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{{quote|'''Dwayne T. Robinson:''' I don't know who you think you are but you just blew up a BUILDING! I've got a hundred people down here, and [[Completely Missing the Point|they're covered with glass!]]<br />
'''McClane:''' Glass? [[Lampshade Hanging|Who gives a shit about glass?]] Who the fuck is this? }}
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: The dad from ''[[Family Matters]]'' (Reginald VelJohnson) is '''still''' a cop in 1 and 2 but he is in the wrong part of the country.
** William Atherton stormed into Ghostbusters headquarters as Walter Peck before becoming TV reporter Richard Thornburgh in 1 and 2.
** Don't you forget about...the principal from [[The Breakfast Club]]
** If you're into ballet, you'll recognize Alexander Godunov as [[The Dragon]] in the first film.
** Die Hard 2 is full of these, particularly people who weren't famous at the time that went on to bigger roles. Dennis Franz (Chief Lorenzo) went on to [[NYPD Blue]]. Robert Patrick played a Mook a year before he played T-1000 in Terminator 2:Judgment Day. William Sadler (Colonel Stuart) went on to play the Grim Reaper in ''[[Bill and Teds Bogus Journey]]'', a convict in ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'', and Sheriff Valenti on ''[[Roswell]]''.
*** Theres also [[Star Trek|Chief O'Brien]] as an Airplane Pilot.
**** And Die Harder also has 2008 Republican Presidential candidate Fred Thompson as the chief air traffic controller. Note, he wasn't in politics yet. He also went on to star in the [[Law and Order]] franchise.
** Going the other way, John Amos (Major Grant in Die Hard 2) was a veteran of [[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]] and Maude, which had been on the air in the 1970's.
** Timothy Olyphant (Thomas Gabriel in Die Hard 4) was a cop in the remake of [[Gone in 60 Seconds]]. He went on to play Agent 47 in Hitman and the star of the FX show Justified.
* [[Hollywood CB]]: Mostly averted, with McClane's talks with Al the cop audible to the terrorists (hence his use of "Roy" instead of his real name), except for one bit where he interrupts Hans at one point, on a walkie talkie.
* [[Hollywood Darkness]]: The runways in the second movie.