The Coal Miner
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Real Identity: Unknown
Appearances: Christmas Crusaders
Powers/Skills: Engineering
Voiced By: Gilbert Gottfried
As a child, the Coal Miner only got lumps of coal from Santa Claus. He hated it but eventually it became the cornerstone of his bid to eradicate the myth of clean coal and make it a reality. One Christmas season, the Coal Miner threw a present inside Kringle Manor, breaking a mirror and hitting Dick Grayson in the back of the head. Santa smacked Grayson before he could open it and pointed out how unusual it would be for Santa to have a present. Grayson cautiously opened it. It was a lump of coal. Santa knew it was a message from the Coal Miner. Grayson didn't understand and noted it was one of the cleanest forms of energy. Santa threw the coal at his head and admonished him for his coal industry propaganda then clued him about how coal was given to naughty kids and the naughtiest were the Teen Titans. They set off to save the Titans before Coal Minter got to them. A cart full of coal suddenly crashed through the glass into the living room of the Titans Tower while the Titans quarreled over Kris Kringle presents. The Coal Miner popped out and had his men tie the Titans up. He saw Cyborg's toy train and took it for his collection.
Santa and Robin popped out of sack full of presents. Santa demanded the garbage kids back. Coal Miner refused and declared he would make every naughty child in the world work in his coal mine then went on a rant about how coal was the ultimate form of clean energy. Santa countered the future was renewable energy. Coal Miner summoned his henchman and a fight broke out. Santa even used Robin as weapon and threw him at one of the henchmen. Coal Miner managed to escape with the Titans. Santa noticed a lump of coal left behind. Robin didn't want to talk about it again but Santa prodded. Robin dragged out a machine and explained how coal was the world's largest source of energy for the production of electricity and increasingly advanced carbon captures storage technology was capturing the carbon dioxide before it went into the atmosphere. Santa yelled at him for the coal industry propaganda and stated he meant the clue was hinting at diamonds, and thus the Diamond Exchange in the city.
Santa and Robin dropping through the secret hatch on the roof of the Exchange and landed right in the middle of an ambush. They were surrounded by Coal Miner and his henchmen. Miner talked about how diamonds could come from applying enough pressure to coal and wondered if that held for Santa, too. He pulled a trap door lever and dropped Santa and Robin into a Diamond Crusher machine. They narrowly avoided being squished to death by using Robin's nutcracker toy to overload a giant gear. Coal Miner was long gone but he left a lump of coal behind. They went to the Coal Miner's coal mine and found the Titans. Coal Miner activated his Super Choo-Choo and touted its capacity to capture carbon dioxide and prevent any harmful emissions from ruining the atmosphere. Santa got an idea and tried to overload the carbon captured storage with lumps of coal. Miner was horrified. Santa threw Robin in. The Super Choo-Choo blew up and Miner was reduced to tears. Santa stepped on him and declared there was no such thing as clean coal.