Mole Miner
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| First appearance | Donkey Kong Country Returns (2010) | ||
| Latest appearance | Mario Kart Arcade GP DX (December 12, 2018 update) | ||
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- “And remember, just because it can't see you doesn't mean it can't hurl a pickaxe right at your head.”
- —Cranky Kong, Donkey Kong Country Returns
Mole Miners are enemies that appear in Donkey Kong Country Returns and Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D. They reside in mines and caves, where they are most often seen riding mine carts.
History
Donkey Kong Country Returns / Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D
In Donkey Kong Country Returns, Mole Miners only appear in Crazy Cart and the Cave area of Donkey Kong Island, but they are very common in this area. Mole Miners are the ones who constructed all of the rails and mine carts in the Cave.[citation needed] Mole Miners frequently ride around in a mine cart, often on a separate track from Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong. They have a bomb-throwing variant, Mole Guards.
Mole Miners are weak enemies and are easy to avoid. The mine cart-riding Mole Miners do not attack the Kongs directly except for attempting to drive into them. Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong can avoid the Mole Miner by either jumping over or onto it. The only two mine cart levels that Mole Miners are not in are Roasting Rails and Prehistoric Path. Mole Miners often carry around an axe as its weapon.
In Mole Patrol, there are Mole Miners who attach balloons to themselves to move around in the air. Their only attack is swinging a pickaxe at the Kongs. Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong can pop their balloon by touching it.
Mole Miners appear during the boss level The Mole Train, where they assist the boss Mole Miner Max. In a cutscene at the start, the Mole Miners are loading bananas into the Mole Train, and one is eating a sandwich that it pulled from its lunchbox. During the battle, Mole Miners throw either pickaxes or bombs at the Kongs until reaching the train, where the Mole Miners dig into the bananas and later emerge to swipe their claws around the Kongs. After doing so, the Kongs must quickly stomp on the Mole Miner to defeat it, although sometimes the Mole Miner fakes out the Kongs and immediately disappears back into the bananas. A Mole Miner sometimes drops a Heart upon being defeated.
Mario Kart Arcade GP DX
Mole Miners reappear in Mario Kart Arcade GP DX in the track Bananan Labyrinth, where they ride mine carts in the cave section of the track.[1]
Gallery
A Mole Miner, holding a pickaxe while strapped to a balloon.
A Mole Miner, using its pickaxe as a weapon.
The Mole Miners pouring the bananas into the mine carts.
Concept art of two Mole Miners and Mole Miner Max on the Mole Train.
Cave diorama
Emblem
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Names in other languages
| Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | モグリャー[2] Moguryā |
Corruption of「モグラ」(mogura, "mole"); same as Mole Guard | |
| Bosnian | Mole Miner[3] | - | |
| Chinese (simplified) | 鼹鼠矿工[4] Yǎnshǔ Kuànɡɡōnɡ |
Mole Miner | |
| Chinese (traditional) | 土撥礦工[5] Tǔbō Kuànggōng |
From「土撥鼠」(tǔbōshǔ, "marmot") and「礦工」(kuànggōng, "miner") | |
| Croatian | Mole Miner[6] | - | |
| Czech | Mole Miner[7] | - | |
| Danish | Mole Miner[8] | - | |
| Dutch | mijnmol[9] | ? | |
| Estonian | Kaevur Mutt[10] | ? | |
| Finnish | Mole Miner[11] | - | |
| French | Taupe Mineur[citation needed] | Mole Miner | |
| French (NOA) | taupe minière[12] (LEGO Super Mario) | mole miner | |
| French (NOE) | Taupe minière[13] (LEGO Super Mario) | Mole miner | |
| German | Maulwurfkumpel[?] | Mole Miner | |
| Hungarian | Mole Miner[14] | - | |
| Italian | Minatore Grottalpa[citation needed] | Cave-mole Miner | |
| Minatore grottalpa[15] (LEGO Super Mario) | ? | ||
| Korean | 두더지 광부를[16] | ? | |
| Latvian | Mole Miner[17] | - | |
| Lithuanian | rauskurmis[18] | ? | |
| Norwegian | Mole Miner[19] | - | |
| Polish | Mole Miner[20] | - | |
| Portuguese (NOA) | Toupeira Mineira[21] | Mole Miner | |
| Portuguese (NOE) | Mole Miner[22] | - | |
| Romanian | Miner Cârtiță[23] | Mole Miner | |
| Serbian | Rudar Krtica[24] | ? | |
| Slovak | Mole Miner[25] | - | |
| Spanish (NOE) | Topo Minero[?] | Mole Miner | |
| Swedish | Mole Miner[26] | - | |
| Turkish | Mole Miner[27] | - | |
| Ukrainian | крот-шахтар[28] | ? |
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