History Series / TheMusketeers

* WhamEpisode: 3:6. [[spoiler:Grimaud's true plan is revealed, Louis tells Aramis that he's dying, Aramis confesses to Louis that he slept with the Queen, and Ferron is killed.]]

* [[DeadLittleSister Dead Little Brother]]: Athos's younger brother Tomas. [[spoiler: He was murdered by Milady - Athos's then wife - after he found out the truth about her.]]

** Seventeenth century costumes (at least for the upper classes) were fairly flamboyant, brightly coloured suits with lots of ruffled lace and feathered hats. To the modern eye, this might look a bit silly as outfits for action heroes so the musketeers here wear biker leather outfits in dark colours, including anachronistic leather trousers.

* HollywoodTactics: Season 3 opens with French cavalry charging a line of Spanish pike-and-shot, supported by cannon. For those of you unfamiliar with such tactics, that's like trying to stop a firing squad by headbutting the bullets. It doesn't end well. [[JustifiedTrope We soon learn that the French charge was supposed to be supported by artillery, but they're out of gunpowder. Which also explains the lack of rifles on their side.]][[note:Also, the battlefield is ludicrously small, probably because of budget limitations.]]

* VillainousFashionSense: While the Cardinal's dark wardrobe tends to give off this vibe, it is Marie de Medici's wardrobe and hairstyles-- which look like a cross between a dominatrix and {{Maleficent}}-- that take the prize. If you didn't catch on to her antagonistic intent [[ObviouslyEvil as soon as she first came on screen]]...

* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: After a particularly dark and violent third (and final) season, the series finale is this personified. [[spoiler: Porthos becomes a new General of the French army. Aramis becomes the new Ambassador to Spain, in the hopes of achieving peace between the two nations after four years of war. Athos leaves the regiment and Paris with [[SecondLove Sylvie]], ready to settle down and raise their unborn child together. D'Artagnan becomes the new Captain of the Musketeers, following Athos' retirement. Queen Anne becomes Regent of France, firmly in charge of her son's future. In addition, all four Musketeers are finally happy in love.]]

* AndThisIsFor: D'Artagnan does this when [[spoiler:whipping Marchaux with a chain before killing him, mentioning first his getting Sylvie publicly whipped by framing her for printing broadsides mocking the Queen, then the bombing of the garrison, and finally just his own satisfaction.]]

* GoldenEnding: After a particularly dark and violent third (and final) season, the series finale is this personified. [[spoiler: Porthos becomes a new General of the French army. Aramis becomes the new Ambassador to Spain, in the hopes of achieving peace between the two nations after four years of war. Athos leaves the regiment and Paris with [[SecondLove Sylvie]], ready to settle down and raise their unborn child together. D'Artagnan becomes the new Captain of the Musketeers, following Athos' retirement. Queen Anne becomes Regent of France, firmly in charge of her son's future. In addition, all four Musketeers are finally happy in love.]]

* TrashTheSet: [[spoiler:In the final episode, Grimaud blows up and burns down the Musketeers' garrison building, killing most of the [[RedshirtArmy nameless ones]].

* FakeOutMakeOut: D'Artagnan and Constance Bonacieux, at this point in two of two episodes. May develop into a RunningGag.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Emilie of Duras is a prophetess given visions from God who rides around France on a horse wearing armor and a sword with throngs of adoring fans willing to cause great disturbances in her name. It's even noted in-universe that some people call her "the next Joan d'Arc". [[spoiler:This turns out to be in-universe; her mother is drugging her to produce the "visions" and presumably shaping her image to invoke Joan.]]

* ThemeMusicPowerup: [[spoiler:During d'Artagnan's final duel with Labarge, the theme music begins to play]]

The first series began airing in January 2014 and that February the show was [[http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s235/the-musketeers/news/a549830/the-musketeers-to-return-for-second-series-on-bbc-one.html renewed for a second series,]] but without Capaldi who took on the role of the Doctor on ''Series/DoctorWho''. The second series began airing in January 2015, and the show was [[http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-musketeers/33971/the-musketeers-renewed-for-series-3 renewed for a third series]] in February.

* WholePlotReference: Marie de Medicis' plan of [[spoiler: dethroning her son Louis XIII via a baby who is apparently the son of her first, deformed and deceased son Philippe]] was pretty much lifted from the last novel of Dumas's ''d'Artagnan Romances'', ''TheManInTheIronMask'' (which, if eventually portrayed in the series, will make this {{Foreshadowing}} and CallForward).