Gary "Eggsy" Unwin

Gary Unwin
Character information
Alias(es)	Eggsy Galahad Eggy Muggsy Chester King Kid Galahad Jr.
Title/rank	Galahad Prince of Sweden
Age	23
Born	June 3rd 1992 England
Hair color	Brown
Eye color	Blue
Height	5’10”
Weight	11st 1lb.
Relatives	Michelle Unwin (mother) Lee Unwin (father; deceased) Dean Baker (stepfather) Daisy Baker (half-sister) Princess Tilde (wife)
Nationality	British
Occupation	Royal Marines Recruit (formerly) Bespoke tailoring apprentice (publicly) Kingsman Agent
Affiliation	Kingsman
Status	Active
Behind the scenes
Portrayed by	Taron Egerton Alex Nikolov (Young)
Appearances
First	Kingsman: The Secret Service
Last	Kingsman 3

"It ain't that kind of movie, bruv."

― Eggsy to Valentine shortly before his subsequent death.

Gary Unwin, more commonly known as Eggsy, is the main protagonist in the 2014 film Kingsman: The Secret Service and its 2017 sequel Kingsman: The Golden Circle. He is the son of Michelle and Lee Unwin. Before joining the Kingsman agency, Eggsy was a rough street kid who frequently got into trouble. He is portrayed by Welsh actor Taron Egerton.

Background

Early Life

Gary Unwin was born to Lee and Michelle Unwin on June 3, 1992, in South London. His father was training to become a spy for the top-secret, underground organization, Kingsman. In 1997, Lee was in the Middle East with a group of other Kingsman, but was killed after sacrificing his life to save the others. Harry Hart (one of the other Kinsgmen) visited the Unwins after Lee's death and gave Michelle a Medal of Valour, awarded to Lee posthumously. She refused it, telling Harry that she didn't want his help and instead wanted Lee back. Harry then proceeded to walk over to Eggsy, who was playing with a snow globe, and gave him the Medal, telling him to take care of both it and Michelle.

Eggsy had won "First Prize Regional Gymnastics under 10, 2 years in a row" and his coach "had him pegged as Olympic team material." He also did very well in Primary School, with fantastic grades and a "huge IQ". However, when his mother began dating Dean, who abused both her and Eggsy, he quit gymnastics and began to get Cs in school.

Kingsman: The Secret Service

Arrest

Eggsy and Rottweiler

Eggsy went to the Black Prince Pub to drink with two of his friends, one of which pointed to one of Dean's friends, Rottweiler, in a nearby booth, who became enraged. He walked over and told Eggsy and his friends that they had "outstayed their welcome." Eggsy stood up threateningly, but instead of fighting, he only said, "I'm sorry 'bout that, bruv." He then walked out after his friends. Outside, Eggsy told his friends that it was freezing and asked them why they were walking, holding up a set of car keys that he pickpocketed from Rottweiler. He then stole Rottweiler's car, and he and his friends drove off as Rottweiler called Dean, but got interrupted when the police started chasing Eggsy. The police chased Eggsy and his friends, who smiled and waved excitedly. As they turned down an alley, there was a fox in the middle of the road. Rather than run it over, Eggsy swerved and instead hit another car parked on the street. He yelled at his friends, telling them to get out of the car so as to handle it himself. They left and Eggsy drove right into the police car that was chasing them.

Eggsy ended up in a police station, being questioned by an officer who told him that there's no such thing as honour among thieves. He asked for the names of the boys Eggsy was with, but Eggsy refused to tell him and instead asked to exercise his right to a phone call. When he did, he dialled the number on the back of the Medal that Harry gave him. (19-12-97) The person on the other end did not seem to understand what Eggsy is saying, and was about to hang up when he said "Oxfords not brogues". The woman said that his complaint had been noted, and she hoped "we have not lost you as a loyal customer." After this, Eggsy was released from the police station.

Meeting Harry Hart

Following his release, Eggsy walked out to find Harry waiting for him. Harry informed Eggsy that he was the person who got him released and that Eggsy's father had saved his life. The two then went to the Black Prince Pub, where they bought drinks and discussed the important matters at hand. Eggsy asked Harry about how his father saved Harry's life. Harry told him that he "missed something. If it weren't for his courage, [Harry's] mistake would have cost the lives of every man present." Eggsy appeared infatuated with the idea that his father was a hero,

but was then insulted when Harry claimed about how disappointed Lee would be for what Eggsy had done with his life (although Eggsy stated that everything he did was because of Dean's abuse and Michelle in her grief for Lee). In the middle of their discussion, Rottweiler and his group walked into the pub and began threatening Eggsy and Harry, despite Harry mildly telling them to back off. When Harry seemed to accept Rottweiler's threat to leave or be beaten up with Eggsy, he stood up and moved for the door. However, he instead began to lock the pub's doors, quoting, "Manners. Maketh. Man." Using his umbrella, Harry threw a partially-empty mug at Rottweiler, who fell to the ground. Harry proceeded to fight the gang, as Eggsy looked on in awe. After Harry has defeated the group, he shot the bartender with an Amnesia dart to stop the man as he was going to call the police. Harry sat down and finished his beer, then prepared to shoot Eggsy with an Amnesia dart, too. However, Eggsy persuaded him that he "won't say nothing". Harry left shortly after.

Introduction to Kingsman

Eggsy arrived at home a little later, to discover that Dean knew what happened at the pub and that Eggsy had been arrested. Dean punched Eggsy in the face and demanded to know who was with him in the pub. Eggsy refused to tell him, so Dean continued to beat Eggsy. However, unknown to Eggsy and Dean, Harry had placed a chip on Eggsy's shoulder, so he could hear everything going on around Eggsy. Right as Dean was threatening to kill Eggsy, Harry intervened, speaking through a speaker. He told Eggsy to meet him at the tailor he had told him about earlier that day. Rottweiler and his gang were outside of Eggsy's house. Eggsy had to leap from one building to the other to escape them.

When Eggsy arrives at Kingsman Tailors, he followed Harry into a dressing room with a mirror, which Harry asked Eggsy to look into and stated that he saw that Eggsy is a good man with potential. He then told Eggsy about the existence of the Kingsman Agents and asked Eggsy if he is interested. After Eggsy said yes, Harry pressed his hand against the glass. The hand was scanned, and the room began to move downward. Harry told Eggsy about the Kingsmen Tailors, and how they came to be the spies they are now. The two took the capsule (for lack of a better word) to the Kingsman Manor and Eggsy went to join the other candidates.

Training

Roxanne, one of the other candidates, introduced herself to Eggsy and told him to call her Roxy, though. He was also introduced to Amelia, the other female candidate. Charlie, Rufus and Digby immediately began to pick on Eggsy, going so far as to ask him if he served Rufus at a McDonald's in Winchester.

During the first night, the room that the candidates all shared began to fill with water rising from the floor. Everyone woke up, and Roxy and Charlie suggested that they all use "loo snorkels" made from the pipes of the showers. As they swam over to the bathroom area, Eggsy swam to the door and tried --in vain-- to open it.  When he turned away from the door, Eggsy realised that the mirror on the other end of the dormitory was a two-way mirror. He proceeded to punch the glass until it shattered, draining the water. Merlin, who was on the other side of the glass, congratulated Charlie and Roxy on their quick thinking and Eggsy for recognising the two-way mirror. However, he then told them that they had all failed; they'd forgotten the most important thing, which was teamwork and pointed out Amelia, who had supposedly drowned.

The next day, the candidates had to pick a puppy from multiple dogs to choose from. In the end, Roxy picked a poodle, while Eggsy picked a pug, mistaking it for a bulldog. Eggsy teased Roxy, but she stated that "they're gun dogs" and how easy to train they are and was then dismayed when Roxy told him that his pug wouldn't become a bulldog. Eggsy named the dog JB, after Jack Bauer.

The following tests included a written test and a test involving arms usage. Eggsy scored very well on the written test, and hit the target the first time in the latter test. He also checked up on Harry when the latter was in a coma during an interrogation after the man Harry was interrogating (Professor James Arnold) was killed by an implant in him made by Richmond Valentine, who was intent on releasing free SIM cards for free internet access. The candidates later went skydiving and Eggsy comforted Roxy who was scared of heights. Their mission was to land in a target without the radar detecting them. Eggsy and Roxy jumped last, after Roxy has a minor panic attack and Charlie cut to the front. The group of six was having a good time when Merlin told them that Kingsman agents need to be able to solve problems under pressure and told them that one of them didn't have a parachute. The group started to panic, but Eggsy came up with a plan; he intended to have them all paired up, only for Rufus to get scared and open his parachute. Eggsy then decided to have everyone pull their cords one by one until there were two left, the two being him and Roxy. Roxy then pulled her parachute cord and Eggsy grabbed onto her and the two were able to hit the target relatively unscathed.  

Later, the last three recruits (Eggsy, Roxy and Charlie) were told to use their new techniques to subdue their target, a girl at a bar. However, they were soon drugged and the three passed out. Eggsy woke up a train track, tied to the rail, as the bartender from the bar came close to him. Eggsy questioned who he was, but the man responded by saying that he had a knife that could save Eggsy. Eggsy turned to see an oncoming train and began to panic. He begged the man to cut the ropes, but he just asked for information about Kingsman and Harry and asked if Kingsman was worth dying for. Eggsy refused to tell him anything as the train approached, only to find out that this was a test for their loyalty to the agency. After Charlie failed spectacularly, only Eggsy and Roxy remained as the recruits.  

Eggsy refuses to shoot the dog

In the last test, he and Roxy were assigned to separate rooms, with Eggsy being in Arthur's company and Roxy meeting Merlin. Both were given Kingsman Pistols, which they were instructed to shoot their dogs with; Eggsy was hesitant to do so, pointing the gun back at Arthur whom he returned it to whilst Roxy carried out her task, giving the her the Lancelot title.

Eggsy then took Arthur's car and returned home to find Michelle with a black eye and attempted get back at Dean for it. However, Eggsy was remotely driven to Harry's house where Harry chastised Eggsy for throwing the position because of his refusal to shoot JB and for stealing Arthur's car, and then revealed the bullets in the pistols were actually blank and that Amelia actually works in their Berlin tech department; what they were led to believe initially were just made up as part of their training to push them to their limits. Harry then left and Eggsy saw him attack and kill the preacher and church goers of the South Glade Mission Church until Harry himself was shot and supposedly killed by Richmond Valentine, who had manipulated Harry to kill the people in the church with the SIM cards he was handing out.

Saving The World

Eggsy later returned to the Kingsman headquarters to go to Arthur and stop Valentine in his plans, only to notice a scar on Arthur's neck in the same location that Arnold had. Tipped off, Eggsy switched glasses of an offered drink, which resulted in Arthur unintentionally poisoning himself. Before he died, Arthur revealed that Valentine planned to cull the human race by transmitting his "neurological wave" worldwide via satellite network in the next few hours, believing this will avert the extinction of the human race. Only those influential people that had agreed to have the chip implanted would not be affected and Valentine told his supporters to get to a secured bunker or stay in his mountain base to ride out the wave of violence.

Eggsy grouped with Merlin and Roxy to stop Valentine (since there was no-one else they could trust to help). Eggsy and Merlin flew to Valentine's base to hack into his network with the SIM cards while Roxy used a high-altitude balloon to destroy one of Valentine's satellites and break up the network. Unfortunately, Valentine was able to secure another satellite from a business partner to replace it.

Eggsy ended up encountering Charlie, who was invited to join Valentine in his new world. After punching out Charlie, Eggsy rushed back to the plane. After Merlin told him that he was unable to hack past Valentine's bio prints, he took Eggsy to the plane's arsenal where Eggsy chose to use the same umbrella gun Harry had. Eggsy then fought against several of Valentine's soldiers until he and Merlin were surrounded by them, to which Eggsy advised Merlin to activate the implants in Valentine's allies and killed them. Eggsy discovered Princess Tilde, one of Valentine's prisoners. When she asked to be let out, he asks if she'd kiss him, since he never kissed a princess before, to which she said that she'd give him "more than a kiss". He moved to free her though was alerted that Valentine was alive and left, as he told her that he had to save the world before freeing her. He also promised to be back while she wished luck.

Valentine meanwhile activated the signal and caused everyone on Earth to brutally fight each other. Eggsy was then caught up in melee combat with Gazelle, whom Eggsy killed in the fight and used one of her sharpened prosthetic legs to impale Valentine and kill him, stopping the neurological wave and ending the threat. After defeating Valentine, Eggsy gathered a bottle of champagne and returned to Tilde's cell and started a relationship with her. Eggsy was later given Harry's position as Galahad and moved into his house, offering Michelle to move in with him.

Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Whilst leaving the Kingsman Tailor shop, Eggsy encountered a man in a grey hoodie who was revealed to be Charlie. Charlie then proceeded to draw a pistol at Eggsy, forcing him to move into Eggsy's Taxi. Once inside, Eggsy instructed the driver to drive and proceeded to fight Charlie. Charlie's henchmen then began pursuing them in white Jaguar F-Paces. A high-profile chase ensued in London, with Eggsy eventually crashing the car to fling Charlie out. He then asked Merlin for permission to destroy the pursuing Jaguars. He initially declined, but eventually allows him to do so once Eggsy reached Hyde Park. Eggsy successfully did so. However, Eggsy captured the attention of the police and had to escape from them too. Merlin directed him to a secret underwater entrance back to the Kingsman tailor shop and to a sewage pipe which Eggsy was forced to go through as it was his friend Brandon's birthday (which he went to with Tilde) and he couldn't be late.

Eggsy and Merlin hacked into the Statesman security systems but are discovered by Statesman Tequila who questions them. Eggsy tells him that they are from the Kingsman Tailor Shop and asked him if he had ever heard of them. Tequila compliments on Eggsy's and Merlin's appearance. He prompts both of them to get down onto their knees. Shortly after, Tequila suspects that they are lying to him and pushes them to tell him who they are before spitting at the hole made in a casket of alcohol. Tequila then spins his rifle then begins to fight both Merlin and Eggsy in which they suffer a defeat. In the control room of the Statesman Building, he ties both Merlin and Eggsy onto some chairs. Eggsy and Merlin are interrogated by Tequila who doesn't believe their story before showing them the still living Harry Hart. Surprised to see his mentor alive, Eggsy speaks up after Tequila threatens him until Ginger comes in and confirms the two men are telling the truth. Realizing his error, Tequila apologizes and welcomes them.

Later in the film, he visits Tilde and gives her a present, which is a dog that resembles their late one. As he moves to leave, Tilde bids Eggsy luck on his mission even promising him the same reward as last time.

Much later, Eggsy and Whiskey go on a mission at Glastonbury where he flirts with Clara after she turns down the older man. After being invited to her tent, Eggsy steps out and calls Tilde, he tells her of his mission and asks for permission in sleeping with Clara. After she gets upset at the thought of Eggsy having sex with another woman, Eggsy mentions wanting to be with her forever. She asks if that was a marriage proposal, as he realizes his words and she uses it as an ultimatum for her permission. When Eggsy reacts poorly and requests that they discuss this further at a later point, she rejects Eggsy's following calls and ignores his texts.

Personality

Eggsy Unwin as a Kingsman agent is an extremely benevolent character. Before he became a Kingsman, Eggsy was just a tough, rough and bitter individual due to his past. Eggsy is fiercely loyal to his friends, refusing to compromise his friends by giving their names when he was arrested, even when threatened with jail time. And when his stepfather became violent, he did not reveal Harry Hart's identity.

He's also sensitive towards animals, even crashing a car to avoid hitting a stray fox. However, it's this sensitivity that also leads him to fail the Kingsman tests, when he was required to shoot his dog.

Eggsy also displays a very cocky and cool personality, much like every 'chav' teenager. He tended rebellion and conflict with authority figures, such as police or his parents; especially his stepfather.

Abilities/Skills

Eggsy Unwin has a very big set of skills such as:

• Exceptional Intelligence: When Harry met Eggsy at the Black Prince Pub, he told Eggsy that he'd read his files. In his files, it was written that he has an exceptional IQ. He displays this intelligence in the films.
• Physical Strength: During the water test, Eggsy's body shown to be extremely muscular, and was able to break the glass even underwater. Also, he shows impressive physical strength when he battles his enemies. Eggsy is also strong enough to break a man's neck with only one hand.
• Reflexes: Eggsy has very quick reaction time and reflexes, and uses this to his advantage in combat and other dangerous scenarios.
• Parkour Skills: When Eggsy grew up in St. Island, he gained skills of free running and parkour. Harry Hart states that he was a talented gymnast as a child, and he displays the ease with which he navigates his surroundings when he escapes his mother's apartment and his stepfather's violent friends.
• Master Strategist: During the skydiving test, Eggsy displayed talent in strategizing when he came up with a plan to ensure the safety of all kingsman recruits. Also, he displays the ability to come up with tactics and strategies on the fly in combat, which gives him the edge over his opponents.
• Marksmanship: Eggsy was a member of the royal cadets, and displays talent in marksmanship during his kingsman training and in combat. He very rarely misses a shot and received high scores in his assignments.
• Master Combatant: Using his strength and free running skills, Eggsy was a skilled combatant even before his Kingsman training. Once he was trained, he became downright deadly in a fight, capable of fighting his way through a large number of guards during his assault on Valentine's compound and holding his own against Gazelle.

Relationships

Family

• Michelle Unwin - Mother
• Lee Unwin - Father
• Dean Baker - Stepfather and Enemy
• Daisy Baker - Half-sister
• Princess Tilde - Girlfriend turned Wife

Allies

• Kingsman - Teammates
  • Harry Hart/Galahad - Father Figure, Friend, Mentor and Colleague
  • Roxy Morton/Lancelot - Best Friend and Colleague
  • Merlin - Friend, Former Trainer, and Colleague
  • Amelia - Teammate
  • Sir Giles/Arthur - Former Leader
  • Tequila - Former Enemy turned Ally
• Statesman
  • Champagne
  • Ginger Ale/Whiskey - Friend
• Clara Von Gluckfberg - Situational Enemy
• Ryan - Friend
• Jamal - Friend
• Brandon - Friend
• Liam - Friend

Enemies

• Rottweiler
• Poodle
• Rufus Saville - Rival
• Hugo - Rival
• Digby Barker - Rival
• Valentine Corporation
  • Richmond Valentine - Victim
  • Gazelle - Victim
  • Chester King/Arthur - Ally turned Victim and Attempted Killer
  • Morten Lindström
• The Golden Circle
  • Poppy Adams - Accident Victim
  • Charlie Hesketh - Former Rival, turned Victim
• Jack Daniels/Whiskey - Ally, turned Victim

Trivia

• Eggsy is right-handed, as Harry explains that all Kingsman Agents wear their ring on whatever hand is dominant; later in the movie Eggsy can be seen wearing the ring on his right hand, and when asked if he needs a pen, he then writes with the pen in his right hand.
• There is a Millwall FC scarf in his room, so we can say he is a fan of this particular football/soccer club.

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