I just rewatched the 1st Kingsman and wondered what would happen to the world if that had actually happened, here is what ChatGPT gave me. Warning, it sucks.
What would happen if the V App incident + the head explosions occurred exactly as depicted in Kingsman: The Secret Service?
🎯 SUMMARY: What Happened in the Movie? Two global-level events occurred:
V App Signal: Causes extreme rage and violence for an unknown length of time, affecting most of the human population.
Implant Detonation: Kills nearly every world leader, top billionaire, high-level influencer, and elite who took Valentine's deal.
📈 REALISTIC TIMELINE: What Would Actually Happen (2025 Knowledge + Real History) 🕐 0–24 HOURS: Immediate Chaos, Localized Collapse 🔴 What Happens
Hundreds of millions die, especially in high-density cities and transit areas.
Global flight systems crash (pilots go berserk), thousands of planes downed.
Hospitals, highways, and urban centers are overwhelmed.
But many people survive, especially in rural areas or with limited exposure.
🔧 Infrastructure Status
Internet stays online in many places — big tech systems like Google, AWS, Microsoft Azure, and cellular providers have redundancy, so they remain up for days to weeks, depending on power and staff loss.
Electricity grids suffer localized failures, especially where plant workers die or flee, but nuclear and hydro plants often fail-safe, not meltdown.
🕒 24 HOURS–1 WEEK: Shock Recovery & Self-Organization 🌐 Tech Status:
The internet still exists.
Wikipedia, Google, and archived research data are still online.
Survivors begin using forums, radios, and pre-existing emergency systems to coordinate.
GitHub, StackOverflow, and even archived engineering documents remain useful for coordination and repairs.
🧠 Intellectual Class:
While many elites are dead, there are millions of scientists, engineers, doctors, and students still alive across universities, private firms, and labs.
Universities may be gutted, but individual expertise and knowledge bases remain.
🏙️ Government & Corporate Response:
Countries with strong bureaucracies and regional governments (like the U.S., Germany, Japan, India, and Canada) activate continuity-of-government protocols.
Vice presidents, generals, governors, and lower-ranking officials step up.
Corporate chains like Walmart, Amazon, and others may temporarily help distribute resources instead of a central state.
🗓️ MONTH 1–3: Regional Stabilization 🚧 What This Looks Like:
Governments are fractured but not gone. Think of how cities operated independently during COVID-19 lockdowns when federal action was slow or absent.
Local militaries and national guards take control to restore order.
Mass funerals, refugee camps, and global mourning dominate media and politics.
🛠️ Technology Status:
Still very much intact:
Computers, AI, smartphones, GPS, satellites, and wireless networks function where power and staff remain.
Factories slow down, but existing stockpiles and backup systems support initial needs.
🗓️ YEAR 1–2: Reformation of Global Order 🏛️ Political Landscape:
Countries that had strong mid-level leadership rebounded fastest: the USA, India, France, Japan, and Brazil.
Monarchies collapse, where heirs died with no line of succession.
UN is reformed, possibly relocated, and given real enforcement powers.
Some tech firms may briefly become governmental entities if they hold infrastructure (e.g., Google, Starlink, Amazon Web Services).
🧬 Scientific Recovery:
Most scientific progress is documented, backed up, and globally accessible.
Open-source communities rebuild faster than closed institutions.
Major discoveries in AI, physics, medicine, and engineering continue with fewer staff but high motivation.
🎓 Education:
Universities reopen within 6–18 months, some online-only at first.
A new wave of youth pushes into STEM and public service, like the WWII generation.
🗓️ YEAR 5: New Normal
Global population has declined by 3–10% (200–700 million people).
Every nation has a new political regime; many democracies are reborn or revised.
Mass surveillance and ethics debates explode — no one wants another Valentine event.
A new generation of "post-Valentine kids" grows up with:
Deep mistrust of elite control
Emphasis on community resilience
Distrust of AI and unregulated tech
Phones and internet make a comeback, but with hardwired safety kill-switches, biometric verification, and hard limits on bandwidth of neural-affecting signals.
🔬 Final Takeaways: Scientific Realism Summary Topic Realistic Outcome Technology Not lost — slowed but fully recoverable Internet Stays online in many areas Scientific knowledge Survives via open data and global distribution Governments Fragmented, but local continuity and recovery likely Humanity Suffers deeply, but bounces back within 5–10 years Apocalyptic collapse? No — more like a brutal, messy global reboot.