Mole Miner Max

Mole Miner Max is one of the bosses from Donkey Kong Country Returns. He is encountered in the fourth world, which takes place in a cave, with the level he is encountered in being titled "The Mole Train."
== Description ==
Mole Miner Max is a humanoid mole who wears an orange mining jacket and a yellow mining helmet with a lamp on it. His eyes are not visible in the game, but his trophy in the Wii U version of Super Smash Bros. 4 reveals their colour to be red with black pupils.
== History ==
=== In Donkey Kong Country Returns ===
Mole Miner Max is first seen loading the titular train of his boss level with the bananas stolen by the animals that the Tiki Tak Tribe generals stole. When Donkey Kong arrives on the scene to recover his burgled bananas, a banjo-shaped Tiki Tak Tribe general named Banjo Bottom alerts Max with his music, causing Max to start the train and flee. Donkey Kong chases Max down, using minecarts to catch up to the mole, but he has to deal with three waves of Mole Miners.
After Donkey Kong makes it to the end of the level, Max will attack using the same strategy as his minions. Max's attacks involve him throwing a pickaxe and performing a smash attack with it. However, his movement patterns are more random than his minions'. Before Max pops out of a cart, the carts shake, and Max never pops out of the first cart that shakes, making that cart a safe spot when he appears.
After the fourth stomp, Max is defeated, getting thrown into the cockpit of his train, and Banjo Bottom can be attacked to complete the level.
=== In Super Smash Bros. 4 ===
Max makes a cameo in the Wii U version of the game in a trophy, being shown riding in a minecart on a section of railroad. His eyes are visible in this game. The trophy reads: "Hypnotised by Banjo Bottom, Mole Miner Max and his workers use the Mole Train and its carts to move massive amounts of bananas around. When a tie-wearing gorilla shows up to put a top to the Tiki Tak Tribe's plans, though, Banjo Bottom uses the train to try and escape. Whack those moles and take out Banjo Bottom!"
== Nomenclature ==
Max is called Mōru Kāto (written モールカート) in Japanese, taken from a transliteration of "Mole Cart." His French name, Tobby, Chef Taupe, literally means "Tobby, Mole Chief," with Tobby coming from taupe ("mole"). His German name is Oberkumpel Otto, with Oberkumpel meaning "chief miner" or "head miner." His Italian name is Grottalpa Mássimo (a literal translation of his English name). In Spanish, his name is "Topo Minero Max," another literal translation of his English name.
de:Oberkumpel Otto
es:Tren Topo
fr:Tobby, Chef taupe
Category:Donkey Kong Country Returns
Category:Bosses
Category:Bosses in Donkey Kong Country Returns
Category:Moles