Fandom Rivalry: Friendly tip: Don't mention The GazettE in the comments of a Versailles video. It won't end well.
Fanon: There is a rumour that Kamijo was married to a woman named Audrey, who died of cancer. Nobody really knows where this started—it wasn't any sort of official source—but it's stuck quite well.
Harsher in Hindsight: Jasmine's death carried a nasty irony because in the band's backstory, they were supposed to be immortal.
Ho Yay: This. Then there's the moment in the "MASQUERADE" PV when Kamijo dances with Hizaki...
This performance of "After Cloudia" has some between the two after Hizaki's solo.
Memetic Mutation: A particular line Kamijo says in the first part of the "ASCENDEAD MASTER" short film.
Narm: "Gekkakou" has a string of Harry Potter spells as lyrics. Whether the band realised this—or if they did, realised how odd it would sound—is up for debate. Since those particular lyrics are growled/shrieked, some don't notice that they're HP spell names on the first listen.
Narm Charm: Whenever Kamijo sings in English (or Engrish, in some cases), he mispronounces at least something. No one minds—people usually just find it funny.
Recycled Premise: Subversion: Versailles' visuals are basically a new spin on a mash-up of everyone's old bands' concepts.
Replacement Scrappy: Averted with Masashi—he's a great bassist in his own right, the fans consider him to be a full member of the band as opposed to just "not-Jasmine," and most fans consider him to be the best replacement for Jasmine You who could have been picked. (The fact that he trained under Jasmine for a while before his death probably helps.) There are still fans who dislike Masashi simply for not being Jasmine, but they're a pretty small minority.
Signature Song: "The Revenant Choir". Also, to a lesser extent, "ASCENDEAD MASTER" and/or "MASQUERADE". "The Red Carpet Day" is also not far behind.
Viewer Gender Confusion: It's rare to guess Hizaki and Jasmine You as men on the first attempt. Teru also gets this occasionally.
Anna Brewster as Madame de Montespan nails the scheming, sultry, spoiled and emotional aspects of the character, and she is beautiful. However, the historical Anthenaïs was famously blonde-haired and blue-eyed.
Elisa Lasowski is a compelling Queen Marie-Therese. However, again, she doesn't fit the description of the plain, Habsburg-jawed, blonde, blue-eyed queen.
Best Known for the Fanservice: Most people know of this series because of its copious amounts of nudity and sex scenes; UK media often refer to it as the most sexually explicit series ever shown on the BBC.
Jacques the Gardener, for being quite wise and rational in his advice to the king, having few enough appearances to not be overused, a pleasing, soothing voice courtesy of Gilly Gilchrist, and an Inexplicably AwesomeBlade Below the Shoulder concealed in his prosthetic arm for no apparent reason. Too bad he gets killed early in Season 2.
Claudine the Doctor is similarly loved for often being the only sane woman in Versailles, particularly when it comes to medicine; her compassion for all people, rich and poor alike; her own woobie status after being forced to abandon her father to his grisly fate, and for defying the near-omnipresent Fanservice despite being played by the very pretty Lizzie Brocheré. Too bad she also gets killed in Season 2.
Liselotte, the Princess Palatine, is much loved for her Adorkable, Fish out of Water shyness, a sense of humour that isn’t based around insulting everyone within earshot, and for being genuinely nice. And despite being a straight woman who knows she’s married to a gay man, she somehow manages to be a better friend and lover to Philippe than the Chevalier is – although, considering who the Chevalier is, that’s not difficult.
One True Threesome: At the end of the series, Liselotte walks in on a tender moment between Philippe and Chevalier and happily says she knows her place in their relationship, married to the two men she loves.
While it's part of a larger speech that helps solidify some of Phillipe's woobie status and explains some of the jealousy he feels towards his brother, you can't help but chuckle somewhat at a story that starts as a food fight and ends with the two small brothers (one a prince, the other a king) pissing on each other.
Bontemps comes to ask a recently-poisoned and bedridden Fabien what happened to him.
Fabien: (whilst blindfolded by bandages to keep his eyes from rotting)I have a cold.
Louis on England:
Louis: I'm told it rains perpetually, and its inhabitants are forever apologizing.
Tear Jerker: When Colbert is on his death bed in the Series finale, Louvois states with tears in his eyes that had circumstances been different, they would have been friends.
Fabien Marchal’s love life always seems to end the same way, with the woman dead.
The Woobie: Philipe. He is constantly trying to achieve success by his own merits or find happiness in his relationships and finding his efforts frustrated by his own brother. Every few episodes, he breaks down crying for one reason of another. In episode 7 of the first season, he is constantly worried by his brother's health, has no support as a potential regent (all part of Louis's plan) and his lover is arrested as a traitor and sentenced to death. His final scene is him crying tears of despair, all alone in the Royal Chapel.
has the honor of being an Epic Rocking song that truly lives up to the name.