History Film / TheManInTheIronMask

* {{Patricide}}: [[spoiler: Louis winds up killing D'Artagnan, who is really his father.]]

* FanDisservice: A naked Porthos is an unpleasant sight.

* NeverMyFault: When D'Artagnan finds out that [[spoiler: Christine hanged herself in despair,]] he throws open Louis's window so the king can see for himself what he's caused. Louis reacts with horror, [[spoiler: but sharply orders D'Artagnan to "get rid of it" ''(it'' being Christine's corpse), clearly refusing to accept responsibility or acknowledge the wrong he's done to her.]]

* SelfMadeOrphan: Louis [[spoiler:kills D'Artagnan when attempting to murder Philippe. While he's not aware D'Artagnan is his father, there's no chance he'd actually care.]]

* TheCoup: The plot centers around a group of musketeers who want to substitute their tyrannical king Louis XIV with his more compassionate twin brother Phillippe, who was kept prisoner to prevent him from taking the throne. They break him out of prison to perform a Coup.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: To a point; Louis at least understands factors such as how Raoul's sense of duty would compel him to return to the front if ordered, but assumed that the four musketeers' loyalty to the ''title'' of the king of France would trump their own feelings about him as a person.

* FakeIdentityBaggage: The musketeers succeed in subduing Louis and replacing him with his identical twin brother Philippe during a masquerade ball held at the palace. Unfortunately, none of them count on Christine, who has just discovered that Louis set up her husband to be killed in battle, publicly accusing "Louis" of murder. This also causes D'Argatan to see through the ruse when he notices Philippe's reaction is uncharacteristic for Louis.

* HonoraryTrueCompanion: In the final confrontation, [[spoiler: Philippe is permitted to join the four musketeers in their final "One for all, all for one" moment despite having never been a musketeer himself]].

* MasterSwordsman: The four musketeers. Though Athos and D'Artagnan '''really''' do stand out.

* MyMasterRightOrWrong: D'Artagnan is blindly loyal to Louis, despite his evil and capricious nature, because [[spoiler: he is Louis's father]]. Eventually, he comes around to the other musketeers' viewpoint that he must go, when he learns that [[spoiler: their look-alike for the king is Louis's twin brother. Thus another son of his]].

* StillWearingTheOldColors: At the climax, the musketeers don their old uniforms to demonstrate loyalty to a higher, older, and more principled calling [[spoiler: as they rise in rebellion to depose the king and replace him with his twin brother]]. Unlike other Three Musketeers movies, their uniforms are black instead of blue; the current Musketeer uniforms are blue and red.

''The Man in the Iron Mask'' is a loose 1998 film adaptation of ''The Vicomte de Bragelonne'' (1847-1850) by Creator/AlexandreDumas. The original serial novel was a sequel to ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers''. [[AdaptationOverdosed One of many adaptations,]] the film was the first directed by Randall Wallace, previously known for writing ''Film/{{Braveheart}}''. The main stars were Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio, Creator/JeremyIrons, Creator/JohnMalkovich, Creator/GabrielByrne, Creator/GerardDepardieu, and Creator/AnneParillaud.

''The Man in the Iron Mask'' is a 1998 film adaptation of ''The Vicomte de Bragelonne'' (1847-1850) by Creator/AlexandreDumas. The original serial novel was a sequel to ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers''. [[AdaptationOverdosed One of many adaptations,]] the film was the first directed by Randall Wallace, previously known for writing ''Film/{{Braveheart}}''. The main stars were Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio, Creator/JeremyIrons, Creator/JohnMalkovich, Creator/GabrielByrne, Creator/GerardDepardieu, and Creator/AnneParillaud.

See also the 1929 American film ''Film/TheIronMask'' and the 1962 French film ''Film/{{The Iron Mask|1962}}''.

* AluminumChristmasTrees:
** Despite common belief, the fountains at the French royal palace are based on real fountains that used established technology for its day. The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra Alhambra]] in Granada, Spain, (constructed in the 14th century) has fountains powered not by electricity, but by gravity, with an aqueduct that brings water from the uphill Darro river.
** There was an actual [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_in_the_Iron_Mask Man in the Iron Mask]] imprisoned in the Bastille. His identity has always been very much speculated on.

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: [[spoiler: Louis XIV had a twin brother that was imprisoned from birth and became the ([[AluminiumChristmasTrees historical]]) Man in the Iron Mask. He was then abducted and substituted with this brother by the Musketeers. Also, D'Artagnan (''another'' historical figure) was the real father of both.]]

* AmbiguousDisorder: King Louis is vicious, cruel and megalomaniacal. Although he initially comes across as charming, it is only in the service of achieving his own desires. He is contemptuous of others, lacks empathy, and can be short-tempered and vengeful towards real or perceived slights. Despite having no loyalty towards others and being willing to disregard human life, he expects complete loyalty from his men. The degree to which he meets the portrayal of [[{{Narcissist}} Narcissistic Personality Disorder]] has led to years of debate over whether this was deliberate, or simply an attempt to portray someone who had been raised in a completely spoiled environment.

* AGoodWayToDie:

So, what has happened to the Musketeers? Aramis (Irons), Athos (Malkovich), and Porthos (Depardieu) have retired from service. Aramis is now a priest. Porthos spends much of his free time frequenting brothels he owns, though his impotence causes him great suffering. Athos married and had a son that he raised as a single father following the death of his wife. His beloved son Raoul (Creator/PeterSarsgaard) currently serves in the French Army. Only D'Artagnan (Byrne) is still in the service of the King. Enraged by receiving rotten food, starving people march to the gates of Louis's palace, and the guards prepare to fire. D'Artagnan prevents a massacre from occurring, winning over the crowd with his popularity and promise to speak with Louis over the matter. He also thwarts an assassination attempt on Louis by a man who exhorts "feed your people." However, things change abruptly. Raoul is about to marry Christine (Judith Godreche), a woman who Louis wants to add to his stable of mistresses, so Louis gets Raoul killed in a UriahGambit, leaving Louis free to seduce Christine. Louis also orders the assassination of whoever is the secret leader of the Jesuits, which happens to be Aramis. Now both Aramis and Athos have reasons to hate Louis. They recruit Porthos in a plot against Louis.

* FakeKing: Philippe (although he does have a legitimate claim and is only 'fake' in the sense that he's the younger brother by a matter of minutes).

** Many viewers probably laughed at the "anachronistic" fountains on the grounds of the French royal palace. Truth is, not only were they real, but they're also OlderThanTheyThink: the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra Alhambra]] in Granada, Spain, (constructed in the 14th century) has fountains powered not by electricity, but by gravity, with an aqueduct that brings water from the uphill Darro river.

* BungledSuicide: At some point, Porthos gets depressed and believes he has nothing to go on living for. He kisses the tavern girls goodbye and goes into the barn to hang himself. Naked. We hear a big thud and Porthos swearing. Aramis knew Porthos would try to commit suicide and sawed through the beam.
** [[CrossesTheLineTwice Then the barn roof collapses on top of him.]]

* ButtMonkey: Pierre, Louis's chief adviser. [[spoiler: At least until about halfway through the film, when he is executed and made the scapegoat for distributing rotten fruit to the people]].
* TheCavalierYears: Obviously.

* DeadpanSnarker: Aramis.

* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler: D'Artagnan.]] Philippe closes them.
* DisappointedInYou: Every word from D'Artagnan to Louis is dripping with this, but [[ItsAllAboutMe being who he is]] Louis fails to catch on.
** Made all the meaningful when [[spoiler: D'Artagnan finally meets his other son Phillippe who is everything his brother isn't.]]
-->[[spoiler: '''D'Artagnan''']]: I never knew you existed. And I never felt pride [[spoiler: as a father]], [[SoProudOfYou until this moment]].

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: King Louis. ''Nobody'' likes him, and with good reason. D'Artagnan is loyal to him [[spoiler: simply because he's actually his son]].

* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: The plot hinges on this. Louis has an identical twin brother, it turns out, Phillipe. Since it was feared the two might fight over the throne, as a child Philippe was sent to be raised by other people in the countryside. Then later he was imprisoned in a mask in the Bastille. Athos and the other Musketeers, aside from D'Artagnan, plot to replace Louis with him, as he's a much nicer man whom they believe will be a good king.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Does the king have [[{{Narcissist}} narcissistic personality disorder]], or is he just spoiled?

* WeUsedToBeFriends: Athos's and D'Artagnan's friendship falls apart when D'Artagnan stays loyal to Louis [[spoiler: even after his arranging Raoul's murder to get his hands on Christine. They reconcile at the end before D'Artagnan dies, Athos having realised his old friend only served his corrupt and evil king out of [[NotSoDifferent paternal loyalty]]]].

''The Man in the Iron Mask'' is a 1998 film adaptation of ''The Vicomte de Bragelonne'' (1847-1850) by Creator/AlexandreDumas. The original serial novel was a sequel to ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers''. [[AdaptationOverdosed One of many adaptations,]] the film was the first directed by Randall Wallace, previously known for writing ''Film/{{Braveheart}}''. The main stars were Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio, Creator/JeremyIrons, Creator/JohnMalkovich, Creator/GabrielByrne, Creator/GerardDepardieu and Creator/AnneParillaud.

The year is 1662. Gone are Cardinal Richelieu (died 1642) and Louis XIII of France (died 1643). France is ruled by UsefulNotes/LouisXIV ([=DiCaprio=]), son of his predecessor. He is a militarist who is already bankrupting the country with unpopular wars, which are condemned by dissidents called Jesuits. Privately, Louis follows a hedonistic lifestyle and keeps many mistresses. Meanwhile, the peasants of Paris are starving and a food riot begins. Louis XIV commands one of his advisors to send rotten food to the rioters. The riot stops temporarily, the people get sick and the advisor is executed for "his" crime.

So, what has happened to the Musketeers? Aramis (Irons), Athos (Malkovich) and Porthos (Depardieu) have retired from service. Aramis is now a priest. Porthos spends much of his free time frequenting brothels he owns, though his impotence causes him great suffering. Athos married and had a son that he raised as a single father following the death of his wife. His beloved son Raoul (Creator/PeterSarsgaard) currently serves in the French Army. Only D'Artagnan (Byrne) is still in the service of the King. Enraged by receiving rotten food, starving people march to the gates of Louis' palace, and the guards prepare to fire. D'Artagnan prevents a massacre from occurring, winning over the crowd with his popularity and promise to speak with Louis over the matter. He also thwarts an assassination attempt on Louis by a man who exhorts "feed your people." However, things change abruptly. Raoul is about to marry Christine (Judith Godreche), a woman who Louis wants to add to his stable of mistresses, so Louis gets Raoul killed in a Uriah Gambit, leaving Louis free to seduce Christine. Louis also orders the assassination of whoever is the secret leader of the Jesuits, which happens to be Aramis. Now both Aramis and Athos have reasons to hate Louis. They recruit Porthos in a plot against Louis.

Aramis is aware that Louis has a twin brother. Said brother Philippe ([=DiCaprio=] again) is the titular ManInTheIronMask, kept prisoner to prevent him from claiming the throne. He is gentler and more compassionate than Louis. Their plot involves releasing Philippe and having him impersonate Louis, effectively replacing the King with a new one. They will have to face D'Artagnan, still loyal to Louis. They will also have to learn a secret Anne of Austria (Parillaud), widow of Louis XIII and mother of the boys, has kept to herself.

* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The book was meant to contemplate the end of the Romantic era and was pretty much a DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Athos dies of grief over his son, Porthos dies when his strength gives out during the escape plan, the plan to substitute Philippe for Louis fails and ''results'' in Philippe going into the mask in prison (he'd simply been exiled before), D'Artagnan spends the rest of his life serving Louis and Aramis uses his political clout as a Jesuit to obtain pardon and become Louis' implicitly corrupt advisor.]] The Hollywood ending applied to the film was almost exactly the opposite of the book.

* AntiInterferenceLockUp: Louis XIV, the King of France, has his identical twin brother Phillipe locked up so he can't take the throne. He forces Phillipe to wear the titular iron mask so no one will recognize him.

* BriarPatching: Philippe does some impromptu and rather inspired Briar Patching after he's been recaptured, begging his JerkAss brother to kill him rather than put him back in prison. With predictable results. When Athos, Porthos and Aramis arrive to rescue Philippe, he's ready and waiting for them rather than being the emotional wreck they were expecting. When asked, he just reminds them that "I wear the mask, it does not wear me."

* BungledSuicide: At some point, Porthos gets depressed and believes he has nothing to go on living for. He kisses the tavern girls goodbye and goes into the barn to hang himself. Naked. We hear a big thud, and Porthos swearing. Aramis knew Porthos would try to commit suicide and sawed through the beam.

* DamnYouMuscleMemory: Phillipe is so used to eating and drinking in the mask that he spills water on himself when it is removed.

* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler:D'Artagnan.]] Philippe closes them.

-->[[spoiler: '''D'Artagnan''']]: I never knew you existed. And I never felt pride [[spoiler:as a father]], [[SoProudOfYou until this moment]].

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: To a point; Louis at least understands factors such as how Raoul's sense of duty would compel him to return to the front if ordered, but assumed that the four musketeers' loyalty to the ''title'' of king of France would trump their own feelings about him as a person.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Lieutenant André is so disgusted by Louis's behaviour and downright ''furious'' at his murder of D'Artagnan, that he happily goes along with the switcheroo of imprisoning Louis in the mask at the end.]]

* HonoraryTrueCompanion: In the final confrontation, [[spoiler:Philippe is permitted to join the four musketeers in their final "One for all, all for one" moment despite having never been a musketeer himself]].
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Or rather, [[spoiler: If You Imprison Him In An Iron Mask For The Rest Of His Life, You Will Be Just Like Him. Phillipe ultimately pardons Louis and allows him to retire to the country in comfortable exile, utterly proving himself the better man.]]

* OhCrap: At the barracks, Lieutenant Andre hands D'Artagnan a list of casualties from the war. D'Artagnan's expression becomes one of horror as [[spoiler: he (presumably) sees Raoul's name on the list. He asks Andre if Athos knows...and then promptly sees his old comrade storming across the ground, armed to the teeth and with an expression that clearly screams he has murder in mind. Yeah D'Artagnan, he ''definitely'' knows]].

* OutOfCharacterAlert / SpottingTheThread: What first tips off D'Artagnan that Phillipe has replaced Louis is when Phillipe tries to help up a noblewoman who tripped in front of him, while the real Louis would have probably just laughed at her.
* PapaWolf: Athos, leading to his attempted RoaringRampageOfRevenge. He also takes on this role to a degree with Phillipe.

* ParentalSubstitute: [[spoiler: Athos]] becomes this to Philippe; after [[spoiler:D'Artagnan's death, Philippe explicitly asks if Athos could do him the final favour of letting Philippe love him as a son loves a father]].

* TrueCompanions[=/=]BandOfBrothers: The Three Musketeers, of course. The "Fourth Musketeer" D'Artagnan is opposed to them out of loyalty to the King, but sides with them at the end. ''All for one, one for all!''
** Notably, Porthos doesn't have a personal grievance with Louis (Aramis is the Jesuit head who Louis wants dead, and Athos lost his son because of Louis) but he goes along with their plot because of their fellowship and for the greater good (and because he's bored out of his fucking mind and wants to experience adventure again).
* UriahGambit: King Louis XIV, upon finding out that Christine is already engaged to Raoul and is completely loyal to him, sends Raoul to the front lines to die in battle. Though the plan succeeds, it also backfires since it gains Louis the utter enmity of Raoul's father, one of the legendary Three Musketeers. (And ultimately he doesn't get to enjoy what he wanted either, because [[spoiler: Christine is completely miserable with being his mistress, eventually finds out the truth about what happened to Raoul, confronts him - or the man she thinks is him - with her knowledge, and finally commits suicide out of despair]].)

* HonoraryTrueCompanions: In the final confrontation, [[spoiler:Philippe is permitted to join the four musketeers in their final "One for all, all for one" moment despite having never been a musketeer himself]].

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Louis. ''Nobody'' likes him, and with good reason. D'Artagnan is loyal to him [[spoiler: simply because he's actually his son]].

So, what has happened to the Musketeers? Aramis (Irons), Athos (Malkovich) and Porthos (Depardieu) have retired from service. Aramis is now a priest. Porthos spends much of his free time frequenting brothels he owns, though his impotence causes him great suffering. Athos married and had a son that he raised as a single father following the death of his wife. His beloved son Raoul (Creator/PeterSarsgaard) currently serves in the French Army. Only D'Artagnan (Byrne) is still in the service of the King. Enraged by receiving rotten food, starving people march to the gates of Louis' palace, and the guards prepare to fire. D'Artagnan prevents a massacre from occurring, winning over the crowd with his popularity and promise to speak with Louis over the matter. He also thwarts an assassination attempt on Louis by a man who exhorts "feed your people." However, things change abruptly. Raoul is about to marry Christine (Judith Godreche), a woman who Louis wants to add to his stable of mistresses, so Louis gets Raoul killed in a [[TheUriahGambit Uriah Gambit]], leaving Louis free to seduce Christine. Louis also orders the assassination of whoever is the secret leader of the Jesuits, which happens to be Aramis. Now both Aramis and Athos have reasons to hate Louis. They recruit Porthos in a plot against Louis.

So, what has happened to the Musketeers? Aramis (Irons), Athos (Malkovich) and Porthos (Depardieu) have retired from service. Aramis is now a priest. Porthos spends much of his free time frequenting brothels he owns, though his impotence causes him great suffering. Athos married and had a son while he raised as a single father following the death of his wife. His beloved son Raoul (Creator/PeterSarsgaard) currently serves in the French Army. Only D'Artagnan (Byrne) is still in the service of the King. Enraged by receiving rotten food, starving people march to the gates of Louis' palace, and the guards prepare to fire. D'Artagnan prevents a massacre from occurring, winning over the crowd with his popularity and promise to speak with Louis over the matter. He also thwarts an assassination attempt on Louis by a man who exhorts "feed your people." However, things change abruptly. Raoul is about to marry Christine (Judith Godreche), a woman who Louis wants to add to his stable of mistresses, so Louis gets Raoul killed in a [[TheUriahGambit Uriah Gambit]], leaving Louis free to seduce Christine. Louis also orders the assassination of whoever is the secret leader of the Jesuits, which happens to be Aramis. Now both Aramis and Athos have reasons to hate Louis. They recruit Porthos in a plot against Louis.

* ButtMonkey: Pierre, Louis's chief adviser. [[spoiler: At least until about halfway through the film.]]

* FakeKing: Philippe.

* FateWorseThanDeath: Philippe begs Louis to kill him rather than sending him back to prison. [[spoiler: Because he knows that this is the only way the cruel Louis will consider leaving him alive.]]

* ParentalSubstitute: [[spoiler: Athos]] becomes this to Philippe.

* StillWearingTheOldColors: At the climax, the musketeers don their old uniforms to demonstrate loyalty to a higher, older, and more principled calling [[spoiler: as they rise in rebellion to depose the king and replace him with his twin brother.]] Unlike other Three Musketeers movies, their uniforms are black instead of blue; the current Musketeer uniforms are blue and red.

* ThickerThanWater: Despite the numerous crimes Louis has committed as King, D'Artagnan still serves him out of [[spoiler: paternal loyalty.]]

So, what has happened to the Musketeers? Aramis (Irons), Athos (Malkovich) and Porthos (Depardieu) have retired from service. Aramis is now a priest. Porthos spends much of his free time frequenting brothels he owns, though his impotence causes him great suffering. Athos married and had a son while he raised as single father following the death of his wife. His beloved son Raoul (Creator/PeterSarsgaard) currently serves in the French Army. Only D'Artagnan (Byrne) is still in the service of the King. Enraged by receiving rotten food, starving people march to the gates of Louis' palace, and the guards prepare to fire. D'Artagnan prevents a massacre from occurring, winning over the crowd with his popularity and promise to speak with Louis over the matter. He also thwarts an assassination attempt on Louis by a man who exhorts "feed your people." However things change abruptly. Raoul is about to marry Christine (Judith Godreche), a woman who Louis wants to add to his stable of mistresses, so Louis gets Raoul killed in a [[TheUriahGambit Uriah Gambit]], leaving Louis free to seduce Christine. Louis also orders the assassination of whoever is the secret leader of the Jesuits, which happens to be Aramis. Now both Aramis and Athos have reasons to hate Louis. They recruit Porthos in a plot against Louis.

* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The book was meant to contemplate the end of the Romantic era and was pretty much a DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Athos dies of grief over his son, Porthos dies when his strength gives out during the escape plan, the plan to substitute Philippe for Louis fails and ''results'' in Philippe going into the mask in prison (he'd simply been exiled before), D'Artagnan spends the rest of his life serving Louis and Aramis uses his political clout as a Jesuit to obtain pardon and become Louis' implicitly corrupt advisor.]] The Hollywood ending applied to the film was almost exactly the opposite of the book.

* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: The plot hinges on this. Louis has an identical twin brother, it turns out, Phillipe. Since it was feared the two might fight over the throne, as a child Philippe was sent to be raised by other people in the countryside. Then later he was imprisoned in an mask in the Bastille. Athos and the other Muskeeters, aside from D'Artagnan, plot to replace Louis with him, as he's a much nicer man whom they believe will be a good king.

* ButtMonkey: Pierre, Louis' chief adviser. [[spoiler: At least until about halfway through the film.]]

* DeathSeeker: D'Artagnan guesses Athos's [[spoiler:foolish and rage-fueled attack on the Musketeer barracks was to try and [[SuicideByCop get himself killed]] out of grief over Raoul's death]].

** Made all the meaningful when [[spoiler:D'Artagnan finally meets his other son Phillippe who is everything his brother isn't.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Christine, when she finds out about Louis' UriahGambit and can't bear to live any longer in the power of the man who killed her fiancée.]]

* FateWorseThanDeath: Philippe begs Louis to kill him rather than sending him back to prison. [[spoiler:Because he knows that this is the only way the cruel Louis will consider leaving him alive.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Lieutenant Andre is so disgusted by Louis's behaviour, and down right ''furious'' at his murder of D'Artagnan, that he happily goes along with the switcheroo of imprisoning Louis in the mask at the end.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:D'Artagnan throws himself between Louis and Philippe, getting stabbed instead of Philippe.]]

* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: Or rather, [[spoiler:If You Imprison Him In An Iron Mask For The Rest Of His Life, You Will Be Just Like Him. Phillipe ultimately pardons Louis and allows him to retire to the country in comfortable exile, utterly proving himself the better man.]]

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: {{Justified|Trope}} because the firing squad were Musketeers and we see them deliberately missing. They are firing at not only their own captain, but probably the most famous men in all France besides the king himself. Leading directly to...

* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:D'Artagnan is the real father of Louis and Philippe]].

* MyMasterRightOrWrong: D'Artagnan is blindly loyal to Louis, despite his evil and capricious nature, because [[spoiler:he is Louis' father]]. Eventually he comes around to the other musketeers' viewpoint that he must go, when he learns that [[spoiler:their look-alike for the king is Louis' twin brother. Thus another son of his]].

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Some characters sport JustAStupidAccent with more or less success, while Leonardo [=DiCaprio=] doesn't seem to even try while playing the ''King of France''. Gerard Depardieu's actual French accent puts the lie to everyone else, though. As do Anne Parillaud and Judith Godreche's.
* OhCrap: At the barracks, Lieutenant Andre hands D'Artagnan a list of casualties from the war. D'Artagnan's expression becomes one of horror as [[spoiler:he (presumably) sees Raoul's name on the list. He asks Andre if Athos knows...and then promptly sees his old comrade storming across the ground, armed to the teeth and with an expression that clearly screams he has murder in mind. Yeah D'Artagnan, he ''definitely'' knows]].

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler:Athos outlives his son Raoul.]][[spoiler:Purposefully averted by D'Artagnan.]]

* ParentalSubstitute: [[spoiler:Athos]] becomes this to Philippe.
* {{Patricide}}: [[spoiler:Louis winds up killing D'Artagnan, who is really his father.]]

* PreferableImpersonator: The Three Musketeers hope to replace Louis XIV with his secret twin Philippe/the Man in the Iron mask, hoping he pulls this off over [[RoyalBrat Louis XIV]]. [[spoiler:Ultimately he does, and proves one of France's greatest kings]].

* SayMyName: Raoul shouts "Christine!" when [[spoiler:he makes his fatal charge.]]

* ThickerThanWater: Despite the numerous crimes Louis has committed as King, D'Artagnan still serves him out of [[spoiler:paternal loyalty.]]
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: D'Artagnan uses this move to [[spoiler:take down a Jesuit assassin attacking Louis]].

* UriahGambit: King Louis XIV, upon finding out that Christine is already engaged to Raoul and is completely loyal to him, sends Raoul to the front lines to die in battle. Though the plan succeeds, it also backfires since it gains Louis the utter enmity of Raoul's father, one of the legendary Three Musketeers. (And ultimately he doesn't get to enjoy what he wanted either, because [[spoiler:Christine is completely miserable with being his mistress, eventually finds out the truth about what happened to Raoul, confronts him - or the man she thinks is him - with her knowledge, and finally commits suicide out of despair]].)

* WeUsedToBeFriends: Athos and D'Artagnan's friendship falls apart when D'Artagnan stays loyal to Louis [[spoiler: even after his arranging Raoul's murder to get his hands on Christine. They reconcile at the end before D'Artagnan dies, Athos having realised his old friend only served his corrupt and evil king out of [[NotSoDifferent paternal loyalty]]]].