54 Facts About Mole Man

1.

Mole Man is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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The Mole Man is a recurring foe of the Fantastic Four and was the first villain they ever faced.

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Mole Man was originally Harvey Rupert Elder, an American nuclear engineer and explorer.

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4.

Mole Man eventually became the ruler of the branch of Subterraneans now known as the Moloids, and the ruler of much of Subterranea and the caverns of Monster Isle.

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5.

Mole Man used the Deviant-derived creatures and technology that he found in Subterranea to strike back at the outer world in numerous attempts to rule or humble the world that had rejected him.

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Mole Man conducted attacks on the surface world by destroying nuclear power plants in the Eastern Bloc, Australia, South America, and French Equatorial Africa, attracting the attention of the newly formed Fantastic Four in their first adventure.

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7.

The Mole Man appeared to have destroyed Monster Isle in an atomic blast.

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8.

The Mole Man has a group of superhuman allies called the Outcasts.

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9.

Mole Man later stole buildings from New York City, but was thwarted by the Fantastic Four and appeared to be killed in an explosion.

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10.

Mole Man was among the criminals later assembled by Doctor Doom's mind-control device to attack Reed and Sue's wedding.

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11.

Mole Man then fought a war against rival Subterranean ruler Tyrannus, capturing the Fountain of Youth which allowed Tyrannus to stay young.

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12.

Mole Man used the original X-Men as pawns in his war against Tyrannus.

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13.

The Mole Man later trapped the Fantastic Four in a house of his own creation that temporarily blinded them.

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14.

Mole Man later teamed with Kala, the queen of the Subterranean Netherworlders, and fell in love with her.

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15.

Mole Man plotted to destroy the surface world, but was betrayed by Kala and Tyrannus.

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Much later, Mole Man befriended the Thing and then plotted to raise a new continent at the cost of sinking California, but was again thwarted by the Fantastic Four.

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17.

Mole Man then attempted to bring peace to Subterranea, but was attacked by Fantastic Four clones.

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18.

Mole Man contended with Skrulls, and tried unsuccessfully to capture a Skrull technotroid egg.

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19.

Mole Man later allied with Grotesk and Tyrannus against Deviants led by Brutus.

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20.

Mole Man became involved with the West Coast Avengers when one of his monsters attacked Los Angeles.

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21.

Mole Man's Moloids were caught in the middle of a Skrull revenge scheme on the Fantastic Four.

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22.

Mole Man later battled the West Coast Avengers along with the U-Foes during the Acts of Vengeance, but their attempts met with failure.

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23.

Briefly, the Mole Man allowed Adam Warlock's superhero team, the Infinity Watch, to use Monster Isle as a base, on the reasoning that they could help protect him from any meddlers, which they did on several occasions.

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24.

Mole Man tended to keep out of the way when the cosmic plans went on.

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25.

Mole Man appeared in The Mighty Avengers having led an attack on New York, claiming retaliation for his underground home, which he says is destroyed.

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26.

Mole Man was humiliated by a female-formed Ultron, who destroyed his remaining monsters, and he was arrested.

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27.

Mole Man was behind a series of Chupacabra attacks in Puerto Rico.

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28.

Mole Man's motive was to protect the blood-drinking race from extinction.

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29.

Mole Man witnessed the return of the Hulk, which pleased him.

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30.

Mole Man trained the alien beasts and led them to attack New York once more.

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31.

Malekith made a pact with Iron Mole Man disposed of his ring and escaped to safely, as he could no longer be tracked.

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32.

When Mole Man broke into Kussar's cell, Kussar did not want to leave due to a bomb inside his body that would detonate if he left his cell.

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33.

When Squirrel Girl's friends, Nancy, Tippy Toe and Koi Boi, help set her up an online dating profile, it leads to many unsuccessful dates, one of which ends with an encounter with Mole Man, who is angered by how Doreen's earlier suggestions to Kraven has affected his home.

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Doreen apologizes to him and the two have a conversation about his situation, leading Mole Man to proposing to Doreen on the spot and a number of follow-up schemes to get Doreen to go on a date with him.

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35.

Mole Man's lets Tricephalous defeat her to woo Mole Man and they leave for good.

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36.

Mole Man later appears attacking New York with a group of monsters, but he is defeated by Hulk, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.

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37.

Mole Man is an extraordinary genius, with knowledge of technology centuries beyond conventional science.

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38.

Mole Man was able to master alien principles of technology totally foreign to his culture and environment.

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39.

Mole Man fights with a staff and has developed a fighting style that resembles bojutsu; despite his small size and relative weakness he is a highly proficient hand-to-hand combatant when armed with his staff.

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40.

Mole Man is extremely near-sighted due to damage to his vision from years ago, and his eyes are extremely sensitive to bright light.

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41.

Mole Man possesses a "radar sense" that supplements his own weak natural vision.

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42.

Mole Man has a series of similar-looking staves, designed by the Mad Thinker, which contain built-in weapons and additional features.

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43.

Mole Man's life has made him an expert on subterranean geography, spelunking, understanding Deviant weapons systems, and monster training.

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Mole Man has mastered the principles underlying Deviant technology that he discovered in Subterranea and has made radical improvements upon much of it.

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45.

Mole Man ends up capturing Ben and Sue and takes a power source and potential explosive off the group's ship.

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Later, there are hints Mole Man's island is connected to the Inhumans' city of Attilian.

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47.

Peter chases after them as Spider-Man but is bested in combat by the Mole Man, forcing him to seek out help from The Fantastic Four's Thing.

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48.

Mole Man, realizing his newfound love can never rule alongside him due to this condition, reluctantly says goodbye to her and returns home to rule alone.

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49.

Zombie Mole Man appears in the prequel to Marvel Zombies, Marvel Zombies: Dead Days, appearing to attack Nova alongside the Wizard.

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50.

Mole Man claimed the files as his own but was told by the governmental officials firing him, which included Sue and Johnny's father, Dr Franklin Storm, that everything he created was the property of the United States government.

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51.

Mole Man's ability to spy on the team fostered his delusion that he was a father figure to them.

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52.

Mole Man sends one of his created monsters to New York to retrieve the others.

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53.

Mole Man was eventually driven off when he left the students behind and went to confront the Fantastic Four, who had arrived to try to rescue them.

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54.

Mole Man was led to the ruins of the underground civilization by an insane Italian man who was a part of a NATO expedition to find the lost city, the third group to try.

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