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Note that this trope only applies to characters digging far faster than their abilities and equipment should allow. [[Rock Steady|Rock-shapers]], [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|earthbenders]], [[Superman]] and similar characters do not generally fall under this trope. Expect a [[Worm Sign]] to show up near the surface.
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== Anime & Manga ==
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* The Graboids in the ''[[Tremors]]'' franchise travel underground at incredible speed using this method, pushing themselves along with the spines covering their bodies and ramming earth aside with bulletproof heads. In more localized projects, they are also able to bury a car, eat the foundation from under a house, and dig a pit trap for an earthmover in relatively short order. A nod to realism is given in that though they can move easily through sand and soil, any kind of stone remains a barrier. One kills itself by attempting to ram through the concrete wall of a drainage gully.
* ''[[The Core]]'' features a giant tunneling drill train thing to quickly tunnel to the center of the Earth. These are called subterrenes in Real Life.
* ''[[Deep Core]]'' uses combinations of drills and [[Frickin' Laser Beams]] to quickly go through rock. In ''Deep Core'', the test of the prototype subterrene (intended by the military as yet another method of nuclear delivery) results in the massive shift of the tectonic plate.
* Averted and played straight in ''[[Short Circuit (Film)|Short Circuit]] 2''; the bad guys' plan involves tunneling under the bank vault a set of valuable jewels are being held before they're taken to a museum for display. It's implied they had started the tunnel quite a while before our heroes unwittingly shack up in the building above their operation, and with their presence interrupting their digging, they'll never be able to make it to the vault in time. Once they trick [[AI Is a Crapshoot|Number 5]] into doing their job for them, he blazes the rest of the trail to the vault in a few hours. [[Justified Trope|Justified]], though, as it's been established that Number 5 is both super-strong and can do such manual labor in record speed.
* Parodied in ''[[Top Secret]]!'' when Nick returns to the lab to free the professor, who is behind a tarp dropping a small spoonful of dirt into a small pile.
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