10 Movie Endings With Disturbing Implications You Totally Missed

The ridiculous scheme of Kingsman's villain, Richmond Valentine (Samuel L. Jackson), involves him giving free SIM cards to everyone on the planet, which will allow him to transmit a signal that turns the global population murderously violent, resulting in a worldwide culling of "undesirable" people.

Though Valentine is killed at the end of the movie and his plot foiled, the film and its sequel conveniently gloss over the fact that Valentine did activate the signal for a few minutes, which would surely have resulted in a colossal death toll over the world.

Given the global population of 7+ billion, it's clear that the signal would've caused a lot of vulnerable people in particular - the children, the elderly, and the otherwise infirm - to be murdered by those around them.

This would've had a massive worldwide impact - a large portion of the next generation would most certainly have been wiped out, and society at large would surely exhibit major techno-skepticism for the considerable future, setting back human "progress" by decades in the least.

Then there's the fact that a large chunk of the world's leaders were in Valentine's back pocket and are now also dead, probably resulting in violent power struggles all over the globe.

We can only assume that none of this was addressed in the sequel because co-writer-director Matthew Vaughn realised he'd written himself into a corner with the whole signal plot.