History TearJerker / TheMusketeers

* [[spoiler: Marguerite's suicide]] in the finale of seies 2. [[spoiler: Made even worse by Rochefort tearing her suicide note, because now Anne, Constance and the rest of the court will never know that she was Rochefort's victim just like them, and will probably always think of her as a traitor.]]

* [[spoiler: Constance and Dr. Lamette being accused of trying to poison the King, and then Constance having to watch as Lamette gets executed.]]

* [[spoiler: Athos realizing that Milady really ''did'' kill his brother because he tried to rape her, and inadvertently sentenced the woman he loves to death for an act of self defence, which ultimately led to her going to work for the Cardinal and becoming the cold-blooded assassin she is today.]]

* [[spoiler: Athos realizing that Milady really ''did'' kill his brother because he tried to rape her, and inadvertently sentenced the woman he loves to death for an act of self defence, which ultimately led to her going to work for the Cardinal and becoming the cold-blooded assassin she is today.]]

* [[spoiler: Constance and Dr. Lamette being accused of trying to poison the King, and then Constance having to watch as Lamette gets executed.]]

* [[spoiler: Anne being confronted with the realization that her trusted friend Rochefort is completely ''obsessed'' with her, and almost being raped when she rejects him. To make matters worse for her, he tells her that he will expose her infidelity with Aramis to the King (not because he's loyal to the King, but because she turned him down), an act of high treason that will get her, her lover and her ''baby'' put to death.]]

* [[spoiler: Anne being confronted with the realization that her trusted friend Rochefort is completely ''obsessed'' with her, and almost being raped when she rejects him. To make matters worse for her, he tells her that he will expose her infidelity with Aramis to the King (out of jealousy and spite), an act of high treason that will get her, her lover and her ''baby'' put to death.]]

* [[spoiler: Anne being confronted with the realization that her trusted friend Rochefort is completely ''obsessed' with her, and almost being raped when she rejects him. To make matters worse for her, he tells her that he will expose her infidelity with Aramis to the King (out of jealousy and spite), an act of high treason that will get her, her lover and her ''baby'' put to death.]]

* King Louis' increasing paranoia and obvious trauma over what he's been through in season two, to the point where he barricades himself in his quarters and refuses to see anyone but Rochefort. He even brokenly confides in Rochefort that he's afraid he'll be assassinated like his father was.

** [[spoiler: Marmion's brother realises his brother has gone too far, and jumps in front of D'Artagnan as Marmion shoots. Marmion spends his last minutes with the guilt of killing his own brother before the other Musketeers come to the rescue, and doesn't even put up a fight when Rochefort guns him down.]]

** [[spoiler: Marmion's back story is one big Tearjerker after another. His village was hit by plague and was subsequently sealed off by the command of the King to prevent further spread of the disease. Due to an oversight, the food that should have been sent to the villagers never came, and one by one every single person in that village died of starvation, leaving Marmion and his younger brother the sole survivors. Among the victims included Marmion's wife and two sons.]]
*** [[spoiler: Marmion was forced to choose who would eat when he managed to find scraps of food. His wife refused to eat when her children were hungry, and she died first. Then Marmion had to choose which of his ''children'' would starve when the food became scarcer, and used a coin toss to decide. His youngest son got to eat while the other boy died, but he still died ''anyway!'']]
*** The end of the episode, where [[spoiler: Constance's life is on the line and the King chooses wrong, and D'Artagnan pleads with Marmion to kill him instead of her, culminating in an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove, all the while Constance begs D'Artagnan not to.]]
*** [[spoiler: Marmion's brother realises his brother has gone too far, and jumps in front of D'Artagnan as Marmion shoots. Marmion spends his last minutes with the guilt of killing his own brother before the other Musketeers come to the rescue, and doesn't even put up a fight when Rochefort guns him down.]]

*** ItGetsWorse. [[spoiler: Marmion was forced to choose who would eat when he managed to find scraps of food. His wife refused to eat when her children were hungry, and she died first. Then Marmion had to choose which of his ''children'' would starve when the food became scarcer, and used a coin toss to decide. His youngest son got to eat while the other boy died, but he still died ''anyway!'']]

* 2.06, in which [[spoiler: the King, his family, courtiers and the Musketeers get ambushed and held hostage by the astrologist Mamin. The King is forced to play a game, in which a toss of a coin determines which people live or die. Halfway through the episode, Louis is made to choose between the Queen and his son, and his courtiers without knowing which people will die. He's an emotional, sobbing, broken mess long before the ordeal is over.]]
** [[spoiler: Mamin's backstory is one big Tearjerker after another. His village was hit by plague and was subsequently sealed off by the command of the King to prevent further spread of the disease. Due to an oversight, the food that should have been sent to the villagers never came, and one by one every single person in that village died of starvation, leaving Mamin and his younger brother the sole survivors. Among the victims included Mamin's wife and two sons.]]
*** ItGetsWorse. [[spoiler: Mamin was forced to choose who would eat when he managed to find scraps of food. His wife refused to eat when her children were hungry, and she died first. Then Mamin had to choose which of his ''children'' would starve when the food became scarcer, and used a coin toss to decide. His youngest son got to eat while the other boy died, but he still died ''anyway!'']]
*** The end of the episode, where [[spoiler: Constance's life is on the line and the King chooses wrong, and D'Artagnan pleads with Mamin to kill him instead of her, culminating in an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove, all the while Constance begs D'Artagnan not to.]]
*** [[spoiler: Mamin's brother realizes his brother has gone too far, and jumps in front of D'Artagnan as Mamin shoots. Mamin spends his last minutes with the guilt of killing his own brother before the other Musketeers come to the rescue, and doesn't even put up a fight when Rochefort guns him down.]]

* In season two, there's a flashback to the day that Milady killed Athos' younger brother, and he found out that everything he knew about her (including her name) was a lie. In a broken, quiet voice, he tells Milady to make her peace with God because she must die for her crimes. As for Milady herself, it's more than obvious that she ''did'' fall in love with Athos, and her desperate screams for him to save her are the most genuine she's ever been throughout the series.

** Queen Anne yet again in this episode. Anti-Spanish tensions run high in the country due to Emilie's preaching, with several Spaniards getting attacked and killed in the streets. All of this means that Anne - already unpopular due to being a Spanish princess - is outright ''hated'' by her subjects, even called 'the Spanish bitch' to her face by one of Emilie's supporters. At a time when her husband the King should be showing her private if not public support, he's openly having an affair with Milady de Winter. She's alone and humiliated, with no true friend in her corner aside from Constance [[spoiler: and Aramis.]]

** [[spoiler: It's not just Queen Anne who's worried about the Dauphin. Aramis - who may very well be the father of the baby - is devastated at the baby's illness. His worry makes him inattentive during a crucial mission, and that starts a chain of events that ends with civilians and several Spaniards (one of whom was a fugitive who promised King Louis the formula to a special gunpowder that has three times as much combustive power as normal gunpowder) killed, and the fugitive's daughter orphaned and alone.]]

* The second season premiere gives us the Cardinal [[spoiler: giving Aramis a posthumous KickTheDog by having his subordinate show him Adele's grave, after Aramis had been led to believe that she'd stayed with the Cardinal in the previous season. Adele's grave is in a dank, dark underground place, and the epitaph on it? ''Died For Love.'' Aramis is utterly devastated, and believes that every woman he's ever truly loved is doomed to die.]]

* The second season premiere gives us the Cardinal [[spoiler: giving Aramis a posthumous KickTheDog by having his subordinate show him Adele's grave, after Aramis is led to believe that she'd stayed with the Cardinal in the previous season. Adele's grave is in a dank, dark underground place, and the epitaph on it? ''Died For Love.'' Aramis is utterly devastated, and believes that every woman he's ever truly loved is doomed to die.]]

* Queen Anne and Aramis' conversation after the announcement of her pregnancy. [[spoiler: It's all but outright said that Aramis is the father of her child, but he can never be anything other than a bodyguard to the baby. What makes it worse is that Aramis is shown to be very tender towards children, and is hinted to still be grieving over the child he and his would-be fiancee would have had if she hadn't suffered a miscarriage.]]

* Queen Anne and Aramis' conversation after the announcement of her pregnancy. [[spoiler: It's all but outright said that Aramis is the father of her child, but he can never be anything other than a bodyguard to the baby. What makes it worse is that Aramis is shown to be very tender towards children, and is hinted to still be grieving over the child he and his would-be fiancee would have had if she hadn't suffered a miscarriage.]]

* Queen Anne and Aramis' conversation after the announcement of her pregnancy. [[spoiler: It's all but outright said that Aramis is the father of her child, but he can never be anything other than a bodyguard to the baby. What makes it worse is that Aramis is shown to be very tender towards children, and is hinted to still be grieving over the child he and his would-be fiancee would have had if she hadn't miscarried.]]

* Queen Anne and Aramis' conversation after the announcement of her pregnancy. [[spoiler: It's all but outright said that Aramis is the father of her child, but he can never be anything other than a bodyguard to the baby. What makes it worse is that Aramis is shown to be very tender towards children, and is still grieving over the child he and his would-be fiancee would have had if she hadn't miscarried.]]

** The woman in question being Constance Bonacieux. And the reason she dumps him is because [[spoiler: her husband discovers their love affair and threatens to have D'Artagnan put to death unless she ends it.]]