30 Facts About Lisbeth Salander

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Lisbeth Salander is a fictional character created by Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson.

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Lisbeth Salander is the lead character in Larsson's award-winning Millennium series, along with the journalist Mikael Blomkvist.

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Lisbeth Salander reappeared in its sequels: The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, The Girl in the Spider's Web, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye and The Girl Who Lived Twice.

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Lisbeth Salander told him about her battle with anorexia and that she practiced kickboxing.

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Lisbeth Salander has a wasp tattoo, about two centimeters long, on her neck, a tattooed loop around the bicep of her left arm, another loop around her left ankle, a Chinese symbol on her hip, and a rose on her left calf.

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Lisbeth Salander has a large tattoo of a dragon on her back that runs from her shoulder, down her spine, and ends on her buttocks.

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7.

Lisbeth Salander uses her computer skills as a means to earn a living, doing investigative work for Milton Security.

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Lisbeth Salander has an eidetic memory and is skillful at concealing her identity; she possesses passports in different names, and disguises herself to travel undetected around Sweden and worldwide.

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Lisbeth Salander has a complicated relationship with investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist, which veers back and forth between romance and hostility throughout the series.

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Survivor of a traumatic childhood, Lisbeth Salander is highly introverted and asocial, and has difficulty connecting to people and making friends.

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11.

Lisbeth Salander is particularly hostile to men who abuse women, and takes special pleasure in exposing and punishing them.

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12.

When Blomkvist finds out that Lisbeth Salander hacked his computer, he hires her to assist him in investigating the disappearance of Vanger's grandniece, Harriet, 40 years earlier.

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Lisbeth Salander uses her research skills to uncover a series of murders, dating back decades and tied to Harriet's disappearance.

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Novel reveals Lisbeth Salander was declared legally incompetent as a child and is under the care of legal guardian Holgar Palmgren, one of the few people in the world she trusts and cares for.

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Lisbeth Salander then explains that she will release the video recording of him raping her if he does not do exactly what she orders, or if anything happens to her.

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Lisbeth Salander tells him that she will visit him when she pleases, and if she ever finds him with a woman, even if she's there voluntarily, she will release the tape and destroy his life.

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Lisbeth Salander then finds Blomkvist just in time to save him from Martin, who is in the midst of torturing him.

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Lisbeth Salander pursues Martin on her motorcycle, but he is killed when he deliberately veers into an oncoming truck.

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19.

Lisbeth Salander later uses her hacking skills to discover that Harriet Vanger is alive and hiding in Australia, and to get sensitive information about Blomkvist's arch-rival, corrupt media magnate Hans-Erik Wennerstrom.

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20.

Lisbeth Salander anonymously reveals the address of Wennerstrom's final hideout to a lawyer with criminal connections, and Wennerstrom is murdered three days later.

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21.

Girl Who Played With Fire begins with Lisbeth Salander's returning to Sweden after having traveled for a year.

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22.

Shortly afterward, Lisbeth Salander is falsely implicated in the murder of three people: Bjurman and two of Blomkvist's colleagues.

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23.

The Section then falsely incriminates Lisbeth Salander to cover up their concealment of Zalachenko's crimes.

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24.

Lisbeth Salander is portrayed as having been an extremely bright but asocial child who would violently lash out at anyone who threatened or picked on her.

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25.

One day, when Lisbeth Salander was 12, Zalachenko beat her mother so badly that she sustained permanent brain damage.

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26.

In retaliation, Lisbeth Salander hurled a homemade Molotov cocktail into her father's car, leaving him permanently disfigured and in chronic pain.

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27.

Lisbeth Salander refuses the money but goes to a disused brick factory she has inherited.

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28.

Lisbeth Salander is attacked by Niedermann, who has been hiding there since shortly after the confrontation with Salander at Zalachenko's farm.

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29.

Lisbeth Salander learns the Spider Society is led by her twin sister Camilla, a sociopath who as a child tormented her and delighted in the abuse their mother suffered at their father's hands.

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30.

Lisbeth Salander has an opportunity to shoot Camilla during her escape, but cannot bring herself to kill her sister and allows her to get away.

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