As the "Die Hard" franchise passes its healthy 25-year anniversary milestone, it also launches a robust (and perhaps unnecessary?) fifth entry, "A Good Day to Die Hard," which hits theaters this Friday.

With McClane and son making Valentine's Day safe from Russian terrorists, we thought we'd break down what Bruce Willis has called "The Mythology of John McClane" by citing every crazy-ass, balls-to-the-wall thing the supercop has done in all four entries of the series. Yippee Ki-Hooray!

"Die Hard" (1988)
-Curls his toes on a rug to avoid jet lag.
-Choke-holds a guy while tumbling down a stairwell.
-Sends dead terrorist down on an elevator in a Santa hat with the words "NOW I HAVE A MACHINE GUN HO-HO-HO" written in blood on his sweater.
-Slides down a horizontal roof vent to avoid machine gun fire.
-Uses a gun as a doorstop so he can wriggle through a vent fan.
-Crawls through an air duct lit by a cigarette lighter, while getting shot at.
-Shoots a guy six times from under a table.
-Drops a dead dude onto Sgt. Al Powell's (Reginald VelJohnson) car to tip him off about the terrorists.
-Via walkie talkie, tells Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) "Yippee Ki-Yay, motherf**ker."
-Ties C4 to a chair, weighs it down with a computer monitor, and chucks it down an elevator shaft. *KABLOOEY*
-Trudges through broken glass, then pulls the shards out of his bare feet.
-Hangs the long-haired blonde terrorist 20-feet off the ground with a chain.
-Uses a firehose as rope to evade a rooftop explosion, then shoots his way back in through a window.
-Shoots the final terrorists with a gun duct taped to his back, thus saving the day.

*****

"Die Hard 2: Die Harder" (1990)
-Cruhes a bad guy in a luggage sorter.
-Rides a girl's bike into a terrorist to knock him down.
-Crawls through another air duct, using the vent to blindside Robert Patrick (!) while he shoots him. Take that, T-1000!
-Knocks a bad guy off of a painting scaffold, then crushes him with it.
-While subdued under a fallen plank, uses a moving walkway to bring a gun to him so he can waste a baddie.
-Uses a pair of crummy torches to try to alert a plane of their low altitude. (It doesn't work.)
-Exits from an underground grating just as a freshly-landed plane heads straight for him. (He ducks.)
-Hops in an ejector seat to escape an exploding plane, then parachutes to safety.
-Stabs a bad guy in the eye with an icicle, then breaks it off in his head.
-Jumps a snowmobile over a truck and jumps off it midair before it explodes.
-Fires a (non-lethal) machine gun at Dennis Franz to prove the commandos' guns had blanks.
-Leaps from a helicopter onto a taxiing jumbo jet.
-Pushes John Amos into the jet engine, turning him into a human smoothie.
-Fights William Sadler on the wing of the jet, then pulls the gas tank cap off. He then uses the fuel to simultaneously explode the plane and create a landing light, thus saving the day.

*****

"Die Hard With a Vengeance" (1995)
-Walks through Harlem, under terrorist orders, wearing a placard that reads "I HATE NI**ERS."
-Commandeers a taxicab and drives it through Central Park.
-Hops onto a moving NYC subway car, finds a bomb, and throws it out the back of the train just in the nick of time to ride the derailed car onto the platform.
-Steals a kid's bike so he can get to Wall Street.
-Wastes four guys during a Mexican standoff in an elevator.
-Jumps a Mercedes off an overpass.
-Rides a dump truck through a flood, then grabs hold of a grate so he can be squirted out onto the street just in time for Sam Jackson to spot him.
-Spins the Mercedes 360 degrees so he can shoot the bad guy driving behind him in a truck.
-While on a bridge, uses a wire so he and Sam Jackson can climb… then swing their way down onto the villain's boat.
-Mixes explosive material to break Sam Jackson's handcuffs.
-Jumps from a Hiroshima-sized exploding boat.
-Shoots a wire (with his last two bullets), which knocks Jeremy Irons' helicopter into a telephone pole, causing it to explode, thus saving the day.

*****

"Live Free or Die Hard" (2007)
-Stops a guy from getting to second base with his daughter.
-Slides a fire extinguisher down a hallway and shoots it, sending a bad guy flying out the window.
-Knocks a guy with a machine gun out with a punch through a wall.
-Shoots a Terminator doll off a shelf, which inadvertently triggers a bomb.
-Drives a guy, who's strangling him in the driver's seat, into a dumpster.
-Runs down a fire hydrant, which shoots water up in the air and knocks a shooter out of a helicopter.
-Ducks down as a flipping car flies towards him and Justin Long, only to have two cars on either side of them block the deathmobile.
-Leaps from a moving police cruiser just before it goes flying up a ramp and into a helicopter, causing it to explode.
-Pulls the trigger on a bad guy's holstered gun, which shoots a hole in his foot. Then he kills him.
-Throws Maggie Q into a shelf full of glass.
-Falls from three stories, knocks into a duct, falls to the ground, then just kinda gets up.
-Drives a minivan into Maggie Q, then sends it careening down an elevator shaft where (after a four or five-minute suspended fight) it falls to the bottom and explodes.
-Pushes a guy in a wheelie office chair down a flight of steps.
-Kicks some vents open that push a Parkour guy into some spinning blades.
-Leaps onto a moving truck, shoots the driver, then gets behind the wheel.
-Plays chicken with a fighter jet, then jumps onto the wing, then slides down a destroyed freeway ramp just before the jet crashes and explodes.
-Shoots himself in his own shoulder so he can kill Timothy Olyphant... thus saving the day.

Earlier on Moviefone:

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• "Passenger 57" (1992)

  <strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105104/" target="_hplink">IMDb plot description</a></strong>: "An airline security expert (Wesley Snipes) must take action when he finds himself trapped on a passenger jet when terrorists seize control of it." <strong>What it's like</strong>: "Die Hard" on a passenger jet. <strong>Sample dialogue</strong>: "Always bet on black."

• "Under Siege" (1992)

  <strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105690/" target="_hplink">IMDb plot description</a></strong>: "A former SEAL, now cook, is the only person who can stop a gang of terrorists when they seize control of a US Navy battleship." <strong>What it's like</strong>: "Die Hard" on a battleship. <strong>Sample dialogue</strong>: "I'm just a cook."

• "Speed" (1994)

  <strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111257/" target="_hplink">IMDb plot description</a></strong>: "A young cop must prevent a bomb exploding aboard a city bus by keeping its speed above 50 mph." <strong>What it's like</strong>: "Die Hard" on a bus. <strong>Sample dialogue</strong>: "Pop quiz, hotshot. There's a bomb on a bus."

• "Sudden Death" (1995)

  <strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114576/" target="_hplink">IMDb plot description</a></strong>: "A disgraced former fireman takes on a group of terrorists holding the Vice President and others hostage during the seventh game of the NHL Stanley Cup finals." <strong>What it's like</strong>: "Die Hard" at a hockey game. <strong>Sample dialogue</strong>: "I'm having a very bad day."

• "Under Siege 2: Dark Territory" (1995)

  <strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114781/" target="_hplink">IMDb plot description</a></strong>: "Casey Ryback hops on a Colorado to LA train to start a vacation with his niece. Early into the trip, terrorists board the train and use it as a mobile HQ to hijack a top secret destructive US satellite." <strong>What it's like</strong>: "Die Hard" on a train. <strong>Sample dialogue</strong>: "Nobody beats me in the kitchen."

• "Executive Decision" (1996)

  <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116253/" target="_hplink">IMDb plot description</a>: "When terrorists seize control of an airliner, an intelligence analyst accompanies a commando unit for a midair boarding operation." <strong>What it's like</strong>: "Die Hard" on a plane. <strong>Sample dialogue</strong>: "I hope there's a good movie on this flight."

• "Daylight" (1996)

  <strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116040/" target="_hplink">IMDb plot description</a></strong>: "Disaster in a New York tunnel as explosions collapse both ends of it. One hero tries to help the people inside find their way to safety." <strong>What it's like</strong>: "Die Hard" in a tunnel. <strong>Sample dialogue</strong>: "You know what, I don't know. I don't know anything."

• "Air Force One" (1997)

  <strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118571/" target="_hplink">IMDb plot description</a></strong>: "Hijackers seize the plane carrying the President of the United States and his family, but he (an ex-soldier) works from hiding to defeat them." <strong>What it's like</strong>: "Die Hard" on Air Force One. <strong>Sample dialogue</strong>: "Get off my plane!"

• "Speed 2: Cruise Control" (1997)

  <strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120179/" target="_hplink">IMDb plot description</a></strong>: "A computer hacker breaks into the computer system of the Seabourn Legend cruise liner and sets it speeding on a collision course into a gigantic oil tanker." <strong>What it's like</strong>: "Die Hard" on a cruise ship. <strong>Sample dialogue</strong>: "With all due respect miss, this is not your car, this is a cruise liner!"

• "Turbulence" (1997)

  <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120390/" target="_hplink">IMDb plot description</a>: "After a shootout on a flight transporting prisoners, a stewardess must outwit a smooth-talking serial killer and land the plane herself." <strong>What it's like</strong>: "Die Hard" with a serial killer. <strong>Sample dialogue</strong>: "I'm never flying this airline again!"