Darn. I was hoping nobody would notice that.
All that and a robot created by Nikola Tesla in 1923.
It’s one giant hive mind.
Isn’t Jesus the superhero of the Bible? He is constantly fighting evil and bad people like Satan, the Romans, and hypocrites. And he totally comes back and kicks ass in the final chapter.
Now some will say the New Testimont is just a story, but thats the point. Its a superhero story.
Worst superhero costume ever.
Right. Richelieu isn’t trying to take over the world; he’s just doing standard 17th century power politics, internally (in the French royal court), and externally (against England, where Milady plays a major part in getting King James’ favourite, the Duke of Buckingham, killed).
In the end, Richelieu, seeing D’Artagnan’s value, offers him a commission in the musketeers.
I wouldn’t call him a villain; he’s the antagonist, but both he and D’Artagnan want to support the King and France. They just have different ideas about how to go about it, and what they want the King to do.
Yeah, in hindsight the big wooden cruciform cape seems like a mistake.
Spoiler alert! Just kidding, but in one of those weird coincidences I am in the middle of that book. 
Shockingly this was lost somewhat in the cartoon dog version of the story 
- D’Artagnan: [reciting from memory the letter Richelieu wrote giving Milady de Winter permission to kill Buckingham, d’Artagnan and Constance, as Richelieu reads the actual note which D’Artagnan has handed him] “By my order and for the good of the state, the bearer has done what has been done.”
- Cardinal Richelieu: Hm. One should be careful what one writes…
- [he tears up the note]
- Cardinal Richelieu: and to whom one gives it. I must bear those rules in mind.
[signs]
This is a commission in the King’s Guard. The name is blank but it is to you I give it.
[Gives a wrist flick of dismissal that I have spent a lifetime trying to master!]
My wife got me the T-shirt:
Was Jesus called upon to mediate between the DC and Marvel characters?
Who better?
Verne’s Captain Nemo (1870) is an edge case - operating out of a submarine, with a devoted crew, sinking military vessels that trouble him, and resisting imperalism in general.
Wow, was that the Spanish language one … the Mosqueperros? My dad brought me back a comic book of that from a trip he took to Mexico back when I was learning Spanish in school. I remember it being the first pun I ever understood in Spanish – and maybe still the only one. I never got much past high school Spanish.
Originally but it was dubbed into English in the UK as
Dogtanian & the Three Muskehounds.
It was one of a few of those Japanese/Spanish kids cartoons that have (it seemed at the time) billions of episodes.
Gosh, and I thought sure you were talking about Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey!
Who would have thought there would be multiple cartoon dog adaptations of The Three Musketeers?