1. - Tom Berenger, Platoon, 1986. When writer-director Oliver Stone first nearly set up his Vietnam movie in 1983, Paré was set as the amoral Sergeant Barnes opposite Emilio Estevez   as the young hero - finally played by his brother Charlie Sheen.

2. - Dolph Lundgren, The Punisher, 1989. Paré as the comic book hero (aka Frank Castle) would have landed in the video bin two months faster than Dolph’s.