Varför är Gary Unwins smeknamn "Eggsy"?

Enligt Mark Millar - författaren till serietidningen - i en intervju med Comic Book Resources :

And on the "changes over time" front, I understand that "The Secret Service" will make a slight change to Jack's name. What precipitated this? Did "Jack London" just feel the call of the wild?

Funny you should say that because, as a kid, I just thought that was a cool name and I wrote it into the book because I liked it. But Matthew said legally we couldn't call him that in the movie any more than we could call him Tom Clancy. So we bounced a lot of names around and, since I named Gary after one of my friends, he renamed Jack after his oldest school-friend. In the original draft of the comic I gave Gary my friend's old nickname of "Eggsy" because I thought it was funny, but thought everybody would hate it. But Matthew and Jane loved it and used that as Gary's nickname in the movie so I've worked it back into a couple of panels in the book. I kind of love the madness of a superspy called Eggsy. Matthew thought it was really iconic and since I named this after one of my pals he felt it was only fair to call the other after one of his.

Han sa samma sak på Twitter den 17 juli 2013:

I gave Gary the nickname EGGSY in Secret Service after a school pal, but thought it was too mad. Now it!s in script. Pal will be chuffed!

Millar erbjuder denna förklaring för smeknamnet i en intervju med Den of Geek:

Den of Geek: Director Matthew Vaughn used both the phrase “good egg” and “bad egg” in talking about the characters in this film. It dawned on me that the lead character being called Eggsy might not be an accident.

Mark Millar: It’s my old school friend’s name. One of my three best friends that I used to hang around with, and the reason he was called Eggsy - and he wasn’t a tough guy or anything like the character in the film - is just that he didn’t like eggs. We were all about fourteen and having dinner at somebody’s house and there was an egg in the meal and he said “Oh, I don’t eat them.” I said “Who doesn’t like eggs?” “I’ve never tasted one.” “You must have! Are you kidding me?”

I dedicated the book to him.

Jag är inte från Storbritannien och engelska är inte mitt modersmål, så ledsen för mitt löjliga svar. När Charley stöter på hans namn säger han det som "eggy" för mig är det litet ägg. Efter det lurar Arthur om det när han säger att Roxy har "ägget" till skillnad från dig Eggsy. Så, jag tycker Eggsy är den typ av slang-brave pojke, den med äggen. Tyvärr för mitt löjliga antagande.