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[[File:die_hard_christmas_movie.jpg|frame|Wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time.]]

 

 

 

* ''Die Hard'' (1988) - [[Los Angeles]] skyscraper

{{quote|'''Matt Farrell:''' ''"[[Car Fu|You just killed a helicopter with a car]]!"''

'''John McClane:''' ''"I was out of bullets."'' }}

 

[[Bruce Willis]] stars as New York cop John McClane, who usually has to employ his skills in a situation that has since been called [[Die Hard on an X]]: he is usually trapped inside a location and has to climb around in air ducts and counter the bad guys' plot. The setup is slightly different in each film (mostly depending on the location), but he always finds himself in the way of terrorists hatching some sort of plot.

If you came here expecting the trope [[Die Hard on an X]] from a link, go there instead and please change the link to it, and tell the troper who inserted that link that he/she is a silly goose.

 

 

Now it has a [[Die Hard/Characters|character sheet]]. Ho ho ho.

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* [[555]]

* [[Action Duo]]: McClane and Zeus in ''Die Hard with a Vengeance'' and McClane and Matt Farrell in ''Live Free or Die Hard''.

* [[Hellish Copter]]: Various helicopters meet their ends due to rocket launchers, power lines and ''[[Car Fu|police cars]]''.

* [[Hello Again, Officer]]: The two brother cops at the airport in ''Die Hard 2''... John just can't get them on his side until the very end.

* [[Hero Insurance]]: Justified by McClane in the first film when the Deputy Chief yells at him.

{{quote|'''Dwayne T. Robinson:''' I don't know who you think you are but you just blew up a BUILDING! I've got a hundred people down here, and [[Completely Missing the Point|they're covered with glass!]]

'''McClane:''' Glass? [[Lampshade Hanging|Who gives a shit about glass?]] Who the fuck is this?}}

* [[Hollywood CB]]: Mostly averted, with McClane's talks with Al the cop audible to the terrorists (hence his use of "Roy" instead of his real name), except for one bit where he interrupts Hans at one point, on a walkie talkie.

* [[Hollywood Darkness]]: The runways in the second movie.

* [[Wicked Cultured]]: Hans Gruber.

** He lampshades this by quoting Plutarch's "Life of Alexander" and then comments, "One of the benefits of a classical education."

* [[You Look Familiar]]: Anthony Peck appears as a random L.A. cop ("Something about a double cross!") in the first film and comes back as NYPD detective Ricky Walsh in the third one.

* [[Younger and Hipper]]: The movie is this when compared to Roderick Thorp's ''Nothing Lasts Forever'', the novel it is based on. When the novel was optioned for filming, sixty-something Joe Leland from the book became late-thirty-something John McClane for the movie.

 

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[[Category:Films of the 1980s]]

[[Category:Films of the 1990s]]

[[Category:Films of the 2000s]]

[[Category:Films Based on Novels]]

[[Category:National Film Registry]]

[[Category:Notable Quotables]]