History Series / TheMusketeers

* NiceHat: Worn by the men, comes with the genre. Except for d'Artagnan, at least in the first episode - not even while travelling in the rain, whereas his father, who is with him, does.

* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler: In the midst of the completely happy ending of Series 2, Louis darkly tells Treville (and the audience) that Spain has 'overreached herself' by sending a spy so close to the heart of his kingdom. War is officially declared on Spain before the episode ends.]]

* AmazonBrigade: The Musketeers stumble across a village full of these during season 3. Thanks to war, these women have been left to fend for themselves. The Musketeers quickly learn these woman are more than capable of defending themselves against anyone who tries to harm them.
* AnachronismStew: The daughter of Count von Mellendorf warns the King in Episode 10 Season 1 that 'his many relatives and friends in Sweden and Prussia' would not be happy if anything happened to him. Prussia won't exist for another 70 years and Sweden is already emproiled in the 30 years war.

** Season two gives us King Louis and [[spoiler: Rochefort]] for Queen Anne as well as Queen Anne and [[spoiler: Milady de Winter]] for King Louis and Lady Marguerite and the Queen for Aramis, turning the whole thing into a LoveDodecahedron.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: as always, the Cardinal's guards in red and black and the Musketeers in blue.

* CompositeCharacter: At the end of season 3, Aramis seems to take over the role of [[spoiler: real-life Cardinal Mazarin, Richelieu's chosen successor, first minister, very close to Queen Anne, a tutor and father figure for young King Louis XIV.]]

* DishonoredDead: In the second season, the Queen prevents anyone from respectfully closing the eyes of the dead [[spoiler:Count Rochefort]], who among a whole lot of other evil things [[spoiler:attempted to rape her]].

* DoomedNewClothes: In episode 9, during a practice fight, d'Artagnan wanted to keep his new uniform as clean as possible. Porthos and Athos did their very best to get scratches and dirt all over it, much to d'Artagnan's dismay.
* TheDragon: Milady to the Cardinal in season 1; initially Grimaud to Feron before his arguable HeelFaceTurn, then Marcheaux to Grimaud.
* DragonAscendant: Grimaud first appears to be TheDragon who did Feron's DirtyBusiness, but he never hesitates to harm th men he supports and is the actual main antagonist of season 3. See also: Milady was TheDragon to the Cardinal in season 1... And unlike him, she's still alive by the end of the series.

** The second episode starts with d'Artagnan dueling another man. They are interrupted by the Cardinal's Guards because dueling is illegal. D'Artagnan is arrested and imprisoned, while the other guy escapes. [[spoiler:It's a ploy by the Musketeers and the Cardinal to get d'Artagnan in the same cell with the notorious criminal Vadim, so that he can spy on him.]]

** Rochefort takes this role in season two, but he plays it a lot straighter.

* FireForgedFriends: How d'Artagnan and the other Musketeers became friends, after he mistakenly believed Athos murdered his father and dueled Athos and the others for it and then decided to help Aramis and Porthos clear Athos's name.

** [[spoiler: While the Dauphin (and future King Louis XVI) was four years old when his father died, he's six years old in season three and King Louis is still alive. Then again, that might not be for long, considering Louis is secretly dying...]]
* 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.[[/note]]

** Arguably Rochefort towards the end of Season 2 - after [[spoiler: the Queen rejects his AnguishedDeclarationOfLove and fights off his advances, he loses his rag a little and begins racking up the body count, even at one point [[AGodAmI declaring himself God]].]]

** Used as an excuse by Captain Marcheaux in season three.

* [[spoiler:MurderTheHypotenuse]]: In 2.07 Sophia Martinez shoots [[spoiler:Bonacieux when he stumbles upon her assassination attempt. She later claims this was to do a favor to Constance and d'Artagnan.]]

* NeverMessWithGranny: The elderly Mother Superior of the convent in 1.09, who has no qualms with getting her hands dirty in defense of her home.

* NiceHat: Worn by the men, comes with the genre. Except for d'Artagnan, at least in the first episode - not even while traveling in the rain, whereas his father, who is with him, does.

** Both subverted and not subverted in season three; [[spoiler: Athos, Porthos and d'Artagnan]] are all injured in episode six, but [[spoiler: Athos]] is the only one still bothered by his injuries in the next episode. Of course it's possible his injuries were just more severe.

* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler: In the midst of the completely happy ending of season two, Louis darkly tells Treville (and the audience) that Spain has 'overreached herself' by sending a spy so close to the heart of his kingdom. War is officially declared on Spain before the episode ends.]]

* RememberTheNewGuy: [[spoiler:Feron in Season Three. No one's ever heard of him, but all of Louis' family recognise him on sight!]]

* TimeSkip: Four years elapse between season two and three.

* TheUnfavorite: Athos implies that he filled this role in his well-to-do family, especially after [[spoiler: he married Milady, who seemingly appeared out of nowhere with no traceable family or lineage.]]

* WidowsWeeds: Constance starts wearing the traditional black dresses after her husband is killed. D'Artagnan is confused by the decision as she never loved Bonacieux but Constance insists on mourning him properly. After a conversation with Queen Anne she decides to ditch the mourning attire, claiming "black was never my color".

** Paris has slowly become this since the events of season two.

* JerkAss: Being the king, Louis is prone to being a spoilt brat, and a jerk to those around him.

** Once again a character played by [[Series/Merlin2008 Santiago Cabrera]] finds himself in love with an unattainable Queen.

** Constance is introduced when d'Artagnan needs cover and uses a complete stranger for a FakeOutMakeout. She then proceeds to kick him very painfully, grab a knife, and threaten him should he touch her again, establishing that she is a PluckyGirl. It swiftly changes tone when d'Artagnan starts looking like he's going to pass out and she expresses concern. He wakes up in her house with her tending to him, showing that she's also a kind and compassionate person.

** Subverted in 1.10, when [[spoiler: d'Artagnan]] is shot in the side by [[spoiler: Athos]], who is counting on this trope. The bullet grazes his ribs and while it's not dangerous, it's not portrayed as nothing, and he expresses pain when touched there for the rest of the episode.

* PetTheDog: Monsieur Bonacieux may be a jerk, but he does seem to care for Constance in his own way. The first thing he does with [[spoiler: the money he steals from d'Artagnan]] is to buy Constance jewellery, with promises that their lives are going to get better. And when he finds out about [[spoiler: Constance and d'Artagnan's affair]], he is genuinely hurt.

** A character gets shoved out a window from a height that would ''definitely'' kill--if not for the conveniently-placed scaffolding directly below that particular window.

* TheAce: Athos thinks D'Artagnan has it in him to be this, and calls Captain Treville out in 1.08 for not making him a Musketeer despite his skill.

* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler: In episode 1.10 Milady states to D'Artagnan this was the reason why she killed Athos's younger brother Thomas, which resulted in Athos sentencing her to hang. However this was not mentioned as a reason for the murder in an earlier conversation between her and Athos in 1.03. At that point Athos accused her of killing Thomas because he discovered her true identity. She did not refute the accusation, claiming Thomas was "a fool and a hypocrite and deserved to die" and she did it "to protect our love!"]]

* BettyAndVeronica: Constance Bonacieux and Milady for D'Artagnan.
** Monsieur Bonacieux (her husband) and D'Artagnan for Constance.

* BigBrotherInstinct: The older musketeers for D'Artagnan. Especially in 1.04 where ex-musketeer Marsac made a threatening move towards D'Artagnan and Porthos immediately stepped between them and warned him to not go there if he enjoyed breathing. And from the DeathGlare Athos was giving Marsac in the background, he would have done the same.

* BloodOnTheseHands: Played literally in 2.07. After [[spoiler:Monsieur Bonacieux]] is killed, [[spoiler:D'Artagnan goes to break the news to Constance, with Bonacieux's blood all over his hands, and then hers too when she reaches out for D'Artagnan.]] This represents [[spoiler:D'Artagnan's guilt at deliberately hesitating over whether he should help Bonacieux.]]

* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: [[spoiler: Constance does this to D'Artagnan so her husband doesn't have him executed on the Cardinal's orders when he discovers their affair.]]

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Lebarge's reaction to D'Artagnan's accusations about the burning of the latter's farm.

* CrashIntoHello: How D'Artagnan meets Constance Bonacieux, followed by a FakeOutMakeOut to escape pursuers.
* CrazyPrepared: Vadim in the second episode. [[spoiler:In case D'Artagnan managed to get free of [[DeathTrap a room full of explosives with a lit fuse]], he rigged the door to start a ''lot'' of secondary fuses.]]

* DeadlyBath: Milady kills a Spanish envoy this way in an inn, then pins the blame on D'Artagnan, who was staying in the same inn.

* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: Invoked when D'Artagnan accidentally reveals his love for Constance. Luckily for him, she reciprocates the feeling.

* DoomedNewClothes: In episode 9, during a practice fight, D'Artagnan wanted to keep his new uniform as clean as possible. Porthos and Athos did their very best to get scratches and dirt all over it, much to D'Artagnan's dismay.

** Several characters fight with a rapier and a dagger, Athos and D'Artagnan in their first duel, for instance.

** In the first episode, D'Artagnan seeks out Athos at the Musketeer headquarters and forces him to duel. Athos doesn't want to hurt him, but he keeps attacking, so Aramis and Porthos intervene and it becomes three against one until he's disarmed.
** The second episode starts with D'Artagnan dueling another man. They are interrupted by the Cardinal's Guards because dueling is illegal. D'Artagnan is arrested and imprisoned, while the other guy escapes. [[spoiler:It's a ploy by the Musketeers and the Cardinal to get D'Artagnan in the same cell with the notorious criminal Vadim, so that he can spy on him.]]
* DyingCurse: [[spoiler: Bonacieux curses both D'Artagnan and Constance before he dies, telling D'Artagnan that they are both 'doomed' and will never be happy.]]

** And D'Artagnan is orphaned before the opening credits of the first episode.

* FemmeFatale: Milady, the alluring agent of the Cardinal. She seduces D'Artagnan in short order.

* FireForgedFriends: How D'Artagnan and the other Musketeers became friends, after he mistakenly believed Athos murdered his father and dueled Athos and the others for it and then decided to help Aramis and Porthos clear Athos's name.

* TheFunInFuneral: Only [[spoiler: Aramis, Porthos, D'Artagnan and Treville]] knew that [[spoiler: Athos]] wasn't dead. While [[spoiler: Treville]] was attempting to be solemn as he delivered the eulogy, [[spoiler: Aramis and Porthos]] were snarking in the background.

* HotBlooded: One of D'Artagnan's main traits. In the first episode, he recklessly challenged Athos to a duel to death, whom he mistakenly believed murdered his father and attacked Porthos and Aramis when they stepped in to stop the fight.

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: In 2.07, Bonacieux hits Constance when she tells him she wants to be with D'Artagnan, and orders her back home, even if he has to drag her from the palace himself. Its him going back to later try and enact this threat, that leads to him getting shot with a crossbow and bleeding to death before the end of the episode.]]

* LeeroyJenkins: In the first episode, after Aramis, Porthos and D'Artagnan sneak into the mooks' hideout, D'Artagnan rushes out shouting ''right'' after Aramis tells the rest to wait for his signal.

* ManHug: In 1.08, after D'Artagnan defeats Lebarge and finally becomes an official Musketeer, D'Artagnan proceeds to hug Aramis, Porthos and Athos.

* [[spoiler:MurderTheHypotenuse]]: In 2.07 Sophia Martinez shoots [[spoiler:Bonacieux when he stumbles upon her assassination attempt. She later claims this was to do a favor to Constance and D'Artagnan.]]

* NamedByTheAdaptation: D'Artagnan's father is named [[MythologyGag Alexandre]], though D'Artagnan himself is [[LastNameBasis only known by his surname]].

* NiceHat: Worn by the men, comes with the genre. Except for D'Artagnan, at least in the first episode - not even while traveling in the rain, whereas his father, who is with him, does.

* NoYou: In episode 4, Marsac snarks at D'Artagnan that he shouldn't be here since he wasn't a Musketeer. D'Artagnan fires back that neither was Marsac.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In episode 3, after [[spoiler: discovering his wife Milady was actually alive]], [[TheStoic Athos]] simply [[HeroicBSOD shuts down]] and when he dazedly tried to explain what happened and became more frantic, D'Artagnan was noticeably alarmed.

* PapaWolf: Causing any harm to one of Athos, Aramis or Porthos and the other two (plus D'Artagnan) would bring upon a world of misery on that person.

** And earlier in the episode, D'Artagnan literally passes Aramis some food to munch on while they watch Porthos beat up someone in the trials to compete for the honour of the regiment.
* PetTheDog: Monsieur Bonacieux may be a jerk, but he does seem to care for Constance in his own way. The first thing he does with [[spoiler: the money he steals from D'Artagnan]] is to buy Constance jewellery, with promises that their lives are going to get better. And when he finds out about [[spoiler: Constance and D'Artagnan's affair]], he is genuinely hurt.
** Taken even further in the series one finale. [[spoiler: Monsieur Bonacieux ''tries to kill himself'' when he thinks Constance has run away with D'Artagnan.]]

* PseudoCrisis: The ColdOpen of 3:6 has Ferron giving a creepy voiceover speech about how the day that you die always begins normally, while we see Aramis being blindfolded, Athos being disarmed at gunpoint, and D'Artagnan having a razor held to his throat. It turns out that Aramis is being blindfolded for a [[YourEyesCanDeceiveYou trick-shooting challenge]], Athos is playing a kinky sex game with Sylvie, and D'Artagnan is being shaved by Constance.

* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: After a particularly dark and violent third (and final) season, the series finale is this personified. [[spoiler:Queen Anne becomes Regent of France, firmly in charge of her son's future, and appoints Aramis as her first minister, so he can also be there for his son and for her. Porthos reunites with a single mother he befriended in a previous episode, he is appointed general in the army and proposes to her. Athos resigns as captain of the musketeers, returns to his country estate with a pregnant Sylvie and hands over the captaincy to D'Artagnan. All four Musketeers are finally happy in love and with a better position as Happy Ending music plays over the credits.]]

* TookALevelInJerkass: Bonacieux, big-time. In the first season, the worst that can be said about him is that he treats Constance more as an employee than his wife, but there are still moments that show he does care for her. Come the second season, however, his misogyny increases tenfold, culminating in him [[spoiler: ''hitting'' Constance for telling him she's in love with D'Artagnan.]]

* WilliamTelling: This is used as a form of PerpSweating. When it doesn't seem to be having the desired effect, D'Artagnan hands his musket to Cadet Brujon, who holds it nervously as he aims shakily at the apple. Once the Mook has told the Musketeers everything they want to know, Porthos throws the apple in the air, and Brujon hits it with a single shot.

-->'''D'Artagnan''': My name is D'Artagnan of Lupiac in Gascony. Prepare to fight. One of us dies here.

** Possibly played with in ''The Challenge'', where D'Artagnan's speech to Labarge at the Bastille (at swordpoint, no less) sounds very reminiscent of [[{{Film/ThePrincessBride}} Inigo Montoya's]]... except without the father part, or the death part.

--->'''D'Artagnan:''' My name is D'Artagnan of Lupiac in Gascony. You burned down my farm.

* OnlyAFleshWound: Flea gets shot, and while she's not immediately running around, but she's on her feet not long after, and acting fine.

* YourCheatingHeart: Adele, despite being the Cardinal's mistress, is actually in love with Aramis. Richelieu being the jealous and paranoid man that he is, this does ''not'' end well for her.
** After Aramis saves Queen Anne's life in the second episode, they begin to develop feelings for each other - although, considering the state her marriage is in by this point, you can hardly blame Anne for trying to make an emotional connection with ''someone.'' [[spoiler: They finally consummate their passions in 1.09, much to Athos's horror.]]
** As in the original novel, Constance is a married woman who can't help falling for a certain dashing young musketeer.

* RacialFaceBlindness: Porthos lampshades this when his manipulative and evil father gives him a miniature portrait of a random black woman claiming that it's a picture of his mother. Porthos, of course, remembers exactly what his mother looks like and isn't impressed.

* IdenticalLookingAsians: Black rather than Asian, but Porthos lampshades this when his manipulative and evil father gives him a miniature portrait of a random black woman claiming that it's a picture of his mother. Porthos, of course, remembers exactly what his mother looks like and isn't impressed.

* CaliforniaDoubling: The Czech Republic stands in for 17th-century France.

* WomanInWhite: Milady is always shown to wear white in flashbacks to her marriage to Athos. Queen Anne also has many white dresses.

* HistoricalBeautyUpdate: Inevitable, considering the source material and the cast, but quite played up with [[MyBelovedSmother Marie]] [[RegentForLife de Medicis]]: it's pretty much testing the WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief to portray a [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Peter_Paul_Rubens_095b.jpg Rubensesque middle-aged royalty]] into the [[TheBaroness Rosa Klebb-ish]] plotter [[spoiler: who [[GrandmaWhatMassiveHotnessYouHave carries on an affair with her bodyguard]]]] [[http://images6.fanpop.com/image/polls/1358000/1358988_1396265755326_full.jpg that we saw Tara Fitzgerald portray]].

* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: And ''how''. You'd be forgiven for thinking that Athos, Porthos, Aramis and d'Artagnan make up the entire regiment.

** Once again a character played by [[Series/{{Merlin}} Santiago Cabrera]] finds himself in love with an unattainable Queen.

See [[TheThreeMusketeers here]] for more adaptations.