The power to tunnel through matter. Sub-power of Earth Manipulation.

Also Called

• Digging/Drilling/Immersion/Submerging/Tunneling
• Enhanced/Fast/High-Speed/Speed/Underground Digging/Drilling/Tunneling
• Ground Submerge/Submerging/Tunneling
• Hyper Burrowing/Hyper-Burrowing/Hyperburrowing/Hyper Digging/Hyper-Digging/Hyperdigging/Hyper Tunneling/Hyper-Tunneling/Hypertunneling
• Subterranean/Underground Travel

Capabilities

The user is capable of tunneling through solid matter, including fully solid ones like the earth and looser collections such as sand or snow. Depending on the matter, they may choose to leave a tunnel after them.

Applications

• Cave Creation
• Dungeon Creation
• Fortification Creation
• Hole Creation
• Labyrinth Creation
• Passageway Creation
• Room Creation
• Trap Creation
• The user can hide underground to evade attacks and for underground travel, as well as launch surprise attacks.
• Burrowing underground can weaken ground structure, creating traps or pitfalls.
• Create a network of underground tunnels, forming a labyrinth, to potentially control the battlefield.
  • Dig underground to break into a protected area.
• Unearth

Variations

• Earth Swimming

Techniques

• Burrowing Combat

Associations

• Animal Imitation
  • Feline Physiology
  • Lagomorph Physiology
  • Snake Physiology
  • Talpidae Physiology
• Burying
• Earth Manipulation
• Hole Manipulation
• Hyper Thrusting
• Matter Ingestion
• Matter Manipulation
• Planetary Travel
• Seismic Sense
• Solid Diving
• Solid Movement
• Subterrane Adaptation
• Subterranean Movement
• Trench Running
• Underground Senses
• Underground Walking

Limitations

• Users may be limited on how long they may be able to keep burrowing before they have to come up for air.
• May be limited to certain types/solidities of matter.
• May always leave the tunnel, possibly damaging/destroying the matter.
• Looser matter may collapse while digging, though the user can simply dig back up.

Known Users

Also See: Fast Tunneling, Tunnel King, This Is a Drill

Anime/Manga

Cartoons/Comics

Literature

• Mulch Diggums and Dwarves (Artemis Fowl)
• Nameless Things (The Lord of the Rings)
• Antlion (Moomin)
• Billy-Ray Sanguine (Skulduggery Pleasant)

Live Television/Movies

• Jajus (Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom)
• Antlion (Moomin)
• Sluggoth Demons (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Silurians/Homo Reptilia (Doctor Who); via third eye
• Anguirus (Godzilla)
• Moguera (Godzilla)
• Gorosaurus (Godzilla)
• Baragon (Godzilla)
• Megalon (Godzilla)
• Battra (Godzilla)
• Zilla (Godzilla)
• Meganulon (Godzilla)
• Skullcrawlers (Kong: Skull Island)
• Frost Vark (Monsterverse)
• Hisser (Power Rangers: Megaforce)
• Dustin Brooks (Power Rangers: Ninja Storm)
• Many Kaiju (Ultraman series)
• Horta (Star Trek)
• Jed McNally (Smallville)
• Graboids (Tremors film series)
• Tsun (Warriors of Virtue)

Mythology/Folklore

• The 8th Brother (Chinese Mythology)

Video Games

Web Original/Comics

• SCP-25-FR Silent Killer (SCP Foundation)
• Bom Baek (Jungle Juice)

Known Items

• Earth Demon Chi (Jackie Chan Adventures)
• Mole Mitts (The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap)
• Digging Mitts (The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword)
• Tunnel Armadillo (Xiaolin Showdown)

Gallery

Elico (Bakugan Original Series) in his Subterra form could burrow underground to attack his enemies and trap them in a crevice.

Armodrillo (Ben 10) is a powerful user of this ability.

Ditto (Ben 10) burrows underground to avoid Khyber's Panuncian attacks and to confuse it.

Clockwork (Ben 10); when fused with Techno-Bubble

Sanderson Hawkins/Sandman (DC Comics)

Knuckles the Echidna (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Yellow Whisp (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Trevor Burrow the Mole (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog)

Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog) demonstrates.

Baticus, one of the Darque Wurms (Angel: Only Human)

Fault Rippers (Dragons: The Nine Realms)

Whispering Deaths (How To Train Your Dragon) use its spinning/rotating teeth to dig tunnels and holes.

A Graboid (Tremors)

Experiment 529 "Digger" (Lilo & Stitch)

Experiment 040 "Backhoe" (Lilo & Stitch)

Megalon (Godzilla series) possess drills which allow him to burrow through the earth at Mach 2

Tunnel Armadillo (Xiaolin Showdown) allow the user to travel through underground.

Gaetan Molière (Atlantis: The Lost Empire)

Wildmutt (Ben 10)

Wildvine (Ben 10)

Slamworm (Ben 10: Omniverse)

Digmon (Digimon)

Drimogemon (Digimon)

Drill Man (Mega Man)

Ground Man (Mega Man)

SCP-25-FR silent killer (SCP foundation)

Ankylosaurus (Dinosaur King) burrow underground and strike Saichania/Tank from below.

Excadrill (Pokémon)

Mina (Mina the Hollower)

Spin (Lab Rats) is able to spin fast enough to break the ground and dig a hole.

Not only is Mole Knight (Shovel Knight) is a skilled burrower, hence the name, but he also even lives for digging.

Driller (ThunderCats)

Antlion (Moomin)

Drill Mario (Super Mario Bros Wonder)

Mark Grayson/Invincible (Invincible/Image Comics)

Dai Gui (Jackie Chan Adventures)

Animal Kirby (Kirby)

Earthbenders (The Legend of Korra)

Waterbenders (Avatar: The Last Airbender) can burrow in snow as if it were solid ground.

Donkey Kong (Donkey Kong/Super Mario) tunneling through the earth with his raw ape strength.

Shoeshine/Underdog (2007 Underdog movie) burrows underground very quickly in order to place a bomb in a matter of seconds.

Dirtbag (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987)

The Powerpuff Girls (The Powerpuff Girls)

Coil Man (The Impossibles)

Videos

Guyver Rebirth Scene-2

Ben 10 Omniverse - Diamondhead vs Khyber’s Dog

Ditto vs its Natural Predator in Ben 10 - Omniverse