The Weremole is a legendary, animalistic mole-like creature and the titular main antagonist of the episode "Night of the Weremole" of Courage the Cowardly Dog.
Its vocal sound effects were provided by the series' creator John R. Dilworth.
Biography[]
The Weremole, though nothing else known about him, is a vicious mole that might be the only creature being called or is the only one of its kind called "Weremoles", and it is simply on the prowl attacking its prey which is simply both rabbits and humans.
In "Night of the Weremole", the Weremole came to the outskirts of the town of Nowhere, Kansas, and it killed and ate an innocent rabbit without warning, letter biting Muriel Bagge's hand while she was trying to feed the rabbit. Then she turned into a weremole because of the hand-biting. Eustace thinks there's mice in the house. Courage talks to the computer about how Muriel is a mole creature. Computer told Courage he has a weremole.
They come out in the full moon and they have got a taste for rabbits and humans. And if any human is bitten by a weremole, they will become one them self. The cure to turn a human weremole back into normal is to get a little hair from the mole that bit them.
Courage goes outside in a rabbit costume as a distraction and the weremole bites Courage. It shows that dogs are immune to turn into weremoles. Eustace Bagge unable to identify Muriel as a weremole tries to hit crush her with his mallet also as a distraction (albeit at times), but keeps missing. Courage got out of his rabbit costume and the weremole continued to bite Courage's rabbit costume. Courage carefully got a piece of his hair. Later Courage dropped the hair in Muriel's mouth, resulting in Muriel beginning to choke and quickly turn back into a human again. Dr. Vindaloo turned into a weremole after he got bitten by Muriel when she turned into one. Dr. Vindaloo grabs Eustace in his jaws and then proceeds to swallow him alive and whole.
The weremole was also seen in "Ball of Revenge" when it joined forces with the other villains gathered by the jealous Eustace Bagge to attack Courage. However, Courage screamed loudly which caused a big chasm to open up causing the villains to fall to their presumed deaths, except for the Weremole, because it got into a clam to hide. He and the clam randomly disappear and were not seen falling through the chasm.
Personality[]
The Weremole is a wild and ferocious creature that solely wants to prey on rabbits or humans in a terrible tearing-and-shaking method. The human will change into a weremole if bitten by one. They adopt their attacker's hairy and aggressive attributes, as well as his heartless disposition.
The only known treatment is to feed them a piece of hair from their infected mole. This, however, only works on humans and bunnies. Courage, being a dog, did not become a weremole after being bitten by one.
Because the weremole's effects have been proven useless, Courage is immune to them (although he still hates getting thrashed about).
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Trivia[]
- When Courage was bitten by a Weremole, he is immune to this (although he still does not like getting thrashed about) because he is a canine and the Weremole's characteristics and transformation effects cannot work on canine animals (such as dogs and wolves).
- It is arguable whether or not the Weremole is actually very evil since it is a wild animal that is acting on instinct, and is mainly looking for food or defending itself. However, given that Eustace Bagge succeeded in contacting him to join the other villains in their attempt to kill Courage and he understood what they were going to do, it is likely that he is indeed evil and has at least some traces of sentience.
- Human weremoles are identical to ordinary ones just bigger and have orange hair, they also only have three fingers per hand instead of five, also the hair on their body apart from the head turns grey.
- Weremoles function like werewolves as they can turn humans into a a werewolf by biting them.
- Their weakness is a mallet as they can be crushed like the game whack a mole, unlike a werewolf which is silver.