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1!!Adaptations
2* ''YMMV/FutureRobotDaltanious''
3* ''YMMV/TheManInTheIronMask1939''
4* ''YMMV/TheThreeMusketeers1948''
5* ''YMMV/TheThreeMusketeers1961''
6* ''YMMV/TheThreeMusketeers1973''
7* ''YMMV/DArtagnanAndThreeMusketeers''
8* ''YMMV/TheThreeMusketeers1993''
9* ''YMMV/RevengeOfTheMusketeers''
10* ''[[YMMV/TheManInTheIronMask The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)]]''
11* ''YMMV/YoungBlades''
12* ''YMMV/TheThreeMusketeers2011''
13* ''YMMV/TheMusketeers''
14* ''YMMV/TheThreeMusketeers2023''
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16!!For the original novel:
17* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Milady - diabolically inspired temptress, or canny, increasingly desperate woman trying to survive (with style) after being seduced as a teenager by a dodgy priest?
18* CargoShip: ''Twenty Years After'' reveals that as a teenager, Athos had a crush on a Greek statue.
19* CommonKnowledge: Many people point that the three Musketeers are actually a group of four persons. While this is indeed the story of four men, this remark forgets that d'Artagnan only becomes a musketeer halfway through the novel, as a reward for the exploits at the Bastion of St. Gervais (the Cardinal offers to have three fleur-de-lis embroidered on the famous napkin-flag for Treville to use as a company standard, who points out that this isn't fair since d'Artagnan is a guard, not a musketeer. "Take him, then," the Cardinal says.).
20* CompleteMonster: The mysterious, murderous [[FemmeFatale Milady de Winter]] is one of the top agents of the visionary UsefulNotes/CardinalRichelieu in his campaign to strengthen France and free it of foreign influence, but shares none of her employer's lofty ideals. Coming from [[FromNobodyToNightmare humble origins]] as a [[NunTooHoly larcenous nun]], Milady uses her position, resources, and quasi-supernatural beauty and charisma to indulge her limitless appetites for money, power, and indiscriminate, [[DisproportionateRetribution disproportionate revenge]] on anyone who gets on her bad side. Milady [[TilMurderDoUsPart poisons her second husband]], goads his brother into a duel in the hopes he dies, and tries to enlist d'Arthanan to kill a young noble for apparently turning her advances down. In her quest to take revenge on d'Artagnan for humiliating her, Milady sends him twelve bottles of poisoned wine, supposedly from his Musketeer friends, and encourages him to throw a party for his comrades with the wine, endangering many lives. When she is imprisoned for her crimes, Milady seduces her jailer to free her; lies to him that Lord Buckingham raped her, so he may kill him for her; and then abandons him to be executed for the murder. Milady's darkest crime comes when she murders the young Constance Bonacieux, d'Artagnan's LoveInterest, as RevengeByProxy whilst pretending to be her dearest friend.
21* DesignatedHero: Due to some intentional AntiHero traits and a lot of ValuesDissonance, both [[DeliberateValuesDissonance deliberate]] and not, our musketeers can come across as real shit-heels at times. To modern eyes, their [[DisproportionateRetribution dueling at the drop of a hat]] would be considered near psychopathic, and most of their romantic endeavors constitute sexual predation. Some of this is simply the fact that the stories were written in the 19th century, but a lot of it is the intentional lionizing of TheCavalierYears, when the stories will have you believe that men fought, drank and loved harder than any modern sissies would dream. Part of the fun is following these larger-than-life characters through adventures that excite as well as scandalize.
22* EnsembleDarkhorse: Rochefort, and the servants Planchet and Grimaud, who take a level of badass between the first and second books. Also, the Duke of Beaufort.
23* FirstInstallmentWins: Most people only know of ''The Three Musketeers'' as characters, unaware that they star in a series of novels as opposed to one book. Even for those who are familiar with the books, the first is by far the most popular, with ''The Man in the Iron Mask'' being perhaps second-best known among their various adventures.
24* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The first novel and adaptations of it are still very popular in UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} (new films made from it there are still at least tangentially connected to ''Film/DArtagnanAndThreeMusketeers''). The [[Film/TheThreeMusketeers2023 2023 French film duology]]'s success and great reviews there can attest it.
25* MagnificentBastard: [[UsefulNotes/CardinalRichelieu Cardinal Armand Richelieu]] is the most powerful man in France, and the true ruler behind the throne. Seeking the betterment of France as a nation under his guiding iron hand, Richelieu schemes to strengthen the monarchy and to also start a war with England to further check Spain and Austria. In order to disgrace his rival, Queen Anne, Richelieu convinces the king to throw a party and request Anne wear diamond studs he gave her as a gift, well aware Anne has given them to her lover, the Duke of Buckingham, which will discredit Anne and begin a war with England. When the Musketeers recover the diamonds in time, Richelieu accepts it with grace, later deciding to have Buckingham assassinated and presenting the wicked Milady de Winter with a letter excusing her from all acts she commits in service to France. When Milady is executed by the Musketeers, young hero D'Artagnan thinks to save himself by presenting Richelieu with the same letter, only for Richelieu to display his own power by tearing it up. Impressed by D'Artagnan, however, Richelieu accepts him as a WorthyOpponent and a boon to France, writing him an officer's commission to the Musketeers before focusing on his next schemes to ever better France as a nation.
26* SignatureScene: The group SwordFight against the Cardinal's men that results in the three Musketeers and D'Artagnan becoming FireForgedFriends. Even if adaptations may deviate from the novel dramatically, this part is often kept and if it is, they'll go all out with it.
27* TearJerker: In ''The Man in the Iron Mask'', although it tells of [[spoiler:the deaths of Porthos, Athos, and d'Artagnan, and although they are all tragic in their own ways, it was really the noble sacrifice of the lovably naive and childlike Porthos]].
28* UnintentionallySympathetic: Milady can earn sympathy points given D'Artagnan's BedTrick essentially means she is a rape victim. Granted, this doesn't take away the fact that she's a CompleteMonster, so her sympathy levels are still downplayed.
29* ValuesDissonance:
30** D'Artagnan pulls a BedTrick on Milady, which by modern standards is definitely rape. While it's hard to argue that Milady is an innocent victim (she did intend to kill the man that she was originally going to sleep with), it was hardly necessary and does no favours for his audience sympathy.
31** Frequently lampshaded in other cases by Dumas, as he often breaks the narrative to wryly note that his heroes' womanizing ways were just common practice in those days. Possibly actually meant to be a TakeThat against practices in his own time. This trope is notably averted when D'Artagnan seems just as troubled by [[spoiler: Athos' murder confession]] as the reader is. The fact that he later turned out to be mistaken only complicates the matter further.
32* {{Woolseyism}}: A really minor example but the Musketeer motto is often given as "All for one, and one for all" in English, but the original French "Tous pour un, un pour tous" has no "and/et". It's because it all comes from the Latin "Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno", but inverted. (Strangely, the 1998 movie version of ''Film/TheManInTheIronMask'' had the motto directly translated from the Latin for some reason, thus "One for all, all for one".)
33!!1935 film:
34* RetroactiveRecognition: According to records, Creator/LucilleBall is an uncredited extra on the film.
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