Lisbeth Salander is a fictional character created by Swedish author and journalist Stieg Larsson.
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30 Facts About Lisbeth Salander
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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 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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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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Lisbeth Salander is particularly hostile to men who abuse women, and takes special pleasure in exposing and punishing them.
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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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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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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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Shortly afterward, Lisbeth Salander is falsely implicated in the murder of three people: Bjurman and two of Blomkvist's colleagues.
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The Section then falsely incriminates Lisbeth Salander to cover up their concealment of Zalachenko's crimes.
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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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One day, when Lisbeth Salander was 12, Zalachenko beat her mother so badly that she sustained permanent brain damage.
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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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Lisbeth Salander refuses the money but goes to a disused brick factory she has inherited.
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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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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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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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