Hardcore Eddie

Hardcore Eddie is a human from the live-action film continuity family.

Hardcore Eddie is one of Epps's former NEST teammates. Despite having previously been a member of NEST, he feels he didn't sign up to be shot at by aliens.

Fiction

Dark of the Moon film

Actor: Lester Speight

Voice actor: Kenji Nomura (Japanese dub), Gai Wenge (Mandarin dub), Leonardo García (Latin-American Spanish dub), Jorge García Insúa (Castilian Spanish dub), Daniel Lobé (European French dub), Detlef Bierstedt (German dub), Dario Oppido (Italian dub), Ronaldo Júlio (Brazilian Portuguese dub)

On their way to Chicago, Epps and Sam Witwicky stopped by Eddie's house to pick him up. When they arrived on the outskirts of Chicago and saw the devastation caused by the Decepticons, Eddie announced he wasn't going in there. Moments later they were attacked by a Decepticon fighter, only for the newly-arrived Autobots to shoot it down. While Sam and Bumblebee took the fighter, Epps's team headed into the city with the Autobots. They encountered Sam and Bumblebee again after the pair rescued Sam's girlfriend Carly, and the team covered Epps and the two civilians as they communicated over a downed military drone.

With the Autobots' help, Epps and his men entered a skyscraper so they could attempt to get a shot off at the control Pillar on a downtown building. While Hooch loaded the rocket launcher and Eddie was lining up the shot, Decepticons began shooting at the skyscraper they were in, making it unstable. Though Eddie considered the whole endeavor a bad idea, Sam talked him into trying to take the shot. He didn't get the chance, as the skyscraper started going over. After a Decepticon jumped into the building, Eddie threw a chair out as a distraction, and they all jumped out of other side of the building and slid down the windows. They managed to get to a lower floor, but were still trapped as the Driller attacked the building, and Eddie implored Jesus to let him get out of it alive. Evidently his prayers were heard as the team made it out to the next building safely.

As they ran through Chicago, Sam and Carly became separated from the rest of the team. Epps's team ducked into a ruined church, where Epps noticed the pair were missing and yelled at Eddie. Eddie protested he hadn't signed up for being shot at by aliens. They went out to find Sam and Carly, only to discover that the two civilians had found Colonel Lennox. Crossing a bridge so they could get a better shot, they ran into Shockwave and fired at him from the relative safety of a building until Optimus Prime arrived to finish the Decepticon off. Following the defeat of the Decepticons, Epps and Eddie bumped their fists together while Optimus gave a speech. Dark of the Moon

Notes

• Early casting announcements declared Eddie to be a grizzled old veteran who served with Epps' father, and thus is a devoted protector of Epps. This certainly is not the case in the film, in which he's just a former member of NEST and a much more nervous, excitable, and younger fellow, possibly suggesting a script change.
• As noted above, Eddie babbles that he didn't sign up for being attacked by Decepticons, despite being a former member of NEST and knowing he was going into a Decepticon-controlled Chicago, presumably as a result of ad-libbing by Lester Speight.