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The American adaptation of ''Dragon Tattoo'' was released December 21, 2011, directed by [[David Fincher]], written by Steven Zallan, and scored by the team of [[Nine Inch Nails|Trent Reznor]] and Atticus Ross. The cast includes [[Rooney Mara]] as Lisbeth and [[Daniel Craig|James Bond]] as Mikael. Despite the film's somewhat modest box office performance, it has been confirmed that the second instalment will be filmed, with Mara and Craig returning to their roles, although it is not yet clear whether Fincher will return as director. It is also rumoured that the third instalment will be filmed simultaneously with the second, although this has yet to be officially confirmed.

 

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* [[All Men Are Perverts]]:

** The Swedish title wasn't lying--one could almost count the male characters who are not violent sexual deviants on one hand.

* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: Mikael.

* [[Ambiguous Disorder]]: Lisbeth. Mikael, on the subject of her photographic memory, pattern recognition skills, general brilliance and absolute asociality, thinks to himself, "Asperger's syndrome, or something like that. " He then goes on to state that for every trait that Asperger's would explain about Lisbeth, there are symptoms that don't fit at all - while Asperger's has a high memory rate for obsessions, that only applies to obsessions, and high-functioning Aspies tend to tune out a lot of stimulus. And her propensity towards what her boxing partner calls "Terminator Mode"(seemingly total passivity right until an arbitrary point is breached, followed by focused and unrelenting violence), sounds a lot like PTSD - again except the "passive" stage. In a stable environment Lisbeth would have eventually grown up to be... {{spoiler|''[[In the Blood|a damned good spy.]]''}}

* [[And That's Terrible]]: Every few pages, leading the reader to wonder how everyone in Sweden isn't jaded beyond the point of no return.

* [[Ass Shove]]: Lisbeth does this to her social worker when she rapes him, as payback for what he did to her. In the American film, she even kicks the toy up there.

* [[Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance]]: Casting [[Noomi Rapace]] as Lisbeth Salander obviously made things a lot easier for the costume department and the writers. Although finding a grown woman with all of Lisbeth's physical traits would be next to impossible, they got lucky in several regards. Noomi, like Lisbeth, [[Pettanko|is very small-breasted]] as well as dark-eyed with a naturally pale complexion, and in her late teens had numerous ear and facial piercings that she readily got repierced for the role. However, she's not as short as Lisbeth at 5'5" compared to 4'11.

* [[Author Avatar]]: Intrepid journalist and activist Mikael Blomkvist is a fairly obvious one for author Stieg Larsson, who was an intrepid journalist and activist. He's also a handsome playboy who women constantly fall for. Go figure.

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Lisbeth {{spoiler|tossed a Molotov cocktail on her father when she was 12}}, and her absolute refusal to cooperate with anyone in the mental health profession lead them to classify her as this. When she's also portrayed this way by the media during {{spoiler|the manhunt to find her in}} ''Played With Fire'', she decides to make the most of it and interrogates a john while wearing an [[Dark Is Evil|all-black outfit]] and seriously fucked-up face paint, just to mess with him.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Lisbeth only has a few people she really cares about, but attacking one of them presses this. Shooting yourself in the head will usually be less painful than what she'll do to you. And if you abuse a woman or child and Lisbeth finds out about it, she'll do everything in her power to ruin your life. And mentioning the name "Lisbeth Salander" to one particular guy {{spoiler|named Zalachenko}} guarantees a ''lot'' of fucked up shit will happen just so he can try and get revenge on her.

* [[Bi the Way]]: Lisbeth has two lovers she treats seriously, and one of them is a woman.

* [[Black and White Morality]]: good guys who've been mistreated (or are on the side of those who've been mistreated) taking revenge against their abusers.

* [[Bondage Is Bad]]: Changed between books and films; it's bad in ''Dragon Tattoo'' {{spoiler|when Bjurman ties Lisbeth up and rapes her}}, but Lisbeth freely lets Miriam tie her up gently when they meet in ''Played With Fire''. In the ''Played With Fire'' movie, Lisbeth all but states that you would only be into bondage as a top if you were a sadistic pig and a rapist, but at the time she is talking ''to a rapist'', so it all evens out.

* [[Break the Cutie]]: Happens to both Lisbeth and Mikael a lot.

* [[Broken Bird]]: Bordering on [[Ax Crazy]] [[Sociopathic Hero]]; Lisbeth is fairly attractive, but to say that she has issues is putting it ''extremely'' mildly.

* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: If Lisbeth ever shows up to the office, it's in full "got dressed in the dark" mode. She ignores her coworkers, breaks into her boss's office, and borrows company equipment whenever she wants. She's an absurdly good PI, though, and the book says explicitly that's the only reason Armansky tolerates her behavior.

* [[Captain Obvious Aesop]]:

** Human trafficking is a problem that needs to be dealt with. Rapists are bad. So are Nazis. Nazi rapists are even worse. Also, bad guys are pedophiles.

* [[Closed Circle]]: The mystery of Harriet Vanger's death in ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'' involves one; the night of the Vanger family dinner, the bridge connecting Hedeby Island to the mainland was completely blocked by a spectacular auto accident.

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: Lisbeth, not that she has much choice at 4'11" and 95 pounds.

* [[Creepy Child]]: Lisbeth was teased and bullied in school for acting like one.

* [[The Danza]]: In the Swedish movie, Mikael Blomkvist is played by Mikael Nyqvist.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Larsson said the character of Lisbeth was his version of a modern-day, grown-up Pippi Longstocking, which accounts for her determination, her anarchist spirit and her red hair (she dyes it black). It also gets Lampshaded in ''Dragon Tattoo'' when Armansky, Frode and Lisbeth are discussing Mikael and his nickname of "Kalle Blomkvist" comes up. Lisbeth says she understands why he hates the name and that she would punch anyone who ever referred to her as "Pippi Longstocking", causing Armansky to squirm because he's thought of her that way before.

* [[Death Glare]]: Lisbeth uses this a lot.

** It made sense in context since most villains (except Zalachenko and his son and sidekick Niedermann) had their own purposes which ranged from cheating her financially and beating her up to robbery or sexual abuse. Zalachenko is the first who didn't care at all for profit or desire, [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him|he simply shot at her on sight]]. [[Sarcasm Mode|Dead people are not quite those who come back to hunt you, unless you believe in zombies.]]

* [[Defrosting the Ice Queen]]: Lisbeth is cold and anti-social at the start of the series. She falls for Mikael and begins to open up but freezes again after witnessing him with Erika. However by the end of the third book she eventually opens up and comes to appreciate Mikael and all the others in her life. In the film series she defrosts much slower and is still rather socially challenged at the end.

* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: Lisbeth is a rare sympathetic example.

* [[Does Not Know How to Say Thanks]]: Lisbeth. But she finally figures it out. ''After'' the person she's thanking has driven off. She does not learn this in the film series and Armansky calls her out on this. She eventually begrudgingly comes to appreciate others.

* [[Double Standard]]:

** Lisbeth is labelled a prostitute because she's been to a park late at with a man. Later, the media go into a frenzy over her lesbianism. Erika Berger is absolutely terrified of having her sex life exposed. At the same time, Mikael Blomkvist leads a very active sex life with multiple partners without giving it much thought - and no one seems to care.

* [[Embarrassing Nickname]]: "Kalle Blomkvist", embarrassing to Mikael because it's really the name of the protagonist in a series of mystery novels for little kids (that by the way was written by the creator of Pippi Longstockings). Lisbeth calls him this whenever she wants to tease him or he's annoying her, and she's the only one he lets do it without getting upset.

* [[Ethical Slut]]: Lisbeth and Mikael both, in slightly different ways. Lisbeth views sex as a way to have fun (she's noted as having been with 50 different people by the beginning of the series), but she also has a strict personal code of morals that pushes her to try and protect innocents. Mikael has similar ethics, but his sexual liaisons tend more toward the serious side; he's just had plenty of them.

* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Lisbeth has red hair but dyes it black.

** Lisbeth is fond of wearing shirts with snarky slogans on them. One proclaims: "Armageddon was yesterday - today we have a serious problem."

** In the American film version of ''Tattoo'', the shirt she's wearing when {{spoiler|Blomkvist confronts her in her apartment and asks for her help}} says "Fuck you you fucking fucks".

* [[Harmful to Minors]]: Lisbeth grew up watching her mother get constantly beaten by her father. It made an impression, let's put it that way.

* [[Sociopathic Hero]]: Lisbeth, see really enjoys watching people suffer, in the first movie she watching with a smile on her face as {{spoiler|Martin}} burns. However she does these things for to avenge herself or others.

* [[Hollywood Hacking]]: Mostly averted by Lisbeth and her fellow hackers; for the most part it's extremely accurate. All of the members of Hacker Nation are good with computers, Lisbeth particularly. And not in the "take them out of the box and set them up" way, more in the "give her a high-level PC and a couple days and she'll get you the Pentagon's secret files" way.

* [[I Am Not Pretty]]: Lisbeth is mentioned as being convinced that her extreme skinniness makes her "repulsive".

* [[Must Have Caffeine]]: Just about all the characters, particularly the journalists and police officers (which is probably [[Truth in Television]]).

* [[Mysterious Past]]: Lisbeth usually clams up whenever someone asks her about her childhood. Mikael also has things that he won't discuss, {{spoiler|in particular some of what really happened while he was working for Henrik Vanger}}.

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Deconstructed with Lisbeth. She acts like this around the police or psychiatrists, but only because experience has taught her that they're not going to listen to anything she says, so why bother?

* [[Older Than They Look]]: Again, Lisbeth. At 25, she looks barely fifteen.

* [[Online Alias]]: Lisbeth goes by the hacker name "Wasp," which becomes a plot point as Mikael is able to track her down using it.

* [[Pay Evil Unto Evil]]: Lisbeth's basic ''modus operandi''. The tagline on the teaser posters for the American version of ''Tattoo'' is a variant on the trope name.

* [[Photographic Memory]]: One of Lisbeth's talents. She gets upset when anyone calls attention to it, because she thinks it makes her weird.

* [[Private Detective]]: Lisbeth, who's so good that Armansky gives her all the tough assignments and only keeps one other PI on staff to run ordinary background checks and the like. Mikael is forced into the duties of one when investigating Harriet's disappearance.

* [[The Rainman]]: Lisbeth is unapologetically asocial, and if other people think she acts weird, she views this as their problem. The government even classifies her as insane and schizophrenic because she steadfastly refuses to cooperate with any of the tests they give her. They're so wrong it isn't even funny, but she is still introverted to an reclusive level and emotionally detached.

* [[Reason You Suck Speech]]: Many characters are fond of this. Lisbeth uses on in the first film to defend herself when Mikael questions her about {{spoiler|Martin's death.}} and why he deserved to die. In the second film, Armansky gives one to Lisbeth when she says she didn't know why she never said good bye. "You don't care about anyone, you treat your friends like dirt. It's as simple as that." Which she is unable to disagree with.

* [[Rebellious Spirit]]: Lisbeth has pretty major issues with authority. It bites her in the ass a lot, most often at times when it's least convenient. Mikael even notes in ''Hornet's Nest'' that many of her problems are related to this.

* [[Sex Is Evil]]: Could be assumed, considering the [[All Men Are Rapists|high amount of sex scenes that become rape.]]

** All three books have homages to Swedish children's books, especially Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking and Kalle Blomkvist. The first one also has lots of homages to Agatha Christie, and name-checks Sara Paretsky and Sue Grafton.

** While the original books have Blomkvist and Salander as equal protagonists, the [[The Film of the Book|Swedish movies]] go out of their way to make Salander the star. Her weaknesses are cut back (most notably her social awkwardness), portraying her as less of a flawed human and more of an invincible force of nature. Blomkvist suffers in that his intelligence and journalistic competence are lowered in order to make Salander more intelligent by comparison.

** Notably averted with the American films, which in keeping with the books put the two protagonists on a more equal footing.

** [[Noomi Rapace]] was mostly a stage actress before being cast in the trilogy, which has brought her international acclaim.

** The American film seems to be this for [[Rooney Mara]] too.

* [[The Stoic]]: Unless it involves someone she cares about, Lisbeth tends to be very matter-of-fact about any given situation.

* [[Strange Girl]]: With the exception of the supernatural, this is Lisbeth through and through.

* [[Tranquil Fury]]: Outside of a harsh glare, Lisbeth rarely gives any indication that she's mad, even when she's contemplating stabbing people.

* [[Unfortunate Name]]: The killer blonde giant is not given a name until late in the second book, at which point it's revealed to be the very unintimidating "Ronald Niedermann."

* [[Waif Fu]]: She's no ninja warrior; as a fighter, Lisbeth is best at ''avoiding'' getting hit. When forced to actually fight, she usually gets the upper hand on her attackers because of four things: 1, her size causes her opponents to underestimate her; 2, she's quick; 3, she fights dirty; and 4, she ''[[Groin Attack|really]]'' [[Improbable Weapon User|fights]] [[To the Pain|dirty.]]

* [[Write What You Know]]: When he was 15, Larsson witnessed some other boys raping a girl. [[Truth in Television|In real life]], he was too scared to try and help her, and not only did she become the inspiration for Lisbeth (it was the girl's name), it's pretty easy to map a correlation between his unresolved guilt and the harsh treatment suffered by rapists in his novels.

 

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* [[Aborted Arc]]: The rare case of this happening in a film. In the Swedish version Janne, one of the ''Millennium'' editors, takes a payoff to feed info to Wennerström. When Malin discovers it, she and Erika decide to keep him on in order to feed disinformation. Except they never actually do it, and it's not mentioned again until Erika fires him at the end.

* [[Abusive Parents]]: Most of the Vangers qualify, with husbands beating their wives {{spoiler|and fathers raping their daughters and sons and training the sons as serial killers.}}

* [[Actor Allusion|Composer Allusion]]: A character in the US version is seen wearing a [[Nine Inch Nails]] shirt - while [[Pop Star Composer|Trent Reznor]] is the co-writer of the score.

* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: Henrik Vanger feels this way about most of his family. And if they're not actively evil, he sees them as at the least greedy, petty and conniving. In several cases, he's even more right than he suspects, although a couple of them turn out not to be particularly bad people.

* [[Asshole Victim]]: Wennerström. Among his many crimes {{spoiler|(most notably, profiting from drug trade and gun running)}} was forcing a woman whom he got pregnant to have an abortion by half-drowning her until she agreed.

* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Mikael is definitely this.

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: {{spoiler|Lisbeth's rescue of Mikael at the hands of Martin Vanger.}}

* [[Clear My Name]]: Mikael's reason for taking the Vanger job; Henrik claims he'll give Mikael evidence that proves his innocence if he does.

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Wennerström, whose international corporate empire is based on very bad things, {{spoiler|like third-world drug cartels}}.

* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Happens to Lisbeth toward the end. At least until the [[Ship Sinking]] moment.

* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|Lisbeth realizes she's fallen in love with Mikael, and decides to tell him. She buys him a Christmas present, and on the way to give it to him, [[Ship Sinking|sees him on the way to his apartment with his part-time lover Erika]]. She then walks away and tosses the present in a dumpster, berating herself for being so foolish as to fall in love}}.

* [[Fake Nationality]]:

* [[Guile Hero|Guile Heroes]]: Lisbeth is good at getting ridiculous amounts of info and getting the drop on people. Mikael is good at organizing and has his own respected media outlet to put her info in. When they team up to expose Wennerström, the combination proves unbeatable.

* [[Hackette]]: Lisbeth.

* [[Hidden Villain]]: The serial killer {{spoiler|Martin Vanger}}.

* [[The Immodest Orgasm]]: Not a classic example in that there's no wailing or screaming, but in the film Lisbeth is very audibly enjoying herself the first time she and Mikael have sex.

* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: Mikael and Lisbeth, who have an Intergenerational Friendship with benefits.

* [[Karmic Death]]: Gottfried Vanger, drowned by {{spoiler|Harriet,}} the girl he'd been raping for several years. {{spoiler|Martin}} gets this in the movie, when Lisbeth walks away and leaves him to burn. This ties into his comment about how all his victims thought he would spare them, only to have their hopes brutally crushed. In short, he's denied the same mercy he denied his victims

* [[Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot]]: {{spoiler|Investigating disappearance of one rich heiress -> Family of serial killers}}

* [[Missing White Woman Syndrome]]: One of the more subtle tropes invoked in this series. Blomkvist is hired to investigate the disappearance of Harriet Vanger, the scion of a wealthy Swedish family. However, {{spoiler|Martin Vanger}} has raped and murdered literally ''dozens'' of women, mostly foreign-born, and {{spoiler|Martin}} himself mentions that no one has made any note of their disappearance. Larsson never explicitly compares the two cases, but the media critique is pretty implicit regardless.

* [[Oh Crap]]: Lisbeth's reaction after seeing Mikael, who knows that she hacked his computer, at her house. However, Mikael isn't looking for any kind of payback, but for her help instead.

* [[Parental Incest]]: {{spoiler|Gottfried to Martin and Harriet}}.

* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]:

** [[The Film of the Book]] hits most of the high notes, but simplifies a few matters for the sake of streamlining the plot. Henrik's offer to give Mikael evidence about Wennerström and his buying a stake in ''Millennium'' are left out, as is Mikael's daughter being the one who figures out the "Leviticus" references, and Anita is killed off {{spoiler|instead of being Harriet's helper}}. Some events in the timeline are shifted around as well, and the various ''Millennium'' employees have maybe five minutes total screen time.

** For the nerdier types, the actual placement of Macs in the Fincher film is rather strange. The exact timeline of the film isn't clear, but it's either a present-day OS (Tiger, circa 2005) running on computers from the future (the unibody [[Mac Book]] Pros from 2008, which came with Leopard), or computers of today running an OS from several years before they came out.

* [[Rape and Revenge]]: Lisbeth's advocate Nils Bjurman lures her to his apartment, {{spoiler|where he sodomizes her with a sex toy, rapes and tortures her}}, then orders her to come back a week later. She does so, but {{spoiler|stunguns, ties up and sodomizes ''him'', then tattoos "I am a sadistic pig, a pervert, and a rapist" on his chest and stomach}}. She also tells him that {{spoiler|she recorded his assault of her, and that}} he will be doing exactly what she says from now on, or he'll be going to jail for a very long time.

* [[The Reveal]]: Anita Cochran, CEO of a large Australian conglomerate {{spoiler|is actually Harriet Vanger under an assumed identity}}.

* [[Roaring Rampage of Rescue]]: When Lisbeth rescues {{spoiler|Mikael from Martin}}.

* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: The [http://youtu.be/hrFgnizJ7qY second trailer] for the US film is a loose summary of the ''entire story'' with the exception of the two ''really'' big plot twists ({{spoiler|Martin}} and {{spoiler|Harriet}}).

* [[Translation Convention]]: Played oddly in the English film with visible text, which will be in English when it's relevant (e-mails, newspapers, the tattoo that Lisbeth draws on Bjurman) but in Swedish when it's not.

* [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot]]: Employed to rather distressing effect after {{spoiler|Bjurman forces Lisbeth to give him oral sex for money.}}

 

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* [[All Bikers Are Hells Angels]]: Justified in this case, as these bikers are trying to actually join the Hells Angels.

* [[An Axe to Grind]]: {{spoiler|Lisbeth buries an axe in her father's head.}}

* [[As Himself]]: Former WBC International Welterweight and Inter-Continental Welterweight champion Paolo Roberto, both in the novel and the film.

* [[Badass]]: Paolo Roberto, who witnesses a kidnapping, tails the kidnappers, and then rescues the victim. And almost gets beaten to death for his trouble.

* [[Big Bad]]: Alexander Zalachenko, former top-level Soviet intelligence operative {{spoiler|that defected to Sweden when he got in trouble with his bosses.}}

* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: Zalachenko's henchman Ronald Niedermann.

** {{spoiler|Niedermann's paranoid hallucinations.}}

** Also {{spoiler|the cigarette case.}}

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: When Lisbeth goes shopping for an apartment (with enough money to afford anything), her appearance causes a real estate agent to condescendingly dismiss her out of hand and pretty much shove her out of his office. She retaliates by hacking into his computer, finding a bunch of undeclared income, and reporting him to the tax authorities.

* [[Disability Superpower]]: Niedermann has congenital analgesia, a genetic disorder that means he can't feel pain. In the book, Roberto only manages to momentarily stun him by hitting him in the back of the head with a two-by-four; after Miriam kicked him in the groin.

* [[It Got Worse]]: Every time you think it can't, somehow it does, throughout the book.

* [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]]: Lisbeth does it to a john, involving a stungun and a noose around his neck. Pretty much on the edge of the [[Moral Event Horizon]].

* [[Karmic Death]]: {{spoiler|Nils Bjurman}}, who is killed by {{spoiler|Niedermann}}, the man he thought was going to help him.

* [[The Mafiya]]: Zalachenko is the boss of an Estonian crime ring who specialize in trafficking underage prostitutes.

* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: Zalachenko behind Niedermann.

* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: Again, in [[The Film of the Book]] most of the important plot points are covered, while leaving out several minor subplots. There's no mention of Mikael and Harriet's relationship or Erika's job offer from SMP, Lisbeth's attempted kidnapping by Lundin and Niemenen is gone, most of the police's scut work in investigating Dag, Mia and Bjurman's murders isn't shown, a lot of foreshadowing about the depth of the Zalachenko conspiracy is left out and the ending is arbitrarily changed from a creepy nighttime sequence to happening in the full light of day.

* [[Pretty Little Headshots]]: Averted with the murders of {{spoiler|Bjurman, Dag and Mia}}, all of whom are shot in the head with a Colt 1911 .45 pistol. When he finds {{spoiler|Dag's}} body, Mikael realizes he's standing in brain. Played more or less straight at the end; {{spoiler|Lisbeth}} is shot in the head, but by a .22, with the bullet lodging in her brain.

* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: Niedermann's bizarrely high pitched voice, cherubic face and [[Asexuality|utter disinterest in sex]] hint towards him having never actually reached puberty. He also {{spoiler|has crippling hallucinations which grow more powerful when he is alone or under stress}}.

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Officer Bublanski, the cop in charge of Lisbeth's case. He's aware that there are things which don't add up, and when he's presented with the truth, he works to help clear her name.

* [[The Reveal]]: Zalachenko is {{spoiler|Lisbeth's father.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Sanity Slippage]]: Niedermann.}}

* [[Rule of Threes]]: Lisbeth zaps three men with her trusty stungun {{spoiler|but the third man is immune to its effects despite being hit in the groin.}}

* [[Show Within a Show]]: There is an excerpt of Blomkvist's book ''The Knights Templar''.

* [[The Worf Effect]]: Niedermann beating the living shit out of real life boxer Paolo Roberto has shades of this. [[Made of Iron|But there are]] [[Disability Superpower|a couple reasons.]]

* [[You Fail Biology Forever]]: Niedermann's muscular frame is justified, as is his insensitivity to pain. Problem is, {{spoiler|when Lisbeth shocks him with a stungun, the electricity through his muscles should have immobilized him regardless of whether he felt it or not.}}

 

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* [[Asshole Victim]]: {{spoiler|Zalachenko.}}

* [[Break the Haughty]]: Teleborian's last testimony ought to qualify.

* [[Call Back]]: Lisbeth contacts Erika to tell her something, and when Erika demands that Lisbeth verify who she is, Lisbeth says that she knows how Mikael got the scar on his neck in ''Dragon Tattoo''.

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]

** Monica Figuerola is described as an ex-gymnast who barely missed making the Olympic team in the seventies. However, Sweden hasn't fielded a women's gymnastics team since 1964. Also, she is described as being taller than Mikael and usually ex-gymnasts are very very short. These are due to numerous errors in the English translation. The Swedish original says that she almost made the Swedish Olympic track and field team when she was 17. Which still is pretty unrealistic, but barely plausible.

* [[Karmic Death]]: {{spoiler|Alexander Zalachenko}}, who tries to bully his way out of trouble one time too many. And {{spoiler|Neidermann}}, killed by the members of Svavelsjö MC that he betrayed.

* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: Remember how Zalachenko is this to Niedermann? Turns out that {{spoiler|Fredrik Clinton}} is this to Zalachenko. Taking it even further: although {{spoiler|Clinton}} is the main orchestrator behind Hornet's Nest's events, he is loyally following orders set about by {{spoiler|his old boss, Evert Gullberg,}} who starts things off by {{spoiler|putting a bullet in Zalachenko and then himself,}} leaving {{spoiler|Clinton}} to take over.

* [[No Guy Wants an Amazon]]: The reason of why all of Monica's relationships failed. Averted once she hooks up with Mikael, who rather likes her athletic physique.

* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: Once more, most of the important plot points are intact, with only a few minor subplots cut for the sake of time or clarity. Erika's never left ''Millennium'' (and has no stalker), Trinity and the rest of Hacker Nation are reduced to just Plague, and Wadensjöö's battle with Clinton for control of The Section is missing. However, there are a couple of head-scratching moment differences. Christer Malm inexplicably loses his nerve as it pertains to ''Millennium's'' work, Niedermann is reduced to just a [[Giant Mook]] that shows up every half-hour or so to hurt or kill people (even at one point attemping to attack Lisbeth while she's at the hospital), much of Annika's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|amazing legal work]] is gone, and the ending changes Lisbeth and Mikael's renewed friendship into an awkward "Um...okay...bye." deal.

* [[The Reveal]]: Ekström and Teleborian categorically deny that Bjurman ever mistreated Salander, with Teleborian going so far as to say its just a fantasy. Then {{spoiler|Gianinni plays the DVD Salander made of Bjurman's raping, sodomizing and torturing her}}. This does not [[Oh Crap|go over well with them]].

* [[Running Gag]]: Lisbeth has a habit of referring to Mikael as "Kalle Blomkvist" because she knows he hates it. So when he smuggles her Palm into her hospital room, he sets up the password as "Pippi", to her amusement.

 

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