History YMMV / TheThreeMusketeers

* CompleteMonster: The mysterious, murderous [[FemmeFatale Milady de Winter]] is one of the top agents of the visionary Cardinal Richelieu in his campaign to strengthen France and free it of foreign influence, but shares none of her employer's lofty ideals. Instead, she uses her position, resources, and quasi-supernatural beauty and charisma to indulge her limitless appetites for money, power, and indiscriminate, disproportionate revenge on anyone who gets on her bad side. Ever since [[FromNobodyToNightmare her humble origins]] as a [[NunTooHoly larcenous nun]], she's targeted and seduced any sufficiently-useful man she comes across, destroying those who reject her and either killing or abandoning anyone unlucky enough to become her thrall as soon as they're no longer valuable. Her steadily-escalating battle with d'Artagnan brings out all her worst excesses, as she first tries to enlist him to kill her brother-in-law for his inheritance and a young noble for apparently turning her advances down, then, after he humiliates her, repeatedly attempts to kill him with zero regard for collateral damage, endangering and killing several innocents along the way, and finally murders his LoveInterest as RevengeByProxy whilst pretending to be her dearest friend.

* 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}}.

* 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 [[RatedMForManly 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.