One of the big twists in Kingsman: The Secret Service was the moment where Colin Firth’s Harry Hart / Galahad catches a bullet to the face from Samuel L. Jackson’s villain character, Valentine. The loss of Harry was a big blow to both Eggsy (Taron Egerton) and the audience – so there was major surprise for both when it was revealed that Harry Hart returns in Kingsman: The Golden Circle.
Director Matthew Vaughn has made it clear that Colin Firth’s return wasn’t in the original sequel plans, and that when it was decided on, it was intended to be a major surprise for The Golden Circle – one that was inevitably spoiled in the film’s marketing. However, the question for so many fans going in to see Kingsman: The Golden Circle this weekend is this:
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How does Colin Firth’s Harry Hart return from the dead? (WARNING! MASSIVE SPOILERS FOLLOW!)
The Butterfly Man
Inย The Golden Circleย it’s revealed that Harry Hart never actually died in the first film.ย
A flashback sequence reveals that when Valentine activated his frenzy frequency in that Kentucky church, it became a big blip on the radar of the Statesman organization (akaย Kingsman’sย American cousin). Statesman agents Tequila (Channingย Tatum) and Ginger (Halle Berry) flew to the church, where they found Harry near death.Recognizing Harry’s digitalย glasses as official spyware, The Statesman assumed he was a fellow agent, and used one of their signature pieces of tech to save his life: Alpha Gel.
The gel quickly repaired the fatal damage to Harry’s head, but not without a cost: Harry’s mindย had regressed to the days before he joined the military – back to when he had a simple dream to be a Lepidopterologist, spending his days studying butterflies.ย
With no agency to claim him, Harry stayed in theย Statesman’s care at their Kentucky HQย for years. His mindย never repaired itself (as it was supposed to), due to the fact that thereย were no memories or mementos the Statesman could use to help him remember his life as a Kingsman.ย
Re-Making A Mannered Man
Inย Kingsman: The Golden Circle,ย Eggsyย and Merlin (the only surviving Kingsman agents) come to Statesman’s headquarters after finding a clue pointing them that way in the Kingsmanย doomsday scenario vault. Followingย a knuckle-dragging misunderstanding with Tequila, both agencies play nice, and Harry’s existence is revealed to Eggsyย and Merlin.ย
After several failed attempts to shock Harry’s memory back using traumatic memories or reflex tests, Eggsyย and Merlin are set to give up, and let Harry settle into his new life. However, Eggsyย gets an eleventh-hour idea: he takes a puppy that looks like Harry’s beloved Kingsmanย training pup, Mr. Pickle, and puts a gun to its head. That stress and trauma brings Harry back to the memory of his Kingsmanย training, and re-establishesย his true identity.ย
However, while Harry’s mind is repaired, his body is not. An attempted bar fight soon after recovering his memory goes horribly wrong, as Harry’s instincts and reflexes are thrown way off, due to years of non-use. Even Harry’sย mind has a few glitches, as hallucinations of butterflies hit him at random intervals.
By the end ofย The Golden Circle, Harry taps back into his confidence and physical skills, in time to help Eggsyย take down the evil Poppy Adams (Julianne Moore), and get revenge for his slain Kingsmanย friends.ย
What’s Next for Harry?
Whenย Kingsman: The Golden Circleย ends, Harry and Eggsy are the very last of theย Kingsmanย (R.I.P. Merlin), and in an act of greater alliance, they officially join forces with the Statesman.ย
The film leaves things off withย a restored Kingsmanย tailor shop; Eggsyย getting married to his Swedish princess girlfriend (with Harry as his surrogate father at the wedding), and the Kingsmanย following the Statesman into the much more lucrative liquor business as its front.ย
In a final shot of the film, the all-American Agent Tequila comes to the Kingsmanย tailor shop in his English best, presumably to embark on a new mission with Eggsyย and Harry.ย
What did you think of the return of Colin Firth’s Harry Hart? Was it handled well, or did this screw up one of the better and more shocking parts of the original film? Let us know @ComicbookNOW!
Kingsman: The Golden Circleย is now in theaters.ย
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