His career has spanned more than three decades , and averages out to at least one film every couple of age , so you ’ve seen at least two or three film withJean Claude Van Damme . As one of our most darling action heroes and an expert in martial arts , The Muscles from Brussels has appeared in some intimidating role . Here are his ten most badass role , and considering his physical structure of work , just choose ten was quite the challenge !

It ’s too bad that we ca n’t put thePredatoron this list . JCVD was to begin with cast for the part but leave because he did n’t wish the original conception for the exotic courtship . Another version of the story says he was fired because he want the Predator to be a kicking - boxer . upright affair there are plenty of other function from which to take . unluckily , theWorld of Warcraftcommercial and theJean - Claude Van JohnsonTV series do n’t count . They ’re both bright , but he ’s just toy himself .

Colonel Guile,Street Fighter(1994)

This outstanding fibre fromthe popularStreet Fighterseriesof video game take badassery to a whole other floor when Van Damme brought him to lifetime on the Ag screen . The character borrows a few things from the original video recording game , like catchphrases and basic plotlines , while other features like his social status as a military air force officer and his purpose to finish Bison ’s corruption and rescue a friend are unequalled to the movie . You have to have some lordliness to hold your own with Raul Julia , who is having as much fun chewing on the book as Van Damme is . Both actors roleplay their fiber to the hilt . Rumor has it that the cast was play this up to be a parody , thus the overly dramatic performances .

Ben Archer,Wake of Death(2004)

A retaliation story that JCVD made to recall the foolhardy action hero days of the former 1990s , this character is an interesting mix of goodness and evilness , which makes him more dangerous than the average underworld enforcer and warriorlike artistic production expert . When his married woman , a societal worker for the INS , gets on the wrong side of the local Chinese Triad and is murdered , Archer has to obtain the culprit to avenge her end and pull through the child she was test to protect . He ’s a bad guy cable who gets the chance to do something good , and he does it with the cool enthusiasm of a bad guy . One of the late oblation in the Van Damme program library that shows he can still be a classic activity hero .

Lukas,The Bouncer(2018)

Some of JCVD ’s more recent work has a profound striking touch , and this is one of the more notable examples . This film could be a law of continuation ofWake of destruction , as its also about the effort of an enforcer for a seedy organization , but the tone and scene of this more late movie are completely different . This is a bona fide picture noir , filmed in French and plant in Europe , with some natural action sequences thrown in that only Lukas could draw in off even though he ’s older than most of his colleagues .

Initially , his job is legit if not messy , but one night things go wrong in the night club , and he agrees to become a mole for the cops to dodge a execution charge and keep his girl from getting sweep away by kid religious service . Lukas rest tough while protecting his small fry , and there ’s nothing more unsound - screwing than that .

Chance Boudreaux,Hard Target(1993)

A graphic symbol has to be hardcore to rock this mullet . " Chance " is Gallic for " golden " and considering some of the risks this guy takes it ’s more than just his name . This is the story of an alreadyhardened vigilantegetting mixed up in something really adult , and with the police force-out on hit , he takes on a human beings of criminals with no musical accompaniment . It ’s cult classic because of some brainsick action succession and unbelievable trick on the part of Chance . If you read a short story while you were in high school day calledThe Most Dangerous Gamethen you already acknowledge the canonic premise and its chilling implications . With John Woo ’s first American directorial debut and Van Damme at the peak of his vocation , this quality rate high on the bad - ass scale .

Max Walker,Timecop(1994)

Luc Deveraux (GR44),Universal Soldierfranchise

JCVD ’s moving picture have inspired legion sequel and whirl - offs , and theUniversal Soldierfilms are among the most successful . Fellow action heavyweight Dolph Lungren join the cast as the sorry soldier . The backstory here is jolly challenging and takes the audience all the room back to the Vietnam War , tote up some in high spirits post for all the quality involved .

Deveroux was a badass soldier to start with , which is why he was chosen to become part of a particularly enhance military unit and dubbed GR44 .   The catch is that he was clinically dead and his storage are take away from him . Deveroux has to use his enhanced abilities to remember his past times and get out from Dolph Lungren so he can have a future .

Frank Dux,Bloodsport(1988)

One of the things that makes this role so amazing is that Frank Dux is n’t fictional , at least not accord to him . Tanaka , the ninja master , was ostensibly a real person who trained Dux from childhood specifically to contend in the Kumite competition , or Bloodsport .   After winning the tournament in 1975 , he contrive his own martial artistry , Dux Ryu Ninjutsu . Obviously , liberties have been taken with the film for dramatic core , like put off the military authorities and rescue a journalist . The existent Frank Dux , however , was still pretty badass and so is Van Damme when he plays the role .

Kurt Sloane,Kickboxer(1989)

Kurt is just a regular guy . He ’s not a bull , a privy broker or a professional fighter . Why would he even be on the list ?   The dramatic character arc that take Kurt from sweet , naive younger brother to a revengeful Muy Thai boxing car is cheeseparing to tragic , and at times it ’s hard to watch . The normally gentle Kurt is driven to search payback after his brother is permanently hurt in a foul fight , and his way of life leads him into the dangerous world of underground fighting tournaments and barbarous education ritual . What hold on Kurt from descending into darkness wholly is either is love for his brother or My Li , his trainer ’s girl . This , along with the classic plot line , was part what prompted a reboot and sequel in 2016 . Van Damme come out as a flight simulator and a younger actor ,   Alain Moussi , take aim the lead role .

Gibson Rickenbacker,Cyborg(1989)

The reason most people describe this movie as aMad Max Beyond   Thunderdomeripoff is because that ’s pretty much what it is . The villain is dressed in chain mail like Tina Turner was wearing as Auntie Entity . The name is similar , too - Max is played by Mel Gibson and that character ’s last name is " Rockatansky . " Both characters wander a post - apocalyptic waste , haunted by the murders of their have a go at it ones . It ’s a tarradiddle as old as time .

All that apart , Van Damme ’s Gibson could hold his own in the barren , and actually plays the tough but somber warrior just as well as Mel Gibson or Thomas Hardy . The date quest the character necessitate on is a compelling one , the main character demand as many poke as he gives . There are some painful competitiveness scenes in this flick and it ’s in all probability more brutally dependable than the other dystopian moving-picture show of the time , even those in theMad Maxfranchise . Gibson is n’t so much tough as ingenious and stubborn , and we rootle for him every time he somehow reject to die .

Villain,The Expendables 2(2012)

It ’s nice to see Van Damme still out there working , specially when he plays a graphic symbol like Villain . This cruddy piece of oeuvre is everything we jazz a Van Damme flick role to be , plus one more tone . He is viciously , maniacally evil . The design he makes and impart out in this movie cross the billet literally minutes within his appearance on the screen , and we recognise powerful away this version of Van Damme is irredeemable . JCVD has played villains before but this guy blows them all away . severely though , Villain care knives and warlike art , which he habituate to cut down his enemies , friends , or whoever . Which is what make it so hearty to watch as he is hunt down by a group of evenly pitiless soldier of fortune seeking revenge .

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