Goes without saying that this applies to the same characters in the sequel, but the subset of the fandom that headcanons everyone as queer usually headcanons Harry as gay, with his behaviour and backstory in both films not really contradicting this headcanon.note Homophobia is his Berserk Button, as shown clearly enough in The Secret Service, and him claiming to the bigoted church lady that he has a boyfriend who works at an abortion clinic is probably his most iconic line (next to "Manners maketh man," but those are shared Arc Words anyway). By The Golden Circle canon, though, Harry has never gotten the chance to commit to any one partner, making it more ambiguous. Harry has shown no romantic or sexual interest in women and the closest thing to canon action he gets is being flirted with by Elton John.) Eggsy, on the other hand, is headcanoned and written as bisexual, not gay, by even the most fervid of Harry/Eggsy shippers, with his canon Chick Magnet status usually expanded to him being an any gender magnet, really. Roxy is typically headcanoned as bisexual or a lesbian.
With Merlin, it gets tricky... Although the Kingsman fandom on Tumblr, etc. does like same-gender pairings a lot and Merlin was never an exception, he was also pretty widely shipped with women like Roxy — in some instances, apparently just to get Roxy out of the way for Harry/Eggsy — even after Matthew Vaughn himself said in a magazine that Merlin would be confirmed gay if they got a sequel. When they did do the sequel, however, Merlin was paired with Halle Berry's character, Ginger, whom fans did receive well. Some of the response to the canon Merlin/Ginger ship is for Vaughn's 2014/2015 statement that Merlin would be a gay character to be suddenly taken seriously when it never was taken so seriously before, however. Fandom racism, in this particular example misogynoir, is recognised as the reason by fans who elect to support the pairing despite Vaughn's inconsistencies on Merlin's sexuality. Now, people who want to ship Merlin with Ginger while keeping Merlin queer go with bisexual as well.
Fan-Preferred Couple: By far, the most popular pairing in fanfic is Harry/Eggsy. Although more casual viewers outside fandom spaces like Tumblr tend to prefer Roxy/Eggsy, with many assuming they'd probably, eventually get a Relationship Upgrade. Eggsy marries Tilde in the sequel.
The Secret Service: Richmond Valentine is the Genre Savvy 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 belief of saving the world and the rest of humanity and is 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.
The Golden Circle: "Agent Whiskey", real name Jack Daniels, is a high-ranking member of the American Statesman agency. After helping Gary "Eggsy" Unwin plant a tracker on a suspect through a sexual act, Whiskey then saves Harry Hart from rude guys in a bar by beating them all up single-handedly and later on takes out a bunch of armed gunmen all on his own too with minimal use of his signature lasso, even using his surroundings to his advantage. Taking advantage of both the situation and of Poppy Adams's massive poisoning of all her drug users with a deadly virus as part of a ransom scheme, Whiskey makes it look like he destroyed the antidote vial they retrieved completely by accident. Later confronting, threatening and fighting Eggsy and Harry, Whiskey reveals he intends for all drug users to die not for the potential profit Statesman would achieve in their sales, but because his own pregnant wife was senselessly murdered by two meth users years ago.
