Captain Rochefort

Captain Rochefort is the secondary antagonist of Disney's 1993 movie, The Three Musketeers and the supporting character of the film's primary antagonist, Cardinal Richelieu.
==Background==
Rochefort was cast out as a King's guard for conduct unbecoming, and more specifically for leading a fellow Musketeer into a trap, resulting in the guard's death. That unfortunate guard was the father of D'Artagnan, a young boy who has grown up to become highly-athletic and skilled man who wishes to become a Musketeer like his father.
Rochefort now carries the rank of Captain and he serves as the right-hand man of the religious leader of France Cardinal Richelieu.
===Personality===
Rochefort was rugged, ruthless, mean, insane, psychotic, and uncaring.
===Physical appearance===
Rochefort was a slender moustached man with black hair who wears an eye patch over his left eye after having it sliced at, a black uniform, and hat.
==Role in the film==
Rochefort's latest assignment is to notify the King's guards that they are no longer needed, and it is a task that gives him great pleasure. With his gravelly voice and snarl of a grin, he orders the Musketeers to disperse or be arrested. Upon their return to France, the Three Musketeers who weren't there to hear it personally - Aramis, Athos, and Porthos - decide to make a stand for what they believe in. They are joined by a young man who came to the Musketeers looking to become one: D'Artagnan. Captain Rochefort easily takes down the wild D'Artagnan and arrests him. Rochefort takes D'Artagnan's sword (used to belong his father) for himself and wields it throughout most of the film, claiming he collects swords from the men he had killed (even though D'Artagnan is still alive). After he caught D'Artagnan who escaped from his cell, eavesdropping, The Cardinal gleefully reports to the young prisoner that the Musketeers are no more and orders him to death. When the Three Musketeers rescue their young prodigy, Rochefort and his guards begin their pursuit. In the meantime, however, D'Artagnan has learned of the Cardinal's plans to unite with England and steal power from the King. Rochefort is now tasked to find the Musketeers and D'Artagnan not just to avoid embarrassment, but to avoid an all-out political disaster for his master, the Cardinal. As the Cardinal's political plans with England are scuttled, Rochefort returns to France to protect the Cardinal and his other plans: to assassinate the King. Rochefort hired an sniper assassin who always shoots down his targets without fail to shoot down King Louis XIII at his birthday celebration ceremony, pleasing Richelieu, then asks Rochefort to pay his assassin double his price. At the King's birthday celebration ceremony, the assassin was on an opposite roof prepared to shoot the King down on his castle's balcony, however, D'Artagnan who saw the assassin from the ground, takes to the roof, and stops him in the nick of time, causing the shot to hit the balcony instead of the King. Richelieu has his guards take the King and his Queen, Anne, back into the castle, hostage, while the Musketeers reunite to storm the castle and capture the Cardinal without harm to the King. The battle between the Musketeers and the Cardinal's guards began outside the castle, with D'Artagnan fighting the assassin, until the assassin was shot by an arrow from Porthos' crossbow, then fell to his death. Meanwhile, inside, Richelieu has Rochefort to try to kill the King himself by piercing through his heart with D'Artagnan's sword. However, he was interrupted when the Musketeers arrive into the castle. As Richelieu attempts to escape with King Louie and Queen Anne through his underground dungeon, Rochefort engages a duel with Athos. At first, Rochefort gets the upper hand on Athos, including stabbing his right arm with D'Artagnan's sword, but, despite his wound, Athos eventually gets the better of Rochefort which he knocks him to the ground, disarming him. Thus, the young D'Artagnan who appears in front of Rochefort, reclaims his sword, then takes over fighting him, while he lets Athos join Porthos and Aramis to save the King and Queen from the Cardinal. D'Artagnan gives Rochefort the Musketeer sword the latter was using before, and the two of them immediately engage in a fierce duel to the death. After Rochefort disarms D'Artagnan, before he offs the young man, he reveals the truth about the boy's father: it was he who killed his father. Rochefort is prepared to deliver the final blow when he is foiled by love. The Queen's maiden and D'Artagnan's love-interest, Constance, who saw the duel, is able to deliver D'Artagnan's sword back into his hand before being struck, and he thrusts it into Rochefort's black heart. Rochefort dies in the line of duty, much like the man he murdered years ago. This time, however, justice is done. With his dying breath, Rochefort admits he was wrong, judging the young swordsman of not being worthy of becoming a musketeer. D'Artagnan's father was finally avenged.
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==Trivia==
*It is unknown as to how Rochefort lost his eye, however, during the dungeon scene, when D'Artagnan reveals his identity to the Cardinal and the Cardinal looks at Rochefort, Rochefort points his finger to his patch, which implies that D'Artagnan's father was probably responsible for the loss of Rochefort's eye before he was murdered by him.
*In the book, he is rarely referred to as Captain, as he is called Comte de Rochefort.
*In the end of the book version, D'Artagnan did not kill Rochefort, but instead befriended him after dueling and defeating him on several occasions.
*Rochefort is a real-life branch of the Rohan family. Therefore, the Comte is a cousin of Aramis' lover Marie de Rohan.
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