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Characters from ''[[{{ROOTPAGENAME}}]]'' include:

== The Heroes ==

=== John McClane ([[Bruce Willis]]) ===

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'''A description of the character goes here.'''

* [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type III]]. He drinks, smokes, curses, bloodily dispatches his enemies, causes wide scale property damage, is not the greatest husband, and generally acts like a [[Jerkass|dick]].

* [[Badass]]

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=== Holly Gennaro McClane (Bonnie Bedelia) ===

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'''A description of the character goes here.'''

* [[Eighties Hair]]: Got a typical 80's perm.

* [[Hot Mom]]

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=== Sergeant Al Powell (Reginald VelJohnson) ===

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'''A description of the character goes here.'''

* [[Black Best Friend]]: Despite not meeting each other before the end of the first film, he's John's only trustworthy helper and source of moral support outside the Nakatomi Plaza. Not as big a role in the second, although he is still John's best friend.

* [[My Greatest Failure]]: Accidentally shooting a kid because he mistakenly believed he had a gun.

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=== Zeus Carver ([[Samuel L. Jackson]]) ===

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'''A description of the character goes here.'''

* [[Action Duo]]: With McClane in ''Die Hard with a Vengeance''.

* [[Angry Black Man]]: It might go without saying since he's being played by Samuel L. Jackson.

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=== Lucy McClane ([[Mary Elizabeth Winstead]]) ===

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'''A description of the character goes here.'''

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Badass Damsel]]: While Gabriel still kidnaps her, Lucy isn't about to get all upset about it.

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=== Matt Farrell (Justin Long) ===

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'''A description of the character goes here.'''

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: McClane's humor is contagious even for his sidekicks.

* [[The Lancer]]: Acts as John's partner and has a contrasting skill set to his.

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=== Hans Gruber ([[Alan Rickman]]) ===

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'''A description of the character goes here.'''

* [[Affably Evil]]: Althought he could be actually [[Faux Affably Evil]].

* [[Badass in a Nice Suit]]: Very well dressed. He even identifies Takagi's suit as (the fictional) John Phillips, London.

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=== Karl (Alexander Godunov) ===

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'''A description of the character goes here.'''

* [[Axe Crazy]]: "I want blood!"

* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]

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=== Theo (Clarence Gilyard Jr.) ===

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'''A description of the character goes here.'''

* [[Black and Nerdy]]: He's the team's upbeat and cheery hacker, he wears glasses, and doesn't have any combat skills.

* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: Averted. He's one of the only terrorists who survives the movie.

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=== Colonel Stuart (William Sadler) ===

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'''A description of the character goes here.'''

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: The only villainous leader in the franchise to qualify for this trope.

* [[Big Bad]]: Of the second film.

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=== General Ramon Esperanza (Franco Nero) ===

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'''A description of the character goes here.'''

* [[Cigar Chomper]]: He's seen asking his guard to light his up during the flight.

* [[The Generalissimo]]

=== Simon Gruber ([[Jeremy Irons]]) ===

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'''A description of the character goes here.'''

* [[Avenging the Villain]]: He may not ''like'' Hans, but that does not mean he lacks basic brotherly love for him: "There's a difference between not liking your brother and not caring when some dumb Irish flatfoot drops him out a window."

* [[Backup Twin]]/[[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Straddles the line.

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=== Mathias Targo (Nicholas Wyman) ===

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'''A description of the character goes here.'''

* [[Made of Iron]]: McClane stabs a big sharp piece of metal into his leg, and it does nothing to him.

* [[Perpetual Frowner]]

=== Katya (Sam Phillips) ===

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'''A description of the character goes here.'''

* [[Blondes Are Evil]]

* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Evil, female and deadly.

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=== Thomas Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant) ===

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'''A description of the character goes here.'''

* [[Big Bad]]: For the fourth film.

* [[The Cracker]]: No system is safe against him.

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* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: At least he ''claims'' to be. The fact that he's "getting paid for his work" kind of makes this hard to believe though.

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