John McClane

English Etymology From the main character of the movie Die Hard. Noun A dogged and reluctant hero, known especially for sacrificing himself and for crawling through ventilation ducts. en Burglars, then, far from being interdimensional John McClanes of the built environment sliding through the many unseen topologies of Nakatomi space, are more like human mosquitoes: irritating, seemingly pointless, and unending in number. A Burglar's Guide to the City Geoff Manaugh 2016 Farrar, Straus and Giroux https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Burglar_s_Guide_to_the_City/QSSNBwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1 en I settled into my first faculty meeting of the year with my secret plan in place and devised plans to take over eventually. I would go alone. I was going to be the John McClane of that university. 4 Horsemen Publications 2024 Academic Inferno - My Academic Trip Through Adjunct Hell Virgil Henry https://www.google.com/books/edition/Academic_Inferno_My_Academic_Trip_Throug/0Dn9EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1 en John Wick joins the annals of the greatest action heroes on screen, up there with the John McClanes, the Rambos, the Bullitts. https://deathoffilmcriticism.com/2017/02/10/review-john-wick-chapter-2/ Feb 10, 2017 Review – John Wick: Chapter 2 Dylan Moses Griffin The Death of Film Criticism https://web.archive.org/web/20260811065418/https://deathoffilmcriticism.com/2017/02/10/review-john-wick-chapter-2/ August 11, 2026 en terms derived from fiction eponyms en Fictional characters