Hardtop (ES)

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Hardtop is a Decepticon from the EarthSpark continuity family.
It took me 20 years, but it feels so good to finally be on TV!

Hardtop is the muscle of the two-bot crime spree he forms with his brother Swindle. Heavily armed in both modes, he's able to run-and-gun, providing cover for the pair's various crimes.

Fiction

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EarthSpark cartoon

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Voice actor: Nolan North (English), Kōji Yusa (Japanese){{#if: Gábor Maday (Hungarian), Humberto Torres (Brazilian Portuguese), Javier Francisco Martínez (Castilian Spanish), Sebastián Rosas (Latin-American Spanish, first voice), Eduardo Martínez (Latin-American Spanish, second voice), Laurent Gris (French), Szymon Roszak (Polish), Sim Seung-han (Korean)|, Gábor Maday (Hungarian), Humberto Torres (Brazilian Portuguese), Javier Francisco Martínez (Castilian Spanish), Sebastián Rosas (Latin-American Spanish, first voice), Eduardo Martínez (Latin-American Spanish, second voice), Laurent Gris (French), Szymon Roszak (Polish), Sim Seung-han (Korean)}}
What's a Sector Seven?

Hardtop participated in the final battle of the Transformers War, wherein Arcee rammed into him. Warzone Many years later, Hardtop and Swindle traveled to a trainyard in Witwicky on a hot tip, eager to score some unguarded energon. However, the hot tip turned out to be a hot trap, set up by Elita-1, and the pair ended up facing both her and Optimus Prime. Elita alone proved to be more than a match for both Decepticons, boxing them both into an arena of fallen train cars, a perfect setup for Optimus to hurl a boxcar at them. Hardtop pushed his brother out of the way, taking the brunt of the blow. Swindle managed to escape (thanks to interference from a swarm of Arachnamechs), and Hardtop was taken into custody by G.H.O.S.T. agents.

#PRAYFORHARDTOP

As he was being transported to G.H.O.S.T. headquarters for incarceration, the convoy was attacked by another squad of Arachnamechs, and Hardtop was captured a second time. Secret Legacy, Part 1 The mechs took him to the secret base of their creator, Dr. Meridian, who promptly removed the Decepticon's right arm in order to replace his own missing limb. He then put Hardtop under mental control, turning him into a silent enforcer. Hardtop and several other captured Decepticons were then sent to cover Meridian's escape when Optimus, Megatron, Dot Malto and Elita-1 arrived to rescue his latest prisoners, the new "Terran" Transformers Twitch and Thrash. Hardtop took multiple clumsy swings at Elita, but between the missing limb and the rudimentary mind control dulling his movements, she was able to very quickly take him down.

Following the battle, whatever Meridian had done to the Decepticons wore off, and Hardtop found himself a prisoner once again, this time of his former commander. He and the others were then taken into G.H.O.S.T. custody. Secret Legacy, Part 2

Swindle continued to look for his brother, attacking G.H.O.S.T. trucks and installations to steal gear and info in the hopes of locating Hardtop. Spotting easy suckers in Thrash and Mo Malto, he was able to quickly convince them he was really a good guy just out looking for his missing brother... and while the latter half of that was true, the first part definitely wasn't. He used them to try and steal equipment from a G.H.O.S.T. truck, with Mo able to get through the Transformer-proof energon force field, though he had to drop the ruse and threaten their lives to get her to do so. The timely arrival of Dot and Bumblebee foiled his plans, and Swindle had to run off empty-handed, no closer to finding Hardtop. House Rules

When the Terran Hashtag inadvertently deactivated the Decepticon cells, Hardtop participated in the attempted prison uprising, co-opting a woefully undersized G.H.O.S.T. rifle and being unintentionally impervious to stasis cuffs to his missing limb. Hashtag: Oops. Hardtop once again found himself at the mercy of Mandroid when the scientist was recruited by G.H.O.S.T. director Agent Croft, who offered up the Decepticon prisoners under her watch as his test subjects. Home, Part 2 He was still incarcerated, scraping the days of his sentence into the walls of his cell, as his brother tried to free him once more by going through the tunnels beneath the base, only for Swindle to be put away too after a fight with Optimus Prime and the Maltos.Disarmed

After being freed by the Terrans with the other Decepticons after G.H.O.S.T. was dissolved by Mandroid, his brother and Soundwave rode into battle atop him to fight against the Sharkticons Razor-Fin and Blitzwave. He, along with all the other bots, was killed by Mandroid and revived by Robby and Mo Malto. The Last Hope, Part 2

When Aftermath brought a body-swapped Twitch back to Decepticon Base, Hardtop could be seen bench-pressing his brother with his one arm. The Imposters When Aftermath stole Optimus Prime's trailer, the two stole it from him, taking it to the quarry to open it. The two tried shooting it, to no avail, before then putting it on a mobile conveyor belt to break it open on the rocks at the bottom of the quarry. As they were doing that, Hashtag and Robby Malto attacked them to get it back, before both parties lost it to Skywarp and Nova Storm. Later, all five thieves attempted to take the trailer one more time, before getting quickly repelled by the trailer's array of firepower. Dude, Where's My Trailer?

He was present when Starscream made a grand speech to the Decepticons about his plans to make Earth into "New Cybertron" with the Emberstone, when the Autobots and Terrans attacked, Hardtop taking part in the ensuing battle. When Starscream used the Emberstone to raise Terratronus, he and Swindle debated whose side their commander was really on, Hardtop unsure whether they were on his side. He was proven right when a mindless blow from the massive Titan destroyed the cliff the Decepticons were observing the battle from. He then followed Shockwave's attempt to flee, before being stopped by the force field the Terrans and Maltos created to contain the rampaging Titan. Witwicky, Part 2

When an Autobot spacecraft landed in the dome, Hardtop and the other cons sought to seize it. They hoped to use it to return to Cybertron. Their initial attack was repelled by the autocannons. After the ship ran out of power, they made another play for it. During the fight, Hardtop was soundly trounced by Optimus, greatly angering Swindle. Eventually, Optimus and Prowl were overpowered, and all the Decepticons boarded the ship and blasted off into space. No Soldier Left Behind

Toys

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EarthSpark

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"Tis but a scratch!"
  • Bumblebee (Deluxe, 2022)
  • ID number: 1
Hardtop's right arm is included with the EarthSpark Deluxe-class Bumblebee toy. This piece is part of the Mandroid "build a figure", with the other six parts packaged with the other toys in the assortment. The arm has no articulation aside from the pivoting shoulder ball joint and no transformation.

Notes

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  • Hardtop is based on the Cybertron Decepticon Hardtop, also a green armored buggy who had a Swindle as a brother. His gun also looks very similar to his Cybertron counterpart.
  • Despite having lost his right arm in the Secret Legacy opening two parter, Hardtop can seemingly transform into his dune buggy alt mode perfectly fine.
    • Hardtop never gets his arm back let alone a new one throughout the show's run time.

Foreign names

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  • Japanese: Hardtop (ハードトップ Hādotoppu)
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