Kingsman Movie Facts, Easter Eggs and hidden details
44 of the most interesting Kingsman easter eggs you didn't know about. Handpicked and verified, these little-known hidden details can be obscure enough most people will miss. These behind the scene easter eggs and hidden messages will give you another view of Kingsman movie message.
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Kingsman Movie Trivia
The Statesman's hand grenades are baseballs, referring to the design of the BEANO T-13 grenade which specifically emulated a baseball so any young American man could throw it with accuracy and distance.
After Merlin orders the recruits to fall out, they do in two senses of the phrase: the military sense and they start arguing.
Kingsman Movie Easter Eggs
The code to the princess' door spells 'ANAL' on a keypad
Opens With Professor Arnold (Mark Hamill) Being Kept In A Cabin In Switzerland. Kingsman, The Graphic Novel, Opens With The Same Situation, But Mark Hamill Has Been Kidnapped
The Vehicle Hangar, One Of The Vehicles Is The Beatles' Yellow Submarine
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Kingsman Movie Foreshadowing
During the exploding heads scene, you can just barely notice how Charlie Hesketh, unconscious in the third booth on the top floor, does not explode. He returns in the sequel where it is revealed how he survived this incident.
Kingsman movie hidden details
the church scene in "Kingsman: Secret Service" (2014), when the grenade goes off, for a split second Harry realises what's going on because he can't hear the tune that provokes violent behaviour.
The Secret Service, the princess offers Eggsy "to do it in the bum" if he saves the world. After he returns, the code to unlock her door is 2625 which spells ANAL on a numberpad.
Eggsy's reluctance to kill an innocent animal causes him to crash a car, get arrested, and join the Kingsman. At the end of his training, his same reluctance is what gets him kicked out.
After Charlie rips his robot right arm off, Eggsy also puts his right arm behind his back to make it a fair fight. In the first film, Eggsy puts his signet ring on his right hand showing his dominant arm is his right, but he fights with his left like Charlie.
The poisoned drinks can be seen shaking after the camera cuts back to them, indicating that Eggsy made the switch.
After picking up an empty gun earlier in the scene, Eggsy checks the next gun he picks up to see if it has ammo.
Merlin says 'Looking good Eggsy'. The response is a line from 'Trading Places', which Galahad mentioned earlier in the film and Eggsy said he had never seen. Meaning he went home and watched it.
When Eggsy and Roxy are told to shoot their dogs, there is plastic sheeting on the floor to keep the blood off the carpet, adding to the realism of the test that Arthur and Merlin are giving them.
Harry is temporarily horrified when a grenade explosion deafens him, negating the aggression-inducing sound waves
Eggsy is seen wearing shoes with wings on them, this is a reference to the iconic pair winged shoes worn by famous musician Elton John. Matthew Vaughn very much wanted Elton John to make an appearance in the film however, he only joined them for the sequel.
A special credit is given to Samuel L. Jackson.
The villain Valentine (who wants to cull the world population except for the elite to "protect" the Earth) owns panda paintings that allude to the WWF logo. Julian Huxley was a founder of WWF and a famed eugenicist. His brother, Aldous Huxley, wrote Brave New World.
When Valentine's security chips blow up the hosts' heads, they do so in multicolour, as he states he hates gore.
Valentine talks about how if he and Gallahad were in a spy movie, Gallahad would find a convoluted way to escape before shooting him. Now he's in the sequel.
The taxi that Harry travels in is the same taxi that Eggsy uses in Kingsman: The Golden Circle. When Harry was assumed dead, they must've passed this down, just like they did with their codenames.
Eggsy's office where he's adopted the same method of commemorating his missions as Harry, a headline (presumably from the day of him taking down Valentine) reads "Elton Gone", setting up for Sir Elton John's role later in the film.
Wu Ting Feng's inbox contains a folder called "Favorit Son" which contains 0 emails and a folder called "Black Sheep" that 5,483 emails
Harry drinks a pint of Guinness before fighting several gang members. Behind him is an advertisement that says "A Guinness for strength".
"Beauty Bot" can be spotted getting out of its salon two scenes prior to its intervention in the fight scene.
During the church fight scene, Harry Heart/Galahad is visibly confused after an explosion goes off next to him, partially deafening him for a couple of seconds. This is because he is no longer able to hear the high pitch sound turning him crazy.
A butterfly collection is seen in Harry's house in the room where Mr. Pickle is displayed.
The protagonist and antagonist (later in the film) are the only ones not wearing a shirt after the first training exercise has concluded.
Jeff Bridges character says "Do you have any promising, uh, leads?", which is also a line he uses in The Big Lebowski.
The explosive implant is just a two-resistor circuit with random traces and no power source... which would do absolutely nothing
Composer Henry Jackman re-uses his electric guitar riff from X-Men: First Class
The first music that is heard is a bagpiped version of Country Road, which would later be an important song for the finale.
When eggsy is being chased by you know who, the marquee signs align perfectly with their personas
Early in the film, Eggsy crashed the stolen car while trying to avoid a cat in the road. Later on, he was booted out of Kingsman candidacy when he wouldn't shoot his dog.
During the church scene, Harry fires 10 shots before reloading (The first shot was from the shotgun attachment). He then fires another 10 shots before running out of ammunition.
The body guard is first suspicious of the the agent at the door because he used the wrong knock pattern.
Poppy's two mechanical dogs are named Bennie and Jet, after Elton John's popular song.
The antagonist, Richard Valentine states that he hates the sight of blood and gore. This is why the exploding heads at the end of the movie are made to be so colourful.
During the scenes that the robotic dogs are charging towards Elton John you can see their names are "Jet" and "Bennie", named after his hit "Bennie and the Jets". The song is about a futuristic rock band made of automatons, which the robot dogs are named after.
The reserve whiskey in the Statesman vault is from 1963. This year was also the year in US history when President Kennedy was assassinated and the year of Martin Luther Kings famous 'I have a dream' speech.
An ostensible Italian mountain is placed in/near the Italian region of Tuscany (top-left screen), which does not contain any snowy mountains. Further, the mountain is given the name Mont Blanc (top-middle screen), which is a mountain in the french alps.
After the "shoot the dog" scene, Arthur says about Roxy "At least the girl's got balls". Later on, she is hanging from a pair of massive inflatable "balloons".
The villain's robot hounds are named Bennie and Jet. This is a reference to "Bennie and the Jets" by Elton John, who is also kidnapped by the villain.