Characters / The Musketeers

Character sheet for the BBC series The Musketeers.

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Musketeers

Musketeers in General

The central protagonists of the series.

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• Badass Cape: They all sport royal blue capes in official Musketeer uniform.
• Badass Crew
• The Champion: Queen Anne sees them as hers. She officially makes them this for the people of France, and Paris in particular, once she becomes Regent.
• Dual Wielding: Sword and matchlock pistols are standard issue.
• Living Legend: By the time Series 3 rolls around, stories of their exploits have spread all over the country. Quite a few characters are awestruck when they meet them.
• Master Swordsman: Seems to be a basic requirement.
• Mr. Fanservice: Multiple shirtless scenes. They are very pretty men.
• The Musketeer: Usually, though it sometimes turns into Sword and Gun.
• Officer and a Gentleman: Also a basic requirement.
  • Except for d'Artagnan, for some reason. Even after he's commissioned, he doesn't get one until the final scene of the series.
• True Companions: Naturally.

D'Artagnan

Portrayed by: Luke Pasqualino

The youngest and newest of the central Musketeer crew, d'Artagnan's starts out as a bit of a hothead and a tad naive, but skilled in combat and loyal as the rest. Falls in love with Constance as his time with the Musketeers progresses until they marry in Series 2.

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• Adaptational Nice Guy: Thoughtful, empathetic, and fiercely compassionate, unlike his book counterpart.
• And This Is for...: Delivers this speech to Marcheaux before finally putting him down.
• Conveniently Orphaned: Young heir to the family spending all his time running around with the musketeers? Good that he has no parents to care about this.
• Da Chief: With Athos retiring to the countryside with his lover Sylvie, Porthos becoming a general and Aramis made First Minister, it falls to d'Artagnan and Constance to lead the garrison. Not that they mind, though.
• Farm Boy: Grew up on one in the Gascogne.
• Fatal Flaw: Two.
  • His quick temper. One of d'Artagnan's most defining flaws was his quick temper, which made it easy for his opponents to provoke him into action. His temper leads him to make rash decisions, easily fall for his enemy's provocations and allow his fighting to get sloppy. This has almost gotten him killed several times throughout the series. Luckily, as he matures, d'Artagnan learns to keep his temper from influencing his actions.
  • Impulsivity. Because of his occasional arrogance and quick temper, d'Artagnan was prone to acting without thinking his actions through. Several times, instead of coming up with a strategy against an enemy, d'Artagnan ran in head-first to fight. If it weren't for his comrades having his back, d'Artagnan would've most likely gotten himself killed.
• Fearless Fool: Ties together with Hot-Blooded below.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Choleric—extroverted, arrogant, competitive, honest.
• Fury Fuelled Foolishness: His greatest weakness. As an example, he found out a criminal burned down his farm in Gascony. What does he do? First, he goes and screams in the Cardinal's face. When that gets him predictably thrown out, he goes straight to the Bastille, where the man is being kept, knocks out a guard, takes his clothes, and walks straight into the cell where a man known for being ruthless, cruel, and nigh-on impossible to beat is living. It goes great...for the other guy.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: A major part of his Character Development is lessening this enough that he can actually function as a soldier.
• Happily Married: To Constance as at the end of Series 2.
• Heart Broken Badass: When Constance breaks up with him, he becomes very cynical and downtrodden, murdering a man directly in a duel.
• The Hero
• Historical Domain Character: A musketeer named d'Artagnan did exist around this era; Dumas took some of his life details to make a fictional character.
• Hot-Blooded: Even after two seasons of Character Development, starts off Series 3 by charging the Spanish artillery with a sword, all without warning his comrades with anything but the muttered word "attack."
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Doesn't fall for Milady's tricks after knowing who she really is.
• Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: Claims he was raised to fight this way. Aramis asks him if he was raised to die young as well.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He doesn't even tie it up for fighting.
• Manly Tears: The biggest crier of the main four by far. Has exactly no shame about it.
• New Meat
• Pretty Boy
• Puppy-Dog Eyes
• Took a Level in Badass: Goes from being an skilled swordsman with some potential to becoming a fully-fledged Musketeer in less than a year. Athos even tells Treville that d'Artagnan has the potential to be the greatest out of them all.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: He is adorably innocent.
  • This idealism can make problems for him, however. For example, he doesn't understand why Constance chose to stay with Bonacieux instead of being with him, and doesn't consider the reality for her especially if she left her husband for him.
• Will They or Won't They?: With Constance for nearly two seasons.
• You Killed My Father: Revenge for his father drives him in the first episode, and revenge for his destroyed home drives him in 1.08.

Athos, Comte de la Fere

Portrayed by: Tom Burke

Athos is one of the most esteemed Musketeers with a deeply troubled past that comes back to haunt him on a regular basis. His aloofness hides a wounded heart that he soothes with copious amounts of wine. His relationship with his not-dead former wife and borderline nemesis Milday De Winter is complicated, to say the least.

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• Abdicate The Title: Voluntarily renounces his title as Comte in Series 2, and leaves his lands in the care of the villagers that live there.
• The Alcoholic: He's still grieving about his wife and brother and spends the majority of his free time drinking like a fish. When he disappears, the first places the remaining Musketeers check are taverns.
• Broken Tears: As witnessed by d'Artagnan over Milady. Especially poignant as he's normally The Stoic.
• Casual Kink: 3:6 has him playing out a kinky BDSM scene with Sylvie, with him subbing. It has no relevance to the plot or moral significance.
• Character Development: Athos starts off the series as a proficient and loyal, yet brooding, cynical, and depressed man who often turned to alcohol as well as closed his heart off to curb his Dark and Troubled Past. Over the course of the series, Athos learns to start opening up to others, especially d'Artagnan, who he has a father-son relationship with, and allows himself to fall in love again rather to pushing people away.
• The Cynic: Oh hell, yes.
• Cynicism Catalyst: Finding out that his beloved wife was a liar - who murdered his younger brother Thomas - and then having to sentence her to death by hanging.
• Da Chief: Becomes the new Captain of the Musketeers in the second season finale, following Treville's promotion to Minister of War.
• Deadpan Snarker
  • The Snark Knight
• Death Glare: Gives a pretty epic one to Aramis after the King announces the Queen is pregnant. Considering that Aramis and Anne had slept together in the previous episode, all signs point to him being the father of the child.
• Drowning My Sorrows: Drinks to help him with his heart break.
• Faking the Dead: Pretended to be murdered by d'Artagnan to trick both the Cardinal and Milady in the first season finale.
• The Fettered: The man's shtick is honour, truth and justice.
• Freudian Trio: Of the Original three he is the Superego. Opposed to his book counterpart who is the Ego.
• Four-Star Badass: Following the final episode of Series 2, he is promoted to be the new captain of kings Musketeers.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Melancholic—introverted, grumpy, focused on the task at hand rather than personal ambition.
• Heart Broken Badass: Broken by Milady De Winter, after she killed his brother.
• Honour Before Reason: As he bitterly tells d'Artagnan, it was his sworn duty to condemn his wife Milady to death after he discovered the truth about her...regardless of how much he loved her.
  • Invoked again in the second season finale. After more-or-less reconciling with Milady, she tells him she's leaving France and wants him to come away with her. As he's about to leave, Treville tells him that he's being promoted to Captain of the Musketeers and to 'do his duty.' Athos's first instinct is to stay. By the time he realizes he wants to be with Milady, she's already left.
• The Leader
• Master Swordsman: Appears to be the best of the group, rivaled only by the less experienced d'Artagnan.
• Non-Idle Rich: The richest member of the four, being the only one from nobility.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: He is utterly and completely sober during the wake for Treville in the tavern. It's the first time all series that Athos is in a pub and doesn't touch his drink.
• The Un-Favourite: Implies he was this in relation to his younger brother Thomas.
• The Stoic: A very emotionally reserved musketeer. Especially in contrast to the more passionate Aramis and Porthos.
  • Not So Stoic: Does lose it when Milady De Winter's involved however. And when he finds out that Aramis slept with the Queen.
• Villainesses Want Heroes: Inverted, Despite lying to him, killing his younger brother and actively working against the Musketeers as Richelieu's agent in Series 1 (up to and including taking Constance hostage), Athos still has feelings for Milady.
  Catherine: Even after all this time, you still prefer her.
• When He Smiles: He's got a very shy smile, made sweeter for its rarity, especially when Sylvie is around.

Aramis

Portrayed by: Santiago Cabrera

Aramis is a romantic to the core, but his promiscuity often leads to trouble. A skilled sharpshooter and medic, he's the pious emotional centre for the four protagonists. In Series 2, he becomes a father, specifically to Queen Anne's son.

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• The Atoner: Towards the end of the Series 2 finale, he leaves the Musketeers to take up a religious life in a monastery to fulfil a vow he made to God in prison and to atone for the sins that put him there in the first place. He returns to the Musketeers in Series 3.

• Bodyguard Betrayal: An unintentional one since it wasn't deliberate or out of greed or spite but he is a king's musketeer and sleeping with the queen is treason.
• Bodyguard Crush: Deconstructed version, he arguably single-handedly saves the royal family - especially Queen Anne and the Dauphin - more than any other character, but his true relationship to them is also the greatest danger to them. The rest of the musketeers are very aware of this.
• Cartwright Curse: Invokes this on himself in the second season premiere after he's shown Adele's grave. Also, three out of the four women he's been in a relationship with (regardless of his feelings for them), have ended up dead. He lampshades this in 3.01.
• The Casanova/Chick Magnet: Chases and successfully beds numerous women, but...
  • Chivalrous Pervert: He is always polite and respectful towards the women he pursues, never taking advantage of them (well... except Marguerite - because although he does admit to her that he is not in love with her, he still seduces her simply as a means to gain access to the Dauphin, whom he believes to be his son), and he proves to genuinely love several of them including the Queen.
  Comtesse De Larroque: You are a contradiction Monsieur Aramis, a soldier who preaches love and a famous libertine who cherishes women.
  • Gets Deconstructed in 2.9 when the other Musketeers find out about sleeping with the Queen, and the Dauphin being his son, they are all outraged and shocked. Although, it's not his philandering per se that they are angry about. Their outrage is more about the high treason aspect of his actions and how what he has done has endangered them all, including their king, queen and country.
• The Champion: To Queen Anne, more than any of the other muskeeters. It eventually creates issues with Treville and the others, especially in 3.08.
• Composite Character: In many ways, his fate at the end of the show has him becoming the Musketeers-verse equivalent of Cardinal Mazarin.
• Dance Battler: He definitely remains stylish and graceful in battle.
• Destination Defenestration: In episode 2.06, Marmion throws Aramis out of a high window. He survives thanks to Plot Armor and a well-placed awning.
• Dual Wielding: Often uses a sword with a pistol and occasionally a musketoon (a smaller musket).
  • And a particularly cool instance during a Musketeers vs Red Guards fight at the end of The Challenge episode where he takes an opponent's rapier (flipping it up from the ground with his foot) and proceeds to wield it with his left hand, still using his own rapier with his right.
  • Santiago Cabrera comments on his character's Dual Wielding in this Behind the Scenes interview for 2.05
  I've done the two swords thing and I've always got something else in my hand. I like that about Aramis. Right now it's a sack... sack-slash-pillow sort of thing. Yeah. But I think that's a great idea. I'm gonna suggest that. Fight with a pillow. Yeah. Feathers going everywhere. Yeah, why not?
• Fatal Flaw: Lack of forethought. Aramis is popular with women and has the most love interests within the series (Isabelle, Adele, Marguerite, Queen Anne). Sadly, his promiscuity leads him to make rash and poorly thought-out choices whenever women are involved.
  • When he slept with Isabelle, he did not consider that she didn't think of him as marriage material and moved to a convent after they lost their baby. When the Cardinal's Irish mercenaries attack the convent to assassinate Queen Anne, Isabelle is killed and Aramis blames himself.
  • At the start of the series, Aramis is having an affair with Adele, who is the Cardinal's mistress. As Porthos points out, Aramis sleeping with her would put her in danger due to the Cardinal's position as First Minister and his ruthless nature. He's tragically proven right when Richelieu has Adele murdered when he learns of her affair with Aramis.
  • This Fatal Flaw really rears its head in Season 2. Aramis sleeps with Lady Marguerite in the hopes of being with Queen Anne's son who is also his son. Sadly, Rochefort learns of Marguerite's affair with Aramis and blackmails her into being his informant, spying on people and providing false testimony against his enemies. Aramis and Queen Anne are put in mortal danger when Rochefort learns of their affair, nearly resulting in their deaths.
  • Though Aramis slept with Lady Marguerite, he only did so to be around the Dauphin since he was his son. Rochefort threatens to expose Marguerite's affair with Aramis, which would dishonor her and her father unless she did whatever he told her to. Aramis unintentionally put Marguerite in Rochefort's grasp because he didn't consider the consequences of his actions. Eventually, the guilt of giving false testimony, betraying her friends and allies and being sadistically tormented by Rochefort drives her to suicide.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Sanguine—extroverted, impulsive, adventurous. In the books and other adaptations, he is the phlegmatic, with Porthos as the Sanguine.
• Freudian Trio: Of the Original three he is the Ego. Opposed to his book counterpart who is the Superego.
• Friendly Sniper: The best shot of the group, and a cheerful sociable person.
• Friend to All Children: Aramis has demonstrated a tenderness towards children and some ability for handling and soothing infants. It's hinted that he would very much like to have been a father (and nearly was one when he was younger, until his then-fiancee suffered a miscarriage). He's also very attached to the Dauphin. Which isn't surprising, considering he's the father.
  • He provides a textbook demonstration of this trope in the 3rd season premiere.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has several war wounds on his body, women think this makes him dashing.
• The Gunslinger: The best shot of the four.
• The Heart: The one most concerned with keeping everyone together and caring for their well being.
• The Lady's Favour: The crucifix Queen Anne gifts him in the second episode as a thank you for saving her life.
• Latin Lover: Although the character's ancestry was never outright stated (so far), he does appear to speak fluent Spanish and is played by an actor of Chilean descent. And he's a Casanova that likes to describe himself as "the romantic hero type".
  • If he is indeed of Spanish ancestry, he'd also qualify as a Dashing Hispanic.
    • He identified as French during 2.04, although it was when he had just been accused of "looking Spanish" while surrounded by an army who really hated the Spanish and he was also more or less on an undercover mission at the time.
    • He could quite legitimately consider himself French by nationality even if he does have Spanish heritage. It is interesting that this scene seems to echo the scene in 2.03 where Porthos insists he is French despite his African heritage.
    • Nonetheless, at the very least, his Hispanic appearance has been acknowledged in-universe.
• Oh, Crap!: Plenty throughout the series, but the most epic one comes at the end of 1.10, after King Louis happily announces that Queen Anne is pregnant. Given he and the Queen slept together in the previous episode, it doesn't take long for him to put two and two together. His silent panic is a thing to behold.
• Papa Wolf: The mooks in the third season premiere learn the hard way not to harm the children under Aramis' watch.
  • Also has a reputation for losing his cool whenever the Dauphin, his son, is involved.
• Retired Badass: Becomes one after the events of Series 2. By the third season premiere, he's spent four years living as a monk, which doesn't slow him down once the monastery is overrun by Grimaud's men. It doesn't stick, thankfully, and he's welcomed back to the regiment before the end of the episode.
• The Call
• Sad Clown: Hides a lot of tragic back stories behind an insouciant grin. And that's before Series 2 kicks off.
• Son of a Whore: In Series 3, he reveals that he grew up with his mother in a whorehouse, spending his formative years there until his father came to take him away.
• The Medic: Usually the one sewing up the others and they also turn to his expertise when Cardinal Richelieu is poisoned.
  • Elite soldier + Seamstress with Heart = Combat Medic.
• Token Religious Teammate: Catholicism is the national religion, but Aramis is the only Musketeer who seems to embrace it.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Aramis feels he's this for the women in his life. Him sleeping with Isabelle, Adele and Marguerite all contributed to their deaths (Isabelle being at the convent when Irish mercenaries attacked and getting killed, Adele being murdered by Richelieu when he discovered her affair with Aramis, and Marguerite committing suicide after being blackmailed by Rochefort for sleeping with Aramis). Him sleeping with Queen Anne almost gets him and her killed, which it would've had the Musketeers not been successful in capturing Vargas and forcing him to reveal Rochefort's treachery.
• You Can't Fight Fate: Four years living as a monk did nothing to curb his restlessness. One afternoon with his old friends fighting bad guys makes him realize that he's a Musketeer through and through.

Porthos

Portrayed by: Howard Charles

Porthos' strength and size is matched only by his passion and affection for his comrades and friends. Being the child of a former slave and having grown up an orphan on the streets of Paris, he's known how to fight and survive since childhood. He's deeply attached to the Musketeers and happy with the life of a soldier, and especially close to Aramis.

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• Ancestral Weapon: Following Trevile being promoted to minister of war, he gives Porthos his own sword, to carry on in future conflicts.
• Berserk Button: He takes a while to forgive Aramis for leaving the regiment.
• BFS: While most of the cast favour the rapier as their primary weapon, Porthos carries a much larger and heavier Schiavona.
• The Big Guy
• Boisterous Bruiser
• Combat Pragmatist: Most fond out of the four to use these methods to fight.
• Calling the Old Man Out: To his biological father, the Marquis de Belgarde. First, for trying to use him to kill his son-in-law and disinherit his half-sister. Secondly, for inadvertently showing Porthos what he truly thought of his mother by buying a stock portrait of a black woman and trying to pass it off as one of Porthos' mom. He even disgustedly tells him that he 'probably thinks all Black women are the same.'
  • Also, to a lesser extent, to Treville who is the main Father Figure in his life. When Porthos realises the captain is keeping a major secret about is his past from him ( ironically a the secret about his biological father and his villainy to protect Porthos), Porthos tells him that he will save his life as a fellow Musketeer, but refuses to shake his hand until he comes clean with the truth.
• Card Sharp: Introduced playing a game and duelling when accused of cheating, he actually did but wouldn't take the accusation.
• Doesn't Know Their Own Birthday: "The Homecoming" opens with the Musketeers celebrating his birthday but he admits to a woman that he doesn't know when his real birthday is or even how old he actually is. He picked a random calendar day so there'd be something to celebrate.
• Four-Star Badass: At the end of the series, he becomes a general of the French army.
• Emotional Bruiser: A huge softie. He even sheds a few tears at Athos's fake funeral.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Phlegmatic—steady, calm, and kind. Not quite as introverted as most phlegmatics, but still likes to drink alone to decompress after his birthday party. In the books and other adaptations, he is the Sanguine.
• Freudian Trio: Of the Original three he is the Id. Fitting with his book counterpart.
• Genius Bruiser: Downplayed, he is a former street urchin, who taught himself to read and write and is knowledgeable enough to drop names like Nostradamus into common conversation.
• Gentle Giant
• Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has several scars, including a prominent one that crosses from above to below his left eye.
• Happily Married: In the final episode, to Elodie.
• Heroic Bastard: He's one of the good guys, and is the illegitimate son of a Marquis.
  • Or is he? The Marquis claimed that he married Porthos' mother, albeit in a clandestine way, which would make Porthos his legitimate son, but according to Treville, the Marquis also had a long history of lying and manipulating people, so who can say if that is true or not?
• Improbable Weapon User: Defeats one of the Cardinals soldiers with a Fork.
• Last Minute Hook Up: With Elodie in the final episode.
• Manly Tears: Gets very emotional at Athos's fake funeral, thinking about what it would be like if Athos really had perished.
• Meaningful Rename: Took on the noble last name du Vallon after getting out of the Court of Miracles.
• Race Lift: This version is played by an actor of black decent, Word of God says it was inspired by Alexandre Dumas's father being a part-black Frenchman who became a general.
• Self-Made Man: Was a former street urchin who grew into one of the kings best soldiers.
• Shotguns Are Just Better: If the Series 1 finale is indicative, he seems to have kept "Cleopatra" the blunderbuss after her former owner died in combat.
• Street Urchin: Was one in the Court of Miracles in his youth.

Treville

Portrayed by: Hugo Speer

Treville, captain of the King's Musketeers. A fair leader, but not without faults. He cares for his men as much as he cares for the safety of his king and nation.

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• The Atoner: He outright states that immediately after helping the Marquis de Belgarde strand Porthos and his mother in the Court of Miracles, he regretted his actions and everything he had done since that has been an effort to atone for it.
• Da Chief: He takes this role with the other Musketeers.
• Dark Secret: Knowingly sent a regiment of his Musketeers on false pretenses towards Savoy, where they were systematically slaughtered by the Duke and his men. To his credit, Treville didn't know about the massacre until after it had taken place.
  • Series 2 introduces another one, pertaining to Porthos' biological father and the circumstances that led to him and his mother winding up in the Court of Miracles.
• Father to His Men
  • This is specifically noted by Athos in the finale.
  • And while he serves under them, rather than the other way around he is very much a Parental Substitute to King Louis and Queen Anne as well.
• Four-Star Badass: Captain of the kings Musketeers and an influential member of court.
• Mentor Occupational Hazard: Is fatally shot by Grimaud in 3.09 while rescuing the kidnapped Dauphin.
• Papa Wolf: Don't hurt the men under his command. Just don't.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: In regard to the King, he is the Red to the Cardinal's Blue.
• Refusal of the Call: At the beginning of the second series, King Louis asks Treville to take a seat on his council and effectively become his new right-hand man ( after the death of Richelieu), but Treville refuses the honour saying that he's a soldier and not a politician. Louis, being the Manchild that he is, is angered by this and with Rochefort's subsequent rise to power, Treville has cause to lament turning down the position.
  • But in the second series finale, Louis makes Treville his Minister of War, saying "You will not refuse me a second time." and Treville does indeed accept the position.
  • Again in the third season. Following the death of King Louis, Treville finds out to his dismay that the king named him Regent of France in his will. He insists to a distraught Queen Anne that he had no idea of the King's plans, and only accepts due to the chaos following the King's sudden passing.
• Reluctant Retiree: He's forced to retire as Captain of the Musketeers in Series 2, after one too many failed missions (unknown to him, almost all of the failures orchestrated by Rochefort). He's not very happy about it. Regardless of this the others continue to treat him as if he was the Captain, and it ends up for the best, with being promoted to become the King's Minister for War.
• Reasonable Authority Figure
• Secret-Keeper: He's the only one (aside from Ferron, who was eavesdropping) who knows that King Louis is dying.
• The Stoic: As an example, in 2.03, he doesn't even react when surprised by a pistol aimed at his head, and gives his rescuers only a cursory glance after.
  • Not So Stoic: But if pushed, his outrage is something to behold.

Royal Court

Cardinal Richelieu

Portrayed by: Peter Capaldi

Richelieu is ruthless and cunning, eager to do anything he deems necessary for the sake of France and his own personal gain. He's the primary antagonist in Series 1, constantly stirring up trouble for the Musketeers.

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• Adaptational Villainy: To a degree. In the book, Richelieu was for the most part a Worthy Opponent for the musketeers, at times bordering on Friendly Enemy. Here, the cardinal has his mistress murdered for disloyalty in the very first episode to establish his ruthlessness, in the mid-season generally seems to be on the side of stable government, sometimes collaborating with the main characters, and in the final episodes, well and truly Jumps Off The Slippery Slope by trying to have the Queen killed for not being fertile enough.
• Age Lift: Described in the book as being in his late 30s (and historically was in his early 40s at the time period). He's considerably older here and dies from ostensibly age-related causes in the interim between the first two seasons.
• Beard of Evil
• Dirty Old Cardinal: Richelieu, despite being a high-ranking man of the cloth, has absolutely no qualms about his desire for beautiful women.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Dies rather perfunctorily during the gap between the first two seasons.
• Even Evil Has Standards: It's revealed Richelieu decided to abandon Rochefort to the Spanish, because he realised how mentally unstable and dangerous a man he really was.
• Evil Chancellor: Richelieu, the Prime Minister. Somewhat of an Anti-Villain since he believes he's acting for the good of France, and he doesn't seek the throne for himself (unlike some adaptations). But he is bent on controlling it, and will coldly mete out death to further his ends.
• Evil Old Folks
• Evil Power Vacuum: Whatever his faults, the Cardinal was at least acting in the interests of France during his rule. His death leads to the the rise of Rochefort, a former pupil of his turned traitor that's acting as a spy for Spain. Athos lampshades this in the second season premiere, stating that the world actually feels less safe after the Cardinal's passing.
• Historical Domain Character: Cardinal Richelieu
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: towards the end of the season he tried to assassinate the queen, because he believed her to be infertile and without an heir to the throne, there would be civil war if the king were to suddenly die
  • The episode seems to imply he believed the king wish this.
• Pragmatic Villainy: What Cardinal Richelieu sees his actions as. If there's another solution to a problem that doesn't call for bloodshed, he'll pursue it.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: In regards to the King, he is the Blue to Treville's Red.
• Sinister Minister: Richelieu, who even dresses in black.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Everything he does, he does for France.

King Louis

Portrayed by: Ryan Gage

Although he's King and his word is law, Louis is still childish and easily manipulated by those he trusts. Despite his failings, he does try to live up to his title and cares for his wife Anne.

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• Big, Screwed-Up Family: Whoo boy. His father was assassinated when he was a child, and he had to banish his own mother for plotting to become Regent for Life. His younger brother Gaston has been living in exile for being unstable and violent, and is now openly plotting to seize the throne for himself after Louis' death.. His older, natural-born brother has been taking advantage of the war to steal from the treasury and further his own schemes (which he doesn't know about). The only semi-normal relationship he seems to have is with his sister the Queen of England, and he treats her like an annoyance at best.
• Broken Tears: In 2.06. The whole hostage ordeal - including having his wife and son taking from him, and then being made to choose if they would die or not - leaves him a shaking, sobbing, traumatized mess.
  • Again in the second season finale, after Rochefort tells him of Anne's infidelity and the fact that he might not be the father of her baby. And yet again in the same episode, where Rochefort all but bullies him into signing Anne's death warrant.
• Character Development: Unfortunately averted. King Louis has had multiple chances to accept that he is not the beloved king he believes himself to be and witnesses firsthand the problems within his kingdom (such as being abducted by slavers and nearly be killed by a vengeful Marmion for allowing his village to starve to death). Just when it seems Louis has learned his lesson and promises to improve himself, he unfortunately goes right back to being the same Spoiled Brat who cares only about his own privileged lifestyle rather than effectively ruling his kingdom and blames others for his problems instead of taking responsibility for his own actions. It's noted by Athos that Louis is simply too immature to face the real world and accept the reality of how people view him, thus preventing him from growing as a character.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the Royal Brat. Louis is known to be immature, selfish, prone to temper tantrums and extremely ungrateful to those who serve him. Every time he's had a chance to develop as a character, mature himself and accept responsibility for his actions, it's averted and he immediately resorts back to prioritizing his lavished lifestyle over being a competent ruler. However, by no means is Louis an outright irredeemable person as he is willing to listen to the advice of his counselors, genuinely loves his wife and son even after learning that Aramis is the father, shows that he is willing to acknowledge the virtues of others and does have moments of genuine wisdom, honor and kindness. Sadly, his immaturity leaves him unable to grow as a person, which contributes to preventing him becoming a more competent ruler.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: Anne is holding him this way when he dies.
• Dies Wide Open: He succumbs to his illness minutes into 3.09.
• Doting Parent: He adores the Dauphin and spends time with him when he's not otherwise engaged.
• Fatal Flaw: Immaturity. While well-meaning and capable of showing wisdom, courage and honor, Louis's maturity is generally lacking and contributes to many of his flaws that prevents him being a competent king. This makes him easily manipulated by those he trusts, which unfortunately often are those seeking to use him for their own ends, incapable of showing gratitude to others, blaming others for his choices and problems while taking no accountability himself, never learning from his mistakes, refusing to face the reality of how his people and kingdom view him as an incompetent buffoon, and having a self-centered mindset where he prioritizes his privileged lifestyle over effectively ruling his kingdom. This causes many people to view him as a weak and incapable king; most of his followers defend him either because they're loyal to the Queen or because Louis is a better alternative than other royal candidates, such as his mother Marie de Medici and brother Gaston.
• Historical Domain Character: Louis XIII
• Historical Villain Upgrade: Whilst not a villain, this is toyed with a bit as the Louis in the series is very much a manchild who is extremely ungrateful and essentially a brat, whereas historically Louis XIII was a taciturn man, and his policies earned him the moniker of 'The Just'.
• Horrible Judge of Character: He favours Rochefort above his other council members, and trusts him completely, to the point where he gives him Richelieu's old position - and ring - of First Minister. It's a shame that Rochefort happens to be a Spanish spy that wants to kill him, marry his wife and rule his kingdom.
  • He's also said to be fond of his natural-born older brother....who rules Paris as he sees fit, lets the Red Guard run rampant through the streets and is willing to steal from the crown to further his schemes.
  • He's willing to give his brother, Gaston, a chance to reconcile despite the constant protests of his most trusted allies. The reason for Louis wanting reconciliation with his brother is that he intends to make him the Dauphin's legal guardian once he dies from the white plague, which is admirable...if it weren't for the fact that Gaston is a slimy, cowardly liar who wishes nothing more than to take the throne for himself and will kill the Dauphin if possible.
• Hypocrite: Louis's immaturity and self-centeredness causes him to be this quite a few times.
  • Despite being angry at Aramis for having a one-night stand with Queen Anne, Louis showed no remorse for having taken Milady de Winter as a mistress and proudly flaunting her for weeks to months, much to Queen Anne's humiliation. Aramis calls him out on this; though Louis does seem to realize this, he angrily silences Aramis and redirects the issue at the Musketeer for sleeping with Queen Anne. Though to be fair, Queen Anne had cheated with Aramis long before Louis cheated with Milady. But on the other hand, Aramis only slept with Queen Anne once while Louis kept Milady as a mistress for a long while.
  • Louis claims he values loyalty over any other virtue, though he has shown he doesn't always reciprocate said loyalty. Multiple times, Louis chooses to side with those who seek to betray or exploit him (Rochefort, Gaston, Feron) rather than the Musketeers and Queen Anne, who have loyally protected and served him. It seems Louis does appreciate loyalty, but only when he benefits from it.
  • Louis claims that he wants to lead France to greatness and wants his son to do the same, but focuses on his extravagant lifestyle and personal whims rather than the welfare of France. Despite seeing human trafficking, learning of what his subjects truly think of him, and promising to make things right, he immediately goes back to focusing on himself and does nothing to improve the lives of Parisian citizens. He doesn't even bother to thank the widow of the man who saved his life. In Season 3, while Louis is a loving father to the Dauphin, he doesn't bother to impart any wisdom, improve the kingdom his son will one day rule, and plans to leave him in the care of his brother who had betrayed him years ago.
  • He despises being viewed as a coward, yet in Season 2, after the incident with Marmion, who wanted revenge against the King for his callous treatment towards his village during an outbreak, Louis falls apart and hides away. He locks himself away in his room, leaving Rochefort to handle ruling the palace because he's too scared of being targeted.
  • Louis praises Treville for his honesty and states that he prefers having honest men at his court, yet he often sides with or praises those who are sycophants or blindly obedient to him.
  • Though Louis accuses Treville of abandoning him when he turned down becoming Minister of War, Louis has shown to constantly abandon his own people's welfare, prioritizing his glamorous lifestyle over effectively ruling France. Treville even brings this up in Season 3 after retired soldiers are killed by Gaston and the Red Guard, though Louis shoots this down and claims he's been abandoned before revealing he's dying of the white plague.
• I Gave My Word: Averted. After escaping from traffickers, Louis promises clemency to a criminal if he helps to defend him. However, instead of honoring his word, Louis commands d'Artagnan to kill him in cold blood. d'Artagnan refuses to kill him, so Rochefort does it instead.
• Idle Rich: While not lazy, per se, he does leave a lot up to the Cardinal.
• Ignored Epiphany: During his captivity in 2.02, he learns first-hand what his subjects truly think of him, and sees how easy it is for criminals and thugs to take advantage of the poor in France, and decides that he's going to try and change things. He's back to his old self by the end of the episode, however, and blames the entire affair on the Musketeers (when he was the one who wanted to sneak out of the palace!).
  • An even bigger one in 2.06. He does not learn a thing from his ordeal at Marmion's hands, and instantly reverts to type: blaming the Musketeers for failing to protect him, expelling Milady because she "abandoned" him (despite the fact she risked her life to escape and get help), and refusing to ackowledge anyone but Rochefort.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Louis is by no means an ideal person or king, but he does have moments when he shows genuine kindness to others. One of his biggest examples is how he raises his son despite learning that Aramis was the father and not him.
• Jerkass: Being the king, Louis is prone to being a spoilt brat, and a jerk to those around him.
• Last of His Kind: With his death so close, Louis is mindful of the fact that the Bourbon dynasty will effectively die with him. Queen Anne uses this to convince him to make her regent, with the promise that his legacy will live on through her son.
• Manchild: Louis is pretty much one of these; naive, childish, and prone to temper tantrums and storming off when he doesn't get his own way.
  Princess Louise: I haven't seen the King since we were children.
  Athos: He's barely changed.
• Never My Fault: He never accepts culpability for his actions. When his King Incognito night on the town goes wrong he blames the Musketeers for everything even though he pressured them into taking him out in the first place.
• The Paranoiac: By the end of Series 2, following all his experiences he's reduced to this. Constantly terrified that there are assassins everywhere, and that people are trying to kill him, he refuses to leave his room, refuses to let anyone see him and spends every waking moment in fear. The only one left he trusts is Rochefort, unfortunately...
• Parental Favouritism: Inverted. The young Dauphin loves Louis a lot more than his mother.
• Parental Neglect: Played With, he adores the Dauphin and spends as much time as he can with him especially once he knows he's dying. However he does nothing to improve the kingdom his six-year-old son is going to inherit, doesn't bother to impart any wisdom, help or advice to the poor kid and the only real plans he makes are to consider appointing Evil Uncle's as potential guardians who will clearly usurp the throne first chance they get. When he does die his son is kidnapped by said uncles' allies and France is on the brink of civil war.
• Pet the Dog: He seems genuinely gratified at D'artagnan's obvious happiness when he finally grants him his commission. Along with his eye-opening experiences in 'Captivity' and general air of sensitivity, hints that he might have been more in tune with the experiences and happiness of his people if he was more directly exposed to them.
• Properly Paranoid: Horribly subverted. He's right to think that someone is after his life and hide himself away in his rooms (and to insist on all his food being tasted for poison). Unfortunately for him, the one person he puts his trust in happens to be the one person that wants him dead.
• Royal Brat: Despite being the King of France he's a ragingly immature manchild who throws tantrums when he doesn't get his way and uses his power as monarch to punish those who displease him.

• Sadistic Choice: In 2.06, he's forced by his captor to pick a room at random. One room contains his wife and son, the other contains innocent members of his court. Whichever room he picks, its occupants will meet a grisly end by one of the captor's thugs. He picks the first room...executing his courtiers in the process.
• Sore Loser: He refuses to be seen to lose at anything. In 1.04, he easily defeats the Duke of Savoy's very young son in a mock "duel" and then publicly laughs at the child. In 2.02, he starts a brawl in a tavern by accusing a man who was beating him at a card game of cheating.
• The Unfair Sex: Granted, Louis is not the best person or husband, but Queen Anne looks brokenhearted and annoyed when the King takes Milady as his mistress, never mind the fact she cheated on him with Aramis who could be the father of the Dauphin.
  • Aramis throws this in Louis' face when the latter confronts him about his affair with Queen Anne, naming his public affair with Milady as the reason Anne was so ready to come to him. Never mind the fact Anne cheated with Aramis well before Louis took a mistress.
• Trauma Conga Line: Despite how petulant he behaves towards his rescuers (see Ungrateful Bastard below), it's hard to deny that Louis has been through a lot in Series 2. Rochefort's flawless manipulation ends in him successfully persuading Louis to sign his wife's execution order, almost destroying him completely.
  • Gets worse in Series 3. The ongoing war with Spain is depleting the treasury, and the people are becoming more discontented. Also Louis finds out that Aramis indeed slept with the Queen, and their relationship has soured to the point where Anne seriously thinks she'll be divorced. Oh, and he's also dying of the white plague.
• Ungrateful Bastard: The Musketeers have continually saved King Louis's life, particularly in episodes 2.02 and 2.06, and he does nothing but blame and bully them for getting him into danger in the first place, never mind the fact it's his own fault in both episodes. In 2.02, he wants to experience life as a commoner, only to get abducted by slave traders, and in 2.06, he wanted to see the eclipse and it was his careless government management that led to the deaths of Marmion's village and family. Furthermore, in the latter episode, Milady manages to help him by getting the Musketeer regiment to save him, and his reward is to dismiss her for abandoning him.
• Upper-Class Twit
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He confides in Rochefort that out of the ways he can conceivably be killed, he's most frightened of being poisoned. Rochefort, of course, poisons him in 2.09 so he can be further dependent on him.
• Young and in Charge: The King of France.

Queen Anne

Portrayed by: Alexandra Dowling

The gentle Queen of Spanish descent, Anne does the best she can with a bumbling husband and a treacherous Cardinal. Her apparent inability to conceive an heir and poor relationship with Louis becomes a major plot point when she sleeps with Aramis, who fathers her son.

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• Beware the Nice Ones: It doesn't come up much, because she is a genuinely good hearted person, but once Rochefort reveals his true colours, she is -extremely- merciless and unforgiving to him. Even when he dies, she tells Aramis not to close the dead man's eyes, merely stating 'Not for him'.
  • She also has no qualms about sending an assassin to kill her brother-in-law.
• Big Bad Friend: She's currently unaware that her good friend Rochefort is a traitor that's been acting against France's interests from day one.
  • The secret's out as of 2.8, although it's not done pleasantly.
• Face Death with Dignity: When Rochefort is about to kill her, she doesn't beg, plead or play his game. She just tells him 'You will never touch me again', referring to his Attempted Rape in 2.8.
• Gilded Cage: It's implied that she sometimes sees the palace and her role as queen as this. Becomes a literal case when Rochefort puts her under house arrest.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: In seasons 2 and 3. She has dark hair in the first season, then it inexplicably lightens between seasons.
• The High Queen
• Historical Domain Character: Anne of Austria
• I Kiss Your Hand: As queen she's on the receiving end of a few, in particular from Aramis given their relationship, it's one of the few ways he can express his feelings to her.
• Innocent Blue Eyes
• The Lady's Favour: The cross she gives Aramis as a thank you for saving her life in 1.02.
• Lethal Chef: In "Knight Takes Queen", Queen Anne attempts to be helpful to her rescuers by cooking some fish. She thoroughly burns them. The musketeers are too chivalrous to make a mention of it, forcing themselves to eat their respective portions and making up an excuse when she offers them more. To be fair, it was her first time cooking, ever.
• Lonely at the Top: Her father was the previous King of Spain, her brother is the current one, and her husband is France's king. Despite this, as she sadly tells Constance, very few people at court have love for a Spanish queen, least of all her own ladies-in-waiting.
  • This becomes worse in Series 3. With Aramis retired and Constance having to head the garrison in Athos's stead, her only ally in court is Treville. It doesn't help that there's a war with Spain going on.
• Mama Bear: The Dauphin is her baby. Do NOT threaten him in any way.
  • How far will Anne go to protect her son? Her first act as Queen Regent is to send Milady to kill Gaston, Duke of Orleans, the late Louis' younger brother, effectively ending the Bourbon dynasty. Though to be fair, he had tried to seize the throne for himself.
• Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: King Louis announces that she's suddenly pregnant shortly after she spends the night with Aramis. Athos knows right away that Aramis is the real father, and Anne eventually confides in Constance. When Rochefort works out the truth he uses it as part of his plan to destroy Anne and the Musketeers by revealing it to Louis.
• Parental Favouritism: Inverted. In the four-year gap between Series 2 and three, the Dauphin shows more preference to King Louis than he does her.
• Parenting the Husband
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: Downplayed as she is still quite limited given her status as queen consort but she tries to do what she can to improve life for her subjects, including pardoning prisoners, acting as bait, speaking on their behalf when they're on trial, encouraging peace with Spain, promoting charitable causes, etc. If anyone at Court considers the impact on the poorer classes it's usually Anne.
• Sheltered Aristocrat
• Shipper on Deck: For Constance and d'Artagnan. After Bonacieux's death, Anne offers to meet with them in public to help them fight off any scandals over the timing of their relationship.
• Silk Hiding Steel: Literally in 2.08. She uses a hairpin to gouge out Rochefort's eye when he tries to rape her.
• Sympathetic Adulterer: With Aramis.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist

Prince Louis

Portrayed by: Robby Fisher

The young Dauphin and future King of France.

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• A Child Shall Lead Them: Becomes King of France at the tender age of six, following King Louis's death in 3.09
• Parental Favouritism: Inverted. He prefers King Louis over his mother.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Has his mother's light-coloured hair. Whether he starts to resemble Aramis as he grows remains to be seen.

Duke Gaston of Orléans

Portrayed by Andre Flynn

King Louis's younger brother, who was exiled some years before the third series for plotting against his brother.

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• Big Bad Wannabe: Technically the main threat due to being next in line after the Dauphin, and the threat towards the end of the season comes from him trying to usurp the throne. However he is clearly being used by the more intelligent villains.
• Cain and Abel: Tried to usurp the throne from his older brother King Louis, and is on bad terms with his older half-brother Marquis de Ferron, who threatens to have him killed. When Ferron is killed, Gaston shows no remorse at this.
• Death by Adaptation: In reality Gaston lived 17 years into the reign of his nephew.
• The Evil Prince: Intended to overthrow his brother Louis, and after their death tries to overthrow his "nephew".
• Evil Uncle: Plans to become regent for his nephew the Dauphin, shortly into which he intends for them to die meaning he inherits the throne.
• Foil: To his bastard brother Marquis de Ferron. They are both plotting against their brother the King and feel resentment for their lesser positions, Gaston being a younger son and Ferron a bastard. However Ferron is ultimately unwilling to kill his brother, and dies saving them, while Gaston continually plots against Louis. While Ferron is generally calm, snarky and cunning, Gaston is vain and stupid.
• Historical Domain Character: Gaston, Duke of Orléans.
• Killed Off for Real: In the series finale Milady assassinates him on the Queen's orders.
• Royal Brat: Cruel and spoiled, showing no remorse at murdering common folk in a fit of rage.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Despite his brother the King forgiving his treason and asking him to return to Paris, Gaston still plots against them.
• Upper-Class Twit: Arrogant and incompetent.
• Would Hurt a Child: Makes it very clear, he has zero qualms getting rid of his nephew the Dauphin to become king in his own right. Said nephew is at most six.

Comte de Rochefort

Portrayed by: Marc Warren

After the Cardinal dies offscreen, Rochefort becomes the main antagonist of Series 2. As the series progresses, his obsession with Anne twists into something more evil that threatens to destabilize the entire nation.

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• Adaptational Villainy: As with Cardinal Richelieu, his book counterpart was far more towards the Worthy Opponent end of Sliding Scale of Antagonist Vileness and eventually became an actual friend to the novel's hero, as opposed to this ruthless Ax-Crazy Manipulative Bastard who is betraying his country by spying for the Spanish crown.
  • And again, as with Richelieu, Rochefort is more evil than his book counterpart in most screen adaptations.
• A God Am I: A variant. He thinks of himself as God by the time of Episode 2.9 due to the power and influence he's accumulating. Also comes with a Blasphemous Boast, actually saying 'I am your God now'.
• Attempted Rape: He forces himself on Queen Anne and nearly rapes her before Constance comes in.
• Ax-Crazy: Rochefort is somewhat unstable, and while keeping himself under control, he nevertheless resorts to murder far too quickly. In his introduction alone, he murders no less than six people (discounting those killed in battle).
  • His craziness was already apparent before he was captured by the Spanish. Cardinal Richelieu pretty much abandoned him in Spain because he thought his instability outweighed any usefulness he may have had.
• Beard of Evil
• Being Tortured Makes You Evil: Played with. He was already unstable and dangerous to begin with hence why the Cardinal abandoned him to the Spanish. However, it's heavily implied that the agonising torment he went through with the Spanish is what pushed him to become the total unfeeling monster he is.
• Berserk Button: Do NOT mention his eye or eyepatch in any fashion.
• Big Bad: Of the second season.
• Blackmail: This seems to be Rochefort's M.O in Series 2. When he wants someone to do something for him, he finds out their secrets and uses that knowledge against them. He uses this to get Milady to kill the Spanish ambassador (by threatening to tell the King the truth about her). He also tells the Dauphin's governess to spy on the Queen for him, by threatening to reveal her affair with Aramis to the court.
• The Chessmaster: Although he normally relies on manipulation and blackmail, Rochefort proves he several skills in this area to, able to successfully engineer multiple plots such as taking advantage of the kings growing paranoia and negotiations with a treaty to Sweden to remove several of his chief rivals, all of which he manages to pull of without any evidence being left leading back to him, and no one even suspecting him.
• Composite Character: His name and position with Richelieu are true to the books (and his eyepatch comes from the many adaptations), but his Ax-Crazy Manipulative Bastard tendencies bear more resemblance to Mordaunt, Milady's son and the main antagonist of the second book of the d'Artagnan Romances, Twenty Years After.
• Defiant to the End: In the final episode of Series 2, he decides to fight until the very end, despite being outnumbered and surrounded by people who hate him. See Rasputinian Death.
• Dies Wide Open: Dies like this, surrounded by people he hates, and doesn't get his eyes closed because Anne says he doesn't deserve it.
• Disproportionate Retribution: His response to Queen Anne rejecting him and fighting him off when he tries to rape her? To poison her husband and have her placed under house arrest for attempted regicide and high treason for sleeping with Aramis, with the endgame of having her, her lover and her infant son killed.
• Double Agent: Is secretly working for Spain and plans to use his new position to drive France into chaos.
  • However it recently seems that he's really Playing Both Sides as part of a plan to take over France himself. Upon his death, he admits before he died, none of what he did was for Spain.
• Dying Alone: He's not alone when he dies, but he's surrounded by people who despise him, and has been abandoned by Vargas (and by extension, Spain itself). His last words are even 'I am alone...'
• Entitled to Have You: As far as he's concerned, Anne is supposed to be his, simply because they were affectionate years ago. This entitlement fuels his plotting until she rejects him.
• Evil Chancellor: Fulfils this role after the death of the Cardinal. Unfortunately, he plays it much straighter and is a lot worse.
• Evil Former Friend: He is a close friend of the Queen's, and it was him who taught her about France when she first arrived from Spain. Queen Anne is unaware of his true intentions until the end of 2.08 when he declares his "love" for her and, finding it unrequited, tries to rape her.
• Eye Scream: Anne stabs his left eye out when he tries to rape her.
• Eyepatch of Power: Finally appearing after 8 episodes.
• Fatal Flaw: Lust and Envy. Rochefort was a master manipulator who managed to fool everyone around him, including the Musketeers as he worked his way to the top as a Spanish spy. Rochefort normally managed to keep his emotions under control and presented himself as a kind and loyal yet stern servant of the French royalty, but he secretly struggled with his lust for Queen Anne. When he saw the jeweled crucifix he gave to Anne with Aramis, Rochefort's jealousy started to boil and he tried to rape her. After that, Rochefort focused on seeing both Aramis and Queen Anne killed for treason, pushing the Musketeers to act and leading to them learning that Rochefort was a Spanish spy. His desire to kill Queen Anne for rejecting him forced Vargas to expose Rochefort's treachery after the Musketeers brought up that he would be blamed by the King Phillip of Spain if Queen Anne were to be killed by his own spy. Rochefort allowing his jealousy and lust to get the better of him led to his demise.
• Faux Affably Evil: Creates a kinder and charismatic front (when he needs to), but inside he is cold and uncaring towards others. Even the Musketeers are partially fooled by it at first.
• Four-Star Badass: Becomes Captain of the Red Guard following the death of the Cardinal.
• Green-Eyed Monster: He loathes Aramis for his relationship with Anne.
• Handicapped Badass: Him losing his eye does not damage his abilities with a sword or a gun, in any way.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: If he had simply continued to play the long game, he might have won. Instead, he got impatient and vindictive when Anne rejected him, played all his cards immediately, and caused even his Spanish masters to turn against him by targeting their king's sister. In the end, his own mistakes were his downfall.
• Hot for Student: Rochefort first fell in love with Anne when he was her tutor back in Spain. Even worse, she would have been approximately thirteen years old at that time.
• Icy Blue Eyes: Perfectly showing his inner coldness and disregard for others.
• If I Can't Have You…: After being rejected by Queen Anne, he poisons King Louis and has Constance and Dr. Lemay falsely accused of the fact. At the end of 2.09, he has the Queen and Aramis arrested for their adultery. His ultimate goal is to implicate Anne herself in the poisoning and have her executed for high treason against the King.
• Indy Ploy: In contrast to Richelieu's complex plans, Rochefort often does evil stuff on the spur of the moment and somehow makes it work out for him. That's not to say Rochefort doesn't have his own plans, or is a in anyway bad at planning (he proves to be an effective Chessmaster when pushed), he's just very good at improvisation.
• Kick the Dog: He has Constance and Dr. Lemay falsely imprisoned for trying to poison the King (an act that he did). He then forces Constance to watch Dr. Lemay be beheaded when she refuses to testify against the Queen, and gets the King to write an execution order for Anne.
  • He does this to Queen Anne when he has her arrested. First, he tells her that Marguerite had been sleeping with Aramis all along, and then refuses to let her see her son.
• Killed Off for Real: Dies in the Series 2 finale, after a lengthy fight and a lot of damage, before d'Artagan delivers the final wound.
• Laser-Guided Karma: In the Series 2 finale. After an entire season of backstabbing people and betraying friends, he gets stabbed in the back literally with a knife, contributing to his death.
• Lack of Empathy: A large part of what marks Rochefort out from the majority of the shows other villains. He literally cares nothing for anyone but himself. This means he can go from working with or for others, to murdering and using them at the drop of a hat.
• Love Makes You Evil: He sees everything, up to the part where Queen Anne rejects his advances as a method to bring himself and Anne together. Granted it should be noted, that his understanding of love is severely questionable, being closer to an obsession.
• Loving a Shadow: His entire obsession with Queen Anne is this. He has very little idea of what she is actually like as a person, nor that she doesn't return his feelings; even going so far as to arrogantly declare that she is in love with him (although Porthos, whom he said this to, doesn't know it's Anne that Rochefort's talking about.) When he finds out the truth, he doesn't take it well .
• Made of Iron: As shown by his final fight, Rochefort can take an incredible amount of punishment. He likewise endured torture at the Spanish's hand for much longer than it was expected by anyone.
• Manipulative Bastard: Rochefort is able to play people like a violin. He quickly assesses a person's secrets and desires, and uses that to his advantage. He quickly gets the king wrapped around his finger.
• Rasputinian Death: In his final fight Rochefort gets shot in the shoulder, slashed to the left side of his chest, takes a dagger into his back, several other cuts, two blows to head and finally being stabbed in the chest. Even after all this he is still alive, for several minutes.
• Red Right Hand: His eyepatch.
• Retargeted Lust: He hires a prostitute to dress up as Queen Anne since he can't be with the real Anne.
• The Sociopath: Rochefort fits the definition flawlessly, underneath all his facades he is a ruthless man who doesn't care in the slightest for anyone but himself. He happily takes others lives and takes obvious pleasure in doing so. He happily manipulates others and treats all like tools for him to further his own goals. And despite his claims to love Anne he proves to only love her in the sense he wants her, and attempts to rape her when she rejects him. Then when it comes clear she will never love him, he decides to send her to her death.
• The Stoic: Villainous version, Rochefort rarely shows any genuine emotion aside from occasional anger, and some level of satisfaction from killing others. But when he does get angry, it's a bad idea to be in the same room. Or building. Or Paris at all.
• Villainous Crush: Is creepily obsessed with Queen Anne and the idea of her falling in love with him, to the point where he hires a prostitute that looks like her and dresses her up in expensive gowns and tiaras to act out his deepest desires. As of 2.08 he's gotten over it, deciding it's better to kill her instead.
• Villainous Breakdown: Goes through one when he finally realises that Queen Anne doesn't love him, his response is first to beg her, when this fails, he resorts to trying to rape her. After she manages to stab him in the eye, his response is to drop all pretences and decide to tell the King of her adultery.
  • Goes through another in the finale of Series 2. Seeing all his plans fall apart, he decides to just go out fighting with hints of Despair Event Horizon.
• Villain with Good Publicity: A former close friend of the queen, trusted by the king, and by the end of the first episode of the second season, even Athos's opinion of him is noticeably higher. This becomes clearer during the second season, as the Musketeers fall further out of favour with King Louis.
• Would Hurt a Child: He forces Marguerite to publically testify that the Dauphin is the result of Anne and Aramis' affair, meaning the infant would have been executed along with his parents if the rest of the Musketeers hadn't intervened.
• Yes-Man: Acts this way towards King Louis to get into his good graces.
• Xanatos Speed Chess: Rochefort is very good at adapting to the situation, and taking advantage of events that have occurred to further his own plans.
• You're Insane!: Queen Anne basically tells him as such when he declares his love for her. Justified in that he's obviously unstable and stalker-like during it, culminating in his Attempted Rape.

Lady Marguerite

Portrayed by: Charlotte Salt

The nurse of the Dauphin, Marguerite is seduced by Aramis and strung along in Rochefort's schemes in Series 2 when he blackmails her.

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• All Love Is Unrequited: She's in love with Aramis. Aramis seduced her to be closer to his son, the Dauphin.
• Break the Cutie: Oh, big time.
• Driven to Suicide: She's so overcome with guilt about betraying the Queen and Aramis that she downs the remaining poison Rochefort used on the King. Rochefort shreds the note she left.
• Dies Wide Open: Found thus by Rochefort clutching the bottle poison (see above).
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: Except for a small mention in the first episode of Season 3, Marguerite is almost never mentioned by anyone. However, considering Rochefort destroyed her written confession after she committed suicide, it's very likely no one knew that Marguerite was being blackmailed by Rochefort. It's most probable that everyone, excluding Aramis, views her as a despicable traitor and wouldn't remember her fondly.
• Goodbye, Cruel World!: Before drinking poison she wrote a note explaining how Rochefort blackmailed her into betraying Aramis and the Queen. Unfortunately, Rochefort is the one who finds her note and promptly destroys it to cover his tracks.
• Irony: Rochefort blackmails her into cooperation by threatening to reveal her affair with Aramis, which would ruin her reputation and chances of finding a husband. Eventually, she's caught in Rochefort's web so deeply that she confesses to sleeping with Aramis as a part of an official testimony.

Marquis de Ferron

Portrayed by: Rupert Everett

The governor of Paris and the new commander of the Red Guard following the death of Rochefort in Series 2. He is also King Louis's natural-born older brother.

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• Bastard Bastard: He's the result of a dalliance between King Henri and a chambermaid. Also the main antagonist for Series 3.
• Big Bad: Of Series 3. Eventually becomes the Arc Villain of the first half of the season.
• Disabled Snarker: He leaves few opportunities for snark unused, with emphasis on the deadpan part.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He's an amoral, scheming scoundrel who happily commits treason by selling arms to the Spanish and stealing from the royal treasury, but even he draws the line at killing his own brother.
• Expy: As a cold, snarky, disabled, opiate-addicted git who walks with a cane, he irresistibly reminds the viewer of a villainous French Dr. Gregory House.
• Freudian Excuse: Phillipe obviously has a chip on his shoulder from being an illegitimate bastard, which drives him to scheme against Louis. Once Louis legitimizes him and makes him the Dauphin's legal guardian upon his death, he breaks down in tears.
• Functional Addict: He suffers from gout and regularly mixes his wine with an opiate to manage the pain.
• Manipulative Bastard: He's not on Rochefort's level, but he's quite a capable schemer.
• Obviously Evil: He wears all black, doesn't bother to hide his disdain for the Musketeers and rules Paris with an iron fist.
• Make It Look Like an Accident: Threatens to do this to the Duke of Orleans when he threatens to tell King Louis about how Ferron tried to help him retrieve letters that incriminated him (and other nobles) for acts of high treason.
• Redemption Equals Death: His refusal to kill Louis earns him a knife to the gut, courtesy of Grimaud. He uses his last strength to fire a warning shot into the air, giving Aramis and Louis time to defend themselves before the other Musketeers come.
• Would Hurt a Child: After the Duke of Orleans (King Louis's younger, legitimate brother) complains that the Dauphin's existence bars him from inheriting the throne, Ferron is quick to point out that childhood is such a perilous time, and how any number of things could happen to a six-year old boy...

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Constance Bonacieux

Portrayed by: Tamla Kari

After running into d'Artagnan, Constance's life changes forever. A close ally of the Musketeers, she's kind but not to be underestimated, and becomes Anne's confidant in Series 2. Eventually she and d'Artagnan fall in love, and marry after her husband's death.

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• Action Girl: Somewhat, following d'Artagnan's lessons she's able to successfully disarm a thug in a sword fight (while admittedly being shaky and have several close calls). However she is still easily defeated by true Action Girl, Milady De Winter, in the first series finale.
  • But had so much Taken A Level In Badass by the finale of the next series, that she rides with the Musketeers to capture the Spanish spymaster and ends up being the one holding her sword to his throat.
  Vargas: (to the Musketeers) You bring women to fight your battles?
  Constance: Maybe I bring men to fight mine.
• Apron Matron: Treville selects her to run the Musketeer garrison in Athos' stead in Series 3. By all accounts, she's very protective over the young cadets.
• Badass Adorable: While never on the level of the Musketeers, she's able to hold her own in a fight on the streets of Paris by the third season.
• Big Damn Heroes: Walks in on Rochefort trying to rape the Queen and distracts him long enough for Anne to stab him in the eye.
• Death Glare: Gives a pretty good one to Rochefort from her cell, when he tells her to testify against the Queen or be executed for attempted regicide.
• Defiant Captive: In the Series 1 finale she refuses to let being captured to break her spirit. She would've escaped on her own too if Milady hadn't stopped her.
  • She also acts this way when captured by Marmion in 2.06, confronting him over his actions and risking everything to protect d'Artagnan.
  • And yet again in 2,09, when she and Dr. Lemay are falsely accused of poisoning the King. She's calm throughout the ordeal (except when she's made to watch Lemay be executed), and refuses to testify against the Queen.
• Dreaming of Things to Come: While in the camp of "prophet" Emilie of Duras, she suffers a nightmare foretelling the death of King Louis. It's later discovered that Emilie's visions, and thus possibly Constance's, are caused by Emilie's mother poisoning her with a hallucinogenic drug (Constance ate from Emilie's bowl) - but the show implies Constance's dream may be a real premonition (since Rochefort wants Louis dead in order to rule France together with Anne.)
• Fake-Out Make-Out: First meets d'Artagnan when he attempts this with her to hide from pursuers.
• Fiery Redhead
• Forced to Watch: Rochefort literally holds her head in place to force her to watch Lemay's execution.
• Hypocrite: Constance constantly states that she wants love in her life and wants to be with d'Artagnan. However, almost every time she's had a chance to be with him, she instead chooses not to pursue it and instead remains with Jacques Bonacieux. It's not until after the events with Marmion in Season 2 that she finally decides to be with d'Artagnan and even acknowledges her own hypocrisy.
• Happily Married: To d'Artagnan in the second season finale.
• Love Cannot Overcome: She's clearly in love with d'Artagnan, but the fall-out Constance would face from following her heart (the scandal of being an adulteress; the fact that any children she and d'Artagnan would have will be bastards, since their marriage would not be recognized until the death of Bonacieux; the fact that she wouldn't be entitled to d'Artagnan's pension if he dies before they can even marry, leaving her penniless and alone) gives her tremendous pause.
  Constance: *to d'Artagnan* You never even tried to understand what you were asking of me!
  • Happily subverted in 2.06, where she admits her feelings to d'Artagnan and decides to be with him, whatever the consequences.
• Pimped-Out Dress: When she's appointed by the Queen to serve as her personal confidante, her wardrobe changes accordingly to signal her new rank.
• Plucky Girl: When she's threatened by a man the Musketeers brought into her house, the first thing she does is get d'Artagnan to teach her how to shoot.
• Secret-Keeper: For Queen Anne. Not only is she appointed to act as the queen's "confidant", she becomes one of only two people who know of the queen's affair with Aramis after she sees them kissing in 2.04 and Anne actually Lampshades this. (The other Secret-Keeper for the affair is Athos.)
  • She's also the only one who knows that Aramis is the father of the Dauphin. Although Athos clearly suspects this to be true.
• Spared by the Adaptation: At the end of the show, she is alive and happily married to d'Artagnan, while her Dumas version and those of most adaptations are murdered by Milady.
• Sympathetic Adulterer: Her affair with d'Artagnan. Constance is married to Jacques Bonacieux, but one can hardly tell that they're married. Jacques treats Constance as little more than a maid, making her tend to the house while he does work, pays no attention to her desires while expecting her to do whatever he says without question and shows controlling and abusive behavior (Jacques threatens to have d'Artagnan assassinated unless she stops her affair and even outright slaps her for choosing to leave him). Is it any wonder why she chose to leave Bonacieux for d'Artagnan?
• Took a Level in Badass: See Action Girl above.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: In-universe with Constance and her husband. While Monsieur Bonacieux isn't ugly, quite a few people comment how he is plain and dull next to his younger and prettier wife.
• Undying Loyalty: Constance is completely devoted to Queen Anne, to the point where she stays in the palace to look after the Dauphin when the Queen flees from Rochefort's wrath, knowing that she will be imprisoned and most likely tortured/executed for helping the Queen escape.
• Will They or Won't They?: With d'Artagnan for nearly two seasons.

Milady De Winter

Portrayed by: Maimie McCoy

Initially introduced as Richelieu's assassin, Milady is also Athos's former wife, whom he attempted to execute after she killed his brother. Her broken heart is fuelled by anger and a need for revenge, but over time she falls back in love with Athos and eventually leaves France at the end of the second season.

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• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl
• Anti-Villain: Most prominent in Season 2. Milady has no qualms about stealing, lying, murdering or using her beauty to manipulate and seduce others for her own benefit. In Season 2, however, when she learns Rochefort is a Spanish spy and working to bring down France, she aids the Musketeers in gathering information on him and even saves Aramis from execution.
• Becoming the Mask: Heavily implied with Milady when she was married to Athos, which explains why she's so obsessed with getting revenge on him after he ordered her execution.
• Cassandra Truth: She tries to warn Athos that Rochefort is a Spanish spy that's actively working against the country. He refuses to believe her, pointing out her previous track record with the truth.
  • Milady also seemed to have been telling the truth about why she killed Athos's younger brother (i.e, that he tried to rape her). When she asks Athos why he would still believe she was lying about that, he points out that she lied about everything else, and so had no reason to believe her.
• Consummate Liar: One of Milady's most prominent characteristics is her lying. This makes her a great actress and spy, capable of fooling many people (including d'Artagnan, Athos, Comtesse Ninon and King Louis). However, this flaw turns against her when she's with people who catch onto her act, making it difficult to trust her or know when she's telling the truth or not.
• Dark Action Girl: By far the most combat capable woman on the show. Athos's attempts to protect her notwithstanding.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Grew up a thief in the Court of Miracles, was almost raped by her brother in law, nearly murdered by her husband... yeah.
• Defector from Decadence: She confides in Athos that she's sick of the person that she's become and leaves France in the season finale, hoping that she'll be able to get away from her past and start again.
• The Dragon: To Cardinal Richelieu.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: After being captured along with her lover the King, his family and members of his court in 2.06, Milady escapes through sheer luck and immediately rides back to Paris to alert the Musketeers that the King is in peril. While Porthos, Aramis and d'Artagnan managed to stall and make their own escapes, it's ultimately Milady's actions that saved the day. Her reward for this? To be summarily and pettily dismissed by King Louis because she 'abandoned' him.
• Femme Fatale: Milady is used by Cardinal Richelieu as an informant and assassin, gathering necessary information and even killing potential enemies.
• Flower Motif: Her calling card is the forget-me-not, something she's used since before she killed Thomas.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Goes from being a petty thief to becoming an assassin and spy with a reputation that precedes her.
• Heel–Face Door-Slam: She leaves France in Series 2, hoping to put her past behind her and start again. She returns in late Series 3, on the run from England after murdering her husband and his son, to once more become an assassin for the Crown.
• I Have Many Names: She says these exact words to the fake Princess Louise in 2.07. So far, she has only one name that we know of in the story, although it's revealed that Athos knew her as Anne (as he did in the original books.)
• The Mistress: Becomes the maîtresse-en-titre for the King in Series 2.
• Put on a Bus: Leaves France for England at the end of the second season and is missing for most of the third due to Maimie McCoy being pregnant. The Bus Comes Back towards the end of Series 3
• Riches to Rags: After being thrown under the bus by the Cardinal at the end of Series 1, Milady goes from being the well-paid tool of the most powerful man in France to running around with low-level thugs and kidnappers just to survive.
  • Rags to Riches: As of Series 2, however, she's seduced King Louis and becomes his mistress in short order.
• Rape as Backstory: She claims to d'Artagnan that this was the reason she killed Athos's brother, Thomas. However, when Athos finds out she's actually alive in 1.03, she gives her reason for murdering Thomas only as "he was a fool and a hypocrite" and she did it "to save our love!", not a sympathetic reason, so it's unclear if this event happened.
  • Her conversation with Athos in 2.09 seems to confirm that she was telling the truth.
• Sarcastic Devotee: An evil version to the Cardinal in Series 1. While she remains loyal to him for the most part and will carry out his orders to the letter, she has no problem mocking either them or him, which is most noticeable during his plan to frame Ninon.
• Silk Hiding Steel
• Spared by the Adaptation: At the end of the show she is still alive and back to working as a government assassin, rather than being executed as in the original and most adaptations.
• Street Urchin: Grew up as a thief on the streets and in a gang.
• Then Let Me Be Evil: The reason she turned to the Cardinal after being hanged by Athos.
  Milady: Why not become the woman that you believed me to be?
  • Comes into play in Series 3. Once she sees that Athos loves Sylvie, she gives up on trying to win him back and embraces her old life once again.
• Token Evil Teammate: After returning to France, Treville rehires her. Following his death, she works directly under Queen Anne.
• Villainesses Want Heroes: She clearly still has feelings for Athos, despite the history between them. And she seems to almost declare it to him in 2.04, although what she tells him is that he is still in love with her but in denial. Pot? Kettle?
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: While rescuing d'Artagnan and King Louis from a press-gang, she tells Louis that she too had been kidnapped and forced to do illegal things by their leader. This lie, coupled with her acting like a damsel and more than a little flirting, convinces a smitten Louis to give her a full pardon for her crimes and invite her to court, much to the Musketeers' horror.
• Yandere: Implied with Milady towards Athos, especially in 1.07 when she destroys Ninon's reputation in court, and then threatens all the women under Ninon's care with being burned at the stake unless she gives a false confession. And all because Ninon and Athos flirted with each other in her parlour! Well,and her orders. That too.

Doctor Lemay

Portrayed by:Ed Stoppard

A foreign physician brought to treat the Dauphin's sickness in Series 2. He becomes an ally to Constance and the Musketeers over the course of the season, until his execution at the hands of Rochefort.

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• Accidental Discovery: Despite failing to understand the mechanics behind it, Lemay appears to stumbled across the benefit of sterilizing surgical equipment, before his time. Simply stating that using implements cleaned in boiling water appeared to improve his patients chances of survival.
• All Love Is Unrequited: He falls for Constance, but she's in love with d'Artagnan and, in contrast to every single other spurned lover on this show, after Constance tells him she loves another, Lemay wishes her well and remains a good and loyal friend to her and the Musketeers.
• Foil: To Jacques Bonacieux. Both of them initially seem not to have a high opinion of Constance (Jacques barely treats her like his wife and more like his maid, Lemay disregards her medical advice as he value his own judgment when tending to the Dauphin's sickness.) Both of them make a living in non-militaristic careers (Lemay is a physician and is shown to be very competent at his job, Jacques is a cloth merchant, though it's heavily implied he's not good at what he does.) However, while Lemay learns to value Constance for her knowledge and treats her as an equal, Jacques views Constance as his property and hence treats her like he's her master and she's his servant. The Musketeers often come to Lemay for medical aid beyond Aramis's skills while they don't even bother to interact with Jacques Bonacieux as he has nothing of value to them. Both of them wanted Constance for themselves, though Lemay genuinely fell in love with her and admitted that he wanted her for his wife, though when she turned him down, he accepted his rejection in stride and remained her friend and ally. Jacques, on the other hand, did not seem to truly love Constance, but when she stated she loved d'Artagnan, he showed abusive and controlling behavior (first, threatening to have d'Artagnan assassinated and second, slapping Constance and threatening to take her back by force). Both of them die during Rochefort's schemes (Jacques is killed by one of Rochefort's assassins when he walks in on her about to carry out a murder, Lemay is framed for attempting to poison the king and is executed without trial).
• Kill the Cutie: Is framed for attempting to poison the king by Rochefort and executed by him without even having a trial.
• The Medic: In the second season, he's the one they go to for matters more serious than Aramis can handle.
• I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder: When asked to determine whether some soup is drugged in 2.04, his response is "I'm a doctor, not an alchemist."
• Nice Guy: Genuinely kind and friendly, to just about everybody.
• Off with His Head!: Is executed by beheading after Rochefort frames him for the attempt on King Louis' life.
• The Smart Guy: As well as Medicine, the Musketeers have approached him for help on more scientific matters.

Lucien Grimaud

Portrayed by: Matthew McNulty

The mysterious and dangerous right-hand man of Ferron.

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• Berserk Button: Being insulted by those he thinks are weaker than him, no matter who they are. Ferron has to physically restrain him from killing the Duke of Beaufort.
  • The musketeers become this for him after they thwart one too many of his schemes.
• Big Bad: of Series 3.
• Brutal Honesty: He doesn't mince words with Ferron.
• Combat Pragmatist: He's a pretty tough combatant, but prefers to use dirty fighting, feints and ranged weapons.
• Dark and Troubled Past: He's obviously been through something. It's finally revealed late in Series 3 that he was the result of his mom being imprisoned and gang-raped by soldiers when she was quite young. She couldn't take care of him (and didn't want to), so she tried to drown him. Though he was saved by a family friend, the damage was clearly already done.
• The Dragon: Serves as this to Ferron in Series 3.
  • Dragon-in-Chief: Although their relationship reveals that more often than not, Grimaud is the one barking orders at Ferron.
  • Dragon Ascendant: Becomes the true Big Bad after killing Ferron.
• The Dreaded: Everyone who has to work with him takes care not to cross him. Even the Captain of the Red Guard is wary of him.
• Evil Counterpart: To Athos.
• Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: Sylvie is quietly horrified when she realizes he honestly doesn't understand the idea of bringing a child into the world for love alone.
• Karmic Death: As a boy, he was nearly drowned to death by his birth mother. In the series finale, he's impaled and drowned by Athos.
• Knight of Cerebus: His arrival is a portent of how violent and dark this season is compared to the others.
• Lack of Empathy: By the end of Series 3 it's clear that he's just missing some of the essential emotions that make up a normal human being. He never shows genuine kindness to anyone, and seems driven solely by his own enrichment and an abiding hatred for the world in general.
• My Master, Right or Wrong: He obeys Ferron's orders without question. Until these orders conflict with his own plans, and then... well, see below.
• Made of Iron: Even in a series of notables Badasses, it's stunning how much punishment this guy takes and just keeps going. In the second half of Series 3, he survives a bullet to the gut without much fuss, something which was usually fatal. He spends most of the Series 3 finale slowly dying from a couple of deep stab wounds, and still finds the energy to put up a hell of a fight against d'Artagnan and Athos. It takes impalement and a thorough drowning to finally finish him off.
• The Sociopath: Is completely immoral and has no qualms about committing wholesale murder, treason and other crimes to further his goals. He feels no loyalty to anyone but himself and sees friendship and compassion as nothing but "weakness". He can put on a thin facade of charm, but it's clear he prefers to intimidate and brutalize to get his way, and sees it as simply the most efficient means to get what he wants.
• Straw Nihilist: Seemingly incapable of any positive feeling of any kind, whether towards other people or simple pleasure or happiness. He thinks that the world is an utterly horrible place and his only drive is to amass money and power so that nobody can harm him, and when that fails to cause as much pain and kill as many people as possible. It's demonstrated most clearly when he murders a woman who was a midwife to send a message to Athos, and then says that she deserved to die for bringing children into the world to suffer, not as any kind of "shocking" posturing but simply as a calm statement of fact.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After Ferron refuses to kill the king, Grimaud stabs him without batting an eyelid, then later tells a distraught Marcheuax that he'd become a liability.

Sylvie

Portrayed by: Thalissa Teixeira

A refugee fleeing from the Franco-Spanish war. She and her community make their home in an increasingly hostile Paris in Series 3. After the death of her father, she becomes the defacto leader of the refugees, and is slowly gaining the support of the people by speaking passionately of liberty and equality. She's also Athos's love interest, following Milady's departure in Series 2.

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• Action Girl: She can handle herself in a fight and knows her way around a sword.
• Babies Ever After: She and Athos leave Paris at the end of the series to raise their unborn child in the countryside.
• Casual Kink: 3:6 has a throwaway scene of her sexually dominating Athos in a BDSM scene.
• The Leader: of the refugee camp.
• Magnum Opus: She considers her late father's writings to be this. Even though his words could be considered treason....
• Opposites Attract: To Athos. He's the Captain of the Musketeers, sworn to obey the King at all times. She's the leader and figurehead of the growing discontented poor of Paris, who speaks about liberty and equality for all.
• Second Love: Becomes this for Athos in Series 3.
• Twofer Token Minority: The first black woman to appear in more than one episode since the series began.

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