Die Hard: Difference between revisions

* [[Die Hard on an X]]: The [[Trope Namer]] and [[Trope Codifier]]. Happens to the one and only John McClane fairly often.

* [[Disney Villain Death]]: Hans Gruber.

* [[Dolled-Up Installment]]: Although ''Die Hard'' was itself loosely based on a franchise of detective/action novels, each and every one of its sequels began life as unrelated projects which were re-written to accommodate the character of John McClane. At one point, ''Die Hard with a Vengeance'' was intended to be a ''Lethal Weapon'' installment, and ''Tears of the Sun'' was a working subtitle for the fourth ''Die Hard'' film. Bruce Willis agreed to do the movie if they let him use ''[[Tears of the Sun]]'' as a title for another, wholly unrelated film that he was working on.

** Even the video games are not immune to this. The [[Sega]] [[Beat'Em Up]] ''Die Hard Arcade'' was originally ''Dynamite Deka'' in Japan, whose main character (Bruno Delinger) just happened to resembled Bruce Willis. Sega simply tacked on the ''Die Hard'' license for the international release and claimed that Bruno was actually John McClane himself, and remade the villain into Hans Gruber.