Plants vs. Zombies: Difference between revisions

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

* [[And Your Reward Is Interior Decorating]]

* [[Anti Frustration Feature]]

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

** Crazy Dave also wears a metal pot on his head. Why? Because he's craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy.

* [[Bullet Seed]] - Well, technically peas, spines, fruits, and what-have-you.

* [[Car Fu]]: [[Final Boss|Dr. Zomboss]]' [[Humongous Mecha]] gains [[That One Attack]] [[Turns Red|once his health drops below half]] -- he drops a ''caravan'' onto six of your plants, [[One-Hit Kill|instantly squashing them.]]

* [[Cap]]: For anyone interested, the sunlight cap is 9990. Especially attainable in hard night survival modes! And the money cap is $999,990.

* [[Determinator]]: The zombies will ''never'' give up. Crazy Dave even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this:

{{quote| '''Crazy Dave:''' Those are some persistent zombies, dude.}}

* [[Disco Dan]]: The Dancing Zombie and his backup crew, as of the Game of the Year Edition.

* [[Doomy Dooms of Doom]]: The Doom-Shroom, which even explodes with a large [[Unsound Effect|DOOM!]]

** [[Defog of War]]: Blover blows away the fog for a short of amount of time, and Plantern clears five lanes of fog as long as it's up.

* [[Follow the Bouncing Ball]]: In the final music video. Incidentally, this bouncing ball is a brain.

* [[Frozen Face]]: Perhaps for the pun, Ice-shroom has a non-dramatic version of this. It being the reason he is a [[Perpetual Frowner]].

* [[Gainax Ending]]: Played for laughs. In the end, the Zombies give up on trying to eat your brain and call a truce to make a music video with you instead.

** You can kill weaker zombies with just Wintermelons.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: "[[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Cabbage-pult is okay with launching cabbages at zombies.]] It's what he's paid for, after all, and he's good at it. He just doesn't understand how the zombies get up on the roof in the first place."

* [[Last Stand]]: The mini-game Last Stand, where you have 5000 in resources and must spend it wisely to get to the next level.

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]

* [[Lily Pad Platform]]: the Lily Pad for levels that have swimming pools. They must be planted first before any other plant can be placed on the swimming pool.

* [[Lost Forever]]: If you update the game regularly, this happened to the [[Michael Jackson]] zombie some time in late 2009. Understandably, some fans of both MJ and PvZ refuse to update their copy for this exact reason after learning that Popcap refused to cave in to the demand of MJ's foundation to give them a cut of the game's profits and replaced the MJ zombie with the [[Disco Dan]] Zombie.

** The conveyor belt missions aren't too bad because the plants don't scroll off the end of the belt and you can keep them for when you need them. The real Luck-Based Missions are the few where you have to plant them immediately or very quickly lose them, such as "It's Raining Seeds" and "Vasebreaker".

** Also, if you're playing the Steam version, no amount of skill will help you get the "China Shop" or "Better Off Dead" achievements if the [[Random Number God|RNG]] hates you. Especially egregious for the latter, in which you have to play perfectly ''and'' be lucky.

** The digger zombie can tunnel beneath all your defenses, but once it reaches the other side of the lawn... it turns around and starts eating the plants in your back row. (Apparently it got confused while spinning like a top to emerge.) Problematic, but not as much as if it'd just go directly for the house.

** Also true for the [[Final Boss]]: why doesn't Dr. Zomboss just drop a zombie down your chimney?

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

* [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]]: Dr. Zomboss has a doctorate in Thanatology. [[The More You Know|(That's the study of death. Thanatos is Greek for death.)]]

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

* [[Never Heard That One Before]]: [[An Ice Person|Snow Pea]] gets a lot of this.

** You also unlock new mini-games, more items from Crazy Dave's shop, and the Yeti Zombie.

* [[Night of the Living Mooks]]: ''Every single enemy'' that your plants fight is a zombie. Well, except for Zomboni, who's {{spoiler|an alien that often hangs out with zombies and is frequently confused with them.}}

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

* [[Pinata Enemy]]: The {{spoiler|Zombie Yeti}}.

* [[Power Floats]]: It's more obvious in the zen garden, but the Coffee Bean floats above the soil.

* [[Power-Up Magnet]]: The Gold Magnet.

* [[Rake Take]]: You can buy a rake for your lawn that kills the first zombie that it encounters; it lasts three levels, after which you can buy a new one.

** [[Game Breaking Bug]], though a mild one: make sure the rake upgrade isn't active when you play "[[Portal (Video Game)|Portal]] [[Mortal Kombat|Combat]]". The rake spawns in a random row, and the first zombie to appear will appear in that row. "Portal Combat" won't spawn zombies in rows where they could immediately walk into a portal and appear in the back of your lawn... but the rake overrides that mercy.

** Happens literally during the [[Final Boss]] -- if his eyes glow red, you better hope you have an empty pot and an Ice-Shroom on hand...

** Doom-Shroom also has these. Not surprising, considering [[Nuke'Em|what]] [[Action Bomb|he]] [[One-Hit Kill|does]]...

* [[Shmuck Bait]]: In the help section:

{{quote|When the zombies come, just sit there and don't do anything. You win the game when the zombies get to your house.|This help section brought to you by the zombies.}}

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

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