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1) Bat-Cow

Super-Sons Annual #1
Super-Sons Annual #1 Image: DC Comics

As you can see, Bat-Cow is a cow with a patch of brown fur over her forehead and eyes which closely resembles Batman’s iconic bat-symbol, almost as if Bat-Cow was wearing her own Bat-cowl. Everything about this is awesome, including the fact that her real origin came from Art Baltazar and Franco’s very kid-friendly Tiny Titans series, only for Grant Morrison to herd Bat-Cow into DC’s main continuity in 2012 in Batman, Inc. Batman and Robin rescued her from a slaughterhouse to test if Professor Pyg had biologically altered her, which he absolutely did—anyone who ate her meat would become mind-controlled. While preventing the cow from being eaten was the original plan, Batman’s son Damian decided to dub her Bat-Cow and keep her in the Bat-Cave because Bat-Cow is awesome. (As previously mentioned.)