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This article is about the Beast Wars Neo Predacon. For the Generation One Autobot, see Hardhead (G1).


Hardhead is a Predacon from the Beast Wars Neo portion of the Generation One continuity family.
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To put it mildly, one could say that Hardhead's cranium isn't exactly crammed with cerebral circuitry. Or one could say that he's as dumb as a rock. And not one of those cool geodes, either. I mean a big, grey piece of slag. Hardhead has a tough time even staying on task long enough to finish a sentence, let alone coordinate a tactical nuclear strike. He can be easily fooled and needs to be constantly reminded of exactly what he's supposed to be doing. He can't even pronounce his beast mode's name—although, to be fair, he's not alone there.


Fiction[]

Beast Wars Neo cartoon[]

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Voice actor: Masami Iwasaki (Japanese)
The absurdly dimwitted yet hardy Hardhead was a Predacon who once survived a direct attack from the Maximals on the planet Thompson, a feat that became known to another Predacons across the universe. He later went to the planet Intel, to declare it "Predacon territory" by slapping insignia stickers all over the environment. It was during his supposed duties when he spotted an Angolmois Capsule that landed on the planet, but didn't think much of it. When Big Convoy's unit tracked down the Angolmois Capsule by its signal, Mach Kick and Heinrad were the first to go down to the planet and were repelled by Hardhead. Stampy and Break would soon land on the planet and attempted to take advantage of Hardhead's stupidity by pretending to be sycophantic local fauna and asked him to lead them to the capsule. Despite some hijinks with Sling (who was there to recruit Hardhead), Longrack, and Colada, and Hardhead's constant forgetfulness, the three managed to reach the capsule, although Archadis soon arrived with Sling. Enlightened by Archadis as to the true identities of the rabbit and the penguin, an enraged Hardhead attacked his foolers, but the other Maximals came in the nick of time and Big Convoy was able to send Hardhead flying in the ensuing battle. On the Dinosaur, Archadis suggested leaving Hardhead on Intel to Magmatron, and Hardhead spent some time knocking around the rude Sling, whom DNAVI refused to teleport off the planet. Hardhead Is Hardheaded Hardhead later went to Cybertron after Unicron's defeat to assist in reconstruction. He spent some time literally butting heads with Randy
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Beast Wars Neo manga[]

Hardhead, along with Hydra, broke into the Maximal ship, the Gung Ho, to steal the Angolmois energy within. With all the crew off the ship on an Angolmois capsule hunt, save for Longrack and Heinrad, Hardhead threatened Longrack with a sweeping movement of his sword...which accidentally sliced open Hydra's chest. This drew a shocked reaction from Hydra, who demanded an apology. His honor tarnished, Hardhead impaled himself on his own sword, despite Hydra telling him not to, because then there would be no one left to steal the Angolmois energy.

As they lay dying, victims of Hardhead's stupidity, Longrack stood there, boggled as to what the heck just happened. With his dying breath, Hydra gloated that the most important part of their mission was completed...which was later found out to be a bomb aboard the Gung Ho. The Great Old One

IDW Beast Wars comics[]

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He's one of Shokaract's heralds. Hardhead was a former military academy instructor, and though incapable of formulating his own stratagems, he had the ability to deliver great results when leading troops into the fray, so long as he was following someone else's plan. He oftentimes could be found drilling and whipping into shape the troops serving under him. His mastery of the sword was attributed to his years spent visiting other worlds and studying various fighting styles. Beast Wars Sourcebook #2

At some point, he was recruited by Shokaract in his bid for godhood, and became one of his Heralds. Along with the other 'bots serving under the warlord, Hardhead was sent out into the cosmos to retrieve capsules of Angolmois. All of the heralds returned to Cybertron with capsules in hand as Shokaract made ready for his ascension. The Ascending #3 Shokaract sent Hardhead and his other followers out into the planet's populace to sow chaos and discord, only recalling them to himself when he couldn't be bothered to dispatch some 'bots pestering him. But when they came to their master, the heralds found that Shokaract had disappeared; he had been whisked away into a transwarp netherspace. The group was ambushed by Ravageas they discussed what to do in their master's absence, and Shokaract's schemes were ultimately all undone.

Good pick there, Shokey. The Ascending #3

Toys[]

Beast Wars Neo[]

  • Hardhead (Deluxe, 1999)
Japanese ID number: D-37
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A retool of the original Dinobot toy, Hardhead transforms into... well, a dinosaur that vaguely resembles a pachycephalosaurus. Opening his dino-mode jaw pops up his skullcap slightly, and using his head as a battering ram pushes down the skullcap and closes his jaw. His tail detaches and separates to form a gear-powered spinning-blade weapon (also known as his 'Rotate blade'), while the central "tail bone" separates to be used as a sword. The entire assembly can store in robot mode by flipping down the tail-mount and pegging the blade's base to the peg on his lower back.
This mold was also used to make Dinotron. The original incarnation of the mold was used to make Beast Wars Grimlock, Thrustor and Dinobots Grimlock.
  • Sharp Edge vs Hardhead (Vs. pack, 1999)
Japanese ID number: VS-37
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Hardhead was available both as an individually packaged item and in a two-pack with fellow retool Sharp Edge. There are no differences between the individual and multi-pack versions.

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