39,327
edits
Die Hard/Characters: Difference between revisions
m
Mass update links
m (Dai-Guard moved page Die Hard (Film)/Characters to Die Hard/Characters: Remove TVT Namespaces from title) |
m (Mass update links) |
||
Line 20:
* [[Honor Before Reason]]
* [[Indy Ploy]]: Most of his "plans" are these.
* [[Jerk
* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: He may be tired, but what matters is that he still ''cares''.
** He even gives a trope-defining little speech in the fourth movie:
Line 26:
'''Matt Farrell:''' Then why you doing this? <br />
'''John McClane:''' Because there's nobody else to do it right now, that's why. Believe me, if there were somebody else to do it, I'd let them do it, but there's not. So we're doing it. }}
* [[Love Cannot Overcome]]: John and Holly clearly care about each other, but their marriage is already strained in the first movie. While [[
* [[MacGyvering]]: His ability to create makeshift gadgets to save the day would make the [[Trope Maker]] himself proud.
* [[Made of Iron]]: Over the course of each ''Die Hard'' movie John McClane takes a ''lot'' of physical abuse, but he still manages to keep fighting.
Line 34:
* [[Perma Stubble]]: In the third movie. Because he was pulled out of bed while still hungover from a night of hard drinking.
** 4th movie as well (he was up all night <s> looking after</s> borderline stalking his daughter, and then had to go all the way from NYC to DC).
* [[Right Man in
* [[Smoking Is Cool]]
* [[The Southpaw]]
Line 45:
* [[Eighties Hair]]
* [[Hot Mom]]
* [[Love Cannot Overcome]]: John and Holly clearly care about each other, but their marriage is already straines in the first movie. While [[
=== Sergeant Al Powell <small>(Reginald VelJohnson)</small> ===
Line 53:
* [[Only Sane Man]]: He's the only LAPD cop who realizes what's happening.
=== Zeus Carver <small>([[Samuel L. Jackson]])</small> ===
* [[Action Duo]]: With McClane in ''With a Vengeance''.
Line 81:
* [[Affably Evil]]: Althought he could be actually [[Faux Affably Evil]].
* [[Badass in
* [[Batman Gambit]]
* [[Beard of Evil]]
Line 93:
** [[Pet the Dog]]: Allowing a couch to be moved out to the lobby so that the very pregnant woman could sit on it scores some points on the "Aww!"-meter.
*** Then he sends everybody onto the roof that's wired with explosives. Right back into [[Complete Monster]] territory.
* [[Not Even Bothering
** Which makes a lot of sense. We see later that he can do a spot on American accent, which shows that he has a talent for accents and English. As he studied in England, he probably took on a perfect English, the parts of German getting through is the fact that he has been working with a large group of fellow Germans for a while now.
* [[Western Terrorists|Western Terrorist]]: Subverted, his group use this as a cover for committing straightforward crimes.
Line 141:
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: In spite of the money at stake, he will not murder children in cold blood for it. After all, "I'm a soldier, not a monster...though I sometimes work for monsters."
* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: And this too.
* [[Hoist
* [[Large Ham]]: Like [[The Lion King|Scar]] in the previous year, [[Jeremy Irons]] seems like he has a lot of fun playing charming and devious villains.
* [[Noble Demon]]: The kind of leader a band of warriors have is reflected in their behavior, for unlike most moustache-twirling one-dimensional villains, Simon's men actually go out of their way to make sure children will not be hurt in their operations, and actually bother to ''mourn'' the losses of their brothers before rejoicing in their ill-gotten money. Goes hand-in-hand with [[Even Evil Has Standards]] above.
Line 169:
* [[Diabolical Mastermind]]
* [[Sinister Surveillance]]
* [[Smug Snake]]: He believes himself to be on a higher intellectual plane then everyone else, particularly McClane. Unlike the supremely magnificent Gruber brothers of the coldly efficient Colonel Stuart, however, his attempts at improvisation seem to be more desperation than mere adjustments to his plans, and his attempts to impose himself threateningly don't seem to carry the same weight. It doesn't help that he's an obnoxious, [[Bishonen|pretty-boy]] [[Insufferable Genius
* [[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.
| |||