History Main / MoleMiner

* An AmbiguouslyHuman example (given the presence of PettingZooPeople in the setting), Mole Knight from ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight'' is a mole-themed knight that can [[FastTunneling fast-tunnel]] through the ground and has a personal goal to excavate the Lost City.

* In the DangerMouse episode "Planet of the Cats", when Danger Mouse and Penfold are going through the sewers, they meet up with a mole who wears a miner helmet and speaks with a [[OopNorth Yorkshire accent]].

* All moles in the ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' series are experts at tunneling.

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* In ''Rolo to the Rescue'', the mole's special ability is tunneling through ground with a spade.

* All moles in the ''{{Redwall}}'' series are experts at tunneling.

* Moley from ''TheWindInTheWillows''. He likes nothing better than the cozy safety of his burrow.

* Mr. Resetti from the ''AnimalCrossing'' games, a mole in a miner outfit who pesters the player every time they reset the game.
* The moles from the ''[[{{Spyro}} Legend of Spyro]]'' trilogy.
** Earlier Spyro game, ''A Hero's Tail'', had Blink the Mole, the Professor's nephew, who was a hyperactive, "fresh-air-a-phobic" sidekick with great digging abilities. The Professor himself isn't a mole miner, though; just a scientist who happened to be an anthropomorphic mole.

* He's supposed to be a ''groundhog'', but Bonaparte from ''SuikodenII'', despite being some kind of horrible monster, is effectively a mole with a glandular problem.

* In ''AgeOfWonders'', (both [[http://aow.heavengames.com/units/unitstats_dwarf_ts.shtml#Dwarf-Mole first]] and [[http://aow2.heavengames.com/gameinfo/units/dwarves.shtml#mole second]]) giant moles are just animals, but they are domesticated by Dwarves to serve as both [[HorseOfADifferentColor mounts]] and [[DrillTank tunnel-diggers]].

* CatDog has a mole living under their house, who claims that everything that ends up underground belongs to him.

* A gopher often pesters Pluto in the ClassicDisneyShorts. In one cartoon he uses Pluto's buried bones as support beams for his tunnels. In another, he ends up trapped inside Minnie's house and tunnels under the shag carpeting.

** BugsBunny is also fond of tunneling, often taking the WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque.

* In ''TheRescuers'' one of the swamp volunteers is a mole with a miner's cap.

* The ''{{Banjo-Kazooie}}'' series has Bottles and his soldiering brother Jamjar.

* The books based on {{CBBC}}'s 1980s mascot Gordon T. Gopher made much of his burrowing skills, which generally didn't come up when he was squeaking at Philip Schofield between ''Series/{{Bananaman}}'' and ''Series/GrangeHill''.

* [[TheLittleMole ''Krtek'']] or ''Krteček'' (meaning "mole" and "little mole" respectively), invented by the [[UsefulNotes/TheCzechRepublic Czech]] animator Zdeněk Miler, is a cute little [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin mole]] and is often seen with a shovel in his hands.

* ''Krtek'' or ''Krteček'' (meaning "mole" and "little mole" respectively), invented by the [[UsefulNotes/TheCzechRepublic Czech]] animator Zdeněk Miler, is a cute little [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin mole]] and is often seen with a shovel in his hands.

* ''DonkeyKongCountryReturns'': mole miners in the Mine World, who attack with [[PowerfulPick pickaxes]]. Mole Miner Max is the boss of that world as well.

* On ''TheLionKing'', a gopher delivers "news from the underground".

* There's Gopher in Disney's ''WinnieThePooh''.

* Mole from ''WesternAnimation/{{Mr Bogus}}''.

* Monty Mole from ''SuperMarioBros''.

* Another Monty Mole, who in fact even ''worked'' as a miner, was the titular character of a series of computer games by Gremlin Graphics.

* He's supposed to be a ''groundhog'', but Bonaparte from ''{{Suikoden}} II'', despite being some kind of horrible monster, is effectively a mole with a glandular problem.

* The Goofy Gophers from ''LooneyTunes''.

* The mole who wants to marry {{Thumbelina}}.

* ''{{Earthbound}}'' has friendly moles as well as evil ones.

* Muddy Mole, the player character of ''MoleMania''.

* Aristotle from ''[[WesternAnimation/BookOfVirtues Adventures from the Book of Virtues]]''.