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** Averted when [=McClane=] and Matt need to hotwire a car. Rather than use some exaggerated hacking trick, Matt triggers a call to the vehicle's remote assistance and employs [[BavarianFireDrill social engineering]] to try and convince the operator on the other end of the call to start the car for them by remote.
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* AlasPoorVillain: It is revealed that the reason for Gabriel's actions is that he used to [[spoiler: work for the NSA, and warned the government the US was vulnerable to the very kind of cyber attacks he ends up committing. However, his concerns fell on deaf ears, and when he tried to continue pressuring them they crucified him: threatening him with life imprisonment and ruining his professional reputation]].
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* FreudianExcuse: It is revealed that the reason for Gabriel's actions is that he used to [[spoiler: work for the NSA, and warned the government the US was vulnerable to the very kind of cyber attacks he ends up committing. However, his concerns fell on deaf ears, and when he tried to continue pressuring them they crucified him: threatening him with life imprisonment and ruining his professional reputation]].
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** Mai and several other men disguise themselves as FBI agents so they can physically access the utilities site in West Virginia. Another of Gabriel's men uses fake FBI credentials to convince [[spoiler: Lucy McClane to come with him]].
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** Mai and several other men disguise themselves as FBI agents so they can physically access the utilities site in West Virginia. Another of Gabriel's men uses fake FBI credentials to convince [[spoiler: Lucy McClane [=Lucy McClane=] to come with him]].
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* AlasPoorVillain: It is revealed that the reason for Gabriels actions is that he used to [[spoiler: work for the NSA, and warned the government the US was vulnerable to the very kind of cyber attacks he ends up committing. However, his concerns fell on deaf ears, and when he tried to continue pressuring them they crucified him: threatening him with life imprisonment and ruining his professional reputation]].
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* AlasPoorVillain: It is revealed that the reason for Gabriels Gabriel's actions is that he used to [[spoiler: work for the NSA, and warned the government the US was vulnerable to the very kind of cyber attacks he ends up committing. However, his concerns fell on deaf ears, and when he tried to continue pressuring them they crucified him: threatening him with life imprisonment and ruining his professional reputation]].
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* ForcedFriendlyFire: John McClane uses this trope to kill the BigBad who is standing behind him, shooting through his own shoulder in the process. Therefore inverting the HumanShield variant.
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* ForcedFriendlyFire: John McClane [=McClane=] uses this trope to kill the BigBad who is standing behind him, shooting through his own shoulder in the process. Therefore inverting the HumanShield variant.
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--> '''McClane:''' "How about 'Yippee-ki-yay, Mother-''(forces Gabriel to fire his own gun through [=McClane=]'s shoulder wound)''-FUCKER!!'" ''(kills Gabriel once and for all)''
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--> '''McClane:''' '''[=McClane=]:''' "How about 'Yippee-ki-yay, Mother-''(forces Gabriel to fire his own gun through [=McClane=]'s shoulder wound)''-FUCKER!!'" ''(kills Gabriel once and for all)''
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* TheCavalryArrivesLate: The FBI SWAT team arrives to Gabriel's hideout only after McClane has killed all of Gabriel's men and Gabriel personally with his own gun. (Gabriel's last henchman, Emerson, was killed by Farrell.)
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* TheCavalryArrivesLate: The FBI SWAT team arrives to Gabriel's hideout only after McClane [=McClane=] has killed all of Gabriel's men and Gabriel personally with his own gun. (Gabriel's last henchman, Emerson, was killed by Farrell.)
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--> '''McClane:''' "How about 'Yippee-ki-yay, Mother-''(forces Gabriel to fire his own gun through McClane's shoulder wound)''-FUCKER!!'" ''(kills Gabriel once and for all)''
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--> '''McClane:''' "How about 'Yippee-ki-yay, Mother-''(forces Gabriel to fire his own gun through McClane's [=McClane=]'s shoulder wound)''-FUCKER!!'" ''(kills Gabriel once and for all)''
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** Happens to the BigBad as well as McClane uses Gabriel's own gun to fatally wound him by shooting Gabriel through his own wounded shoulder.
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** Happens to the BigBad as well as McClane [=McClane=] uses Gabriel's own gun to fatally wound him by shooting Gabriel through his own wounded shoulder.
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My bad. Finally realized I made a typo in "Cavalry." Idiot...
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* TheCalvaryArrivesLate: The FBI SWAT team arrives to Gabriel's hideout only after McClane has killed all of Gabriel's men and Gabriel personally with his own gun. (Gabriel's last henchman, Emerson, was killed by Farrell.)
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* TheCalvaryArrivesLate: TheCavalryArrivesLate: The FBI SWAT team arrives to Gabriel's hideout only after McClane has killed all of Gabriel's men and Gabriel personally with his own gun. (Gabriel's last henchman, Emerson, was killed by Farrell.)
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Okay, now I got the trope right.
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* CalvaryComesLate: The FBI SWAT team arrives to Gabriel's hideout only after McClane has killed all of Gabriel's men and Gabriel personally with his own gun. (Gabriel's last henchman, Emerson, was killed by Farrell.)
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* CalvaryComesLate: TheCalvaryArrivesLate: The FBI SWAT team arrives to Gabriel's hideout only after McClane has killed all of Gabriel's men and Gabriel personally with his own gun. (Gabriel's last henchman, Emerson, was killed by Farrell.)
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Still not right...
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* TheCalvaryComesLate: The FBI SWAT team arrives to Gabriel's hideout only after McClane has killed all of Gabriel's men and Gabriel personally with his own gun. (Gabriel's last henchman, Emerson, was killed by Farrell.)
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* TheCalvaryComesLate: CalvaryComesLate: The FBI SWAT team arrives to Gabriel's hideout only after McClane has killed all of Gabriel's men and Gabriel personally with his own gun. (Gabriel's last henchman, Emerson, was killed by Farrell.)
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Not sure I have the right name for the one trope so it is not a broken link.
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* TheCalvaryArrivesLate: The FBI SWAT team arrives to Gabriel's hideout only after McClane has killed all of Gabriel's men and Gabriel personally with his own gun. (Gabriel's last henchman, Emerson, was killed by Farrell.)
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* TheCalvaryArrivesLate: TheCalvaryComesLate: The FBI SWAT team arrives to Gabriel's hideout only after McClane has killed all of Gabriel's men and Gabriel personally with his own gun. (Gabriel's last henchman, Emerson, was killed by Farrell.)
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** [=McClane's=] chief knows his exact location at the beginning because the unmarked unit, like all government vehicles, is equipped with a Lojack. This later comes up when [=McClane=] gives Bowman the tag of the government-owned vehicle the villain is fleeing in.
** The combat technique of firing the opponent's sidearm while it's in its holster, shooting him in the foot, is first shown by [=McClane=] at the power plant. Lucy uses that same trick at the end to distract everyone.
** The combat technique of firing the opponent's sidearm while it's in its holster, shooting him in the foot, is first shown by [=McClane=] at the power plant. Lucy uses that same trick at the end to distract everyone.
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* ActionDuo: [=McClane=] and Matt Farrell.
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* ActionDuo: ActionDuo | CopAndScientist: [=McClane=] and Matt Farrell.
** Again when John [[CarFu flings his car into a villain]].
---> '''[=McClane=]''': I was out of bullets.
---> '''[=McClane=]''': I was out of bullets.
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* CombatParkour: The film features an enemy agent girl whose super-agile backflips and kicks almost manage to defeat John [=McClane=].
* CombatPragmatist: [=McClane=] defeats the DarkActionGirl by running her over with a car.
* CombatPragmatist: [=McClane=] defeats the DarkActionGirl by running her over with a car.
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* CombatParkour: The film features an enemy agent girl whose super-agile backflips and kicks almost manage to defeat John [=McClane=].
[=McClane=]. An enemy agent guy also makes an appearance both at the beginning and during the Woodlawn sequence, leading John to remark:
--> '''[=McClane=]''': Is the circus in town?
* CombatPragmatist: [=McClane=] defeats the DarkActionGirl by [[CarFu running her over with acar.car]].
--> '''[=McClane=]''': Is the circus in town?
* CombatPragmatist: [=McClane=] defeats the DarkActionGirl by [[CarFu running her over with a
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** As always, John [=McClane=] himself. The man gets shot at, blown up, thrown from moving cars, [[DestinationDefenestration thrown out of windows]] [[CarCushion onto cars]], thrown around by an explosion inside a car, shot, beaten to an inch of his life, shot at with Gatling guns, shot at with missiles, and dropped off the top of a hovering jet - and he ''still'' keeps on going!
---> '''[=McClane=]''': "I'm the fuckin' Energizer bunny."
---> '''[=McClane=]''': "I'm the fuckin' Energizer bunny."
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---> '''[=McClane=]''': ''[Telling Gabriel what happened to Mai]'' "She's at the bottom of an elevator shaft with an SUV rammed up her ass."
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--> '''Gabriel:''' ''(maliciously)'' "On your tombstone, it will say: 'Always in the wrong place, at the wrong time.'"
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--> '''Gabriel:''' ''(maliciously)'' "On your tombstone, it will say: should read: 'Always in the wrong place, at the wrong time.'"
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* TheCalvaryArrivesLate: The FBI SWAT team arrives to Gabriel's hideout only after McClane has killed all of Gabriel's men and Gabriel personally with his own gun. (Gabriel's last henchman, Emerson, was killed by Farrell.)
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--> '''Gabriel:''' ''(maliciously)'' "On your tombstone, it will say: 'Always in the wrong place, at the wrong time.'"
--> '''McClane:''' "How about 'Yippee-ki-yay, Mother-''(forces Gabriel to fire his own gun through McClane's shoulder wound)''-FUCKER!!'" ''(kills Gabriel once and for all)''
--> '''McClane:''' "How about 'Yippee-ki-yay, Mother-''(forces Gabriel to fire his own gun through McClane's shoulder wound)''-FUCKER!!'" ''(kills Gabriel once and for all)''
** Happens to the BigBad as well as McClane uses Gabriel's own gun to fatally wound him by shooting Gabriel through his own wounded shoulder.
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* PreMortemOneLiner: "[[CatchPhrase Yipee-ki-yay, Motherfucker]]", said while shooting his own shoulder.
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* PreMortemOneLiner: "[[CatchPhrase Yipee-ki-yay, Motherfucker]]", said while shooting his own shoulder.shoulder, which due to an earlier wound, allows the BigBad to end up taking the full brunt of his own bullet, fatally wounding him.
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* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Mai and several other men disguise themselves as FBI agents so they can physically access the utilities site in West Virginia. Another of Gabriel's men uses fake FBI credentials to convince [[spoiler: Lucy McClane to come with him]].
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* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Mai ImpersonatingAnOfficer:
**Gabriel and his men acquired the necessary code/algorithms for the "fire sale" by impersonating government officials and contracting various hackers (including Farrell) to write it under the guise of it being used for the totally legal purpose of testing cyber-security.
**Mai and several other men disguise themselves as FBI agents so they can physically access the utilities site in West Virginia. Another of Gabriel's men uses fake FBI credentials to convince [[spoiler: Lucy McClane to come with him]].
**Gabriel and his men acquired the necessary code/algorithms for the "fire sale" by impersonating government officials and contracting various hackers (including Farrell) to write it under the guise of it being used for the totally legal purpose of testing cyber-security.
**Mai and several other men disguise themselves as FBI agents so they can physically access the utilities site in West Virginia. Another of Gabriel's men uses fake FBI credentials to convince [[spoiler: Lucy McClane to come with him]].
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* MoreDakka: Gabriel is able to commandeer a government ''F-35 fighter jet'' to do their bidding, after he hacks into the planes systems and impersonates a military air controller.
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* MoreDakka: Gabriel is able to commandeer a government ''F-35 fighter jet'' to do their his bidding, after he hacks into the planes systems and impersonates a military air controller.
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* AlasPoorVillain: It is revealed that the reason for Gabriels actions is that he used to [[spoiler: work for the NSA, and warned the government the US was vulnerable to the very kind of cyber attacks he ends up committing. However, his concerns fell on deaf ears, and when he tried to continue pressuring them they crucified him, threatened him with life imprisonment and ruined his professional reputation]].
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* AlasPoorVillain: It is revealed that the reason for Gabriels actions is that he used to [[spoiler: work for the NSA, and warned the government the US was vulnerable to the very kind of cyber attacks he ends up committing. However, his concerns fell on deaf ears, and when he tried to continue pressuring them they crucified him, threatened him: threatening him with life imprisonment and ruined ruining his professional reputation]].
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* TheAce: Thomas Gabriel, in a villainous sense. He is incredibly good at what he does, and is known amongst the hacker community as the man who ''hacked into NORAD with a laptop'', just to prove a point.
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* TheAce: Thomas Gabriel, in a villainous sense. He is incredibly good at what he does, and is known amongst the hacker community as the man who ''hacked into NORAD with a laptop'', just to prove a point.point back when he [[spoiler: worked for the NSA]].
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* TheAce: Thomas Gabriel, in a villainous sense. He is incredibly good at what he does, and is known amongst the hacker community as the man who ''hacked into NORAD with a laptop'', just to prove a point.
* AlasPoorVillain: It is revealed that the reason for Gabriels actions is that he used to [[spoiler: work for the NSA, and warned the government the US was vulnerable to the very kind of cyber attacks he ends up committing. However, his concerns fell on deaf ears, and when he tried to continue pressuring them they crucified him, threatened him with life imprisonment and ruined his professional reputation]].
** Farrell's algorithm he sold to Gabriel's people under the impression it was to be used only for legal security testing. They later use it to access the NDA building, but when Farrell and [=McClane=] later break in, Farrell recognises his work and is also able to access the mainframe [[spoiler: and place an encryption on the data before he is captured]].
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* JurisdictionFriction: Bowman is less than pleased when two arrogant liaison's from DHS and the NSA turn up at the FBI's mobile control centre and demand a place to set up shop, dismissing them and demanding they stand in the corner.
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* JurisdictionFriction: Bowman is less than pleased when does not get along with the two arrogant liaison's from DHS and the NSA NSA, especially when they turn up at the FBI's mobile control centre and demand a place to set up shop, dismissing them and demanding they stand in the corner.shop.
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* MoreDakka: The F-35 for the bad guys.
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* MoreDakka: The F-35 for Gabriel is able to commandeer a government ''F-35 fighter jet'' to do their bidding, after he hacks into the bad guys.planes systems and impersonates a military air controller.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Farrell begins to think this when he discovers an algorithm he sold, which he believed was only being used by the government to test cybersecurity, is used by the terrorists as part of their "fire sale".
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Farrell begins to think this when he discovers an algorithm he sold, which he believed was only being used by the government to test cybersecurity, is used by the terrorists as part of their "fire sale".
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* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Mai and several other men disguise themselves as FBI agents so they can physically access the utilities site in West Virginia.
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* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Mai and several other men disguise themselves as FBI agents so they can physically access the utilities site in West Virginia. Another of Gabriel's men uses fake FBI credentials to convince [[spoiler: Lucy McClane to come with him]].
* JurisdictionFriction: Bowman is less than pleased when two arrogant liaison's from DHS and the NSA turn up at the FBI's mobile control centre and demand a place to set up shop, dismissing them and demanding they stand in the corner.
* JurisdictionFriction: Bowman is less than pleased when two arrogant liaison's from DHS and the NSA turn up at the FBI's mobile control centre and demand a place to set up shop, dismissing them and demanding they stand in the corner.
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* ChekhovsGun: when Farrell and [=McClane=] visit Warlock, he notices that he has a ham radio and its frequency. [[spoiler:When he gets in a truck with a radio, he calls Warlock to his radio and asks him to put him in contact with Bowman.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: ChekhovsGun:
**Mai's "sexy" voice, which Farrell first comments on in the intro when he is in communication with her doing what he thinks is legal computer work. He later recognises the same voice when she impersonates a Metro PD dispatcher [[spoiler: to try and lure an FBI convoy to a secluded area so they can kill Farrell]].
**When Farrell and [=McClane=] visit Warlock, he notices that he has a ham radio and its frequency. [[spoiler:When he gets in a truck with a radio, he calls Warlock to his radio and asks him to put him in contact with Bowman.]]
**Mai's "sexy" voice, which Farrell first comments on in the intro when he is in communication with her doing what he thinks is legal computer work. He later recognises the same voice when she impersonates a Metro PD dispatcher [[spoiler: to try and lure an FBI convoy to a secluded area so they can kill Farrell]].
**When Farrell and [=McClane=] visit Warlock, he notices that he has a ham radio and its frequency. [[spoiler:When he gets in a truck with a radio, he calls Warlock to his radio and asks him to put him in contact with Bowman.]]
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* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: Despite being described in captions as a Social Security Administration building, all other decals and seals present the Woodlawn facility as being run by the fictitious National Data Administration.
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* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: Mai and several other men disguise themselves as FBI agents so they can physically access the utilities site in West Virginia.
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* ForcedFriendlyFire: John McClane uses this trope to kill the BigBad who is standing behind him, shooting through his own shoulder in the process. Therefore inverting the HumanShield variant.
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* PoliceCodeForEverything: John [=McClane=] uses this to SpotTheThread on Mai when she's posing as a police dispatcher, using a code for incidents of public nudity to see if she'll catch it. She doesn't.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Rand hangs from a cable to get [=McClane=]'s gun... but he ends up hanging in such a way that [=McClane=] can kill him.
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* CombatPragmatist:
** [=McClane=] defeats the DarkActionGirl by running her over with a car.
*** ''In an elevator shaft.''
** [=McClane=] defeats the DarkActionGirl by running her over with a car.
*** ''In an elevator shaft.''
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* CombatPragmatist:
**CombatPragmatist: [=McClane=] defeats the DarkActionGirl by running her over with a car.
*** ** ''In an elevator shaft.''
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* ShoutOut: John is a fan of ''Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival''. Farrel is ignorant of classic rock and regards him as an old fashioned dinosaur.
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* ShoutOut: John ShoutOut:
**John is a fan of ''Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival''.Farrel Farrell is ignorant of classic rock and regards him as an old fashioned dinosaur.dinosaur.
**Some of the footage Gabriel watches after his men hack the traffic lights in every major city, particularly one shot of a car running a light and colliding with an armored truck, is digitally altered footage from ''Film/TheItalianJob2003''.
**John is a fan of ''Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival''.
**Some of the footage Gabriel watches after his men hack the traffic lights in every major city, particularly one shot of a car running a light and colliding with an armored truck, is digitally altered footage from ''Film/TheItalianJob2003''.
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In this installment, John [=McClane=] (Creator/BruceWillis) is teamed up with a Matt Farrel, younger computer hacker, to stop a group of cyberterrorists led by a man named Thomas Gabriel. Gabriel's group are trying to execute a massive organized strike to disrupt society by dismantling technical infrastructure in the United States. [=McClane=]'s daughter Lucy returns as a DamselInDistress.
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In this installment, John [=McClane=] (Creator/BruceWillis) is teamed up with a Matt Farrel, Farrell, younger computer hacker, to stop a group of cyberterrorists led by a man named by Thomas Gabriel. Gabriel's group are trying to execute a massive organized strike to disrupt society by dismantling technical infrastructure in the United States. [=McClane=]'s daughter Lucy returns as a DamselInDistress.
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** Maggie Q's character akes a great amount of punishment in the course of the film, particularly at the gas plant, and yet doesn't show anything worse than a few cuts as a result. Eventually, [=McClane=] has to [[spoiler: throw her down an elevator shaft and then drop a ''truck'' on her]] in order to deal with her permanently.
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** Maggie Q's character akes Mai Linh takes a great amount of punishment in the course of the film, particularly at the gas plant, and yet doesn't show anything worse than a few cuts as a result. Eventually, [=McClane=] has to [[spoiler: throw her down an elevator shaft and then drop a ''truck'' on her]] in order to deal with her permanently.
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* HostageSituation: [=McClane=] utterly denies the BigBad's attempt to use his daughter, Lucy, against him. By his reasoning, if the BigBad has reached the point where he feels threatening [=McClane's=] family to be necessary, then he surely won't act on it because then [=McClane=] would have that much more motivation to kill him. Even Lucy refuses to act the part.
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* HostageSituation: [=McClane=] utterly denies the BigBad's Gabriel's attempt to use his daughter, Lucy, against him. By his reasoning, if the BigBad Gabriel has reached the point where he feels threatening [=McClane's=] family to be necessary, then he surely won't act on it because then [=McClane=] would have that much more motivation to kill him. Even Lucy refuses to act the part.
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* MadeOfIron: [=McClane=] plays this straighter than in any previous incarnation, something that a lot of people took offense to.
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''Live Free or Die Hard'' (Die Hard 4.0 outside of the U.S.) is the fourth movie in the popular ''Franchise/DieHard'' franchise.
In this installment, John [=McClane=] is teamed up with a Matt Farrel, younger computer hacker, to stop a group of cyberterrorists led by a man named Thomas Gabriel. Gabriel's group are trying to execute a massive organized strike to disrupt society by dismantling technical infrastructure in the United States. [=McClane=]'s daughter Lucy returns as a DamselInDistress.
In this installment, John [=McClane=] is teamed up with a Matt Farrel, younger computer hacker, to stop a group of cyberterrorists led by a man named Thomas Gabriel. Gabriel's group are trying to execute a massive organized strike to disrupt society by dismantling technical infrastructure in the United States. [=McClane=]'s daughter Lucy returns as a DamselInDistress.
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''Live Free or Die Hard'' (Die (known as ''Die Hard 4.0 0'' outside of the U.S.) is the fourth movie in the popular ''Franchise/DieHard'' franchise.
In this installment, John [=McClane=] (Creator/BruceWillis) is teamed up with a Matt Farrel, younger computer hacker, to stop a group of cyberterrorists led by a man named Thomas Gabriel. Gabriel's group are trying to execute a massive organized strike to disrupt society by dismantling technical infrastructure in the United States. [=McClane=]'s daughter Lucy returns as a DamselInDistress.
In this installment, John [=McClane=] (Creator/BruceWillis) is teamed up with a Matt Farrel, younger computer hacker, to stop a group of cyberterrorists led by a man named Thomas Gabriel. Gabriel's group are trying to execute a massive organized strike to disrupt society by dismantling technical infrastructure in the United States. [=McClane=]'s daughter Lucy returns as a DamselInDistress.
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''Live Free or Die Hard'' (Die Hard 4.0 outside of the U.S.) is the fourth movie in the popular ''Franchise/DieHard'' franchise.
In this installment, John [=McClane=] is teamed up with a Matt Farrel, younger computer hacker, to stop a group of cyberterrorists led by a man named Thomas Gabriel. Gabriel's group are trying to execute a massive organized strike to disrupt society by dismantling technical infrastructure in the United States. [=McClane=]'s daughter Lucy returns as a DamselInDistress.
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!!This film provides examples of the following tropes:
* ActionDuo: [=McClane=] and Matt Farrell.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Gabriel's message to the United States, using a montage of clips from Presidential Speeches:
--> "For all the -vital -technology -that -this -nation -holds -dear, -all communications transportation the Internet connectivity electrical power critical utilities, their fate -now -rests -in -our hands."
* BadassBoast: A nonchalant one when John flings a villain from his car.
-->'''Farrell''': Did you see that?
-->'''[=McClane=]''': Yeah, I saw it, I did it.
* BaldOfAwesome: [=McClane=].
* BarrierBustingBlow: [=McClane=] punches a mook through a door.
* BasementDweller: Turns out Matt's great computer genius hacker friend named Warlock is actually [[spoiler: a late 30 something man who lives with his mother]].
* BigBad: Thomas Gabriel.
* BloodlessCarnage: Subverted. Despite concerns over the PG-13 rating, this is still a pretty brutal film. Averted in the unrated version, in which squibs are used.
* CallBack: [=McClane=] shoots a henchman through the foot with the bad guy's holstered gun; Lucy pulls this on TheDragon during the climax.
* CarCushion: Nobody can fall from any height without damaging a poor sod's car.
* CarFu: [=McClane=] destroys a chopper with a car and a ramp, barbecues a DarkActionGirl with an elevator shaft and a SUV, and ''destroys a fighter plane with a big truck '''and an interstate highway''''' (though that later one is almost entirely involuntary).
* CarSkiing: [=McClane=] pulls one off on the crumbling freeway with the assistance of a misguided pilot and missiles.
* ChekhovsGun: when Farrell and [=McClane=] visit Warlock, he notices that he has a ham radio and its frequency. [[spoiler:When he gets in a truck with a radio, he calls Warlock to his radio and asks him to put him in contact with Bowman.]]
* CoDragons: Gabriel's mistress Mai and the French acrobatic henchman Rand.
* CombatParkour: The film features an enemy agent girl whose super-agile backflips and kicks almost manage to defeat John [=McClane=].
* CombatPragmatist:
** [=McClane=] defeats the DarkActionGirl by running her over with a car.
*** ''In an elevator shaft.''
** Played straight with the parkour runner earlier, which [=McClane=] stops dead by shooting him.
** John shoots Gabriel with [[spoiler: the gun that the villain was pointing at [=McClane=] himself]].
* ContinuityNod: We are briefly introduced to another Agent Johnson.
-->'''John''': Again?
* TheCracker: All the displayed hackers.
* CurseCutShort: What happened to [=McClane=]'s catch phrase. It is just barely audible in the ''Die Hard 4.0'' version released overseas, and fully intact in the "unrated" cut.
* [[CutAndPasteNote Cut And Paste Video]]: Gabriel's message announcing their attacks is broadcasted by meticulously cutting and pasting clips from Presidential speeches and arranging them accordingly.
* DarkActionGirl: Mai.
* DarkenedBuildingShootout
* DateRapeAverted: [=McClane=] does this for his daughter at the beginning. Well, that's what he's under the impression he's doing, anyway. All evidence points to his daughter being [[ActionGirl absolutely capable of taking care of herself.]]
* {{Determinator}}:
** Maggie Q's character akes a great amount of punishment in the course of the film, particularly at the gas plant, and yet doesn't show anything worse than a few cuts as a result. Eventually, [=McClane=] has to [[spoiler: throw her down an elevator shaft and then drop a ''truck'' on her]] in order to deal with her permanently.
** Rand keeps surviving attempts at killing him, such as being hit by a car, slammed into a wire fence and clipped against the side of a garbage container. After this, he survives [=McClane=]'s bit of CarFu by jumping out of the helicopter, and not getting a single injury.
* DefiantCaptive: Although she doesn't beat up her captors, when John's daughter Lucy has a gun to her head and is told to plead into the radio to make her father surrender, she instead demonstrates nerves of steel by choosing to give him some much-needed intel: "Now there are only five of them."
* DoNotAdjustYourSet: The first message from the hackers to the nation.
* EverythingIsOnline: The hackers mess up the traffic lights, TV broadcasts, and phone lines. They are, however, unable to remotely access the power grid and have to physically break into a power hub.
* EvilCounterpart: Rand is called the [[EvilCounterPart "evil [=McClane=]"]] on the film's DVD commentary, since he survives a lot of things for a faceless mook.
* FailsafeFailure: The bad guys blow up an entire natural gas facility by routing all the gas to it.
* GenreSavvy:
** When the BigBad threatens to [[spoiler: kill Lucy]], [=McClane=] (correctly) tells him he won't, because he's afraid of [=McClane=] and will need a bargaining chip.
** Matt Farrell repeatedly insists that the BigBad will kill him whether or not he uses his hacking skills to help him, so he steadfastly refuses. [[spoiler: He finally (potentially) gives in when the BigBad threatens to kill Lucy]], though.
* GoodIsOldFashioned: Thomas Gabriel mocks [=McClane=] this way.
* HackTheTrafficLights: the bad guys are able to shut down traffic and other utilities as part of their master plan.
* HackerCave: Most of the assassinated hackers live in them. Hell, a fallen Franchise/{{Terminator}} figurine saves the two main characters. In addition, the Hacker trailer.
* HollywoodHacking: [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/7/16/brains-with-urgent-appointments/ Skewered by Penny Arcade.]]
** Not all of it is unrealistic though, as someone actually did blow up a pipeline via computer [[http://www.cracked.com/article_20050_6-real-cyber-attacks-straight-out-bad-hacker-movie.html way back in 1982]]. And ''most'' (not all) of the hacks are done on systems that the villain himself helped code.
* HostageSituation: [=McClane=] utterly denies the BigBad's attempt to use his daughter, Lucy, against him. By his reasoning, if the BigBad has reached the point where he feels threatening [=McClane's=] family to be necessary, then he surely won't act on it because then [=McClane=] would have that much more motivation to kill him. Even Lucy refuses to act the part.
* JustPlaneWrong: The F-35 scene. The real plane is equipped with a single cannon. Also counts as RareVehicles since the F-35 wasn't in production, let alone operational service, in 2007.
** However, a Harrier with minimal weapons loadout does have two cannons, and could have done the fancy flying the F-35 did. Except hovering in a Harrier is ''the most'' difficult thing to do in any aircraft ever, and because of low engine thrust requires that all air-to-ground munitions and most of the fuel be spent first.
* KnightInSourArmor:
-->'''John [=McClane=]''': You know what you get for being a hero? Nothin'. You get shot at. You get a little pat on the back, blah, blah, blah, attaboy. You get divorced. Your wife can't remember your last name. Your kids don't want to talk to you. You get to eat a lot of meals by yourself. Trust me, kid, nobody wants to be that guy.
-->'''Matt Farrell''': Then why you doing this?
-->'''John [=McClane=]''': Because there's nobody else to do it right now, that's why. Believe me, if there were somebody else to do it, I'd let them do it, but there's not. So we're doing it.
-->'''Matt Farrell''': Ah. That's what makes you that guy.
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Lucy is defiant, headstrong, snarky and very able to put a useful fight against her captors.
-->'''Farrell''': Wow, I know that tone. It's just weird hearing it come from someone with... hair.
* LiveActionEscortMission: The first half of the film involves [=McClane=] trying to bring hacker Matt Farrell into the FBI while protecting Matt from the terrorists trying to kill him. Since they're headed to the Feds, at first Matt isn't exactly cooperative.
* LogoJoke: After the 20th Century Fox opening logo plays, it suddenly "short circuits", causing flickering as the the searchlights fade, climaxing in a total power outage.
* MagicFloppyDisk: Averted. There are USB thumb drives. This film came out in 2007 and ''was one of the first films that use them.''
* ManipulativeEditing: The baddies' video message to America mixes together clips from various American presidents to voice their speech.
* MarketBasedTitle: The film is known as ''Die Hard 4.0'' in the UK and other parts of Europe.
* MoreDakka: The F-35 for the bad guys.
* OnlineAlias: Creator/KevinSmith's character goes by "Warlock".
* PacManFever: Averted, one of the hackers is clearly seen playing ''GearsOfWar'', and he's pressing the buttons in the way a normal player would.
* PapaWolf: Don't you dare mess with [=McClane's=] daughter.
* LeParkour: Used by Rand.
* PoliceAreUseless: Subverted in that Thomas Gabriel's scheme is suppose to incapacitate the police to prevent them from working as easily.
* PoliceCodeForEverything: John [=McClane=] uses this to SpotTheThread on Mai when she's posing as a police dispatcher, using a code for incidents of public nudity to see if she'll catch it. She doesn't.
* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure[=/=]RecognitionFailure: [=McClane=] fails spectacularly to pass himself off as a member of the nerd culture. Most notably is when he fails to recognize a cutout of Boba Fett and tries to cover it by saying he's only familiar with ''Franchise/StarWars''.
* PreMortemOneLiner: "[[CatchPhrase Yipee-ki-yay, Motherfucker]]", said while shooting his own shoulder.
* PunBasedTitle: The title is obviously a "hard version" of the New Hampshire state motto "Live Free Or Die".
* RealityIsUnrealistic: Many people claimed there was no way you could use a computer to blow-up a gas line, but that sort of thing actually DID happen in real life [[http://www.cracked.com/article_20050_6-real-cyber-attacks-straight-out-bad-hacker-movie.html back in 1982]]
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Miguel Bowman.
** John [=McClane=], for that matter, towards Matt. When Matt explains what happened to the other white-hat hackers, [=McClane=] gets it and is understanding and sympathetic when he could easily have been a total hardass about it.
* SerialEscalation: The indoor car chases, as well as [=McClane=] ''using a car to take out a helicopter.'' The makers also try to set a new record for "amount of punishment ever inflicted upon an action star without killing him."
** And then, as if the car-helicopter collision isn't enough, [=McClane=] destroys an F-35 with a semi-truck.
* ShootTheHostage: Taken to a whole new level by the fact that [=McClane=] ''is'' the hostage; [[spoiler:he shoots himself in the shoulder to kill the BigBad]].
* ShoutOut: John is a fan of ''Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival''. Farrel is ignorant of classic rock and regards him as an old fashioned dinosaur.
* SoundEffectBleep
* TalkingToThemself: John, while taking out a helicopter.
--> ...all you gotta do...is pick up a kid... out of Jersey ...and take him down to D.C.! ['''gets into cop car'''] How hard can that be, huh? Nah, can't be that hard, can it? ['''turns on car's lights and sirens'''] Nah, gotta be a...''Senior'' Detective. ['''starts speeding down tunnel as a sniper shoots at him from a helicopter'''] You think if I'm in a traffic jam...throwing a car at me's gonna stop me, huh? ['''the sniper shoots the car, causing it to light on fire.'''] Great. Car's on fire. ['''Jumps out of car just before it goes off of a ramp and crashes into the helicopter, absolutely destroying it.''']
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