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The Kingsmen
The Duke of Oxford
Orlando, Duke of Oxford
"Every man I killed, I killed a piece of myself."
Portrayed By: Ralph Fiennes
Dubbed By: Bernard Gabay (European French)
Appearances: The King's Man
"Let me explain. My reputation is of a man not wanting to be involved, which means that my character finds it much easier to be involved unnoticed."
A British nobleman who attempts to maintain peace in Europe from behind the scenes. He eventually goes on to found the Kingsman independent intelligence agency and becomes the first Arthur.
- Artistic License – History: The Dukedom of Oxford is fictitious. While there was a Earldom of Oxford, the last direct male heir died in 1703. The current title of Earl of Oxford and Asquith, was created in 1925 post-war for Herbert Henry Asquith.
- Beard of Sorrow: He stops shaving for several weeks (or more) after his son dies.
- Beware the Nice Ones: In an era where pacifism was often considered to be cowardice, he swore off violence because he was too good at it. That doesn't make him incapable of fighting should he think there's a good reason to set his vow aside.
- Classy Cane: He has a limp and uses a cane to support himself. And he's a gentleman.
- Drowning My Sorrows: After Conrad dies, Orlando takes to drinking at all hours of the day.
- Handicapped Badass: He has trouble moving due to being shot in the leg when he was younger. He can still kick ass, but he noticeably struggles to walk after beating two guards with his Sword Cane.
- He's Back!: He spends a period of time veering on the Despair Event Horizon after Conrad is killed on the front lines. After a Rousing Speech from Polly, Orlando sobers up, shaves his Beard of Sorrow, and puts on a proper suit again.Shola: [in awe after Orlando expresses his intention to put an end to the Shepherd personally] Welcome back, your Grace.
- I Will Fight No More Forever: Orlando swore to never fight again after his Heel Realization in Afghanistan, instead joining the Red Cross and bringing humanitarian aid to those in need.
- Martial Pacifist: He's a gifted combatant and tactician but refuses to take life after becoming horrified by war during his service in Afghanistan.
- Papa Wolf: Seeing Rasputin ready to break Conrad's neck drives Orlando into a rage and briefly break his vow of pacifism to stab and drown him.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Conrad enlists and goes to the front lines against Orlando's wishes, and Conrad ends up getting shot after being mistaken for a German spy.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: A more benevolent example than most. When his son Conrad enlists, he uses his influence with King George V to get his son assigned a safe job working as a general's secretary in London.
- Sword and Gun: When it comes time to face the Shepherd's forces, he uses a pistol in conjunction with his sword.
- Sword Cane: He has a sword concealed in his cane.
- Sword over Head: When he has Morton at his mercy, the villain taunts him about how a pacifist like him wouldn't kill him. Orlando proves him wrong.
- That Man Is Dead: His final words to Morton basically states this.Morton: You can't do it. You can't let me fall. It goes against your every belief. You are a pacifist. And I'm now completely reliant on your mercy, old boy.
Oxford: You're right. I shouldn't let you fall. Only now I have become the man that my son would have been. - Would Hit a Girl: He doesn't hesitate to knock down Mata Hari and choke her out with her own scarf.
- Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: He received a Victoria's Cross for his actions in Afghanistan, but as he'd realized they were invading and killing people just trying to defend their homeland, he grew disgusted with himself and became a stretcher bearer.
Conrad
Conrad Oxford
"I should be fighting!"
Portrayed By: Harris Dickinson
Appearances: The King's Man
"Oh, come on, Father. It's a big world out there. Sooner or later, you're going to have to let me enjoy it, even if, you know, even if you don't want to."
The only child of the Duke of Oxford. When war breaks out across Europe, he desperately wants to join up, but his father forbids it. He's the one who inspires the Kingsmen to take up codenames based on Arthurian legends.
- All for Nothing: Zig-zagged, while the intelligence he retrieves is indeed critical to the war effort and makes a difference, his efforts to bring the injured spy back behind friendly lines (instead of just taking his intel) gets the man and indirectly Conrad himself killed.
- Boom, Headshot!: He is shot in the head after being mistaken for a German spy.
- Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Contrasting prequel main character, that is. Eggsy was a lower class man who dropped out of marine training to look after his mother, knowing she'd be broken if he died in the military like his father. Conrad is the son of a duke and joins the army against his father's wishes.
- Doomed by Canon: His fate was sealed the minute he decided to enlist in the war, due to the first movie establishing that the Kingsman Agency was founded by men of wealth and power who had lost their heirs in the war.
- Honor Before Reason:
- He insists on not only serving in the army, but fighting on the front lines, including replacing Archie on the frontlines despite being given a cushy desk job in London.
- Rather than take the injured spy's information back to command, he insists on carrying him across No-Man's Land.
- Killed Mid-Sentence: Conrad is shot in the head by a friend of Archie Reid, after the latter accuses him of being a German spy. The gunshot happened while Conrad said his name.
- Man in a Kilt: He wears a kilt after sneaking into the Black Watch.
- Mistaken for Spies: While pretending to be Archie, he's confronted by a friend of the actual Archie while also holding an item that's obviously from the German military.
- Never Got to Say Goodbye: He cries to the British spy in No Man's Land that he made a huge mistake joining the front lines, and sobs that he never even got to say goodbye to those that matter to him.
- Not What It Looks Like: He is caught impersonating a Scottish soldier on the front lines and carrying a German wallet. He gets summarily executed for his troubles.
- Poor Communication Kills: His stammering explanation for why he's using a fake name while holding an obviously German wallet gets him shot as a German spy.
- Shirtless Scene: He trains in knife combat shirtless.
- Slave to PR: A large part off Conrad's insistence on serving on the front lines is due to others calling him a coward for not enlisting. His father tries to make him realize that character is more important than reputation, but to no avail.
- Soldiers at the Rear: The duke uses his connections to ensure if he'd enlist, Conrad won't be sent to the front, to Conrad's consternation.
- Too Dumb to Live: Zigzagged. Conrad attempts to cross No-Man's Land after the sun rises while carrying an injured man on his shoulders. He survives but the injured man doesn't. Then he is mistaken for a spy by another soldier and shot.
Shola
Shola
"Armed and ready."
Portrayed By: Djimon Hounsou
Appearances: The King's Man
"If God wanted man to fly, he would have given him wings."
The Oxford household's butler and the duke's right hand. When the Kingman agency is founded, he becomes the first Merlin.
- Magical Negro: Invoked where Conrad imagines himself and his family as characters from Arthurian Legend and calls Shola Merlin. He takes Merlin as a codename at the end.
- Master Swordsman: Absolutely unmatched with his blades.
- Old Retainer: He's been in service to the Duke of Oxford for many years and has known Conrad since he was a young boy.
- Only a Flesh Wound: He survives the bullet to the shoulder, but retires to a support position as the first Merlin rather than continue to serve as a field agent.
- Shirtless Scene: He is shirtless when training Conrad in knife combat.
- Taking the Bullet: In the final battle, he jumps in front of the Duke when the Big Bad shoots at him.
- Token Minority: He seems to be the only non-white guy in Kingsman during World War I. Or even the only non-white Kingsman agent in the franchise, period.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Shola's afraid of heights, insisting that, "If man were meant to fly, he'd be born with wings."
Polly
Polly Watkins
"Welcome to the club!"
Portrayed By: Gemma Arterton
Appearances: The King's Man
"Why is it that boys are so messy?"
The Oxford household's nanny, who also happens to be a gifted codebreaker and fighter. She becomes the first Galahad.
- Action Girl: Is excellent and comfortable with firearms.
- Boring, but Practical: She pokes fun at Conrad and Shola for training in knives when guns are the modern man (or woman)'s killing machine. She later blows Rasputin's brains out with a single shot after the men engage him in a lengthy melee fight.
- Forbidden Romance: She hints at having strong romantic feelings for the Duke of Oxford, which is forbidden because of their difference in station and she continues to be fiercely loyal to the late duchess.
- Friendly Sniper: She's a total sweetheart and knows how to kill from a distance.
- History Repeats: She doesn't much care for the class stratification that exists in British society, particularly the deference that's supposed to be shown toward the nobility. As her successors as Galahad, both Harry and Eggsy demonstrate similar rebellious streaks toward class differences.
- Honest Advisor: She shares her thoughts and opinions bluntly with the Duke of Oxford, which he usually appreciates."I'll play by your rules when you play by mine."
- Improbable Aiming Skills: She shoots a practice knife out of Shola's hand with a WW1 era pistol from quite a distance, and serves as the team's sharpshooter for the rest of the film.
- The Spymaster: She runs Orlando's spy-ring of domestics, which spans most of Europe at least and later expands into the United States.
- Team Mom: As a nanny she naturally has a lot of maternal instincts and is shown baking a birthday cake for Conrad and decrying that "her boys" are so messy.
Archie
Archie Reid
Portrayed By: Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Appearances: The King's Man
A Scottish soldier from the Black Watch who trades places with Conrad so that Conrad can fight on the front lines. He becomes the first Lancelot.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Rather amusingly, he was the least privy to Orlando's spy network or hand in stopping World War I out of the Kingsman founders and yet gets recruited as the first Lancelot.
- Rags to Riches: He goes from being an enlisted soldier to a secret agent rubbing shoulders with the highest echelons of British society.
- Red Herring: His buzzcut and heavy Scottish accent clues eagle-eyed viewers to the possibility that he's the Shepherd, though this is eventually revealed to not be the case.
- Swapped Roles: He is an enlisted soldier who swaps uniforms with Conrad and ends up becoming a founding member of Kingsman while Conrad dies fighting.
King George
King George V
"I owe you a great personal debt that I still have my crown."
Portrayed By: Tom Hollander
Appearances: The King's Man
"Look at us. Three young cousins who thought they knew how to rule. But now the soldiers are real."
The King of Great Britain and the British Dominions and Emperor of India. He joins the nascent Kingsman agency as the first Percival.
- The Atoner: He joins the Kingsman agency out of guilt for seeing so many young men die in what amounts to an ultra-violent family squabble.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Zig-zagged. While he does come off as the most rational and sympathetic of the monarchs involved in the family squabble of World War I, his attitude towards the Kaiser and the Tsar does come off as a bit high-handed, and contributes to their Treacherous Advisors manipulating them into war.
- Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: He decides to do his friend Orlando a good turn by having Conrad moved to a cushy staff position in London. Unfortunately, Conrad is so intent on fighting that he swaps places with another soldier.
- Uncanny Family Resemblance: He's the spitting image of his cousins Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II (who both are also played by Tom Hollander). In Real Life, George and Nicholas were aware of this and played with it.
US Ambassador
US Ambassador
Portrayed By: Stanley Tucci
Appearances: The King's Man
"We cannot risk the integrity of the U.S. presidency."
The American ambassador to Great Britain. He becomes the Kingsman agency's first Bedivere.
- No Name Given: He's not given a name in The King's Man. In Real Life, Walter Hines Page was the U.S. Ambassador during World War I.
- Small Role, Big Impact: His screen time is minimal, but he's the one who reveals that Woodrow Wilson is being blackmailed and sets in motion the Duke of Oxford's final plan to take down the Flock, bring the Americans into the war, and finally turn the tide against German aggression.
The Flock
Shepherd
The Shepherd
SPOILERS: Click here to see the Shepherd's real identity.
"I'm gonna fucking love killing you!"
Portrayed By: Matthew Goode
Appearances: The King's Man
"The English monarchy has oppressed my beloved Scotland for over 700 years and it is time for retribution."
The head of the Flock, responsible for destabilizing Europe to kick off a devastating war.
- Bad People Abuse Animals: He willingly kills his favorite goat while threatening Rasputin, and cuts off the horn of another in a fit of anger after hearing of Rasputin's death.
- Bait the Dog: Calms Erik and Mata Hari after they threaten Rasputin, but then threatens him more directly by killing a goat and threatening to do the same to him.
- Bald of Evil: To the point where for most of the movie, all we really know about him is that he's a bald Scotsman since they do everything they can to obscure his face until the finale.
- Big Bad: The leader of the Flock and the instigator of WWI.
- Chekhov's Gun: The pistol concealed in the hilt of his sword comes into play against Orlando during the final battle, though ultimately it only serves to take Shola out of the fight.
- Combat Pragmatist: For all that he suggests Let's Fight Like Gentlemen, he's quick to use concealed weapons, surprise attacks, and even a grenade in order to win.
- Deadly Euphemism: Refers to his Cyanide pills as "my final gift to you."
- Disney Villain Death: He meets his end after Orlando drops him to his death from the top of his mountain base, impacting the rocks at the bottom.
- Disproportionate Retribution:
- He admonishes a sparring partner for landing an unsportsmanlike hit while he was distracted. Then he retaliates by shooting his partner with a pistol concealed in the hilt of his sword after his Flock delivers bad news.
- His family's land was taken by British aristocrats in his childhood. He has responded by triggering the single worst international conflict in history up to that point with the intention of wiping out Britain entirely.
- The Dog Bites Back: One of his own goats ultimately spells his defeat by ramming a horn through his thigh at a critical moment, after he'd killed a fellow goat in front of it and slashed off one of its horns to make a dramatic gesture to the others.
- The Dog Was the Mastermind: His true identity turns out to be Morton, Lord Kitchener's Aide-de-Camp.
- Establishing Character Moment: His first scene shows him cutting the throat of his favorite goat in a fit of rage.
- Evil Counterpart: He and his Flock are like an evil version of the Kingsmen; they're a covert organization built by someone intending to avenge a wrong committed against family.
- Evil Is Hammy: Has a very Hot-Blooded manner of speech.
- The Faceless: For most of the movie, he's shot from the back, hidden in shadows, or wearing a mask.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: It's never unexplained just how he became so influential. He went from a child of shepherds who lost their land to establishing a criminal network extensive enough to commit a conspiracy across three nations and incite a massive war with global implications.
- Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: Subverted, he has the pretenses of an honorable duelist, but proves to be a dirty figther.
- Early on, he tells one of the henchmen he's sparring with who takes advantage of unexpected visitors to score a point that it's against their "code of honor" to take advantage of a distraction, then shoots the man dead with a concealed gun in the hilt of his sword seconds later when their visitors deliver bad news.
- He challenges Orlando to a one on one sword duel, but tries to shoot the duke with a concealed pistol, then later throws a grenade at him when he notices that his own leg is injured.
- Master Swordsman: Competent enough to match Orlando even when he's not using underhanded means to gain an advantage.
- Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: He claims to be fighting for Scotland, but started a war in which hundreds of Scotsmen are killed in battle.
- Violent Glaswegian: He speaks with a strong Scottish accent, abuses animals, and wants to see England burned into rubble.
- You Have Failed Me: He distributes rings that contain hidden cyanide capsules and tells the Flock to take them if they fail to carry out his orders.
Dog
Erik Jan Hanussen
Portrayed By: Daniel Brühl
Appearances: The King's Man
- Co-Dragons: He and Rasputin appear to be the Shephard's top agents as his high-ranking representatives in the governments of Germany and Russia, respectively. Hanussen specifically is noted to be behind the plan to form an alliance with Mexico in order to keep America out of the war, and takes over the Flock after his boss' death.
- Dragon Ascendant: He and Lenin outlive the rest of the Flock and he ends up recruiting Adolf Hitler to their cause to serve as Lenin's counterweight in the next war.
- Historical Villain Upgrade: The historical Hanussen was a travelling showman and charlatan who only gained prominence after the fall of the Kaiser and the rise of the Weimar Republic. In the film, he takes Ludendorff and von Hindenburg's place as the Kaiser's treacherous advisor and the secret power behind the throne. He may have been chosen because, historically, he was an occultist and mesmerist who allegedly trained Hitler in the use of dramatic effect.
- Karma Houdini: He has no direct contact with the heroes and survives the war without receiving any comeuppance for his role in starting it.
- Manipulative Bastard: He has the ear of Kaiser Wilhelm II and provides deadly advice that will escalate World War I, manipulating the Kaiser's insecurities regarding his deformed hand and his cousins' low opinion of his intelligence and will.
- Meaningful Name: He acts as the Shepherd's second-in-command, thus he's given a ring depicting a dog, which helps shepherds keep their flocks in order.
- The Unfought: The Oxford ring can't directly penetrate Germany once the war starts, and can't confront him directly like so many of the other members of the Flock.
Tortoise
Grigori Rasputin
"Time to dance... on your graves!"
Portrayed By: Rhys Ifans
Dubbed By: Féodor Atkine (European French)
Appearances: The King's Man
"I only make decisions when my stomach is full or my balls are empty."
- Acquired Poison Immunity: He mentions that he drinks a bit of poison with his breakfast every day, leaving him functionally immune to cyanide.
- Ambiguously Bi: Rasputin makes out with his escorts, but is also seemingly interested in both Conrad and Orlando judging by the comments he makes during their scenes together.
- The Brute: The most physically challenging of the Flock, barring Shepherd, and he takes a lot of punishment before going down.
- Co-Dragons: He and Hanussen appear to be the Shepherd's top agents as his high-ranking representatives in the governments of Russia and Germany, respectively. Rasputin specifically is tasked with manipulating Russia out of the war so Germany can devote all of its resources to destroying Britain, and acts as the film's Disc-One Final Boss.
- Dance Battler: His fighting style utilizes spins, kicks, squats, and lunges taken from Russian folk dancing.
- Depraved Bisexual: He makes out with his two escorts during dinner and is implied to be interested in young men as well, on top of being a total psychopath.Conrad: What is it that you Russians do that an Englishman can enjoy?
Rasputin: Well, everything. Food, music, ballet, tobacco, art. But most of all... we like to fuck like tigers. - Disc-One Final Boss: For the second major member of the conspiracy confronted, Rasputin puts up a hell of a fight, taking on all three of the male protagonists simultaneously and single-handedly, and ultimately comes out on top until the lady takes him by surprise and puts a bullet in his head. The protagonists think they've saved the day by killing him, only for the actual Big Bad to simply employ another of his agents in his plans to destroy England.
- Evil Is Petty: During the meeting where the Shepherd is detailing his master plan, he starts an argument over the fact that he doesn't like his assigned animal.
- Genre Savvy: Rasputin immediately suspects the bakewell tart of being poisoned with cyanide because it's covered in almonds to mask the smell. Turns out, he's right, not that it matters.
- Historical Badass Upgrade: The historical Rasputin was a mystic and self-proclaimed holy man whose only claim to fame was ingratiating himself into the favor of the Russian Imperial Family, while in The King's Man he is a Master Swordsman who's capable of going toe-to-toe with the Duke of Oxford, his son, and their manservant all at once in a duel.
- Historical Domain Character: Rasputin was a real person who lived in Russia in the early 1900s.
- Historical Villain Upgrade:
- From a mystic/guru/scammer who ingratiated himself into the favor of the Russian Imperial Family to a Diabolical Mastermind who gets involved in Western European affairs and is a Master Swordsman.
- The historical Rasputin opposed Russia's involvement in World War 1. Coming from a peasant background, he was acutely aware that peasants are the first to suffer when a country goes to war, and he wrote multiple letters to the Tsar urging him to not go to war, and pressured the Tsarina to convince her husband. He's said to have warned Nicholas II in one of his letters that joining the war in Europe would lead to the fall of his house. Here he's working with the parties starting the war, encouraging the Tsar to join the war, before later trying to talk him into leaving the war so England is left without allies.
- Jabba Table Manners: After a single bite of poisoned dessert, he promptly stuffs the entire thing into his mouth rather messily, resulting in quite a bit of it getting stuck in his beard.
- Large Ham: He is as theatrical and exaggerated as it can get, with his healing of Orlando's injury possibly being the peak.
- Master Poisoner: He carefully concocts a poisoned sweet to simulate a seizure in young Tsarevich Alexei, and his crucifix contains an opium stopper that he uses to further control the Tsar and his wife.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: He's stated to control the Tsar and his wife via opium, but he also heals Orlando's bad leg and seemingly hypnotizes him at the same time.
- Moment Killer: While hypnotizing Orlando, he almost gets the man to reveal his plans, only to promptly vomit up the poisoned Bakewell tart he'd just eaten.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: He heals the Duke of Oxford's wounded leg, which allows the man to go on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the Flock.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: A major weirdo who seems content with doing everything he can to antagonize or disturb others, but is otherwise very obviously scared shitless of the Shepherd.
- Phony Psychic: Subverted. The film heavily implies that he's manipulating the Romanovs with his mastery of poisons and drugs and his strong personality to appear to have supernatural powers. However, when he confronts Orlando alone, he seemingly does restore the man's damaged leg and hypnotize him into sharing his secret designs. Orlando even expresses shock that it actually worked, and that Rasputin wasn't just a fraud.
- Rasputinian Death: Fittingly, he's poisoned, stabbed, drowned and finally shot before he dies.
- Shoe Phone: His cross conceals a needle filled with opium.
- Shoo Out the Clowns: Downplayed. He's a genuine threat and intimidating presence, but The King's Man noticeably takes a dip into the franchise's infamous irreverent humor all throughout the assassination on him. Once he's out of the picture, the movie returns to being the Darker and Edgier entry and the humor never gets as silly as Rasputin ballet dancing throughout his fight with Shola.
Mata Hari
Mata Hari
Portrayed By: Valerie Pachner
Appearances: The King's Man
"Time for you to work your magic on the president, Mata."
— The Shepherd
- Defiant to the End: When confronted by Orlando and aware the jig is probably up, Mata Hari not only demonstrates the Cashmere ring trick with great grace, but tries to use it as a cover to knife him despite not really being a skilled fighter and easily being overpowered by her enemy.
- Femme Fatale Spy: Being both a Historical Domain Character and the Trope Codifier. She seduces Woodrow Wilson to blackmail him into staying out of the war with a film reel of the affair.
- Historical Domain Character: Mata Hari was a real person who was convicted of being a German spy in World War 1.
- Historical Villain Upgrade: Probably the biggest example in the film, against some stiff competition. The historical Margaretha Geertruida Zelle wasn't much of a spy and was subjected to a great deal of scapegoating in her lifetime to cover up the incompetence of the French government and military. She was also Dutch. But this film is hardly the first story to lean into her legend as the Trope Codifier for the Femme Fatale Spy.
Bear
Gavrilo Princip
Portrayed By: Joel Basman
Appearances: The King's Man
"It was the alcohol. I was overcome. I'm just a simple Serb."
- Driven to Suicide: After his attempt at bombing Archduke Franz Ferdinand's motorcade goes wrong, he decides to take the cyanide capsule hidden inside his ring. Subverted when the Archduke's car passes right by him twice just before he can, leading to him simply shooting the man.
- Historical Villain Upgrade: Downplayed. In real life, he was just one of many assassins working for his secret society of Yugoslav nationalists. While he's the only actual assassin mentioned in the film, he's still ultimately just a pawn of his master. Simultaneously played straight in that he's part of a conspiracy to start the war, whereas in reality he obviously didn't anticipate that shooting Franz Ferdinand would start a global war (in fact, he didn't even believe that the assassination caused the war).
- Irony: While his animal, the Bear, is generally seen as imposing and dangerous, poor Princip is just a hapless pawn of his master and not even a particularly skilled assassin so much as a lucky one. He even offers an exchange with Rasputin, someone he sees as more worthy of such a title.
- Never Suicide: Ironically, when he's outlived his usefulness to the Flock, his jailers attempt to hang him in his cell until Orlando rescues him so he can be properly interrogated.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The Shepherd promptly arranged for his murder-made-to-look-like-a-suicide following his arrest to tie up loose ends.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Portrayed By: August Diehl
Appearances: The King's Man
"When my revolution is complete, the Flock's left will be so powerful, your one problem will be finding my equal to balance from the right."
- Cutting the Knot: With Rasputin dead, and with him the organization's means of controlling the tsar, the Shepherd arranges for Lenin to overthrow them instead.
- Foreshadowing: He boasts that after his leftist revolution is through, the Flock's real challenge will be finding someone on the right able to counterbalance him. At the end of the film, he's introduced to a certain mustachioed Austrian...
- Historical In-Joke: While it was at the behest of the German government rather than an international coalition of supervillains, Lenin was indeed released into Russia during the First World War to overthrow the government. It succeeded beyond the Germans' worst nightmares.
- Historical Villain Upgrade: He's part of the Flock conspiracy, and very friendly to his future political rival, Adolf Hitler.
The Moustached Man
Adolf Hitler
"It is an honor, Comrade Lenin."
Portrayed By: David Kross
Appearances: The King's Man
"This young man will come to rival your position in this world, my friend."
— Erik Jan Hanussen
- Historical Villain Upgrade: By this point in time, the real-life Hitler was a mere messenger runner who only saw combat in the Western Front and only rose into infamy when he became a speaker for the Nazi Party. Here, he is part of the Flock conspiracy, and personally murdered the Tsar and his family.
- Would Hurt a Child: He did not hesitate in gunning down the Tsar's whole family, which included his five children.
- Young Future Famous People: Hitler as he appears in this film hasn't yet adopted his signature facial hair, and he's actually shown to be the assassin who killed the Tsar and his family after the revolution.
Other Characters
General Herbert Kitchner
General Herbert Kitchner
Portrayed By: Charles Dance
Appearances: The King's Man
"The object of war is not to die for one's country, but to make the enemy die for theirs!"
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: Like in real life, he dies at sea when his ship goes down. In The King's Man it is not a landmine, but a torpedo from his seemingly loyal aid.
Captain Morton
Captain Morton
"With all due respect, sir, this debate should happen after we have won the war."
Portrayed By: Matthew Goode
Appearances: The King's Man
"I would help, but I'm definitely... definitely more of a soldier than I am a sailor."
The Aide-de-camp of General Herbert Kitchner.
- Advertised Extra: A rather minor character receives his own promotional poster except he is far more important as his identity of the Shepherd.
- False Friend: Seems rather friendly and encouraging to Conrad's desire for military service, but actually begins the war that gets Conrad killed.
- Fauxreigner: His English accent is faked, as he actually is Scottish.
- Walking Spoiler: There's not much to talk about with him besides the fact that he's the Shepherd.
