History Awesome / DieHard2

* At the end of the film, Thornburg, severely weak from Holly tasering him and still suffering a panic attack, is unceremoniously kicked off the plane and left lying on the ground being deliberately (and justly) refused help by all passengers and crew and abandoned. Not even the airport staff nor rescue teams bother to hear his pleas. To make his comeuppance all the sweeter, Holly's fellow elderly passenger calls Thornburg an "asshole" directly to his face and walks over him.

* At the end of the film, Thornburg, severely weak from Holly tasering him and still suffering a panic attack, is unceremoniously kicked off the plane and left lying on the ground being deliberately (and justly) refused help by all passengers and crew and abandoned. Not even the airport staff nor rescue teams bother to hear his pleas. To make his comeuppance all the sweeter, Holly's fellow elderly passenger calls Thornburg an "asshole" directly to this face and walks over him.

* At the end of the film, Thornburg, severely weak from Holly tasering him and still suffering a panic attack, is unceremoniously kicked off the plane and left lying on the ground being deliberately (and rightfully) refused help by all passengers and crew and abandoned. Not even the airport staff nor rescue teams bother to hear his pleas. To make his comeuppance all the sweeter, Holly's fellow elderly passenger calls Thornburg an "asshole" directly to this face and walks over him.

* At the end of the film, Thornburg, severely weak from Holly tasering him and still suffering a panic attack, is unceremoniously kicked off the plane and left lying on the ground being deliberately refused help and abandoned. Not even the airport staff nor rescue teams bother to hear his pleas. To make his comeuppance all the sweeter, Holly's fellow elderly passenger calls Thornburg an "asshole" directly to this face and walks over him.

* At the end of the film, Thornburg is unceremoniously kicked off the plane and left lying on the ground being deliberately refused help and abandoned. Not even the airport staff nor rescue teams bother to hear his pleas. To make his comeuppance all the sweeter, Holly's fellow elderly passenger calls Thornburg an "asshole" directly to this face and walks over him.

* At the end of the film, Thornburg is unceremoniously kicked off the plane and left lying on the ground being deliberately refused help and abandoned. Not even the airport staff nor rescue teams bother to hear his pleas. To make his comeuppance all the sweeter, Holly's fellow elderly passenger even calls Thornburg an "asshole" directly to this face and walks over him.

* At the end of the film, Thornburg is unceremoniously kicked off the plane and left lying on the ground being deliberately refused help and abandoned. Not even the airport staff and rescue teams bother to hear his cries for help. To make his comeuppance all the sweeter, Holly's fellow elderly passenger even calls Thornburg an "asshole" directly to this face and walks over him.

* While the airport S.W.A.T. cops are often mocked as a RedShirtArmy for only killing one member of the terrorist squad that they (slightly) outnumber before being wiped out, the fact is that they ''do'' manage to kill a villain and are the ''only'' people in the entire franchise to do so besides John, his various sidekicks, and other villains.

* John shows a bit of good street smarts when he tries to prove the first dead terrorist is no mere luggage thief and that the airport cops need to take things more seriously. With the help of a rent-a-car clerk, he manages to get the ink and paper to fingerprint a dead {{Mook}} on the fly and then faxes them to Powell to get a quick identification.

* Even though [=McClane=] gets his ass kicked by Colonel Stuart on the wing of the plane that Stuart and his men are using to escape, he manages to open a fuel hatch before being kicked off. As the plane keeps speeding on the runway, [=McClane=] takes out his lighter, lets out one hell of a CallBack ([[CatchPhrase "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker!"]]) and ignites the trail of fuel, which catches up to the plane in the midst of taking off from the ground, leading to a ''spectacular'' mid-air explosion. The trail of fire is then used by the planes to land safely.

** Simultaneously, there's the completely satisfying turnaround from [[NearVillainVictory how the special-forces soldiers and Stuart's team are all celebrating, high-fiving, kicking back and smoking cigars in their airplane, confident that they've]] [[KarmaHoudini gotten away with their plan scot-free]] -- and then [=McClane=]'s lit trail of jet fuel catches up to them, and it instantly turns into a villainous HopeSpot as they all [[KillItWithFire go up in a ball of fire]].

* After Col. Stuart's men had killed the S.W.A.T. team, they are about to kill Barnes when [=McClane=] pops up from the vent above and kills them one-by-one.

* Even though [=McClane=] gets his ass kicked by Col. Stuart on the wing of the plane that Stuart and his men are using to escape, he manages to open a fuel hatch before falling off. As the plane keeps speeding on the runway, [=McClane=] takes out his lighter, lets out one hell of a CallBack ("Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker") and ignites the trail of fuel, which catches up to the plane in the midst of taking off from the ground, leading to a ''spectacular'' mid-air explosion. The trail of fire is then used by the planes to land safely.

** Simultaneously, there's the completely satisfying turnaround from how the special-forces soldiers and Stuart's team are all celebrating, high-fiving, kicking back and smoking cigars in their airplane, confident that they've [[KarmaHoudini gotten away with their plan scot-free]] -- and then [=McClane=]'s lit trail of jet fuel catches up to them, and it instantly turns into a villainous HopeSpot as they all [[KillItWithFire go up in a ball of fire]].

* A villainous example. Colonel Stuart is the only villain in the series to completely and unambiguously curb-stomp [=McClane=] in a fight. As despicable as Stuart is, his fighting skills were pretty awesome to watch.

* A villainous example. Colonel Stuart is the only villain in the series to completely and unambiguously curb-stomp McClane in a fight. As despicable as Stuart is, his fighting skills were pretty awesome to watch.

* At the church, [=McClane=] kills a mercenary by stabbing him in the eye with an icicle.

* After finding out what Thornburg had been doing in the lavatory, Holly borrows a stun gun from a fellow passenger and knock out the jerkass.

* After Col. Stuart's men had killed the S.W.A.T. team, they are about to kill Barnes when [=McClane=] pops up from the vent above and kill them one-by-one.

* Even though [=McClane=] gets his ass kicked by Col. Stuart on the wing of the plane that Stuart and his men are using to escape, he manages to open a fuel hatch before falling off. As the plane keeps speeding on the runway, [=McClane=] takes out his lighter, lets out one hell of a CallBack ("Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker") and ignites the trail of fuel, which catches up to the plane in the midst of taking off from the ground, leading to a ''spectacular'' mid-air explosion.

* [=McClane=] rushing onto the runway right in the path of the landing plane to prevent it from crashing into the ground via Stuart's sabotage. He fails, but his desperate effort is something to commend when he knew the odds were against him.

* Even though [=McClane=] gets his ass kicked by Col. Stuart on the wing of the plane that Stuart and his men are using to escape, he manages to open a fuel hatch before falling off. As the plane keeps speeding on the runway, [=McClane=] takes out his lighter, lets out one hell of a CallBack ("Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker") and ignites the trail of fuel, which catches up to the plane in the midst of taking off from the ground, leading to a ''spectacular'' mid-air explosion.