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{{quote|'''German Terrorist''': Attention American workers: Your plant has been taken over by an all-star team of [[Terrorists Without a Cause|freelance terrorists]].
'''Homer''': Not on ''my'' shift! ''[ [[Air Vent Passageway|jumps into an overhead vent]] ]''
|''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', "And Maggie Makes Three"}}
Bad guys have [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us|taken over the good guys' ship/station/what have you]], but, unbeknownst to the villains, [[One-Man Army|one]] or more good guys are hiding out in their midst, [[Spanner in the Works|engineering their overthrow]]. At least one [[Air Vent Passageway|air vent]] will be crawled through. At least one hostage will be a member of [[The Hero]]'s family and another will be executed while trying to negotiate with the villains.
Named after a meme within the entertainment industry based on the [[Die Hard|movie of the same name]], starring [[Bruce Willis]]. One of the most important action films of all time, if [[Follow the Leader|all the copycat ripoffs]] are any indication. An old story says that the pitches for many action films basically went "[[X Meets Y|Die Hard on a...]]", until one day, someone tried to pitch a movie as "''Die Hard'' in an Office Building." Apparently, they [[Critical Research Failure|were unaware]] that the original ''Die Hard'' film ''did'' take place in an office building.
This plot can be used as the action for a [[Bottle Episode]]. The bad guys may unknowingly have [[Bruce Wayne Held Hostage]]. Expect to see at least one [[Bulletproof Human Shield]] show up.
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[[Recycled in Space]] is the general trope for remaking works in a new setting.
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Daphne in the Brilliant Blue]]'' has a two-part episode that mashes up ''Die Hard'' with a [[Homage]] to classic disaster movie parody ''[[Airplane!]]'', of all things, called "Die Hard, Play Hard".
* The ''[[Zone of the Enders]]'' anime series ''[[Dolores I]]'' has an episode titled "Die Hard", where James Links does this on an oxygen plant on Mars. He even [[Lampshade Hanging|Hangs a Lampshade]] when he wishes it were Christmas halfway through the episode.
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* ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'' plays with this when Aramaki and the Major go to London. While visiting a friend who runs a wine bank, Aramaki and his friend are taken hostage by ex-mob bank robbers, but the mob itself gets tipped off, and the bribed police force then besieges the bank. Aramaki manages to convince the robbers to work with him so that they can figure a way out of the police siege.
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
▲== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Ms. Tree]]'' had a story titled "New Year's Evil" where a deranged gunman takes over the rooftop restaurant where Michael Tree is celebrating New Year's Eve. Michael happens to be in the ladies rom at the time. Cue this trope.
* ''[[Justice Society of America|JSA]]'' #10: Wildcat goes ''Die Hard'' in the JSA Mansion.
* The three-issue arc of ''[[Doctor Strange]]'' after his first victory against Dormammu is essentially ''Die Hard'' in the Sanctum Sanctorum. Strange is knocked out by a bomb and wakes up to find a metal plate over his face and steel gauntlets on his hands that prevent him from spellcasting, and with three underlings of his nemesis Mordo in the house. It takes a combination of wits, skill and luck to beat them all.
== [[Film]] ==▼
* ''[[Die Hard]]'', logically enough:▼
▲== Film ==
▲* ''[[Die Hard]]''
** The first film is [[Shaped Like Itself|''Die Hard'']] (on a high-rise).
** ''[[Die Hard]] II'' is ''[[Die Hard]]'' in a snowed-in airport.
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* ''[[Airheads]]'': ''Die Hard'' in a radio station, played as a comedy, wherein the terrorists are the good guys and the guns aren't real. Michael Richards plays the McClane reimagined as [[The Fool]].
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]] novel ''GodEngine'' traps thirtieth-century cop Chris Cwej in a Martian military base, upon which he promptly proceeds to wreak mayhem using a strategy his partner informs us is officially known as "The McClane Protocol".
** The second half of [[Virgin Missing Adventures]] novel ''System Shock'' is Die Hard in a huge computer hub.
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* The [[Young Bond]] short story "A Hard Man to Kill" is ''Die Hard'' on an ocean liner, starring a teenaged [[James Bond]].
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==▼
▲== Live-Action TV ==
* Parodied on ''[[The Ben Stiller Show]]'' playing Bruce Willis in a ''Die Hard'' sequel... set in a supermarket.
* In the 9th and worse season ''[[Roseanne]]'' copied "Under Siege II... of course,
* ''[[Star Trek]]'' has done ''Die Hard'' on a spaceship for a number of episodes across the series:
** ''[[Star Trek: The
** ''[[Star Trek: The
** TNG: "Timescape" has elements of "''Die Hard'' in a temporal anomaly".
** ''[[Star Trek:
** ''[[Star Trek:
** ''[[Star Trek:
** Usually any time that Jefferies Tubes are mentioned, you know there's going to be a ''Die Hard'' plot, except for that one episode where Picard ended up playing the flute in them like an insane homeless man.
* ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'': "The Box".
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* ''[[Chuck]]'', which not only has bad guys taking over the Buy More, but also has has Al from ''Die Hard'' in it, as Big Mike's cousin.
** And in a different episode, different bad guys take over the store after Black Friday when Morgan, Jeff and Lester are the only ones inside. The bad guys take Jeffster hostage while Morgan was in his office taking a foot bath...in a tank top...without shoes. Yes, he uses the vents to get around, yes, he knocks a box of tacks off a shelf...and steps on them. Yes, he decides to make a rescue with a gun taped to his back.
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** So this would be ''Die Hard'' [[In Space]]!
* ''[[Burn Notice]]'' had an episode where Michael and a rival go ''Die Hard'' in a Bank.
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* Happens in Global Dynamics in ''[[Eureka]]'', with Jo Lupo and Zoe Carter.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum]]'' is basically ''Die Hard'' in Arkham Asylum started by the Joker.
* ''[[System Shock]]'' is ''Die Hard'' on a space station. With an AI and cyborgs.
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* ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' has a Die Hard on the Normandy scene when Joker has to escape the Collectors and find Shepard to go rescue the rest of the crew.
* The various ''Pokémon'' games include ''Die Hard'' in an [[Pokémon Red and Blue|office building]], [[Pokémon Gold and Silver|a radio tower]], [[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire|a volcano, an oceanic museum, a weather institute, a submarine pen, a space centre,]] [[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl|a wind farm, two office buildings, another mountain]], [[Pokémon Black and White|a forest, a cold-storage warehouse, a castle,]] ''and then some''.
** In fact, there's pretty much a guarantee that you'll deal with a situation like this at least once in a Pokemon game ([[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon]] [[Pokémon Snap|and]] [[Hey You, Pikachu!|other]] [[Pokémon Channel|spin-offs]] [[Pokémon Rumble|excluded]]). [[Justified Trope|Justified]], in that the villainous groups pretty much ''are'' [[Die Hard]] terrorists/crime syndicates, especially Team Rocket.
* In ''[[Paper Mario]]'', there is a "Die Hard starring Princess Peach" [[Unexpected Gameplay Change|segment]] after every chapter. The castle has been taken over by Bowser, and you have to use secret passages and disguises to sneak around and, at one point, [[A Rare Sentence|stealthily bake a cake.]]
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''"[[The Dragon Doctors]]"'' arc "Thieves of life" is a "''Die Hard'' In A Hospital" scenario. Goro, the sickly surgeon, is fighting off four thieves while awaiting her [[Life Energy]] transplant.
* ''[[Bob the Angry Flower]]'': From the people who brought you ''Submarine Action Movie'' and ''Airplane Action Movie''', now comes ''[http://www.angryflower.com/traina.gif Train Action Movie!!!]''
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{{quote|"I'm picturing something like Die Hard [[X Meets Y|meets]]... That scene in Die Hard where he gets all gushy over his wife"}}
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Parodied with the page-quote exchange on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''. Just to clarify, those events didn't really happen. They're a fabrication by Homer.
** The episode where Maggie rescues the other babies from a creche made a lot of references to ''[[The Great Escape]]'', but was actually more like ''Die Hard'' In A Nursery.
* The ''[[Fillmore!]]'' episode "A Cold Day at X".
* The ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Super Fun Time" is essentially ''[[Die Hard]]'' at Ye Olde Settlement, where a team of terrorists, complete with a Hans lookalike, takes a frontier-town educational park hostage after robbing a Burger King.
* An episode of ''[[Beast Wars]]'' does this with a unique twist: It's the building where Rattrap is hiding that is trying to kill him. He sets off the security system and tries to deactivate it.
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[[Category:This Trope Is X]]
[[Category:Plots]]
▲[[Category:Die Hard on an X]]
[[Category:Whole-Plot Reference]]
[[Category:X Meets Y]]
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