Plants vs. Zombies: Difference between revisions

In addition, there's a mini-game in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' based on this game, and completing all of its stages earns you a Sunflower as a non-combat pet that follows you around.

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* [[Abnormal Ammo]]/[[Edible Ammunition]]

** The main attack you have is peas. Lots and lots of peas.

** On the enemy side, we also have the Jack-in-the-Box zombies, who are occasionally helpful.

* [[Affably Evil]]: The zombies. They even send you notes, although they turn up a little late. And when you win, {{spoiler|they decide to make a music video with you instead. And then [[Status Quo Is God|get back to invading your lawn.]]}}

* [[Airborne Mook]]: Balloon Zombies.

* [[An Ice Person]]: Snow Peas, Ice-Shrooms, and Wintermelons, which all slow down zombies - except the Zomboni and Bobsled Team.

* [[And Your Reward Is Interior Decorating]]

* [[Anti-Air]]: Blovers (which also serve to clear the literal [[Fog of War]] in some levels); Cacti (which can also target ground forces); Cattails

** The game constantly gives you plants that makes the next stage that would be normally hard be much much easier. Although sometimes they make you feel the frustration first before giving you a plant that could handle it easily.

** In the [[PlayStation 3]] and Xbox 360 port, to use the shovel, you have to hold and then release Circle/B, instead of just tapping Circle/B on a plant you want to dig up. This way, if you accidentally press Circle/B while moving over plants, you're not screwed over.

* [[Extreme Doormat]]: The Lily Pad. As the almanac entry says:

{{quote|"Lily Pad never complains. Lily Pad never wants to know what's going on. Put a plant on top of Lily Pad, he won't say a thing. Does he have startling opinions or shocking secrets? Nobody knows. Lily Pad keeps it all inside."}}

* [[Face of a Thug]]: Grave Buster, but he's actually nice.

* [[Facing the Bullets One-Liner]]: From the Gatling Pea almanac entry:

* [[Fan Vid]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98v7Jq6IFrE No, really.]

* [[Fastball Special]]: Gargantuar will hurl smaller zombies at your plants. Thankfully, they're extremely weak and tend to be hurled into thick concentrations of peas.

* [[Final Exam Boss]]: In the last level, {{spoiler|you have to remember what plants do what kind of damage to fend off the final boss' attacks}}.

* [[Fog of War]]: During the 4th wave of levels, fog creeps into your garden.

* [[Ironic Nursery Tune]]: The Jack-in-the-Box zombie plods along, cranking a box that's playing "Pop Goes the Weasel"... {{spoiler|and explodes.}}

* [[The Juggernaut]]: Being zombies, all zombies have shades of this, but Gargantuars take the cake, being able to instantly smash obstacles, trample down plants and being very durable, hulking monstrosities.

* [[Keet]]: Coffee Bean sure does get excited.

* [[Kill It with Fire]]: Among the methods are blazing peas (by using Torchwoods), chili peppers and exploding mushrooms.

* [[Mook Maker]]: A zombie that [[Shout-Out|dances and spawns four others that follow it.]] Zomboni-driving zombies are always inevitably followed by a team of bobsled riders. Also, {{spoiler|the [[Final Boss]].}}

** If you hit Dancing Zombie with a Hypno Shroom, he becomes ''your'' Mook Maker.

* [[More Dakka]]: A typical lawn once you get all your plants set up. The Gattling Pea in particular embodies this. Combine two Gattling Peas with a Torchwood and nothing will survive <ref>except maybe a Giga-Gigantuar</ref>, although of course it's kind of expensive.

* [[Multishot]]: Threepeater, though it is a plant with 3 heads.

* [[One-Hit Kill]]: Some of your plants, namely the Cherry Bomb, Potato Mine, Squash, Doom Shroom, Tangle Kelp, Jalapeno Pepper, Chomper and Cob Cannon are capable of killing almost all types of enemies in one hit. But mind you: some of the enemies, most notably {{spoiler|the [[Humongous Mecha|Final Boss]], the Zombonis, the [[Nightmare Fuel|Jack-in-the-Box zombies]], the [[Goddamned Bats|Bungee Zombies]] and [[Giant Mook|Gargantuar]]}} are also able to do this to your plants!

** In terms of resistance, the Gargantuar takes 2 normal [[One-Hit Kill]] plants to die (or 3 for the Giga-Gargantuar which appears only in Survival mode), and Spikerocks can take 9 hits from a Gargantuar or a Zombonis.

* [[Perfectly Cromulent Word]]: No, the Cherry Bombs will not explode, nor will they detonate. They decided to explodonate. Powie!

* [[Perpetual Frowner]]: Ice-shroom, although it is because of a childhood injury that left his facial nerves paralyzed.

* [[Rule of Cute]]: Applies to both the plants and the zombies.

* [[Rule of Fun]]: Similarly, who cares where all these genetically modified war-plants came from? (Answer: [[Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?|Bloom & Doom Seed Co.]]) If it kills zombies, then all is well and good.

* [[Self-Imposed Challenge]]: The survival modes naturally lends themselves to these. Only night plants, only night plants during the day (except for air defense), as few rows as possible, no plants that shoot, etc.

** To other [[Pop Cap]] games:

*** Scroll down on the [[Video Game Achievements|Achievements]] menu and you can see references to ''[[Peggle]]'', ''[[Bookworm]]'' and ''[[Bejeweled]]''. Scroll down too far and you see [[Digging to China|Chinese zombies]].

** The "[[Dead Space (series)|Undead Space]]" achievement.

* [[Shows Damage]]: On the plant side, the wall-nut, tall-nut, pumpkin, and spikerocks show damage. Most zombies show damage with their forms of defense being damaged and then destroyed, and then their arms falling off. The Zombonis will also show damage.

* [[Smash Mook]]: The [[Giant Mook|Gargantuar]] plays this straight and also subverts it. Played straight by the fact that it usually does nothing other than 1) advance forward 2) [[One-Hit Kill|smash ANY of your plants flat]] with a [[Improbable Weapon User|sign, telephone pole, lamp-post]], or [[Grievous Harm with a Body|another zombie]]. Subverted by the fact that it also has the ability to launch an [[Fragile Speedster|Imp]] into your defenses once its health gets low.

* [[Sound-Coded for Your Convenience]]: A few of the more potentially dangerous zombies give off a sound cue before they enter the screen, or when they are on the screen (Zombonis, Dolphin riders, Jack-in-the-box, Balloons, Diggers, Pogos)

** Wall-Nut gets one when he's taken enough damage, poor guy.

** Crazy Dave, too.

** When a zombie meets a Potato Mine: SPUDOW!!

** When the Doom-shroom explodes: DOOM!!

 

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