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| “ | Oh, you'll come to love it as I do. We don't need light, we don't need anything. we have each other, now and for always in my kingdom of perpetual night! (Laughs maniacally) We're so alike, my little Thumbelina, both of us, rejects. I'm proud to be one and you'll grow to accept being one too. | „ |
| ~ The Mole King to Thumbelina. |
The Mole King is the main antagonist of the 2002 animated film The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina. He is a huge light green mole who wants to marry Thumbelina because he thinks she is beautiful. He's the arch-nemesis to both Tom Thumb and Thumbelina and the former boss of Godfrey and Daniel.
He was voiced by Peter Gallagher, who also voiced Kurt in Superman: The Animated Series.
Biography[]
| “ | I've wanted a queen for a long time, a Kingdom isn't properly accessorized without one. | „ |
| ~ Mole King to Godfrey and Daniel |
Early Life[]
The Mole King once ruled over numerous moles and had terrorized many creatures in the forest. However, almost all the moles abandon him, apart from Godfrey and Daniel, he never knew the truth as he is unable to see anything and Godfrey and Daniel kept it a secret because of his temper. To make sure the Mole King never knew the truth, Godfrey and Daniel pretended to be his maids and that the rest of the moles were still severing him. Several years later, the Mole King had been seeking companionship and decided to find a bride to marry. At some point in the film, he dated Leola, a mouse, and they temporarily became a couple, but over time, Leola abandoned him due to his bad behavior and selfishness, so he was left single with no one to accompany him.
The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina[]
The Mole King makes his first appearance.
Years later, a tiny girl named Thumbelina who escaped from a circus led by Roman, steps into the woods in her quest to find people like her. Meanwhile, Godfrey and Daniel, whose was checking the perimeter, they spot Thumbelina and goes to the hole to report to their king. Upon hearing the news about Thumbelina, the Mole King decides to marry her and prepare the wedding as soon as possible, so he orders his two subjects to bring her to him immediately and Godfrey and Daniel access. Eventually Thumbelina meets Tom Thumb during her stay in the forest, however she is captured by Godfrey and Daniel and brought to the Mole King, who knows her closely and falls madly in love with her. While Godfrey and Daniel go to look for the perfect hole for Thumbelina, the Mole King convinces her through a song that she will stay and marry him.
Then, the Mole King guides Thumbelina to his hole so she can choose which one she would stay, but she notices that in one of the holes is a swallow named Albertine, who claims to have been captured by the moles when she was a chick and fearing being killed. food from them, she and Thumbelina escape from the hole and the Mole King realizes this, so he orders Godfrey and Daniel to look for her, find her and bring her back.
The Mole King finds Thumbelina.
Later, Thumbelina would meet again with Tom Thumb and a trio of beetles (that she had met after she arrived in the forest) after they were both captured by a boy who collects insects and they go to a village populated by mice and Leola receives them. with excitement and throws a party in honor of his new friends. While organizing everything for the welcome party, Godfrey and Daniel secretly arrive at the mouse village and discover that Thumbelina is there with Tom Thumb and without being seen, they are going to inform the king about her. Upon finding out about her, The King decides to infiltrate the party with the purpose of kidnapping Thumbelina and forcing her to fall in love with him and killing Tom in case she rejects him.
While Thumbelina, Thumbelina and the other mice in the village were enjoying the party, The Mole King appears again in a white wedding dress, takes Thumbelina as a hostage and captures Thumbelina and takes her to his hole again. Tom, who was freed by the mice, runs to go find Thumbelina. Meanwhile in the holes, the Mole King imprisons Thumbelina in one of his cells and again forces her to marry him in exchange for the release of Tom, whom he mentions that he had a special hole for him (without knowing that Tom wasn't captured at all) and threatens to do worse if she does not agree to be his queen. Fearing for Tom's life, she decides to marry the Mole King and the happy king orders Godfrey and Daniel to prepare everything for the wedding and leaves, leaving Thumbelina alone.
The Mole King in his wedding with Thumbelina.
Later, in the ceremony pit, the Mole King was there waiting for his bride. While Godfrey was in charge of preparing the wedding, Daniel arrives with Thumbelina carrying a bouquet of flowers, then the king grabs her and when it was about to continue, Tom (who along with the help of Albertine and Leola went to Thumbelina's rescue) intervenes at the wedding and claims that Thumbelina loves him instead. The Mole King upon discovering him, orders his 'minions' to go after him, but no voice could be heard from any mole, the Mole King ordered again to his 'minions', but Thumbelina, fed up with the Mole King's nonsense, takes a monocle from Daniel, and places it on the giant mole's left eye so he could find out the truth by himself. The king realizes what is happening and finally manages to see everything, mentioning how pretty Thumbelina is, how short Tom is and insults Godfrey and Daniel calling them two very unlucky moles, however he is still determined to marry Thumbelina, so he knocks Tom down and kidnaps Thumbelina and then abandons and betrays Godfrey and Daniel, while Tom goes after him.
Godfrey and Daniel, not knowing which direction to go to attempt a rescue, end up running into Leola who decides to teach them a lesson. Meanwhile, the Mole King releases Thumbelina and sinks Thumbelina himself with him, she begs him not to leave her in the darkness and the king responds that he will come to love her as much as he does and that the need for light could be with each other now and forever, also stating that she will end up accepting being a reject like him, to which Thumbelina firmly denies. Suddenly a hole below is dug to reveal an exhausted Godfrey and Daniel and Tom with a needle to rescue Thumbelina. The King upon seeing Thumbelina escape with Tom, gets angry and orders her to stay and threatens to attack her, however Tom makes a quick move, snatches the monocle from his eye and tramples it while the king was looking for it, causing even more his anger at seeing that his passion of seeing had vanished, he lets out a roar of fury and chases both Thumbelina, Tom, Godfrey and Daniel, whose help them escape.
The Mole King's death.
Minutes later, Leola appears and helps Tom and Thumbelina to rise to the surface, while the raged Mole King thirsty with rage and madness chase them to a cliff, but because of his rage realizes too late that he dug too much to try to reach Thumbelina and Tom, whose jump off the cliff and landed on Albertine who arrives right on time before the tiny heroes would meet a certain death and fly away with Leola from the Hole; fearing for his life, grabs on a root, he yells at Godfrey and Daniel, whose witnessed Thumbelina's escape, that they're in such of trouble before his claws slipped from the root and falls screaming fearfully to his death in the cliff bellow.
His crown is last seen when Daniel takes it out of his maid's dress and both he and Godfrey begin to fight over it, being the last thing that remained of the king.
Personality[]
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Appearance[]
He's a elderly huge-sized green light mole with a golden crown on his head. During his song "Welcome to my Hole", he wears a purple royal king outfit with yellow sleeves. Later he is seen with different outfits such as an orange beach sweater with green and blue flowers, yellow sunglasses and a gold necklace around his neck and is later seen wearing an orange coat with logos of his name, white shoes, and a blue cap with slogans of his name on his head. Later, and for the rest of the film, he wears a white and purple wedding suit and a top hat on his head, with a black tie around his neck.
Quotes[]
| “ | Daniel: What do you say Godfrey, what do you say? Should we tell him now? Godfrey: Good news like your reddish wines...should be allowed to age, Daniel. There's plenty of time to tell him. The Mole King: Tell me what? Godfrey and Daniel: (Gasps) Your majesty! The Mole King: (climb on to his throne and sits on it) Who's speaking? Godfrey: It's your humble servant Godfrey, your majesty. Captain of the Guards? Daniel: And Daniel, your Master of Hounds. The Mole King: You have news for me? |
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| ~ The Mole King making his first appearance, while hearing Godfrey and Daniel's news about Thumbelina. |
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Trivia[]
- Although the Mole King is not an original character that appears in the original story of Thumbelina by Hans Christian Andersen, he may have taken inspiration from Mr. Mole and Grundel the Frog from Don Bluth's 1994 film adaptation of Thumbelina.
- At some point in the film, it is mentioned that Leola and the Mole King had dated during their youth years ago, so it is likely that Mole King had a romantic relationship before being abandoned.