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| “ | Hey, Valentine! I've caught a f-cking spy! | „ |
| ~ Charlie as he holds a knife to Eggsy's throat. |
| “ | It's ironic, isn't it? You look like a gentleman; I look like a pleb. | „ |
| ~ Charlie encountering Eggsy again. |
Charles "Charlie" Hesketh is a major antagonist in the 2015 spy comedy film Kingsman: The Secret Service and the secondary antagonist of its 2017 sequel Kingsman: The Golden Circle.
He was one of the many candidates dismissed from Kingsman before becoming the highest-ranking member in the Golden Circle criminal organization years later, following the orders of Richmond Valentine and Poppy Adams. He is the archenemy of Gary "Eggsy" Unwin.
He was portrayed by Edward Holcroft.
Biography[]
The Secret Service[]
Following Agent Lancelot's death at the hands of Richmond Valentine and his henchwoman Gazelle, the secret intelligence agency Kingsman opened a vacancy for a new agent to replace him. Kingsman leader Chester King recruited Charlie as a candidate with high hopes that he would succeed. During his training at Kingsman, Charlie formed a rivalry with Gary "Eggsy" Unwin and Roxy Morton.
He, Gary, and Roxy became the last three candidates in the training program, but Charlie ultimately failed (what was unbeknownst to him) a test where he had been drugged, and woke up tied to the rails of an oncoming subway train. Where Gary and Roxy succeeded, Charlie failed, as he fearfully revealed Kingsman's information to a lunatic in exchange for his life. He realized that it was a simulation and King condemned Charlie's cowardice by calling him a "bloody disgrace", leaving him to untie himself from the set. Eggsy and Roxy continued their training while Charlie was sent home.
Out of complete bitterness, Charlie joined forces with Valentine, in his plot to use SIM cards in order to wipe most of the human race and build a new world order for the survivors. During Eggsy's mission to defeat Valentine at his mountain bunker and save the world from chaos, Charlie reappeared as one of the party guests, explaining that his family was invited. Armed with a knife, Charlie apprehended Eggsy and blew his cover to Valentine, as payback against Kingsman. In response, Eggsy tasered Charlie with his ring gadget, and punched him in the face, knocking Charlie unconscious and damaging his neck implant (which would have protected him from the SIM card virus to cause people to go insane and kill themselves). This resulted in Charlie surviving when all of the implants were triggered to explode, causing the heads of the conspirators to explode. However, Charlie did not survive unscathed, as the implant detonation blew his right arm off and blew his vocal cords out.
The Golden Circle[]
Charlie returned in the sequel (which takes place a year after the original film), where he is hired by the notorious criminal mastermind Poppy Adams as her right-hand, as she is formulating a plot for her organisation, international drug cartel the Golden Circle, to take control of the world with the usage of recreational drugs. It is also revealed that he lost his right arm after Eggsy electrocuted him damaging the microchip installed on his head making it blow his arm and vocal cords instead of his head when Merlin and Eggsy activated them. This incident is implied to have killed Charlie's whole family, leaving him as the sole survivor and somehow unable to inherit his family's fortune, resorting him to poverty and became a petty criminal instead. After recruited by The Golden Circle, Poppy implanted him a cybernetic-enhanced right arm that can retract as his will, and a device on his gullet to replace his vocal cords.
As such, Charlie is involved in Poppy's true plan to lace all her cartel's drugs with a toxin that causes users to develop mania before dying, in order to put an end to the War of Drugs and for the entire Golden Circle to receive full immunity. As part of the plan, Charlie was sent over by Poppy to hack into the Kingsman's computer mainframe, which he managed to succeed with his cybernetic arm during a car chase in London. This allows Poppy to have her forces to send out missiles to destroy all Kingsman residences and locations, killing virtually all the agents, including Roxy.
As Eggsy, Harry, and Merlin (the sole survivors) head over to Poppy's base in Cambodia to activate several antidote drones to foil Poppy's plan, Charlie intercepts them by engaging into a fight against Eggsy, determined to finish him off in revenge for his family's deaths. However, Eggsy manages to take Charlie's prosthetic arm off, and he offers Charlie to make the fight fair by fighting with one hand behind his back. Eggsy finally defeats and finishes off Charlie by breaking his neck, killing him for good, and partially avenging all of the fallen Kingsmen: Roxy, J.B, Brandon and Merlin (who had died thanks to a landmine). Poppy would later join Charlie in death after being injected with a lethal dose of her toxin by Eggsy and Harry.
Personality[]
Charlie is a traitorous, arrogant and spoiled young man who takes pleasure in belittling Eggsy and Roxy. Despite showing remarkable physical skills during his training at Kingsman, Charlie was later revealed to be a coward under pressure and held a grudge against Eggsy and the agency after his failure to replace Lancelot (even though it was Charlie's own fault).
During his membership in the Golden Circle, Charlie is shown to be much less cowardly, much more reserved, overconfident, nihilistic, ruthless, and is loyal to Poppy to a fault, following her orders without question and committed to her plans. His one shred of humanity was giving his girlfriend Clara von Gluckberg, the antidote after learning she caught the virus. However, he ultimately killed her after he learns that she was involved with Eggsy and had betrayed the Golden Circle, though he also did it to tie up loose ends.
Charlie is an extremely spiteful, psychopathic and vengeful individual who was willing to single-handedly take down Kingsman for kicking him out because of his cowardice. He hacked and sent missiles to destroy all the agents, including Eggsy's friend Roxy, Brandon and his dog JB purely out of spite. It is worth noting that Charlie never showed any real loyalty to any organisation, betraying Kingsman, not showing any care for Valentine's corporation after their heads were blown off and Valentine and Gazelle died, and killing Golden Circle operatives like his girlfriend Clara, without Poppy's knowledge, showing he only joined these organisations out of his elitism and spite.
Overall, Charlie is a purely evil and heartless elitist that didn't care for anyone but himself and would betray and kill anyone he felt like killing without a second thought.
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