Hardcore, hard core or hard-core may refer to:
Arts and media
Film
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''Hardcore'' (1977 film), a British comedy film
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''Hardcore'' (1979 film), an American crime drama film starring George C Scott
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''Hardcore'' (2001 film), a British documentary film directed by Stephen Walker
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''Hardcore'' (2004 film), a Greek drama film directed by Dennis Iliadis
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Hardcore Henry'', a Russian first-person action adventure/sci-fi film directed by Ilya Naishuller of the band Biting Elbows
Music
Genres
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Hardcore punk and
beatdown hardcore
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harDCore, a portmanteau abbreviation for hardcore punk music in Washington, D.C.
** Hardcore dancing, a style of dance related to
moshing, sometimes performed at hardcore punk shows
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Hardcore (electronic dance music genre)
Hardcore (also known as hardcore techno or hardcore house) is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany in the early 1990s. It is distinguished by faster tempos and a distorte ...
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Digital hardcore, a fusion between hardcore punk and electronic dance music
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Hardcore hip hop
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List of hardcore genres
This is a list of hardcore punk musical genres.
*Bandana thrash
*Christian hardcore
*Crossover thrash
*Crunkcore
*Crust punk
* D-beat
*Deathcore
*Digital hardcore
*Easycore
*Emo
*Electronicore
*Grindcore
*Heavy hardcore
*Jazzcore
* Krishnacore
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Albums
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''Hardcore'' (Daddy Freddy album), 2004
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''Hard Core'' (Paul Dean album), 1989
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''Hard Core'' (Lil' Kim album), 1996
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''Hard Core'' (Lil' Kim mixtape), 2014
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Hardcore '81'', a 1981 album by D.O.A.
Songs
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"Hardcore" (song), a 2022 song by Tove Styrke
Video games
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Hardcore gamer, a strongly-dedicated gamer.
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Hardcore mode, also permadeath, a video game mechanic which does not allow a dead character to be restored
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''Hardcore'' (video game), original name of the 1994 game ''Ultracore''
Other uses in media
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Hardcore (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Multiverse
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Hardcore pornography
Hardcore pornography, or hardcore porn, is pornography that features detailed depictions of sexual organs or sexual acts such as vaginal, anal or oral intercourse, fingering, anilingus, ejaculation, and fetish play. The term is in contrast wi ...
, a form of pornography that is explicit
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Hardcore wrestling, a form of professional wrestling
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Hardcore Holly, the ring name of American professional wrestler Robert Howard (born 1963)
Technology
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Construction aggregate
Construction aggregate, or simply aggregate, is a broad category of coarse- to medium-grained particulate material used in construction, including sand, gravel, crushed stone, slag, recycled concrete and geosynthetic aggregates. Aggregates ...
, often referred to as "hardcore"
* Hard core, a type of
semiconductor intellectual property core
In electronic design, a semiconductor intellectual property core (SIP core), IP core, or IP block is a reusable unit of logic, cell, or integrated circuit layout design that is the intellectual property of one party. IP cores can be licensed to ...
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Hard-core predicate In cryptography, a hard-core predicate of a one-way function ''f'' is a predicate ''b'' (i.e., a function whose output is a single bit) which is easy to compute (as a function of ''x'') but is hard to compute given ''f(x)''. In formal terms, there ...
, a concept in cryptography
See also
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Hard Corps (disambiguation) Hard Corps may refer to:
* Hard Corps (English band), 1980's English electronic band
* ''H.A.R.D. Corps'', 1992–96 comic series
* '' Contra: Hard Corps'', 1994 video game
* ''The Hard Corps
''The Hard Corps'' is a 2006 American action film dir ...
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