
Plants vs. Zombies 2: Alternate UniverZ is a mod founded by ItsPForPea and KF4, and developed by Poss and co., which is a different take on Plants vs. Zombies 2, where it is casual-aimed with a slow-paced gameplay. The mod, while retained most features from vanilla game, also introduced custom contents and ones from the Chinese version. The mod also feature extra contents for players to play, such as bonus challenges and seasonal quests.
Tropes featured in Plants vs. Zombies 2: Alternate UniverZ:
- Alternate Universe: As the title suggests, the events of the mod are treated as taking place in an one of the "main timeline".
- Aquatic Mook: The Big Wave Beach zombies, alongside the Tiki Tripper, Sea Spill Zombie, and Drowned Zombies, due to them originating from Big Wave Beach.
- Airborne Mooks: The mod features numerous flying zombies, both returning ones from vanilla PvZ2 and introduced in AltVerz. The Assault Dove Zombie and Wannabe Gigantacus aren't really classified as ones though, due to them not being coded after flying zombies.
- Big Bad: Dr. Zomboss, again, being the orchestrator of every attacks within this mod.
- Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: Alongside the Yeti, the Sasquatch Imp in Frostbite Caves, serving as a reskin of Imp Dragon Zombie.
- Disco Dan: The Wannabe Basics wear the outfit resembling Electric Boogaloo's, a Disco Zombie-themed Zombie Hero.
- Draw Aggro: The Balloon Magician Zombie, who spawns Magic Balloons that can aid his defenses, passively distracts plants for his mates to advance.
- Dual Boss: The Gunpowder Devil and the Blade Wielding Menace are fought together in the same level.
- Elite Mooks: The Supreme Ra, Arch-Magician, and Warlock Zombie as Mini-bosses. They are bigger than an average zombie and harness more abilities.
- Gone Horribly Right: The Remedy of Love event has Penny try to find out what love is herself by installing applications that are romance-related. Later in the story, the now lovestruck Penny chases Dave around the house, forcing him to find a solution to turn Penny back to normal.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: Reanimator zombie is not immune to the effects Hypno-Shroom and will begin fighting for your side. Upon death, however, he drops the same grave as he always does, sending Plagued Peasants after your defenses.
- Land Mine Goes "Click!": Minelayer Zombies in the Crimson Front drive a mine-laying vehicle that places down landmines. Upon death, it also drops one last landmine. Any plant placed on a landmine sets it off, causing huge damage that will one-shot non-defensive plants, but defensive plants can survive it.
- Mask of Power: The Tiki Tripper Zombie's mask can help him regrow after being defeated after colliding with a plant.
- Mook Maker: Played with by Reanimator. While he is alive, he doesn't do much beyond walking forward at higher speed than most zombies. Upon dying, however, he spawns a grave on whatever tile he was standing on, instantly killing whatever plant was on that tile. After a short while, this grave will spit out Plagued Peasants until it is either destroyed or self-destructs, spawning Plagued Peasants that inhabit nearby lanes.
- Musical Nod: "CASHEWPEA" is a Pop Jam-style rearrangement of "Watery Graves" from Plants vs. Zombies 1.
- Non-Action Big Bad: Dr. Zomboss usually writes notes and indirectly send his minions to attack the homeowner rather than facing them directly. Subverted in Heroic Showdown, where he fights them with his mech Zombot Royal Flusher.
- Level in Boss Clothing: As AltverZ aims to achieve a style akin to the first game, the mod almost entirely forgoes traditional boss fights in favor of "extreme attacks" at the end of every world. The only aversions are in Summer Splashdown, Birthday Bashers, Heroic Showdown, and Lunar Zoo Year.
- Obligatory Swearing:
- The Springscapade's eighth level has the description "shit's gone wild". This description also appeared for April Fools' Pinata Parties.
- Amber Block's description referred to the players who interrupted his sleep as "assholes".
- Cuberry's Precision F-Strike in one of its Brutal Trials as its Villainous Breakdown.
- Plague Doctor: The Reanimator Zombie, who fits in this due to his visual appearance of one.
- Poisoned Weapon: The Sea Spill Zombie with her can that can create a 3x3 gas cloud that can damage plants. Same goes for the Love Spreader Zombie with her plus-shaped gas cloud that can damage both plants and zombies.
- Shout-Out: The "8-Bit Loss" theme is an arrangement of "Determination" from Undertale.
- Stable Time Loop
- At some point in Far Future, Penny overheats due to an overabundance of Crazy Daves. Crazy Dave, not knowing this yet, uses a time machine he found near the toilet to go back in time to figure out what happened. In doing so, he makes the mistake of speaking to the player and Penny, and though he tries to make a swift exit, he was present for just long enough for the past Crazy Dave to arrive, causing Penny to overheat.
- In Neon Mixtape Tour, Crazy Dave recognizes a poster and laments missing the concert it advertised. However, he remembers arriving to a field full of "mutated plants and dead bodies," and a "crazy guy talking to [him]," before said guy entered his RV and vanished, inspiring young Dave to achieve time travel. Revisiting the scene in time, Crazy Dave finds it necessary to act out the other half of this exchange, to Penny's irritation, before she overheats trying to comprehend the situation.
- Turns Red: When either Gunpowder Devil or Blade Wielding Menace is defeated during their shared battle, the survivor of the two will heal some health and become more ruthless in his attacks.
- Weather of War: The main gimmick of the Crimson Front world is the unnatural weather that occurs, shown by two radio systems at the bottom. The left one shows the temperature, where hot weather will give you a boost of extra sun, while cold weather causes destructible ice blocks to form on the lawn, which, when broken, leave behind an ice shard that can be planted on and acts like an Iceberg Lettuce. The right one shows the weather conditions, where windy weather speeds up zombies entering the lawn, while stormy weather causes lightning bolts to strike the lawn, leaving charged tiles that speed up or increase the health of zombies walking over or near them.
