History Main / TunnelKing

* On the other hand, the FantasticFour's Mole Man is a bit of a subversion. Even though he looks like a mole and lives underground, he lets his giant monsters do all the manual labor, including digging tunnels.

* The Diggers from ''{{Recess}}''

* Zoop from ''IggyArbuckle''.
* The badger-moles of ''AvatarTheLastAirbender''. In fact, they're the first [[DishingOutDirt Earthbenders]]!

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* The Mole from the ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' comic strip

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* Behold the Underminer, the epilogue attacking villain in ''TheIncredibles''. He may always be beneath us, but nothing is beneath him.

* In ''FairyTail'' Virgo and [[{{Gonk}} Everlue]] with the former being Tunnel Queen.

* Moliarty from ''DarkwingDuck''.

* The Mole from the ''DickTracy'' comic strip

* Simon the Digger from ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. Yes, "The Digger" is his BadassNickname.

* Oddly, one of Team Rocket's specialties on ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', and often noted by them. Their holes are good enough to impress the very TengenToppaGurrenLagann-esque Byron.

* Free from ''SoulEater'' wanted to escape prison using this method but [[Funny/SoulEater they only gave him chopsticks]].

* ''{{Oz}}''. Agamemnon 'The Mole' Busmalis, who likes tunneling into banks and out of prisons, which is why they gave him a cell on an upper floor. Eventually, he finds a storeroom on the ground floor and starts tunneling out during the day.

* The Skaven from ''{{Warhammer}}'' have a tunneling unit. Whether it appears where it should (directly underneath the enemy's artillery units, usually) or the tunnelers screw up horribly and either collapse their tunnel, arrive somewhere on another continent or at least at a different spot on the battlefield than they should (whereupon they spend the rest of the turn bickering who held the map the wrong side up) is dependent on the roll of a die...

* Dwarves being [[TunnelKing Tunnel Kings]] is a central game mechanic in ''DwarfFortress''

** Excadrill the Ground/Steel mole from . Might be a reference to ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', being a mole based off a drill and all.

* The Mole from ''SouthPark: Bigger, Longer And Uncut''.

* The [[BugWar Tyranids]] from ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' have tunneling creatures with the size and power of tanks.

* Drill Man from ''VideoGame/MegaMan 4'', who could burrow into the ground and pop up under Mega Man.

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** Drill Man gets even more skill in ''RockmanMinusInfinity''. He can now cause the ceiling to collapse on Mega Man and pop out of it to confuse him as well.

* Kobolds in ''DungeonsAndDragons''. They're almost completely helpless in the open (arguably the weakest common monster in the game, to the point that a housecat can rip one to shreds), which they make up for by squeezing through narrow tunnels, leading attackers into traps, and using hit-and-run tactics. A tribe of kobolds in their home warren can be downright deadly.

In animated series, this character will often be a burrowing animal with [[FastTunnelling their digging abilities carried to ludicrous extremes]].

* An early ''MadMagazine'' (back when it was a comic book) story featured a character named Melvin Mole, who could dig through anything given an implement, be it a spade, a lunch spoon, a toothpick, or even his nose hair. This leads to his downfall when he tried to tunnel out of prison and [[spoiler: ended up tunneling into his own execution chamber.]]

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* The [[BugWar Tyranids]] from ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' have tunneling creatures with the size and power of tanks.

* ''DigDug's'' Taizo Hori and his sons, Susumu and Ataru Hori of ''[[MrDriller Mr. Driller]]'' fame.

* Drill Man from ''VideoGame/MegaMan 4'', who could burrow into the ground and pop up under Mega Man.

* ''{{VideoGame/Terraria}}'' calls for the player character to be one if any progress is to be made.

* Behold the Underminer, the epilogue attacking villain in ''TheIncredibles''. He may always be beneath us, but nothing is beneath him.

* The North Vietnamese Army had build up a huge network of tunnels through Vietnam during the VietnamWar.

* Muddy of ''MoleMania'', natch.

* The Horta from ''StarTrek'' are a race that chew through solid rock like it was air.

* Mulch Diggums in ''ArtemisFowl'' is a dwarf who can unhinge his jaw and inhale the earth to dig tunnels. He's often subjected to ToiletHumor in the books.

* Ryoga from ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma ½]]'', once he learns the Bakusai Tenketsu, a pseudo PressurePoints attack that lets him demolish rock with a touch of a finger. Once he learns the [[KamehameHadoken Shishi Hokodan]], he gets even better at it. Why someone with [[NoSenseOfDirection his directional issues]] is burrowing under the ground in the first place is a mystery.

* Gnorm in ''Film/AGnomeNamedGnorm''.

* One of the movement powers in ''ChampionsOnline'' is tunnelling... which moves you underground as fast as flight moves you through ''air!''

* Andy W. Hol from ''AquarionEvol'' is pretty much obsessed with them.

* Most ''{{Worms}}'' games will scold you if you do this. Players who make good use of the game's digging and tunneling tools are known as "Darksiders".

* MegaMan series
** Drill Man from ''Game/MegaMan 4'', who could burrow into the ground and pop up under Mega Man.

** Drill Man gets even more skill in ''RockManMinusInfinity''. He can now cause the ceiling to collapse on Mega Man and pop out of it to confuse him as well.