History Film / LiveFreeOrDieHard

* AdultFear: You know that nice, authoritative-sounding man or woman on the other end of the phone? They're actually a sociopath. [[spoiler:And he knows where your kids are.]]

** John shoots one of Mai’s henchmen in the foot as they struggle

* HollywoodHacking: [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/7/16/brains-with-urgent-appointments/ Skewered by Penny Arcade.]]

* PreMortemOneLiner: [=McClane=] to Gabriel at the closing moments of the movie:
-->'''Gabriel:''' ''(Rubbing the end of his pistol at [=McClane's=] gunshot wound...)'' On your tombstone, it should read: "Always in the wrong place, at the wrong time...\\
'''[=McClane=]:''' How about... "[[CatchPhrase Yipee-ki-yay, Motherfucker!]]"\\
''(Force-fires the pistol through his gunshot wound, and straight through Gabriel's chest...)''

-->'''Gabriel:''' ''(Rubbing the end of his pistol at [=McClane's=] gunshot wound...)'' On your headstone, it should read: "Always at the wrong place, at the wrong time...\\

* PreMortemOneLiner: "[[CatchPhrase Yipee-ki-yay, Motherfucker]]", said while shooting his own shoulder, which due to an earlier wound, allows the BigBad to end up taking the full brunt of his own bullet, fatally wounding him.

* BaldOfAwesome: [=McClane=]‘s lost all his hair, but that doesn’t stop him from kicking ass.

* TheGenerationGap: As [=McClane=] listens to Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival, Farrell complains and regards him as an old fashioned dinosaur for deeming this "classic" ("It's old rock. That doesn't make it classic. What sucked back then still sucks today."). He even tries asking if [=McClane=] knows newer bands such as Music/PearlJam.

* RealityEnsues:
** Mai Linh might be DarkActionGirl extraordinaire, but [=McClane=] has '''several''' pounds on her. After taking a barrage of blows from her, [=McClane=] knocks her out with a bodyslam followed by two punches.
** Knockouts don't last long barring serious concussions. After the above when [=McClane=] leaves to check up on Matt, Mai gets up and ambushes him.

* WaifFu: Mai is a good fighter, relying heavily on ambushing people. [[spoiler:RealityEnsues when she gets into a stand-up fight with John, and he promptly throws her into a bookcase, stunning her for several minutes.]]

** Knockouts don't last long barring serious concussions. After the above when [=McClane=] leaves to check up on his, Mai gets up and ambushes him.

* BarrierBustingBlow: [=McClane=] punches a mook through a lath-and-plaster wall. Granted, the mook and his partner have already shot away most of the plaster.

* PacManFever: Averted with a friend or roommate of one of the hackers, whoi is clearly seen playing ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'', and he's pressing the buttons in the way a normal player would.

--> ...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.''']

''Live Free or Die Hard'' (known as ''Die Hard 4.0'' outside of the U.S.) is the fourth movie in the popular ''Franchise/DieHard'' franchise.

--> '''Gabriel:''' ''(maliciously)'' "On your tombstone, it should read: '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)''

** John is a fan of ''Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival''. Farrell is ignorant of classic rock and regards him as an old fashioned dinosaur.

* 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).

** 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.

** Mai Linh might be DarkActionGirl extraordinaire, but McClane has '''several''' pounds on her. After taking a barrage of blows from her, McClane knocks her out with a bodyslam followed by two punches.
** Knockouts don't last long barring serious concussions. After the above when McClane leaves to check up on his, Mai gets up and ambushes him.

* BaldOfAwesome: [=McClane=].

* DarkenedBuildingShootout: Happens on the very first act of the movie, where [=McClane=] encounters a group of armed goons hired to kill Farell on the off-chance the explosives-rigged PC in the latter's room did not go off.

* 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.

* NonActionGuy: Matt. As much as possible, he stays out of combat and sticks to hacking. When he's attacked by Mai, he manages to throw one punch (in a manner that suggests it's the first time in a long time he's tried to punch someone) and then very quickly succumbs

* BeingGoodSucks: [=McClane=] sourly notes that being hero doesn't get you anything but a lonely life, but he's going to do what's necessary because he's the only one can.

In this installment, John [=McClane=] (Creator/BruceWillis) is teamed up with a computer hacker named Matt Farrell, to stop a group of cyberterrorists led 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.

* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: An F-35 fighter jet engages a target with its cannons at point-blank range. Not just point blank for its guns, it's almost point-blank for pistols. Even better is that the STOVL version of the F-35 doesn't even have an internal gun(an external pod is being tested as of 2017), nor is it ever capable of hovering for more than a few seconds while landing.