John McClane, shirtless and panting with pain, sweating and bleeding and apologising to his wife? That's someone's fantasy, but it's not the one I was expecting.

Yep! I definitely think a lot of seventies and early eighties action films would be to your taste, as that's before they looked at Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator and went "That's what we want in a protagonist!"

Verdict on the other Dice Hard I've seen so far: Die Hard 2 was pretty unmemorable, but Die Hard with a Vengeance was an absolute blast.

Inteesting! I've only seen the first one.

I'm not necessarily going to write fanfiction where John McClane and Peter Parker team up, or find themselves at odds, or both. I'm just saying I could.

It is a classic trope of the superhero genre for the two heroes to initially get into a fight before coming to realize they're on the same side and teaming up.