History YMMV / KingsmanTheSecretService

---> "I'm a Catholic whore currently enjoying congress out of wedlock with my black Jewish boyfriend who works at a military abortion clinic. Hail Satan, and have a lovely afternoon, madame."

** Valentine wants Elon Musk as backup for his plan. Yeah, watching how he's running Twitter...

--> "I'm a Catholic whore currently enjoying congress out of wedlock with my black Jewish boyfriend who works at a military abortion clinic. Hail Satan, and have a lovely afternoon, madame."

** '''Harry.''' He may be a very well-to-do, smooth badass who [[SharpDressedMan gets to wear cool suits]], but let’s take a good look at what happens to him throughout the course of the movie. At the very start of the film, he loses his protégé, and instead of getting any particular sympathy from his colleagues, he’s mostly shown getting flack for “making a poor choice.” Then he tries to comfort the dead man’s family with little success, and has to deal with the widow sobbing and yelling at him. All of this is of course made worse by his guilt for having missed the grenade that killed Eggsy's father. Seventeen years later, [[spoiler: the new Lancelot dies, so he loses another colleague,]] he is reminded of his grief and failure, and if that weren’t enough, his boss is ''still'' giving him crap over “picking the wrong sort of guy” for his previous Lancelot candidate ''seventeen years ago''. As he puts it in the bar, he’d “had a rather emotional day.” He then is able to take Eggsy under his wing, which must give him some happiness, but shortly afterwards he goes to investigate [[spoiler: Professor Arnold and is drugged with an unknown substance and nearly blown up for his trouble. He spends weeks in a coma, and when he finally wakes up]] he then almost immediately goes back to work, which is apparently his entire life, as he is never shown to have any sort of relationship outside of the Kingsmen – no friends, no family members, no significant other, nothing. Granted, none of the other Kingsmen are shown in relationships either, but Harry seems to be a bit of a misfit among them, given his progressive attitude and lack of snobbery, so he’s isolated even at work. Indeed, his best friend appears to be [[spoiler: his deceased and stuffed pet.]] ''Then'' he has to deal with [[spoiler: Eggsy failing his final test]], [[HopeSpot just when he’d been so close]], and his very next act is to visit the church, where [[spoiler: Valentine’s device drives him into a [[UnstoppableRage killing frenzy along with everyone else]], and when he comes out of it [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he reacts with horror to what he just did]] right before he gets shot]]. To top it all off, even if he didn’t know it, his [[spoiler: ''boss'' was one of the people behind his shooting]! Does this guy need a hug, or what?

* MagnificentBastard: [[BigBad Richmond Valentine]] is the GenreSavvy tech mogul who uses this good publicity to convince the general mass to get his SIM chips, while persuading the world's 1% into supporting his cause, implanting them SIM chips so he can track their every move, making sure they don't betray him. It's revealed that these SIM chips are connected to his satellites that when activated, would cause people to kill each other; he tests its capabilities on a racist church community with only a Kingsman surviving the onslaught, before killing the Kingsman himself. After the full-scale of Valentine's plan is revealed he launches a global frequency that leads to general masses killing each other off with only Valentine and his followers surviving. Despite attempting to cause massive loss of life, it is done so out of Valentine's [[WellIntentionedExtremist belief of saving the world and the rest of humanity]] and is [[AffablyEvil genuinely affable]] to allies and enemies alike, even asking Eggsy if he's going to make an incredibly lame pun before going out with a smirk.

* AcceptablePoliticalTargets: The US president in the film, who joins all the other rich monsters willing to let poor people die, is ''not'' UsefulNotes/BarackObama. However, Creator/MatthewVaughn has no problem lampooning Elon Musk, confirming that he's the person whom the villainous Valentine contacts for back-up on V-Day.
** careful of prisoner of the moment thinking - Elon didn't have his current political profile in 2014 - even the "pedo guy" scandal was years in the future at that point. Whatever else was going on Elon wasn't being targeted for being a rightwinger in this movie.
* AcceptableReligiousTargets: A fundamentalist hate group [[AcceptableReligiousTargets based out of a church]] and numerous [[AcceptablePoliticalTargets world leaders]], including The President of The United States of America and The Queen of Great Britain. [[spoiler: [[AssholeVictim It's hard to feel bad when they all get slaughtered.]]]]

* InferredHolocaust: [[spoiler:Valentine's HatePlague signal is 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.]] It's hard to imagine how Kingsman could ever hope to cover up this story. 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. The fact that even people like [[spoiler:Dean and his crooks]] managed to survive suggests that Eggsy, Roxy and Merlin did manage to avert most of the catastrophe. The keyword being ''most'', as very likely the situation is still a terrible one in the aftermath.

* MisaimedFandom: In 2019, a [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump Donald Trump]] supporter superimposed Trump's face on Harry's in the church massacre scene. The churchgoers were edited to represent news publications. While apparently intended to show Trump as a badass, in the actual movie, Harry was BrainwashedAndCrazy in the scene and is traumatized by the aftermath, before he is [[spoiler:executed]]. And rather than sharing the media's alleged leftist/liberal perspective, the churchgoers were far-right [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Politically Incorrect Villains]].

** '''Harry.''' He may be a very well-to-do, smooth badass who [[SharpDressedMan gets to wear cool suits]], but let’s take a good look at what happens to him throughout the course of the movie. At the very start of the film, he loses his protégé, and instead of getting any particular sympathy from his colleagues, he’s mostly shown getting flack for “making a poor choice.” Then he tries to comfort the dead man’s family with little success, and has to deal with the widow sobbing and yelling at him. All of this is of course made worse by his guilt for having missed the grenade that killed Eggsy's father. Seventeen years later, [[spoiler: the new Lancelot dies, so he loses another colleague,]] he is reminded of his grief and failure, and if that weren’t enough, his boss is ''still'' giving him crap over “picking the wrong sort of guy” for his previous Lancelot candidate ''seventeen years ago''. As he puts it in the bar, he’d “had a rather emotional day.” He then is able to take Eggsy under his wing, which must give him some happiness, but shortly afterwards he goes to investigate [[spoiler: Professor Arnold and is drugged with an unknown substance and nearly blown up for his trouble. He spends weeks in a coma, and when he finally wakes up]] he then almost immediately goes back to work, which is apparently his entire life, as he is never shown to have any sort of relationship outside of the Kingsmen – no friends, no family members, no significant other, nothing. Granted, none of the other Kingsmen are shown in relationships either, but Harry seems to be a bit of a misfit among them, given his progressive attitude and lack of snobbery, so he’s isolated even at work. Indeed, his best friend appears to be [[spoiler: his deceased and stuffed pet.]] ''Then'' he has to deal with [[spoiler: Eggsy failing his final test]], [[HopeSpot just when he’d been so close]], and his very next act is to visit the church, where [[spoiler: Valentine’s device drives him into a [[UnstoppableRage killing frenzy along with everyone else]], and when he comes out of it [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he reacts with horror to what he just did]] right before he ''dies'']]. To top it all off, even if he didn’t know it, his [[spoiler: ''boss'' was one of the people behind his death]]! Does this guy need a hug, or what?

* FandomSpecificPlot: Easily a significant portion of ''Kingsman'' fanfic has this plot point: [[spoiler:Valentine is a lousy shot and Galahad's still alive. Zigzagged by the sequel, where it is revealed Harry was OnlyMostlyDead and was brought back by the Statesmen organization]].

* AcceptableTargets:
** A fundamentalist hate group [[AcceptableReligiousTargets based out of a church]] and numerous [[AcceptablePoliticalTargets world leaders]], including The President of The United States of America and The Queen of Great Britain. [[spoiler: [[AssholeVictim It's hard to feel bad when they all get slaughtered.]]]]
** The US president in the film, who joins all the other rich monsters willing to let poor people die, is ''not'' Barack Obama. However, Matthew Vaughn has no problem lampooning Elon Musk, confirming that he's the person whom the villainous Valentine contacts for back-up on V-Day.

* MisaimedFandom: In 2019, a [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump Donald Trump]] supporter superimposed Trump's face on Harry's in the church massacre scene. The churchgoers were edited to represent news publications. While apparently intended to show Trump as a badass, in the actual movie, Harry was BrainwashedAndCrazy in the scene and is traumatized by the aftermath, before he is [[spoiler:executed]].

* AngstWhatAngst: The Kingsmen don't dawn on the thousands of people who were killed worldwide during the five minutes for too long.

* EvilIsCool: Gazelle, the badass double amputee with {{Absurdly Sharp Blade}}s for legs and enough skill to vertically bisect a Kingsman before he knew what hit him.

* AssPull: Apparently, [[spoiler:Amelia didn't actually drown.]] This part being included seems pointless for several reasons. Namely [[spoiler:we never see that Amelia recovered, nor do we learn how she survived. Harry just tells Eggsy she's alive in one scene, and we're supposed to take him at his word.]] Furthermore, it doesn't affect the plot in any way, and just as easily could've been removed with no impact.

* CatharsisFactor: The church scene, for anyone who despises religious fundamentalists.

** Many fans of Creator/ColinFirth from his [[Film/NannyMcPhee family-friendly or]] [[Literature/PrideAndPrejudice rom]]-[[Literature/BridgetJones com]] [[Film/LoveActually works]] were quite shocked at the amount of vulgar language he casually uses as Harry, despite the fact that he had previously won an ''Academy Award'' for [[Film/TheKingsSpeech a film where he]] [[ClusterFBomb blurts out a slew of swear words for a good 30 seconds straight]].
** The scene where Harry is invited for dinner at Valentine's mansion, and they are served... UsefulNotes/McDonalds on fancy dishes. Come 2019 and [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump President Trump]] invites the Clemson University football team over to the White House for dinner where they are served a buffet of Wendy's, Burger King, Dominio's, and [=McDonald's=], still in the paper wrappers on the serving trays.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: Some parents mistakenly thought the film was just another silly spy movie along the lines of Agent Cody Banks. There was also a cute little pug in the trailers. You can probably imagine how shocked they were when they heard all the cluster F-bombs and witness the Tarantino-level violence. Let's just hope they left right before the characters went to church...Folks, it's rated R for a reason.

* FanPreferredCouple: By far, the most popular pairing in the fandom is Harry/Eggsy. Despite the fact that Harry [[spoiler: seemingly dies at the end of the film and Eggsy marries Tilde in [[Film/KingsmanTheGoldenCircle the sequel]]]].

* FanPreferredCouple: By far, the most popular pairing in fandom is Harry/Eggsy. Despite the fact that Harry [[spoiler: seemingly dies at the end of the film and Eggsy marries Tilde in [[Film/KingsmanTheGoldenCircle the sequel]]]].