• soft core, the members of a group or movement who form an intransigent nucleus resistant to change
• hard core, material such as stones and broken bricks used as the foundation for buildings, roads etc.

Music

• Hardcore punk
  Hardcore punk
  Hardcore punk is an underground music genre that originated in the late 1970s, following the mainstream success of punk rock. Hardcore is generally faster, thicker, and heavier than earlier punk rock. The origin of the term "hardcore punk" is uncertain. The Vancouver-based band D.O.A...
  
   (better known simply as "hardcore"), a sub-genre of punk rock music
  • HarDCore
    Hardcore
    Hardcore may refer to:* soft core, the members of a group or movement who form an intransigent nucleus resistant to change...
    
    , a portmanteau abbreviation for hardcore punk music in Washington, D.C.
• Post-Hardcore
  Post-hardcore
  Post-hardcore is a genre of music that developed from hardcore punk, itself an offshoot of the broader punk rock movement. Like post-punk, post-hardcore is a term for a broad constellation of groups...
  
  
• Hardcore techno
  Hardcore techno
  Hardcore techno is a type of electronic music typified by the rhythmic use of distorted and atonal industrial-like beats and samples...
  
   (also better known simply as "hardcore"), a style of electronic music
• Hardcore hip hop
  Hardcore hip hop
  Hardcore hip hop, also referred to as hardcore rap, is a sub-genre of hip hop music that developed through the East Coast hip hop scene in the 1980s. Pioneered by such artists as Schoolly D, Spoonie Gee, Boogie Down Productions, and Kool G Rap, it is generally characterized by anger, aggression and...
  
  , a sub-genre of hip hop music
• Hard Core (Lil' Kim album)
• Hard Core (Paul Dean album)
  Hard Core (Paul Dean album)
  Hard Core is the first solo album released by former Streetheart & Loverboy lead guitarist, founder, and main songwriter, Paul Dean from 1989. The lead-off track, "Sword & Stone" was demoed by Kiss for their Crazy Nights album in 1987, and later additionally recorded by the German Rockers, Bonfire...
  
  
• Hardcore (album)
  Hardcore (album)
  -Track listing:#"Weed" - 3:40#*Featuring - Bruder & Kronstädta#"Hardcore" - 4:11#"Bring The Girls" - 3:39#"Dem Fools" - 3:34#*Featuring - Joseph Cotton#"Ganja Feh Smoke" - 3:22#"Legal" - 5:10#*Featuring - Bruder & Kronstädta, Das Apartment...
  
  , a 2004 album by Daddy Freddy
• Hardcore '81
  Hardcore '81
  Hardcore '81 is an album by the Canadian hardcore punk band D.O.A.. It is considered by some to be the first reference to the North American punk scene as hardcore.-Track listing:#"D.O.A"#"Unknown"#"Slumlord"#"Musical Interlude"...
  
  , album by D.O.A.

Other

• Hardcore wrestling
  Hardcore wrestling
  Hardcore wrestling is a form of professional wrestling that eschews traditional concepts of match rules in favor of matches that take place in unusual environments, using foreign objects that are not normally permitted...
  
  , a form of professional wrestling
• Hardcore dancing, a maneuver usually performed at live performances of heavy or extreme music
• Hardcore pornography
  Hardcore pornography
  Hardcore pornography is a form of pornography that features explicit sexual acts. The term was coined in the second half of the 20th century to distinguish it from softcore pornography. It usually takes the form of photographs, often displayed in magazines or on the Internet, or films. It can also...
  
  , an explicit form of pornography
• Hardcore (comics)
  Hardcore (comics)
  Hardcore is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe.Hardcore is an assassin and enforcer with hands that could cut through steel, who served as an enemy of Cage.-Fictional character biography:...
  
  , a fictional character in the Marvel Universe
• Hardcore (1977 film)
  Hardcore (1977 film)
  Hardcore is a 1977 British comedy film directed by James Kenelm Clarke and starring Fiona Richmond, Anthony Steel, Graham Stark, Graham Crowden and Harry H. Corbett...
  
  , a British comedy film
• Hardcore (1979 film), an American drama film starring George C Scott
• A "hard core" is one kind of semiconductor intellectual property core
• Permanent death
  Permanent death
  In role-playing video games , permanent death is a situation in which player characters die permanently and are removed from the game...
  
  , called "hardcore mode" in various video games
• Hardcore Gamer, a monthly-published video game magazine

See also

• List of hardcore genres in music
• Hard Corps (disambiguation)