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Variations include:
* Multiple 'moles' pop up, and only one can be hit for damage. Hitting the wrong mole may provoke counter attacks in order to de-emphasize Area of Effect attacks. This type often happens with [[Doppelganger Spin
* The monster that you must kill is above ground but cannot be hurt, and only hitting the 'mole' will allow you to attack it directly.
* There are no holes. The monster just pops up in a random spot. Usually done by monsters that teleport.
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* Some mole noises in ''[[The World Ends With You]]'' have the ability of digging away and pop up in either of the two screens. Normally it changes screens when you manage hit him before it leaves a bomb and hides again.
* The Super Scope game ''Mole Patrol''.
* ''[[Star Fox Adventures]]'' features monsters like this in the "Crater" area. But it isn't enough to whack them over the
* You don't really find any holes for them in ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]'', but when those black Antlions ''do'' pop up, they hurt like hell. They also stay above ground after the ambush. The brown Antlions always stay above ground, however. Of course, the game also has worms, which only move through popping in and out of the ground.
* Traditionally, the first form of Dracula in most of the 2D [[Castlevania]] games is an example of a teleporting mole.
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* The "[[That One Boss|Dual Sockets]]" boss in ''[[Alien Hominid]]''. Don't hit the [[Attack Its Weak Point|pink glowing core]] (out of the multiple cores) in time? Prepare to be '''''[[Shock and Awe|electrocuted]]''''' [[One-Hit Kill|immediately]]!
* ''[[Plants vs. Zombies]]'' has a stage that lets you do this, with graves as holes. You also have the option of removing the graves/holes with a special weed.
* The Mole Train boss in ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'' has segments like this where you have to whack [[Mole Miner
* The fire dragon boss in ''[[Ys]] V'', similar to the aforementioned Barbagia/Volvagia.
* The final battle of the original ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' is a variation on this.
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