History Main / DugTooDeep

* ''Music/{{Gorillaz}}'': "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head" which is a song about avarice whever people literally mined too deep.

%%* ''Music/{{Gorillaz}}'': "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head".%%Quotes are not context.
%%-->''"The Strangefolk, they coveted the jewels in these caves above all things, and soon they began to mine the mountain... as the Strangefolk mined deeper and deeper into the mountain, holes began to appear, bringing with them a cold and bitter wind that chilled the very soul... and then came a sound. Distant first, it grew into castrophany so immense it could be heard far away in space. There were no screams. There was no time. The mountain called Monkey had spoken."''
%%* ''Merlin'' by Doug [=McArthur=] and Kathy Mar tells this from the other side:%%Quotes are not context.
%%-->''It's not so dark in the cave tonight\\
%%Just over here there's a crack of light\\
%%Tomorrow is the day\\
%%I heard the voices coming through the wall\\
%%They're digging for a brand new shopping mall...''

** ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': This is the most common reason why Krypton was destroyed in most Superman stories. The Kryptonians were furiously drilling all over Krypton for resources to fuel their advanced technology, but this drilling caused the planets core to become dangerously unstable. This eventually caused Kyrpton to implode, destroying the planet and killing all the Kryptonians except for a few like Superman who managed to survive through various means. Usually either escaping via rocket like Supes and his cousin ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, being trapped in the extra-dimensional prison called the PhantomZone like [[Characters/SupermanGeneralZod General Zod]] (In some continuities, Zod was responsible for all of the drilling), or being a citizen of the Bottle City of Kandor, which was snatched up by [[Characters/SupermanBrainiac Brainiac]] and turned into a bottle city just prior to Krypton's Destruction.

** ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': This is the most common reason why Krypton was destroyed in most Superman stories. The Kryptonians were furiously drilling all over Krypton for resources to fuel their advanced technology, but this drilling caused the planets core to become dangerously unstable, eventually causing Kyrpton to implode, destroying the planet and killing all the Kryptonians except for a few like Superman who managed to survive through various means. Usually either escaping via rocket like Supes and his cousin ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, being trapped in the extra-dimensional prison called the PhantomZone like [[Characters/SupermanGeneralZod General Zod]] (In some continuities, Zod was responsible for all of the drilling), or being a citizen of the Bottle City of Kandor, which was snatched up by [[Characters/SupermanBrainiac Brainiac]] and turned into a bottle city just prior to Krypton's Destruction.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', BP (later DP) does this in the Gulf of Mexico. Multiple times. The first pollutes the ocean. They attempt to fix the damage [[InsaneTrollLogic by drilling some more]], which taps into a rift between dimensions and allows several Eldritch beings to infest the Gulf. The CEO of BP then figures that they should drill on the Moon in a bizarre attempt to control the ocean. This just summons Franchise/{{Cthulhu|Mythos}}. [[ApologisesALot But they're sorry.]]

** Speaking of the Deep Roads, in [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII the sequel]], Act 1 consists of Hawke trying to scrounge up both the finances and the necessary materials for an expedition into a "lost thaig (Dwarven city-state) older than anyone's ever seen". Once you get there, it's old alright; so old that it's completely alien, which is shocking since Dwarves are kind of famous for ancestor worship and not having changed their style or culture since what was believed to be the origins of their race. So, does it actually predate that? Or was it corrupted and changed after long isolation? Nobody can figure it out, and the old denizens are dead. [[spoiler:Or rather, transformed into Rock Wraiths after untold centuries of eating raw lyrim]]. You do find a nifty [[ArtifactOfDoom idol]], though! [[spoiler:It tends to [[DrivenToMadness drive people with already-extreme personalities off the deep end]]. The already-greed Bartrand locks his own brother and the rest of the party away ''seconds'' after taking hold of it, and ends up a gibbering idiot after years of exposure to the incessant whispering. It later ends up in the hands of Knight-Commander Meredith, who goes from a literal KnightTemplar to a mage-hating BloodKnight and semi-accidentally sparks off a civil war in Kirkwall due to her abuses.]]