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* EmpathyDollShot: In the aftermath of Colonel Schaffer's murder of a plane of innocents in ''Die Harder''.

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* EmpathyDollShot: In the aftermath of Colonel Schaffer's Stuart's murder of a plane of innocents in ''Die Harder''.
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* DeadpanSnarker: John in all four episodes.

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* DeadpanSnarker: John [=McClane=] in all four episodes.
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* DeadpanSnarker: McClane in all four episodes.

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* DeadpanSnarker: McClane John in all four episodes.

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* DidNotDoTheResearch: Stockholm Syndrome is referred as Helsinki Syndrome in the first film, which, [[{{YourMileageMayVary}} depending on your interpretation]], is either an oversight by the writer or [[{{FridgeLogic}} intentionally added to undermine the news anchor's character]]

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* * DeadpanSnarker: McClane in all four episodes.
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DidNotDoTheResearch: Stockholm Syndrome is referred as Helsinki Syndrome in the first film, which, [[{{YourMileageMayVary}} depending on your interpretation]], is either an oversight by the writer or [[{{FridgeLogic}} intentionally added to undermine the news anchor's character]]
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** First film: Simon Gruber is hanging by a wristwatch off of Nakatomi Plaza, and decides to [[TakingYouWithMe Take His Enemies With Him]] - [=McClane=] simply ''unsnaps the wristwatch''.

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** First film: Simon Hans Gruber is hanging by a wristwatch off of Nakatomi Plaza, and decides to [[TakingYouWithMe Take His Enemies With Him]] - [=McClane=] simply ''unsnaps the wristwatch''.
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*** A curiously RIPPED Jeremy Irons, for the record. This troper was impressed.

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* CurseCutShort: What happened to [=McClane=]'s catch phrase in ''Live Free or Die Hard''. It is intact in the "unrated" version.

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* CurseCutShort: What happened to [=McClane=]'s catch phrase in ''Live Free or Die Hard''. It is just barely audible in the ''Die Hard 4.0'' version released overseas, and fully intact in the "unrated" version.cut.


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** Maggie Q's character in ''Live Free or Die Hard'' takes a totally absurd amount of punishment in the course of the film, particularly at the gas plant, and yet doesn't show anything worse than a few cuts as a result. Eventually, [=McClane=] has to [[spoiler:throw her down an elevator shaft and then drop a ''truck'' on her]] in order to deal with her permanently. Even then, though, fans have speculated that she probably survived ''that'' as well, and [=McClane=] just didn't bother hanging around long enough to [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat check whether she was really dead]].

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* GoodOldFisticuffs: At least one scene in every film

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* GoodOldFisticuffs: At least one scene in every filmfilm.
** Subverted in ''Die Hard 2'', where [=McClane=] has a brief fight with BigBad [[ColonelBadass Colonel Stuart]], [[spoiler: and gets his ass handed to him]].
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* ChronicHeroSyndrome: John has a violent version of this.
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* EthnicScrappy: The limo driver in the first film.
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** A black helicopter does appear in the second film, and also explodes, but it isn't one of THOSE ''black helicopters.''
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** Or Theo in the original.
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* ShootHimHeHasAWallet: Sergeant Al Powell did this to a 13 year old boy.
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[[caption-width-right:330:[-[[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses "Oh, this doesn't have anything to do with the Christmas spirit!" Fuck you! It's "Die Hard"!]]-] ]]

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[[caption-width-right:330:[-[[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses [[caption-width-right:330:[-[[TheNostalgiaCritic "Oh, this doesn't have anything to do with the Christmas spirit!" Fuck you! It's "Die Hard"!]]-] ]]
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** Fourth film: Thomas Gabriel has [=McClane=] at gunpoint, and decides to [[KickThemWhenTheyAreDown jab a bullet wound]] in [=McClane=]'s shoulder with the gun. ''[=McClane=] grabs the gun and fires it though the wound.''

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** Fourth film: Thomas Gabriel has [=McClane=] at gunpoint, and decides to [[KickThemWhenTheyAreDown [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown jab a bullet wound]] in [=McClane=]'s shoulder with the gun. ''[=McClane=] grabs the gun and fires it though the wound.''

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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: At least once per movie, perhaps most famously "Yipee-kay-yay, motherfucker."
** In the first film, Holly punched obnoxious news reporter Dick Thornburg in the face for coming into her house to interview her kids (which Hans Gruber saw).
--> '''Thornburg:''' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Did you get that?]]
** She has another pop at him in the second movie, knocking him out with a taser borrowed from a willing passenger who also tired of Thornburg's JerkAss attitude.
--> '''Thornburg:''' *Sees Holly walk into the bathroom he's hiding in while giving what he thinks is his last news report* A-and if this should be my final broadcast- *Gets tasered by Holly into unconsciousness*
--> '''Holly:''' Amen to that...Dick.

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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: At least once per movie, perhaps most famously "Yipee-kay-yay, motherfucker."
when [=McClane=]'s {{Indy Ploy}}s lead to spectacular victories.
** First film: Simon Gruber is hanging by a wristwatch off of Nakatomi Plaza, and decides to [[TakingYouWithMe Take His Enemies With Him]] - [=McClane=] simply ''unsnaps the wristwatch''.
** Second film: The bad guys are flying away, and ATC is still wired to explode if anyone attempts to use it - [=McClane=] ignites a stream of gasoline that not only takes out the plane, ''but replaces the landing lights!''
** Third film: Zeus Carver is able to pick [=McClane=]'s handcuffs, but drops his lockpick. He starts screaming for [=McClane=] to GoOnWithoutMe, but he simply coats the end of a crowbar in the binary explosives and ''blows off Zeus' handcuffs by smacking them.''
** Fourth film: Thomas Gabriel has [=McClane=] at gunpoint, and decides to [[KickThemWhenTheyAreDown jab a bullet wound]] in [=McClane=]'s shoulder with the gun. ''[=McClane=] grabs the gun and fires it though the wound.''
*** Before Holly was PutOnABus, she showed exactly why she married such a maniac in each film.
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In the first film, Holly punched obnoxious news reporter Dick Thornburg in the face for coming into her house to interview her kids (which Hans Gruber saw).
--> ---> '''Thornburg:''' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Did you get that?]]
** *** She has another pop at him in the second movie, knocking him out with a taser borrowed from a willing passenger who also tired of Thornburg's JerkAss attitude.
--> ---> '''Thornburg:''' *Sees Holly walk into the bathroom he's hiding in while giving what he thinks is his last news report* A-and if this should be my final broadcast- *Gets tasered by Holly into unconsciousness*
--> ---> '''Holly:''' Amen to that...Dick.
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Where was he being racist? And if he was, where was he ever called out on it?


* NobleBigotWithABadge: [=McClane=] in the 4th movie.



* WhatTheHellHero: McClane's racist babble in "Live Free or Die Hard"
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* NobleBigotWithABage: McClane in the 4th movie

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* NobleBigotWithABage: McClane NobleBigotWithABadge: [=McClane=] in the 4th moviemovie.
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* NobleBigotWithABage: McClane in the 4th movie


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* WhatTheHellHero: McClane's racist babble in "Live Free or Die Hard"
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** At least in the case of Karl in the first film, not until Al puts a few bullets in him, after professing his fear of using his firearm in the line of duty earlier on.
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-->"He pulled a Glock 7 on me. That's a porcelain gun, so it doesn't show up on your metal detectors, and it costs more than you make in a month."\\

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-->"He pulled a Glock 7 on me. That's a porcelain gun, so it doesn't show up on your [[MetalDetectorCheckpoint metal detectors, detectors]], and it costs more than you make in a month."\\
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**Also the French acrobatic henchman always from ''Live Free or Die Hard''.
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* BigBad:
** Hans Gruber from the orignal ''Die Hard''.
** Colonel Stewart from ''Die Hard 2: Die Harder''.
** Simon Gruber (brother of Hans) from ''Die Hard With a Vengeance''.
** Thomas Gabriel from ''Live Free or Die Hard''.
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No, it's under a brand name, but it's a fictional gun.


* {{AKA47}}: The GLOCK Seven.
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* WeDoTheImpossible


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* DragonTheirFeet: '''[[spoiler: [[MostTriumphantExample Karl]]]]'''
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* {{Bowdlerization}}: Played straight with TV edits of the films, but interestingly inverted in ''With a Vengeance''. At the beginning of the film, [=McClane=] is wearing a sign which reads "I hate niggers"; when the scene was originally filmed, the sign Bruce Willis wore actually read "I hate everybody" (which is what the sign reads in the TV edit of the film) in order to avoid any problems with the local residents - they filmed that particular scene in ''Harlem''.

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* {{Bowdlerization}}: Played straight with TV edits of the films, films (see: Mr. Falcon), but interestingly inverted in ''With a Vengeance''. At the beginning of the film, [=McClane=] is wearing a sign which reads "I hate niggers"; when the scene was originally filmed, the sign Bruce Willis wore actually read "I hate everybody" (which is what the sign reads in the TV edit of the film) in order to avoid any problems with the local residents - they filmed that particular scene in ''Harlem''.
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* ''Die Hard'' (1988) - Office building

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* ''Die Hard'' (1988) - Los Angeles Office building



* ''Die Hard 2: Die Harder'' (1990) - Airport

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* ''Die Hard 2: Die Harder'' (1990) - Washington DC Airport



* ''Live Free or Die Hard'' (aka ''Die Hard 4.0'') (2007) - Washington DC and surrounding areas

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* ''Live Free or Die Hard'' (aka ''Die Hard 4.0'') (2007) - Washington DC DC, Baltimore and surrounding areas

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