History Film / KingsmanTheSecretService

* DesignatedGirlFight: Averted. There is [[ActionGirl one woman]] on the good guy's team, and [[DarkActionGirl one woman]] on the bad guy's team. They never even ''see'' each other, much less fight, and it's [[spoiler: [[WouldHitAGirl Eggsy]] who takes on Gazelle in the climax.]]

* WouldHitAGirl:
** Eggsy has no problem fighting, hitting and [[spoiler:ultimately killing Gazelle during the final showdown, but then she is trying to cut him to pieces with her leg blades]]. Unsurprising, considering he trained alongside two women and thus knows just how dangerous they are.
** Harry also kills several women [[spoiler:in the church melee but is not in control of his actions at the time]].

* CoolGuns: The standard-issue pistol used by Kingsman agents has a second barrel mounted under the muzzle that can fire a shotgun shell.

* EverybodyHasStandards: Not all the celebrities, politicians and royalty approached by Valentine [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere agree with his scheme]] for whatever reason. They end up locked up in his base for all their trouble. [[spoiler:Though it also spares them from the chaos going on around the world as well as the explosive chips that were meant to save those who ''did'' buy into Valentine's plan]].

** In the scene where Arthur and Eggsy share the special brandy, watch the glasses after the camera pans back from the painting. [[spoiler:The brandy is visibly sloshing more than it had been before the camera pan, because Eggsy switched the glasses]].

* VictorySex: [[spoiler:Eggsy asks for a SmoochOfVictory from Princess Tilde, who offers RescueSex instead. When he has to forestall to save the world, she upgrades to victory ''anal'' sex.]]

** Near the beginning, Harry Hart beats up some of Eggsy's mother's boyfriend's {{Mooks}} in a pub. At the very end, [[spoiler: the scene is repeated, with Eggsy emulating Hart's every action. The look on the Mook's faces when they hear "manners maketh man" again [[OhCrap tells you exactly what]] happens after the credits roll]].

* UpperClassTwit: Played straight and averted. Harry points out that there are bad people at [[UpperClassTwit both ends]] [[LowerClassLout of the spectrum]], but that there are exceptions to each. By the end, Eggsy embraces both the philosophy and the trappings of being a Kingsman.

* BrokenAesop: if [[KickTheDog killing the dog]] is wrong, being associated with the treacherous, genocidal [[spoiler: Arthur]], then all the Kingsmen who attempted to kill their dogs are wrong also.

* CelebrityParadox: During the dinner scene, the Franchise/JamesBond movies are brought up. This implies that the ''Franchise/StarWars'' franchise must also exist due to Creator/ChristopherLee [[Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun having played a Bond villain]], which makes it odd that no one comments on [[Creator/SamuelLJackson Richmond Valentine]] and [[Creator/MarkHamill Professor Arnold]] looking exactly like Mace Windu and Luke Skywalker's actors.

* ParanoiaFuel: In-universe example after [[spoiler:Arthur's revealed to have been compromised by Valentine. Merlin refuses to bring anyone else into their counterattack other than Eggsy and Roxy. If Valentine got to Arthur, he could've gotten to ''anyone'' else in the organization; they don't know who they can trust.]]

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Pointed out in-universe. When Harry is showing Eggsy all the cool [[ShoePhone spy gadgets hidden in mundane objects]], Eggsy points to a wall of smartphones and asks what kind of gadget is hidden inside them. Harry admits they're just BoringButPractical off-the-shelf smartphones, as civilian technology has caught up with the spy world in that area.

* DecapitationStrike: Played ''literally'', with much of the world's leaders (including the entire White House and the Swedish prime minister) have conspired with the BigBad to let a HatePlague decimate the world's population. Eggsy and Merlin manage to reverse-engineer the cranial chips that are supposed to protect them from the plague's effects, causing [[YourHeadAsplode every involved world leader's head to overheat and explode simultaneously in one glorious montage]].

* BrokenAesop: if [[KickTheDog killing the dog]] is wrong, being associated with the treacherous, genocidal [[Arthur]], then all the Kingsmen who attempted to kill their dogs are wrong also.

-> You are [[UsefulNotes/Israel the chosen people.]] When folk tell their kids the story of Noah's Ark, is Noah the bad guy? Is God the bad guy?

* SpottingTheThread: Eggsy notices that Arthur has a chip in is neck in just enough time to distract Merlin and switch the poisoned glass.

** Snippets of text on Valentine's computers indicate his MindControl device uses [=ELF=] (Extremely Low Frequency) radio waves. While this has some credibility in that the precise effects of [=ELF=] waves on the human brain are the subject of ongoing research, transmitting such waves requires an extremely long antenna. In fact, ''Earth itself'' is used for that purpose. Handheld devices transmitting [=ELF=] waves is utterly impossible.