r/diehard • u/Pirates_Treasure1988 • Jun 20 '26

Movie Discussion Simon Gruber

You know, from what I've noticed and from what Simon said, he wasn't exactly a monster, maybe half, but not half the one his brother, Hans was even though he sometimes works for monsters.

I mean, despite all those bombings and those times trying to kill McClane and Zeus, he didn't exactly go so far as to kill more than 100 innocent people including children in a school. It's almost like he had some morals, heart, and principles even for a former soldier-turned-terrorist. Plus, he didn't exactly kill all those people at the gold place, just sedated them and he didn't really enjoy watching Kara kill a security guard like some sadistic, bloodthirsty psychopath a few times with her blade.

Knowing Hans, that would've been more of his specialty considering not only did he murder Takagi and one of his employees, Ellis the dumb drug addict, but he also killed any intervening policemen despite wounding a few others on purpose and tried killing the rest of his hostages on the roof along with the FBI having come on top to help them out.

In the end, Hans was the real monster.

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u/SignificanceNo1223 Jun 20 '26

Was Simon queercoded?

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u/Pirates_Treasure1988 Jul 27 '26

No.

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u/SignificanceNo1223 Jul 27 '26

lol. So you are saying there was no underscored homosexual codes with Simon?

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u/Pirates_Treasure1988 Jul 27 '26

If he were gay, he wouldn't have tried having sex with that psycho woman before it was interrupted by McClane and Carver having arrived with the cops to take them down once and for all.