Fiction often associates
drills with moles, as they, in turn, are associated as
Tunnel Kings and
miners.
Not to be confused with a villain masquerading as a hero who prefers to use a drill.
Examples:
Anime and Manga
Card Games
- Neo-Spacian Grand Mole in Yu-Gi-Oh!. Its fusion form, Elemental Hero Grand Neos, also uses a drill arm.
Film
Tabletop Games
- Monsterpocalypse has the Subterran Uprising which have Monsters and units that are giant mole monsters with drills for weapons, most notably is Drillcon-Vorionnik. Others have buzzsaws or blasters.
Video Games
Western Animation
- Dutch cartoon series Boes, about an Ox who runs a farm, (roll with it) features as his main antagonist plague a crowd of moles that look just like the trope picture on the left.
- Digger from Lilo & Stitch: The Series, who is a brown alien with a drill for a tail.