History Awesome / TheMillenniumTrilogy

* Mikael is tied up, slowly being hanged, and about to be sexually assaulted [[spoiler: by Martin]]... then [[BigDamnHeroes Lisbeth shows up]], [[GolfClubbing attacks]] [[spoiler: Martin]] and saves Mikael.
* Nils Bjurman, Lisbeth's replacement guardian, takes advantage of her financial situation by [[spoiler: brutally raping her. Lisbeth gets her revenge by secretly taping the attack, torturing him and threatening to ruin him with the tape unless he gives her full control of her finances]]. This is actually one of the first moments we see of her, so it makes her [[EstablishingCharacterMoment all the more awesome]].
** Lisbeth's [[spoiler: revenge is ''incredibly satisfying'', particularly following the HumiliationConga she gets put through; visiting Bjurman's apartment by surprise, he welcomes her in [[SchmuckBait willingly after advising he 'feels bad about how things ended last time']]. Lisbeth glibly replies with a ''"Me, too,"'' and promptly ''tasers him in the neck''. He then wakes up to be subjected to the very same manner of pain he inflicted on her, and is tattooed with a broad declaration of his being a rapist. To top it off, she visits him again at work because his reports covering her health and status weren't satisfying enough for her, and threatens him to stop looking at ''tattoo removal sites''; he's ''visibly'' afraid of her]].
* Lisbeth effortlessly cleaning out Wennerström of his ill-gotten funds, [[spoiler: leaving him to get killed by some of the criminals with whom he was associated.]] And the best part is that she didn't even do it for the money or anything. She just wanted to help Mikael take the bastard down.

** [[spoiler:Lisbeth has been shot in the head and BuriedAlive. She digs herself out with a ''cigarette case'', and drives an axe into her father's head.]]

** Figures out how to contact Salander on his hard drive, in an untraceable fashion: he [[spoiler: makes a folder called Salander and leaves her Word documents with messages.]]

*** When he finds the police report that Björk gave to Bjurman, [[spoiler: which reveals how Björk covered up Zalachenko's abuse of Salander's mother]] he makes photocopies and has several mailed to Officer Bubbslanki. Bubblanski later mentions [[spoiler: Björk will be taken into custody]], which is a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome for the investigator as well when he realizes that Teleborian lied about Salander.

** Demonstrates ChekhovsSkill when his military training comes in handy for [[spoiler: incapacitating Ronald Niederman]] at the book's climax. The army teaches you how to tie knots, apparently.

** Asks Zalachenko before [[spoiler: shooting him]] [[PrecisionFStrike "How could you be so fucking stupid?"]] in regards to getting himself and Salander in the public eye.

* After [[spoiler: Zalachenko]] dies, his sister is mugged and his apartment is broken into, Blomkvist shows he is highly capable of XanatosSpeedChess by pretending he has no more copies of [[ChekhovsGun Björk's incriminating police report]] over the phone, and initiating a plan of counterattack.

** Figures out how to contact Salander on his hard drive, in an untracecable fashion: he [[spoiler: makes a folder called Salander and leaves her Word documents with messages.]]

* Lisbeth [[spoiler:digs her way out of a grave. She's been ''shot in the head'' and she ''digs her way out of a fucking grave.'' And then she puts an ''axe'' into her father.]]

* Do not accuse a competent female cop on an all-male police investigation of leaking articles to the press in front of Officer Bublanksi, without proof. He will find the real leak, expose him to the prosecutor, and arrest him for violating police confidentiality. Like another Officer [[Disney/LiloAndStitch Bubbles]], this Officer demonstrates to Prosecutor Eckström and Hedström of Milton Security why YouWontLikeMeWhenImAngry.

** The reason why she was out in the hurricane? To warn her lover ''du jour'' George Bland and get him to a hotel shelter. Bland lives in a wooden shack and wouldn't have survived the storm. Doubles as a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.

*** When he finds the police report that Björk gave to Bjurman, [[spoiler: which reveals how Björk covered up Zalachenko's abuse of Salander's mother]] he makes photocopies and has several mailed to Officer Bubbslanki. Bubblanski later mentions [[spoiler: Björk will be taken into custody]], which is a MomentOfAwesome for the investigator as well when he realizes that Teleborian lied about Salander.
** Doubles as a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, but he phones his sister while on the train to find Salander, to explain that XanatosSpeedChess with the police may get him arrested; however, he wants her to represent Salander in criminal court because Gianinni is "the most brilliant lawyer" he knows and someone that Salander will trust.

** When she tries to arrest a member of the section, he tries to punch her. Picture a geriatric man trying to assault a strong, fit, police officer. She simply says "You have got to be kidding" and pushes him to the floor. So this is also a CrowningMomentOfFunny