History Main / DieHardOnAnX

* The second half of ''Anime/DetectiveConanFilm05CountdownToHeaven'', the fifth NonSerialMovie of ''Manga/CaseClosed'' is basically your traditional Die Hard movie. After solving the murder case, the Black Organization bombed the skyscraper the heroes are in to kill one of their former members who had fled the organization, and the rest of the movie the heroes have to find a way to get out of the building before the last set of bombs kill them all. Hell, there is even a ShoutOut to Die Hard as Ran, the main heroine strapped a fire hose around her waist before jumping off the building before the fire consumed her, and kicking the window below to get inside before the fire hose burned off. She even claimed that she learned that trick from a movie! In fact, many NonSerialMovie of the series tend to crank up on the action that made them reminiscent of Die Hard films, including but not limited to ''Die Hard'' in a theme park (three times!), ''Die Hard'' in a virtual reality Victorian London (just go with it), ''Die Hard'' in a plane, ''Die Hard'' on a cruise liner, ''Die Hard'' in an opera house, ''Die Hard'' in a Ski Resort, ''Die Hard'' on Tokyo Tower, ''Die Hard'' on ''an airship'', ''Die Hard'' in a football stadium, ''Die Hard'' on '''an Aegis vessel''', ''Die Hard'' in the ''''Marina Bay Sands'''', and many more.

* ''Anime/EarlyReins'': ''Die Hard'' on a train! In TheWildWest! And the heroes are GirlsWithGuns!

** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', the plot of the "Citadel" DLC is essentially ''Die Hard'' on the Citadel, culminating with a frantic shootout on the ''Normandy'' as Shepard rushes to retake the ship. It's even chocked with characters, good and bad alike, who are spouting cheesy one-liners like an 80s action movie. Die Hard on the Normandy: Die Harder?
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' was "''Die Hard'' on an Alaskan Military Base".
** Come to think of it, ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' was "''Die Hard'' on a Russian Military Base During the Cold War".
*** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' manages to cover "DH on a ship" and "DH in a clean up facility." ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' is a bit like ''Live Free or Die Hard'' in the sense that Snake does quite a bit of traveling in the game. This game lets us add "DH in the Middle East, South America, Europe and Alaska" before coming back to being on a ship again (which this time around is more like StormingTheCastle)
** Of course the original ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear|1}}'' (and sequels) came out in 1987 pre-dating ''Die Hard'' and with the same basic plot. Many also differ in that the "terrorists" often aren't taking over anything, but staying at home being evil and Snake needs to infiltrate them.
*** Die Hard in Zanzibar, that's about it.

* In ''VideoGame/PaperMario'', there is a "Die Hard starring Princess Peach" [[UnexpectedGameplayChange segment]] after every chapter. The castle has been taken over by Bowser, and you have to use secret passages and disguises to sneak around and, at one point, [[ARareSentence stealthily bake a cake.]]

* The second half of ''Anime/DetectiveConanFilm05CountdownToHeaven'', the fifth NonSerialMovie of ''Manga/CaseClosed'' is basically your traditional Die Hard movie. After solving the murder case, the Black Organization bombed the skyscraper the heroes are in to kill one of their former members who had fled the organization, and the rest of the movie the heroes have to find a way to get out of the building before the last set of bombs kill them all. Hell, there is even a ShoutOut to Die Hard as Ran, the main heroine strapped a fire hose around her waist before jumping off the building before the fire consumed her, and kicking the window below to get inside before the fire hose burned off. She even claimed that she learned that trick from a movie! In fact, many NonSerialMovie of the series tend to crank up on the action that made them reminiscent of Die Hard films, including but not limited to ''Die Hard'' in a theme park (three times!), ''Die Hard'' in a virtual reality Victorian London (just go with it), ''Die Hard'' in a plane, ''Die Hard'' on a cruise liner, ''Die Hard'' in an opera house, ''Die Hard'' in a Ski Resort, ''Die Hard'' on Tokyo Tower, ''Die Hard'' on ''an airship'', ''Die Hard'' in a football stadium, ''Die Hard'' on ''''an Aegis vessel'''', ''Die Hard'' in the ''''Marina Bay Sands'''', and many more.

* The second half of ''Anime/DetectiveConanFilm05CountdownToHeaven'', the fifth NonSerialMovie of ''Manga/CaseClosed'' is basically your traditional Die Hard movie. After solving the murder case, the Black Organization bombed the skyscraper the heroes are in to kill one of their former members who had fled the organization, and the rest of the movie the heroes have to find a way to get out of the building before the last set of bombs kill them all. Hell, there is even a ShoutOut to Die Hard as Ran, the main heroine strapped a fire hose around her waist before jumping off the building before the fire consumed her, and kicking the window below to get inside before the fire hose burned off. She even claimed that she learned that trick from a movie! In fact, many NonSerialMovie of the series tend to crank up on the action that made them reminiscent of Die Hard films, including but not limited to ''Die Hard'' in a theme park (three times!), ''Die Hard'' in a virtual reality Victorian London (just go with it), ''Die Hard'' in a plane, ''Die Hard'' on a cruise liner, ''Die Hard'' in an opera house, ''Die Hard'' in a Ski Resort, ''Die Hard'' on Tokyo Tower, ''Die Hard'' on ''an airship'', ''Die Hard'' in a football stadium, ''Die Hard'' on '''''an Aegis vessel''''', and many more.

* ''Film/FlightPlan'': Creator/JodieFoster is on a plane where her young daughter goes missing and some kind of conspiracy aboard the plane may be responsible.

->''"So, experience the original masterpiece that inspired countless knock-offs, like: 'Die Hard' [[Film/{{Speed}} on a bus]], 'Die Hard' [[Film/{{Daylight}} in a tunnel]], 'Die Hard' [[Film/{{Cliffhanger}} on a mountain]], 'Die Hard' [[Film/OlympusHasFallen in the White House]], 'Die Hard' [[Film/WhiteHouseDown in the White House 2]], 'Die Hard' [[Film/PaulBlartMallCop in a mall]], 'Die Hard' [[Film/Speed2CruiseControl on a boat]], 'Die Hard' [[Film/UnderSiege on this other boat]], 'Die Hard' [[Film/SuddenDeath in a rink]], 'Die Hard' [[Film/UnderSiege2DarkTerritory on a train]], 'Die Hard' [[Film/{{Passenger57}} in a plane]], 'Die Hard' [[Film/ExecutiveDecision in another plane]], 'Die Hard' [[Film/AirForceOne in the president's plane]], 'Die Hard' [[Film/SnakesOnAPlane in a plane... with snakes!]] 'Die Hard', [[Film/AGoodDayToDieHard but awful]]."''

* The ''VideoGame/StarFox1'' [[ComicStrip/StarFox supplemental material]] featured a few pages of ''Die Hard'' [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]] when the [[VideoGame/StarFox eponymous team]] encountered Andross' troops aboard the ship they stowed away on.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' episode "Home Front", Robin and Artemis, the {{Badass Normal}}s of the team, are hunted throughout their own base by a team of ridiculously powerful androids.

* ''Film/{{Submarines}}is Die Hard on a Soviet nuclear sub. Having seized a Soviet nuclear submarine, the terrorist group's general Sajid Khan sail to the coasts of California decided to raze Los Angeles with a rain of nuclear missiles. American intelligence services are, however, on alert and the Admiralty Majesty instructs the submarine to intercept the enemy and prevent the threat before it happens the irreparable. The mission is entrusted to the Captain William Arlington, who, though fallen foul of a court martial incident spent at sea, has the necessary qualities of courage and determination to handle such situations.

* ''Film/{{Derailed}}'': On an out of control train holding hostages and high-tech bio-weapons agent Kristoff (Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme) becomes a one man army to derail the terrorists and save the lives of everyone on board!

See also AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs, HomeAloneAntics, SpannerInTheWorks, RightManInTheWrongPlace, StumbledIntoThePlot. Can overlap with CaughtUpInARobbery, which the original film is also an example of. A TrappedWithMonsterPlot can be seen as the {{inver|tedTrope}}sion of this, with the John [=McClane=] figure being the villain; a common joke is that a xenomorph audience would see ''Film/{{Alien}}'' as ''Die Hard'' on a space freighter.

* This trope is so pervasive that TheWikiRule strikes once again: behold the [[http://die-hard-scenario.wikia.com/wiki/Die_Hard_scenario_Wiki Die Hard Scenario Wiki]].

%%* Other ''Die Hard'' on a sub films include ''Crash Dive'', ''Submarines'' and ''Counter Measures''.

%%* ''Operation Delta Force 2: Mayday'', ''Counterstrike'' and ''Maiden Voyage: Ocean Hijack'' are also ''Die Hard'' on a ship. Granted, all the other ''Film/OperationDeltaForce'' films qualify as ''Die Hard'' clones.

* ''Film/ShotgunWedding2023'': ''Die Hard'' as a RomanticComedy. Specifically, it's ''Die Hard'' at a tropical island resort hosting a wedding, with the bride and the groom sharing the John [=McClane=] role after a team of mercenaries [[spoiler:hired by the bride's jilted ex-fiancé]] take everybody hostage for $45 million.

%%* ''Strategic Command''.

* ''Film/{{Gridlock}}'' is ''Die Hard'' in the Federal Reserve Building.

* The Creator/AntonioBanderas DirectToVideo film ''Film/{{Security}}'' is ''Die Hard'' in a mall meets ''Film/AssaultOnPrecinct131976'', with Banderas' former Marine character leading a mall cop RagtagBunchOfMisfits into trying to keep at bay a criminal mercenary force that wants to get into the mall and kill the teenage witness that ran inside while escaping from the massacre of her U.S. Marshal security detachment.

* The 1996 film ''Skyscraper'' (no relation to the Wrestling/DwayneJohnson film described below) is a rehash of the original ''Die Hard'', also taking place in a highrise. It stars Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith and, because it was made for Cinemax Channel at the height of its "Skinemax" era, adds a bunch of sex scenes and fan service that have no real use on the plot (even having Smith's character stopping mid-film to have a nooner flashback to some prior time she had sex with her husband just because).

* ''Series/StargateSG1'' inverted this trope: in "Bad Guys" SG-1 itself is mistaken as a group of terrorists in an alien museum, and a bumbling security guard believes himself to be the [=McClane=]. [[GenreSavvy Naturally]], they lampshade it:
-->'''Mitchell:''' [over radio while held at gunpoint] "Uh, we've got ourselves a bit of a [=John McClane=] here."\\
'''Daniel:''' "What? What're you talking about?"\\
'''Teal'c:''' "''Die Hard''."

* As the characters repeatedly {{lampshade|Hanging}}, Jim & George's subplot of the ''Series/NoOrdinaryFamily'' episode "No Ordinary Detention" is ''Die Hard'' in a police station. The trope is also {{invoked|Trope}}, as they explicitly base their plan on [=McClane=]'s actions. George compares himself to Sgt. Powell ("Let me be your black dude"), and Jim at one point uses the family-friendly half of [=McClane=]'s CatchPhrase.

* The third [[ChristmasEpisode Christmas filler arc]] of ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13501363/72/Chaos-Effect Chaos Effect]]'' is a parody of ''Film/DieHard'' itself, wherein the [=KaibaCorp=] office Christmas party is attacked by [[spoiler: the adult ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' gang]], leaving [[SelfInsert Edwin]] in the John [=McClane=] role. When he contacts the Domino City Police, [[PoliceAreUseless they respond]] by activating "[[LampshadeHanging Die Hard Protocol]]", forcing Edwin to go through all the steps of the movie regardless of the lack of common sense.

* ''Film/NoContest'' is ''Die Hard'' in a Miss Galaxy competition. The sequel is ''Die Hard'' in a museum.

* [[Fanfic/JWITCHSeries J-WITCH Season 1]], Chapter 11 is a full-on "Die Hard" on a cruise ship. The Chan Clan and the Guardians, on a vacation cruise, are attacked by a somewhat-reformed Dark Hand, whose team is also composed of a brute and a hacker.