20 Things You Somehow Missed In Die Hard

9. Our Man Flint

Die Hard Missed
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Hans Gruber is well known as the villain of Die Hard - and what a villain he is!

However, he started life as a minor villain appearing in the 1966 James Bond spoof, Our Man Flint in which he is an emissary of the evil organisation known as Galaxy. Tasked with assassinating Derek Flint (James Coburn) in a seedy club in Marseilles, Hans Gruber (Michael St. Clair) has the tables turned on him by Flint, who ends up killing him in a toilet stall.

Whilst this is a far from noble beginning for Hans Gruber - and one that might even have made Alan Rickman blush - it may have led to a far more famous scene in cinematic history in which Michael Myers's Austin Powers drowns Irish garotter, Paddy O'Brien (Paul Dillon) in a Las Vegas toilet in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997).

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