History UsefulNotes / MarieAntoinette

* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': She's a Servant summoned in the Rider class. She's considered a candidate for the WorldsMostBeautifulWoman and is a talented singer. This version of her is portrayed closer to the InnocentlyInsensitive aspects of her real life counterpart, and even puts her alignment as LawfulGood. She's quite popular amongst the fandom especially after her attempt to be TotallyRadical [[Memes/{{Nasuverse}} ("Whassup, my homies?")]] She is an AllLovingHero who not only has ShipTease with Chevalier d'Eon and her childhood friend Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart, but with Charles-Henri Sanson, ''the man who executed her''. [[note]]In real life, her executioner was Charles-Henri's son, but they are a CompositeCharacter here.[[/note]] She was Mozart's MoralityChain, as in alternate universes where they don't meet, [[spoiler:he ends up succumbing to despair and allowing himself to be possessed by the Demon Pillar Amdusias]]. Sanson fell in love with her as he was executing her, and when they meet as Servants, he becomes a {{Yandere}} for her, until he is defeated and summoned by Chaldea. Then he tries to woo her conventionally and continuously fights with d'Eon and Mozart for her affections. There is also a Caster version of her donning a swimsuit as well as an enemy-exclusive Avenger version of herself during the collaboration with ''Literature/FateRequiem'' (although the battle against her takes form of fighting against a giant ghost), where she acts more nihilistic and gloomy based on her anger on how the French Revolution claimed not just her life but also her son Louis (detailed in the light novel without her making an appearance), instead of the more typical 'clueless but cruel RichBitch' portrayal. [[spoiler:However, the Avenger version turns out to be an imposter created from the spirits within Erice Utsumi's body and Erice's idea of what Marie was like, as the real Marie points out it is impossible for an Avenger of her to exist because she loves and forgives everybody, even the people who killed her and her son. She does give the imposter props for a pretty good imitation.]]

* ''Film/TheAffairOfTheNecklace'': Creator/JoelyRichardson's sympathetic supporting performance is a highlight of this legendary box office bomb.

* Marie appears as a Hero in ''VideoGame/GrimmsNotes''. Funnily enough, she has a Chaos form which looks like... A child version of herself wearing a magical girl outfit, complete with a LoveFreak attitude.

* In 2004's ''[[Film/ArsèneLupin2004 Arsène Lupin]]'', it turns out she had an affair with the eponymous GentlemanThief's great-grandfather and gave him her (in)famous diamond necklace, which ends up at the center of the plot with various parties (Lupin included) searching for it.

Queen Marie-Antoinette [[note]]There's a hyphen in French, it's a composite name, she's never been simply called "Marie"[[/note]] (2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793), born Archduchess Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen, queen consort of [[UsefulNotes/LetatCestMoi King]] UsefulNotes/LouisXVI of UsefulNotes/{{France}}, is known for having led a tragic yet romantic life, spending more time on her own pleasures than being a responsible royal, being obsessed with fashion, pageantry and the ErmineCapeEffect. She was the subject of scathing cartoons and scandals and eventually lost everything she held dear during UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution, her life included. Today, she's best known for saying "let them eat cake," [[BeamMeUpScotty which she never actually said]].

Queen Marie-Antoinette [[note]]There's a hyphen in French, it's a composite name[[/note]] (2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793), born Archduchess Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen, queen consort of [[UsefulNotes/LetatCestMoi King]] UsefulNotes/LouisXVI of UsefulNotes/{{France}}, is known for having led a tragic yet romantic life, spending more time on her own pleasures than being a responsible royal, being obsessed with fashion, pageantry and the ErmineCapeEffect. She was the subject of scathing cartoons and scandals and eventually lost everything she held dear during UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution, her life included. Today, she's best known for saying "let them eat cake," [[BeamMeUpScotty which she never actually said]].

* ''Film/TheAffairOfTheNecklace'': Creator/JoelyRichardson's sympathetic supporting performance is a highlight of this legendary box office bomb.

* ''The French Revolution'', where she is played by Creator/{{Jane Seymour|Actress}}. The film was produced for the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, coming out in 1989.

* She is a supporting character in ''Film/Chevalier2022'', a film about one of her favorites, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. She is played by Creator/LucyBoynton.

* ''Film/Napoleon2023'' opens with her execution. She's portrayed by Catherine Walker.

Her childhood in the [[UsefulNotes/TheSoundOfMartialMusic Habsburg]] (Austrian) empire was excessively pampered and free spirited. This did not prepare her for her eventual life in Versailles. As the fifteenth of sixteen children and the youngest daughter, she was certainly not brought up as might befit a future occupant of the greatest European throne of its time, in regards to either education or life experience. On October 13, 1762, she met Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart when he performed for her family. There was a long-standing rumor that after he tripped and she helped him up, he fell in love with her and begged her to marry him even though they were only children. She was sent to France only after a series of misfortunes took her older sisters out of the running[[note]]By her birth, seven out of 10 elder sisters were still alive (and two more would die before she was 13: Maria Johanna Gabriela and Maria Josepha). Of the remaining five, two never married (Maria Anna was sickly throughout her life while Maria Elisabeth was scarred by smallpox).[[/note]]. In the interim, many Austrian court customs had been discarded as too stuffy by her mother, the [[TheHighQueen Empress]] UsefulNotes/MariaTheresa.

Her childhood in the [[UsefulNotes/TheSoundOfMartialMusic Habsburg]] (Austrian) empire was excessively pampered and free spirited. This did not prepare her for her eventual life in Versailles. As the fifteenth of sixteen children, she was certainly not brought up as might befit a future occupant of the greatest European throne of its time, in regards to either education or life experience. On October 13, 1762, she met Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart when he performed for her family. There was a long-standing rumor that after he tripped and she helped him up, he fell in love with her and begged her to marry him even though they were only children. She was sent to France only after a series of misfortunes took her older sisters out of the running[[note]]By her birth, seven out of 10 elder sisters were still alive (and two more would die before she was 13).[[/note]]. In the interim, many Austrian court customs had been discarded as too stuffy by her mother, the [[TheHighQueen Empress]] UsefulNotes/MariaTheresa.

Her childhood in the [[UsefulNotes/TheSoundOfMartialMusic Habsburg]] (Austrian) empire was excessively pampered and free spirited. This did not prepare her for her eventual life in Versailles. As the fifteenth of sixteen children she was certainly not brought up as might befit a future occupant of the greatest European throne of its time, in regards to either education or life experience. On October 13, 1762, she met Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart when he performed for her family. There was a long-standing rumor that after he tripped and she helped him up, he fell in love with her and begged her to marry him even though they were only children. She was sent to France only after a series of misfortunes took her older sisters out of the running. In the interim, many Austrian court customs had been discarded as too stuffy by her mother, the [[TheHighQueen Empress]] UsefulNotes/MariaTheresa.

This all ended with the 1792 Insurrection, the Storming of the Tuileries and [[UsefulNotes/FrenchPoliticalSystem the Declaration of the First Republic]]. The King and Queen took refuge at the National Assembly, now called National Convention and were imprisoned at the Temple Fortress. The King was brought to trial, [[TheKingslayer declared guilty and executed]], in January 1793. His widow was brought to La Force prison, separated from her children, the Dauphin ("Louis XVII" for Royalists) and Marie Thérèse, Madame Royale, and her sister-in-law, Madame Elisabeth. Initially, Danton and UsefulNotes/MaximilienRobespierre had hoped to ransom her to the Austrians in hope for a peace agreement, but all their overtures were rejected. Eventually, the Parisian Mob, who loudly clamored for the trials and executions of all traitors, got their wish. Marie Antoinette was brought to a trial, which was less a case of justice at her actual crimes (treason) and more a ritual of humiliation with wild misogynist allegations and insults flung at her by populist demagogues (including incest with her son, which caused her to beseech the mothers in the crowd that she would never do such a thing, winning her some sympathy and apparently enraging Robespierre). Eventually, she was guillotined in the month of October during the ReignOfTerror. Her son was left in the care of a cobbler and his wife, was raised poorly and shortly thereafter died of malnutrition, or depression or the shock of the change in habit and lifestyles, nobody is quite sure. Her daughter survived and was eventually exchanged as a hostage. The daughter lived a long life, served briefly as Queen of France in 1830, and died in 1851. She would live to see the Bourbon Restoration and the return to honour of her parents. The Bourbon and Orleans Restoration led to a period of revisionism where writers who formerly criticized the Queen now looked at her with NostalgiaFilter and RoseTintedNarrative.

* HistoricalVillainDowngrade: With the possible exception of Renoir's ''La Marseillaise'', almost no movie gives Marie Antoinette credit for her intelligence, namely her scheming during the Revolution. Most films give Fersen credit for the Flight to Varennes rather than her and almost no movie touches on her involvement with the 1792 war which she played no insignificant part in stroking and then sabotaging.

* UglyGuyHotWife: Save for the 2006 film and ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles''.