"It's mostly an animal-mutating thing so far, but I figure a nutjob like Stockman would think animals to be easier to keep control over than people." Less of a potential trail, easier to replace...

Stockman hadn't planned on them getting enough of the psychotropic serum to start thinking like people, of course, but Donnie couldn't really complain about that lack of foresight.

"There were at least a couple of mutants that started human and just had the animal DNA brought into the mix, though." Bebop and Rocksteady for sure, but...well, who knew about Bludgeon and Koya. (And who cared, really.) "But as far as we know, there's only maybe...fifteen, twenty of us out there, total."