Plants appearing in the second game. See here for the entries of plants that make a return from the previous game.
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Ancient Egypt
Returning plants: Cabbage-pult, Grave Buster, Twin Sunflower (as a standalone plant), Repeater Bloomerang
- As the first new member to your home defense team, Bloomerang enjoys long walkabouts with his friend, Koala Bear, and listening to his Bob Barley albums out back.
Bloomerangs throw boomerangs forward that will hit through up to 3 targets (more at certain levels) on his row before flying back at him, dealing 2 hits each. Costs 175 sun, recharges fast. If fed Plant Food, he'll throw a lot of boomerangs in 4 directions.
- Battle Boomerang: His projectiles are boomerangs, and they penetrate enemies while being thrown and while returning back to him. This also allows his boomerangs to damage Excavator Zombie on the return hit, which strikes from the back.
- Developer's Foresight:
- If Jester Zombie throws his boomerangs back to him, he will simply retrieve them without taking any damage.
- His boomerangs will be blocked by Excavator Zombie's shovel on the forward throw, but will hit him in the back on the return flight.
- Dreadlock Rasta: His boomerang petals appear to resemble dreadlocks. Fittingly his costume is that of a Rastacap.
- Land Down Under: His almanac entry has quite a few references to Australia.
- More Dakka: If given Plant Food.
- One Bullet at a Time: Unlike most constant-shooting plants, he has to wait for his boomerang to come back before he can throw again.
- One-Hit Polykill: He can hit up to 3 enemies with one boomerang throw. This increases as he levels up a good bit.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: Once you get Laser Bean, chances are you won't be needing Bloomerang anymore. Even though he takes multiple levels in badass as he levels up, a leveled Laser Bean still outclasses him.
- Punny Name: of "boomerang" and "bloom".
- Shout-Out: To Bob Marley (called "Bob Barley") in his almanac; Bloomerang is a Fan Boy of him. (That also explains his costume.)
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: They can be used to hit a lot of grave stones at once, or to hit zombies behind the grave. Watch out for the 3-enemies limitation, however.
- Took a Level in Badass: While initially overshadowed by Laser Bean and Fume-shroom, he gains levels faster than most plants, and his damage greatly increases every few level ups. At level 9, he's dealing three times the damage he used to do at Level 1. At maximum level, it's extremely effective, although he's still overshadowed by Laser Bean.
Iceberg Lettuce
- Don't get lost staring into Iceberg's adorably cute eyes. If you do, it will be your last step... but only if you're a zombie.
Freezes the zombie who walks onto his tile for a few seconds. Based on the real life iceberg lettuce
. Costs 0 sun, recharges slowly. If given Plant Food, it'll freeze all zombies on screen. At level 11, it gains the ability to affect an area.
- Area of Effect: Once it reaches level 11, it becomes able to freeze zombies within an area. This makes its usefulness jump tenfold as it now affects a 1x3 area, allowing it to freeze all the zombies in three squares on its lane instead of the one closest too house. Level it up even further and that area becomes a 3x3 area like that of Stallia.
- Beware the Cute Ones: Don't get lost staring into his adorably cute eyes. If you do, it will be your last step... but only if you're a zombie.
- Emergency Weapon: It is good to be used to delay a tough zombie with it so your other offensive plant can hit it a bit longer.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: Its eyes will briefly glow when it uses its Plant Food power.
- No Mouth: It doesn't have a mouth in its design.
- Punny Name: Is an iceberg lettuce who is literally made of ice.
- Support Party Member: By freezing zombies.
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: Being frozen will make some of the zombies be unable to use their abilities.
- Took a Level in Badass: While Iceberg Lettuce was pretty good for a 0 cost plant, leveling it up to level 11 makes its usefulness jump tenfold as it now deals Area of Effect freeze, meaning that you don't have to place it at the right moment to freeze an intended zombie- it will freeze all of them in its area. Furthermore, as it levels up, its freeze time also becomes longer than its recharge time, meaning that it is possible to Stun Lock a group of grounded zombies in place.
- What Beautiful Eyes!: The almanac entry mentions how cute his eyes are.
Bonk Choy
- A freelance dentist on the side, he's offering a special this month - he'll knock two of your teeth out for the price of one!
Attacks zombies that come to a melee range (either in his front or back but not both) with quick punches. Costs 150 sun, recharges fast. If given Plant Food, he'll rapidly punches at the 3x3 area around him.
- Backwards-Firing Gun: Can be used to hit zombies behind him, but it's somewhat impractical to use him in that way. He can be useful to free other plants from ice or octopi, however.
- Close-Range Combatant: Can only attack the zombie in front of or behind him.
- Comically Inept Healing: Apparently his idea of being "dentist" (as revealed in the almanac) is to punch his patients' teeth out.
- Good Old Fisticuffs: His method of attack is punching zombies at a fast rate.
- Mad Eye: His eyes aren't drawn to be equally-sized and he likes punching out stuff, things you wouldn't expect a normal being to do.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: Wasabi Whip's ability is basically like Bonk Choy's, but can reach further, deal more damage and can also thaw nearby plants. Even though Bonk Choy takes several levels in badass as he levels up, a leveled Wasabi Whip still outclasses him. However, Bonk Choy doesn't cost real money to use.
- Punny Name: Of the bok choy vegetable and "bonk", an onomatopoeia of getting hit with blunt force.
- Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: If given Plant Food, he throws out a set of rapid punches in a 3x3 area around him.
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: He's good to be used against Chicken Zombies as his hit rate is high enough to kill a lot of them coming at once.
- Took a Level in Badass: He gains levels faster than most plants, and his damage greatly increases every few level ups. At level 1, he takes 12 or so punches to kill a normal zombie. At level 10, he kills Coneheads in less than that. At maximum level, he's dealing 5x the damage he used to.
- Tsurime Eyes: One of his eyes is like this, while the other is oval.
Pirate Seas
Returning plants: Kernel-pult, Spikeweed, Cherry Bomb, Spikerock, Threepeater Snapdragon
- Although the most powerful dragon in the plant kingdom, he still dreams of wings and seeing the world beneath him.
Breathes fire that covers a 3x3 area (centered on the square in front of him), hitting all zombies on the area of effect. Costs 150 sun, recharges fast. If given Plant Food, he'll fly upward and then covers a 3x3 area in front of him (centered 2 cells in front of him) in flames and dealing heavy damage.
- Area of Effect: Hits a 3x3 area in front of him.
- Birds of a Feather: With Torchwood. They both like to hang out in the Tiki Lounge or the Renaissance Faire.
- Breath Weapon: Fires a 3x3 breath wave that hits any zombie in its path.
- Call of the Wild Blue Yonder: His almanac says that he desires to get wings and see the world beneath him. He does get wings with his Plant Food, but it is implied that he can't fly very high.
- Close-Range Combatant: He will only attack when zombies are close.
- Fire/Water Juxtaposition: Between Cold Snapdragon and him. Both of them view temperature rather differently and Cold Snapdragon really doesn't like to discuss it.
- Irony: His costume is a firefighter's hat. Now do the math.
- Overly Narrow Superlative: He's described as "the most powerful dragon in the plant kingdom". Of course, he and Cold Snapdragon may be the only dragons there. Also, Cold Snapdragon is basically the same except it chills zombies, making it more powerful.
- Planimal: Half flower, half dragon.
- Playing with Fire: Breathes fire and is immune to frozen winds.
- Power Gives You Wings: When fed Plant Food, he spouts wings.
- Punny Name: He resembles less of an actual snapdragon flower, and more like a dragon head.
- Support Party Member: Can be used as this in Frostbite Caves level, being able to thaw frozen plants.
Spring Bean
- He's the strong, silent type and little is known about Spring Bean. What is known though: his fan club is a million followers strong. And the ladies love him.
Bounces a zombie back a tile when it gets close; also will throw it into the water if nearby. Costs 50 sun, recharges slowly. If given Plant Food, he'll jump a bit, then smash the ground and causes all zombies on screen to be blown back, or into the water if nearby.
- Close-Range Combatant: Only affects zombies that get right on top of him.
- Cool Down: He'll sleep everytime he throws a zombie off him, and he can't repeat it until he wakes up. Leveling him up decreases the cooldown period.
- Cross Dresser: His costume is... a bikini top and a skirt.
- Distressed Dude: You have to defend a bunch of Spring Beans in the Save Our Seeds level in the Pirate Seas.
- Famed In-Story: He apparently has a fan club that is a million followers strong. At least that's what the almanac says.
- Knockback: Normally, the zombie that steps on him will get knocked backwards a tile. Leveling him up increases the knockback.
- Lazy Bum: In Sun Bean's almanac entry, it is mentioned that Spring Bean is "plain lazy." In-game, he will fall asleep for a little while after he bounces a Zombie.
- Nerf: Zombies knocked back by him are immune to the Blover instead of being instantly killed. This was likely done to prevent easy scoring in Battlez.
- Obvious Rule Patch: Using his Plant Food ability along with Blover made Battlez a cakewalk and gave massive scoring opportunities. As such, PopCap fixed this by making zombies pushed by it immune to the Blover.
- One-Hit Kill: If the zombie's thrown into the water. Before an update, using his PF ability with Blover lets him One-Hit Kill a screen of zombies.
- Punny Name: a pun of string bean (aka green bean) and spring.
- The Stoic: He's mentioned as a strong, silent type.
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: He can be used to crush the Surfer Zombie's surfboard should he use it to smash Spring Bean. He also separates the barrels off Barrel Rollers, making them unable to push the barrel anymore.
Coconut Cannon
- Sure, he's a hairy old man, but Coconut Cannon can still fire on all cylinders. The reason he's so hairy: he's in-between waxings.
Fires a coconut forward as you click him; the coconut deals damage to the zombie it hit and the zombies nearby. Costs 400 sun, recharges fast. If given Plant Food, he'll grow big and then fire a bigger coconut that pushes all the zombie of his lane backward until the rightmost column (or until it hits an obstacle) and then explodes, dealing heavy damage to all zombies affected and in a 3x3 area around it.
- Big Ol' Eyebrows: He sports some pretty big eyebrows on his angry eyes.
- BFG: He's plant that fires a huge cannonball that destroys almost any zombie.
- Coconut Meets Cranium: Fires huge coconut cannonballs that are quite likely to take off the head of the zombie it hits. As well as the heads of weaker zombies around it.
- Cooldown: He'll sleep after each firing. This cooldown time reduces as he levels up.
- Knockback: His Plant Food ability projectile pushes back zombies that gets in its way.
- One-Hit Kill: On most weaker zombies.
- Splash Damage: The coconut it shoots deals this whenever it hits a zombie. The splash is weaker than the direct hit, though.
- Super Spit: As he fired his coconuts out of his "mouth", it counts as this.
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: His Plant Food ability is effective for grouping zombies together as well as pushing them away from your side, including Gargantuars.
Wild West
Returning plants: Split Pea, Tall-Nut, Melon-Pult, Winter Melon (as a standalone plant) Chili Bean
- He's not blushing, he's trying to hold it in.
A single-use plant. When a zombie eats him, the zombie instantly dies and releases a stream of gas behind him that stuns other zombies behind the victim. Costs 50 sun, recharges slowly. If given Plant Food, he'll make 3 copies of himself which will fall onto random tiles.
- Emergency Weapon: He's more effective on this than Potato Mine in that he doesn't need arming time and he gives a good additional effect. Though he fails against zombies that don't eat.
- Fartillery: What happens to the zombie who eats him.
- Gasshole: Implied. He tries to hold back, so much that he becomes red, although he sometimes does let go a bit. He does when he's given Plant Food.
- Idle Animation: Every 10 seconds or so he'll fart a bit.
- One-Hit Kill: He kills most zombies that eat him.
- The Paralyzer: The gas that the victim produced stuns other zombies.
- Self-Duplication: If given Plant Food, he creates copies of himself that land on random, unoccupied tiles on the lawn. Normally produces three copies, but this increases as he levels up.
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: He can be quite useful when dealing with zombies with tough armor. The bean will ignore the armor and kill the zombie instantly.
- Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: So much that it causes gastrointestinal distress on most zombies.
- Worf Barrage: This plant won't affect those who don't eat plants (Explorer Zombie with his torch on, Wizard Zombie, and Gargantuar among others) and his gas is ineffective against robots (especially in Far Future).
Pea Pod
- Having studied Quantum Spatial Mechanics in Clown College, the peapod has been amusing families of all ages.
Another variant of a peashooter, a pea pod can be planted up to 5 times on the same tile for more firepower. Costs 125 sun, recharges fast. If given Plant Food, the pods will close and a big peashooter head comes out of the ground and fires 5 giant peas that deal high damage.
- BFG: If given Plant Food, it shoots five gigantic peas, each of which deal heavy damage.
- Edible Ammunition: Peas, of course.
- More Dakka: 5 peashooter heads = even more dakka!
- Multiple Head Case: He can have up to 5 heads as you stack him on one tile. He can also reveal a giant sixth head hidden underground.
- Non-Ironic Clown: He's mentioned as a successful clown. He even graduates from a clown college.
- Power-Up Letdown: He isn't useful in stages where you're told to "never have more than x amount of plants at once" as upgrading the pea pod counts as additional amount of plants.
Lightning Reed
- This may come as a shock, but Lightning Reed has a serious passion for ham radio. His call sign is El3ctric H1ccup. You can tune in every Tuesday to hear him read the classics to elderly plants. This week: Seeds and Sensibility.
Shoots a jolt of lightning at the closest enemy that will then jump onto 3 closest enemies around him. Can target the lane above or below his lane. Deals lower than normal damage. Uses 125 sun, recharges fast. If given Plant Food, he''ll create a thundercloud that directly targets enemies, shocking them one-by-one to death each time.
- Awesome, but Impractical: His Plant Food ability is a quick killer, but he targets random enemies and it isn't efficient on a large swarm of zombies.
- Chain Lightning: His lightning bounces from zombie to zombie, allowing for Splash Damage.
- Hidden Depths: His almanac entry says that he's a ham radio host.
- Lampshade Wearing: Has a lampshade as his costume, which makes him look like a desk lamp.
- Leet Speak: The call sign for his ham radio is "El3ctric H1ccup".
- Nerf: The Plant Leveling System update halved his initial damage, so that it does the same amount of damage as a chained lightning bolt.
- No Mouth: He doesn't have a mouth in his design.
- Power Glows: Among the few plants that glow.
- Punny Name: of "reed/grass" and "lightning rod".
- Shock and Awe: The first electric plant in the game.
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors:
- He's good to be used against a flock of Chicken Zombies and Weasel Zombies as they die in few hits and his Chain Lightning ability can make hitting a lot of them at once easier.
- The lightning is also one of the few things the Jester Zombie can't reflect, and its X-Ray Sparks effect when it kills a zombie can also prevent Surfer Zombie from smashing his surfboard down when he dies.
- X-Ray Sparks: When his lightning kills a zombie, the zombie will suffer this.
- Took a Level in Badass: It's going to take a while, but leveling him up past Level 5 will give him a pretty noticeable damage increase thanks to hitting more targets.
Far Future
Returning plants: Blover Laser Bean
- After a laser eye surgery had gone horribly right, Laser Bean gained a sense of purpose and a new-found affinity for competitive staring contests.
Shoots a straight, continuous laser from his eyes forward, hitting all zombies on the line. Has half the rate of fire of a normal Peashooter but deals twice the damage. Costs 200 sun, recharges fast. If given Plant Food, he'll jump up and fire a stronger laser from his mouth that rips through the tiles in front of him, damaging the enemies as it goes.
- Breath Weapon: When fed Plant Food, he fires a large laser from his mouth that deals massive damage to all zombies in front of him.
- Energy Weapon: The laser beams are hitscan attacks that hit all zombies in front of him.
- Eye Beams: His normal laser shots are fired from his eyes.
- One-Hit Polykill: Laser Bean's eye beams can pierce through all enemies in front of him, making him a good anti-crowd weapon. He can let you shoot through obstacles as well, and even hits zombies that are offscreen.
- Power Creep: For just 25 more than a Bloomerang, which doesn't mean much in a 50 sun meta, you can get a monster that hits all zombies on lane, even hitting zombies off screen. With how waves work, Laser Bean's biggest flaw over Boomerang is that it speeds up the waves because it does that much damage. Laser Bean also has the special ability of being able to hit a lot of special zombies consistently such as Wizard and Prospector, whose main line of defense is hiding behind hordes of bulkier zombies.
- Punny Name: A laser beam and, well, a bean.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Red eyes that shoot piercing laser beams, making him a pretty dangerous threat to the zombies.
- Shields Are Useless: His laser shot can pierce through Shield Zombie's shield and Excavator Zombie's shovel.
- Shock and Awe: The game officially classifies Laser Bean under the Electric Plants seed packet pinatas despite not causing X-Ray Sparks when killing Zombies.
- Shout-Out: His Plant food power is one to the "Shoop Da Whoop" meme, even giving him a similar facial expression.
- Wave-Motion Gun: When fed Plant Food, he fires a laser that deals massive damage to all zombies in front of him.
Citron
- As the owner and primary user of "Vitamin C-U-Later" 20-hour energy shots, Citron is always on and always ready for action. "Let's make this happen!!"
Based on an orange, Citron charges a powerful ball of plasma that it'll then shoot forward, dealing high damage. It has a slow rate of fire. Costs 350 sun, recharges fast. If given Plant Food, it'll shoot a more powerful plasma ball that kills every zombie on its lane, but will stop if it hits Gargantuar or certain future zombies.
- Blown Across the Room: Any zombie hit by its Plant Food ability that isn't a machine or Gargantuar is sent flying off the screen.
- Charged Attack: It takes a long time to charge up, but once it fires, the zombie it hits will be taking huge damage.
- Distressed Dude: It has to be guarded in one Save Our Seeds level in the Far Future.
- Energy Ball: It shoots plasma balls.
- Hot-Blooded: The almanac states that it's always on and ready for action. "Let's make this happen!!"
- Mighty Glacier: Hits very hard with its plasma balls, but has a long charge-up time before firing.
- One-Hit Kill:
- Its Plant Food ability kills any zombie that isn't Zomboss, including the Jurassic Gargantuar. It's so powerful that Jester Zombie can't deflect it.
- In fact, it's one of three attacks in the game that can instantly kill a Gargantuar without throwing them off-screen. note
- One Hit Poly Kill: If it hits a zombie other than a machine or Gargantuar, it keeps going.
- Power Glows: It glows as it charges a shot.
E.M.Peach
- E.M.Peach has grown tired of people lazily calling him E.M.Pea. "There's a C and H there for a reason people! And I've got the stone to prove it!"
A single-use plant that disables machines in an area around him. Costs 25 sun, recharges slowly.
- Accidental Misnaming: He gets irritated whenever people calls him "E.M.Pea".
- EMP: His ability in a nutshell.
- The Paralyzer: On machine enemies.
- Punny Name: on peach + EMP.
- Situational Sword: His stunning ability only works on machines.
- Support Party Member: By stunning machine enemies around him.
Infi-nut
- As a young nut, he spent way too much time standing between two mirrors and trying to look into infinity.
A defensive plant in the vein of a Wall-nut; he isn't as durable, but he can regenerate himself over time. Costs 75 sun, recharges mediocre. If given Plant Food, he can project a durable barrier that covers a whole column in front of him and can also repel many zombie abilities.
- Anti-Air: Anti-air defense, that is, but only with Plant Food.
- Artistic License – Biology: Technically, he's a holographic projection and not an actual plant. The projector is supposed to be the actual plant, but it's still odd. Then again, he came from the future.
- Deflector Shields / Force Field: Creates one as his Plant Food ability.
- Deployable Cover: His function in a nut - er, holographic shell.
- Energy Being: He's a holographic nut made from a projector.
- Glowing Eyes: His eyes are glowing. Justified due to being a holographic being, hence his eyes can glow.
- Hard Light: He's made of this, considering that zombies are blocked by him.
- Healing Factor: He can regenerate himself if he isn't eaten for 15 seconds. Even if he's gone, he'll appear again after 15 seconds. He only truly dies if the projector is broken; only a few zombies can do it (such as Explorer Zombie, Parrot Zombie, Gargantuars, Troglobite, Glitter Zombie, All-Star Zombie, and Jurassic Rockpuncher).
- Power Glows: He glows when he uses the Plant Food power.
- Punny Name: Of "infinite" and "nut". Also a Meaningful Name as he can potentially stay on the field until the stage ends.
- Stone Wall: Somewhat weaker than Wall-nut, but can stay on the field for longer.
- Support Party Member: By acting as defense.
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: The shield from his Plant Food ability counters a lot of nastier zombie abilities, such as the Fisherman Zombie's hook, the Explorer Zombie's torch, Surfer Zombies (unless they are in the same lane as the Infi-nut), Troglobite's ice blocks, Hunter Zombie's snowballs, Excavator Zombie's shovel, and Punk Zombie's kick. The shield also stays active if the Infi-nut is frozen, turned into a sheep, or has an octopus on him. Furthermore, his projector can still absorb Hair Metal Gargantuar's shockwaves even when the nut is "dead".
Magnifying Grass
- Magnifying Grass understands the inherent power of a rainbow. Beneath her stoic features she takes great joy in delivering radiant multicolored destruction to the zombie horde.
Tap on her to fire a powerful beam that deals high damage onto zombies, at the cost of 50 sun each tap. Costs 50 sun, recharges fast. If given Plant Food, she can fire a concentrated beam onto the closest enemy until it dies, then jumps onto the closest one and so on until the duration expires; the duration is lengthened the more sun-producing plants (except Sun Bean) there are on the lawn. At level 7, she gains the ability to produce minute amounts of sun.
- Action Girl: A female plant and a highly damaging attacker.
- Cast from Money: It requires 50 sun in order to fire a shot.
- Death Ray: A rainbow one at that.
- Difficult, but Awesome: Does high damage to zombies, but it requires sun to do it, which makes it seem Awesome, but Impractical to rely on for continuous offense. However, it only costs 50 sun to plant, recharges quickly, and stays on the lawn, so it can be quickly deployed to dispose of a threatening individual zombie, particularly late in the round when the player is likely to have a lot of sun left over (for comparison, the one-use bomb plants have a long recharge time). Though it will waste precious sun if used improperly, it can be effective in the right situations.
- Energy Weapon: Notable for being one of the very few non-Plant Food projectiles that can't be deflected by the Jester.
- Everything's Better with Rainbows: The beam that she shoots have the 7 colors of the rainbow. It's also plenty powerful; Jester Zombie can't deflect it, either. It's mentioned in the almanac that she knows that fact pretty well.
- Hidden Depths: Beneath her stoic persona, she enjoys using her colorful power to torch the zombie horde.
- Light Is Good: Uses light-based powers and is one of the good guys.
- No Mouth: Her design doesn't have a mouth on it.
- The Power of the Sun: Somewhat more directly than most, as she uses your sun stock to attack. At high levels, she also produces Sun like Sunflower, although only in minute amounts.
- Punny Name: on "magnifying glass" and "grass".
- Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass: What she is based on, hence her using Sun to fire attacks. Her Plant Food ability exemplifies this, also burning any zombies it kills.
Tile Turnip
- DJ Tile Turnip changed dance floors with his underground hit "Turnip the Beet." What's his latest mix? When he lays it down, you'll feel the power.
When planted, he turns the tile he's planted on into a Power Tile.note Costs 0 sun initially, 250 suns for the second, and then double the previous amount for each subsequent Tile Turnip planted. Recharges mediocre.
- Awesome, but Impractical: It is often unwise to plant more than 3 or 4 of this at a time due to his increasing cost, unless he's been leveled up a good few times.
- Diminishing Returns for Balance: His sun cost increases the more you plant him. At level 1, you can't plant him more than 7 times in one play because by that point, his cost will be more than your sun cap.note As his level increases, said diminishing returns decrease, and at max level, the cost stays at a flat 200.
- Horned Humanoid: Well, horned plant, but he gets a unicorn's horn as his costume. It's a reference to Bjorn from Peggle.
- Meta Power-Up: He has the ability of sharing the Plant Food ability between the Power Tiles.
- Purple Is Powerful: Not just that, he makes other plants powerful as well.
- Support Party Member: By creating Power Tiles for your plants.
- Took a Level in Badass: As this plant levels up, he gains increasingly huge benefits. His second plantation cost decreases, the increase in sun cost decreases allowing later plantings to cost far less thanks to a lowered exponential increase, and finally, he gets more free plantations before he starts costing sun.
Dark Ages
Returning plants: Sun-shroom, Puff-shroom, Fume-shroom, Magnet-shroom (without the day/night limitation on shrooms or the other plants) Sun Bean
- As the eldest of the bean brothers, Sun Bean often finds his siblings exasperating. Chili Bean is a little crude, Laser Bean is too far out, and Spring Bean is just plain lazy. Still, he loves them just the same. That's how it is with family.
A single use plant; when a zombie eats him, the zombie's body will glow. Every hit that the zombie sustained afterward will yield small amounts of sun. The effect can stack by having the same zombie eating multiple Sun Beans. Costs 50 sun, recharges slowly. If given Plant Food, the Sun Bean will glow; when the zombie eats him, the zombie instantly dies and releases 15 sun times the zombie's remaining health prior to eating the bean.
- Light 'em Up: When given Plant Food, he begins glowing. Any Zombie that tries to eat him in this state will instantly be killed and drop a bunch of sun.
- One-Hit Kill: When fed Plant Food, zombies that eat him are killed, releasing sun in the process.
- Nerf: With the advent of the Plant Leveling System. One one hand, he gives a multiplied amount of sun when he's leveled up, meaning that even a normal zombie can drop 100-150+. However, this isn't much of an improvement as he now has a cap on the amount of sun he'll give (around 300, which increases slightly as he levels up).
- Power Glows: When fed Plant Food, he starts glowing. The zombie that eats him will also glow.
- The Power of the Sun: Makes zombies drop sun when damaged.
- Punny Name: of "sun beam" and, well, bean.
- Support Party Member: By supplying suns. He does it differently from Sunflower and the like, however.
- Worf Barrage: Like Chili Bean, he is ineffective against zombies that don't eat.
Big Wave Beach
Returning plants: Lily Pad, Tangle Kelp Bowling Bulb
- Guess which team has won the League Championship for five years running now? Team Bowling Bulb, that's who. They are on a ROLL. You and your pals think you got what it takes to stop 'em? Yeah sure. Keep dreamin, bub.
Rolls out shots that can bounce to multiple zombies. They can roll a larger bulb that deals higher damage (there are 3 levels) if there's enough delay between the previous and next roll. Costs 200 sun, recharges fast. If given Plant Food, they'll roll 3 giant bulbs that explode and deal high damage each time they hit a zombie, and also restore the bigger bulbs instantly. At level 3 and 7 it recharges the bulbs in a different order.
- Arrogant Kungfu Guy: Not themselves, strangely enough, but the almanac pretty much brags about how they're undefeatable League Championship winners for 5 years straight.
- Awesome, but Impractical: Before the Plant Leveling System, they were this thanks to constantly recharging the weakest bulb first and firing it out if there was a zombie in their lane. Averted once it gets to Level 3 where it will recharge the medium bulb first, which is 3x as strong as the weakest bulb.
- Bowled Over: Their concept, basically.
- The Dividual: they're 3 beings in one: Aquamarine bulb, blue bulb and orange bulb.
- Pinball Projectile: They fire themselves as projectiles, bouncing around with each Zombie that they hit. If you were familiar with Wall-nut Bowling in the first game, Bowling Bulb does similar to what Wall-nut does in the bowling minigame.
- Punny Name: On "bowling ball" and "bulb".
- Situational Damage Attack:
- Depending on how much delay is present between rollings and depending on their level, they can roll stronger kinds of bulbs. There's a trick around this in the Wild West levels: Plant it on a minecart and then try avoiding it from a lane filled with zombies until the bulb is fully "charged".
- The more zombies there are spread out over the map, the more effective they are since they can bounce more often.
- Splash Damage: In their Plant Food attack, the explosion that the bulbs cause deals splash damage in an area.
- Took a Level in Badass: Normally, Bowling Bulb would keep regenerating and firing out the green (weakest) bulb if there were zombies in its lane constantly. This made it very inefficient when there were large constant hordes. Leveling Bowling Bulb to level 3 makes a great difference- it regenerates from green (weak) > blue (moderate) > orange (strong) to blue > orange > green. This makes it deal 3x as much damage as it used to if a zombie was always in its lanenote . At level 7, it regenerates from orange > blue > green, making it 1.5x as useful as it was at level 6note .
Guacodile
- Ask Guacodile to tell you a little bit about himself and he'll give you a wry smile. "I'm a Guacodile. I've got a bite like a bear trap. I spit rock-hard pits with a force, speed and accuracy envied by every plant on the battlefield. Heck, I've been known to walk on water. I'm pretty much the whole enchilada." Yeah, the guy is a bit of a braggart but he's good at what he does.
Fires pits at zombies normally. When a zombie comes close, he'll rush forward and bite zombies 2-3 times, dealing heavy damage each and then go away from the battlefield (sort of like a weaker lawnmower). They can be planted on water, but they won't fire their seeds there. Costs 125 sun, recharges fast. If given Plant Food, he'll push nearby zombies back and release two rushing Guacodiles.
- Arrogant Kungfu Guy: The almanac has him bragging about what he can do. He's indeed good at all of them, though.
- Counter-Attack: If they're damaged by any zombie (even via getting pushed/pulled, with the exception of Explorer's torch and Excavator Zombie's shovel), they perform a rushing attack that hits everything in front.
- Distressed Dude: You have to guard a bunch of Guacodiles against zombies in one level in Big Wave Beach. Beware, as their rushing attack means you lost your objective.
- Foe-Tossing Charge: If he's given plant food while there are zombies right near him, he will push them up in the air briefly where Blover and Draftodil can instantly kill them.
- Gameplay and Story Segregation: His projectiles are claimed to have the "force, speed and accuracy envied by every plant on the battlefield.". In his base form, he does the same amount of damage as a Peashooter.
- Jack of All Trades: He can be used either as a projectile-shooting plant or a disposable strong-damaging plant. He isn't the best at either, however.
- Also one of the few plants that can be planted both on land/Lily Pad and in the water (though he can't shoot in the water)
- Loophole Abuse: Triggering his rushing attack does not count as losing a plant in "Don't lose more than X plant" levels, since he ran offscreen alive and technically didn't die. Endangered Guacodiles doing this automatically make you fail, however.
- Never Smile at a Crocodile: Downplayed. While not a crocodile in actual size, and therefore too small to eat anything, his bites are no slouch and can do heavy amounts of damage to everything in it's lane. A low cost and fast recharge rate means it can be spammed to make sure any zombie stays down.
- Planimal: Half avocado, half crocodile.
- Punny Name: on "guacamole" (a sauce made from an avocado) and "crocodile".
- Stealth Pun: In addition to the obvious Punny Name listed above, avocados are sometimes nicknamed "alligator pears."
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors:
- Fisherman Zombie's hook will trigger his rushing attack, making him a good defense against said zombie. If a Mecha-Football Zombie is about to push him, he'll prevent the other plants from being pushed backwards because of his rushing attack.
- He's also a bit of a Surfer Zombie counter, rushing off before he can be flattened by the surfboard.
Banana Launcher
- It's important to avoid stereotyping as much as possible. Stereotypes are often flat-out wrong. And also hurtful. But honestly ... Banana Launcher is TOTALLY bananas.
Fire explosive bananas (explodes in a 1x3 area) at any tile on the lawn, in a similar vein to the Cob Cannon (click on it, then click on the target tile). Costs 500 sun, recharges fast. If given Plant Food, it'll fire 4 bananas at random tiles on the lawn.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: It might be "totally bananas" but it's a very powerful plant.
- Calling Your Attacks: It loudly exclaims "BANANA!" when it fires a banana.
- Cloudcuckoolander: If it almanac entry is any indication...
- Cooldown: Much like Cob Cannon, it needs a reload time after each firing. This gradually decreases as it levels up.
- Death from Above: After launching one, the banana will drop from above like a missile.
- Developer's Foresight: Due to how clicking on the Banana Launcher activates the targeting beacon, it can't be placed on a minecart. If you try, a message will appear: "Bananas are too slippery for mine carts".
- Distressed Dude: You have to save some of them in a Save Our Seeds level in the Big Wave Beach.
- Edible Ammunition: Bananas, obviously.
- Hypocritical Humor: Its almanac entry mentions that stereotyping is bad... before calling Banana Launcher "TOTALLY bananas".
- One-Hit Kill: On weaker zombies, at least.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: The Banana Launcher is a powerful plant, but the Missile Toe can basically do everything that it can, while also causing slowing in a 3x3 area around the point of impact, and its Plant Food power refreshes her shot too.
- Pokémon Speak: Only says "banana" (his name) whenever he fires off his projectiles.
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: It can be used to reliably hit Fisherman Zombies and Zombie Kings as they don't move at all, as well as key targets like Wizard Zombies and Octo Zombies who tend to hide behind other zombies.
Frostbite Caves
Returning plants: None Hot Potato
- How does Hot Potato stay so positive and even-peeled all the time? Yoga, that's how. She never misses a class. Also, regular meditation. It's the only way she can handle the hard work of fighting zombies, day in and day out, without melting down.
A single-use plant that thaws out frozen plants and ice blocks. Costs nothing, has a mediocre recharge. At Level 5, she gains the ability to melt any Octopi binding plants.
- Anti-Structure: Is capable of melting the iceblocks instantly.
- Blush Sticker: It's subtle, but it's there.
- Boring, but Practical: She can thaw out plants instantly, while fire plants take a while to thaw out plants. Later on she also gains the ability to remove Octopi instantly, especially if a plant in the first column has been bound.
- Power Glows: She glows red-hot.
- Punny Name: On the game of the same name.
- Situational Sword: In the same way as Grave Buster on graves, she's only useful on the Frostbite Cave stages. At level 5 she becomes useful in Big Wave Beach and Modern Day by melting any octopi binding plants too.
- Support Party Member: By melting ice, either your frozen plants or the ice blocks obstacle. At level 5 onwards, she also gains the ability to melt Octopi in Big Wave Beach and Modern Day.
- Tareme Eyes
Pepper-pult
- Some say Pepper-pult is a hot head. Some find his fiery disposition off-putting. But the truth is, he's just very focused and determined. He loves what he does. He appreciates everything he has. "I came from the weedy side of the lawn," Pepper-pult explains. "I worked hard to pull myself up by my roots. I'm a self-made pepper and I don't take a single thing for granted."
A bell pepper that lobs flaming projectiles for 2.5 damage. He, like all of the lobbed shot family, is best used when shooting straight is not an option (in Egypt and Dark Ages). Also heats up plants around him, preventing them from being frozen. Costs 200 sun, recharges slowly. If given Plant Food, he'll fire multiple flaming peppers to the air which will fall onto all zombies. Each peppers will then split into smaller ones, dealing additional damage on an area. At levels 4, 7, 10, 13, and 15 his warming radius increases.
- Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce: Likely the reason why he deals fire damage and warms up plants.
- Death from Above: Much like the other pult plants, he lobs his projectiles at the zombies. His Plant Food ability instead launches huge projectiles down at three random groups of zombies at level 1.
- Distressed Dude: You need to guard a bunch of them against zombies in one level in the Frostbite Cave.
- Edible Ammunition: He lobs bell peppers.
- Hot-Blooded: He's mentioned as a hot-head with off-putting fiery disposition. It's simply because he loves what he does.
- Magikarp Power: Initially, Pepper-pult starts out weak. It has a high 200 cost for a rather basic attacker, deals rather weak damage and negligible Splash Damage, and its main use is to warm your plants in a 3x3 area around it. However, it starts getting far better as it levels up, as the warming area increases in size, eventually being able to cover nearly the entire map, turning it into a useful Support Party Member in Frostbite Caves. It helps that its damage and Splash Damage also get a neat increase.
- No Mouth: He doesn't have a mouth in his design.
- No-Sell: He's immune to freezing winds and Hunter Zombie snowballs thanks to being a fire plant.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: To an extent. The Fire Peashooter has a better damage per second and a stronger plant food ability... however, Pepper-Pult's splash damage will allow him to outdamage Fire Peashooter when it comes to facing hordes. Furthermore, he becomes far better at warming utility once he's leveled up, having an increased warming radius.
- Playing with Fire: Not only does he launch fiery peppers, but can also warm nearby plants.
- Recursive Ammo: His Plant Food ability splits into smaller peppers that deal additional damage in an area.
- Self-Made Man: According to his almanac entry, he came from the weedy side of the lawn, implying a low income area. Hence, he worked hard to pull himself out of that area and never relied on anyone or any other plant.
- Shields Are Useless: The lobbed-shot plants (that includes him) can safely hit zombies who cover themselves by holding a shield-like object, except for Surfer Zombie who holds his surfboard upward (at least once he's out of the water) and the Parasol Zombie whose parasol deflects them off.
- Splash Damage: His lobbed flaming peppers will do this once they fall onto the ground. This is also the case with his Plant Food ability.
- Support Party Member: By slowly thawing frozen plants around him. Downplayed in that he can also deal damage. Taken even further once he's leveled up, increasing the size of his warming radius which is a very useful utility.
Chard Guard
- You might remember Chard Guard from his days in the WWF (that's World Wrestling Foliage). When he was in the ring - boy-oh-boy - he was something to behold! His moves! His style! His attitude! The crowd loved him. He was quite the star for a while there. Sure, those days are behind him. But if you watch carefully, when Chard Guard is fighting zombies, you'll see him use the wrestling move he made famous. The ol' Knock 'Em Dead maneuver - it gets 'em every time.
Knocks away zombies that get near him three squares away while dealing minor damage, losing one of his leaves in the process. He can do this three times before turning into a defensive blocker, though you can restore his leaves with Wall-nut First Aid (or Plant Food), or if Aloe heals him. Costs 75 sun, and has a mediocre recharge. If given Plant Food, he'll damage and hurl away zombies on the tiles next to him and on the tiles of 2 columns + 3 rows ahead of him, and regains all his leaves. At levels 5 and 10 he gains an additional three throws.
- Anti-Air: Anti-air defense, that is.
- Distressed Dude: You need to guard a bunch of them against zombies in one level in the Frostbite Cave. Beware: There will be exactly two snowstorms of zombies that will cause them to lose two of their leaves, meaning that you can only afford a zombie to reach them once.
- Deployable Cover: When out of leaves. Weaker than a Wall-nut but it certainly buys time to restore the leaves.
- Famed In-Story: It's stated that he was famous as a professional wrestler.
- I Know Madden Kombat: He puts his wrestling moves to good use against zombies.
- Knockback: Specializes in knocking back zombies that get near him.
- One-Hit Kill: Much like the Spring Bean, he can toss zombies in the water in Pirate Sea levels (though only in the same lane) and zombies launched in the air by him can be finished off with a Blover.
- Pokémon Speak: If you listen closely during his plant food effect, it sounds like he's saying "CHARD... GUARD!"
- Stone Wall: Becomes this when paired with Aloe. When all of Chard Guard's leaves are exhausted and he goes into helpless mode, after being damaged enough, Aloe will heal him and it regenerates his leaves, making him near-indestructible unless he's swarmed too much or is taken out via transformation or One-Hit KO.
- Support Party Member: By acting as defense.
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: He can fling Gargantuars away before he can be smashed. He's also effective against Mecha-Football Zombie which normally pushes plants forward. He's also a bit of a Zombie Parrot counter if he has leaves, since he will bend down if Zombie Parrot attempts to abduct him, causing the parrot to retreat back to its Captain since he turns into a low-lying plant when he bends down.
Stunion
- Oh sure, everyone knows Stunion as the battle-hardened warrior with the potent breath. But he's so much more than that. He's an accomplished pianist. He speaks five languages fluently. Heck, he's the leader of a Cub Shallots group in his spare time. Dude's got layers. Go on, peel 'em back. You'll see.
A single-use plant; breathes a stinky breath on zombies that get close to him. Costs 25 sun, and has a sluggish recharge. If given Plant Food, he'll release a burst of gas on a 4x3 area around him, stunning all zombies on the area. At level 5 he gains the ability to poison zombies through their armor.
- Armor-Piercing Attack: When he gets to level 5, his breath becomes able to poison zombies. It works the same way as Shadow-Shroom's poison, meaning that neither cones nor buckets are going to save the affected zombie.
- Breath Weapon: His stinky breath immobilizes zombies. At level 5 and above it even poisons them.
- Damned by Faint Praise: Penny says that "Stunion would make for a... potent... ally".
- Divergent Character Evolution: Zig-Zagged with Iceberg Lettuce. As they level up, they get different effects to abilities. At level 11, Iceberg lettuce obtains longer freezing time and a splash effect like Stunion, making it similar, but at Level 5, Stunion gains the ability to poison zombies, making it have a different yet very useful niche.
- Hidden Depths: Or, as the almanac puts it, "Dude's got layers". He's an accomplished pianist and can speak in 5 languages.
- The Paralyzer: His stinky breath immobilizes zombies.
- Poisonous Person: At level 5 and above, his stinky breath also deals Damage Over Time to zombies that get stunned. And like Shadow-Shroom's poison, it also pierces armor.
- Punny Name: On Stun and Onion.
- Status Effects: Gives zombies a Stun/Paralyzed status, and at level 5 and above, a Poison status as well.
- Support Party Member: By stunning zombies.
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors:
- You can stun Jester Zombie with this; if he's stunned, he can't reflect projectiles.
- It's also very useful for Chicken Wranglers and Weasel Hoarders as they cannot release their animals if they're killed when stunned. Furthermore, at level 5 its poison effect should be able to kill them off while they're still stunned.
- Took a Level in Badass: Stunion is already a useful plant, but once he reaches level 5, he gets even better as he gains the ability to cause armor-piercing poisoning on zombies he affects. At level 8 it even becomes free to use with no sun cost.
- Worf Barrage: He's ineffective against robotic enemies.
- You Need a Breath Mint: His ability is basically this. Stunion's breath is so stinky it stuns zombies and once he reaches level 5 it even poisons them!
Rotobaga
- Sometimes Rotobaga hears the plants gossiping about each other. "Did you notice so-and-so has been putting on weight?" they might say. Or "I hear that so-and-so is dating so-and-so. Can you believe it?" But Rotobaga isn't the kind of plant to engage in idle gossip. She's not interested in talking about anyone behind their leaves. She does her best to just rise above it.
A flying rutabaga that shoots three seeds in four different diagonal directions. Costs 150 sun, and has a fast recharge. If given Plant Food, she'll rapidly fire rutabagas in 4 directions.
- Action Girl: A female offense-based plant.
- Damsel in Distress: You need to guard a bunch of them against zombies in one level in the Frostbite Cave.
- Gossipy Hens: Defied; her almanac states that she hears gossips often but she isn't the type to tell people around.
- More Dakka: If given Plant Food.
- Power Floats: As she floats over the ground, she doesn't need Lily Pad to be planted on water.
- Punny Name: On "rotor" and "rutabaga".
- Spread Shot: She fires projectiles in four directions.
Lost City
Returning plants: None Red Stinger
- Flexibility is of key importance to Red Stinger. "I do stretching exercises every morning," he says. "It's important to stay physically and mentally nimble."
A torch ginger that acts differently depending on his location on the lawn. Costs 150 sun and has a fast recharge. If given Plant Food, he fires a pink laser that pierces all zombies in the lane while slowing them down.
- All Animals Are Dogs: When watered in the Zen Garden, he shakes the water off himself like a dog.
- Crutch Character: When it comes to the Plant Leveling system. At level 1, Red Stinger at the left end is very powerful for its cost, beating out Repeater in terms of damage while being cheaper too However, his damage doesn't increase by much compared to many other plants upon leveling up, to the point where a maxed out Repeater costs the same and deals very nearly as much damage per shot as a maxed-out Red Stinger (110 vs 120), but the Repeater can be buffed by Torchwood.
- Deployable Cover: Acts as one when planted in columns 7-9, though not a very strong one.
- Lovable Coward: Implied by his expression when placed further away from the house◊, regardless of what the Almanac says.
- Multiform Balance: When placed in the 3 back columns, he's a Glass Cannon, in the middle 3 columns he's a Jack of All Stats, and in the front 3 columns he's a Stone Wall.
- Petal Power: He attacks by firing his petals at enemies. These are 1.5x as strong as normal pea shots, and he can fire out two at a go if he's in the leftmost 3 columns.
- Punny Name: His name is apparently a pun on 'Red Ginger', though he doesn't actually sting anything so it's not really clear what they were going for.
- Shields Are Useless: His Plant Food laser shot can pierce through Shield Zombie's shield and Excavator Zombie's shovel.
- Shout-Out: One of his costumes resembles a Peter Pan or Robin Hood hat.
- Shows Damage: Only when he's in the frontmost 3 columns.
- Stone Wall: When he's in the frontmost 3 columns, he closes up and becomes entirely defensive. He's however not very good at it, going down in just 15 bites (less than half the health of a Wall-Nut for triple the price)
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: His balance shift can be helpful against Excavator Zombie and Fisherman Zombie moving him closer to the front lines, where most other plants will be quickly eaten by other Zombies.
- Wave-Motion Gun: His Plant Food ability. It's not very strong, but it does penetrate all enemies in the row and also slows them a bit.
A.K.E.E.
- Autonomous Katapulting Ejectomatic Emitter is actively looking for a different acronym for A.K.E.E., because let's face it, "Katapulting" is just not working.
An ackee fruit that fires lobbed seeds that bounce to zombies behind, dealing further damage. Costs 175 sun and has a fast recharge. If given Plant Food, it lobs a large Ackee seed to the first zombie in each lane, which then repeatedly bounce off to all the other zombies behind.
- Distressed Dude/Damsel in Distress: You have to save two of them in one level of Lost City.
- Fun with Acronyms/Xtreme Kool Letterz: A.K.E.E. stands for Autonomous Katapulting Ejectomatic Emitter. Of course, A.K.E.E. isn't too keen on the word "Katapulting".
- Herd-Hitting Attack: Its attack hits the first zombie then bounces to other zombies behind. If it hits two or more zombies close to each other, they all take the damage from the bounce.
- Hyper-Destructive Bouncing Ball: Its projectiles bounce to zombies behind the initial target.
- Pinball Projectile: And they always leap the correct distance to the next zombie in line, unless said zombie is too far.
- Perpetual Smiler: Always has a cheeky grin on its face.
- Punny Name: It's an Ackee fruit but its name is supposed to sound like an acronym for a weapon system.
- Shields Are Useless: The lobbed-shot plants (that includes him) can safely hit zombies who cover themselves by holding a shield-like object, except for Surfer Zombie who holds his surfboard upward (at least once he's out of the water) and the Parasol Zombie whose parasol deflects them off.
Endurian
- "When other plants talk about me, they say I'm too gruff. They say I'm difficult to approach, that I'm afraid to let others get too close to me. Also, I smell terrible," said Endurian. But deep down inside, he knows that he's so much more than that. He's also short-tempered.
A durian that has elevated toughness and also damages zombies eating him. Costs 100 sun and has a mediocre recharge. If given Plant Food, he gains a spiked metal armor that can take a much higher amount of damage while also increasing his damage output.
- Deployable Cover: His function in a nutsh- err, durian shell. But with the added ability to deal damage.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Invoked by his almanac entry, which states that he's too gruff, difficult to approach, afraid to let others get too close him, and smells bad. However, deep down inside, he's so much more than that... he's also short-tempered.
- Punny Name: Endure+Durian. He's a Durian that endures.
- Spike Balls of Doom: He's basically a spike ball that can also take damage.
- Spikes of Doom: He uses the spikes on his body to attack any zombies eating him.
- Stone Wall: He can absorb a lot of damage, while having rather weak offense. Giving him Plant Food gives him a metal armor that increases both his offensive and defensive capabilities.
- Super-Toughness: His Plant Food gives him an armor that can withstand a Gargantuar smash as well as a Turquoise Skull's laser, the latter being an attack that can kill a hypnotized Gargantuar instantly.
- Support Party Member: By acting as defense. Downplayed in that he can also deal damage.
Stallia
- "Life moves too quickly in our modern world," says Stallia. "Folks need to slow down and smell some spores."
A dahlia that sprays slowing spores on the squares around it. Costs 0 sun, and has a sluggish recharge. If given plant food, it slows every zombie on the screen. At Level 5 it gains the ability to Knock Back affected zombies.
- Area of Effect: Affects all zombies in a 3x3 area around it.
- Boring, but Practical: It seems worse than Iceberg Lettuce due to having the same recharge and cost as him, but it has splash, meaning it can slow multiple zombies at once. Later on, it also gets the ability to Knock Back zombies.
- Knock Back: Once it reaches level 5, it gains the ability to knock back zombies alongside stalling them.
- One-Hit Kill: At level 5 and above, she gains the ability to Knock Back zombies. If this pushes a grounded zombie over a plankless lane in the Pirate Seas, or if Blover is used with her, it's an instant kill, even against Gargantuars.
- Punny Name: Stall+Dahlia. It's a Dahlia that stalls zombies.
- Status Effects: Slows down zombies for a good period of time.
- Support Party Member: By slowing zombies.
Gold Leaf
- "For a small initial investment, you too can generate huge sun," says Gold Leaf. She's a firm believer in solar markets.
- Gold Makes Everything Shiny: Including the tiles she is planted on!
- Meta Power-Up: She turns the tile she's planted on into a Gold Tile, which will then produce sun for you if a plant is on it.
- Situational Sword: She used to be only plantable in Lost City levels, but can now be used outside of Lost City.
- Support Party Member: By creating power tiles for other plants to use.
Neon Mixtape Tour
Returning plants: Garlic Phat Beet
- Phat Beet has been known to drop sick rhymes, dope grooves, and highly satisfactory jams, often within seconds of each other.
- Area of Effect: It hits zombies in an approximately 3x3 radius around it.
- Close-Range Combatant: Like Gloom-shroom, it can only hit zombies around it.
- Clothing Appendage: Those headphones? They're leaves attached to the Phat Beet.
- Critical Hit: It normally does 0.75 normal damage shots, but every fifth time it attacks, it uses a much more powerful burst that deals three times that amount.
- Make Me Wanna Shout: It attacks with powerful soundwaves.
- No-Sell: Is immune to certain sound-based moves such as Boombox Zombie's melody due to his headphones-like leaf covering.
- Punny Name: Phat Beat + Beet.
Celery Stalker
- Celery Stalker resents the implication that there's anything unsavory about his attack style. He simply believes that discretion is the better part of vegetation.
- Back Stab: He can only attack zombies from behind, but deals great damage to them.
- Close-Range Combatant: Can only attack zombies that get behind him.
- Combat Pragmatist: His Almanac states that others imply that his attack style is unsavory, due to being a Back Stab.
- Lightning Bruiser: He has a very high attack rate and damage per second (enough to beat a Conehead) and can survive quite a bit of damage, but he can only attack a single zombie behind himself at a time.
- Multiple Head Case: Has 2 heads, but they seem to have a single mind.
- Punny Name: Celery stalk + stalker.
- Self-Duplication: When given Plant Food, he creates multiple copies of himself on random, unoccupied tiles on the lawn.
- Shows Damage: When he has been damaged enough, his s get bite marks in them.
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: He can stop zombies being pushed by the Ankylosaurus without being pushed back.
Thyme Warp
- "Possibilities other to open be to need we." Warp Thyme says, "Limited too far was time to approach unidirectional the that felt always I've."
When planted, it warps all zombies back to the starting point while healing them (i.e. the right of the screen) before disappearing. Costs 100 sun and has a very slow recharge.
- Healing Shiv: It heals all zombies warped, including their headwear. However, it does not restore any headwear dropped due to damage. Leveling up Thyme Warp reduces the amount of health a zombie can get back to from being warped, down to 50% at maximum level.
- Mook Bouncer: Inverted, using this sends all mooks back to the starting square.
- Punny Name: Time Warp + Thyme
- Shout-Out: The dance it does when planted is a reference to the Time Warp from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
- Situational Sword: Before a much later update, they could only be used in Neon Mixtape Tour and a certain Modern Day level.
- Strange-Syntax Speaker: Backwards sentences its all speaks it.
- Support Party Member: By sending all zombies back to the starting square, giving the player some extra time, and also grouping them together and making them more vulnerable to Splash Damage.
- Time Master: It's able to warp time to bring all zombies on-screen back to the starting position.
- Weaponized Teleportation: Its in-game effect is a more defensive sort, bringing all zombies back to the starting position.
Spore-shroom
- "My favorite arithmetic operation?" wonders Spore-shroom. "I guess I'd have to say, um, addition. Hang on, no... multiplication."
Attacks zombies with lobbed spores. When it kills a zombie, another Spore-shroom spawns on the square the zombie was on. Costs 150 sun and has a fast recharge. If given Plant Food, it shoots 3 giant spores at random zombies, dealing massive damage each hit.
- Shields Are Useless: The lobbed-shot plants (that includes it) can safely hit zombies who cover themselves by holding a shield-like object, except for Surfer Zombie who holds his surfboard upward (at least once he's out of the water) and the Parasol Zombie whose parasol deflects them off.
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: If it kills a Bug Zombie's bug it instantly removes both bug and Zombie, even if the carried zombie was a Buckethead.
- The Virus: A rare heroic version. When zombies are killed by it, they spawn another Spore-Shroom.
- Weaponized Headgear: Like Fume-shroom, it fires spores from its mushroom cap.
Intensive Carrot
- "How do I revive eaten plants?" asks Intensive Carrot. "In a word: vitamins. Vitamins and sorcery."
When planted, it brings a plant that was previously killed back to life, at half health, before disappearing. Costs 100 sun and has a sluggish recharge.
- A Wizard Did It: It claims that sorcery is what made his revival technique possible.
- Back from the Dead: It can revive plants that were previously eaten by the zombies. Useful for reviving expensive plants that get killed.
- The Medic: Revives a previously killed plant on the square it was planted on. One of its costumes is that of a doctor.
- Punny Name: Intensive Care + Carrot
- Took a Level in Badass: Its cost is initially expensive and generally not worth using to revive a plant with at half health. As it levels up, its cost and recharge decrease and it gives back more health to revived plants.
Jurassic Marsh
Primal Peashooter
- Primal Peashooter may be primitive, but that doesn't stop him from enrolling and excelling in several software development correspondence courses.
It fires Primal Peas that stun zombies for a short while and have a chance at knocking them back, at a slow rate. Costs 175 sun and has a fast recharge. If given Plant Food, he fires five large peas that deal Splash Damage and are guaranteed to knock the zombies back (unless they're Jurassic Bullies).
- Combination Attack: Can be performed with Blover - any zombie knocked back is vulnerable to the Blover and will be One Hit Killed.
- Genius Bruiser: He apparently studies software development in his spare time.
- Knock Back: His peas have a chance of knocking back zombies. His Plant Food ability always causes this, unless he hits a Jurassic Bully.
- Mighty Glacier: Attacks at a slow rate, but his peas deal a good amount of damage, stun, and may knock back.
- Older Is Better: The Primal Peashooter is more powerful than his modern version and has potential for Knock Back, at the expense of costing more sun.
- One-Hit Kill: If his Knock Back pushes a grounded zombie over a plankless lane in Pirate Seas, they fall in the water, immediately killing them.
- The Paralyzer: If his attack doesn't knock back zombies, it will stun them for a short while.
- Random Number God: It's random whether the zombie he hits gets knocked back, meaning that if you're unlucky, the zombies will be able to advance (thanks to the stun being shorter than his fire rate), while if you're lucky, the zombie won't even be able to move forward at all. Averted for his Plant Food effect which will always knock back, or if used against a Jurassic Bully or Jurassic Rockpuncher (who No-Sell the knockback).
- Splash Damage: His peas deal splash damage when he's given Plant Food.
Primal Wall-nut
- "Grunt," explains Primal Wall-nut. "Grunt oog grunt-grunt," he goes on to say. "Ook-urg grunty grunt grunt," he concludes. A nut of many opinions, is Primal Wall-nut.
A wall that has a much faster recharge time than Wall-nut, but costs more. Can also survive up to three Gargantuar smashes. Costs 75 Sun and has a fast recharge. If given Plant Food, he encases himself in a stone slab with a drawing of a Wall-nut on it, giving him much better defense.
- Deployable Cover: His ability in a primal nutshell. However, unlike most other defensive plants, he comes with a fast recharge.
- Guide Dang It!: Nowhere does the game ever tell the player that he can resist Gargantuar smashes or All-Star tackles- the player has to find this out by themselves.
- Older Is Better: The Primal Wall-nut isn't any more durable than its modern counterpart against normal attacks, but it takes 67-75% reduced damage against most One-Hit Kill attacks like Gargantuar smashes and has far less recharge. It does cost 25 more sun than the modern version but that is small price to pay.
- Rock Beats Laser:
- When it comes to defending against Gargantuars, at least. Who would've thought that a primitive Wall-Nut can last much longer than the futuristic Infi-Nut against Gargantuar smashes?
- Also a literal example against Zomboss's mech. The Eye Beams won't disintegrate the Primal Wall-nut in one shot.
- Shows Damage: As he takes damage, his mouth begins to get a disappointed gape and his eyes derp.
- Stone Wall: Much the same as Wall-nut, and literally with Plant Food.
- Super-Toughness: While he is normally as durable as a Wall-nut, he can withstand a few Gargantuar smashes' worth of damage in his base form. Level him up to increase his health and he'll survive even more smashes- every three levels starting from level 3, he will survive an extra one!
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: He's of excellent use against Gargantuars, All-Stars, and Jurassic Rockpunchers due to his resistance to One-Hit Kill smashing attacks. However, he's still vulnerable to being pushed/pulled off the lawn or into the water, burned by Explorer Zombie's torch, crushed by iceblocks or arcade machines, or vaporized by Glitter Zombie during her Jam. Furthermore, Barrels and Pianos will still whittle his health down very quickly.
- The Unintelligible: Is only able to speak in grunts and "oogs".
Perfume-shroom
- Perfume-shrooms emit a pure, concentrated mist of aerosolized love
- Charm Person: It uses perfume to temporarily turn the dinosaurs to the player's side.
- Mook–Face Turn: Causes this on dinosaurs, making them fight for the player.
- Situational Sword: It only works on dinosaurs, and thus only useful in Jurassic Marsh levels.
- Status Effects: Causes a Charm effect on dinosaurs only, turning them to the player's side to hinder the zombies.
Primal Sunflower
- Primal Sunflower is new to all this sun-giving business, so be patient with her. She's an early adopter of the all-you-can-stuff-yourself buffet style of sun production.
- Construct Additional Pylons: Produces 75 Sun each time but is more expensive than the normal Sunflower.
- Older Is Better: Despite costing 25 more Sun than her modern counterpart, Primal Sunflower can produce 75 Sun, allowing you to produce some of the more expensive plants much faster.
- Perpetual Smiler: Like her normal counterpart, she's always smiling. She even has cute fangs in her mouth!
- Power Glows: Whenever she's about to produce sun, she glows bright.
- The Power of the Sun: While this includes all plants except a choice few, the Sunflower specifically makes bundles of sunlight.
- Sunny Sunflower Disposition: A smiling, happy bouncing sunflower.
- Support Party Member: By giving sun.
Primal Potato Mine
- Primal Potato Mine doesn't consider himself to be primal. As far as he's concerned he's state-of-the-art. And who knows? Maybe he is.
- Action Bomb: Works much like a land mine.
- Emergency Weapon: Can be used at the start of any level when there isn't much zombies to attack yet, to conserve suns for your stronger plants. He's a bit more expensive than regular Potato Mine, however.
- Not Enough to Bury: When zombies are killed by him, only their heads remain and drop to the ground.
- Older Is Better: The Primal Potato Mine arms far faster than it's modern counterpart, has a bigger explosion radius, and deals more damage. It does cost 25 more sun, but it is well worth it.
- One-Hit Kill: His explosion instantly kills most zombies. In fact, he's stronger than most instant kills, and at merely level 2 he can instantly destroy a Robo-Cone Zombie!
- Self-Duplication: If given Plant Food, he produces multiple copies of himself that land on the leftmost unoccupied tiles on the lawn
- Splash Damage: Unlike Potato Mine, he explodes in a 3x3 area similar to Cherry Bomb. If upgraded to level 4, he explodes an even bigger area- enough to hit two lanes away!
- Unsound Effect: "SPUD-OOP!" for his explosion.
- Worf Barrage: Due to being an underground plant, he cannot trigger if an Airborne Mook gets near him, and his explosion will leave flying foes unaffected.
Modern Day
Returning Plants: None Moonflower
- Moonflower is a fierce collaborator. She'll collaborate with anything. She'd collaborate with a table if she could.
Moonflowers produce suns depending on how many shadow plants are around her and emits a 3x3 aura which can empower shadow plants (including duplicates of herself). When powered, she produces 100 sun. Costs 50 sun and has a Mediocre recharge. When given Plant Food, she will produce sun depending on how many shadow plants are around her and creates a shield which withstands 10 bites or a Gargantuar smash.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Despite being a shadow plant, she's one of the good guys.
- Lunacy: Instead of using The Power of the Sun like Sunflowers, Moonflower seems to be based on the moon, which basically glows from reflected sunlight in the night. This also explains why she initially provides less sun at first.
- Magikarp Power: She costs 50 sun, but only returns 25. However, the more shadow plants there are around her (up to four, includes herself and other Moonflowers), the more sun she produces.
- Power Makeover: When she powers up other shadow plants (including copies of herself), they'll gain glowing eyes as well as dark purple coloring.
- Power-Up Full Color Change: When fully powered up by having enough shadow plants around her, her body glows blue, her petals glow purple and her eyes glow white.
- Super-Empowering: She charges other shadow plants around her, making them gain more powerful effects.
- Support Party Member: Not only does she produce sun, she also charges other shadow plants around her. Her Plant Food ability also lets her deploy a protection for her and other plants.
Nightshade
- For Nightshade, smacking is a duty and a privilege. He comes from a long line of ardent smackers, and his family counts three kings, four ambassadors and a president as among those proudly slapped around.
- Close-Range Combatant: When not charged, he uses his petals to slap zombies silly when they get near. Averted when charged as he will hurl his leaves. As a tradeoff, his melee attack deals twice as much damage as his ranged attack.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Despite being a shadow plant and based on an extremely deadly toxic plant, he's one of the good guys.
- Emergency Weapon: Can be used at the start of the level as a Close-Range Combatant that instantly kills most regular zombies and imps in one hit, up to three times. He can then be turned into a proper attacker with a nearby Moonflower.
- Glove Slap: Essentially does this, except with petals. His almanac entry even states that he's from a family that has done it to kings, ambassadors, and presidents!
- Mighty Glacier: When powered, he attacks at half the rate of a Peashooter, but he deals 5 times the damage per petal. This is strong enough to outdamage Repeater at less than half the cost.
- Multiform Balance: When not charged, he will slap zombies for heavy damage, but he needs to be close range to do so and can only do it three times. When charged, he will fire off and regenerate his petals, giving him good range but weaker damage than the melee attack.
- Petal Power: He fires his petals at zombies when charged with Moonflower.
- Power-Up Full Color Change: When powered up by Moonflower, his body will glow purple and his eyes will glow white.
- Rule of Three: Has three petals, one of which is used up whenever he attacks. If charged, he will regenerate them.
- Status Buff: After he is given Plant Food, his attacks will deal increased damage permanently, especially his melee attack which will kill a conehead in one hit.
Shadow-shroom
- Despite being such a poisonous and profoundly inedible fungus, Shadow-shroom is nonetheless a total cutie-pie.
This fungus poisons zombies when eaten, dealing heavy, armor-piercing NDS over a course of time. When powered, the poison can spread to every zombie around the poisoned zombie. Costs 50 Sun and has a Sluggish recharge. When given Plant Food, it will poison every zombies on-screen unless they're already poisoned, in which case it de-poisons them but deals instant heavy non-armor piercing NDS.
- Armor-Piercing Attack: Protection like cones, buckets, knight helmets, ice blocks, fossil skulls and newspapers are useless against the poison, which directly damages the zombie itself.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Despite being a shadow plant and having poison-based abilities, it's one of the good guys.
- Killer Rabbit: Its Almanac entry states that it's a "cutie-pie" despite being poisonous.
- Poison Is Evil: Subverted, despite being poisonous it's one of the good guys, and it's also rather cute for something with deadly poison.
- Poison Mushroom: Literally! Also acts as one to the zombies, as any zombie that eats it will be poisoned and die within seconds.
- Power-Up Full Color Change: When powered up by Moonflower, his body will glow blue, his cap will glow purple, and his eyes will glow white.
- Status Effects: It causes Poison to any zombie that eats it, killing them within seconds.
- Technicolor Toxin: Its cap produces purple poison, and when zombies are poisoned by it they will turn a dark purple hue.
- The Virus: If charged with Moonflower, it will cause poisoned zombies to spread the poison to other zombies.
- The Worf Barrage: When not powered, it cannot affect zombies that don't eat it such as Gargantuars or Barrel Rollers. However, if powered by Moonflower, it can spread poison to them from another zombie that eats it.
Dusk Lobber
- Lobbing comes easily for Dusk Lobber, but that's only because she's had extensive training and really enjoys parabolas.
- Action Girl: The only offense-based shadow plant that's female.
- Area of Effect: Its specialty. The buds it lobs explode in a 3x3 area to damage all zombies within.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Despite being a shadow plant, she's one of the good guys.
- Delinquent Hair: The spikes on top of her head are arranged like a mohawk.
- Herd-Hitting Attack: Its damage per second is even lower than Cabbage-pult, but its projectiles deal a large area of Splash Damage, and with its triple Spread Shot ability when powered, it can pile on a huge amount of damage to grouped zombies.
- Power-Up Full Color Change: When powered up by Moonflower, her body will glow blue, and her eyes will glow white.
- Splash Damage: Its explosive buds hit a 3x3 area.
- Spread Shot: When powered, it will fire a spread of shots depending on where the zombies are on its lane and adjacent ones.
- Shields Are Useless: The lobbed-shot plants (that includes her) can safely hit zombies who cover themselves by holding a shield-like object, except for Surfer Zombie who holds his surfboard upward (at least once he's out of the water) and the Parasol Zombie whose parasol deflects them off.
- Throw Down the Bomblet: Its buds are basically miniature explosives that deal Splash Damage. Its Plant Food places four much stronger ones on the field.
Grimrose
- "When you think about it, the proper place for a zombie is in the ground," says Grimrose. "So, really, I'm just expediting the process."
A primrose that drags the strongest zombie in its lane into the ground to kill them. When powered, it can do this three times. Costs 75 sun and has a sluggish recharge. If given Plant Food, it will drag the strongest zombie on the screen into the ground to kill them.
- Buried Alive: It drags zombies back into the ground where they ought to belong.
- Casting a Shadow: Uses shadowy power to drag zombies into the ground.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Despite being a shadow plant and using a dark-based power, he's one of the good guys.
- Deployable Cover: Not the intended use, but a powered one can be used to stall Gargantuars thanks to being invulnerable to damage when attacking.
- Invulnerable Attack: Can't be damaged when attacking.
- One-Hit Kill: It drags down most zombies into the dirt, killing them instantly.
- Power-Up Full Color Change: When powered up by Moonflower, his body and stamens glow blue, his leaves and petals glow purple, and his eyes glow white.
- Punny Name: Grim Reaper + Primrose.
- Rule of Three: It can drag zombies underground three times when powered.
Premium Plants
Not found in any particular world, these plants are unlocked either with gems or real money.Returning plants: Snow Pea, Squash, Torchwood, Jalapeno, Imitater, Starfruit, Hypno-Shroom, Chomper, Cactus (although it works rather differently), Explode-O-Nut (also works differently), Pumpkin, Gatling Pea (now known as Mega Gatling Pea).
- Downloadable Content: More like Microtransactions, but the basic principle is still there, as most of them must be bought with real-world currency, or in-game Gems for some of them.
Power Lily
- From seedling to sapling, to full grown foliage, Power Lily's experience as a life coach has shown her the best way to empower and support plants everywhere.
When planted, she gives one Plant Food and immediately disappears. Costs 175 sun, recharges very slowly (second-slowest in the game).
- Support Party Member: By supplying Plant Food. Her Almanac entry even lampshades this.
Pea-nut
- Pea-nut knows that some folks have an aversion to him. He tries to be sensitive to their concerns and give them the space they need. Still, he can't help but miss the good old days - back when he was the most popular nut around.
A peanut that combines the offensive capability of Peashooters with the defensive capability of a Wall-nut. Costs 150 sun and has a mediocre recharge. Its rate of fire is halved below 50% health since the top and bottom half fire in an alternating pattern and the top half is gone at that point. Giving it plant food also yields the results of both its parent plants (firing 60 peas quickly and gaining additional defense).
- Composite Character: He blocks off zombies with his hard shell like Wall-nut while firing peas like Peashooter.
- Cool Helmet: Gains a viking helmet when given Plant Food, which is able to absorb damage from Zombies.
- Critical Existence Failure: Averted; his effectiveness halves as he gets eaten halfway.
- Deployable Cover: His function in a nutshell.
- Edible Ammunition: He fires peanuts, of course.
- Famed In-Story: Downplayed. He's mentioned to have been the most popular nut around, but now some people have an aversion to him. It's a reference of the peanut allergy in Real Life, which was rare in the past but became more common over time.
- Injured Vulnerability: His attack rate gets cut in half during his final degrade.
- Jack of All Trades: Combines the cost and effect of its parent plants, but obviously can't keep up with a Tall-nut defensively or most attacking plants offensively.
- Master of None: Despite trying to act for both Peashooter and Wall-nut, it doesn't exactly perform well for either.
- Multiple Head Case: He has a top head and a bottom head.
- Punny Name: It's a peanut, and literally combines a Peashooter with a Wall-nut.
- Support Party Member: By acting as defense. Downplayed as he can also deal damage to zombies.
Homing Thistle
- Don't even think about trying to pull one over on Homing Thistle. He's got a bead on you. He sees right through your facade. It's like he has a laser beam ... aimed at your soul.
Fires homing thistles (duh) at the zombies closest to the home. Costs 250 sun and has a mediocre recharge. If given plant food it tosses out a bunch of highly damaging thistles at once.
- Anti-Air: Can fire at pretty much anything, including Prospectors in the middle of their jump and Swashbucklers while they are swinging on their ropes (the projectile will "wait" for them where they land)
- The Anticipator: As the almanac states, he can pretty much predict your actions and thoughts.
- Homing Projectile: He fires projectiles that home into the zombies closest to the house.
- Punny Name: A pun on "homing missile" and "thistle".
- Spike Shooter: Shoots homing spikes at the zombies nearest to the house. These however cannot pop a Balloon Zombie's balloon, unlike Cattail's.
Ghost Pepper
- You might not know it looking at her, but Ghost Pepper didn't always wear that white sheet everywhere she went. She first put it on as a lark for a Halloween party one year. Everyone else had these elaborate costumes, and she thought that it would be funny to dress like a plain ol' ghost. But she fell in love with that costume. It spoke to her. She'd found her calling.
She haunts zombies at 2 tiles range in front of her and 1 tile behind, dealing damage per second. 10 seconds after her first haunting, she would explode and deal damage in a 3x3 area around her. Costs 75 sun, recharges mediocre. Named after the bhut jolokia, a.k.a the ghost pepper. If given Plant Food, she haunts zombies in a 4x3 area and dealing high damage, and also resets her timer.
- Action Bomb: She explodes after 10 seconds of attacking, and dealing moderate damage.
- Close-Range Combatant: Affects zombies up to two squares away from her on the same lane.
- Cute Ghost Girl: She's generally very adorable for a ghostly plant. Although she becomes significantly less cute when attacking.
- Expressive Mask: The white sheet over her head conforms perfectly to her nightmarish expressions.
- The Faceless: We never see what's underneath that white sheet.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: Most zombies will ignore her and walk past her. Wizard Zombie also can't turn her into sheep. She still can be killed by other means such as getting crushed by a Zombie King or Surfer Zombie's surfboard, Troglobite's ice blocks and Fisherman Zombie's and Mecha Football Zombie's dragging effect on another plant that is adjacent to her.
- Power Floats: She can hover above the water much like Rotobaga.
- Punny Name: She's a ghost pepper that's an actual ghost.
- Your Days Are Numbered: Like Puff-shroom before her, she doesn't last long. However, she goes out with a boom instead of a puff. Her countdown can be reset with Plant Food.
Sweet Potato
- Sweet Potato really is as sweet as she looks. Her favorite animal is the unicorn. Her favorite color is (and this is a direct quote) "all the colors in the rainbow." When she writes the letter "i", she draws a little heart where the dot belongs. Frankly, if it were anyone else, this amount of syrup would be sickening. But on her, well, it just seems right.
Attracts zombies from the lane above and below hers; effect occurs on the column in front of her. Costs 150 sun (formerly 300), recharges slowly. If given Plant Food, she'll fully heal herself and attracts zombies on a 4x3 area near her (including the ones behind).
- Balance Buff: She got her cost halved from 300 to 150, making her much more useful for her cost.
- Deployable Cover: with a bonus effect of attracting zombies as well.
- Draw Aggro: Her ability diverts zombies towards her lane to attack her.
- Support Party Member: By diverting zombies towards her lane, and acting as defense.
- Worf Barrage: Some zombies can't be attracted by her, such as Zombie Bulls and Jetpack Zombies.
Sap-fling
- You've gotta see Sap-fling's throwing arm to believe it. He may be young, but everyone agrees ... the kid's got TALENT. Scouts from some of the biggest Pinecone Ball teams have been keeping a close eye on him. He could be headed to the majors. Oh sure, some knock him for his incredibly sticky spitball. But he only uses all-natural sap, so it's entirely legal.
A pine tree sapling that throws sap-covered pinecones at the enemies. The pinecones do not deal damage, but will leave puddles of sap on their landing places that slow down zombies. He, like all of the lobbed shot family, is best used when shooting straight is not an option (in Egypt and Dark Ages). Costs 150 sun, recharges fast. When given Plant Food, he'll throw a lot of pinecones on random tiles that will cover the tiles they land on with sap puddles for 15 seconds.
- Child Prodigy: He's mentioned to be young and talented on throwing.
- Cool, but Inefficient: His Plant Food ability can be replicated simply by planting one Sap-fling on each lane. It's still good to be used in a pinch, though.
- No Mouth: He doesn't have a mouth in his design.
- Punny Name: On "sapling" and "fling". Also the fact that he flings, well, sap around. Also a subtle pun of his apparent young age.
- Support Party Member: By slowing down zombies without harming them.
- Worf Barrage: His ability is ineffective in Big Wave Beach or against flying zombies.
Hurrikale
- You could say Hurrikale is a "blow hard" in the truest sense of the phrase. He is the first chair trombonist in the Biennial Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also proficient in the trumpet, saxophone and the tuba. But man o' man, you should really see him on the flugelhorn. Dude absolutely kills it.
Blows zombies back to the previous columns, and slows them down in the process. Costs 100 sun, has a mediocre recharge.
- An Ice Person: Chills zombies with freezing wind.
- Anti-Air: Kills airborne zombies in his lane.
- Blow You Away: Blows zombies back with freezing wind.
- Composite Character: Looks like a mixture of Blover, Cabbage-pult, and Iceberg Lettuce.
- One-Hit Kill:
- He blows away flying zombies off the screen, killing them instantly; unlike Blover, however, he only does it on zombies on his lane.
- He can blow away zombies into the water in Pirate Seas, killing them instantly.
- If he blows away a grounded Dodo Rider over an ice floe, it kills the zombie instantly.
- Punny Name: On Hurricane, and Kale.
- Support Party Member: By pushing zombies backwards and slowing them down. Also can help Dandelion fire lots of bombs.
Fire Peashooter
- Fire Peashooter knows that what she does looks exciting. But working with an open flame is serious and, more importantly, dangerous business. That's why, in her spare time, she talks to children about the importance of fire safety. "I'm a trained professional," she explains. "Don't try this at home, kids."
Shoots fire peas that do twice as much damage as normal peas. Costs 175 sun, and has a fast recharge. If given Plant Food, she'll cover the tiles ahead of her on fire. At Level 5 and above she gains a small chance to shoot Plasma Peas for extra damage.
- Action Girl: One of the first female peashooters in the series.
- Breath Weapon: Her Plant Food effect has her breathing a stream of fire down her lane that deals significant damage.
- Composite Character: She's a mixture of Peashooter and Torchwood (and to an extent, Jalapeno with her PF ability).
- Critical Hit: As she levels up, she gets a small chance to shoot Plasma Peas that deal 3x the damage.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: Her eyes glow with fire too, thanks to her fire powers.
- Impromptu Campfire Cookout: Her costume is a piece of sausage on a fork roasting on her head.
- Mundane Utility: Apparently, her costume is a piece of sausage with a stick being stuck onto her "head", being burned by her fire.
- No-Sell: She's immune to freezing winds and Hunter Zombie snowballs thanks to being a fire plant.
- One-Hit Kill: Her Plant Food ability kills anything short of a Gargantuar or machined robot zombies.
- Playing with Fire: Shoots fire peas at enemies.
- Samus Is a Girl: Until now, we've never seen a female peashooternote , so you'd expect Fire Peashooter to follow this trend. Nope.
- Support Party Member: By warming up plants near her. Downplayed as she can also deal damage.
Dandelion
- "Look," says Dandelion, shaking his head, "I'm not a leprechaun and I'm not a genie. You can blow my seeds off all you want, but I can't make your wish come true. I don't even know how that rumor got started."
A dandelion - obviously - that shoots exploding seeds in alternating lanes. If you use a Blover or Hurrikale with Dandelion on the field, he can release 12 small bombs that spread out in range, but he'll be unable to fire for a few seconds afterwards. Costs 109 gems to buy, and costs 275 sun to use, and has a mediocre recharge. If given Plant Food, he'll throw 10 big dandelion seeds to the air which fall onto random zombies on the field, dealing high damage.
- Combination Attack: With Blover or Hurrikale, he can launch a stronger attack.
- Cool Down: After you used his special ability with those two wind-blowing plants, he needs some recharge time. As usual, he can regrow his leaves quickly if given Plant Food.
- Splash Damage: His bombs deal splash damage to all zombies in the explosion radius.
- You Don't Look Like You: Has a different appearance on Chinese version.
Lava Guava
- Lava Guava frowns with barely-repressed rage. He's trying to keep it in check. But one day some zombie's going to push him too far and he can't be held responsible for the consequences.
Erupts when a zombie gets near him with a 3x3 area of effect, then leaves lava puddle on his tile that deals damage when the zombies step on it. Costs 109 gems to buy, and costs 75 sun to use, and has a mediocre recharge. If given Plant Food, he'll create fissure on the tiles in front of him, which damages all zombies on them.
- Action Bomb: Bit of an unusual one as the erupted lava lingers for a short time, continuing to damage zombies that walk over it.
- Area of Effect: The initial eruption deals damage in a 3x3 area around it.
- Angst Nuke: He literally erupts in a fit of rage. A zombie getting near him is enough to push him too far.
- Convection, Schmonvection: Zig-Zagged Trope. It doesn't burn up any of your nearby plants (thankfully), but in Frostbite Caves, it (and the lava pool) provide a warming effect to all plants around it.
- Damage Over Time: Any zombie standing in the lava pool takes damage over time.
- Deployable Cover: It's not his intended use, but he can be used as this against the Gargantuar as he would keep smashing the tile where the Lava Guava's planted even after he erupts, until the lava is gone.
- Emotion Suppression: He can barely control his rage. But one day some zombie's going to push him too far and he can't be held responsible for the consequences.
- Magma Man: He contains lava and erupts like a volcano.
- No-Sell: He's immune to freezing winds and Hunter Zombie snowballs thanks to being a fire plant.
- Support Party Member: Can be used to thaw nearby frozen plants. Downplayed in that he can also deal damage.
Toadstool
- Toadstool just can't stand being idle. "I keep everything that I want to do on lists, and keep the lists where I can see them so that I'm always motivated!" she said. Whenever there's work to be done, she's always the first to hop to it.
A frog-like mushroom that uses her tongue to eat a zombie up to three squares away. She will be left vulnerable when chewing, after which she produces 50 sun. Costs 200 sun and has a Fast recharge. When given Plant Food, she will eat up to four zombies on any lane in front of her, then immediately produce sun according to the number eaten.
- Animal Gender-Bender: Has a visible vocal sac in her animation despite being female. Only male Toads have a vocal sac.
- Big Eater: Can eat as many zombies as she wants to. Especially if given plant food.
- Close-Range Combatant: She can only attack zombies that are up to three tiles away.
- Composite Character: Similar to a cross between Chomper and Sunflower, being able to produce 50 sun after instakilling and digesting a zombie. However, she has much better range.
- Cool Down: She needs to finish eating a zombie before swallowing another. This duration decreases as she levels up.
- Just Eat Him: Subverted; she chews the zombie to death before swallowing it.
- Loophole Abuse: Was once allowed to be used to produce sun in Last Stand levels where you are otherwise not allowed to bring sun-producing plants.
- Man-Eating Plant: More like a Zombie-Eating Fungus.
- One-Hit Kill: She eats most zombies that aren't Gargantuars or Far Future machines, defeating them instantly.
- Overly-Long Tongue: Justified as she's based on a toad.
- Planimal: Half toad, half fungus.
- Power Creep: Downplayed. While Toadstool has more range than Chomper and produces sun making Toadstool infinitely more spammable, due to how waves work in PVZ 2 where waves speed up on how much damage is done to a zombie, Chomper can function as an competent early to mid game threat that can take down zombies one by one thanks to it's limited range. They've fully separated themselves now that Chomper has been buffed.
- Punny Name: She's a toadstool that looks and acts mostly like a toad.
- Squishy Wizard: Can swallow a zombie whole, but is then vulnerable because she has to digest it.
Strawburst
- "Big is good," says Strawburst. "Though small's pretty choice as well. And you should never discount medium. I just like sizes, really."
A strawberry with a projectile that grows from small, medium to large, and can be launched by tapping on it. Takes 8 seconds to regrow after launching. If attacked, it explodes like a potato mine. Costs 400 sun and has a fast recharge. When given Plant Food, it grows to maximum size and summons a huge strawberry that explodes all zombies on the lawn for 20 damage.
- Charged Attack: Its berry gets bigger and stronger if more time passes.
- Cooldown Manipulation: When using its Plant Food, it instantly grows to largest size, bypassing any waiting needed.
- The Hyena: Laughs whenever it is fired out or whenever it uses its Plant Food power.
- Losing Your Head: It fires out its own head to attack, but its base will grow a new one shortly.
- Long-Range Fighter: Attacks with powerful long-range, explosive strawberries, but if a zombie manages to reach it while it has a berry, the strawburst explodes and dies instantly.
- Mad Eye: It has a staring right eye and a half-closed left one.
- Punny Name: Strawberry + Starburst
- Smart Bomb: Its plant food is essentially a weak version of this.
- Splash Damage: When medium or large sized, it can hit zombies in adjacent rows.
- Squishy Wizard: It can deal huge damage to groups of zombies and has a powerful Plant Food ability. However, if a zombie manages to reach it when it has a berry, it goes down instantly thanks to its self-destruct ability.
- Stuff Blowing Up: Exploding strawberries!
- Taking You with Me: If attacked (with a strawberry on it), it will explode dealing the amount of damage the projectile would have dealt.
- Your Head A-Splode: When tapped, it essentially fires out its own head, which explodes.
Electric Blueberry
- Electric Blueberry prides herself for being eclectic as well as electric. "I like to keep'em guessing," she says. "A zombie should always be like, 'Whoa, didn't see that coming,' when they're disintegrated."
A blueberry that charges up for a few seconds, then sends a thundercloud to electrocute a random zombie on the screen for a One-Hit Kill, even Gargantuars. Costs 150 sun and has a Very Slow recharge. If fed Plant Food, she electrocutes three random zombies on the screen in quick succession.
- Action Girl: A female plant, and an extremely deadly one to boot.
- Always Accurate Attack: Once charged, it will send in a fast homing thundercloud that will zap a zombie with 100% accuracy. If the zombie takes more than one hit like the Pharaoh, it will zap him again. If the zombie is protected by Glitter Zombie's rainbow, it will continuously zap him until his protection wears off. The only way for it to "miss" is for the zombie to die before the cloud can reach it, in which case the cloud dissipates.
- Charged Attack: Like Citron, it takes time for it to charge its lethal shot.
- Glass Cannon: One of the very few plants that can kill a Gargantuar in one hit, but still has the durability of a normal plant, which is rather low.
- Homing Projectile: Can attack from anywhere on the lawn, as its thundercloud will home in on the targeted zombie and repeatedly zap it until it dies, or the zombie dies by other means.
- Nerf: Was heavily nerfed in the Neon Mixtape Tour Side B update, where she now almost always prioritizes the regular and special zombies before any Gargantuars, pretty much destroying her main selling point.
- One-Hit Kill: Much stronger than most instant-kill plants — she destroys Gargantuars in one hit. Even zombies protected by Glitter Zombie's rainbow are not safe — as soon as their protection is gone, she will zap them. Against Pharaohs, it's a two-hit kill as the cloud will zap the sarcophagus, then it will immediately zap the Pharaoh. Ditto for the Jurassic Gargantuar, which has health so massive that he can survive the Blueberry's attack... and then the cloud gets zaps it again to finish it off.
- Pintsized Powerhouse: It's one of the smallest plants in the game. It's also one of, if not the deadliest plants in the game.
- Random Number God/Unpredictable Results: It has a 55% chance of targeting a zombie from the basic trio, 40% of targeting a special zombie, and 5% for targeting a Gargantuar.
- Shock and Awe: Its main ability, similar to Lightning Reed's Plant Food powerup, is a lightning cloud that electrocutes zombies. Unlike Lightning Reed, this one is MUCH stronger.
Jack O'Lantern
- "Boo! Mwah-ha-ha-haaaaah," opines Jack O' Lantern. Oh, yes. Things and stuff are scheduled to be seriously spooky when he's around. Count on it.
A pumpkin that can be tapped on to use a burst of flame, or tapped and held down for a longer duration flamethrower, both of which burn the three tiles in front of him. Costs 225 sun and has a sluggish recharge. If fed Plant Food, he spawns rows of ghostly flames around the lawn (usually on enemies) that deal Damage Over Time. At Levels 3 and 7 his flame length increases.
- Buffy Speak: The Almanac says that "things and stuff" are spooky when he's around.
- Charged Attack: He has five charges, which can be used one at a go if tapped, or gradually if held down. The charges recharge over time, or instantly if fed Plant Food.
- Close-Range Combatant: His attack hits the three squares in front of it- a decent range for VERY heavy damage. Subverts it as he levels up — leveling him up to level 3 allows him to burn four tiles in front, while leveling him to 7 allows it to burn five tiles in front.
- Fire-Breathing Weapon: His ability is basically a ground flamethrower.
- Herd-Hitting Attack: Hits all zombies within his attack range, allowing it to deal great damage to multiple groups.
- No-Sell: He's immune to freezing winds and Hunter Zombie snowballs thanks to being a fire plant.
- Perpetual Smiler: He always boasts a smile like a real jack o'lantern.
- Playing with Fire: He uses a flamethrower attack to burn zombies for very heavy damage. Also counts as being a fire plant and is thus immune to cold winds or snowballs.
Grapeshot
- "Spa-BOOM!" enthuses Grapeshot. "You liked that? I got a million of 'em! Wa-POW! Buh-BLAM! Za-... um... Ker-... hmmm... Okay, I guess I've only got the three."
An exploding bunch of grapes. Deals instakill damage in a 3x3 area and sends an 8-way Spread Shot of grapes that can bounce around five times. Costs 150 sun and has a slow recharge.
- Action Bomb: Explodes a 3x3 area upon planting while also forming 8-way bouncy collateral damage.
- Cooldown Manipulation: When used together with Cherry Bomb, it effectively halves the recharge time for a devastating 3x3 area attack. If paired with Imitater, the recharge is now 1/3 the usual.
- Hyper-Destructive Bouncing Ball: Each of the projectiles bounce around the area and deal rather heavy damage.
- Multiple Head Case: Thanks to being a bunch of grapes.
- One-Hit Kill: The initial explosion can kill most zombies, while the bouncing grapes can instantly kill any zombies that have less or equal to 10 hp on contact. If both sources of damage hit, it can have the potential to kill a Gargantuar.
- Recursive Ammo: Explodes into 8 smaller shots.
- Power Creep: Has the exact same damage, recharge time, and cost as Cherry Bomb, but it also produces great amounts of bouncy collateral.
- Punny Name: Of Grapeshot and actual grapes.
- Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: Spa-BOOM! Wa-POW! Buh-BLAM! are the three sound effects he likes to say.
- Splash Damage: Hits all zombies in a 3x3 area for the initial explosion.
- Spread Shot: Explodes into 8 shots.
Cold Snapdragon
- Cold Snapdragon gets chilly when anyone brings up his cousin Snapdragon. "We just view temperature very differently, and I'd really rather not discuss it," he says. Yikes.
- An Ice Person: In contrast to the fire-based Snapdragon, he breathes ice to chill zombies in the 2x3 area in front of him.
- Area of Effect: He hits in a 2x3 area in front of him. Unlike Snapdragon, it does not hit the square directly above and below it.
- Breath Weapon: Like Snapdragon, except it uses icy breath instead of flame breath.
- Close-Range Combatant: He will only attack when zombies are close.
- Eyes Out of Sight: His eyes are always concealed by his shaggy fur.
- Fire/Water Juxtaposition: Between Snapdragon and it. Both of them view temperature rather differently and Cold Snapdragon really doesn't like to discuss it.
- Icy Blue Eyes: His eyes show from under his bangs during a Plant Food attack, and they're icy blue in colour to match with his element.
- Noodle Incident: His former Almanac entry. It apparently had an incident with his cousin Snapdragon. What happened is unknown, although it did cause strained relations."It happened a long time ago, and I'd really rather not discuss it."
- No-Sell: He's immune to Frostbite Caves' freezing winds and Hunter Zombie snowballs thanks to having a fur coat to keep himself warm.
- Planimal: Half flower, half dragon.
- Power Creep: Pretty much a direct upgrade to the Snapdragon with same cost and damage, chilling enemies instead of thawing them, and being immune to cold winds in Frostbite Caves. The only downside is the weaker Plant Food power, but that even causes freezing to those it doesn't kill.
- Power Gives You Wings: When fed Plant Food, he spouts wings.
- Punny Name: Besides having a dragon theme thanks to Snapdragon, his name is a pun to the term "Cold Snap" and Snapdragon.
- Status Effects: Causes a slow status via chilling. If given Plant Food, it causes freezing on zombies in its area of effect.
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: As he can't get frozen, it's a good idea to put him in front in Frostbite Caves, making the Hunter Zombie's snowballs useless.
Shrinking Violet
- Shrinking Violet started out shy, but it's remarkable how discovering a magical talent for zombie-reduction can change your whole outlook.
- Damage-Increasing Debuff: Shrunken zombies take twice the damage from attacks. This damage multiplier increases as Shrinking Violet levels up, eventually making them 3x the damage from attacks instead at level 5.
- De-power: Removes the abilities of certain zombies, such as Gargantuars' and Zombie Bull's Imp throw, Troglobite and Arcade's pushing, Chicken Wrangler's and Weasel Hoarder's animal rush, etc.
- Developer's Foresight: Using her against the Dodo Rider will actually shrink the Rider Imp into oblivion, as will using it against Gargantuars and Zombie Bulls.
- Helium Speech: Shrunken zombies all make high-pitched noises. That also includes Pianist Zombie's music, among other things.
- Incredible Shrinking Man: Any zombies affected by it are shrunk to tiny size, causing them to take double damage and deal half damage.
- One-Hit Kill: Against the already-small Imps, Zombie Parrots, Zombie Chickens, and Ice Weasels, it shrinks them into oblivion. Against the Seagull Zombie, it shrinks his seagull into oblivion, causing it to drop him and kill him instantly.
- Shrink Ray: Its effect on zombies, turning them small, and hence doubling the damage they take and halving the damage they deal.
- Shrinking Violet: Literally. It's a violet that shrinks zombies. Subverted otherwise, as her almanac states that she used to be shy until she discovered her zombie-shrinking talent.
- Status Effects: The Weird Transformation sort, as it makes zombies tiny, causing them to become more vulnerable to damage as well as decreasing their attack power.
- Support Party Member: It shrinks zombies, causing them to take double damage, as well as halving their eating speed. It also removes the abilities of certain zombies, makes them more manageable, and in certain cases, instantly kills them.
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: It instantly kills Imps, and if used against Chicken Wrangler and Weasel Hoarders, they will not be able to release their animals. It also shrinks MC Zom-B's attack range, preventing him from killing plants in adjacent lanes. If used against Troglobites and Arcade Zombies, they'll become too weak to push their respective obstacles.
Blooming Heart
- Blooming Heart loves zombies. She gets guff from her fellow plants over it, but she stands firm. She's into zombies and makes no apologies about it.
- Action Girl: Another female offense-based plant.
- Damage-Increasing Debuff: A strange variation; each hit from her projectiles only makes other Blooming Heart projectiles deal increased damage.
- Game-Breaking Bug: In her initial release, her projectiles were glitched, sometimes dealing massive amounts of damage (a One-Hit Kill), but more often dealing no damage at all to a certain zombie.
- Heroic Seductress: Although she's attracted to zombies and infatuates them with her abilities, she's ultimately on the side of good.
- Interspecies Romance: She's into zombies, which the other plants unsurprisingly are against. Though she still has no problem with killing them.
- Magikarp Power: She deals weak damage at first, but each following projectile on the same zombie will deal increasingly higher amounts of damage.
- Shields Are Useless: The lobbed-shot plants (that includes her) can safely hit zombies who cover themselves by holding a shield-like object, except for Surfer Zombie who holds his surfboard upward (at least once he's out of the water) and the Parasol Zombie whose parasol deflects them off.
- Status Effects: Despite visually resembling Charm, her projectiles cause more of a specific defense-down debuff.
Escape Root
- The other plants put on a big surprise party for Escape Root last week, but he did his thing and suddenly it was a surprise party...FOR THEM!
- Action Bomb: It reveals an explosive plant when it comes into contact with a zombie.
- Bait-and-Switch: Its intended use is to swap places with plants that are in danger. Its Almanac Entry describes it as being fond of doing this, such as using it to pull a reverse surprise party on the plants during his birthday.
- Ninja Log: His main ability is a nasty, explosive variant of this.
- One-Hit Kill: Its explosion can kill off most zombies in one hit.
- Punny Name: Root + Escape Route.
- Russian Reversal: Pulls this off during his Surprise Party held for him by the plants, so that it becomes a surprise party... FOR THEM.
- Surprise Party: Inverted. Thanks to his ability to swap positions, a regular surprise party becomes a Russian Reversal instead where the plants get surprised by him instead.
- Worf Barrage: Due to being an underground plant, it cannot be triggered if an Airborne Mook gets near it.
Wasabi Whip
- "The trick to proper whipping is all in the wrist," says Wasabi Whip. "Well, not the wrist, exactly, since I don't have any. You have to, like... BE the wrist."
A wasabi plant that hits zombies with a flaming whip and will thaw any nearby plants in the Frostbite Caves. Costs 150 sun and recharges quickly. If given Plant Food, he'll spin his whip around him, damaging enemies in a 3x3 radius around him. At Levels 5 and 9 it gains the ability to hit more zombies at a go.
- Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce: It's based on wasabi, a very spicy radish, and is appropriately enough a Fire-elemental plant.
- Close-Range Combatant: He can only attack zombies in a 2 square range ahead and behind him. In exchange, his attack is both pretty strong and really fast firing.
- Companion Cube: When watered in the Zen Garden, he will take out a piece of sushi and snuggle it.
- No-Sell: He is immune to being frozen thanks to being a thawing plant.
- One-Hit Polykill: Leveling it up allows it to be able to damage more than one zombie at a time.
- Playing with Fire: Deals fire damage to zombies and burns those it kills.
- Power Creep: Is pretty much a straight upgrade to the Bonk Choy in terms of cost, damage and plant food power and with extra range, with the only drawback being the inability to hurt Imp Dragon zombies.
- Support Party Member: Thaws any nearby plants in Frostbite Caves levels. Downplayed in that it also damage zombies.
- Vine Tentacles: It fights by snapping a stalk tipped with a burning leaf like a whip.
- The Worf Barrage: It can't hurt Imp Dragon zombies.
Explode-O-Nut
- "My only regret," says Explode-O-Nut, "is that I have but one chewy center full of nitroglycerine to give in defense of this lawn."
- Achilles' Heel:
- He'll only explode if he's defeated normally; meaning that his weaknesses are Explorer Zombie, Gargantuar Prime's Eye Beams, Excavator Zombie, Turquoise Skull Zombie, and launched Super-Fan Imps.
- Zombies that push or pull plants will also not trigger the effects, such as Mech-Football Zombie, Fisherman Zombie and Punk Zombie.
- Action Bomb: Blows up in a 3x3 radius on defeat.
- Ascended Extra: Was first seen as a special power-up in Wall-nut Bowling, but is now an actual character.
- Death-Activated Superpower: When killed (except via burning or being pushed off the lawn), he will explode and deal massive damage in the area around him.
- Deployable Cover: His function in an explosive nutshell.
- Dying Smirk: Unlike most defensive plants, he retains a smiling expression as his health decreases, knowing that his being eaten will cause a damaging explosion.
- Last Ditch Move: Upon having his health depleted, he'll explode like a Cherry Bomb.
- Mighty Glacier: Unlike Wall-nut or Tall-nut who's a Stone Wall, Explode-o-nut can both defend AND attack - and its attack is pretty powerful to boot. His only downside, however, is that he's not as durable as Wall-nut (which actually helps with his attack) and only explodes when killed.
- One-Hit Kill: An explosion from him kills most zombies save for Gargantuars.
- Playing with Fire: Its explosion does fire damage, which will defrost zombies it doesn't kill and also cannot affect Imp Dragon Zombies.
- Power Creep: For some ungodly reason, his explosion is the same as a Cherry Bomb, making it the infinitely better option thanks to a nifty 50 sun and a 10 second recharge. It has the issue of being required to be eaten, though this can be solved by planting another one where zombies weren't hit. Along with that, hordes of zombies are likely to tear it down quickly anyways, being less than a Wall-nut.
- Promoted to Playable: While he was part of a minigame in the first game, it wasn't until the sequel where he became an actual deployable unit on his own.
- Punny Name: His name is a pun of "explodonate".
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: On his last degrade, his eyes turn red.
- Rolling Attack: Only during Wall-nut Bowling in the first game.
- Splash Damage: Hits all zombies in a 3x3 area when it explodes.
- Super-Toughness: Its Plant Food gives it an armor that can withstand a Gargantuar smash as well as a Turquoise Skull's laser. The latter being an attack that can kill a hypnotized Gargantuar instantly.
- Support Party Member: By acting as defense.
- Taking You with Me: When its health is depleted, it performs a massive damage explosion, most probably taking out any non-Gargantuar, non-mech zombies that killed it.
- Why Am I Ticking?: It starts beeping when it's on its last legs.
- Worf Barrage: It's unable to kill Imp Dragon Zombies which No-Sell its fiery explosion.
Kiwibeast
- "I like to keep an even keel," says Kiwibeast. "But zombies... oooh... zombies make me so mad! And when I get mad... RARRRRRGGG!"
- Achilles' Heel: Zombies that kill plants instantly or push them will render it useless.
- Area of Effect: Hits all zombies within its range. At maximum size, it gains a 5x5 range!
- Berserk Button: According to its Almanac, it tries to keep a cool composure, but zombies make him really pissed.
- Critical Status Buff: Grows bigger and stronger as it takes damage, eventually using a 5x5 area attack that deals incredible damage.
- Helium Speech: When it's in its smallest size its voice is fast and high-pitched.
- Knockback: It will push away zombies in contact with a sudden growth spurt after they have dealt enough damage.
- Lightning Bruiser: In its final stage, it deals a good amount of area damage over time, and can take a good beating. In fact, taking a beating is what allows it to output a great amount of damage.
- Magikarp Power/Situational Damage Attack: It initially starts out with a 1x1 attack radius, a small size, and low damage. But when it takes enough damage, it grows once, attacking in a 3x3 area for moderate damage. And if it takes even more damage, it becomes big, hitting a 5x5 area for heavy damage!
- Shockwave Stomp: It attacks by stomping the ground, causing a shockwave that affects zombies in a radius.
Bombegranate
- Bombegranate is explosive, but she likes to think that there's more to her than that. She's also deciduous and exarillate!
An exploding pomegranate that detonates a 3x3 area, leaving 9 patches of explosive pomegranate seeds. Costs 150 sun and has a slow recharge.
- Action Bomb: Explodes a 3x3 area upon planting while also turning said area into a minefield of sorts after that.
- Action Girl: One of the most lethal female plants in the game.
- Cooldown Manipulation: When used together with Cherry Bomb and Grapeshot, she effectively turns the recharge time for a devastating 3x3 area attack to a third of the original. If paired with Imitater, the recharge is now 1/4 the usual.
- Land Mine Goes "Click!": Each of the patches of pomegranate seeds essentially acts like one, dealing good damage to zombies that step on them.
- One-Hit Kill: The inital explosion can kill most zombies, while the pomegranate seed mines can instantly kill any zombies that have less or equal to 10 hp on contact.
- Playing with Fire: All her damage is fire-based, burning zombies on killing them. Strangely enough, her seeds are able to kill Imp Dragons despite their fire immunity.
- Power Creep: Has the exact same damage, recharge time, and cost as Cherry Bomb, but she also produces a deadly minefield of seeds.
- Punny Name: Of pomegranate and bomb.
- Recursive Ammo: Explodes into 9 patches of exploding seeds.
- Splash Damage: Hits all zombies in a 3x3 area for the initial explosion.
- The Worf Barrage: Subverted. While the explosion damage she inflicts is fire-based, and cannot harm Imp Dragons, the pomegranate seeds can and will kill them, even though they cause fire damage too.
Apple Mortar
- Apple Mortar stuns three zombies dead in their tracks. SPAF! That'll show 'em! That'll show ALL of them!
An apple that fires a spread of apple cores that stun zombies on three lanes for a short while. Costs 250 sun and has a mediocre recharge. If given Plant Food, it launches a weak but paralyzing apple at all zombies on the lawn, dealing a small bit of splash damage too.
- Coconut Meets Cranium: Apple version. Its lobbed apple cores rain on zombies and stun them for a short while. Its Plant Food fires whole apples that deal higher Splash Damage and stun for longer.
- The Paralyzer: Its attack will stun zombies it hits for a short while.
- Splash Damage: Its Plant Food fires whole apples at all zombies on the lawn, which cause both impact damage and a small area of splash damage on landing.
- Spread Shot: Fires single shots down 3 lanes that stun zombies.
- Shields Are Useless: The lobbed-shot plants (that includes her) can safely hit zombies who cover themselves by holding a shield-like object, except for Surfer Zombie who holds his surfboard upward (at least once he's out of the water) and the Parasol Zombie whose parasol deflects them off.
- Support Party Member: Is mainly used as a delayer/stunner thanks to the rather low damage per second of the apple cores.
- Throw Down the Bomblet: Its buds are basically miniature apple core explosives.
Witch Hazel
- Witch Hazel paused, unsure how to proceed. Then, all at once, she knew: Use magic, like, ALL THE TIME!
A Witch Hazel that zaps zombies in its lane as well as adjacent ones, turning them into Puff-Shrooms. It will prioritize Wizard Zombies first over other zombie types. Costs 200 sun and has a mediocre recharge. If given Plant Food, it will zap a zombie and turn it into a Toadstool. At Level 7 and above, she turns zombies into Fume-Shrooms instead of Puff-Shrooms.
- Bewitched Amphibians: When given Plant Food, she turns a zombie into a Toadstool, a toad/mushroom-based plant.
- Cool Down: Takes 18 seconds between zaps.
- Eyes Out of Sight: Her petals always obscure her eyes (if she even has any to begin with).
- Forced Transformation: She zaps zombies and turns them into Puff-shrooms (or at higher levels, Fume-shrooms), or if fed Plant Food, Toadstools.
- Good Counterpart: Of the Wizard Zombie. She zaps zombies and turns them into mushrooms from afar, even being able to affect other lanes. Furthermore, she actually attempts to prioritize Wizard Zombies.
- One-Hit Kill: Her attack turns all enemies including Far Future machines but excluding Gargantuars into Puff-Shrooms, essentially killing them. Against Gargantuars, it deals hefty damage instead.
- Punny Name: Based on a Witch and a Witch Hazel.
- Robe and Wizard Hat: Lacks the robe (thanks to being a plant) but has a very obvious witch hat.
- Wizard Duel: She'll prioritize Wizard Zombies first over other zombie types. According to Word of God in a "Live from Pop Cap" episode, she is the arch-nemesis of the Wizard Zombie.
Parsnip
- "Snip!" said Parsnip. "Snip snip snip! If it wasn't for my scrapbook, my coupons, and snipping zombies to death, I just don't know what I'd do with myself!"
A parsnip that pinches at zombies within a 2 tile distance forward for heavy damage. If approached, it will rush forward in a manner similar to Guacodile. Costs 150 sun and has a fast recharge. If given Plant Food, it will dig into the ground and send 2 mini Parsnips forward, snipping anything in their path.
- Close-Range Combatant: Snips at zombies up to 2 tiles in front of it, but deals incredible damage at a fast rate- enough to kill a zombie in 3 hits at level one.
- Counter-Attack: If they're damaged enough by any zombie, they perform a rushing attack that hits everything in front.
- Foe-Tossing Charge: Both its rushing attack and Plant Food ability causes this.
- Giant Enemy Crab: Appears to be a parsnip crossed with a crab, as evidenced with its pincers and crab-like legs when it rushes.
- Bread Milk Eggs Squick: In the Almanac he states that his favorite things are his scrapbook, coupons, and snipping zombies to death.
- Planimal: Part Parsnip, part crab.
- Power Pincers: Snips at zombies with a crab-like pincer for very heavy damage.
- Punny Name: On "parsnip" and "snip".
Missile Toe
- While she is called Missile Toe, Missile Toe has no toes and, properly speaking, lacks missiles. How'd she get her name? Nepotism! Pure favoritism!
A mistletoe that fires explosive ice shots (explodes in a 1x3 area, with a 3x3 area chilling effect) at any tile on the lawn, in a similar vein to the Cob Cannon and Banana Launcher. She is also immune to freezing in Frostbite Caves. Costs 500 sun, recharges fast. If given Plant Food, she'll fire 3 ice shots at random zombies on the lawn. At Level 5 and above she gains the ability to freeze zombies.
- Area of Effect: Has two. Her direct projectile causes heavy damage in a 1x3 area, as well as a 3x3 area slowing effect.
- Cooldown: Much like Cob Cannon and Banana Launcher, it needs a reload time after each firing.
- Cooldown Manipulation: Unlike Banana Launcher, using a Plant Food on Missile Toe will reset her firing cooldown.
- Death from Above: After launching one, the ice shot will drop from above like a missile.
- Developer's Foresight: Due to how clicking on the Missile Toe activates the targeting beacon, she can't be placed on a minecart. If you try, a message will appear: "Missile Toes are too icy for mine carts".
- An Ice Person: Her attacks cause a 3x3 area chilling effect, if her attack doesn't kill her targets outright. At level 5 and above she also freezes zombies in her area of effect.
- Non-Indicative Name: Lampshaded in her Almanac entry, her name is Missile Toe but she doesn’t have either.
- No-Sell: As an ice-themed plant, she's immune to the freezing winds and Hunter Zombie snowballs in Frostbite Caves.
- One-Hit Kill: On weaker zombies, at least.
- Power Creep: She can basically do everything that Banana Launcher can, while also causing slowing (and if upgraded, freezing) in a 3x3 area around the point of impact, and its Plant Food power refreshes her shot too.
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: She can be used to reliably hit Fisherman Zombies and Zombie Kings as they don't move at all, as well as key targets like Wizard Zombies and Octo Zombies who tend to hide behind other zombies.
Hot Date
- Hot Date's a charmer. He's polite, well-read, has lots of interesting opinions, and practices active listening. Zombies line up around the block to be incinerated by him.
- Achilles' Heel:
- He'll only explode if he's defeated normally; meaning that his weaknesses are Explorer Zombie, Gargantuar Prime's Eye Beams, Excavator Zombie, Turquoise Skull Zombie, and launched Super-Fan Imps.
- Zombies that push or pull plants will also not trigger the effects, such as Mecha-Football Zombie, Fisherman Zombie and Punk Zombie.
- Action Bomb: Explodes into a lane of flames on defeat.
- Charm Person: His Almanac Entry states that he's a charmer, and his in-game ability causes zombies to be attracted to his lane.
- Composite Character: Combines the drawing aggro and defensive effect of Sweet Potato, exploding when eaten like Explode-O-Nut, and turning into a line of flames when exploding in a manner similar to Jalapeno.
- Deployable Cover: With a bonus effect of attracting zombies as well and burning them when he's eaten.
- Draw Aggro: His ability basically does this, by drawing zombies to attack him. He then explodes in a line of flames similar to Jalapeno to deal huge damage to the attracted zombies.
- Even the Guys Want Him: Most of the zombies are male, yet they are all attracted to his lane. The Valenbrainz advertisement showcasing him even has a male zombie attracted to him on a dating site!
- Fishing for Mooks: His ability in a nutshell, followed by burning those he attracted.
- Last Ditch Move: Upon having his health depleted, he'll explode like a Jalapeno.
- No-Sell: As a fire-themed plant, he's immune to the freezing winds and Hunter Zombie snowballs in Frostbite Caves, and can actively warm other plants around him.
- One-Hit Kill: His flame explosion is this on most zombies.
- Playing with Fire: Explodes into a line of flames when eaten. As a fire plant, he can't be frozen, and warms up plants around him.
- Shows Damage: When he gets eaten enough.
- Support Party Member: By diverting zombies towards his lane, and acting as defense, as well as warming plants near him. Downplayed in that he can also attack when killed.
- Taking You with Me: When its health is depleted, it bursts into a lane of flames that One-Hit Kill most zombies.
- Worf Barrage: Some zombies can't be attracted by him, such as Zombie Bulls and Jetpack Zombies. His flame explosion is also useless against Imp Dragon Zombies.
Caulipower
- Caulipower's eyes spin with distress. He's just thought of a really great ending for his novel, but he's afraid his cousin won't understand it.
A cauliflower that hypnotizes a random zombie on the field every few seconds. Costs 250 sun and has a Very Slow recharge. If given Plant Food, it uses its powers to toss five random zombies off the lawn.
- Composite Character: He's essentially Electric Blueberry mixed with Hypno-shroom, hypnotizing a random zombie on the lawn between long intervals.
- Glass Cannon: One of the very few plants that can kill a Gargantuar in one hit (technically, via hypnotizing them and removing their threat), but still has the durability of a normal plant, which is rather low.
- Heel–Face Brainwashing: He induces this in zombies.
- Mind-Control Eyes: Spiraly eyes, just like Hypno-shroom.
- Mind over Matter: His Plant Food powerup tosses three random zombie out of the screen via psychic powers.
- No Zombie Cannibals: Averted when a normal zombie and a hypnotized zombie meet, as they start eating each other.
- One-Hit Kill: Essentially this in a nutshell, since a hypnotized zombie is pretty much removed from the fight. Its Plant Food powerup also does this, although it only tosses Gargantuars backwards.
- Power Creep: It essentially does what Electric Blueberry does except it also turns the zombie to your side.
- Power Floats: Floats with his psychic powers. This allows him to float over the water in Big Wave Beach.
- Psychic Powers: Uses his mental powers to turn zombies against each other, or toss them away for a One-Hit Kill if given Plant Food.
- Support Party Member: By turning zombies to fight for you.
Gold Bloom
- "Your botanists were so preoccupied with whether they could," says Gold Bloom, about nothing and to nobody in particular, "they didn't stop to think if they should."
A golden flower that produces a burst of 375 sun then disappears. Costs 0 sun and has a very slow recharge rate (the slowest in the game).
- Distressed Dude: In order to be able to use it, you originally needed rescue it from the Epic Quest, a series of 10 Remixed Levels.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Despite the Almanac claiming otherwise, Gold Bloom most likely refers to the mere existence of the mutant plants (and the numerous variants of them) in Plants vs. Zombies universe.
- Shout-Out: Its name is based on Jeff Goldblum, and its Almanac references a quote by Dr Ian Malcolm from Jurassic Park, who is played by Goldblum.
- Support Party Member: Gives off a huge burst of 375 sun for free.
Electric Currant
- "Electricity is all very well and fine as a phenomenon," says Electric Currant, "but electromagnetism as a whole is where it's really at."
- Area of Effect: Damages all zombies within the "fence".
- Distressed Dude: In order to be able to use it, you originally needed to rescue it from the Epic Quest, a series of 10 Remixed Levels.
- Punny Name: of "electric current" and "currant".
- Shock and Awe: Zaps all zombies within the area of effect.
- Wonder Twin Powers: It requires two of them to be connected (by being directly across from each other) for their power to even work.
Aloe
- Aloe likes to soothe. He likes to alleviate, he likes to restore, he likes to mend. But don't ask him to revive. He's touchy about revival.
An Aloe plant that heals the plant in front of it. Costs 75 sun and has a sluggish recharge. If given Plant Food, it will heal all plants in a 3x3 area around it. In the Chinese version, it heals all plants in a 3x3 area and its Plant Food ability allows it to fling five droplets which create puddles that chill and slow zombies and heal all plants in a 3x3 area.
- Distressed Dude: In order to be able to use it, you originally needed to rescue it from the Epic Quest, a series of 8 Remixed Levels.
- She's a Man in Japan: Aloe is refered to as female in the Chinese version of the game.
- Support Party Member: By healing the plant in front of him or in the Chinese version, all plants in a 3x3 area. He will also replenish Chard Guard's leaves and Holly Barrier's berries if he heals them.
Solar Tomato
- Solar Tomato wishes folks would just stop and enjoy the sunshine sometimes. "Stop," she says. "Enjoy the sunshine. I said stop! Hold it right there! Don't move! I MEAN IT!!!"
A tomato that stuns all zombies in a 3x3 area, while causing them to drop 50 sun each. Costs 100 Sun and has a Sluggish recharge time.
- Area of Effect: Affects all Zombies in a 3x3 area. Using it on a huge group of them will provide a very hefty amount of sun.
- Berserk Button: She gets really ticked off when people don't stop and enjoy the sun, screaming for people to do so.
- Composite Character: Causes Zombies to drop sun like Sun Bean, stuns them like Iceberg Lettuce, and hits a 3x3 area like Stallia (or a Level 16+ Iceberg Lettuce).
- The Power of the Sun: She uses this to stun zombies and cause them to drop 50 sun each.
- Status Effects: Causes a Stun by blinding zombies in a 3x3 area around her. The duration increases as she levels up.
- Support Party Member: By stunning groups of zombies and causing them to drop sun.
Electric Peashooter
- Electric Peashooter expects resistance, but he doesn't want to ohm anybody.
An electric-themed Peashooter who fires electric balls forward that pierce zombies. Any zombies within proximity of the electric balls gets zapped for electrical damage. Costs 200 Sun. If given Plant Food, it fires three large electrical balls at the nearest zombies, and upon contact they explode into a Spread Shot of smaller electrical shots.
- Fire, Ice, Lightning: Completes the trio of Fire Peashooter and Snow Pea by being lightning elemental.
- One-Hit Polykill: His electrical peas penetrate all zombies in their path. This also means it can't be reflected by Jester Zombies or blocked by Excavator Zombies.
- Shock and Awe: Shoots electrical peas that shock nearby zombies.
- Spread Shot: His Plant Food is twofold- he fires a spread of three electric balls at the three closest zombies to the house, then each of these explode into a spread of even smaller electrical balls.
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: Excels at taking down Zombie Chickens since the chickens die as soon as they contact the projectile, and there is NO limit as to how many zombies it can hit.
Holly Barrier
- Holly Barrier would like to advise folks not to eat his berries. "It's rude to eat somebody's berries without asking," he says. "In addition, they are highly toxic."
A defensive holly plant that uses a spiked leaf to block and damage to zombies attacking it. It is also capable of launching berry projectiles onto a targeted area on the lawn up to 3 times. These cause minor Splash Damage and Knock Back on impact, leaving a barrier behind that blocks zombies while damaging them. Costs 150 Sun and has a Mediocre recharge. If fed Plant Food, it will fire out three projectiles at random zombies that spawn metal-spiked barriers that deal more damage, while regenerating its berries.
- Anti-Air: Strangely enough, his deployed barriers act as Anti-air defense and can block airborne zombies. Holly Barrier itself is unable to, however.
- Death from Above: After launching one, the holly leaf will drop from above like a missile and deal 3x3 area splash damage with knockback.
- Deployable Cover: Can use one of its berries to drop a holly leaf barrier onto the battlefield, blocking zombies while damaging them. It also damages and knocks them back in a 3x3 area upon landing.
- Composite Character: It's a cross between Endurian, Banana Launcher/Missile Toe and Chard Guard, being a defensive unit that damages zombies but with the capability of targeting a square on the lawn up to three times to knock back zombies in an area it hits.
- Knock Back: The holly berries it can launch will deal a 3x3 area knockback on zombies when they land.
- Multiple Head Case: Has four berries as its heads, although it can willingly launch the three smaller ones as Deployable Cover.
- One-Hit Kill: His projectiles cause knockback. If this pushes a grounded zombie over a plankless lane in the Pirate Seas, or if Blover is used, it's an instant kill, even against Gargantuars.
- Power Creep: It basically does what Endurian can do, except it also can drop area Knock Back Deployable Cover holly leaf barricades.
- Rule of Three: It can only hold up to 3 launchable berries at a go. That said, it will regain all used berries if Aloe heals it.
- Spikes of Doom: What it uses to hurt zombies with.
- Splash Damage: The holly projectiles deal damage in a 3x3 area where they land, and more importantly knock back zombies it affects too.
- Stone Wall: Like Endurian, it isn't too good in the offensive department, but can definitely hold the zombies back for a good while. Its offensive stats do go up as it levels up, but not by much.
- You Won't Like How I Taste: Holly Barrier would advise others not to eat his berries, not just because it's rude, but also because they're highly toxic.
Shadow Peashooter
- "Phoot," Shadow Peashooter says, emitting a shadowy, ah, hmmm, I guess you could call it a pea, at a distant zombie. "Uph!" gasps the zombie in evident surprise. There's a lot going on under the surface between these two.
A Peashooter plant that fires out balls of shadow when unpowered and piercing beams that slow zombies when powered by Moonflower. When a zombie comes near, he hides in the ground and any zombie stepping on it will get dragged into the ground. Costs 125 sun and has a Fast Recharge. If fed Plant Food with 2 or less Moonflowers on the lawn, he will fire a shadow ball forward that explodes a 3x3 area, otherwise he will drop a huge shadow bomb that deals huge damage to all zombies on the field.
- Buried Alive: What he does to zombies that get near, dragging them back into the ground for a One-Hit Kill.
- Casting a Shadow: Fires shadowy peas and shadow-based lasers at zombies. When fed Plant Food while powered, he drops a shadow nuke.
- Composite Character: Hoo Boy. He fires peas like Peashooter when unpowered, fires a piercing laser that slows like a cross between Laser Bean and Stallia, hides when zombies get near like Scaredy-shroom, drags most zombies that get close into the ground for a One-Hit Kill like Tangle Kelp, and his Plant Food power is a Smart Bomb like Strawburst.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Despite being a shadow plant and even using darkness as a power, he's one of the good guys.
- Even the Subtitler Is Stumped: About what his projectiles are supposed to be.''"Phoot," Shadow Peashooter says, emitting a shadowy, ah, hmmm, I guess you could call it a pea, at a distant zombie.
- Long-Range Fighter: Similar to Scaredy-Shroom, he will hide in the ground and stop attacking should zombies get near. If a zombie does touch him, he'll drag that zombie down but destroy itself in the process (unless he's powered by Moonflower).
- One-Hit Kill: Drags zombies that get near into the ground to kill them instantly. It doesn't work on Airborne Mooks, of course.
- One-Hit Polykill: When powered, his shadow lasers can pierce through all enemies in front of him, making him a good anti-crowd weapon. He can let you shoot through obstacles as well, and even hits zombies that are offscreen.
- Shout-Out: According to PopCap representatives, his Smart Bomb Plant Food power when there's at least 3 Moonflowers on the lawn is called "Spirit Bomb", and it certainly looks the part too.
- Smart Bomb: His Plant Food power when powered makes drops a huge shadowy nuke that hits every zombie on the screen for massive damage.
- Swiss-Army Weapon: Can be used as a regular peashooter, a long-range piercing and slowing attacker, an instant-death plant on nearby targets, or even a Smart Bomb if boosted.
Sling Pea
- Sling Pea keeps a keen eye on the whole battle space. He's alert and attentive. "If something slips through," he muses quietly, "it would be my fault. And I just couldn't forgive myself if that happened."
A Peashooter plant that fires five peas in a burst, targeting the zombies closest to your house each time. Costs 125 sun. If fed Plant Food, he'll fire five massive peas at the closest zombie to the house thrice, for a total of 15 peas.
- Death from Above: His main shtick, which is unusual for a peashooter.
- Edible Ammunition: Peas, as usual.
- Power Creep: It's a better version of Homing Thistle, being cheaper, able to target up to five zombies, and deal Splash Damage with its projectiles.
- Splash Damage: Sling Pea's projectiles deal splash damage when they hit.
- Spread Shot: Fires a spread of shots at the five nearest zombies on the lawn.
Goo Peashooter
- Goo Peashooter is a goopy shooter. See? See how that works? It's a play on words. Words are often playful, folks!
Another Peashooter plant, this time with the ability to poison and slow down zombies. Costs 125 sun. When fed Plant Food, Goo Peashooter will fire a giant ball of poison that knocks back, poisons and heavily slows all zombies in his lane.
- Poisonous Person: His peas are poisonous.
- Status Effects: Poisons and slows zombies.
Snap Pea
- "I'm a picky eater, I'll admit it," admits Snap Pea casually. "I'll eat a zombie, no problem, but there's just something about heads. I feel like they're looking at me."
A Peashooter with an unusual battle style. It dives underground, burrows towards a zombie, and swallows them whole. It will then return to its original position, chew on the zombie momentarily, and then spit out their head to damage other zombies. If faced with a foe it can't eat in this manner (such as a Gargantuar), it will instead shoot three peas at them when it emerges near them. Costs 200 sun. When fed Plant Food, Snap Pea will burrow underground and snap up five random zombies, and then return to shoot all five heads in its lane, with each head dealing incredibly high damage. If its only targets are machines or Gargantuars, it will shoot three peas at them instead.
- Composite Character: Of Peashooter and Chomper.
- Developer's Foresight: Eating a Zombie Medusa will cause the head it spits out to petrify the zombie it hits as well as those near the point of impact.
- Grievous Harm with a Body: When it's done chewing on a zombie, it will spit that zombie's head at the rest of the horde for additional damage.
- Man-Eating Plant: Just like Chomper. Although in Snap Pea's case, it'll spit out the head.
- One-Hit Kill: Instantly kills any zombie that's considered edible.
- Picky Eater: A self-admitted one. They eat everything but the head, which they spit out.
- Power Creep: It's essentially the Chomper, but with the ability to attack any zombie at any range in front of it, and then spit the head out for good measure.
- Taken for Granite: As a form of Developer's Foresight, if they eat a Zombie Medusa the head it spits out will petrify the zombie it hits as well as those in an area around it.
Zoybean Pod
- "Developing plant zomboids in eerie mimicry of zombie life is well within the boundaries of human experience," Zoybean Pod insists with a calm, unvarying steadiness.
A soybean plant that generates helpful zombie-like beings called "zomboids" to attack zombies. Costs 200 sun. When given plant food, it summons a zomboid Gargantuar.
- Creepy Good: Creates humanoid plant creatures out of thin air and if his almanac entry is anything to go by, his personality doesn't make it any less creepier.
- Mook Maker: A heroic version with its zomboids.
- Shout-Out: To the Pod People from Invasion of the Body Snatchers, being a plant that spawns replicas of humanoids.
Dazey Chain
- "I use they/them pronouns," says Dazey Chain. "Duh," they add.
An offensive straight-shooting plant that grows through three stages, growing more powerful and releasing a stunning puff of gas at each stage. Costs 150 sun. When given Plant Food, Dazey Chain will grow straight to their final stage and release a large puff of stunning gas in their lane and adjacent lanes.
- Ambiguous Gender: They use they/them pronouns, according to the Almanac.
- The Paralyzer: Their gas stuns enemies.
- Punny Name: Daze + daisy chain.
Electrici-tea
- "I want to be eaten. I NEED to be eaten," says Electrici-tea. "However, I am perfectly content to fry zombies in the meantime."
A plant that lets out electrical discharges all around until eaten, at which point the zombie who landed the killing bite explodes into a flurry of electricity. Costs 125 Sun. Its Plant Food effect is to unleash lethal bolts of lightning upon every zombie nearby for a few seconds.
- Achilles' Heel: Like its Almanac entry suggests, it needs to be eaten to trigger its area-damage One-Hit Kill effect. Any zombie that doesn't eat can deal with it more safely.
- Death Seeker: They actually want to be consumed.
- Emergency Weapon: Much like Chili Bean, it's better than Potato Mine in this aspect in that it needs no time to arm and has an additional effect besides killing off the target.
- One-Hit Kill: Any zombie who lands a killing bite on it will be explode into electricity, health be damned.
- Punny Name: Electricity + tea.
- Shock and Awe: The clue's in the name.
Blastberry Vine
- Blastberry Vine snickers to himself. He imagines lobbing bomblets. He's been reading up on it and he knows it's gonna make a big splash when it happens. "Soon," he whispers.
One of the new vine plants, which can be planted on top of other plants, much like Pumpkin. He lobs projectiles that burst into explosive bomblets. Costs 175 sun. When given Plant Food, he launches a barrage of explosive berries in his lane. Like all vine plants, this will also trigger the Plant Food effect of whatever he's planted on top of.
- Area of Effect: The bomblets will hit an entire area on the ground.
- Equippable Ally: As a vine plant, he can be planted on top of other (non-vine) plants.
- Recursive Ammo: His projectiles split into smaller bomblets.
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: It's notable for being one of the few automatic-firing plants that can hit zombies that have at least one natural immunity — Jesters cannot reflect it, Excavators and Parasols can't block it, flying enemies and Imp Dragons are not immune, and it can target and hit submerged Snorkel Zombies. It's also capable of bypassing Shield Zombie's forcefield.
- Throw Down the Bomblet: His main form of attack.
Imp Pear
- Imp Pear impairs zombies. Of course, Imps don’t appreciate this characterization, but who cares?
When a zombie eats Imp Pear, that zombie is transformed into an Imp. If the zombie already was an Imp, then he has the same effect as a Chili Bean. Costs 0 sun. When given Plant Food, Imp Pear will apply his effect to several zombies at once.
- Fartillery: Has the same effect as a Chili Bean if an Imp eats him.
- Forced Transformation: Turns zombies into Imps.
- Multiple Reference Pun: See Punny Name.
- One-Hit Kill: Any Imp that eats one will die instantly as if they had eaten a Chili Bean.
- Punny Name: A pear that impairs zombies by turning them into Imps.
Pokra
- Pokra's scrappy, she's a fighter, she's not afraid to jab below the belt to get job done. She won't, because that would be cheating, but she's not afraid to. "Just so we're clear," she says with a resolute glint in her eye.
A close-range plant whose jabs slow zombies down and increase in intensity with every consecutive blow. If she lands enough hits in a row, she launches a drill-like projectile that pierces through zombies and slows them down. She then rests for a few seconds before starting again. Costs 175 sun. When given Plant Food, Pokra launches three of her piercing and slowing projectiles one after another.
- Action Girl: A female plant, and the Almanac mentions she's a fighter.
- Close-Range Combatant: Zig-zagged. Normally she fights up close, but she can shoot a projectile if she lands enough attacks in a row.
- Combat Pragmatist: The Almanac mentions that she's not afraid to hit below the belt. (She won't, because it would be cheating, but she's not afraid to.)
- Punny Name: Poke + okra.
- Status Effects: Her jabs slow zombies down.
Pyre Vine
- Pyre Vine considers his holdings, his fortune, his vast hoard of wealth. He feels it should please him, and yet nevertheless he is anxious and fearful.
A vine plant that can use a close-range fire attack. Costs 125 sun. When fed Plant Food, he sets his entire lane on fire, heavily damaging all zombies in it.
- Close-Range Combatant: Starts out with a measly range of 2 squares in front, but as it levels up it becomes able to hit more squares, eventually maxing out at 5.
- Death of a Thousand Cuts: Deals very weak but very rapid damage to zombies within range, at a rate that's even faster than Spikerock. It hits fast enough to instantly kill chickens that enter its attack zone.
- Equippable Ally: As usual for a vine plant.
- Herd-Hitting Attack: Its attack hits all zombies within its range.
- Magikarp Power: Starts out costing 125 sun with a weak 2-tile range flame at level 1, and ends with a strong 5-tile range flame at the mere cost of 50 sun at level 10.
- No-Sell: Not only is it immune to freezing, any plant placed within it will also become immune to freezing.
- Playing with Fire: Has a close-range flamethrower attack and can set his whole lane on fire with Plant Food.
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: One of these on a lane attacks so quickly that it will instantly put an end to any Zombie Chickens or Ice Weasels that get into range. As with all fire plants, it's also very useful in Frostbite Caves.
- The Worf Barrage: As with almost all other fire plants, it can't do much against Imp Dragons.
Ice Bloom
- The last time Ice Bloom had pancakes for breakfast, she wasn't satisfied. She can't say why, exactly, but there was something subtly wrong with them. The shocking reason? Substandard maple syrup.
A plant that will freeze, chill and damage every zombie on the lawn when planted. The effect is stronger on zombies that are in a 3x3 area around her, and any zombies killed by her effect will be frozen in blocks of ice and become obstacles for other zombies (although Frostbite Caves zombies are immune to this). Costs 200 sun.
- Action Bomb: When planted, she explodes to freeze, chill and damage every zombie on the lawn.
- An Ice Person: Naturally.
- Deployable Cover: An unusual variant. Any zombies killed by her effect will be turned into ice blocks, that act as cover.
- Harmless Freezing: Averted. She deals miniscule damage to zombies frozen outside a 3x3 area around her, while zombies within it take a lot more — enough to kill a Basic zombie at level 1.
- Instant Ice: Just Add Cold!: Any zombies killed by her effect will turned into ice blocks that become obstacles.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Ice-Shroom and Iceberg Lettuce's Plant Food effect, being capable of freezing all zombies on the lawn and chilling them when they thaw out.
Ultomato
- Ultomato yawns as unimaginable energies build up inside his being. It's cool. He can afford to wait. He's got allllll day.
A plant that charges up to fire a devastating beam that damages zombies for as long as the charge lasts. He can be planted on up to three times to increase his damage output even further. Costs 250 sun and costs 50 more for every time you plant him. When fed Plant Food, Ultomato will self-destruct and heavily damage everything in a 5x7 area around him.
- Action Bomb: Explodes for very heavy damage around him if fed Plant Food.
- Awesome, but Impractical: At maximum power, his damage output is a sight to behold, but he gets more expensive the more you plant him.
- Eye Beams: Fires extremely powerful beams from his eyes.
- Mighty Glacier: Deals insane amounts of damage with his beams especially at maximum power, but has a long cooldown between attacks.
- Punny Name: Ultimate + tomato.
- Self-Destruct Mechanism: He explodes when given Plant Food.
- Shock and Awe: He's considered a Fila-Mint family plant, even though his beams aren't electrical.
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: Jester Zombie cannot reflect his beams, and it will hit Excavator Zombie and Shield Zombie past their protection.
- Wave-Motion Gun: His main form of attack.
Dartichoke
- "Why waste shots on foot soldiers when you can win the battle with one well-chosen dart to the dome?" wonders Dartichoke. "Why would you do it? Why would ANYONE do it?"
This plant fires artichoke spines at zombies in its lane, but has limited ammunition and will stop to reload after firing the maximum amount of spines. It will prioritize especially dangerous zombies such as Octo Zombies, Roman Healer Zombies and Wizard Zombies. Costs 225 sun. When given Plant Food, Dartichoke will launch powerful blue darts at several zombies on the lawn.
- Ambiguous Gender: It is never referred to with gendered pronouns in its almanac entry, but in two official Reddit posts it was referred to initially with masculine pronouns, and then later with feminine pronouns.
- Bottomless Magazines: Averted. Dartichoke's shots have limited ammo, and it will stop to reload upon running out.
- Critical Hit: Has a chance to shoot a much more powerful dart that deals 3x the damage. This chance starts low but increases as it levels up.
- Homing Projectile: Zig-zagged. Usually, its darts act like normal straight-shot projectiles, but if a more dangerous zombie shows up, its shots will hunt them down.
- Punny Name: Dart + artichoke.
- Shoot the Mage First / Shoot the Medic First: Its gimmick is that its shots will home in on the zombies' Elite Mooks and/or Support Party Members like Wizard Zombie or Roman Healer Zombie.
Shine Vine
- "Peek-a-boo!" giggles Shine Vine, staring directly at you, the player. "Consider that fourth wall SHATTERED!"
A vine plant that produces sun and amplifies the sun production of sun-producing plants bar Moonflower. Costs 75 sun. When fed Plant Food, it produces 100 sun and stuns the zombies in a 3x3 area around her.
- Blinded by the Light: Her last-ditch defense if a zombie gets too close.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: In her Almanac entry.
- Construct Additional Pylons: As usual for sun-producing plants.
- Equippable Ally: Can be planted on other plants, similar to the other vines.
- Everything's Better with Rainbows: She creates rainbows when producing sun.
- Light Is Good: She has light-based abilities and is one of the good guys.
- Support Party Member: By producing Sun and also boosting the sun production of sun-producing plants (except Moonflower).
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Gold Leaf, being a plant that can be planted on the same spot as another plant and produce sun. Unlike Gold Leaf, she can be used outside the Lost City (and a few specific Pinata Party/Battlez/Penny's Pursuit levels).
Gumnut
- "I only chew ham-flavored gum," exudes Gumnut. "Ham and salt."
A single-use plant that blows bubble gum that pops on the first zombie that approaches it, which immobilizes them and causes them and zombies that pass it to attack the gum. Costs 125 Sun. When fed Plant Food, he blows a huge bubble gum that explodes and covers 5-10 zombies depending on level.
- Bizarre Taste in Food: Only chews ham-flavored gum according to the Almanac.
- Deployable Cover: It places a blob of gum on the zombies it hits, which zombies are forced to eat.
- Sticky Situation: Causes the zombie that attacks it to be covered in sticky chewing gum, which holds it in place, stops zombies, and has to be eaten to be removed.
- Super-Toughness: The bubblegum is exceptionally tough, taking regular damage from Gargantuar smashes and All-Star tackles that are otherwise a One-Hit Kill on most other plants.
Tumbleweed
- This zesty little guy can't wait to get at it! Places to do! Things to go! It works because he planned thoroughly ahead of time.
An instant-use plant that tumbles down the lane and bounces off zombies, much like Bowling Bulb. Zombies it hits will be stunned for a few seconds, and can be knocked back, or rarely, out of the lawn. It can sometimes be spawned in multiples, and will be set on fire by Torchwood to deal extra damage. Costs 50 sun and has a very fast recharge time.
- Knock Back: Has a chance to knocks back the zombies it collides with, which increases with his level.
- One-Hit Kill: Has a very small chance to knock a zombie out of the lawn entirely.
- The Paralyzer: Stuns the zombies he collides into.
- Pinball Projectile: He is one.
- Self-Duplication: There's a chance that more than one can appear when planted, which increases at higher levels.
- Shown Their Work: His ability to be set on fire is based on the real life tumbleweed's extreme flammability, and his capability to be duplicated when planted is based on its highly aggressive reproduction rate.
Olive Pit
- Olive Pit lies buried deep underground, thinking furiously. What about? Hard to say. Maybe airplanes? Do helicopters count as airplanes?
A grounded plant that buries itself in the ground and acts as a pitfall trap, swallowing most zombies that walk over it. After burying itself, Olive Pit will constantly spit out zombie-slowing olive oil in the tile to its right, slowing zombies' speed by 33%. Costs 175 sun. When fed Plant Food, it will swallow zombies in a 3x3 area around it, the spit out olive oil onto the 8 tiles around it.
- Achilles' Heel: As it's a grounded plant, it cannot eat airborne zombies, and larger zombies like machines and Gargantuars cannot be swallowed at all, the latter of which can also notice and crush it. Jurassic Rockpuncher will also notice and kill it.
- Big Eater: Unlike Chomper, Toadstool, and Snap Pea, Olive Pit can swallow more than one zombie before having to digest. It starts out with a capacity of 2 at level 1, which increases to 3 at level 2, 4 at level 4, 5 at level 7, and 6 at level 10.
- Composite Character: A cross between Chomper, Spikeweed/Spikerock, and Sap-Fling, being a low-lying trap plant that most zombies will pass over, but also instantly kills any zombie that can be eaten, and also produces a slowing puddle.
- Cooldown: Has to digest zombies for a short while after filling up. This thankfully doesn't prevent it from becoming more vulnerable to zombies.
- Developer's Foresight: If the player tries to plant it on a minecart, the message "Olive Pits make holes. No railcarts!" will appear.
- Logical Weakness: As Olive Pit creates a human-sized hole in the ground, any flying zombie can simply fly over it and it can't eat zombies that are too big. It also cannot be planted on minecarts as the hole would destroy the cart and the track.
- One-Hit Kill: Any zombie that's vulnerable to it will fall into the pit and be instantly killed.
- Pit Trap: It's a pit that will One-Hit Kill most zombies that walk onto it. This however also means that it can't be planted on places that can't logically have pitholes, such as plank lanes in Pirate Seas, Wild West railcarts, and Lily Pads.
- Portable Hole: Zig-zagged. It cannot be planted on railcarts, but it can still be moved by Escape Root.
- Punny Name: It's an olive that can create a pit for zombies to fall into.
- Stealth Expert: Apart from Gargantuars and Jurassic Rockpuncher, most Zombies will not even notice Olive Pit. Not even Wizard, Octo, or Excavator will attempt to interact with it and will simply walk over it.
- Trap Master: Stays underground as a trap that will kill most zombies that walk over it.
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: It instantly eats zombies, preventing zombies from using abilities that activate on damage or upon death. As a low-lying plant most zombies will walk over it, but even those that otherwise affect most low-lying plants cannot target it, such as Barrel Roller Zombie, Pianist Zombie, Wizard Zombie, Octo Zombie, and Excavator Zombie. Furthermore, the oil it spits out will obstruct pushed Ice Blocks, Arcade Machines, and petrified Bust Head Zombies.
Puffball
- "You think cuz I'm Puffball that I'm puffy, that I'm soft, that I'm insubstantial?" fumes Puffball. "You need to change that thinking. PRONTO."
An instant-use plant that explodes into toxic spores on three entire columns when planted, stunning and permanently poisoning zombies caught in it. Costs 150 sun.
- Action Bomb: An instant-use plant whose explosion affects three columns when planted.
- Area of Effect: Hits three entire columns of zombies instead of Cherry Bomb's, Grapeshot's or Bombegranate's 3x3 square.
- Magikarp Power: Puffball starts out rather weak for an instant, costing 150 sun and stunning zombies for only 3 seconds while unable to kill a basic zombie before the stun wears off. Its poison damage and stun grow a lot as it levels up, and at level 10 it's capable of killing a Robo-Cone before its stun wears off. Its sun cost drops by a lot as well, costing 100 at level 3, and then a mere 50 sun at maximum level.
- Poisonous Person: Poisons any zombies that he explodes on causing them to take damage over time. The poison also gets stronger if an enemy is damaged by it again.
- The Paralyzer: It temporarily stuns the zombies that are hit by the explosion.
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: Thanks to his ability to stun AND poison enemies at the same time, it becomes a solid counter to Chicken Wrangler and Weasel Hoarder zombies who will not release their animals if stunned when the poison kills them.
- You Are Already Dead: Any zombie that is hit by the poison will take continuous damage and it does not wear off unless cured by Glitter Zombie or Healer Zombie.
Explode-o-Vine
- Explode-O-Vine is sooooooooooooooo ready to explode. Just ridiculously ready. He's got the color picked out and everything.
A vine plant that releases a 3x3 explosion with knockback when planted, and when destroyed, releases another one with twice as much power. Costs 150 sun. When given Plant Food, Explode-o-Vine releases a powerful explosion and gains some weak armor that explodes when destroyed.
- Action Bomb: Explodes when eaten.
- Death-Activated Superpower: Explodes when eaten or killed via most methods.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: Explode-o-Vine is explicitly stated to be male, and yet he has eyelashes, which can easily throw viewers off at first glance.
- Equippable Ally: Like the other vines, he can be planted on top of other non-vine plants.
- Having a Blast: Causes an explosion when planted, killed or when given Plant Food.
- Power Creep: While its main ability is to be planted on top of other non-vine plants, there's little risk using as an instant-use plant like a Cherry Bomb as they both have the same damage output. The end result is an Cherry Bomb that explodes twice, with a faster recharge to boot.
- Taking You with Me: When he's eaten, he blows up on the offending zombie.
Murkadamia Nut
- "Some say that encasing yourself in gelatin is no way to conduct an offense," says Murkadamia Nut with an infectious twinkle. "I say they just haven't planted ME yet!"
A shadow wall plant that grows a layer of gelatinous murk when powered up by Moonflower or Conceal-mint. The murk regenerates over time and damages attacking zombies. Costs 100 sun. When given Plant Food, Murkadamia Nut regrows its murk (if powered up) and gains a shield for further protection.
- Casting a Shadow: Creates a gel-like layer of shadowy murk when powered up by Moonflower which acts as defense as well as damaging zombies attacking it.
- Composite Character: Of Infi-nut and Endurian when powered up.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Despite being a shadow-based plant with darkness powers, it's one of the good guys.
- Deployable Cover: Par for the course as a wall plant.
- Punny Name: Murk + macadamia nut.
- Shows Damage: Like the other wall plants.
- Spikes of Doom: When powered up.
- Stone Wall: On its own, it's between Infi-nut and Wall-nut in terms of defense. Its defenses increase even more when powered up by Moonflower or Conceal-mint thanks to its murk.
Turkey-pult
- Turkey-pult's turkeys are so delicious, you'd never know they were actually made of tofu! Almost never. You might know. Okay, fine, cards on the table: there is absolutely no way you could ever mistake these turkeys for the real thing.
A lobbed-shot plant that hurls tofu turkeys at zombies. The turkeys damage zombies on the initial impact, then rush off down the lane like hypnotized Zombie Chickens. Costs 150 sun. When given Plant Food, Turkey-pult will launch 6 tofu turkeys at random zombies on screen. These turkeys will spawn hardier, more powerful Turkzillas after hitting a zombie.
- Death from Above: As a lobbed-shot plant.
- Edible Ammunition: Launches turkeys made of tofu. Even by PvZ standards, that's just plain bizarre.
- Fragile Speedster: Its tofu turkeys are fast, but they can't take much punishment.
- Mook Maker: Its tofu turkeys provide a heroic example.
Headbutter Lettuce
- Headbutter Lettuce yawns. "Oh, is it that time? Time to headbutt zombies? Let me put on my butting face and I'll be right out!" He's a champ.
A close-range plant that headbutts zombies and has a chance to stick immobilizing butter to their faces like Kernel-Pult. Costs 175 sun. When given Plant Food, Headbutter Lettuce will wildly headbutt every zombie around him, throwing butter around as he does so.
- Close-Range Combatant: Headbutts zombies that are close to it and even has a chance to stun them, opening them for more damage. He also has extra HP to survive more attacks should the zombies get to him.
- Composite Character: Of Bonk Choy and Kernel-Pult.
- Cycle of Hurting: Every time he attacks, he has a chance to butter the zombies in front, which increases as he levels up. Thanks to his fast attack rate, he can keep a Gargantuar in front of him permanently stunned while being at the mercy of his insanely high damage per second.
- Eyes Out of Sight: His lettuce leaves always cover his eyes, giving him this look. His eyes can occassionally be glimpsed when he bounces in his idle animation.
- Lightning Bruiser: Not only does he attack very hard and fast, he also has elevated HP compared to most non-defensive plants. He kills basic zombies in only two fast hits at level one.
- The Paralyzer: Like Kernel-pult, his butter stuns zombies.
- Power Creep: He outclasses both Bonk Choy and Wasabi Whip by having similar capabilities (and only slightly less range than the latter), but with far greater damage and the added ability to butter zombies too.
- Punny Name: A butter lettuce that headbutts zombies and applies butter to them.
- Use Your Head: His main form of attack, as his name implies, is headbutting zombies.
Boingsetta
- Boingsetta's a springy plant whose positive outlook is infectiously delightful! The chilling effect is merely a secondary consequence.
A plant that, when planted, slams the ground with a "boing" that does heavy damage to all obstacles like tombstones and octopi and bounces back and chills all zombies on the board. After her initial planting, all subsequent uses of this ability will only affect zombies and obstacles in her lane. She will also need time to recharge after each use of her ability. Costs 150 sun. When fed Plant Food, Boingsetta will unleash a more powerful version of her initial attack.
- Anti-Structure: Her attacks utterly destroy board items like gravestones, octopi, surfboards and ice blocks.
- An Ice Person: Chills zombies in addition to bouncing them.
- Knockback: She bounces zombies back.
- Obvious Rule Patch: Zombies bounced by her cannot be blown away by the Blover.
- One-Hit Kill: Any Zombies bounced onto plankless rows in Pirate Seas will be instantly killed. However, she can't be used alongside the Blover.
- Punny Name: Boing + poinsetta.
- Support Party Member: Her main use is to knock back enemies and destroy grid items, as her damage against zombies is far weaker.
Stickybomb Rice
- Stickybomb Rice has extreme confidence in bombs, rice, and the abstract concept of stickiness. She's pulished scholarly articles about all three.
A lobbed-shot plant that hurls Sticky Bombs made of rice at zombies. These bombs will explode after a while, and each sticky bomb explosion can activate other sticky bombs nearby. Costs 225 sun. When given Plant Food, Stickybomb Rice will lob a sticky bomb at every non-flying zombie on the lawn.
- Achilles' Heel: Can't directly affect Airborne Mooks and will not target them, although the Splash Damage from explosions can.
- Action Girl: A female plant boasting offensive power that is quite literally explosive.
- Death from Above: As a lobbed-shot plant.
- Rule of Three: A maximum of 3 sticky bombs can be attached onto a zombie at one go.
- Scissors Cuts Rock: Unlike most lobbed-shot plants, Stickybomb Rice's projectiles cannot be bounced away by Parasol Zombie, reflected by Jester Zombie, or defended against via Shield Zombie's shield and Surfer Zombie's surfboard.
- Splash Damage: When her bombs explode, they deal a huge amount of area damage.
- Sticky Bomb: Fires these out at zombies, which stuns them for a short while before exploding. The explosion can chain with other sticky bomb explosions.
- Sticky Situation: Her Sticky Bombs immobilize zombies when they hit, and keep them stuck until the bombs explode.
Hocus Crocus
- "Observe," says Hocus Crocus. "Have I got anything up my sleeve? Do I even have sleeves? No? Prepare, then, to have your quaint and old-fashioned notions of spatial location SHATTERED FOREVER!!!"
A plant that can periodically teleport the leftmost zombie back to the beginning of the lawn, damaging them in the process. Costs 200 sun. When given Plant Food, they will teleport three leftmost zombies back.
- Composite Character: Essentially crosses Witch Hazel's ability to zap zombies in other lanes with a powerful effect at a slow rate, with Thyme Warp's ability to teleport zombies to the back of the lawn.
- Magicians Are Wizards: Has the attitude and mannerisms of a stage magician, but they have actual magic powers that teleport zombies.
- Punny Name: "Hocus pocus" + crocus.
- Space Master: Uses space-based magic to teleport zombies to the starting end of the lawn.
- Stage Magician: Appears to be based off one, although they're actually capable of using magical powers to teleport zombies while damaging them.
- Support Party Member: Their primary use is to teleport any zombies near the end of the lawn back to the very start. While they're also capable of dealing damage, it's rather low, and their firing rate is slow.
- Weaponized Teleportation: Teleports a zombie back to the end of the lawn while doing some damage to them.
Gloom Vine
- Gloom Vine's gloomy exterior shouldn't be seen as implying a gloomy interior. His interior is gloomy, but for complicated personal reasons that go way back.
A vine plant that attacks all zombies in the 3x3 area around it while also powering any Shadow Plants within. Costs 125 sun. When given Plant Food, it sprays rapid amounts of gloom in the area around it for larger damage.
- Area of Effect: Attacks zombies in the 3x3 area around it, similar to how Gloom-Shroom did in the first game.
- Close-Range Combatant: It can only affect zombies that are directly next to it.
- Composite Character: A cross between Gloom Shroom, Pumpkin (acting as a small defence) and Moonflower (powering Shadow plants).
- Dark and Troubled Past: The Almanac mentions that their mindset is gloomy because of complicated personal reasons that go way back.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Despite being a shadow-based plant with darkness-based powers, it's one of the good guys.
- Support Party Member: He powers up shadow plants that are planted on him, without the need for Moonflower.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: To Gloom Shroom, of course. It even has multi-directional facing funnels that attack around it in a similar manner.
Draftodil
- Draftodil looks like she's full of hot air, but she isn't. She's full of highly compressed air. There's a difference!
A plant that slows down flying zombies in its lane and fires air cannon blasts that cause a short stun and have a chance to knock small zombies, airborne enemies, and critters off the lawn. Costs 100 sun. When given Plant Food, she will fire five stronger gusts of wind down her lane while blowing away all airborne zombies on her lane.
- Anti-Air: Not only does she slow down airborne zombies in her lane, she also will One-Hit Kill them with her projectiles.
- Blow You Away: Attacks zombies with an air cannon projectiles, which stuns them and has a chance to knock away small zombies and is guaranteed to kill flying ones. She also constantly blows wind on the lane she's placed on, slowing down all Airborne Mooks in it.
- One-Hit Kill: Has a 100% chance to knock a flying zombie out of the lawn and a 50% chance to knock a critter or small/shrunken zombie out of the lawn. The latter chance increases as it levels up, becoming a guaranteed kill at max level.
- Punny Name: Draft + daffodil.
- The Paralyzer: Her attacks will stun zombies upon hitting them.
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: Besides being an Anti-Air and anti-Imp plant, she's also useful against Chicken Wrangler and Weasel Hoarder as the guaranteed stun from her attacks prevents them from releasing their animals. She's capable of damaging Jester Zombie as her attacks stun them, preventing them from deflecting. Her projectiles will also instantly blow away Lost Pilots and ZCorp HelpDesks that are still hanging, instead of causing them to drop like with Blover/Hurrikale.
Boom Balloon Flower
- Boom Balloon Flower's balloons are inflated with hydrogen and aerosolized kerosene. It's an anti-safety measure.
A plant that produces balloons that can be placed on any tile, and up to 3 can be stacked. Zombies touching this tile cause the balloon(s) on the tile to explode, dealing damage. Costs 350 Sun. When given Plant Food, she produces a Doom-Shroom balloon that explodes for huge damage to all zombies on the screen.
- Achilles' Heel: The only enemies she cannot affect are submerged Snorkel Zombies, as they move under the surface and avoid triggering the balloons.
- Action Girl: While her gender isn't revealed in the almanac, a reddit post by an official PopCap member confirms her gender as female. She's also one of the most highly destructive non-instant plants in the game too.
- All Balloons Have Helium: Averted. She fills her balloons with hydrogen and aerosolized kerosene, so as to have them explode on the zombies. As mentioned, "it's an anti-safety measure".
- The Cameo: Doom-Shroom appears during her Plant Food powerup, although this one is just a balloon.
- Composite Character: Of Banana Launcher and Potato Mine, being a targeting plant who can plant explosives on chosen spots.
- Hair-Trigger Explosive: Any zombie touching the balloons causes them to explode.
- Playing with Fire: Her balloons are noted to be filled with highly flammable hydrogen and aerosolized kerosene, and they do explode on contact with zombies. Despite this, they do not deal fire damage and can affect Imp Dragons just fine.
- Power Creep: She's a straight upgrade to Banana Launcher, having the ability to set traps and stack up to three balloons with similar splash damage radius. While her damage is lower, she makes up for that with a far faster reload time.
- Shown Their Work: Hydrogen and aerosolized kerosene are flammable and the former explodes when heated. The intentional use of hydrogen in her balloons may also be a nod to the Hindenburg, which caught fire thanks to the hydrogen used to keep it afloat.
- Smart Bomb: Her Plant Food spawns a Doom-Shroom balloon that explodes to deal damage to all zombies on the lawn.
- Splash Damage: Like Banana Launcher, her balloons cause a small damage area of effect when exploding.
- Trap Master: Unlike Banana Launcher and Missile Toe, her balloons can be placed like traps instead of immediately exploding. Up to three can be planted on a tile.
Pea Vine
- Pea Vine boosts Appease-mint Family plants, and he himself is an Appease-mint Family plant, so therefore... hang on... don't tell me... I can do this. I said DON'T TELL ME.
A vine plant that boosts the damage of Appease-Mint plants planted on its spot by 1.5x, while also firing single pea shots. Costs 125 sun. When given Plant Food, he will fire a barrage of peas similar to Peashooter's Plant Food.
- Call-Back: To Flower Pot's Almanac Entry, being a Mind Screw that hints of planting one on top of itself.
- Lethal Joke Character: Compared to other Vine plants, Pea Vine doesn't seem impressive at first glance — he only boosts Appease-Mint plants and attacks with single pea shots ala Peashooter. However, his boost also affects himself and grows hugenote which is incredibly useful as support. This boost stacks multiplicatively with Torchwood's fire boost, and as Torchwood is an Appease-Mint plant, he also boosts Torchwood's fire boost meaning a Lv1 Pea Vine'd Torchwood makes the flames triple instead of double pea damage. The end result of all these is a seemingly useless plant that is actually one of the most powerful damage boosters in the game.
- Magikarp Power: Starts out by shooting single peas, and his base damage is similar to a Peashooter's. However, as his own boost affects himself, leveling him up (which increases his damage, and the multiplier to his boost) gives him a lot more damage potential.
- No Self-Buffs: Averted. Like his Almanac entry hints, his boost to Appease-Mint plants on his spot also includes himself.
- Support Party Member: His primary use is to boost the power of Appease-Mint plants on his tile. Downplayed as it can potentially get stronger than Repeater when used by itself, thanks to being affected by its own buff.
Inferno
- Inferno doesn't feel like he gets enough credit. "Of course I burn zombies," he fumes. "That's a given. But what about how I sweep them down the lane through the sheer force of hot air? Where's my prize for that?"
A fire plant that swirls up fiery tornadoes which pick up and carry the first zombie they hit for a few tiles, damaging other zombies in their path. Costs 200 sun and has a slow recharge. If fed Plant Food, he will fire out a stronger tornado that can suck in multiple zombies, even from adjacent lanes.
- Blow You Away: He's capable of conjuring up tornadoes. Flaming tornadoes.
- Do Not Touch the Funnel Cloud: Played straight with his basic attack, which will only suck in zombies that touch it. Averted with his Plant Food effect, which will suck in nearby zombies, even those on adjacent lanes.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: According to his almanac entry, he doesn't like the lack of respect about his ability to push zombies back with his fiery tornadoes.
- Knock Back: The first zombie that gets hit by his fiery tornadoes will be picked up and forced back a few squares. His Plant Food does this to every zombie that gets sucked in.
- No-Sell: Thanks to being a fire plant, he's immune to freezing winds and snowballs.
- Playing with Fire: A fern that produces flaming tornadoes that damage zombies in their path.
- Punny Name: Its name is a play on inferno and Fern.
- Support Party Member: While he is capable of dealing damage, he's best used to send zombies backwards as his damage is otherwise quite inconsistent. He also functions well in Frostbite Caves, with his warming capabilities and radius increasing as he levels up.
Solar Sage
- "Ommm," Solar Sage hums softly to herself. But she's not kidding anybody. We all know her mind is filled with race cars and bulldozers.
A sun-producing plant that gives a bit of sun when planted and transforms humanoid zombies on her tile into invulnerable enlightened zombies, causing them to peacefully depart while dropping sun and possibly enlightening other zombies around them. Costs 0 sun. If fed Plant Food, she transforms all zombies around her in a 3x3 radius into enlightened zombies.
- Enlightenment Superpowers: Any zombie affected by her will turn into an enlightened zombie, causing them to "make better choices and depart". They can't be attacked and cannot attack, but they do have the ability to produce sun, and can spread this enlightenment to other zombies.
- Mook–Face Turn: Zombies she enlightens turn around and depart peacefully, dropping sun in the process while possibly enlightening more zombies near them.
- One-Hit Kill: Against most zombies. She will enlighten most non-animal, non-gargantuar, non-machine zombies, turning them into peaceful but invulnerable units that drop sun as they move away from the house. These can also spread the effect every now and then.
- The Virus: Any enlightened zombie has a chance to enlighten zombies in close proximity to them, spreading the effect.
- The Worf Barrage: She cannot affect gargantuars, animals or machine zombies.
Power Vine
- Power Vine's noodly antennae tremble in electric anticipation and he grins, imagining firing laser bolts at zombies in tandem with his brothers.
A vine plant that fires electric laser bolts at zombies and can connect with other Power Vines for triple the firepower. Costs 150 sun. When given Plant Food, he will release an EMP and launch a spread of eleven laser bolts. If he's connected to other Power Vines, he will launch three waves of lasers instead of one.
- Death of a Thousand Cuts: His electric bolts deal low damage, but are fired rapidly and if he's connected to other power vines, the fire rate is tripled.
- EMP: His Plant Food causes an EMP shock in the area around him, disabling machines in the vicinity.
- Shock and Awe: His lasers have electric properties.
- Spread Shot: His Plant Food Power fires a spread of electric bolts at the zombies. If he's connected to other Power Vines, he fires three.
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: Along with Magnifying Grass, Dandelion, and Draftodil, he's one of the few straight projectile-launching plants whose shots can't be deflected by the Jester Zombie.
- Wonder Twin Powers: Downplayed. Being directly connected to other Power Vines triples his firepower, but a lone vine can still attack.
Noctarine
- For a plant churning with internal gases, Noctarine's opinions are shockingly conventional. "Jaws is a good movie," he says. Like, NO KIDDING, Noctarine!
A shadow plant that, upon planting, explodes into a cloud of gas in a 3x3 area that continuously damages zombies. This also produces a shadowy aura that can power up other shadow plants. When Noctarine is himself powered up, the gas he creates can slow zombies down and make them explode, too. Costs 150 sun.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Despite being a Shadow Plant with toxic gas abilities, he's still one of the good guys.
- Poisonous Person: Explodes into a cloud of poisonous gas when planted.
- Punny Name: Nocturne/nocturnal + nectarine.
Heath Seeker
- Heath Seekers have always believed that the shortest distance between two points is an elaborately curved path that passes through several zombies and also looks pretty. Needless to say, they're struggling in geometry class.
An instant-use plant that bursts into a storm of homing, piercing darts upon planting. Costs 125 sun.
- Homing Projectile: Explodes into a storm of them when planted.
- Macross Missile Massacre: When planted, it explodes into a huge storm of homing, piercing projectiles.
- One-Hit Polykill: Its projectiles will pierce zombies and go on to hit the next one.
- Punny Name: Heath + heat-seeker.
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: It's one of the very few plants that can hit all types of zombies with immunity, including Jesters (who can't deflect it), Excavators (who are immune to it from the front, but the projectiles will loop behind and hit), flying zombies, Imp Dragons, and submerged Snorkels.
Iceweed
- Iceweed is excited to get the call-up to the big leagues and can't wait to start refrigerating zombies whilst inflicting damage on them. He insisted we say "whilst."
A plant that damages zombies that walk on it like Spikeweed, but also chills them. Costs 150 sun. If given Plant Food, he fires an icy sawblade down his lane that damages, chills and pushes all zombies including aerial ones, and also boosting himself to deal more damage and take multiple rolling objects or Gargantuar smashes.
- Anti-Air: Downplayed. Unlike the other spikeweed-like plants, he is capable of damaging Airborne Mooks, but only with his Plant Food effect.
- Awesome, but Impractical: As cool as his capability to make short work of weasels in Frostbite Caves without worry of freezing over is, he's still as vulnerable to getting One Hit Killed by Troglobite ice blocks.
- Deadly Disc: When using Plant Food, he fires a sawblade down the lane that damages, knocks back, and chills zombies, even aerial ones.
- An Ice Person: Deals cold/chilling damage to zombies that step on him.
- No-Sell: He's immune to freezing winds thanks to being an ice plant.
- Rule of Three: After being fed Plant Food, he becomes able to withstand three rolling objects or smashes from a Gargantuar.
- Spikes of Doom: Like Spikeweed and Spikerock, he damages zombies that walk on it. Unlike those two, he also slows them down by chilling them.
- Status Buff: After he is fed Plant Food, he will deal twice as much damage and also survive three rolling objects.
Tiger Grass
- Tiger Grass is waiting. The grass tiger waits within. Soon their time will come. And then... the slashes! THE FURY!!
A patch of grass that spawns a grass tiger to leap at a zombie within 4 squares in front, dealing rapid damage while blocking the zombie. The tiger starts out small but grows into a larger one over time. Costs 150 sun. If fed Plant Food, the tiger grows into a large tiger and viciously attacks the zombie in front, remaining in this state until the main plant is removed.
- The Beastmaster: The plant itself sends out a tiger that attacks and blocks zombies.
- Close-Range Combatant: Downplayed. It's considered a melee plant, but it has a much longer range than other melee plants thanks to the tiger's capability of attacking up to 4 squares in front of it.
- Cute Kitten: The tiger starts out as an adorable cub.
- Death Is Cheap: If the grass tiger gets killed, it respawns (at the same size) after a few seconds as long as the main plant remains.
- Gathering Steam: The tiger starts out as a small but weak cub, but soon grows into a larger and stronger tiger.
- Lightning Bruiser: Even as a small cub, the grass tiger is capable of dealing huge damage in short amounts of time while also taking some damage before dying. It gets even stronger and more durable once it grows. After given Plant Food, it permanently turns into a large tiger that makes very short work of even high-HP zombies.
- Panthera Awesome: Tiger Grass spawns a plant tiger that's very capable of tearing zombies to shreds.
- Planimal: The tiger spawned by Tiger Grass is a plant, despite behaving like a tiger.
Teleportato Mine
- Teleportato Mine's heard the "Help me! Help me!" joke a million times before but she smiles anyway. It's a classic!
A grounded explosive plant that arms herself like Potato Mine before teleporting zombies onto her, then exploding for massive damage in a 3x3 area. Costs 75 sun.
- Action Bomb: Like Potato Mine and Primal Potato Mine before her, she explodes to deal massive damage to zombies.
- Anti-Air: Unlike Potato Mine and Primal Potato Mine, her explosion can affect and kill Airborne Mooks.
- Composite Character: Combines Primal Potato Mine's fast arming time and 3x3 explosive radius with Thyme Warp's/Hocus Crocus' ability to teleport zombies.
- Not Enough to Bury: Zombies exploded by it lose their entire body as their head drops to the ground.
- One-Hit Kill: Deals massive damage to most zombies. At maximum level, her explosion is even enough to one-shot Gargantuars without extra health.
- Punny Name: Teleport + Potato Mine.
- Weaponized Teleportation: She teleports zombies onto her position then explodes, guaranteeing that they will be caught in the blast.
- You Will Not Evade Me: By teleporting the zombies closest to the player's house onto her and exploding in a 3x3 radius, she guarantees that those zombies will be caught within her explosion. The only non-(mini)boss zombies she cannot teleport are critters, stationary zombies (like Imp Cannon, Fisherman, Zombie King, Zcorpion), Zombie Hamster Ball, Healer Zombie, and Zombie Medusa, but her explosion works on them all the same.
Blockoli
- "Hey, guys! Blockoli here! What's goin' on? Here comes a zombie! I'm gonna SLAM 'IM! With FISTS!" says Blockoli. And he really means it!
A defensive broccoli that slams its florets into the ground to stun zombies and block them, and is immune to pulls. Costs 150 sun. If given Plant Food, he hits zombies in an area around him before slamming his now-armored florets.
- Deployable Cover: Acts like a Wall-Nut, but can also stun enemies and is immune to being pulled.
- Immune to Flinching: Downplayed. He is immune to being pulled by enemies like Excavator Zombie and Fisherman Zombie, however, enemies that push him like Mecha-Football, Punk, and the Ankylosaurus will still do so.
- No-Sell: Can't be pulled by Excavator Zombie or Fisherman Zombie.
- Punny Name: Block + broccoli.
- Shield Bash: Attacks and stuns zombies in a 2x3 area in front by slamming his florets into the ground.
- Stone Wall: While Blockoli is capable of dealing damage with his shield slam, it doesn't deal much and he can't use it often. He however has a lot of health and his shield slam stuns zombies to impede them.
Buttercup
- Buttercup's sweet as can be, but she packs a wallop! "I'm not cheap," she says, referring to her flat 25 sun cost. "I'm reasonable."
A buttercup that drops butter on zombies that attack her, leaving a patch of butter on the ground that also damages and butters any non-buttered zombie that steps on it. Costs 25 sun. If given Plant Food, she butters her lane as well as adjacent lanes in front of her.
- Counter-Attack: She normally needs to be damaged in order to drop butter on zombies.
- The Paralyzer: Like Kernel-Pult, her butter stuns the zombies it hits. Unlike Kernel-Pult, it also places a patch of butter on the ground that butters the next zombie to step on it.
- Punny Name: She's a buttercup who drops actual butter on attacking zombies.
Bramble Bush
- Bramble Bush is a prickly sort. In fact, let's not beat around the Bramble Bush here; he's covered in extraordinarily dangerous spikes.
An innocent-looking low-lying berry bush that traps and continuously hurts zombies that step in it. Disappears after activating a set amount of times, which is shown by how many berries it has left. Costs 125 sun. If given Plant Food, it will regenerate all its berries while pulling the closest zombie to it and trapping it.
- Anti-Armor: Any armored zombie that steps in it will immediately lose their armor, no matter how tough. Oddly enough, this also removes Excavator Zombie's shovel, which makes Bramble Bush the only plant that can do this.
- Death Trap: Zombies that step in it will be stunned and unable to act while it quickly pierces them to death.
- Game Face: Appears to have innocent-looking eyes until a zombie steps on it, after which its eyes change to a much more menacing red pair similar to Tangle Kelp's.
- Knock Back: Should Bramble Bush be removed when a zombie is trapped by it, the zombie will be knocked backwards.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: When it activates, its normal-looking eyes turn into red, angry ones akin to Tangle Kelp's.
- Rule of Three: Initially starts out with three berries, which allows it to trap up to three zombies before expiring. This doesn't include critters like Chickens and Weasels, which it instantly kills without using up any berries.
- Spikes of Doom: Deploys some painful looking spikes when it catches a zombie to trap it and continuously damage it.
- You Are Already Dead: Any zombie that gets trapped in this will be continuously impaled until they either die, or another zombie kills the Bramble Bush first.
Rhubarbarian
- "My drive to punch things? Inescapable!" exults Rhubarbarian. "That tree over there? PUNCH IT! That mailbox? SPLINTERS! Your coffee club punch card? LET ME AT THAT THING!"
An instant-use melee plant that can hop forward up to 4 squares in front to the nearest zombie in his lane, before proceeding to punch them out of the lawn, or dealing rapid, heavy damage to those who can't. When planted or when landing, he stuns zombies in a 3x3 area around him. Disappears after 16 seconds pass. Costs 100 sun.
- Close-Range Combatant: While he can only attack zombies on the square he's on, he also has the unique ability to leap forwards to the square of the next zombie in front.
- Megaton Punch: His basic attack punches zombies so hard they fly off the lawn in most cases.
- Nigh-Invulnerable: Can't be damaged by normal means, although he is vulnerable to Wizard Zombie's transformation rays and Octo Zombie's octopi.
- One-Hit Kill: His punches will send most zombies spinning right out of the lawn. Only bosses, Arena/Penny's Pursuit minibosses, stationary zombies, Gargantuars, Zombie Hamster Ball and Zombie Medusa are immune and will take normal damage instead.
- Punny Name: Rhubarb + barbarian.
- Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: He stuns zombies that he hits as well as instantly killing them, meaning that zombies that spawn critters will not spawn any.
Levitater
- "I'm a bit different from my other tater cousins," explains Levitater. "Chief among those differences, I'd say, is that I don't explode on contact, or at all. I stick around!"
A potato who lifts the nearest zombie into the air and knocks them back (or even tosses them off the lawn) every 12 seconds. Costs 50 sun. When given Plant Food, Levitater will do this to multiple zombies at once.
- Balance Buff: In the 10.8.1 update, Levitater was given this. The most significant of these changes was its probability to levitate zombies off of the lawn entirely, being a very small 1% to a much bigger 50%.
- Mind over Matter: Has the ability to make zombies levitate.
- One-Hit Kill: It's able to throw a zombie off of the lawn entirely, but the chances of that happening are slim. In the 10.8.1 update, Levitater can do this more often.
- Punny Name: Levitate + tater.
Tomb Tangler
- "I don't know what these tombstones are made out of, but they sure make me belch out loud. Anyone dares disturb my siesta, I'll pull them down!"
A plant that can only be planted on a gravestone and will destroy said gravestone upon being planted, much like Grave Buster. Unlike Grave Buster, he sticks around (converting 80% of the grave's health to his own) and periodically belches out a fog cloud that slows zombies down and has a 10% chance to drag a them into the ground. Costs 50 sun. When given plant food, Tomb Tangler will instantly pull two randomly-selected zombies into the ground.
- Anti-Structure: Can only be planted on gravestones, but will immediately destroy them (and then act as a wall) in the process.
- Belly Mouth: Appears to have a normal mouth as well as a huge, gaping one on his "body".
- Crippling Overspecialization: He's completely useless if there are no gravestones or Tomb Raiser zombies in the level, since he can only be planted on gravestones.
- One-Hit Kill: When he drags zombies into the dirt, it's definitely this.
Vamporcini
- "Zombie blood Is Like Pizza, in that even when It's Bad, It's Good!" - Vamporcini.. probably
A defensive porcini mushroom that uses a Life Drain around it to increase its durability further, but has a cooldown. When given plant food, Vamporcini will permanently activate their Life Drain ability.
- Life Drain: Any zombies in a 3x3 area around it will get their health slowly drained and added to the Vamporcini.
- Punny Name: Vampire + porcini.
Meteor Flower
- "Out of this world molten mayhem! But first… coffee!!"
A Purpletop flower that periodically calls down meteors on the nearest zombies on the lawn, hitting the squares they're on and also leaving behind a hazardous patch of lava in place. Costs 250 sun. When given Plant Food, Meteor Flower conjures a flurry of meteor strikes that also scares away any dinosaurs on the lawn.
- Meteor-Summoning Attack: It attacks by calling down small meteors on the lawn that hit for great damage and leave damaging molten floor behind.
- Supernatural Fear Inducer: As a nod to the extinction of the dinosaurs, her Plant Food ability will immediately cause all non-charmed dinosaurs on the lawn to leave.
Chilly Pepper
- "Get up and freeze the day!! Chilly Pepper might look innocent and unassuming but deep down he's cold as ice. Compare him to Jalapeno and watch him EXPLODE!"
A chili pepper who functions similarly to Jalapeno, exploding and dealing lane-wide damage, but also lightly damages zombies in adjacent lanes. Additionally, zombies in all three lanes will be frozen and chilled in the aftermath. Costs 100 sun.
- Canon Immigrant: He previously appeared in Plants Vs Zombies Adventures and Plants vs. Zombies: Heroes before appearing in Plants vs. Zombies 2.
- An Ice Person: Essentially an ice-themed version of Jalapeno.
- Punny Name: Chilly + chili pepper.
Power Mints
In general
- Punny Name: Many of them are named after things that end with -ment, like filament, reinforcement, bombardment, etc, except the "ment" is replaced with "mint". The exceptions are Pepper-mint, Winter-mint and Spear-mint, who are each named after a kind of mint in real life.
- Smart Bomb: A number of them deal huge damage or kill several zombies on the lawn when planted.
- Status Buff: All of them boost the plants of their respective family.
- Support Party Member: Each of them boosts plants from their respective family. Downplayed in that they can also attack.
Fila-mint
- Fila-mint hovers enigmatically and electrically over the lawn, surveying his surroundings. He nods, once. It is good.
When planted, he immediately deals damage to zombies, with its effectiveness being magnified depending on how many Fila-mint Family plants are on the lawn. He can also boost Fila-mint Family plants, increasing the efficiency of their abilities. Fila-mint Family plants are Citron, Electric Blueberry, Electric Currant, Electric Peashooter, Electrici-tea, E.M.Peach, Lightning Reed, Magnifying Grass, Power Vine and Ultomato.
- Shock and Awe: Zaps all zombies on the lawn when planted and also boosts all electrical plants.
Reinforce-mint
- Reinforce-mint isn't scowling. He's just workshopping defense strategies, doing what he can to support the team. Maybe he's scowling just a little bit. Fine.
When planted, he knocks all zombies on the lawn back and boosts every Reinforce-mint Family plant on the lawn. He also activates their Plant Food abilities just before administering the boost. Reinforce-mint Family plants are Aloe, Blockoli, Chard Guard, Endurian, Gumnut, Holly Barrier, Infi-nut, Pea-nut, Primal Wall-nut, Pumpkin, Sweet Potato, Tall-nut and Wall-nut.
- Knockback: His initial effect when planted.
- Perpetual Frowner: He always seems to be scowling.
Bombard-mint
- "Explosions are fun," says Bombard-mint with an impish twinkle in her eye. "In the context of eliminating zombies, a cascade of detonations not only clears much of the board, but leaves a lovely fragrance in its wake. It smells like... victory."
When planted, she sets off a bunch of explosions all over the lawn and boosts Bombard-mint Family plants. These plants include Bombegranate, Boom Balloon Flower, Cherry Bomb, Escape Root, Explode-O-Nut, Explode-O-Vine, Grapeshot, Potato Mine, Primal Potato Mine, Strawburst and Teleportato Mine.
- Having a Blast: She sets off explosions when planted and boosts explosive plants.
Arma-mint
- "Lobbing projectiles, for me, has always been a very personal endeavor," says Arma-mint. "It's a great way for me to express myself, my identity, and my preference that zombies can be defeated in large groups."
When planted, Arma-mint launches a barrage of projectiles into the sky that rain down from above, boosting all Arma-mint Family plants on the lawn. These plants include A.K.E.E., Apple Mortar, Banana Launcher, Blastberry Vine, Cabbage-pult, Coconut Cannon, Kernel-pult, Melon-pult, Sling Pea, Stickybomb Rice and Turkey-pult.
- Death from Above: Launches a volley of projectiles that rain down from above and boosts several lobbed-shot plants.
Contain-mint
- "Go easy, there," says Contain-mint. "No need to be in such a rush all the time. Movement is totally overrated."
When planted, Contain-mint stuns every zombie on the lawn before boosting all Contain-mint Family plants. These plants include Blover, Buttercup, Dazey Chain, Draftodil, Grave Buster, Hurrikale, Magnet-shroom, Olive Pit, Sap-fling, Spring Bean, Stallia, Stunion and Tomb Tangler.
- The Paralyzer: Stuns zombies when planted.
Spear-mint
- "Slash!" Spear-mint enthuses. "Slishy-slashy-slice!" she adds, wanting to make sure she's getting her point across. She wants to be very clear on this.
When planted, Spear-mint summons several Spikerocks in the back of the lawn and then boosts all Spear-mint Family plants. These plants include Bloomerang, Bramble Bush, Cactus, Dartichoke, Heath Seeker, Homing Thistle, Laser Bean, Pokra, Spikerock and Spikeweed.
- Mook Maker: A heroic version— she summons Spikerocks when planted.
- One-Hit Polykill: Specializes in Spear-Mint family plants, which include several plants that hit multiple zombies in one go.
- Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: In her Almanac entry.
Pepper-mint
- Pepper-mint likes heat. He's down with flames, he digs on fire, he's a total madman for oxidization and ignition. If he sees you rubbing two sticks together, he'll come over and ask about it. He can't help himself.
When planted, Pepper-mint ignites several lane-wide flame trails and boosts all Pepper-mint Family plants. These plants include Fire Peashooter, Ghost Pepper, Hot Date, Hot Potato, Inferno, Jack O' Lantern, Jalapeno, Lava Guava, Meteor Flower, Pepper-pult, Pyre Vine and Snapdragon.
- Playing with Fire: He sets off lane-wide bursts of fire when planted. He also boosts fire plants.
- Pyromaniac: Downplayed, but he's a big fan of flames if his Almanac entry is any indication.
Enchant-mint
- "I just love musical theater," says Enchant-mint. Yeah, it doesn't have much to do with magic or his abilities or strategic strengths, but it's a fact. He just likes the songs.
When planted, Enchant-mint hypnotizes several zombies and boosts all Enchant-mint Family plants. These plants include Caulipower, Hocus Crocus, Hypno-shroom, Intensive Carrot, Levitater, Shrinking Violet, Witch Hazel and Zoybean Pod.
- Mook–Face Turn: Hypnotizes zombies into doing this when planted.
Winter-mint
- Winter-mint has advanced degrees in cryonics and cryogenics, is a master builder of snowmen, and subscribes to season passes at three different ski resorts. He does think it's a little chilly in here, though.
When planted, Winter-mint chills all zombies present on the lawn and boosts all Winter-mint family plants. These plants include Boingsetta, Chilly Pepper, Cold Snapdragon, Ice Bloom, Iceberg Lettuce, Iceweed, Missile Toe, Snow Pea and Winter-Melon.
- An Ice Person: He chills zombies and boosts ice plants.
Appease-mint
- Appease-mint takes great umbrage at the notion that he might back down from a fight. "Yes, my name is 'Appease-mint,' but that has more to do with my affinity towards peas than any disinclination to stand up for my beliefs. Rescind your vile calumny this instant, lest I compose a blistering letter of outrage!"
When planted, Appease-mint shoots three giant peas which split into smaller peas when they strike a target. He also boosts the following Appease-mint family plants: Bowling Bulb, Dandelion, Mega Gatling Pea, Pea Pod, Peashooter, Pea Vine, Primal Peashooter, Red Stinger, Repeater, Rotobaga, Split Pea, Starfruit, Threepeater, Torchwood and Tumbleweed.
- Edible Ammunition: Guess.
- Recursive Ammo: The giant peas he shoots each split into six normal-sized peas.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: He drops several big words in his almanac entry.
Ail-mint
- Ail-mint is quick to state that poison should not be taken internally. Or externally, for that matter. Really, just leave it alone. It's poison!
Ail-mint poisons all zombies when planted and boosts all plants from the Ail-mint family. These plants include Blooming Heart, Chili Bean, Fume-shroom, Garlic, Goo Peashooter, Imp Pear, Puff-shroom, Puffball, Spore-shroom and Vamporcini.
- Poisonous Person: Poisons zombies and boosts plants with similarly unpleasant effects.
Conceal-mint
- Conceal-mint ducks ninja-like out of the party without telling a soul. "Where's Conceal-mint?" ask the other plants. They don't know. Nobody does. Conceal-mint is just that sneaky.
When planted, Conceal-mint drags several zombies underground and boosts all Conceal-mint family plants. These plants include Dusk Lobber, Gloom Vine, Grimrose, Moonflower, Murkadamia Nut, Nightshade, Noctarine, Shadow Peashooter and Shadow-shroom.
- Buried Alive: Its primary effect besides boosting Conceal-mint family plants is doing this to zombies.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Just like all the other shadow plants.
Enforce-mint
- Enforce-mint shrinks zombies, which may seem a bit off-brand for a guy who's all about melee damage. Enforce-mint shrugs. "I don't set policy," he says.
When planted, Enforce-mint shrinks several zombies when planted, causing them to take more damage. He also boosts all Enforce-mint family plants, which includes Bonk Choy, Celery Stalker, Chomper, Guacodile, Headbutter Lettuce, Kiwibeast, Parsnip, Phat Beet, Rhubarbarian, Snap Pea, Squash, Tangle Kelp, Tiger Grass and Wasabi Whip.
- Damage-Increasing Debuff: His primary effect is doing this by shrinking zombies, much like Shrinking Violet.
- Shrink Ray: Shrinks zombies when planted.
Enlighten-mint
- Enlighten-mint wants to stress that while "enlightenment" is properly understood as "full comprehension of a situation," she herself frequently likes to ask follow-up questions just to be sure.
When planted, Enlighten-mint gives a burst of sun and boosts all Enlighten-mint family plants. These plants include Primal Sunflower, Shine Vine, Solar Sage, Solar Tomato, Sun Bean, Sun-shroom, Sunflower, Toadstool and Twin Sunflower.
- The Power of the Sun: Her main theme. She gives sun when planted and all the plants she boosts can do the same.
