Mole Guard

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Mole Guard
Concept art of Mole Guard in Donkey Kong Country Returns
Concept artwork of the Mole Guards
First appearance Donkey Kong Country Returns (2010)
Latest appearance Donkey Kong Country Returns HD (2025)
Variant of Mole Miner

Mole Guards are Mole Miner enemies that appear in Donkey Kong Country Returns and its Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Switch ports. They are Mole Miners armed with bombs, and they only appear in the Cave levels.

Mole Guards' first and most prominent appearance is in Bombs Away, where one rides on a separate track and attacks by throwing bombs into the Kongs' track (rather than at the Kongs directly), thus destroying parts of it. The Mole Guard eventually tries to hurl a giant bomb at the track in the foreground, but crashes into a wall before it can do so.

In both Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D and Donkey Kong Country Returns HD, they also appear in the Cloud level Mischievous Moles. They appear in the background throwing bombs at the player.

Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese モグリャー[?]
Moguryā
Same as Mole Miner
French (NOE) Garde-taupe[?] Guard-mole
German Wächterkumpel[?] -
Italian Guardia Grottalpa[?] Cave-mole Guard
Spanish Topo Guardián[?] Guardian Mole