History Film / KingsmanTheGoldenCircle

** At least one of [[spoiler:Poppy's cruise missiles]] hit a building in the middle of London (Saville Row, even), yet we never hear anything about civilian casualties. Might be justified by downtown London being almost empty at night.

-->'''Eggsy''': Dette er jättegodt! [[labelnote:English]]This is mega-good/really good[[/labelnote]]

** Tilde finally calls Eggsy back... [spoiler:and she has blue veins all over her.]]

-->''"Put Alpha Gel on that... dickhead."''

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Most especially when Elton John is delivering a flying kick to one of Poppy's mooks.

*** When Harry saves [[spoiler:Elton John]] and suggests saving the world merits free concert tickets, he is instead offered a "backstage pass" (with a kiss).
** When Merlin suits up as a Kingsman agent for the first time, he and Eggsy exchange dialogue similar to when Eggsy first suited up.
--->'''Eggsy''': Lookin' good, Merlin.\\
'''Merlin''': ''Feeling'' good, Eggsy.
** The fight in Poppy's diner is a stylized [[TheOner oner]] set to music just like the church scene.
** Just like his predecessor, Eggsy has started keeping a SuperheroTrophyShelf of newspaper front pages from days he completed major missions. As before, the headlines have nothing to do with the assignments.
** When Merlin directs Eggsy to drive to an underwater rendezvous point, Eggsy protests that the windshield of his car has been blown out. Merlin reminds Eggsy of his ability to hold his breath, as demonstrated in his first training exercise.

* CoolCar: Eggsy's black cab (a car known primarily for trundling around London with minimal fuss), has a luxurious passenger compartment (complete with liquor and cigars), is brimming with spy gear, and has the performance of a rally car. Plus, it can [[spoiler: turn into a submarine]].

* DiabolusExMachina: [[spoiler: The Statesman-issued mine detector works well enough for Eggsy, Harry, and Merlin to sneak past the minefield that borders Poppy's base, but it failed to detect the one last mine that Eggsy unfortunately steps on, ''even though he is the one who's holding the detector'', which leaves no other choice but for Merlin to perform a HeroicSacrifice.]]

-->"I'm never touching that ''fucking'' thing again!"

* EyepatchOfPower: Deconstructed. Harry now sports an eyepatch, to illustrate he survived [[MoeGreeneSpecial taking a gunshot straight through his eye.]] He later receives a pair of glasses with a black lens that covers his ruined eye. Sadly, without proper depth perception, the highly trained [[OneManArmy One-Man Army]] now struggles to aim his shots properly, and in his first fight scene, he is caught completely off guard by an attack from his blind side. He gets better over the course of the story and seems capable enough in the final fights, but the failures early on are shown to put quite a damper on his confidence.

** At the end of Eggsy's scene with his friends, [[spoiler: the camera pans to a stash of cannabis which transitions to Poppy's estate. This hints that the drugs his friends are using ultimately come from Poppy's empire.]]

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Whiskey kills one of Poppy's mooks by cutting him in half at the waist with his electrified lasso. Poppy's newly inducted henchman Angel might also be an example, but since the grisly details are kept hidden behind a SceneryCensor, it could also just be a case of AnArmAndALeg.

** [[spoiler: Harry beats one of Poppy's robotic dogs when it was distracted by Elton John, because it's programmed to see him as friendly and not to attack him. Poppy overrides the program eventually, but by then it's too late. He also beats the other robotic dog by melting it with the boiling gold in the "salon" that Poppy uses to "make over" her new henchmen.]]

* HonorBeforeReason: Eggsy refuses to [[spoiler:get intimate with a target]] unless Tilde is ok with it. He could've just not told her. [[SubvertedTrope Of course]], even though she firmly establishes she isn't ok with it, he still goes through with it, as there's just too many lives at stake. [[spoiler: However, he goes just as far with Clara as he needs to to get the job done, and then abruptly leaves.]]
** Merlin's HeroicSacrifice is because Eggsy father did the same for him and Harry. Harry tries to take his place because it was ''his'' mistake but Merlin used up all the freezing spray.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Eggsy and Merlin assume this is what the Doomsday Protocol wants them to do when they find a Statesmen whiskey bottle in lieu of procedures or plans.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Two goons are impaled all the way through when the massive scissors on the exterior of Poppy's Salon come falling down, courtesy of our heroes.]]

* ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler: Verbatim from Merlin after Poppy sends missiles to wipe out the Kingsman agents. Second use in the film is a variation from Eggsy ("This is all my fault!") when Harry shoots Whiskey, because he lobbied for Harry to go out in the field again, thinking Harry would be ready]].

---> '''Tequila''': That's a '63 Statesman Reserve. Now it's personal.
** Eggsy is out for Charlie's blood after learning that [[spoiler: he's responsible for providing the locations of Kingsman bases for Poppy to blow them all up and killing his closest friends and allies. When he finally beats Charlie, he then snaps his neck in cold blood to avenge his friends.]]

* LandMineGoesClick: The mines surrounding Poppy's base are like this. [[spoiler: Merlin pulls off the "freeze the mechanism" trick to buy Eggsy a split second to get off it. In a slight twist there still isn't enough time to escape the blast radius, so Merlin uses that time to take his place]].

** After Harry was shot point-blank in the head, Eggsy took his place as Galahad. Things get confusing when it turns out that Statesman saved Harry's life. See [[RunningGag Running Gag]] below.

* MatchCut: The movie absolutely loves this kind of slow transition: a zoom to bag of weed turns into the Cambodian jungle, a hole in the bowling wall becomes the ruins of Eggsy's flat, a bottle of whiskey cut to the Stateman's factory (whose main tower is shaped like a bottle), etc.

* MeaningfulName: Many drugs have been known to be synthesised from the ''poppy'' plant. Poppy herself even wears an apron patterned in pictures of poppies at one point.

** A whole scene is devoted to Eggsy's first dinner with Tilde's parents, Sweden's royal couple. It's light-hearted and funny to watch him con his way through the conversation with [[VoiceWithAnInternetConnection remote support from Roxy]] at Kingsman HQ. Then [[spoiler:Poppy's long-range missiles strike, the Kingsmen get all but annihilated, and Roxy dies a very, very sudden death without even a chance of escape]].
** Eggsy gives Harry a [[spoiler: sweet PreciousPuppy, which the psychologically regressed Harry beams at with positively childlike happiness. Then, Eggsy takes out a gun...]]

--->[''dramatic pause'']\\
'''Elton''': ...[[spoiler:WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME, YOU FUCKING BITCH?!]]\\
'''Poppy''': [[spoiler:[''adjusts her glasses, ignoring Elton, trying to still look dignified''] ]]

* NeckSnap: [[spoiler: How Eggsy kills Charlie.]]

** [[spoiler: Roxy and the rest of the Kingsmen]] die because [[spoiler:Eggsy FailedASpotCheck and forgot Charlie's cybernetic arm had detached from him and was still in the taxi. Even if Eggsy didn't consider that it could be controlled remotely, it still would have been a good idea to put it somewhere isolated for study]].

* OneHandedShotgunPump: Tequila does this with a lever-action rifle, flip-cocking it a la Creator/JohnWayne or the Franchise/{{Terminator}} when he finds Eggsy and Merlin above the Statesmen's HQ.

-->'''Eggsy:''' For the record, Charlie, I'm more of a gentleman than you will ever be. [[PreemptiveDeclaration But right now, it's time we drop the "gentle" bit.]] This is for [[spoiler:Kingsmen]]. For [[spoiler:my mate Brandon]]. For [[spoiler:Roxy]]. For [[spoiler:JB]]. And for [[spoiler:Merlin. [[PreMortemOneLiner Goodnight, bruv]]]]. ''(Snaps [[spoiler:Charlie's]] neck)''

'''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Wheeler Wayne Wheeler]]''': ...the government is under no obligation to furnish people with alcohol that is drinkable when the Constitution prohibits it. The person who drinks this industrial alcohol is a deliberate suicide.]]

* RecycledSoundtrack: The electric guitar piece from "Rage And Serenity", a track created by Henry Jackman for Matthew Vaughn's ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', is used when Harry [[spoiler: regains his memories of Eggsy and Kingsman]].

* RememberTheNewGuy: A tiny example, but in the first movie, Eggsy had 2 best friends he hung out with. In the sequel, a third one is added. [[spoiler:And he is the one who dies when Eggsy's house gets destroyed by rockets.]]

* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Right there in the {{Tagline}}, in reference to Harry Hart / Galahad's survival after seemingly having his brains blown out in the last film.

* RewatchBonus: At the beginning, a lovely bagpipe melody plays as the title rolls, being easily dismissed. [[spoiler: Then on re-watch, the song you'll realise that you heard was a bag-pipe rendition of Music/JohnDenver's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vrEljMfXYo "Take Me Home, Country Roads"]], a {{Leitmotif}} for Merlin, [[DyingMomentOfAwesome which is his favourite childhood song that he even sings when performing his]] HeroicSacrifice.]]

** The song Word Up is also featured in [[Film/JohnnyEnglishReborn Johnny English Reborn]].

** He leaves Charlie's robotic arm in the car because he's in a hurry to go to his friend's birthday party, [[spoiler: unknowingly allowing Charlie to remote-control the arm and hack the Kingsman network, leading to Poppy destroying all Kingsman bases and killing Eggsy's closest friends and pet dog.]]
** When he has to get intimate with a target, he takes the time to ask Tilde, his girlfriend, for permission first, when it was really not needed. And this leads to a falling out between the two that ends up with [[spoiler: Tilde poisoned by Poppy's drug virus.]]
** [[spoiler: He carelessly exposes the fragile antidote tube from its secured capsule just to closely examine it, allowing Whiskey to slap it out of his hand and breaks it on the ground.]]
** [[spoiler: When he sees the entrance of Poppy's base, he gets too distracted to notice that he's not out of the minefield yet, and leads to him stepping on a mine even with the mine detector in his hand.]]

* SomeoneHasToDie: [[spoiler: Eggsy invokes NoOneGetsLeftBehind, but Merlin is adamant that IWillOnlySlowYouDown. Cue HeroicSacrifice]].

* StillGotIt: A non-verbal example: After seeing butterflies several times, missing with throwing the tankard, getting beaten down and realising he isn't quite up to scratch just yet (and being told his coordination will return in time), Harry shoots a soldier down when he, Eggsy and Whiskey hide in the hut after stealing the antidote. Harry takes a moment to appreciate himself.

* StevenUlyssesPerhero: Minor one, but the guy named Whiskey? His real name happens to be Jack Daniels. Likewise, certain drugs have long been derived from opium poppy seeds. Guess what plant the BigBad is named after and what her modus operandi is.

* TalkToTheFist: See above.

* ThemeNaming: While the Kingsmen are named after Arthurian Legend, the Statesmen are named after alcoholic beverages. Meanwhile, the head of their support staff is named after a soft drink.[[note]]Specifically, Ginger Ale, which was used as a mixer during prohibition. [[FridgeBrilliance In other words, Ginger Ale supports alcohol]][[/note]]

-->'''Merlin''': [''weakly''] I think we should drink to Scotland. [''takes the whiskey bottle'']\\
'''Eggsy''': [''taking bottle from Merlin''] I think we've probably had enough, to be honest.

** As well as [[spoiler: the swarm of drones flying past the Statue of Liberty were actually carrying the antidote, though it was implied by the trailers that they were bombs.]]

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Eggsy, Merlin, and Harry hold a normal conversation...while Whiskey is dishing out a CurbStompBattle against a bunch of rude drunkards.

-->'''The President:''' [[spoiler: We ''appear'' to give in to her demands, and then we let the junkie scum die.]]
* WhamShot:

** Tilde finally calls Eggsy back...[[spoiler:and she has blue veins all over her.]]

** In the case of Harry, [[spoiler: he's still recovering from the side effects caused by the nanotechnology used to save him. Even after he gets his memories back, he still has a tendency to get distracted by illusions of butterflies that hinders him in the field, losing his left eye does a number on his aiming skills, and the combination of synthetically developed neural pathways and lack of exercise over the year has resulted in a lack of coordination and practice that severely affected his previously shown abilities as a capable fighter]].

* MatchCut: The movie absolutely loves this kind of slow transition: a zoom to bag of weed turns into the South-American forest, a hole in the bowling wall becomes the ruins of Eggsy's flat, a bottle of whiskey cut to the Stateman's factory (whose main tower is shaped like a bottle), etc.

!!''Kingsman: The Golden Circle'' contains examples of:

* VillainHasAPoint: [[spoiler:Whiskey's]] willingness to let all junkies to die makes more sense considering [[spoiler:his wife and unborn child were killed by junkies robbing a store.]] It's not shown whether it would actually ''work'', but his logic is no different than what [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Lord Batman]] said about [[Awesome/JusticeLeague taking power and making a world where no 8-year old would lose their parents just because of some punk with a gun.]]

* BadassGay: [[spoiler:Sir Elton John effortlessly takes out the two thugs that were guarding him (one with a jump kick!) and helps Harry defeat one of Poppy's KillerRobot dogs.]]

* BigBadEnsemble: [[BadBoss Poppy]] [[SmugSnake Adams]], a drug lord with the demeanor of a 1950's housewife, and one of the leaders of the Golden Circle drug cartel who spikes her drug supplies with poison, and plans to distribute the cure in exchange for legalizing drugs. We also have the [[spoiler:[[{{PresidentEvil}} US President]]]] pretending to give in to Poppy's demands, only to allow all drug users to die, and [[spoiler::in the [[FinalBattle finale]], [[RogueAgent Whiskey]]]] who intends to prevent the cure from being distributed, agreeing with the [[spoiler:President's]] motive despite not actually working with him.

* IdiotPlot: Much of the plot relies on Eggsy not being very good at his job as a secret agent.

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Tilde, crown princess of Sweden, [[PromotedToLoveInterest returns as Eggsy's girlfriend]] and also reprises her DamselInDistress role.

** Despite Valentine's attempt at genocide and the worldwide riots, the world has kept on chugging with seemingly no disruption.

The film is followed by a {{prequel}} set during World War I, ''Film/TheKingsMan'', which details the foundation of Kingsman. No information on a third Eggsy/Harry ''Kingsman'' movie or the ''Statesman'' spinoff project has filtered yet, though the buyout of Fox by Disney and the ensuing erasure of Fox's film projects that were in development raises serious questions on their status.

The film is followed by a {{prequel}} set during World War I, ''Film/TheKingsMan'', which details the foundation of Kingsman. No information on a third Eggsy/Harry ''Kingsman'' movie or the ''Statesman'' film project has filtered yet, though the buyout of Fox by Disney and the ensuing erasure of Fox's film projects that were in development raises serious questions on their status.

The film is followed by a {{prequel}} set during World War I, ''Film/TheKingsMan'', which details the foundation of Kingsman. No information on a third Eggsy/Harry movie has filtered yet, though the buyout of Fox by Disney and the ensuing erasure of Fox's film projects that were in development raises questions on its status.

When the Kingsman HQ is destroyed and most Kingsman agents are killed by Poppy Adams (Creator/JulianneMoore), a [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Martha Stewart-esque]] entrepreneur and leader of the villainous [[TheNamesake Golden Circle]] organisation, agents Eggsy / "Galahad" (Creator/TaronEgerton) and Merlin (Creator/MarkStrong) travel abroad and team up with [[TransAtlanticEquivalent their American counterpart]], Statesman. With help from Statesman leader Champagne (Creator/JeffBridges), tech support Ginger Ale (Creator/HalleBerry), and agents Tequila (Creator/ChanningTatum) and Whiskey (Creator/PedroPascal), Eggsy and Merlin must take down the Golden Circle before Poppy and her minions can upend the world order. The films also features Music/EltonJohn {{as himself}}, and returning cast members Edward Holcroft as disgraced Kingsman recruit [[TheDragon Charlie Hesketh]] and Creator/ColinFirth as Eggsy's ([[BackFromTheDead presumed dead]]) predecessor and mentor Harry Hart.

When Kingsman HQ is destroyed by Poppy Adams (Creator/JulianneMoore), a [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Martha Stewart-esque]] entrepreneur and leader of the villainous [[TheNamesake Golden Circle]] organisation, agents Eggsy / "Galahad" (Creator/TaronEgerton) and Merlin (Creator/MarkStrong) travel abroad and team up with [[TransAtlanticEquivalent their American counterpart]], Statesman. With help from Statesman leader Champagne (Creator/JeffBridges), tech support Ginger Ale (Creator/HalleBerry), and agents Tequila (Creator/ChanningTatum) and Whiskey (Creator/PedroPascal), Eggsy and Merlin must take down the Golden Circle before Poppy and her minions can upend the world order. The films also features Music/EltonJohn {{as himself}}, and returning cast members Edward Holcroft as disgraced Kingsman recruit [[TheDragon Charlie Hesketh]] and Creator/ColinFirth as Eggsy's ([[BackFromTheDead presumed dead]]) predecessor and mentor Harry Hart.

The film is followed by a {{prequel}} set during World War I, ''Film/TheKingsMan'', which details the foundation of Kingsman.
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** [[spoiler: After surviving a bullet to the head, losing his left eye (and his depth perception along with it), and having amnesia (which leads him to sometimes having episodes where he sees butterflies which distracts him on the field), it isn't very surprising that Harry unfortunately cannot fight as well as he could in the first film -- for example, when he tries the old "[[CallBack Manners maketh man]]" in an American bar, but the glass ''completely misses the guy's head'' and he is easily overpowered by his gang. Merlin does say to him that it will take him a while to get his coordination back.]]

* ProductPlacement: All news broadcasts are from Fox News. Fox produced the movie.