History Characters / TheThreeMusketeers

For an index of the actors and actresses from ''Three Musketeers'' media who have their own page on this wiki, see [[UsefulNotes/TheThreeMusketeersActors here]].

[[DerivativeWorks/TheThreeMusketeers Adaptations & non-Dumas works]]:

* DistressedDamsel: She gets successfully kidnapped twice, not considering the time d'Artagnan saves her.

%% * TheBigGuy: His size and strength seems to grow with each book. In the sequels, Porthos has killed full grown fighters and even a bovine with his fists.

%% * StrongerWithAge: Until his legs decided to have different ideas...
%% * TookALevelInBadass: Was actually defeated in a duel by Richelieu's men in the first book. By ''Twenty Years After'', he can match Athos and/or Aramis with a sword.

* TheNapoleon: He's described as quite short, but it doesn't seem to bother him. He is extremely HotBlooded in the first book, but even in ''Twenty Years After'', when he's matured a lot, he challenges two of his best friends to a duel because they bruised his ego.

%% * TheBigGuy: His size and strength seems to grow with each book.

* TheStrengthOfTenMen: He's very proud of it, even if he sometimes [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength breaks stuff without meaning to]]. His father and grandfather were even stronger.
%% * StrongerWithAge: Not his legs though...
%% * TookALevelInBadass: In ''Twenty Years After''.

%% ** It's not that he doesn't care about his friends, it's just that in the third book he just doesn't see why he shouldn't use them as pawns when it suits him.

%% * TookALevelInBadass: In ''Twenty Years After''.

Adaptations & non-Dumas works:

* ''Characters/{{The Three Musketeers|2023}}'' (2023)

* SilverVixen: In ''Twenty Years After'' she is old enough to have grandchildren and Athos is worried about [[OedipusComplex Raoul possibly falling for her]]. Ironically in the next book she turns into [[IWasQuiteALooker the opposite trope]].

* StrongerThanTheyLook: Despite the skinny build and sickly look he is strong enough to cut off King Charles' head with a single strike and go toe-to-toe with d'Artagnan.
* UglyGuysHotDaughter: Inverted. While not exactly ugly, he looks rather repulsive due to his gauntness and fanaticism.

* SurprisinglyGoodForeignLanguage: Speaks French and English flawlessly, well enough to present as either nationality.

%%* TheChick

[[folder:The Musketeers]]
!!D'Artagnan
!!!A young man from Gascony who leaves his family to join the King's Musketeers. He ends up becoming friends with the Three Musketeers and soon joins them on their various adventures and becomes involved with the intrigues of the royal court.

!!Athos: The Comte de La Fère
!!!The oldest of the Musketeers. He is melancholy and stoic yet becomes a sort of father figure to d'Artagnan. He is actually a nobleman and was married to Milady de Winter yet tried (and failed) to hang her after he discovered that she was branded as a thief. He has a son named Raoul in the later books who he is very fond of.

!!Porthos: Chevalier, later Baron du Vallon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds.
!!!One of the Musketeers. A strong but simple fellow who forms perhaps the emotional core of the Musketeers.

!!Aramis: AKA René d'Herblay.
!!!The last of the Musketeers, Aramis originally intended to join the priesthood but ended up as a soldier after he got into a fight with another man. He is scholarly and provides common sense for the other three. In the later books he does become a priest and then later Bishop of Vannes. He also attempts to have Louis XIV replaced with his identical twin brother.

[[folder: Others]]
!!Planchet
!!!D'Artagnan's highly competent valet (and friend), who later retires to open a grocery shop.

!!Grimaud

!!!Athos' valet. Athos ordered Grimaud to speak only in emergencies, and he generally only communicates through sign language.

!!Milady de Winter
!!!A seductive spy who works for Cardinal Richelieu. She is involved in first the plot with the Queen's diamonds and then in the assassination attempt on the Duke of Buckingham. She turns out to be Athos' wife who he thought was dead.

!!Madame Constance Bonacieux
!!!D'Artagnan's LoveInterest and the Queen's servant who is involved in affair with the Duke of Buckingham. She is also married to Monsieur Bonacieux.

!!Monsieur Bonacieux
!!!D'Artagnan's landlord and the husband of his LoveInterest Constance. He gets recruited by the Cardinal who sends him to spy after them.

!!Comte de Rochefort
!!!An agent of Cardinal Richelieu who mocks d'Artagnan's horse and steals his letter at the beginning of the book. He keeps reappearing throughout the novel to make trouble for the Musketeers.

!!Cardinal Richelieu
!!!The scheming minister of Louis XIII who plans to expose the Queen's involvement with the Duke of Buckingham. He organizes the death of Buckingham for the greater good of France. Richelieu is of course [[UsefulNotes/CardinalRichelieu an historical figure]]; the franchise established his fame as a {{Chessmaster}}[=/=]SinisterMinister AntiVillain, but the historical Richelieu earned it.

!! Cardinal Mazarin
!!!Jules Mazarin, the prime minister of France during ''Twenty Years After'' and the start of ''Le Vicomte de Bragelonne''. Unlike his predecessor Richelieu, he's disliked by almost everyone for his policies and for being an Italian running France in all but full authority, leading to the main conflict in the second book.

!!Louis XIII
!!!The capricious King of France in the first book who wages war against the Protestants at La Rochelle and suspects that his wife is having an affair with the Duke of Buckingham.

!!Anne of Austria
!!!The Queen of France. She is suspected of having an affair with Buckingham and is nearly brought down by Milady and the Cardinal. After Louis XIII's death, she becomes Queen Regent for her son Louis XIV, ruling jointly with Cardinal Mazarin (who she also marries secretly).

!!George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham

!!!The first minister of England who aids the Protestants at La Rochelle. He woos Anne of Austria and, as such, jeopardizes France because this allows Cardinal Richelieu to try and discredit the Queen. Thanks to Milady, he is murdered by John Felton.

!!Mordaunt AKA John Francis de Winter.
!!!Son of Milady and right-hand man of UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell. In ''Twenty Years After'' he learns of his mother's murder and goes on to take revenge on the people responsible.

!!The Duc de Beaufort
!!!The Duke of Beaufort is a member of the royal family by an illegitimate branch, imprisoned by Mazarin before the start of ''Twenty Years After''. A member of the anti-Mazarin Fronde movement, he escapes with the help of Grimaud on Whitsunday, befriends Athos, and becomes a major figure in the Fronde rebellion. He's also veers on being a TalkativeLoon, known for his malapropisms.

!!Raoul-Auguste-Jules de Bragelonne
!!!Athos's son by Madame de Chevreuse, born a few years after the end of the first book. The official story is that he's an orphan Athos adopted, but the truth is obvious to anyone who sees them together. He grows up to be a perfect gentleman and soldier, but his life is complicated by his love for his childhood friend Louise de La Vallière.

%% * DrivenToSuicide

!!Madame de Chevreuse
!!!An exiled friend of Queen Anne and Aramis' mistress, she later has one-night-stand with Athos that results in Raoul.
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* TheGhost: In the first book she is frequently mentioned but never appears in person. Lampshaded in ''Twenty Years After''.
* IHaveThisFriend: How she recounts the adventure 'Marie Michon' had with one country priest.
* SilverVixen: In ''Twenty Years After'' she is old enough to have grandchildren and Athos is worried about [[OedipusComplex Raoul possibly falling for her]]. Ironically in the next book she turns into [[IWasQuiteALooker the opposite trope]].

%% * TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Tries to kill d'Artagnan this way (she fails but another man dies) and later Constance (this time she succeds). It's also heavily implied she murdered her second husband this way.

A young man from Gascony who leaves his family to join the King's Musketeers. He ends up becoming friends with the Three Musketeers and soon joins them on their various adventures and becomes involved with the intrigues of the royal court.

The oldest of the Musketeers. He is melancholy and stoic yet becomes a sort of father figure to d'Artagnan. He is actually a nobleman and was married to Milady de Winter yet tried (and failed) to hang her after he discovered that she was branded as a thief. He has a son named Raoul in the later books who he is very fond of.

One of the Musketeers. A strong but simple fellow who forms perhaps the emotional core of the Musketeers.

The last of the Musketeers, Aramis originally intended to join the priesthood but ended up as a soldier after he got into a fight with another man. He is scholarly and provides common sense for the other three. In the later books he does become a priest and then later Bishop of Vannes. He also attempts to have Louis XIV replaced with his identical twin brother.

D'Artagnan's highly competent valet (and friend), who later retires to open a grocery shop.

Athos' valet. Athos ordered Grimaud to speak only in emergencies, and he generally only communicates through sign language.

A seductive spy who works for Cardinal Richelieu. She is involved in first the plot with the Queen's diamonds and then in the assassination attempt on the Duke of Buckingham. She turns out to be Athos' wife who he thought was dead.

D'Artagnan's LoveInterest and the Queen's servant who is involved in affair with the Duke of Buckingham. She is also married to Monsieur Bonacieux.

D'Artagnan's landlord and the husband of his LoveInterest Constance. He gets recruited by the Cardinal who sends him to spy after them.

An agent of Cardinal Richelieu who mocks d'Artagnan's horse and steals his letter at the beginning of the book. He keeps reappearing throughout the novel to make trouble for the Musketeers.

The scheming minister of Louis XIII who plans to expose the Queen's involvement with the Duke of Buckingham. He organizes the death of Buckingham for the greater good of France. Richelieu is of course [[UsefulNotes/CardinalRichelieu an historical figure]]; the franchise established his fame as a {{Chessmaster}}[=/=]SinisterMinister AntiVillain, but the historical Richelieu earned it.

Jules Mazarin, the prime minister of France during ''Twenty Years After'' and the start of ''Le Vicomte de Bragelonne''. Unlike his predecessor Richelieu, he's disliked by almost everyone for his policies and for being an Italian running France in all but full authority, leading to the main conflict in the second book.

The capricious King of France in the first book who wages war against the Protestants at La Rochelle and suspects that his wife is having an affair with the Duke of Buckingham.

%% * HistoricalDomainCharacter

The Queen of France. She is suspected of having an affair with Buckingham and is nearly brought down by Milady and the Cardinal. After Louis XIII's death, she becomes Queen Regent for her son Louis XIV, ruling jointly with Cardinal Mazarin (who she also marries secretly).

The first minister of England who aids the Protestants at La Rochelle. He woos Anne of Austria and, as such, jeopardizes France because this allows Cardinal Richelieu to try and discredit the Queen. Thanks to Milady, he is murdered by John Felton.

Son of Milady and right-hand man of UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell. In ''Twenty Years After'' he learns of his mother's murder and goes on to take revenge on the people responsible.

The Duke of Beaufort is a member of the royal family by an illegitimate branch, imprisoned by Mazarin before the start of ''Twenty Years After''. A member of the anti-Mazarin Fronde movement, he escapes with the help of Grimaud on Whitsunday, befriends Athos, and becomes a major figure in the Fronde rebellion. He's also veers on being a TalkativeLoon, known for his malapropisms.

* HeroicBastard: Sort of. His father was an illegitimate son of LouisXIV's grandfather, making Beaufort part of an illegitimate branch. He's on the side of good though, and capable and assertive.

Athos's son by Madame de Chevreuse, born a few years after the end of the first book. The official story is that he's an orphan Athos adopted, but the truth is obvious to anyone who sees them together. He grows up to be a perfect gentleman and soldier, but his life is complicated by his love for his childhood friend Louise de La Vallière.

An exiled friend of Queen Anne and Aramis' mistress, she later has one-night-stand with Athos that results in Raoul.

* TheUpperCrass: A gentleman (in the original sense) rather than a commoner, a very straightforwardBoisterous Bruiser, and a NouveauRiche at the end of the first book. However, he longs for some official title, which is the way d'Artagnan gets him to join in his mission. While very friendly and not overly-bright, Porthos is acutely aware that he lacks the refined manners of other noblemen, and so always looks to copy Aramis and Athos' aristocratic attitudes.

%%* StuffedInTheFridge

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