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* '''Played For Horror''': It's "Die Hard on an X"... and it's a TorturePorn. The terrorists don't just blow away their hostages -- they cleave them apart with rusty fire axes on live television and bathe in their blood.

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It's "Die Hard on an X"... and it's a TorturePorn. The terrorists don't just blow away their hostages -- they cleave them apart with rusty fire axes on live television and bathe in their blood.
** The story is "Die Hard in an EldritchLocation", and ''at its safest'' counts as LovecraftLite. The "terrorists" are [[HordeOfAlienLocusts a swarm of invading]] [[EldritchAbomination extradimensional entities]] [[PlanetEater that devour entire worlds]] and are implied to be running from something even worse, the "clueless police" are TheMenInBlack who [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm can barely even comprehend what they're up against]] and are woefully outgunned by the threat, and [[TomTheDarkLord "Bob"]] is a friendly nickname for a BenevolentAbomination inhabiting the EldritchLocation in question, who is TheOnlyOne able to save the day.
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** The plot is such a deliberate WholePlotReference to ''Die Hard'' that people InUniverse note the resemblance… of course, Bob [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure will be the one person on the cast who has never seen either the original or any of the billion copycats]].
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** [[CollidingCriminalConspiracies Thirty thieving gangs and terrorist conspiracies attack the building at the exact same time]]. One third of the cast is playing John [=McClane=], one third of the cast are the befuddled hostages, and the final third of the cast is [[ThisIsMySide trying to figure out how to split the building and hostages evenly]] when [[EvilVsEvil they're not trying to kill each other]].

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