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* [[Black and Grey Morality]]: Even the likeable characters come dangerously close to being [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Well Intentioned Extremists]] at times, especially Lisbeth. However, the way the good guys are portrayed in the book makes it clear that Larsson sees them more of an example of
* [[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.
* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: The English translation takes huge liberties with the text, and only a few can be explained by [[Hanlon's Razor
* [[Boom! Headshot!]]: Averted. {{spoiler|Lisbeth}} is shot in the head, but survives. The doctor's speculate however that if the round had been bigger than a .22, she wouldn't have.
* [[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.
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* [[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.
* [[Cowboy Bebop
* [[Crap Saccharine World]]: Sweden is portrayed as this in a subtle but chilling way. A seemingly sweet, nice and ultra-liberal society filled with lots of hidden abuse.
* [[Creepy Child]]: Lisbeth was teased and bullied in school for acting like one.
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* [[Everyone Has Lots of Sex]]: When publishing the first book, Larsson's editor asked him to put more sex scenes to appeal the audience. It shows. By the third volume, he didn't have to do this anymore. Thankfully, the slightly more tasteful film adaptations leave a couple unnecessary ones out.
* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Lisbeth has red hair but dyes it black.
* [[Friends
* [[Fun T-Shirt]]:
** Lisbeth is fond of wearing shirts with snarky slogans on them. One proclaims: "Armageddon was yesterday - today we have a serious problem."
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* [[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.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[Rock
* [[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".
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* [[Shout-Out]]:
** 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.
** The girl's name in the first book, Harriet Vanger, seems like a [[Shout-Out]] to Harriet Vane, of [[Dorothy L. Sayers]]' Lord Whimsey novels.
* [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]]:
** 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.
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=== ''The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo'' contains examples of: ===
* [[A
* [[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.
* [[Alone
* [[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.
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* [[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.
* [[Hero
* [[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.
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* [[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
* [[Kick the Son of
* [[May-December Romance]]: Mikael and Lisbeth's short-lived relationship.
* [[Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot]]: {{spoiler|Investigating disappearance of one rich heiress -> Family of serial killers}}
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* [[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}}.
* [[Playing Against Type]]: {{spoiler|Peter Haber}}, cast as {{spoiler|monstrous serial killer and rapist Martin Vanger}}, is known mainly for two roles. One being a [[By-The-Book Cop]] named Martin Beck in twenty-something movies. The other, a role practically everybody born in Sweden during the 80's and early 90's identify him with, is the sweet bumbling Papa Rudolph in the immensly popular "Sune" series. To put it in terms for a more international audience, it's basically like seeing [[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood|Fred Rogers]] playing a Complete Monster serial killer. And doing it superbly!
* [[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.
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** 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.
* [[Rape
* [[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}}.
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* [[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.
* [[Villain
* [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot]]: Employed to rather distressing effect after {{spoiler|Bjurman forces Lisbeth to give him oral sex for money.}}
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* [[Show Within a Show]]: There is an excerpt of Blomkvist's book ''The Knights Templar''.
* [[Superpower Lottery]]: Won by Niedermann - he not only [[wikipedia:Congenital insensitivity to pain|feels no pain]], he has [[wikipedia:Myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy|a gene which gives him]] an insanely muscular frame [[Required Secondary Powers|which keeps him from killing himself by accident.]] The first condition should have killed him in his twenties, the second is so rare only a handful of subjects have been identified. The two together essentially make him [[The Terminator]].
* [[Things That Go Bump in
* [[Wham! Line]]: "Zalachenko is {{spoiler|her father}}." It's not quite the same, but for those who don't see it coming, this line has an impact comparable to a certain revelation in ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]''.
* [[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.]]
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* [[Asshole Victim]]: {{spoiler|Zalachenko.}}
* [[Bad Cop, Incompetent Cop]]: Inspector Paulsson, again, the [[Lawful Stupid]] version.
* [[Better
* [[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''.
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