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** [[Script/DieHardFirstDraft First Draft]]: [[SmugSnake Hans Gruber]] is an arrogant, [[AxCrazy vicious]] terrorist who kills a security guard to take over the Klaxon Oil Building, intending to destroy its vault. [[HostageSituation Taking over 30 people hostage]] and intending to murder them with his explosives, Hans kills one for so much as showing defiance and later [[CopKiller has the responding SWAT team massacred]]. When Detective John [=McClane=] steals his detonators, Hans delights in murdering a friend of his amongst the hostages. Discovering [[IHaveYourWife John's wife amongst the hostages]], hostages]] and mocking her for being unaware of Klaxon's corruption, even when John offers to trade the detonators for her safety Hans still attempts to kill both out of anger spite for their interference.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"I wanted this to be professional, efficient, adult, cooperative. Not a lot to ask. Alas, your Mr. Takagi did not see it that way--so he won't be joining us for the rest of his life."]]
->''"Do you hear that? Talk to me, where are my detonators? Where are they, or shall I shoot another one? Sooner or later, I might get to someone you do care about."''
-->--'''Hans Gruber''', ''Film/DieHard''
[[Franchise/DieHard John McClane]] and company have faced several threats, but none as [[CompleteMonster vicious, ruthless, and remorseless]] as the following.
Entries in each group are by release date.
![[Administrivia/SpoilersOff All spoilers are unmarked]]. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
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[[AC:Films]]
* [[Film/DieHard First film]]: [[TheChessmaster Hans Gruber]] is a self-described "exceptional thief" who [[DiabolicalMastermind leads]] the takeover of Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles. A former German terrorist, Hans is focused [[{{Greed}} solely on his own profit]], attempting to steal millions in bearer bonds--a plan which involves demanding the release of numerous terrorists worldwide to throw the authorities off. Executing company head Joseph Takagi when he refuses to cooperate, Gruber has a [[CopKiller SWAT team wiped out]] when they storm the building, and when [[BadassUnintentional John McClane]] interferes, Hans murders a hostage who claims to be John's friend and threatens to begin shooting more until he "gets to someone you do care about!" Hans never intends to let any hostages go, instead placing all of them on the roof to rig it with explosives, which he then plans to detonate--killing over 30 innocent people as a distraction--and fake his own death to escape with the bonds. While only succeeding in killing members of the FBI, Hans immediately kidnaps John's ex-wife before attempting to kill her and John in retribution. Ruthlessly devoted to his own profit above anything else and mixing an utter lack of regard for human lives--[[BadBoss even those of his own men]]--with [[FauxAffablyEvil an air]] of [[WickedCultured urbane sophistication]], Hans Gruber remains the most deeply personal enemy John [=McClane=] has ever faced, and serves as a prototype for countless future action movie villains.
* ''Film/DieHard2'': [[SociopathicSoldier Colonel William Stuart]] is an anti-communist ex-military mercenary, who supported the politics of the cruel dictator and drug lord [[TheGeneralissimo General Ramon Esperanza]]. After General Esperanza was imprisoned by US and prepared to be moved from South America to Washington Dulles International Airport to be imprisoned, he paid Stuart to gather up a squad of ex-soldiers and free him. To achieve this, Stuart organized the takeover of the airport, taking control of all the systems and rendering the planes above the airport--one of which carried [=McClane=]'s wife--unable to land in a strong snowstorm. Holding the entire airport hostage, Stuart became angry when the airport tried to regain control of their systems, acting against his orders; in retaliation, Stuart caused a plane to crash, killing 230 people. Killing several more people, Stuart is [[OnlyInItForTheMoney determined to get his cash]], at one point not even lifting a finger to help his old friend and partner Major Grant in his fight against [=McClane=] and ready to cause hundreds of more deaths if the airport refuses to follow his demands.
* ''Film/AGoodDayToDieHard'': [[PsychoForHire Alik]] is a Russian mercenary hired by corrupt Russian official [[DiscOneFinalBoss Viktor Chagarin]] to kidnap [[BigBad Yuri Komarov]] from the court and extract from him the files which contain compromising information about Chagarin. To this end, Alik sent several of his people to carry in their cars bombs near the courthouse in cars, only to blow them up [[BadBoss with his henchmen still inside]], killing dozens of innocent people in the courthouse. When John [=McClane=], Jr. has taken away Yuri from his grasp, Alik starts chasing him across the whole city, endangering countless lives and even killing several bystanders, laughing at all the mayhem that was happening around him. Capturing Yuri, Alik tried to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath sadistically and slowly kill]] John [=McClane=] and John [=McClane=], Jr., beating them for fun.
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* ''Die Hard Trilogy 2: Viva Las Vegas'': [[BigBad Kenny Sinclair]] is a former NYPD cop and [[EvilFormerFriend friend]] of John [=McClane=] who was always jealous of the latter's seemingly endless luck and decided to kill him, taking control of Las Vegas along the way. Inviting John to his party in Mesa Grande Prison, Kenny organized a prison outbreak, which endangered the lives of dozens of innocent guests at the party and led to deaths of several guards. Hiring mercenaries and ordering them to put bombs all over the city, Kenny also hired terrorists to try to unleash a biological virus in Las Vegas, at one point ordering his partner Reese Hoffman to send his secretary Elena Goshkin to lead the terrorists to try to blow up a city dump and [[WaterSourceTampering poison the water supply]].
* ''Vendetta'':
** [[BigBad Piet Gruber]] is the son of Hans Gruber and a powerful [[CorruptCorporateExecutive businessman]], who organized the stealing of several valuable paintings, killing dozens of people along the way, solely to sell them to Japanese criminal lord Sumi Kazawa in exchange for a prototype RDXS Ample rocket weapon, planning to threaten to destroy the Los Angeles International Airport with this weapon unless he gets 1 billion dollars. As John [=McClane=] interferes with his plans and captures one of his associates, Piet leads an attack on a LAPD police station, [[CopKiller killing countless innocent cops]] and then killing his associate, while also trying to blow up the police station itself.
** [[TheDragon Jack Frontier]], originally known as Jack Frontslovsky, is a former CIA operative, who left the service to become an actor. After one of his movies flopped, Jack grow angry with the studio replacing him with another actor for ''Galaxy Thief III''. Disappearing for a while, Jack allied himself with Piet Gruber, helping him in his schemes, killing several people along the way and starting a [[MobWar gang war]]. Eventually [[TheStarscream betraying Piet]], Jack leads an attack on Holmes Observatory in Hollywood at the premier of ''Galaxy Thief III'', setting bombs all around and inside the building, planning to kill everyone there, simply as [[DisproportionateRetribution revenge for replacing him with another actor]].
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* ''Nothing Lasts Forever'', by Roderick Thorp: In this novel which the original film was based on, [[BigBad Anton "Little Tony The Red" Gruber]] is a [[WesternTerrorists terrorist]] known for targeting industrialists and executing them. Taking over Klaxon Oil's building in LA, Gruber executes several of the executives and holds 75 hostages there, with only [[TheHero Joe Leland]] stalling his plans. Gruber eventually guns a hostage down trying to get at Joe, while revealing his true plan is to escape and detonate his explosives to wipe out the hostages, the building and everything and everyone half a mile all around in downtown LA.
* ''Film/DieHard'' draft screenplays, by Jeb Stuart:
** [[Script/DieHardFirstDraft First Draft]]: [[SmugSnake Hans Gruber]] is an arrogant, [[AxCrazy vicious]] terrorist who kills a security guard to take over the Klaxon Oil Building, intending to destroy its vault. [[HostageSituation Taking over 30 people hostage]] and intending to murder them with his explosives, Hans kills one for so much as showing defiance and later [[CopKiller has the responding SWAT team massacred]]. When Detective John [=McClane=] steals his detonators, Hans delights in murdering a friend of his amongst the hostages. Discovering [[IHaveYourWife John's wife amongst the hostages]], even when John offers to trade the detonators for her safety Hans still attempts to kill both out of anger for their interference.
** [[Script/DieHardSecondRevisedDraft Second Revised Draft]]: [[ManipulativeBastard Hans Gruber]] takes over 30 workers hostage in the Nakatomi Plaza, deviously intending to kill them and [[TheCaper escape with millions in the vault's treasury bonds]]. When a SWAT team is called to stop him, Hans fires heavy weaponry upon them to eliminate the police presence; and when Detective John [=McClane=] begins interfering Hans kills a hostage claiming to be John's friend, [[HostageForMcGuffin intent on killing more until John returns his blast detonators]]. Shooting down [[HellishCopter a police chopper overhead]], Hans [[DisproportionateRetribution kills a hostage for panicking]] after hearing an explosion and even vindictively kidnaps John's wife to spitefully try and kill both.
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[[quoteright:350:[[Film/DieHard https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/diehard_2.png]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"I wanted this to be professional, efficient, adult, cooperative. Not a lot to ask. Alas, your Mr. Takagi did not see it that way--so he won't be joining us for the rest of his life."]]
->''"Do you hear that? Talk to me, where are my detonators? Where are they, or shall I shoot another one? Sooner or later, I might get to someone you do care about."''
-->--'''Hans Gruber''', ''Film/DieHard''
[[Franchise/DieHard John McClane]] and company have faced several threats, but none as [[CompleteMonster vicious, ruthless, and remorseless]] as the following.
Entries in each group are by release date.
![[Administrivia/SpoilersOff All spoilers are unmarked]]. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
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[[AC:Films]]
* [[Film/DieHard First film]]: [[TheChessmaster Hans Gruber]] is a self-described "exceptional thief" who [[DiabolicalMastermind leads]] the takeover of Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles. A former German terrorist, Hans is focused [[{{Greed}} solely on his own profit]], attempting to steal millions in bearer bonds--a plan which involves demanding the release of numerous terrorists worldwide to throw the authorities off. Executing company head Joseph Takagi when he refuses to cooperate, Gruber has a [[CopKiller SWAT team wiped out]] when they storm the building, and when [[BadassUnintentional John McClane]] interferes, Hans murders a hostage who claims to be John's friend and threatens to begin shooting more until he "gets to someone you do care about!" Hans never intends to let any hostages go, instead placing all of them on the roof to rig it with explosives, which he then plans to detonate--killing over 30 innocent people as a distraction--and fake his own death to escape with the bonds. While only succeeding in killing members of the FBI, Hans immediately kidnaps John's ex-wife before attempting to kill her and John in retribution. Ruthlessly devoted to his own profit above anything else and mixing an utter lack of regard for human lives--[[BadBoss even those of his own men]]--with [[FauxAffablyEvil an air]] of [[WickedCultured urbane sophistication]], Hans Gruber remains the most deeply personal enemy John [=McClane=] has ever faced, and serves as a prototype for countless future action movie villains.
* ''Film/DieHard2'': [[SociopathicSoldier Colonel William Stuart]] is an anti-communist ex-military mercenary, who supported the politics of the cruel dictator and drug lord [[TheGeneralissimo General Ramon Esperanza]]. After General Esperanza was imprisoned by US and prepared to be moved from South America to Washington Dulles International Airport to be imprisoned, he paid Stuart to gather up a squad of ex-soldiers and free him. To achieve this, Stuart organized the takeover of the airport, taking control of all the systems and rendering the planes above the airport--one of which carried [=McClane=]'s wife--unable to land in a strong snowstorm. Holding the entire airport hostage, Stuart became angry when the airport tried to regain control of their systems, acting against his orders; in retaliation, Stuart caused a plane to crash, killing 230 people. Killing several more people, Stuart is [[OnlyInItForTheMoney determined to get his cash]], at one point not even lifting a finger to help his old friend and partner Major Grant in his fight against [=McClane=] and ready to cause hundreds of more deaths if the airport refuses to follow his demands.
* ''Film/AGoodDayToDieHard'': [[PsychoForHire Alik]] is a Russian mercenary hired by corrupt Russian official [[DiscOneFinalBoss Viktor Chagarin]] to kidnap [[BigBad Yuri Komarov]] from the court and extract from him the files which contain compromising information about Chagarin. To this end, Alik sent several of his people to carry in their cars bombs near the courthouse in cars, only to blow them up [[BadBoss with his henchmen still inside]], killing dozens of innocent people in the courthouse. When John [=McClane=], Jr. has taken away Yuri from his grasp, Alik starts chasing him across the whole city, endangering countless lives and even killing several bystanders, laughing at all the mayhem that was happening around him. Capturing Yuri, Alik tried to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath sadistically and slowly kill]] John [=McClane=] and John [=McClane=], Jr., beating them for fun.
[[AC:Video Games]]
* ''Die Hard Trilogy 2: Viva Las Vegas'': [[BigBad Kenny Sinclair]] is a former NYPD cop and [[EvilFormerFriend friend]] of John [=McClane=] who was always jealous of the latter's seemingly endless luck and decided to kill him, taking control of Las Vegas along the way. Inviting John to his party in Mesa Grande Prison, Kenny organized a prison outbreak, which endangered the lives of dozens of innocent guests at the party and led to deaths of several guards. Hiring mercenaries and ordering them to put bombs all over the city, Kenny also hired terrorists to try to unleash a biological virus in Las Vegas, at one point ordering his partner Reese Hoffman to send his secretary Elena Goshkin to lead the terrorists to try to blow up a city dump and [[WaterSourceTampering poison the water supply]].
* ''Vendetta'':
** [[BigBad Piet Gruber]] is the son of Hans Gruber and a powerful [[CorruptCorporateExecutive businessman]], who organized the stealing of several valuable paintings, killing dozens of people along the way, solely to sell them to Japanese criminal lord Sumi Kazawa in exchange for a prototype RDXS Ample rocket weapon, planning to threaten to destroy the Los Angeles International Airport with this weapon unless he gets 1 billion dollars. As John [=McClane=] interferes with his plans and captures one of his associates, Piet leads an attack on a LAPD police station, [[CopKiller killing countless innocent cops]] and then killing his associate, while also trying to blow up the police station itself.
** [[TheDragon Jack Frontier]], originally known as Jack Frontslovsky, is a former CIA operative, who left the service to become an actor. After one of his movies flopped, Jack grow angry with the studio replacing him with another actor for ''Galaxy Thief III''. Disappearing for a while, Jack allied himself with Piet Gruber, helping him in his schemes, killing several people along the way and starting a [[MobWar gang war]]. Eventually [[TheStarscream betraying Piet]], Jack leads an attack on Holmes Observatory in Hollywood at the premier of ''Galaxy Thief III'', setting bombs all around and inside the building, planning to kill everyone there, simply as [[DisproportionateRetribution revenge for replacing him with another actor]].
[[AC:Other Media]]
* ''Nothing Lasts Forever'', by Roderick Thorp: In this novel which the original film was based on, [[BigBad Anton "Little Tony The Red" Gruber]] is a [[WesternTerrorists terrorist]] known for targeting industrialists and executing them. Taking over Klaxon Oil's building in LA, Gruber executes several of the executives and holds 75 hostages there, with only [[TheHero Joe Leland]] stalling his plans. Gruber eventually guns a hostage down trying to get at Joe, while revealing his true plan is to escape and detonate his explosives to wipe out the hostages, the building and everything and everyone half a mile all around in downtown LA.
* ''Film/DieHard'' draft screenplays, by Jeb Stuart:
** [[Script/DieHardFirstDraft First Draft]]: [[SmugSnake Hans Gruber]] is an arrogant, [[AxCrazy vicious]] terrorist who kills a security guard to take over the Klaxon Oil Building, intending to destroy its vault. [[HostageSituation Taking over 30 people hostage]] and intending to murder them with his explosives, Hans kills one for so much as showing defiance and later [[CopKiller has the responding SWAT team massacred]]. When Detective John [=McClane=] steals his detonators, Hans delights in murdering a friend of his amongst the hostages. Discovering [[IHaveYourWife John's wife amongst the hostages]], even when John offers to trade the detonators for her safety Hans still attempts to kill both out of anger for their interference.
** [[Script/DieHardSecondRevisedDraft Second Revised Draft]]: [[ManipulativeBastard Hans Gruber]] takes over 30 workers hostage in the Nakatomi Plaza, deviously intending to kill them and [[TheCaper escape with millions in the vault's treasury bonds]]. When a SWAT team is called to stop him, Hans fires heavy weaponry upon them to eliminate the police presence; and when Detective John [=McClane=] begins interfering Hans kills a hostage claiming to be John's friend, [[HostageForMcGuffin intent on killing more until John returns his blast detonators]]. Shooting down [[HellishCopter a police chopper overhead]], Hans [[DisproportionateRetribution kills a hostage for panicking]] after hearing an explosion and even vindictively kidnaps John's wife to spitefully try and kill both.
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