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** Heck, it goes further than that. By the end of the movie, an enormous number of world leaders, military generals, and scions of industry are dead, and it would appear nobody knows why. Granted the movie's satire argues they're no great loss, but society would grind to a halt as people worked out and/or started fighting over who was in charge. The rest of the Kingsmen probably had a hell of a mess to clean up.

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Mild but [[spoiler: Roxy is the only candidate to pass all the tests but we don't get to see the last two and during the climax instead of showing off some badass action she gets the relatively safe, if very important, job of destroying a satellite, though given that Valentine just replaces it soon after it seems pointless. In fairness, though, the heroes had counted on Valentine needing to take at least a few hours to reroute his signal, rather than piggybacking it through an associate's satellite.]]
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%% ** One of only two female candidates for the Kingsman position is the first to die. [[spoiler:And then subverted when Harry reveals that she's been alive the whole time. She was already working in the service and was there as a plant.]]
%% ** To an extent, the Swedish princess offering to have sex with Eggsy [[RescueRomance if he saves the world and rescues her.]] Not only does it come out of nowhere in an extremely jarring fashion, it reduces a politically powerful female character to a StandardHeroReward.

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Mild but [[spoiler: Roxy is the only candidate to pass all the tests but we don't get to see the last two and during the climax instead of showing off some badass action she gets the relatively safe, if very important, job of destroying a satellite, though given that Valentine just replaces it soon after it seems pointless. In fairness, though, the heroes had counted on Valentine needing to take at least a few hours to reroute his signal, rather than piggybacking it through an associate's satellite.]]
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%% ** One of only two female candidates for the Kingsman position is the first to die. [[spoiler:And then subverted when Harry reveals that she's been alive the whole time. She was already working in the service and was there as a plant.]]
%% ** To an extent, the Swedish princess offering to have sex with Eggsy [[RescueRomance if he saves the world and rescues her.]] Not only does it come out of nowhere in an extremely jarring fashion, it reduces a politically powerful female character to a StandardHeroReward.
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* AcceptableTargets: A fundamentalist hate group [[AcceptableReligiousTargets based out of a church]] and numerous [[AcceptablePoliticalTargets world leaders]], including UsefulNotes/BarackObama and [[UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen Queen Elizabeth]].
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Gazelle, simply by virtue of her [[DanceBattler fighting style]] and [[HandicappedBadass blade prosthetics]].
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** One of only two female candidates for the Kingsman position is the first to die. [[spoiler:And then subverted when Harry reveals that she's been alive the whole time. She was already working in the service and was there as a plant.]]
** To an extent, the Swedish princess offering to have sex with Eggsy [[RescueRomance if he saves the world and rescues her.]] Not only does it come out of nowhere in an extremely jarring fashion, it reduces a politically powerful female character to a StandardHeroReward.

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%% ** One of only two female candidates for the Kingsman position is the first to die. [[spoiler:And then subverted when Harry reveals that she's been alive the whole time. She was already working in the service and was there as a plant.]]
%% ** To an extent, the Swedish princess offering to have sex with Eggsy [[RescueRomance if he saves the world and rescues her.]] Not only does it come out of nowhere in an extremely jarring fashion, it reduces a politically powerful female character to a StandardHeroReward.
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%% * UnfortunateImplications:
%% ** One of only two female candidates for the Kingsman position is the first to die. [[spoiler:And then subverted when Harry reveals that she's been alive the whole time. She was already working in the service and was there as a plant.]]
%% ** To an extent, the Swedish princess offering to have sex with Eggsy [[RescueRomance if he saves the world and rescues her.]] Not only does it come out of nowhere in an extremely jarring fashion, it reduces a politically powerful female character to a StandardHeroReward.

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%% ** One of only two female candidates for the Kingsman position is the first to die. [[spoiler:And then subverted when Harry reveals that she's been alive the whole time. She was already working in the service and was there as a plant.]]
%% ** To an extent, the Swedish princess offering to have sex with Eggsy [[RescueRomance if he saves the world and rescues her.]] Not only does it come out of nowhere in an extremely jarring fashion, it reduces a politically powerful female character to a StandardHeroReward.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Mild but [[spoiler: Roxy is the only candidate to pass all the tests but we don't get to see the last two and during the climax instead of showing off some badass action she gets the relatively safe, if very important, job of destroying a satellite, though given that Valentine just replaces it soon after it seems pointless.]]

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Mild but [[spoiler: Roxy is the only candidate to pass all the tests but we don't get to see the last two and during the climax instead of showing off some badass action she gets the relatively safe, if very important, job of destroying a satellite, though given that Valentine just replaces it soon after it seems pointless. In fairness, though, the heroes had counted on Valentine needing to take at least a few hours to reroute his signal, rather than piggybacking it through an associate's satellite.]]

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* CrossesTheLineTwice: [[spoiler: The entire sequence where Merlin sets off everyone's chips making the heads of every single one of Valentine's soldiers and/or allies explode in a row, each in a stream of colorful fireworks, and all to the tune of Pomp and Circumstance.]]
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%% ** One of only two female candidates for the Kingsman position is the first to die. [[spoiler:And then subverted when Harry reveals that she's been alive the whole time. She was already working in the service and was there as a plant.]]
%% ** To an extent, the Swedish princess offering to have sex with Eggsy [[RescueRomance if he saves the world and rescues her.]] Not only does it come out of nowhere in an extremely jarring fashion, it reduces a politically powerful female character to a StandardHeroReward.

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* CrossesTheLineTwice: [[spoiler: The entire sequence where Merlin sets off everyone's chips making the heads of every single one of Valentine's soldiers and/or allies explode in a row, each in a stream of colorful colourful fireworks, and all to the tune of Pomp and Circumstance.]]
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%% ** One of only two female candidates for the Kingsman position is the first to die. [[spoiler:And then subverted when Harry reveals that she's been alive the whole time. She was already working in the service and was there as a plant.]]
%% ** To an extent, the Swedish princess offering to have sex with Eggsy [[RescueRomance if he saves the world and rescues her.]] Not only does it come out of nowhere in an extremely jarring fashion, it reduces a politically powerful female character to a StandardHeroReward.
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* HilariousInHindsight: In this movie, Samuel L. Jackson plays an over-the-top, DangerouslyGenreSavvy, WellIntentionedExtremist Bond-esque villain with plans to reshape the world to his designs, and is opposed by the Kingsmen, a group of top-secret special force dedicated to protecting the world from the shadows. Compare this with his role of Nick Fury in MarvelCinematicUniverse, where he's a level-headed, no-nonsense GenreSavvy leader of SHIELD, a secret peace-keeping organization no different than the Kingsmen, and is archenemies with HYDRA, another group of Well-Intentioned Extremist villains ''also'' with plans to reshape the world to their designs.

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In this movie, Samuel L. Jackson plays an over-the-top, DangerouslyGenreSavvy, WellIntentionedExtremist Bond-esque villain with plans to reshape the world to his designs, and is opposed by the Kingsmen, a group of top-secret special force dedicated to protecting the world from the shadows. Compare this with his role of Nick Fury in MarvelCinematicUniverse, where he's a level-headed, no-nonsense GenreSavvy leader of SHIELD, a secret peace-keeping organization no different than the Kingsmen, and is archenemies with HYDRA, another group of Well-Intentioned Extremist villains ''also'' with plans to reshape the world to their designs.


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%% ** One of only two female candidates for the Kingsman position is the first to die. [[spoiler:And then subverted when Harry reveals that she's been alive the whole time. She was already working in the service and was there as a plant.]]
%% ** To an extent, the Swedish princess offering to have sex with Eggsy [[RescueRomance if he saves the world and rescues her.]] Not only does it come out of nowhere in an extremely jarring fashion, it reduces a politically powerful female character to a StandardHeroReward.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Mild but [[spoiler: Roxy is the only candidate to pass all the tests but we don't get to see the last two and during the climax instead of showing off some badass action she gets the relatively safe, if very important, job of destroying a satellite, though given that Valentine just replaces it soon after it seems pointless.]]
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* InferredHolocaust: [[spoiler:Valentine's HatePlague signal was in full effect (with a brief interruption) for about five minutes. It stands to reason that ''several millions'' of people, all over the world, would have killed each other by then. Valentine may not have reached his full goal, but he probably came a long way.]] Also, it's hard to imagine how Kingsman could ever hope to cover up this story.
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** Speaking of Marvel, an episode of ''Series/AgentCarter'' that aired just a few days after ''Kingsman'''s US release featured the villains using a device with remarkably similar effects to Valentine's SIM cards. [[spoiler: They even test it on a large group of civilians.]]

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** Speaking of Marvel, an episode of ''Series/AgentCarter'' that aired just a few days after ''Kingsman'''s US release featured the villains using a device with remarkably similar effects to Valentine's SIM cards. [[spoiler: They even test it on a large group of civilians.]]]]
** Also, precisely one week after the release of ''Kingsman'', ''VideoGame/TheOrder1886'' came out for PS4, which happens to feature an order of Knights who take their monikers from Arthurian legend and induct new Knights into their Order only when another dies in the line of duty. You even ''play'' as one Sir Galahad!
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Gazelle, simply by virtue of her [[DanceBattler fighting style]] and [[HandicappedBadass blade prosthetics]].
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* HilariousInHindsight: In this movie, Samuel L. Jackson plays an over-the-top, DangerouslyGenreSavvy, WellIntentionedExtremist Bond-esque villain with plans to reshape the world to his designs, and is opposed by the Kingsmen, a group of top-secret special force dedicated to protecting the world from the shadows. Compare this with his role of Nick Fury in MarvelCinematicUniverse, where he's a level-headed, no-nonsense GenreSavvy leader of SHIELD, a secret peace-keeping organization no different than the Kingsmen, and is archenemies with HYDRA, another group of Well-Intentioned Extremist villains ''also'' with plans to reshape the world to their designs.

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* HilariousInHindsight: In this movie, Samuel L. Jackson plays an over-the-top, DangerouslyGenreSavvy, WellIntentionedExtremist Bond-esque villain with plans to reshape the world to his designs, and is opposed by the Kingsmen, a group of top-secret special force dedicated to protecting the world from the shadows. Compare this with his role of Nick Fury in MarvelCinematicUniverse, where he's a level-headed, no-nonsense GenreSavvy leader of SHIELD, a secret peace-keeping organization no different than the Kingsmen, and is archenemies with HYDRA, another group of Well-Intentioned Extremist villains ''also'' with plans to reshape the world to their designs.designs.
** Speaking of Marvel, an episode of ''Series/AgentCarter'' that aired just a few days after ''Kingsman'''s US release featured the villains using a device with remarkably similar effects to Valentine's SIM cards. [[spoiler: They even test it on a large group of civilians.]]
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* HilariousInHindsight: In this movie, Samuel L. Jackson plays an over-the-top, DangerouslyGenreSavvy, WellIntentionedExtremist Bond-esque villain with plans to reshape the world to his design, and is opposed by the Kingsmen, a group of top-secret special force dedicated to protecting the world from the shadows. Compare this with his role of Nick Fury in MarvelCinematicUniverse, where he's a level-headed, no-nonsense GenreSavvy leader of SHIELD, a secret peace-keeping organization no different than the Kingsmen, and is archenemies with HYDRA, another group of Well-Intentioned Extremist villains.

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* HilariousInHindsight: In this movie, Samuel L. Jackson plays an over-the-top, DangerouslyGenreSavvy, WellIntentionedExtremist Bond-esque villain with plans to reshape the world to his design, designs, and is opposed by the Kingsmen, a group of top-secret special force dedicated to protecting the world from the shadows. Compare this with his role of Nick Fury in MarvelCinematicUniverse, where he's a level-headed, no-nonsense GenreSavvy leader of SHIELD, a secret peace-keeping organization no different than the Kingsmen, and is archenemies with HYDRA, another group of Well-Intentioned Extremist villains.villains ''also'' with plans to reshape the world to their designs.
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%% ** To an extent, the Swedish princess offering to have sex with Eggsy [[RescueRomance if he saves the world and rescues her.]] Not only does it come out of nowhere in an extremely jarring fashion, it reduces a politically powerful female character to a StandardHeroReward.

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%% ** To an extent, the Swedish princess offering to have sex with Eggsy [[RescueRomance if he saves the world and rescues her.]] Not only does it come out of nowhere in an extremely jarring fashion, it reduces a politically powerful female character to a StandardHeroReward.StandardHeroReward.
* HilariousInHindsight: In this movie, Samuel L. Jackson plays an over-the-top, DangerouslyGenreSavvy, WellIntentionedExtremist Bond-esque villain with plans to reshape the world to his design, and is opposed by the Kingsmen, a group of top-secret special force dedicated to protecting the world from the shadows. Compare this with his role of Nick Fury in MarvelCinematicUniverse, where he's a level-headed, no-nonsense GenreSavvy leader of SHIELD, a secret peace-keeping organization no different than the Kingsmen, and is archenemies with HYDRA, another group of Well-Intentioned Extremist villains.
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* NightmareFuel: Eggsy's mom [[spoiler: while under the HatePlague starts hacking through the bathroom door with a cleaver to get at the daughter she locked in there minutes earlier.]]
* UnfortunateImplications: One of only two female candidates for the Kingsman position is the first to die. [[spoiler:And then subverted when Harry reveals that she's been alive the whole time. She was already working in the service and was there as a plant.]]
** To an extent, the Swedish princess offering to have sex with Eggsy [[RescueRomance if he saves the world and rescues her.]] Not only does it come out of nowhere in an extremely jarring fashion, it reduces a politically powerful female character to a StandardHeroReward.

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%% * NightmareFuel: Eggsy's mom [[spoiler: while under the HatePlague starts hacking through the bathroom door with a cleaver to get at the daughter she locked in there minutes earlier.]]
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One of only two female candidates for the Kingsman position is the first to die. [[spoiler:And then subverted when Harry reveals that she's been alive the whole time. She was already working in the service and was there as a plant.]]
%% ** To an extent, the Swedish princess offering to have sex with Eggsy [[RescueRomance if he saves the world and rescues her.]] Not only does it come out of nowhere in an extremely jarring fashion, it reduces a politically powerful female character to a StandardHeroReward.
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* UnfortunateImplications: One of only two female candidates for the Kingsman position is the first to die. [[spoiler:And then subverted when Harry reveals that she's been alive the whole time. She was already working in the service and was there as a plant.]]

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* UnfortunateImplications: One of only two female candidates for the Kingsman position is the first to die. [[spoiler:And then subverted when Harry reveals that she's been alive the whole time. She was already working in the service and was there as a plant.]]]]
** To an extent, the Swedish princess offering to have sex with Eggsy [[RescueRomance if he saves the world and rescues her.]] Not only does it come out of nowhere in an extremely jarring fashion, it reduces a politically powerful female character to a StandardHeroReward.
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* UnfortunateImplications: One of only two female candidates for the Kingsman position is the first to die. [[spoiler:And then subverted when Harry reveals that she's been alive the whole time, and working in the service anyway despite failing the test.]]

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* UnfortunateImplications: One of only two female candidates for the Kingsman position is the first to die. [[spoiler:And then subverted when Harry reveals that she's been alive the whole time, and time. She was already working in the service anyway despite failing the test.and was there as a plant.]]
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* NightmareFuel: Eggsy's mom [[spoiler: while under the HatePlague starts hacking through the bathroom door with a cleaver to get at the daughter she locked in there minutes earlier.]]

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* NightmareFuel: Eggsy's mom [[spoiler: while under the HatePlague starts hacking through the bathroom door with a cleaver to get at the daughter she locked in there minutes earlier.]]]]
* UnfortunateImplications: One of only two female candidates for the Kingsman position is the first to die. [[spoiler:And then subverted when Harry reveals that she's been alive the whole time, and working in the service anyway despite failing the test.]]
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* NightmareFuel: Eggsy's mom [[spoiler: while under the HatePlague starts hacking through the bathroom door with a cleaver to get at the daughter she locked in there minutes earlier.]]
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* {{Tearjerker}}: The death of [[spoiler:Harry (and at Valentine's hand, no less)]] can be quite jarring, especially after the levity displayed during the previous moments of violence. The fact that Eggsy is also watching makes it ten times worse.
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* CrossesTheLineTwice: [[spoiler: The entire sequence where Merlin sets off everyone's chips making the heads of every single one of Valentine's soldiers and/or allies heads explode in a row, each in a stream of colorful fireworks, and all to the tune of Pomp and Circumstance.]]

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* CrossesTheLineTwice: [[spoiler: The entire sequence where Merlin sets off everyone's chips making the heads of every single one of Valentine's soldiers and/or allies heads explode in a row, each in a stream of colorful fireworks, and all to the tune of Pomp and Circumstance.]]
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* CrossesTheLineTwice: [[spoiler: The entire sequence where Merlin sets off everyone's chips making the heads of every single one of Valentine's soldiers and/or allies heads explode in a row, each in a stream of colorful fireworks, and all to the tune of Pomp and Circumstance.]]
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* AweomseMusic: [[http://www.mrporter.com/journal/men-of-note/the-kingsman-playlist/181 so friggin' much.]]

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* AweomseMusic: AwesomeMusic: [[http://www.mrporter.com/journal/men-of-note/the-kingsman-playlist/181 so So friggin' much.]]
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* AweomseMusic: [[http://www.mrporter.com/journal/men-of-note/the-kingsman-playlist/181 so friggin' much.]]
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* {{Tearjerker}}: Valentine's execution of Harry/Galahad can be quite jarring especially after the levity displayed during the previous moments of violence. The fact that Eggsy is also watching makes it ten times worse.

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* {{Tearjerker}}: The death of [[spoiler:Harry (and at Valentine's execution of Harry/Galahad hand, no less)]] can be quite jarring jarring, especially after the levity displayed during the previous moments of violence. The fact that Eggsy is also watching makes it ten times worse.
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* {{Tearjerker}}: Valentine's execution of Harry/Galahad can be quite jarring especially after the levity displayed during the previous moments of violence. The fact that Eggsy is also watching makes it ten times worse.
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* {{Black Comedy}}: The movie has this in spades from every world leader (including President Barrack Obama and Queen Elizabeth the Second) having their head blown up to jaunty music to Galahad killing half of a church group... also set to jaunty music
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* {{Black Comedy}}: The movie has this in spades from every world leader (including President Barrack Obama and Queen Elizabeth the Second) having their head blown up to jaunty music to Galahad killing half of a church group... also set to jaunty music

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