most, but he ran through [[MookHorrorShow a gauntlet of Mooks]] and topped it off by not getting a perfectly aged drink to spill on the floor.

* {{Badass}}: Gazelle is a graceful, cunning killer who's perfectly capable of clearing out rooms of armed men without breaking a sweat.

%% * SparedByTheAdaptation

* MisanthropeSupreme: Bizarrely subverted - he wants to wipe out most of humankind to stop destruction of nature, but his does it to preserve humankind, not nature, as he belives that Earth will eventually destroy humanity to stop pollution.

* VillainHasAPoint: The basic reason he is able to convince so many people to join his side, humans are destroying the planet and it will eventually lead to humanity's extinction and he is right that the only people able to do anything about it don't care and are more interested in reelection and making money than problem solving.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: He genuinely believes that most of mankind needs to be "culled" in order to save the planet from the environmental damage produced by humans. He thinks it's too late to save the world traditionally and if nothing is done, mankind will either destroy the world or nature will end up destroying mankind.

* DefiantCaptive: Despite being locked with no prospect of getting out in the foreseeable future, she has no problem with insulting Valentine and making it clear she'll never agree with his insane plot.

* MyGreatestFailure: Failing to check a prisoner for weapons, forcing a trainee Kingsman agent to sacrifice his life to save the rest of the unit.

* WouldHitAGirl: In the [[spoiler:church scene, he doesn't hesitate to kill the women as well as th men.]]

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:Gazelle]] slices him down the middle.

* MotiveDecay: He wants to kill most of the population so he can rebuild humanity with selected candidates. However, he still executes his plan to kill everyone after Eggsy kills all the [=ViPs=].

* MotiveDecay: He wants to kill most of the population so he can rebuild humanty with selected candidates. However, he still executes his plan to kill everyone after Eggsy kills all the [=ViPs=].

* EvilCounterpart: To Eggsy. Both of them are Kingsmen candidates to become the next Lancelot and [[spoiler:neither get in the end but for different reasons: Charlie because he's a DirtyCoward and Eggsy because he didn't have it in him to shoot his dog due to weakness for animals.]] Charlie comes from a rich family and is a complete asshole; Eggsy was raised in a poor middle-class family and is one of the nicest people in the film.

%%* DeadpanSnarker

[[folder:Dean]]

* KarmaHoudini: Subverted. [[spoiler: The post-credits scene shows that Eggsy is going to kick Dean's ass for abusing his mom.]]
%%* LowerclassLout

* DemotedToExtra / CompositeCharacter: In the original Millar comic, Creator/MarkHamill was kidnapped and held hostage in a cabin in the Swiss Alps at the beginning of the story by Professor James Arnold, the BigBad. In the film, Mark Hamill portrays Professor James Arnold, who is kidnapped and held hostage in a winter cabin in the Argentine Andes at the beginning by a new BigBad.

* SexyScandinavian

* TricksterMentor: Most of the tests he puts the candidates through are actually testing for something other than what it seems on the surface, or at least have some twist to them that he doesn’t bother to explain. Most notable is the skydiving incident in which he allows all of the candidates to jump from the plane, before suggesting that they need to know what to do when operating under unforeseen circumstances... like when one of them ''doesn’t have a parachute''. [[spoiler: They all have parachutes.]]

* BlandNameProduct: Valentine's glasses have an extra plastic piece above his right eye. Although no attention is drawn to it, it strongly resembles a Google Glass.

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Lampshades BondVillainStupidity and forgoes it by [[spoiler:shooting Harry in the head]]. He brings up how stupid it would be for him to [[spoiler:put the ExplosiveLeash implant in his own head or [[TheDragon Gazelle]]'s]], hence why he did not do so. Instead of putting his EvilPlan into an easily hackable system, he connected it directly to his biometrics, meaning the only way to stop it was to go to him personally, and the plan could not be averted through external hacking. Lastly, [[spoiler:rather than rely upon either his own satellite network or Gazelle's presumable murder of Eggsy before bringing his plan into action after losing a satellite, he piggybacked on an associate's nearby one instead to shorten the time span to the completion of the network needed and made sure to never lift his hand from the control providing the power for the EvilPlan until he was killed]].

* AmbiguouslyGay: His BeserkButton seems to be abuse against homosexuals if the barfight scene and church scene are any indication. His interactions with Eggsy are also dripping with HoYay, and ColinFirth himself has said "We don't know anything about him, he might not be straight" when talking about the character.

->'''Played By:''' Taron Egerton

* EvilCounterpart: To Eggsy. Both of them are Kingsmen candidates to become the next Lancelot and [[spoiler:neither get in the end but for different reasons: Charlie because of him being a DirtyCoward and Eggsy because he has a weakness for animals.]] Charlie come from a rich family and a complete asshole; Eggsy was raised in a poor middle-class family and one of the nicest people in the film.

* IOweYouMyLife: The reason he inducts Eggsy into the Kingsmen training program is his attempt to make amends for Eggsy's dad sacrificing his life to save Harry, after Harry's mistake nearly got them all killed.

* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler: For all his hate about the common class, Eggsy rubs it in his face that he was beaten by a simple slight of hand trick anyone could learn.]]