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*** Logistics. The need to keep absolute secrecy in the secretive and peaceful Sweden limited their number to about four full members and a very small number of hired helpers. They were too few to leave some of them in defense to avoid being spied upon, and as they did not expect serious opposition anyway, why bother?
** I'm glad this bothered someone else! By the end of Hornet's Nest, Lisbeth has three separate groups of allies working somewhat in tandem to defend her - including Sweden's top investigative journalists, the regular police, the Security Police, a leading private security firm, and the Prime Minister of the country. That's an unusual amount of power to put behind a noir [[Anti-Hero]], and it really robbed the book of most of its suspense.
*** In the book it's inferred, but never spoken out, the fact she could pull all the crazy stunts of a [[James Bond]] '''only''' from the moment her legal guardian Holger Palmgren brought her into the security firm and ''under the protective wing of Dragan Armanski''. She had plenty of talent, brilliant intelligence, mastery of the computers, a will of steel, but all of these are not enough in a modern organized state. She needed a regular life, with ID papers, a regular job, a legally rented or owned home, a driving license and an environment of people she could make friends, otherwise she would just end up as a petty criminal like everyone else and forever locked in a mental hospital if caught. The person who put all things on their tracks, before there was any Lisbeth Salander, had been Dragan Armanski. Larsson placed a cue for the readers when he described plentifully the life and personality of the security boss, including the fact his genealogy went through an endless stream of countries and peoples ...which, incidentally, [[An Aesop|were hated]] by [[A Nazi
* How does one get Jewish from Magdalena and Mary? Biblical, yes, but Jewish? Maybe it's different in Sweden, but, in my synagogue, those would be rather unusual names.
* It's stated that Ronald Niedermann was {{spoiler|tortured to death}}. Why would they even bother considering that he [[Feels No Pain]]?
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** That actually happens in real life. Many non-violent criminals have some form of supervised release before reporting for their sentences so they can get their affairs in order or while they wait for a space to open up in the prison.
* Niedermann has his congenital analgesia and it makes him feel no pain, that's ok. But wouldn't just stress and damage on his body done by professional boxer hitting him multiple times be enough to beat fight out of him? Paolo Roberto even mentions this - the fact you don't feel it doesn't mean the damage is not there - as reason for Niedermann boxing career never having a chance. Also he was tased by Salander and shrugged it off like nothing, but electrical current disrupting muscle control has nothing to do with pain, so he should realistically be at least momentarily incapacitated.
** '''Momentarily'''. For him, a few seconds. He was supposed to be made up from nearly 300 pounds of raw muscle and to have the physical resilience of a rock. It [[Word of God|has been said]] in the book he could [[Cursed
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