Cowbot


 * For the episode, see Cowbot (episode).

"Behold rodents. Prepare to face the most fearsome destructive force ever to grace this, or any other world."

- Dr. Eggman, "Cowbot"

Cowbot is a character that appears in the Sonic Boom television series. It is a cow-based robot created by Dr. Eggman to battle Team Sonic. It is essentially a walking nuclear bomb that can cause mass destruction when destroyed (provided it is loaded with Mootonium).

Concept and creation
According to Bill Freiberger, when they moved onward with the premise for the "Cowbot" episode, they thought it would be funny if the killing machine looked silly. They eventually thought of a cow which led to the cow tipping joke, thus leading to the decision to design Cowbot as a cow.

Appearance
Cowbot is designed after a bulky, non-anthropomorphic cow and is very large, bring over four times the size of Knuckles. It has a black and white body with a large front section and small grey front legs, and a smaller hind quarter with rather large white hind legs. Each of its legs have a red ring on their upper joint. It also has a long yellow and black-striped tail, a pink udder with six mammary glands and a thick grey neck with a cowbell around it. Its head is rectangular with its upper left and lower right section being white, and it has two stubby yellow and black horns. When operating normally, its eyes glow blue, but when its stage two directive is activated, they glow red.

History
Cowbot was created by Dr. Eggman and programed with the single mission to destroy Sonic. It was later deployed by Eggman to eliminate Team Sonic, though the team hardly took it seriously until Eggman told them that they could not destroy Cowbot without creating an explosion that would vaporize them. Once Eggman left, Cowbot began attacking Team Sonic before turning its attention to Sonic alone, unaware it was being distracted while the rest tipped it over. Tails then reversed Cowbot's programing, making it seek out Eggman to destroy him instead, and it left the battle. At the same time, Cowbot's stage two directive was activated, which rendered all the defenses at Eggman's lair useless.

Over half a day later, Cowbot arrived at Eggman's lair, where Sonic, Tails and Eggman had joined forces to stop it. As Cowbot tried to get through the lair's new force field, Sonic reached it with a catapult and poured melted marshmallows into it, which gunked up Cowbot's machinery and shut it down.

Personality
Cowbot behaved much like an actual cow, showing an animalistic level of intelligence, a lack of defined personality and only spoke by mooing. It constantly showed a droopy and indifferent expression and was extremely easy-going to the point of obliviousness. Per its programming, Cowbot was single-minded and unquestionably dedicated to hunting down and destroying its targets, be it either Sonic or its own creator, Dr. Eggman.

Powers and abilities
According to Dr. Eggman, Cowbot is the most destructive force in the universe. Though this statement is probably exaggerated, it still hints that Cowbot possesses great destructive potential. Similar to a tank, Cowbot boasts a lot of power and can fire powerful slimy cuds from its mouth as missiles, but it is incredibly slow and greatly lacks agility and balance. It is capable of flight by using rockets on its hooves, but flies so slow that it tales it half a day to travel a few miles. Like a real cow, it can also produce milk from its udder.

Provided Cowbot is filled with Mootonium, a dangerous radioactive compound, it essentially becomes a walking nuclear bomb. Should Cowbot be destroyed, it can unleash an explosion which will vaporize anything within a twenty-mile radius.