History Literature / MillenniumSeries

[[folder:The Girl in the Eagle's Talons]]

[[folder:The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo]]

[[folder:The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest]]

[[folder:The Girl In The Spider's Web]]

Several years after Larsson's death, the publisher hired author David Lagercrantz to write more books in the series, which are entirely Lagercrantz's own invention without any inspiration from Larsson's plans.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: Lisbeth's treatment of [[spoiler:Bjurman is so harsh that it borders on MoralEventHorizon.]] But it was so precise and ingenious that it could qualify as a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:rather than killing the man, Lisbeth opted to make Bjurman suffer the ''exact same abuse'' he put her through, up to every little detail, including the rape and the blackmail, just to make him realize how it felt. However, leaving Bjurman alive left him free to make new plans against her,]] which might have ended very badly.

* RejectingTheInheritance: Lizbeth Salander tries to do this with her father's ill-gotten wealth, as much of it was derived from human trafficking and she already has more than enough money as a result of her various jobs, but she's quickly hit by the consequences; her lawyer explains that under the law, she has to give specific instructions on what to do with the inheritance first.

* RomanceAndSexualitySeparation: Lizbeth Salander makes a very clear delineation between the people that she has sex with and those whom she actually cares about, and is alarmed when Mikael Blomkvist manages to cross over from the first category to the second.

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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: To make sure all the titles could apply to Lisbeth, as only ''The Girl Who Played With Fire'' was that in the original Swedish, ''Men Who Hate Women'' became ''The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'' in English (most languages went for ''The Men Who Didn't Love Women'' instead) and ''The Air Castle That Was Blown Up'' was ''The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest'' (which had some adaptations such as ''The Queen of the Air Castle'' in Spanish\Portuguese, ''The Queen of the Castle of Cards'' in Italian... and another fitting example, ''Justice'' in Dutch). In German it's even worse: ''Verblendung'', ''Verdammnis'' and ''Vergebung'' - Blindness, [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Doom]] and Pardon. The French translations has the usual ''The Men Who Didn't Love Women'', while the sequels are titled ''The Girl Who Dreamt About a Jerrycan and a Match'', and ''The Queen in the Draft's Castle''.

* EmbarrassingNickname: "Kalle Blomkvist", the protagonist in a series of children's mystery novels by Creator/AstridLindgren[[note]]Mikael first rose to prominence by correctly deducing the identities of a squad of masked bank robbers, and the "plucky young detective" angle was too good to pass up[[/note]]. Lisbeth calls him this whenever she wants to tease him or he's annoying her, and she's the only one he lets get away with it. As an answer, however, Mikael sometimes uses "Pippi Longstocking" to refer to her.

** The ''Creator/DarkHorseComics'' adaptation introduces Lisbeth wearing a shirt saying, "[[Music/ThePixies Where is]] [[Film/FightClub my mind?]]"

* AnAxeToGrind: [[spoiler: Lisbeth buries an axe in her father's head.]]

* ImprovisedBandage: Blomkvist uses duct tape as an improvised bandage on Salander; the doctor who treats Salander is impressed by both its effectiveness ans Blomkvist's quick thinking.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: The sheer amount of women that hop in bed with Blomkvist, not to mention his steady relationship with a married woman that is fine with all parties concerned, must mean he's a perfect gentleman in a world full of woman-hating rapists. That, and [[spoiler:he and Lisbeth have perfectly good sex after working together for only a few days, just because she likes him.]]

** [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] by [[TheHero Mikael Blomkvist]]. All [[GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex his relations with women are pretty good.]] But Erika believes that, while he's [[EthicalSlut open and honest about his no-strings-attached sex life]], Blomkvist still isn't handling it well when women do fall in love with him, and he ends up hurting them.

* HeroWithBadPublicity: Blomkvist becomes this due to retribution from Wennestrom.

* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: [[spoiler: Investigating disappearance of one rich heiress -> Family of serial killers]]

%%* SerialKiller: [[spoiler:Martin Vanger]].

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: ''Dragon Tattoo'' was 90% narrated by Salander and Blomkvist, but the trilogy begins piling on {{Narrator}}s as the scope of the plot expands, culminating here with six or eight different ones.

''Millennium'' is a series of [[GenreBusting crime fiction / psychological thrillers[=/=]dark conspiracy]] books by the late [[UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} Swedish]] author Stieg Larsson, which have won several awards and international acclaim. It was originally called "the Millennium Trilogy", despite not being meant to be a trilogy. Larsson died before the first book saw publication, and he had completed two more books at that time. Rumors say he planned as many as ten books with the characters from the trilogy. These books became bestsellers in their home country, due in part to their international attention.

[[Film/TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo2011 An American adaptation]] of ''Dragon Tattoo'' saw release in 2011; Creator/DavidFincher directed, Steven Zallan wrote the screenplay, and the team of [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor]] and ''Atticus Ross'' handled the music. The cast for the film included Creator/RooneyMara as Lisbeth and Creator/DanielCraig as Mikael. Though plans for a sequel were discussed, Mara and Craig ultimately did not return to their roles. The following film adaptation was 2018's ''Film/TheGirlInTheSpidersWeb'', with Creator/ClaireFoy as Lisbeth.

* PsychopathicManchild: 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]].