FILM · 2014
Kingsman: The Secret Service
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15 Easter Eggs and References in Kingsman: The Secret Service
- #031
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Body count by character: * Galahad/Harry Hart - 58 in the church, 61 overall. * Valentine - 1,267 people, caused by his broadcasting a signal that led people to kill each other. He raised the total to 1,268 by personally killing Harry. * Merlin - 227 by detonating the security chips, and he shot 5 Arctic Guards. * Eggsy - 28. Arthur accidentally poisoned himself while drinking brandy after Eggsy switched the glasses.
- #034
The "Looking good. Feeling good" exchange is a reference to Trading Places (1983), a film about opposite ends of the class privilege scale, and the line is used twice in that film between Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy.
- #039
Harry Hart asks Eggsy whether he has ever seen him, a reference to Trading Places (1983). Later in the film, when Eggsy first puts on the costume on the plane, Merlin compliments him with "Looking good Eggsy." Eggsy's reply is: "Feeling good, Merlin." This is the same line spoken between Eddie Murphy's and Dan Aykroyd's characters in the final scene of Trading Places (1983): "Looking good Billy Ray!", "Feeling good, Louis!"
- #047
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When Eggsy returns to the Princess's cell after "saving the world," the code he enters on the alphanumeric keypad is "2,6,2,5." On an alphanumeric keypad these numbers can spell the words "ANAL" and "COCK," a reference to the Princess telling Eggsy that if he saved the world they could "do it in the asshole."
- #049
When Galahad (Colin Firth) first meets Richmond Valentine (Samuel L. Jackson), he gives the name Mr. De Vere. This is a nod to Matthew Vaughn, whose full surname is De Vere Drummond.
- #056
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Near the end of the film, immediately after Roxy destroys one of Valentine's satellites, she plans to complete the network using another existing satellite. She is heard saying, "Hey E, it's V" ("V" for Valentine). The person called "E" is Elon Musk. With this she both refers to him and pays tribute to the aerospace company SpaceX, which plans to launch hundreds of satellites into space to provide worldwide internet access.
- #083
When Harry Hart makes Eggsy click his heels together like a German, a blade emerges from the toe of the shoe. Harry also mentioned that in the old days there was a telephone in the heel, a reference to the television spy comedy Get Smart (1965).
- #117
In a 2002 World Cup qualifying match played on 1 September 2001, England beat Germany 5-1. The film references this match.
- #119
A Millwall F.C. scarf can be seen in the background of Eggsy's (Taron Egerton) room. Dean (Geoff Bell) played the leader of the Millwall firm in Green Street Hooligans (2005).
- #130
Many posters for this film recall the iconic James Bond poster for For Your Eyes Only (1981) in their design style. This type of poster design, with a woman's legs and thighs in the foreground and a man (Bond) between them in the background, was also used for the French poster of Abel Ferrara's Ms. 45 (1981) and Transporter 2 (2005), among several others.
- #131
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The watch Valentine activates at the film's climax is likely a "V-day" watch, a possible reference to a doomsday clock. If it succeeds, however, "V-day" or "Valentine's Day" would become a worldwide massacre, or a "Valentine's Day Massacre," so it may also be a reference to the famous massacre in Chicago, Illinois.
- #145
Bryan Ferry's song "Slave to Love" plays towards the end of the film. The B-side of the 45 single featured a song called "Valentine", sharing its name with the film's villain.
- #151
This is the second film in recent years in which Twentieth Century Fox was alleged to have used the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only (1981) for material or marketing purposes. In Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), one of the primates throws a car off a bridge, just as James Bond (Sir Roger Moore) did in For Your Eyes Only (1981). Second, in this film one of the major released posters uses a close-up of a woman's legs in the foreground and a character standing between them in the background, just as the Bond film's main poster does.
- #154
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Samuel L. Jackson starred in Cell (2016), about a cell phone pulse that turns people into deadly animals. The plot of this film shows Jackson's character Valentine sending a similar pulse via free SIM cards.
- #190
The license plate number of Arthur's taxi — the one Eggsy steals and takes home to learn that his mother's eye was blackened by her boyfriend — is "YV13MOM."
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