Hardtop (C.O.P.S.)
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| Real name | Donny Brooks |
| Background | ECPD Rookie Officer |
| C.O.P.S Position | Driver of Ironsides |
| Trademark Features | Always wearing his driving suit. Is seen driving the ultimate C.O.P.S. assault vehicle, The Ironsides. |
| Extra Specialty | Is seen working along side of Longarm. Has a crush on ECTV news reporter Whitney Morgan. Once had a fear of heights. |
| Significant Episode Appearances | The Case of The Crime Circus, The Case of The Stuck-Up Blimp, The Case of Blur Bandits, The Case of the Half-Pint Hero. |
| Voiced by | Darrin Baker |
Hardtop is a cartoon character in the C.O.P.S. (Central Organization of Police Specialists) series from Hasbro which ran from 1988-1989.
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[edit] Character profile
Hardtop is a rookie police officer who works alongside LongArm as his partner. He helped to form the Central Organization of Police Specialists, and thwarted the first of many of Big Boss' criminal schemes with his highly skilled driving. As a result, Hardtop became a welcome addition to the C.O.P.S. team along with Mainframe. He is seen wearing a special driving suit in and out of a vehicle that's either colored dark blue in the cartoon, brown in the comics, or black in the toy series. He also wears a helmet with either a clear, glass type mask in the cartoon, or a solid mask with a vertical row of narrow openings on the front in both the comics and the toy series. Hardtop has a crush on Whitney Morgan, an ECTV news reporter and is an excellent driver of one of the most formidable battle vehicles in Empire City, The Ironsides. The Ironsides is a powerful attack vehicle; shaded in blue, with twin machine guns on the top, a cockpit on the back for an additional cop to ride on, several window openings in the front, and is used to chase down the swiftest of getaway vehicles and puncture through the thickest of walls (usually with its 'RAM' decal on the prow of the front bumper prominently shown).
[edit] Character Highlights
[edit] The Case of the Stuck-up Blimp
Hardtop is afraid of heights. In this episode, Hardtop had to struggle with his fear of heights as he and BulletProof attend a benefit banquet to raise money for charity being held on the Mountback, the most state-of-the-art blimp ever seen in the air in Empire City. This is a major handicap for Hardtop when it comes to catching criminals up in higher elevations as well as going up on that blimp. Hardtop had to get over his fear of heights to not only thwart the Crooks' attempt to hold up the blimp and prevent the blimp from escaping by attaching it to the dock after Rock Krusher cut the cables that were holding the blimp in order to make it float away with the people inside it, but to rescue Whitney Morgan (who also is afraid of heights, too) from Berserko and falling off the blimp as well. In the end, eventually, Hardtop is able to do just that.
[edit] The Case of The Crime Circus
Hardtop is seen with LongArm, his partner in The Case of The Crime Circus chasing after a mischievous tomboy name Samantha (Sam) who was caught trying to steal a lady's wallet. He meets up with Dr. BadVibes disguised as The Ringmaster of the Mechanical Circus and tries to ask him a few questions, only to get sent down a trap door and subsequently into a large cage, where LongArm and Sam were eventually became trapped in as well. Roberto, one of BadVibes' evil robots, is assigned to guard the prisoners while he prepares for the big gold heist. When Sam tells the team about the robots handling money, LongArm whips up a dollar bill and trick Roberto into freeing the prisoners. Then, Hardtop and LongArm made a daring escaped from 2 large clown robots that was ordered by Badvibes to dispose them once and for all. Then, the two C.O.P.S. radio Mainframe and Bulletproof for back-up and went after BadVibes and the clownmobile with Sam, who was captured by BadVibes again, being held inside as the evil scientist goes out to rob the Depository of its gold bars - only to get thwarted by Sam, who gave the clownmobile the ax, destroying it, and saving Hardtop and LongArm from being devoured by it in the end.
