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  • The Establishing Character Moment of each Musketeer when they steal Italian keys. Athos is a cunning infiltrator who favors underwater approaches, Aramis does a dramatic rooftop leap into a gondola, and Porthos pulls a Trojan Prisoner plot and tears off his shackles.
  • "Four Against 40" as D'Artagnan and the Musketeers fight the Cardinal's soldiers in a brilliantly choreographed sequence. Highlights include Athos smashing through ten guys without breaking stride to Porthos, not even using his sword, just whatever objects he can grab.
  • Milady avoids a series of pressure-triggered crossbow traps while going to steal some plans.
  • The whole necklace theft. Milady pulls a brief Wounded Gazelle Gambit to distract several guards, but then starts stabbing them on an equal footing (plus shooting one timed right as a clock chimes to hide the shot) and wipes them out in about forty seconds. All while wearing a period-accurate Pimped-Out Dress (and Milla Jovovich had No Stunt Double for the scene). Then she does a Steampunk version of rappelling down the roof, finds a bunch of transparent threads that act like a seventeenth century version of a laser grid, and maneuvers through them to get the necklace without leaving a sign anyone was there.
  • Buckingham uses an airship to make a grand entrance to the peace talks and intimidate the French.
  • Richelieu and Buckingham treating each other like Worthy Opponents, with Buckingham knowing where Richelieu keeps his wine due to a spy.
  • Queen Anne and Richelieu have a tense I Know You Know I Know confrontation where she reveals that she knew he would lie about framing her but wanted to see the look in his eyes when he lied.
  • The Musketeers out-gambit someone who knows how they think by letting the person who looks like the linchpin of their plan get captured while they steal an airship to rescue him. Then Planchet of all people captures a fleeing Milady by posing as her carriage driver.
  • The scene where the Musketeers use the pardon Richelieu gave Milady for themselves gets an even more spectacular prologue when they crash land an airship on the palace lawn right beforehand and tell King Louis that Richelieu sent them to steal it.

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