Media portrayals
The Marvel Comics character Mole Man is the ruler of a race of mole men called the Moloids and the comic book series X-Men has featured a society of superhuman mutants, known as Morlocks after the H. G. Wells characters, who live in the tunnels below New York City.
The 1994 short documentary film by Steven Dupler, Outside Society, went underground in New York to cover the homeless community living in the Amtrak tunnel, as well as the NYC subway system. It was awarded the Nombre D'Or Prize for Best Documentary in 1995 by the International Broadcasting Conference's Widescreen Film Festival in Montreux, and also received the United Nations' UNESCO Prize for Best Direction, Human Rights Programming, at the 1995 International Electronic Cinema Festival in Amsterdam.
The 1987-1989 television series Beauty and the Beast featured Vincent, a lion-like man who lived among a group of the homeless in the tunnels of New York Below.
The film Subway (1985) featured mole people.
Mole people also appear in the 1999 video game Deus Ex.
The 2006 film Urchin features a society of mole people who call their home "Scum City".
Neil Gaiman's novel Neverwhere depicts highly fictionalized dwellers in their world of London Below, who are literally invisible to those who dwell aboveground.
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's sci-fi/horror novel Reliquary deals with mole people living in numerous communities in the subway tunnels, sewers and service tunnels beneath Manhattan.
The 1984 horror film C.H.U.D. portrays mole people as mutated cannibalistic humanoids that come up from the sewers and prey upon the citizens of New York.
The 1981 John Carpenter classic Escape From New York features "Crazies" - underground dwelling cannibals.
Mervyn Peake's 1959 novel Titus Alone of the Gormenghast series features a poor, displaced, underground society who live in an area known as the "Under River".
The animated television series Futurama has a race of mutants living in the sewers of New New York.
The Troglodytes in the French black comedy Delicatessen are a group of vegetarian rebels who live in the sewers.
The Nickelodeon cartoon Invader Zim featured an appearance of rat people, an obvious play on mole people, when Dib was trapped in a mall parking structure.
INKlings - sewer-dwelling people described as "Kappa" who have developed their own culture in the 1985 Haruki Murakami novel Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
A community of people living underground in New York City is featured in an episode of Law and Order: Criminal Intent.
In the "Out of The Ashes" Series by William W. Johnstone the "Night People" are subterranean cannibals living in the ruins of post-nuclear war cities.
The book "The Waterbound" by Jane Stemp focuses on an underground community of disabled children that were discarded by the city.
The Nickelodeon cartoon Hey Arnold titled "Sewer King" involved Arnold venturing underground to recover his grandfather's pocket watch after it fell down the drain. Arnold must beat the Sewer King, presumably a mole person, in a game of chess in order to get the watch back.
Source : http://www.fazamania.com/the-mole-people/2006/02/23/
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