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It's a beautiful, hopeful theme that fits with the musical's more upbeat ending. It starts with a subtle, dark tune as the Count retrospects on his revenge, then into a lighter, kinder tune as he remembers who he was before revenge consumed him, before ending in a triumphant climax as he reconciles the two and resolves to move forward without losing sight of either part of his past.

The Man That I Used To Be is wonderfully multilayered.

"I Know Those Eyes/This Man Is Dead" is gorgeous, haunting, and heartbreaking at the same time.The epic vow of vengeance that is "Hell to Your Doorstep" is three minutes of pure badass.The romantic duet "I Will Be There" is perfectly capable of giving you chills.The musical adaptation gives us the superb Villain Song, "A Story Told".

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Awesome Music: The 1973 English/Italian animated series had a pretty sweet opening theme.

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The various adaptations (radio, films, TV series, etc.) offer the following tropes: In a time when a lot more attention has been called to the problematic use of Bury Your Gays, it's quite nice that it didn't happen to one of the very first such couples in popular entertainment. Values Resonance: The book is quite shockingly ahead of its time in presenting a sympathetic homosexual couple (even if Dumas couldn't ever actually come out and say it at the time) who get a happy ending.The fact that his slaves are In Name Only (especially Haydee) also helps for modern audiences. The Count owning slaves is an In-Universe one, as several characters note, but since he claims to be of any nationality but French he gets a pass.One claims that "had my father committed ten Janinas, I would only have seen fit to fight ten times". An in-universe one: several characters note that Albert apologizing for insulting the count, having learned of his father's behavior, comes off as dishonourable apologizing to someone you'd challenged to a duel and backing down from the duel was seen as deep cowardice.Values Dissonance: As noted in Fan-Preferred Couple, the fact that the count ends up in love with his adopted daughter/slave is just plain wrong to modern audiences."Seinfeld" Is Unfunny: With the large number of revenge stories that have cropped up to ape this one since its publication (including many a Revenge Fic), it can be hard to see why this particular story is seen as a classic.

Romantic Plot Tumor: Some believe the romance between Maximillien Morrel and Valentine de Villefort is the less interesting part of the book, which is why their plotline gets either completely Adapted Out or significantly abridged in many adaptations.

Also, although invisible ink was used earlier by Edgar Allan Poe in his story "The Gold Bug", this novel is one of the earlier uses of the idea before it became a cliche.

Older Than They Think: Among other things, the book is one of the first to introduce invisible ink and the treasure map as concepts, and the scheme employed to bankrupt Danglars is not only a version of the con known as "the wire", but is essentially the same trick done in the Eddie Murphy movie, Trading Places.

Compounding the crime's seriousness is the fact that said stranger had actually travelled there to trade with him - Caderousse is simply driven by Greed.

Moral Event Horizon: Caderousse's is murdering and robbing a wealthy stranger staying the night (at Caderousse's own insistence) in his house.

As evidence of the latter is the fact that neither their grandfather nor their shared half-sister ever displayed any jerkass tendencies, and that both boys were spoiled rotten by their respective mother figures.

As evidence of the former are all the crimes committed by their father and the fact that both displayed the exact same Spoiled Brat tendencies as children despite being brought up in distinctly dissimilar circumstances.

Are the similarities between the half brothers Edouard and Benedetto the result of nature or nurture?.

Even the attempted infanticide is lessened when we see what kind of person Benedetto grew up to be.

Villefort can actually come across as less evil/jerkassed than the other three despite his rather worse crimes ( such as knowingly locking away a (actually innocent) man in the off-chance his talking might damage his career, covering up a crime committed by a relative, having an affair that results in an illegitimate child, burying said child alive) due to the fact that he does seem to be a loving-if-stern father to Valentine and Edouard, and his increasing breakdown as his household is the target of several murders ( for a crown attorney, this is even worse than usual).