Recruit
From the streets to the suit: the beginning of a secret life.
A recruit is a candidate in training for a place in Kingsman. In Kingsman: The Secret Service, Harry Hart nominates Eggsy to join the agency and replace Lancelot, an agent recently killed by the assassin Gazelle. Eggsy trains under the supervision of Merlin, the agency's technical support operative, and survives a series of demanding tests.
Quick Facts
- Notable example
- Gary "Eggsy" Unwin
- First appearance
- Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)
Lore & Background
The other candidates include Digby Barker, Nathaniel, Piers and Hugo Higins, and Charlie Hesketh is a recruit who fails. Amelia, a Kingsman employee, poses as a candidate so that she can appear to die during the first test. In the end only Eggsy and Roxy remain. Eggsy fails the final test when he refuses to shoot the puppy he had been given to raise; Roxy becomes the new Lancelot, and the gun turns out to have been loaded with blanks. Eggsy's father, Lee Unwin, had been a probationary agent who sacrificed himself in 1997 to save Harry Hart.
More in Organizations & Ranks
Elsewhere in Kingsman
Spotted an error? Know more?
Reader corrections go straight into our review queue. Suggest an edit · How this site is sourced