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Die Hard with a Vengeance

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Die Hard with a Vengeance	comment	Die Hard With a Vengeance (1995) is the third film in the popular Die Hard franchise, which reteamed Bruce Willis with John McTiernan, the director of the first film. While it was distributed by 20th Century Fox in North America and Japan, it is the only film in the franchise to be distributed internationally by Disney under Buena Vista Internationalnote This was because the film was co-produced by Cinergi Pictures, which had a distribution deal with Disney, who would later ironically buy 20th Century Fox in 2019..After being suspended for alcoholism, John McClane is put back on duty when a bomb destroys a department store in New York City, and a man named "Simon" claims responsibility. Simon demands that McClane wear a sandwich board with a racist remark on it and walk into the middle of Harlem in order to prevent further attacks. McClane does so, and is barely saved by the intervention of a local business owner, Zeus Carver (Samuel L. Jackson). Together, the duo are forced to take part in a series of malicious tasks set up by Simon, who threatens to set off several more bombs if they aren't completed in time. While the pair is solving the riddles, they realize that it's a distraction from the real threat - Simon (Jeremy Irons) is planning to rob the Federal Reserve Bank, and he has a much closer connection to McClane than the cop realizes...Vengeance was adapted from a spec script called Simon Says, which was originally intended to be the third installment of the Lethal Weapon series before it was reworked to include McClane and Zeus.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_122e956a	type	One Bullet Left
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_122e956a	comment	One Bullet Left: McClane has two bullets left in a small gun, and two bad guys in a helicopter with a BFG. He shoots a power cable which wraps around the tail rotor, causing the helicopter to crash and explode.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_130f112c	type	Confiscated Phone
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_130f112c	comment	Confiscated Phone: McClane hijacks a car to use a car phone which then dies out. Earlier, Zeus needs to answer Simon's call on a payphone another person is using.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_143350c6	type	Officer O'Hara
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_143350c6	comment	Officer O'Hara: Zeus notes that John's an Irish cop and asks him how the Catholics do that cross thing during their wild ride through Central Park. John tells him. North South East West.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_14d633ed	type	If I Wanted You Dead...
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_14d633ed	comment	If I Wanted You Dead...:
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_16b658ca	type	Elevator Action Sequence
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_16b658ca	comment	Elevator Action Sequence: McClane unwittingly enters an elevator with no less than four mooks disguised as law enforcement. The mooks make a number of gaffes, betraying that they are neither Americans nor cops, before McClane notices that one of them is wearing a familiar badge. An elevator gunfight ensues.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_170cc685	type	Power Cable Attack
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_170cc685	comment	Power Cable Attack: McClane has One Bullet Left, and takes out Simon's helicopter by aiming for the power line going to a building. The severed line becomes tangled in the blades, causing them to crash. Once the vehicle touches ground, current flows, igniting the aircraft fuel tank for a spectacular fiery finish.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_173327f8	type	I Can See You
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_173327f8	comment	I Can See You: When Simon demands to know why the phone was busy at their first stop, they dismiss him, asking for their next set of instructions. Simon (quite reasonably, actually) tells John, "You could have just said there was a fat woman on the phone and it took you a minute to get her off." Cue the Oh, Crap! reaction from the two as they realize that Gruber is watching them.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: Zeus' original backstory is presented in the novelisation, explaining why he's looking after his nephews and why he hates white people. During the car chase, Zeus explains that his brother was killed during a drug raid. When McClane suggests that it was his brother's own fault, Zeus explains that his brother was never involved in drugs and the only reason he was there was to bring Zeus home. The plot point was originally intended to be seen in the film proper, but wound up on the cutting room floor.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_1a3a91dd	type	Say My Name
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_1a3a91dd	comment	Say My Name: Zeus, riding shotgun with McClane driving, realizes that when he says he's going to cut through Central Park, he means it. "MCCLAAAAAAAAAAAAANE!!!!"
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Z100 DJ Elvis Duran, whose show is used by Simon to panic the city about the school bomb. To this day, he'll occasionally bring up "I was in Die Hard with a Vengeance for five seconds!"
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_1c9537cd	type	The Main Characters Do Everything
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_1c9537cd	comment	The Main Characters Do Everything: Zeus - being a civilian - doesn't have to follow McClane once they get to the bridge - as a matter of fact Zeus messes things up a little once on the ship, even after being told not to be the hero. There's absolutely no reason McClane (and definitely not Zeus) needed to go along to Canada at the end.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_1d09d77e	type	Imminent Danger Clue
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_1d09d77e	comment	Imminent Danger Clue: McClane gets on an elevator with some fake cops. Because he was earlier in the film with some real NYPD cops who mentioned they always play their badge number in the lottery, he realizes at the last second that the fake cop next to him has the same badge number as the real cop. This is enough for McClane to kill them before they kill him.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_1d77dd02	type	Motivational Lie
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_1d77dd02	comment	Motivational Lie: Realizing that Zeus won't help him if it's just one white dude blowing up some others, John tells him that one of Simon's bombs was found in a playground in a black neighborhood.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_1fb947b6	type	Just Train Wrong
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_1fb947b6	comment	Just Train Wrong: Wall Street station on the IRT Broadway â€“ Seventh Avenue Line (#2 and #3 trains) is depicted as having a very wide island platform and a narrow side platform. While this station does indeed have an island platform (but not a side platform), the real one is much narrower than the one shown in the movie. Also the #3 train is shown running R-30 cars (which is wider than IRT cars) instead of the R-62/62A cars.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_206ac00b	type	XanatosRoulette
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_206ac00b	comment	Xanatos Roulette: Ultimately subverted. While much of Simonâ€™s plan goes off without a hitch, the riddle game starts to go off the rails after the water jug bomb when John splits from Zeus. Simon had intended for John and Zeus to both be at Yankee Station to be killed by a sniper fire after seeing a note saying â€œgame overâ€�. Because John ends up catching onto the heist, Zeus goes to the stadium alone and the snipers end up not springing the trap. When John radios Simon in the tunnel implicitly noting heâ€™s figured out their heist, Simon is very nonplussed.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: That guard who gets sliced to pieces by Katya died because he was so busy trying to call for help and also shooting his shotgun down the hallway that he fails to see someone opening the door to his left. Justified in that a closed vault is the last place you'd expect a threat to come from.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_22cf536c	comment	The aspirin is a double Chekhov's Gun, as the FBI / CIA agents note that one of the only known facts about Simon is that he suffers from chronic migraines.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo / Strange Minds Think Alike: Zeus and John decide to bring the briefcase bomb with them fearing "some kid could find it". Once they deliver it to Simon's henchmen disguised as cops, one admonishes the other thinking about just leaving it in the sidewalk with "Some kid could..."
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: John and Zeus have a bit of trouble early on and racial tensions keep it tough, but they pull through, just like John did with Al in the first movie. Simon and his team give us a villainous example.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: McClane finds two of Simon's guys in a dump truck waiting to ambush him in the tunnel: At the beginning, another nod to the first film: in the first film, Hans Gruber and his crew arrived at Nakatomi in a Pacific Courier truck. In the opening of this movie, when the Bonwit Teller storefront blows up, an Atlantic Courier armored truck is thrown into the air by the blast and flipped over.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: The film takes place across a single day.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_29e6dc40	type	HypocriticalHumour
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_29e6dc40	comment	Hypocritical Humour: John McClane of all people, when a juvenile thug calls him a "dickhead", tells him to "Watch his mouth". This is probably instinctual, as he has two young kids.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_2a44899	type	Plot Armor
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_2a44899	comment	Plot Armor: Now the armor extends to Zeus.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_2ae277ab	type	Mauve Shirt
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_2ae277ab	comment	Mauve Shirt: Every NYPD officer with the obvious exception of McClane, who all get decent amounts of characterization and focus. Surprisingly, most of them wind up surviving the film, with the exception of Ricky.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_2cd9889	type	No Place for a Warrior
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_2cd9889	comment	No Place for a Warrior: Ultimately the plot is Simon Gruber trying to steal $150 billion in gold with former communist soldiers and agents (mostly East German) intended to infiltrate US and British agencies who were left jobless after the Berlin Wall fell. Described as "an army without a country".
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_2db90f77	type	Contemplative Boss
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_2db90f77	comment	Contemplative Boss: Simon walks like this when entering the Federal Reserve Bank vault he's about to rob.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_2f6cbe90	type	Missing Backblast
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_2f6cbe90	comment	Missing Backblast: The alternate ending includes McClane playing a variant of Russian Roulette with Simon using a Chinese rocket launcher with the sights removed, so they can't tell which end is the muzzle. He asks Simon a series of questions, and eventually asks a question that Simon gets wrong. Turns out that the answer to the question is that he forgot to bring a flak jacket, which is what McClane is wearing and this would have protected Simon from the blast of the rocket, and the rocket fires on Simon, killing him instantly.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: Nicely averted despite the presence of a tough black character from the hood who's played by Samuel L. Jackson. Zeus is a no-nonsense individual with the courage to get done what he needs to, but he's not particularly intimidating just by his looks or presence, even with a gun in his hand, as he handles it rather nervously as he's not experienced with firearms. Played straight with the hoods who were about to knife McClane before Zeus intervened.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_3166227d	type	The Drag-Along
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_3166227d	comment	The Drag-Along: Zeus gets roped into John McClane's bomb-diffusing adventure after trying to protect McClane from a street gang without realizing what was happening. They become friends by the end.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Simon's men, when entering the Federal Reserve, are shown to leave the guards alive by tranquilizing them, and only kill anyone who tries to resist (such as the guard who Katya uses a carving knife to slice to death after attempting to fire a shotgun at the other robbers while yelling loudly). A henchman pretending to be a foreman also angrily starts to chew out Otto after that guy shoots Walsh, only for one of the "cop" henchmen to inform him that Otto doesn't speak English. Zeus passes off a suitcase bomb to two of Simon's henchmen who are disguised as cops. They take it, because not doing so would have blown their cover. But then, the first guy admonishes his partner for starting to leave it on the sidewalk which also doubles as Foreshadowing. While this is happening, the cop was actually on the phone with Simon, asking what he should do with Zeus. Simon takes a moment to think about it, but then says "Let him go," because he legitimately doesn't bear Zeus any ill will. And of course Simon himself, after he reveals that the bomb planted in a school was a fake. His Affably Evil approach comes back to haunt Simon when McClane is able trace him back thanks to the text of an aspirin bottle that Gruber hands to John when McClane is tied and distressed. Some random soldier of Simon's crew shows more respect for his fallen comrades than Simon, offering a toast to them during the celebration. Simon agrees with the toast but his brief moment of hesitation implies that it's to save face.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up: The movie opens right away with the now-closed Bonwit Teller department store destroyed by a bomb during the morning commute. A subway train, a boat and a helicopter also explode during the movie.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_325ef3ab	type	Incredibly Obvious Bomb
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_325ef3ab	comment	Incredibly Obvious Bomb: The villain plants one of these in a school as a distraction; it's a deliberate dud.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_35ae7226	type	Everyone Hates Mimes
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_35ae7226	comment	Everyone Hates Mimes: John McClane briefly considers running over a mime while he and Zeus are racing through Central Park trying to make it downtown:
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_3678bb22	type	Russian Roulette
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_3678bb22	comment	Russian Roulette: The alternate ending includes John McClane playing a variant of Russian roulette with Simon Gruber using a Chinese rocket launcher without the sights (so no way of telling which end is the muzzle). He asks Simon a series of questions (with them turning the launcher to face the other each time) and eventually asks a question that Simon gets wrong. Turns out that the answer to the question is that he forgot to bring a flak jacket, which is what McClane is wearing and this would have protected Simon from the blast of the rocket, and the rocket fires on Simon, killing him instantly.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_3773f8d5	type	Status Cell Phone
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_3773f8d5	comment	Status Cell Phone: Simon's gang has plenty of them. Super Cell Reception: And he's able to call John and Zeus from an underground vault without the phone picking up lots of background noise.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Simon's plan is dependent on the NYPD worrying more about schoolkids than Wall Street (as well as McClane believing that Simon is out for revenge rather than money).
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: McClane mentions he's been working on a nice fat suspension, "smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo". Willis sings these lyrics (from the Statler Brothers' "Flowers on the Wall") in a previous film in which he co-starred with Samuel L. Jackson.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_39d96ba9	type	Refuse to Rescue the Disliked
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_39d96ba9	comment	Refuse to Rescue the Disliked: After defeating the terrorist villains, McClane ponders trying to rescue survivors from the burning wreckage. Zeus snorts, "Fuck, let 'em cook."
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_3c7022ce	type	Mundane Solution
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_3c7022ce	comment	Mundane Solution: Zeus could hotwire the car since as an electrician he knows how - or just stick his screwdriver in the ignition and turn.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_3ce2cf4f	type	Hassle-Free Hotwire
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_3ce2cf4f	comment	Hassle-Free Hotwire: Averted:
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_3d944c84	comment	Impressed by the Civilian: Zeus is an ordinary Harlem pawn shop owner who happens to get entangled in Simon's plot to destroy John McClain. Over the course of the story, Zeus and McClain gradually come to earn each other's respect and friendship.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: John and Zeus don't magically heal in between all their injuries. By the end they're as battered, beaten, and bloody as you would expect, even after getting medical attention. Zeus has no idea how to use a gun John hands him. He is just an untrained civilian after all. John gives a quick how-to, but forgets to mention the safety or take it off, something Zeus as an untrained civilian doesn't realize. This gets him caught and shot after he fails to shoot Simon. Simon's Evil Plan is to use bomb threats to have the police spread thin and distracted long enough for him to rob the Federal Reserve. He isn't the only criminal to realize this, a few teenage shoplifters also take advantage of it...which is what tips McClane off.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_405f6f52	type	Recycled Soundtrack
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_405f6f52	comment	Recycled Soundtrack: Although Michael Kamen returned to score this entry (the last one he'd do), the producers tracked in material he wrote for the first two films.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_443b78cd	comment	Tranquil Fury: Targo's attitude about McClane midway through the film comes in growling, clipped tones. "Stop toying with him and kill him now!"
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_443f9d8a	type	Ask a Stupid Question...
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_443f9d8a	comment	Ask a Stupid Question...: McClane stops a truck:
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_449584c	type	Giant Wall of Watery Doom
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_449584c	comment	When McClane's running from a Giant Wall of Watery Doom in an aqueduct, the soundtrack drifts into a brief snippet of "Singin' in the Rain".
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_46f3f271	type	From Camouflage to Criminal
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_46f3f271	comment	From Camouflage to Criminal: The baddies are mostly members of a former East German special forces unit specialising in infiltration and sabotage.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Zeus is openly hostile to people, even when he's putting himself in danger to save their lives.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_4783acfa	type	Bait the Dog
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_4783acfa	comment	Bait the Dog: Averted with Simon, who doesn't pass the Moral Event Horizon like his brother did but still had planted bombs for McClane to find and disarm in public places.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Ultimately averted, as Simon reveals that the school bomb was a fake; lampshaded as he points out that even he wouldn't go that far to get the cops' attention.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: We get one of these when one of the Mooks is sliced in half by a snapping cable. We see the cable whip towards him, we see him catapulted backwards by the hit, but cuts away before we see him bisected. Then McClane and Zeus come across his body. "I'll get his arms, you get his legs." They start out carrying the body normally, until Zeus turns until he's side-by-side with McClane.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: McClane prevents Simon from escaping AND defeats him using nothing more than a clue from an aspirin bottle that Simon gave him. Also, he suggests Zeus pick their cuffs with a splinter in John's shoulder from the cable they slid down minutes earlier. It works in freeing John from his cuffs, but Zeus drops the makeshift lockpick and John still saves Zeus from the explosion by using a small amount of the explosive to break his cuffs.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_4bfcfa7c	type	Kansas City Shuffle
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_4bfcfa7c	comment	Kansas City Shuffle: Simon pretends he's just an angry German out for revenge, when really he's out to rob the federal reserve and sends the cops on a wild goose chase to protect the schools Simon has no intent to bomb. Simon says "You look left, I go right."
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_4c506837	type	The Snack Is More Interesting
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_4c506837	comment	The Snack Is More Interesting: In the "You forgot to take the safety catch off" scene, Simon stands there looking bored and eating a boiled egg while Zeus holds him at gunpoint.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_4c70bdae	type	Terrorists Without a Cause
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_4c70bdae	comment	Terrorists Without a Cause: Played perfectly straight with Mathias and Katya Targo. Freelance terrorists who work by written contract.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_4d28eee2	type	Roofhopping
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_4d28eee2	comment	Roofhopping: Averted. Joe, Connie and a couple of schoolkids climb up onto the roof of the locked building with the intent of jumping to an adjacent building to escape from the bomb, but when they get there, they realize the distance is too far.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_4e52a624	type	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_4e52a624	comment	Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: John McClane won't take money from criminals, even when it's a hell of a lot easier than getting the shit kicked out of him by them.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: After John asks the FBI what "Simon" and his group have to do with him. A close second from a shoplifting "tough kid":
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: "Say hello to your brother".
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: Simon prepared quite a few puzzles and deathtraps for John and Zeus, considering that any one of them could have easily killed them both early on. Perhaps Simon knew just how indestructible John McClane really was.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker!" Subverted when McClane is searching the ship and runs across a mook.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_537dd8fe	comment	And of course Simon himself, after he reveals that the bomb planted in a school was a fake. His Affably Evil approach comes back to haunt Simon when McClane is able trace him back thanks to the text of an aspirin bottle that Gruber hands to John when McClane is tied and distressed.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_53c47260	type	You Monster!
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_53c47260	comment	You Monster!: Simon actively attempts to avoid this trope when he reveals he lied about planting a bomb in a school.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_53e9e38a	type	White Bread and Black Brotha
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_53e9e38a	comment	White Bread and Black Brotha: Subverted with John and Zeus. While Zeus is originally from the hood and has shades of Malcolm Xerox, he's a civilian and far more of a normal person compared to John and his Cowboy Cop behavior.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: The knife-wielding blonde, and very much mute, Katya works at the main muscle for Simon.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_55f92df9	type	Wire Dilemma
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_55f92df9	comment	Wire Dilemma: Subverted when Charlie is cutting wires left, right, and center, but nothing happens at all... he stays to the end, then gets doused in pancake syrup when the timer runs out.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Averted, as the NYPD is shown as being very competent, as opposed to the LAPD.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_5bdcc85a	comment	One of the FBI guys asks John, "Does the name 'Gruber' mean anything to you?" The camera cuts to John's wide-eyed face, and then we see a brief clip of Hans falling to his Disney Villain Death at the end of Die Hard.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: The sniper at Yankee Stadium is ordered not to shoot Zeus, because the initial orders were to hit both him and McClane.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_5d103ea8	type	AwesomeMcCoolName
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_5d103ea8	comment	Awesome Mc Cool Name: Zeus Carver stands out. It's almost a name worthy of Samuel L. Jackson. Which leads to this:
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_5fbb8d8e	type	Hollywood Density
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_5fbb8d8e	comment	Hollywood Density: Averted when Zeus tries to pick up a loose gold brick that fell out of one of the dump trucks, not knowing how heavy one is. Of course, later on it's played straight when they throw gold bricks as though they were footballs... Do you really believe that these mercenaries are not built and strong enough to easily fling heavy things? Either this trope or Writers Cannot Do Math comes into place with the trucks: in 1995, $150 billion worth of gold would be about 9,000 tons—far more than even 14 full dump trucks could take. They would probably need at least 28 to 40 dump trucks to haul the gold out. On top of this, the Federal Reserve Bank only holds 5,000 tons of gold, while Fort Knox holds 4,600 tons. Justified when Joe verbatim tells Walter that the Federal Reserve is the biggest gold storage in the world.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_5fc68f05	type	There Was a Door
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_5fc68f05	comment	There Was a Door: "I didn't say Park Drive. I said through the Park."
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: For once, it isn't McClane as Simon actually dragged him into the plot. This time it's the teenage shoplifter who gives McClane his "Eureka!" Moment (see above).
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_61b576af	type	I Take Offense to That Last One
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_61b576af	comment	I Take Offense to That Last One: John's boss tells Simon that he's stepped on so many toes he's about to be fired, that his own wife wants nothing to do with him, that he's two steps shy of being a full blown alcoholic. John insists he's one step shy, one step.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_62b65869	type	And I'm the Queen of Sheba
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_62b65869	comment	And I'm the Queen of Sheba:
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_631c7c38	type	Silent Antagonist
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_631c7c38	comment	Silent Antagonist: Katya utters only a single sound (a frustrated scream) in the entire film. Ironic, given that the actress who plays her, Sam Phillips, is a noted singer in real life (she was originally supposed to speak, but it was decided that she was more intimidating if she didn't speak).
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_6331ba26	type	Plot Hole
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_6331ba26	comment	Plot Hole: The simple rail trigger to detonate the bomb on the train. Clearly simple in design, a train's wheels simply have to expand the device connected to a radio. Given that the frequency of southbound trains at Wall Street Station at 10am (even in 1995) is about every 2-3 minutes, for the trigger to go off for that specific train, a human had to have been there waiting for a previous train to pass so they could jump down to the trackbed and set it up. Didn't even have to be the movie's addiction to casual Germans obviously being part of the plot; an American in a NYCTA safety vest could have somewhere in the background as Zeus ran down the stairs someone should have been rushing OUT of the station to escape the bomb. Especially during Zeus's confrontation with the Transit Officer someone could have easily behind the officer been climbing out of the tracks and run out. There's absolutely no way that the rail trigger was set any earlier; had to have been within 2-3 minutes of 10:20.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_6366c81c	type	Planar Shockwave
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_6366c81c	comment	When Simon's shipboard bomb explodes, the enormous shockwave - neatly displayed, even - would pulp anything nearby, no matter whether in the air or in the water: ship, containers full of junk, cops, electricians...
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: While Simon admits that he disliked his brother, he still cared about him.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Averted. Charlie, the NYPD's Bomb Expert is busy defusing a bomb in Chester A. Arthur Elementary School, when he's told that all of the kids have been evacuated, so he may as well retreat to a safe area. Then he's told that there are still kids trapped inside of the building, and knowing full well that should he fail he'll be killed, instantly chooses to stay and attempt to defuse the bomb. Fortunately for him, the bomb is a fake.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_651a8540	type	Indy Escape
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_651a8540	comment	Indy Escape: McClane flees the water gushing through the aqueduct in a dump truck when the villains attempt to drown him.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_6891554e	type	Parlor Games
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_6891554e	comment	Parlor Games: The villain uses Simon Says in his games. His name is Simon, so he has a lot of fun with it.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Consider this: Simon once was a distinguished military officer in his country. When Nationale Volksarmee was disbanded, he was discharged and got a pension smaller than a graduate student stipend. Naturally, he became somewhat pissed.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_6ca84a8f	type	Treasure Room
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_6ca84a8f	comment	Treasure Room: The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where Uncle Sam keeps a lot of gold, almost all of it for other countries' central banks. Incidentally, the Federal Reserve Bank actually holds sixty minute tours of the vault, while Fort Knox is off limits to tourists.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_6d6af605	type	Take Me Out at the Ball Game
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_6d6af605	comment	Take Me Out at the Ball Game: The terrorists claim they want John McClane to go to Yankee Stadium to collect a clue to stop the bomb that will blow up a school. In truth, there is a sniper at the stadium who will shoot him if he shows up.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_6e51da74	type	Hair-Trigger Explosive
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_6e51da74	comment	Hair-Trigger Explosive: Played Straight and later subverted. The liquid/gelled binary explosive used in the movie, PLX, actually exists but neither looks like it does in the movie nor does it explode on impact (instead requiring at least a blasting cap). It's also certainly not energetic enough that the amount collected on the tip of a paper clip would be enough to flip a chair. Seen later on, the actual bombs made with it feature more realistic amounts of priming explosives.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_6eeba1cb	type	Shut Up, Kirk!
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_6eeba1cb	comment	Shut Up, Kirk!: Simon wasn't happy with Zeus meddling in his "well-laid plan". Zeus' response?
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_710f3133	type	Just One Little Mistake
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_710f3133	comment	Just One Little Mistake: While Simon Gruber miscalculated the implacability of John McClane or the skills of Zeus Carver, he still got the gold and got away with it. But he gave John the bottle of aspirinâ€¦
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Simon Gruber plays with this trope like a kitten does a ball of yarn; he seems to delight in making people think he is bigoted, mostly because he thinks it's fun to anger people and/or fake them out. When first speaking to Zeus Carver, for example, Simon (who is German but can mimic American Accents quite well, and who knows that Zeus is an angry black man because he's been watching him on hidden video cameras) says: "So whot's yowuh name, boy?" in twangy, corrupt hick fashion just to irritate Zeus; he then apologizes, explaining that he's fond of tasteless jokes. Later the trope is seemingly played straight when Simon calls John McClane a "dumb Irish flatfoot," but this is due not to anti-Irish sentiment but to Simon's general bitterness toward John for having killed his brother Hans in the first movie. Simon admits that he didn't even like Hans, but he's still determined to exact vengeance on anyone who messes with his family, saying "There's a difference between not liking one's brother, and not caring when some dumb Irish flatfoot drops him off a building."
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Cop: Inverted. Simon tries to get the cop McClane to commit Suicide by Angry Black Man by walking through the streets of Harlem wearing a disgustingly racist sign.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_734c7010	type	Intercom Villainy
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_734c7010	comment	Intercom Villainy: Simon doesn't use an intercom, but he talks to the main characters on payphones throughout New York City. He smugly commands McClane to do horrendous or dangerous tasks in order to save civilians, making McClane all the more determined to find Simon and knock him down a peg.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_7360a6b6	type	Noble Demon
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_7360a6b6	comment	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.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_73ef9ef3	type	Almighty Janitor
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_73ef9ef3	comment	Almighty Janitor: Jerry the truck driver. He quickly recovers from John holding him at gunpoint only to prove to be an expert on the aqueduct he's driving a truck for and also knows which President John needs to know.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_7570a10c	type	Bond Villain Stupidity
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_7570a10c	comment	Bond Villain Stupidity: Simon handcuffs John McClane and Zeus to a bomb on a ship and leaves them to die, instead of shooting them and blowing up the ship after (in his defense, the only reason they survive is Artistic License â€“ Physics; in Real Life, they would have died).
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_766de4dc	type	To Absent Friends
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_766de4dc	comment	To Absent Friends: When the bad guys are celebrating the successful theft, they're toasting to several things and then one says along the lines of "auf gefallen kameraden," which translates something like "for fallen comrades." There is a moment of silence and then they all toast in honor of their lost brethren.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_76ebae85	type	Kidnapped by the Call
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_76ebae85	comment	Kidnapped by the Call: After Zeus plays Good Samaritan and saves McClane, Simon forces him to team with McClane and solve together several puzzles to defuse some bombs scattered all along the city.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_777baed3	type	Out-of-Character Alert
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_777baed3	comment	Out-of-Character Alert: A bunch of German mercenaries impersonate cops. Although the leader speaks English with a flawless American accent, he slips up on a few word choices, such as calling an elevator a "lift" and saying that it's raining "dogs and cats", instead of the usual "cats and dogs". When McClane recognizes that one of them is wearing a friend's badge, and mentions the lottery to figure out if anyone on the elevator is real. None of the fake cops know last night's numbers, though in the beginning it's established that every NYPD cop plays the lottery and knows exactly what the winning numbers were.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember the New Guy?: All of McClane's fellow police officers. They're his coworkers so he's naturally very familiar with them, but since the film is largely told from his viewpoint they don't get much of an introduction for the audience.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_786d6cf6	type	You Wouldn't Shoot Me
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_786d6cf6	comment	You Wouldn't Shoot Me: Parodied when Zeus aims an automatic weapon at Simon, who immediately calls his bluff. Not that he didn't think Zeus would shoot him (Zeus immediately tries) but because Simon could see that Zeus, who was unfamiliar with the weapon, hadn't taken the safety off.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_796bffea	type	Mistaken for Racist
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_796bffea	comment	Mistaken for Racist: Simon's first attempt to get McClane killed is to get him to go to Harlem, a predominantly black neighborhood, and wear a sandwich board saying "I Hate Niggers". Unsurprisingly, he's nearly killed.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_7a2a34ef	type	Not With the Safety On, You Won't
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_7a2a34ef	comment	Zeus has no idea how to use a gun John hands him. He is just an untrained civilian after all. John gives a quick how-to, but forgets to mention the safety or take it off, something Zeus as an untrained civilian doesn't realize. This gets him caught and shot after he fails to shoot Simon.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_7a4013f3	type	Deuteragonist
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_7a4013f3	comment	Deuteragonist: Zeus, who gets almost as much screentime as McClane.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: While pulled into a meeting with several federal agents, John quickly tires of their dancing around the subject of the bomber's personal vendetta against him and tells them to get to the damned point. The one agent who hasn't spoken simply asks him, "Does the name 'Gruber' mean anything to you, Lieutenant?" Cue an epic Oh, Crap! moment as John realizes who would want him dead.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_7bed2677	type	Super Cell Reception
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_7bed2677	comment	Super Cell Reception: Simon calls from the vault of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. While it's in Wall Street, this is still underground... and the phone somehow doesn't pick up the noise made by the heavy machinery picking up gold as he speaks.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_7c862b8a	comment	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Simon betrays his Middle Eastern clients by stealing the gold they hired him to destroy and then screws over some of his accomplices to make sure he gets as large a share as possible. In the alternate ending, which takes place a few months after a successful heist, he has even eliminated his girlfriend to rob her.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: John and Holly have broken up and John's about to be fired for his hardcore drinking problem.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: We meet Zeus putting on his glasses and schooling some kids on being the disposable leg-men for some two-bit thug. Never let someone use you. Then, before he see's John out the window and has a Good Samaritan moment, he has a back and forth with the kids about why exactly they have to stay in school and why exactly white people are the devil.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: McClane gets a laugh when Zeus tells Simon to stick his well-laid plan up his well-laid ass. Likewise, a couple of minutes later, John snarks to Simon that the phone was busy because he was calling the psychic hotline, prompting Zeus to laugh.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_82384b1	type	Never Hurt an Innocent
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_82384b1	comment	Never Hurt an Innocent: Most of Simon's soldiers follow this, as they go out of their way to take down police and civilians non-lethally, express concern over one of their disabled bombs being found by some children, and Simon's infamous "Of course not; I'm a soldier, not a monster" response when it's found out the "bomb" he left in the school was merely a distraction filled with pancake syrup. Keyword being most: one of Targo's goons gleefully guns down Ricky Walsh (and is immediately chastised for it), of course Katya is a batshit insane murderous Psycho Knife Nut, and Simon himself will gleefully kill Zeus for getting in his way too much or being friends with the "dumb Irish flatfoot who threw his brother out a window".
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_8334ba2e	type	Big, Bulky Bomb
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_8334ba2e	comment	Big, Bulky Bomb: Both a Red Herring bomb the size of a commercial refrigerator (the explosive liquids are actually maple syrup), and the actual bomb that takes a major part of a ship's hold and leads to an impressive blast.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_8510238b	type	Riddle Me This
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_8510238b	comment	Riddle Me This: The St. Ives Puzzle is used by Simon this way. McClane gets the right answer, but not within the time limit; fortunately, there's no bomb because the villain did not say "Simon Says".
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: The $13 billion in gold on the dumptruck McClane leaves in the aqueduct, though it's probably not going anywhere until the tunnel is drained. What was supposed to happen to McClane had Carver not swerved the game by intervening? Were gang bangers just gonna kill him, or was there another bomb before heading to the fake game at 72nd street station?
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_86e1653c	type	Working Through the Cold
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_86e1653c	comment	Working Through the Cold: John has a hangover throughout the film.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Katya carves up the security guard real nice until Simon physically stops her.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_8d0cb42f	type	Set Piece Puzzle
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_8d0cb42f	comment	Set Piece Puzzle: The "four gallons from a 3- and 5- gallon jug" variety.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: After John tells Zeus to take off in the cab while he goes after the train, an arrogant Wall Street Guy gets in and demands a ride. Zeus tries to shine him on, but the asshole just keeps demanding a ride. Zeus agrees to give him a ride. Gilligan Cut to the guy very unhappy that he got in that particular cab.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_9099c21c	comment	GPS Evidence: The mistake that really brings Gruber's doom is handing John the bottle of aspirin for his migraine he bought at the Canadian truck stop where the heist crew set up their rendezvous before leaving the Americas with the gold, which has the truck stop's name printed on the bottom.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_90dfa0d0	type	Noble Top Enforcer
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_90dfa0d0	comment	Noble Top Enforcer: Invoked by Simon, after the bomb at the school turns out to be a decoy.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_91697559	type	Half the Man He Used to Be
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_91697559	comment	Half the Man He Used to Be: Happens to a Mook; there's a brief shot of the cable slicing him in two, and then we see McClane and Zeus drag the corpse away side by side, one holding his wrists and the other his ankles.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_92a61707	type	The Speechless
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_92a61707	comment	The Speechless: Katya, presumably due to the scarring on her throat. As she's implied to be Targo's wife, this is likely a result of the bomb planted in their bed. Alternately, she could be speechless by choice since when McClane tracks Simon to Canada, Simon and Katya are just starting to get it on...cue Coitus Interruptus via McClane in a police helicopter. Katya opens fire on them, screaming in German. Leading Zeus to observe, "I think she's pissed at you, McClane!"
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_94b11537	type	The Convenient Store Next Door
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_94b11537	comment	The Convenient Store Next Door: Played with. The bad guys blow up a subway station, then disguise themselves as contractors there to clear debris and conduct repairs, while actually using their equipment to dig into the vault of a nearby bank.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Simon Gruber is able to keep his cool nearly all the way through the movie... until he realizes that McClane tracked him to Canada.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Simon Gruber (brother of Hans).
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_9843db6	type	Gangbangers
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_9843db6	comment	Gangbangers: McClane very nearly gets killed by a group of black gangbangers in Harlem upon being forced to stand there wearing a sandwich board with a racial slur on it.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_984763bb	type	555
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_984763bb	comment	555: McClane must stop a bomb by dialing "555 and the answer" to the riddle the villain just gave.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_98591d23	type	Speech Impediment
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_98591d23	comment	Speech Impediment: Simon has a stutter when he's angry. We later find out it's just an act.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_98ed60b9	type	3 + 5 = 4
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_98ed60b9	comment	3 + 5 = 4: McClane and Zeus must solve this type of puzzle in order to disarm a bomb near a public fountain. In the original script, the bomb was a Chekhov's Gun, as the movie would end with McClane planting the bomb on Simon's helicopter, and upon discovery one of them asks if anyone has a four gallon jug. (In the final script, the bomb was used to blow up a dam and the puzzle was never brought up again.)
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_9ae5a580	type	Razor Floss
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_9ae5a580	comment	Razor Floss: Mentioned and seen. As McClane and Zeus are attempting to get from a bridge to a ship passing under it, Zeus says they should jump to the attached crane. McClane says the cables would cut them in half. Then when they use the winch on a pickup truck to climb down, the ship pulls the truck off the bridge, leaving the hook and cable attached to the crane. As it swings, it hits a henchman. Zeus and John are then seen dragging him by his arms and legs. About eight feet apart...
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: When the Rogue Cop tells his comrade to not leave the bomb on the sidewalk because a kid might find it, indicating they aren't actually willing to put innocent kids in danger. When Simon and his men enters Reserve Bank, one of the bank guards notices the guys in business suits wears combat boots for some reason. When the police scramble to find the bomb in the school, Simon, who is watching from the roof, tells his crew, "They bought it", indicating that the bomb is a dud.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Targo. McClane stabs a big sharp piece of metal into the guy's leg and it does nothing.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck: Zeus' reaction to McClane about to drive between two perilously close trucks is an understated "Oh, dear." McClane before jumping onto a subway train: "This is a bad idea."
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "Look, if you have to shoot me, then you go ahead and you shoot me! But I have! To answer! THIS! PHONE!"
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_9f87b4fb	type	Little Useless Gun
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_9f87b4fb	comment	Little Useless Gun: During the climax, McClane asks for a gun and is given a tiny revolver of which he is extremely disdainful. Subverted in that he manages to take out the helicopter attacking him with it by shooting some overhead power lines.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a084f0e0	type	Never Speak Ill of the Dead
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a084f0e0	comment	Never Speak Ill of the Dead: Subverted, as Simon agrees with McClane that Hans was an asshole. But "there is a difference between not liking one's brother and not caring when some dumb Irish flatfoot drops him out of a window."
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a0ccd559	type	Last Chance to Quit
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a0ccd559	comment	Last Chance to Quit: When Simon realizes that once again, McClane simply won't die, he attempts to bribe him with some of the stolen gold. John's response, "Or you can come out from that rock you're under and I'll drive this truck up your ass."
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: Zig-Zagged. Simon is apparently blowing up buildings as part of an elaborate scheme to screw with, and eventually kill, McClane as payback for killing his brother Hans. Then it's revealed that was all a cover for Simon's scheme of robbing the Federal Reserve and that Simon didn't even like his brother. Then it's revealed that while Simon's in it for the money and he didn't like his brother, he still took the man's death personally:
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a2b998a0	type	Wouldn't Hurt a Child
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a2b998a0	comment	Wouldn't Hurt a Child: The line "children may find it [the bomb]" is uttered by both the good guy and a bad guy. This brings a question of doubt in the perpetrators' actions, and it's revealed that Simon never planted a real bomb, just a fake one, because "he's a soldier, not a monster".
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a2bc0f45	type	Give My Regards in the Next World
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a2bc0f45	comment	Give My Regards in the Next World: Heroic example when McClane says "Say hello to your brother" just before he kills Simon Gruber.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a371a459	type	Fighting for a Homeland
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a371a459	comment	Fighting for a Homeland: Touched on when Simon is giving a victory speech to his troops, almost all of whom are soldiers turned mercenaries:
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a3f1531b	type	Standard Snippet
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a3f1531b	comment	Standard Snippet: '"When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (under the other title, "Ants Go Marching") is featured, which when used during the Federal Reserve heist, in particular that scene where Katya slashes a guard to death, makes it seem epic. Note the third film is the first actually set in New York, where John (McClane) is a police officer.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a3f6dba3	type	Action Duo
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a3f6dba3	comment	Action Duo: McClane and Zeus.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a4883667	type	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a4883667	comment	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse: An alternate ending has McClane threatening Simon Gruber with a Chinese rocket launcher with the sights removed, allowing Gruber to point the rocket whichever way he liked. Gruber ultimately points the rocket launcher the wrong way.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a54c2273	type	Dented Iron
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a54c2273	comment	John and Zeus don't magically heal in between all their injuries. By the end they're as battered, beaten, and bloody as you would expect, even after getting medical attention.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a55454ee	type	Malcolm Xerox
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a55454ee	comment	Malcolm Xerox: Zeus Carver, despite saving McClane from being beaten to a pulp by black men.note Gruber forced him to wear a sign that said "I HATE NIGGERS". In Harlem. For those not American, this ensures, at best, a violent confrontation, as Harlem is well-known for being a predominantly-black neighborhood. Zeus just established himself as a Scary Black Man, and he's played by born activist Samuel L. Jackson.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a56e3cba	type	Language Barrier
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a56e3cba	comment	Language Barrier: Between McClane and his German-speaking foes. Some of Simon's men can speak English and some can't. Otto is of the latter category, shown when he kills Walsh and another Mook chastises him in English. A third replies:
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: During Simon's toast as he is celebrating getting away with all of the gold, one of his fellow mercenaries raises a toast to their fallen comrades. Simon takes a notable couple of seconds of silence afterwards before agreeing with said toast.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a8a4b41e	type	Not So Stoic
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a8a4b41e	comment	Not So Stoic: Action Girl Connie Kowalski is pretty hard-boiled - as are almost all of the NYPD cops - but during the evacuation of the elementary school (when it's believed that a bomb has been planted there) she confesses that she might "pee [her] pants." Katya never smiles, never speaks, never even makes a sound throughout all her scenes...until the film's climax, when she and Simon are interrupted by John McClane and Zeus Carver at a very inopportune moment - and she completely loses her cool, firing off a machine gun and screaming in rage.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a8c9088d	type	Stereotype Reaction Gag
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_a8c9088d	comment	Stereotype Reaction Gag: Happens a lot between John McClane and Zeus: McClane asks "can you pick this lock?" Zeus calls him a racist ("Oh, all black dudes know how to pick locks, right?"), then when McClane says that he's just asking if he's a locksmith, says that, yes, yes he can. Earlier in the movie, when McClane asks if Zeus can hotwire a car, Zeus says: But as it turns out, Zeus doesn't know how to use a gun.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_aa3d3d1a	type	Motive Misidentification
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_aa3d3d1a	comment	Motive Misidentification: Simon first tricks authorities to believe that he's a terrorist who wants revenge on McClane, but is actually using the confusion to set up a huge robbery. The fact that he would also get revenge on the cop who killed his brother is just icing on the cake. He then almost convinces the world that he carried out the robbery in order to destroy the gold rather than keep it, which as a mercenary he has actually been paid to do. In this case, blowing up the gold was the actual Evil Plan, but Simon being part of a Big Bad Duumvirate (with Middle Eastern radicals) decided to make some changes to that part of the scheme.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_aaedd10	type	Given Name Reveal
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_aaedd10	comment	Given Name Reveal: For the first half of the movie, the cops only know Simon by the name he gives them. Then the FBI identifies him as a man named Peter Krieg... who was born Simon Peter Gruber. As in Hans Gruber's brother.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_ab1659d5	type	Hero Stole My Bike
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_ab1659d5	comment	Hero Stole My Bike: Besides commandeering a taxi and a sedan car, McClane and Carver literally take two shoplifting kids' bicycles.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_ac6ea68c	type	Near-Villain Victory
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_ac6ea68c	comment	Near-Villain Victory: Even closer than Die Hard 2 but only due to the fact Simon was after the gold and was only trying to kill John on the side, not really caring if he lived or died. He nearly gets away with his scheme, but one tiny slip up via the aspirin bottle cost him dearly.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Early on in the film, Charlie demonstrates the chemicals that make up Simon's bomb for the benefit of the other officers (along with John and Zeus), who are surprised when they see how reactive the chemicals are (and how much damage they can do). Later on, while attempting to escape the boat, John uses the same trick to break Zeus' restraints attached to the bomb.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Otto, the thug who guns down Ricky Walsh, steals his badge and pretends to be a plainclothes detective. While riding down in the elevator with him, John notices the number on the badge, which Ricky mentioned to him earlier that morning; cluing John into the fact that Otto is fake and allowing John to get the drop on them. John fights a hangover in addition to Simon. When he complains about it to Simon while being held captive, Simon tosses him a bottle of aspirin. John manages to escape his predicament and tries to take an aspirin only to find the bottle is empty. But he also discovers the bottle has the address of the hotel where Simon is staying printed on it.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Most of Zeus' reactions in this film are of the Oh, Crap! variety. The look on Zeus's face when he tells Simon that McClane's on his way and Simon tells him, "The rules applied to both of you. I'm afraid this is non-compliance. Goodbye." Zeus' already panicked voice only intensifies when he realizes exactly which school is being bombed. It's the one his nephews attend. John has an extended moment starting when he hears the name "Hans Gruber" that culminates with him learning Simon is an East German general whose full real name is "Simon Peter Gruber". Simon's reaction during the climax when he realises that McClane is about to shoot the powerlines above his helicopter. "Does this thing got airbags?" "Your side does, I don't know if my side..." [car does a thing] A 911 Operator has a couple. First when the police stop using their radios and all the calls get routed through their switchboar, then when Simon calls the radio and lets them know there's a bomb in a school and "half the god-damn city just called 9-11!".
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Not even having a gun pointed at you can get a New Yorker to turn it off:
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_af5f2180	type	Avenging the Villain
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_af5f2180	comment	Avenging the Villain: Played with. Simon initially claims that his bombings are a campaign of vengeance against McClane for the death of Hans Gruber, but it turns out that's a cover for his real motivation, robbing banks on Wall Street. In fact, he explicitly agrees with John that Hans was an Asshole Victim. But on the other hand, he also explicitly states, "There is a difference, you know, between not liking one's brother and not caring when some dumb Irish flatfoot drops him out of a window!"
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: John first hears Zeus's name when a local boy says "Hey, Zeus!" John consequently mistakes his name for JesÃºs, which sounds very similar. Zeus is angered and asks if he looks Puerto Rican.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: Played straight with the one Federal Reserve guard who tries to make a futile stand by firing a shotgun down the hallway while screaming like a maniac (and failing to notice Katya opening the door to his left until she slices him to death with a knife). Before Katya slices him, he gets off 14 rounds, when in real life, the model of shotgun he's using only holds nine shells at most.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_b3f4bf22	type	Pants-Positive Safety
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_b3f4bf22	comment	Pants-Positive Safety: McClane puts his pistol in his waistband instead of in the shoulder holster he is wearing! It takes a little longer to draw a gun out of a shoulder holster than from the hip; given how his day had been going thus far...
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_b47d95be	type	No OSHA Compliance
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_b47d95be	comment	No OSHA Compliance: For the subway scene, the gratings over the subway tunnel are light enough to be lifted by a single man in a hurry. The glass window on the subway car shatters with a wild kick. (Of course not the one on the back of the train when John has to throw the bomb off.)
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_b4fce1ab	type	Obfuscating Insanity
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_b4fce1ab	comment	Obfuscating Insanity: John McClane has to fake this when Simon makes him wear a billboard insulting Afro-Americans while in his underwear. Zeus saves him by claiming his insanity, and he runs with it.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Zeus asks John if he's aiming for the civilians in Central Park. His response?
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_b6d3e6fc	type	Smokescreen Crime
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_b6d3e6fc	comment	Smokescreen Crime: Simon's plot involves detonating bombs all around New York City, forcing McClane to jump through hoops to find the others and convincing the police there is a bomb planted in an unidentified school. The end goal of all this chaos is to keep the authorities and emergency services occupied while Simon robs the Federal Reserve Bank on Wall Street. Not too surprising given he is the brother of Hans Gruber from the first movie.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: Katya, who needs to be physically restrained by Simon and Targo from further cutting up the poor Federal Reserve guard she already killed. An almost literal example as her knife-work leaves her clothes covered in blood for the rest of the film.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_bb8f2da3	type	Cop Killer Manhunt
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_bb8f2da3	comment	Cop Killer Manhunt: Discussed. Zeus saves John from being killed in Harlem, but insists he did it for this reason.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: A beautiful precision strike amid a cluster of F-bombs: Suppose you're carjacked. Suppose you're standing in the rain, watching the two carjackers drive off in your Mercedes. Suppose the Mercedes suddenly stops and one of the carjackers rolls down the window. Now, what in the world could he possibly have to say to you? Oh, I don't know, how about ... The TV edit? A quite hilariously dubbed-in "Go take a hike!"
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_bc2717e9	type	Towers of Hanoi
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_bc2717e9	comment	Towers of Hanoi: Simon gets John and Zeus running around town solving children's riddles. About the only stereotype he doesn't run into is the Towers of Hanoi.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_bc502e4b	type	You Are What You Hate
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_bc502e4b	comment	You Are What You Hate: Zeus is a black man with serious problems with white people, most especially white racists (though the latter can hardly be said to be an unreasonable position). Eventually McClane calls him out on the fact that he's acting like a racist himself, which seems to offend Zeus.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_bc54e772	type	Fulton Street Folly
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_bc54e772	comment	Fulton Street Folly: The film features a Wall Street subway bombing. (And subverts it by using the explosion to break into the Federal Reserve — which is actually a couple blocks away.)
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_bcba27a1	type	Putting on the Reich
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_bcba27a1	comment	Putting on the Reich: Simon's archive photo depicts him dressed in early NVA uniform, looking completely like a Nazi save for the imperial eagle.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_bce16d24	type	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_bce16d24	comment	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Targo insists Simon stop toying with McClane and just shoot him. The fact that they don't do that to Zeus ends up breaking their scheme.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_be6f7ae7	type	Brief Accent Imitation
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_be6f7ae7	comment	Brief Accent Imitation: Jeremy Irons tries to fake an American accent as the German Simon Gruber pretending to be an American (Irons is British). It is simply awful.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: Although the New York centrism is fully on display with the other installments, notice how bumbling and ineffective the LAPD and FBI are in Die Hard compared to how well the NYPD is depicted. Not to mention the incredibly thick accents a couple of characters sport:
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_bf01bda2	type	Helicopter Blender
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_bf01bda2	comment	Helicopter Blender: Played with. Simon's helicopter hits a light pole with its main rotor, producing a shower of sparks; however, instead of this causing the rotor to shatter and the helicopter to simply drop a few metres on the ground, the whole thing just blows up for no clearly defined reason.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_c12f0c4	type	Outrun the Fireball
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_c12f0c4	comment	Outrun the Fireball: McClane does this with a dump truck and a rush of water in the tunnel after the dam is blown up. Subverted: After being told that a bomb is in a garbage can by the phone booth, both Zeus and McClane try to push people aside and then dive to the ground; when no explosion happens, the terrorist's laughter reveals the joke. Later played straight with the exploding boat.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_c16b3149	type	Going by the Matchbook
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_c16b3149	comment	Going by the Matchbook: Variation. An aspirin bottle that Simon jokingly hands to McClane earlier turns out to have an address on it of the truck stop in Canada where he and his men are hiding out later.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_c2676b00	type	Jurisdiction Friction
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_c2676b00	comment	Jurisdiction Friction: Averted twice. Inspector Cobb is ordering his men to search the schools and challenges the FBI agents not to pull a jurisdictional stunt. The FBI agent has kids in one of the threatened schools, and he's more than happy to provide assistance. As Cobb goes to liaise with the other department chiefs and officers, Ricky informs him that the senior officer present is Chief Allen, and Cobb makes sure to acknowledge his authority in his briefing.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Charlie Weiss.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_c36cba70	type	Mooks
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_c36cba70	comment	Some of Simon's men can speak English and some can't. Otto is of the latter category, shown when he kills Walsh and another Mook chastises him in English. A third replies:
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_c3e4a2f0	type	Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_c3e4a2f0	comment	Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo: Although not involving poison, the alternate ending lays with this trope. John McClane faces off with Simon Gruber, a rocket launcher with the sights removed on the table between them. They play the Simon Says game, with the rocket being turned each time Simon Gruber answers a question correctly. Eventually he gets a question wrong, so John tells him to pull the trigger. However Simon turns the rocket launcher one more time before doing so, convinced the muzzle will then be facing towards John. He's wrong.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_c54d550d	type	Novelization
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_c54d550d	comment	Novelization: The film was novelised by D. Chiel. More details here.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_c75061a3	type	Notable Non Sequitur
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_c75061a3	comment	Notable Non Sequitur: There is an offhand report about fourteen dump trucks being stolen the night before. Later in the film, it is revealed that these trucks are being used by the villains to cart off the gold they have stolen.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: When McClane's running from a Giant Wall of Watery Doom in an aqueduct, the soundtrack drifts into a brief snippet of "Singin' in the Rain". In an apparent reference to Goldfinger, Simon quips that Fort Knox "is for tourists."
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_c83f40d8	type	Bystander Syndrome
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_c83f40d8	comment	Bystander Syndrome: When Zeus is roped into being John's partner:
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_c895f927	type	Criminal Mind Games
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_c895f927	comment	Criminal Mind Games: Subverted with "Simon" playing a Simon-Says type game with McClane through the first half of the movie in order to prevent a bomb from being detonated. Subverted in that it's shown to simply be a way to get McClane (and the entire NYPD) out of the way while Simon pulls off a heist of the federal reserve.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_c8ba12ee	type	Interplay of Sex and Violence
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_c8ba12ee	comment	Interplay of Sex and Violence: Simon follows The Dragon into a room after she gives him the look. She jumps on his back. He rips her clothes off. She rips his clothes off. Then John shows up with a gun in a helicopter.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: Simon Gruber is identified as an elite East German spy, comparing him to English-speaking Nazis infiltrating Allied camps during the Battle of the Bulge. When Simon appears and introduces himself to Rick Walsh as "Bob Thompson" from the City Engineer's office, he actually attempts an American accent and the outcome is an stereotypically exaggerated Texan drawl. Given his Laughably Evil nature, Simon seems to be enjoying himself, joking around in a very morbid and ironic sense in that iconical context and opportunity:
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_ccdbab03	type	GoshDangItToHeck
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_ccdbab03	comment	Gosh Dangit To Heck: An odd variant. In the censored UK DVD, some swearing is redubbed, but the subtitles are left untouched. Most noticeable when McClane and Zeus commandeer a car — the (former) owner yells "Take a hike!" while the subtitles read "Go fuck yourself!".
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_ceb79d4	type	Stock Lateral Thinking Puzzle
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_ceb79d4	comment	Stock Lateral Thinking Puzzle: Simon forces John and Zeus to solve several of these as a distraction technique. In the alternate ending, John gives Simon the same treatment. Just one example: "As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks, each sack had seven cats, each cat had seven kittens. Kittens, cats, sacks, wives, how many were going to St. Ives?"AnswerJust the one guy. The family and the cats were going away from St. Ives.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Running into a band of underaged looters ("There's no cops anywhere, it's like Christmas! You could steal City Hall") makes McClane realize that the Simon's ploy is likely a distraction for his actual motive: robbery.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: John McClane walks around Harlem in his underwear with a sign that proclaims "I Hate Niggers" (Simon made him do it). The street corner at which John is forced to stand is less than twenty yards away from the favorite hangout of a street gang armed with knives. Zeus Carver ominously lampshades this — not five seconds before said gang members spot the sign and come over looking for trouble, and one of them hurls a switchblade that lodges in the sign. John quickly tries to save himself by pretending to be a mental patient... which doesn't work too well. What's most outrageous is that John and Zeus both survive this harrowing encounter with little more than a beer bottle broken over John's head and minor knife wound for Zeus.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_d51158ee	type	Revised Ending
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_d51158ee	comment	Revised Ending: There were not one, but two alternate endings (one was filmed, the other wasn't). In the filmed one, McClane and Simon meet again at a European cafÃ© well after the events of the film. In this ending, Simon gets away with the heist by turning the gold into small Empire State Building statues. McClane recaps that he was fired because of Simon's getaway. McClane forces Simon to play a "McClane Says," Russian Roulette-style game using a Chinese rocket launcher with the sights removed. Simon gets a question wrong and dies from being shot by the launcher. McClane was wearing a flak jacket which would have prevented major injury. The filmed alternate was rejected by the studio for being too dark and McClane was bordering on He Who Fights Monsters. In the unfilmed one, McClane and Carver head back to shore after the boat explodes. Carver notes that the villains are going to get away; McClane tells him not to be so sure. The scene cuts to Simon and his crew on board a plane when they suddenly discover the briefcase bomb that Simon had used on McClane and Carver in the park, the same one Carver gave back to the Mooks posing as cops. Presumably, the bomb used on the plane would have been a different one or not used to blow up a dam in a later sequence. Simon would then ask anyone on the plane if they had a 4-gallon jug, calling back to the disarming sequence from the park.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_d5b3df2d	type	Dark Action Girl
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_d5b3df2d	comment	Dark Action Girl: Katya is evil, female and deadly. The fact that she's The Voiceless makes her more intimidating.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_d6618014	type	Last Request
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_d6618014	comment	Last Request: McClane asks Gruber if he has any aspirin. This doesn't help McClane escape his predicament, but it does give them a lead on where to find Gruber later.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_d6b5f05f	type	Friendship Moment
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_d6b5f05f	comment	Friendship Moment: John's a washed up drunk, but everyone on the force still cares about him. They reminisce about their lottery numbers and the captain asks him about his kids.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: The truck driver reacts to McClane gunning down two terrorists with an understated "That guy dead?" Then again, this is New York...
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_da1c8191	comment	Either this trope or Writers Cannot Do Math comes into place with the trucks: in 1995, $150 billion worth of gold would be about 9,000 tons—far more than even 14 full dump trucks could take. They would probably need at least 28 to 40 dump trucks to haul the gold out. On top of this, the Federal Reserve Bank only holds 5,000 tons of gold, while Fort Knox holds 4,600 tons. Justified when Joe verbatim tells Walter that the Federal Reserve is the biggest gold storage in the world.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl Connie Kowalski is pretty hard-boiled - as are almost all of the NYPD cops - but during the evacuation of the elementary school (when it's believed that a bomb has been planted there) she confesses that she might "pee [her] pants."
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_dbbba507	type	Handguns
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_dbbba507	comment	Handguns: McClane's able to take out a helicopter with a snub-nosed revolver. To be fair, he didn't aim directly at said helicopter...
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: Simon is presented as a mad bomber with a personal grudge against John McClane for killing his brother. Turns out that was all a distraction to keep John and Zeus busy finding bombs, while he and his crew of professional mercenaries rob The Federal Reserve Bank of its gold. It's later revealed that the villain didn't even like his brother, and John dying from one of the bombs going off was just a bonus while doing the robbery, not a personal priority.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: John is ejected from the flooded aqueduct just as Zeus is passing. Had he missed Zeus and had even a few minutes' delay, they would have missed their chance to jump to the boat and get the vital clue to Simon's hideout.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Walter Cobb.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_de0df7a0	type	Stock Scream
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_de0df7a0	comment	Stock Scream: The Wilhelm Scream is heard when McClane is driving through the park when he apparently nearly hits a mime.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_df4b69d6	type	Uncomfortable Elevator Moment
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_df4b69d6	comment	Uncomfortable Elevator Moment: With an initially unsuspecting McClane sharing a small elevator with four guards, most of them significantly larger than himself. It gets bloody once he realizes they're Simon's henchmen.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_e135b3de	type	Pass the Popcorn
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_e135b3de	comment	Pass the Popcorn: Happens when a group of office workers begin eating popcorn while staring at the giant smoking crater in the middle of Wall Street.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_e1573096	type	Let's Dance
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_e1573096	comment	Let's Dance: Bomb squad technician Charlie Veiss says this to a bomb he's attempting to defuse:
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_e35ab565	type	Indy Ploy
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_e35ab565	comment	Indy Ploy: It's Die Hard, John McClane is always cooking up some absurd solution on the fly. Lampshaded by Zeus:
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_e43130c1	type	Interrupted Intimacy
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_e43130c1	comment	Interrupted Intimacy: McClane interrupts Simon as he's about to get intimate with Katya. The normally stoic woman suddenly gets very angry at McClane.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Zeus and the rest of the NYPD get to join John in this. Zeus is by his side for every second of Simon's games, the regular cops do everything they can to get every kid out of the school, including running back in with seconds left to try and get the last few out, and Charlie the bomb tech cuts the last wire at the last second...
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_e6b3e4f2	type	Chain Pain
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_e6b3e4f2	comment	Chain Pain: John McClane does this on Targo.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_e7e3674	type	Strapped to a Bomb
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_e7e3674	comment	Strapped to a Bomb: Happens to McClane and Zeus.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_e9454d0f	type	Blood-Splattered Warrior
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_e9454d0f	comment	Blood-Splattered Warrior: McClane emerges blood-spattered from shooting five mooks in an elevator. Zeus ask with concern, "You all right?" McClane replies, casually, "Yeah, yeah, it's not my blood."
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_e993da98	type	Equal-Opportunity Evil
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_e993da98	comment	Equal-Opportunity Evil: While Simon Gruber doesn't quite fit this trope in terms of his mooks (they're all Germans and Slavs, with a token Hungarian as second-in-command), John McClane uses this description to convince Zeus to help him. McClane lies and tells Zeus that Simon put a bomb in Harlem (he actually put it in Chinatown), saying, "This guy doesn't care about skin color even if you do."
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: When addressing the senior officers regarding the bomb in the school, Walter informs them that Simon has said that they can't evacuate, but he didn't say that they can't search.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_e9f517e1	type	Artistic License â€“ Geography
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License â€“ Geography: Simon first gives McClane and Carver fifteen minutes to get from Police Plaza to the 72nd Street and Broadway Subway station. In reality, that's at its shortest a distance of 5.7 miles, and in good weekday morning traffic, it takes about 35 minutes by car IF you depart immediately. Yet, they have at least an additional 4 minutes for Carver to get pissy about his obligated participation before even leaving the building AND they did have to use civilian transport, so they casually rolled up to the station in a taxi. Then, Simon makes them immediately, no building to leave, at ground level, get to Wall Street 2/3 Station within 30 minutes. A 6.3 mile journey. Much, much more feasible without even having to rush had they used 9th avenue or the West Side Highway. This is in a film that knew enough about NYC geography to have fake hidden the bomb that Weiss found offscreen in a park in Chinatown, which is the closest neighborhood to Police Plaza in the city, ensuring it was located quickly to show the cops the threat they possess for the Batman Gambit later on. Plus, Wall Street Station's island platform isn't nearly as broad as the film presents, nor is there an exterior platform.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Zeus is initially a hothead but gets better.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_ebb8b676	type	Not His Blood
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_ebb8b676	comment	Not His Blood: McClane sports blood on his face after an action sequence. When asked by his partner if he is alright, he shrugs it off noting that it's not his blood.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_ec0ce986	type	Spotting the Thread
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_ec0ce986	comment	Spotting the Thread: McClane steps into the elevator down to the Federal Reserve's vault with a couple of Simon's henchmen who are posing as security guards, including one "Detective Otto". But as they are getting on, one of them gives himself away by referring to the elevator they are riding as a "lift" (British terminology, which may be a hint, that Simon's unit was supposed to infiltrate the British Army of the Rhine,) as well as mentioning a hard rainstorm as raining "like dogs and cats" (when an American would say it's raining "cats and dogs" - the order reversed). This leads McClane to then notice the badge Otto is wearing and catches the reflection of the badge number - 6991 - and realizes that the guy had killed Ricky Walsh and stolen his badge (McClane had remarked on Walsh's badge number in the van when Cobb and the other detectives were transporting him to Harlem for Simon's first game). He breaks the silence by asking them about last night's lottery numbers (a topic routinely discussed among the cops), and then....
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_eea06f9a	comment	Artistic License â€“ Cars: Simon claims the truck McClane is driving contains $13 billion worth of gold bullion. In 1995, this would be 1,015 tons, more than the trucks could hold, much less move under their own power. Even the largest dump trucks, massive open pit mining trucks, can only hold a maximum of 400 tons. Simon, in real life, would have probably needed at least twice, if not, three times as many dump trucks as he ultimately uses (he uses 14, he would need in real life at least 50 trucks to carry that much gold out). Not to mention the weight would have shattered those flimsy boards that they drive over in the tunnel. The dump trucks are too tall to clear any of the underpasses and tunnels on the FDR Drive. There's a reason only cars are allowed on it (it was part of redlining; keeping the bridges that short meant that busses couldn't go through and that meant that the people who lived in certain neighborhoods couldn't take the bus to the beach. It was designed so due to racial prejudice. A guy named Robert Moses designed New York so only white people could have easy access to nice things.) The WARN winch on the Dodge Ram requires at least five wraps of wire around the drum for a safe pull, so if the winch ran out and the truck started to get pulled, the only thing securing the winch cable to winch drum is a small bolt. If the weight of the truck was applied to the bolt versus a static object, the cable would snap. The fusebox in a 1985 Mercedes 560 is under the hood, not where Zeus finds it.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_eeb86ce6	comment	Good Samaritan: Zeus doesn't know anything about John McClane other than he's a white man in Harlem wearing nothing but a racist sandwich board sign. Despite being a rather unrepentantly bitter and biased man when it comes to white people, he saves him from a gang. It wasn't that he necessarily wanted him to live, but he was afraid of what would happen if a white guy was killed on his block. Throughout the film, Simon Gruber calls him "The Samaritan."
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_f237981e	comment	The Alleged Car: At one point, John and Zeus steal, of all things, a Yugo. It takes them about a minute to replace it with a classier car.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_f2d8e3c2	comment	Simon's Evil Plan is to use bomb threats to have the police spread thin and distracted long enough for him to rob the Federal Reserve. He isn't the only criminal to realize this, a few teenage shoplifters also take advantage of it...which is what tips McClane off.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_f7cee9b	comment	Last Stand: Attempted by the Federal Reserve guard when realizing he's cut off from any help and alone until Katya appears from the one direction he wouldn't expect and cuts him up like a pig.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_f9c17447	comment	The Remnant: Simon Gruber's unit of East-German Special Forces who were trained to speak fluent English for infiltration operations and were disbanded after the Soviet Union fell.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: John is hungover as hell for the whole movie and has a terrible headache. He finally gets some aspirin from Simon of all people... except the bottle ends up being a vital clue to find Simon, as it's stamped with the name of a Canadian truck stop that happens to be across the street from the warehouse Simon and his crew are using as a staging area.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_fab3235a	comment	Easy Evangelism: The person who regularly drives the taxi cab McClane and Carver commandeered for their drive through Central Park decided to place a Islam is the Solution bumper sticker on the rear of the vehicle.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: McClane when he and Zeus are solving the St. Ives riddle.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License â€“ Physics
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: When Simon's bomb derails the subway car, it crashes through and knocks down the support pillars for the station. NYC MTA has had multiple subway derailments in real-life, and the pillars won those collisions. Definitively. When Simon's shipboard bomb explodes, the enormous shockwave - neatly displayed, even - would pulp anything nearby, no matter whether in the air or in the water: ship, containers full of junk, cops, electricians... Even if they'd somehow miraculously survived the blast, they could have never survived the aftermath - an exploded ship doesn't miraculously vanish into thin air: they'd have surfaced to a maelstrom of fire, airborne metallic debris, a fuel-oil slick and very little breathable air.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_fc9c4dfc	comment	Defensive Failure: Zeus is holding up the entire bad guy parade with a gun, at which point Simon Gruber walks up to him, promptly explains that he forgot to turn the safety off, then shoots him in the leg and captures him.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_fd184a86	comment	Street Performer: When they're tearing through Central Park in a stolen Taxi, barely missing several picnickers, Zeus asks McClane "Are you AIMING for those people?" "No, no... well, maybe that mime."
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_fd76df83	type	Artistic License â€“ Economics
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_fd76df83	comment	Artistic License â€“ Economics: The ultimate plan of Simon's employer, to blow up all the gold in the Federal Reserve and thereby destabilize the world economy, is about 20 years out of date. The world went off the Gold Standard for valuing their currency in the 1970s. Blowing up the gold would be bad because of the loss of resources, not loss of money. By contrast, Simon's ultimate plan, to steal all the gold, would run into an entirely different problem: any attempt to cash in on the gold would, in short order, be found out by EVERY intelligence service, and Simon and his mercenaries would have to contend with a group of nations using extrajudicial means to punish them, because any amount of gold showing up on the market, black or otherwise, would be flagged immediately. It would end badly for them. The very idea that taking $140 billion in not-in-circulation funds out of the global economy would have any major effect is also laughable. Even if it was value-in-use, the lost value would be a drop in the ocean of world economic trade.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Sort of. In an alternate ending (which was, ultimately, never filmed), the bomb that John and Zeus disabled in the park isn't used to blow the dam. Instead, it makes an appearance later. As the two heroes float around on a raft after the ship with all the gold blows up, Zeus laments that it's a shame Simon's going to get away with it. John tells him not to be so sure. The scene shifts to a plane, as Simon and his henchmen leave, and they find the briefcase bomb. The movie ends on a darkly comic note, with Simon asking if anyone happens to have a four-gallon jug.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Simon orders a mook to let Zeus walk away twice.
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Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The Caper plan the bad guys came up with not only was a Near-Villain Victory, but it also landed the film's scriptwriter in hot water with the FBI because they thought it was a little too plausible for comfort. Jonathan Hensleigh was called in to explain how he knew so much about the Federal Gold Reserve in downtown Manhattan and he stated that most of it came from an article written in the New York Times. In one version of the anecdote, an anonymous FBI agent even said, "It sounds crazy, but somebody could pull this off."
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