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|image=[[File:DKB Loading Art Eels.jpg|250px]]<br>Group artwork of the Eels
|first_appearance=''[[Donkey Kong Bananza]]'' ([[List of games by date#2025|2025]]) 
|notable=[[Eelevator]]<br>[[Great Harmoneel]]
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{{quote|There is something strange about the ground here… [[Exploritone|We]] looked closer and made a surprising discovery. Small scraps of debris seem to have settled into the [[Landfill Layer|layer]] here creating an unusual sediment. Strange, wiggly creatures spend their days swimming through these odds and ends. They have long, undulating bodies. When we asked, they told us that they are underground eels. There was no sinkhole, so we didn't know where to go from here. But the eels dug a hole for us, opening a way forward. Thanks to them, our quest to find the origin of [[Fractone|Us]] continues!|Saga of [[Exploritone]], Verse 18}}

The '''Eel Family''' are a family of eel-like creatures known as '''Underground Eels''', also referred to as '''subterranean eels''' or simply just '''eels''', who appear as allies to [[Donkey Kong]] and [[Pauline#Donkey Kong Bananza|Pauline]] in ''[[Donkey Kong Bananza]]''. The most seen members of the family, [[Li'l Eelevator]]s, can eat Donkey Kong to "Teeleport" him between sublayers within the same Layer via the map. The [[Eelevator]] is the mother of the Li'l Eelevators and can transport Donkey Kong and Pauline between layers by hitting her [[Warp Gong]]. The [[eeling]]s are also implied to be young Eelevators.<ref>"Do [[Donkey Kong|you]] think all {{icon|dkb-eeling}}Eelings become {{icon|dkb-eelevator}}[[Eelevator]]s when they get big enough? No wonder they grow so much, the way they gobble everything down."</ref> During the game's story, the father of Li'l Eelevators, the [[Great Harmoneel]], was mind-controlled to serve [[Void Kong]] when it was forced to wear the [[Mind-Bender Mask]], managing to swallow Pauline after she and Donkey Kong beat [[Grumpy Kong]] in the [[Radiance Layer]]. Fortunately, his mind was set free in the [[Groove Layer]] when Donkey Kong played the eel's favorite song.

The Underground Eels appear to have originated in the [[Landfill Layer]] of the [[Underground World]]. Statues of the Li'l Eelevators and the Great Harmoneel made out of debris can be found in the layer.

[[Underground Eel]]

==Gallery==
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DKB Credits 14.jpg|Screenshot from the credits of ''Donkey Kong Bananza''
DKB Credits 32.jpg|Screenshot from the credits of ''Donkey Kong Bananza''
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