5. Tommy Lee Jones
For DC: Semi-disfigured coin tosser Harvey Dent AKA Two Face in Batman Forever
For Marvel: Gruff but good hearted army officer Colonel Chester Phillips in Captain America: The First Avenger
How did the change work out? Rumour has it that when Tommy Lee Jones was unsure about whether to take the part of Two Face in Batman Forever after Billy Dee Williams was dispatched with a generous pay off, director Joel Schumacher told him to read the script again only to imagine Academy Award winning actor Tommy Lee Jones in the role. If true then its a classic story of an actor letting his vanity get the better of him. For all Jones is a talented performer, in Batman Forever he is nothing but manic and irritating, bringing none of the darkness or tragedy Aaron Eckhart would to the same part years later. The Caped Crusaders campy day-glo re-imagining in Batman Forever is nowhere near the unmitigated disaster that its sequel Batman and Robin would be, but neither is it a particularly high point in Jones CV. 16 years later Jones cropped up in Captain America playing much closer to type. Colonel Chester Phillips is a part for which casting directors would undoubtedly be asking for a Tommy Lee Jones type. Its a small but decent role and Jones plays the stern but decent military officer like hes played the part a hundred times before. Largely because he has. He even recognised this himself, describing the role as: "the one you've seen in a thousand movies: the gruff, skeptical officer overseeing a team of slightly sarcastic, specially talented soldiers."