Football Zombie

For other uses, see Football Zombie (disambiguation).

For the similar zombie, see All-Star Zombie.

Football Zombie
Football Zombie makes the big plays.
Almanac statistics
Toughness	Very high
Speed	Fast
Weakness
In-game statistics
Damage	1670
Sun cost	175
Brain cost	150
Weakness	(Devours him instantly) (Hypnotizes him) (Can steal his football helmet)
First seen	Level 2-6
Football Zombie gives 110 percent whenever he's on the field. He's a team player who delivers both offensively and defensively. He has no idea what a football is. Marshal Zombie is very humble, he does not refer himself as a general. Before each assault, he is always well-prepared, but he still doesn't understand how he is still being beaten up badly.

Football Zombie is a zombie which first appeared in Plants vs. Zombies, Plants vs. Zombies: Journey to the West and Plants vs. Zombies: Great Wall Edition. Football Zombie first appears in Level 2-6, and he is the eighth zombie encountered in Adventure Mode.

Football Zombie, while just as durable as most other weaker varieties, wears a helmet that makes him even stronger than a Buckethead Zombie. There is also a Giga version that is only found in the Plants vs. Zombies Web Version which absorbs even more damage. He also appears taller than a average basic zombie.

Origins

He is based on an American football player, a person who plays American football, a sport played by 2 teams of 11 players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

Suburban Almanac entry

Football Zombie
Football Zombie makes the big plays. Toughness: very high Speed: fast Weakness: magnet-shroom Football Zombie gives 110 percent whenever he's on the field. He's a team player who delivers both offensively and defensively. He has no idea what a football is.

 (China only)  (Archived content)

元帅僵尸
全身包裹铠甲的僵尸 强度： 很高 速度： 快 元帅僵尸是很谦虚的，他不会自称将军，每次冲锋前，都会做足准备，他只是不明白为什么还总是被打的 [sic] 很惨。

In English: Marshal Zombie Zombie covered in armor Toughness: very high Speed: fast Marshal Zombie is very humble, he does not refer himself as a general. Before each assault, he is always well-prepared, but he still doesn't understand how he is still being beaten up badly.

Overview

Football Zombie absorbs 1600 damage, and its appearance changes upon absorbing 480, 940, 1400 (at this point, the football helmet is destroyed), and 1535 damage before dying at 1670 damage.

Encounters

• Adventure Mode: 2-6, 2-7, 2-10, 3-2, 3-5, 4-2, 4-5, 5-4, 5-10
• Mini-games: It's Raining Seeds, Beghouled, Beghouled Twist, Big Trouble Little Zombie, Portal Combat, Column Like You See 'Em, Last Stand, Dr. Zomboss's Revenge, Buttered Popcorn, Heavy Weapon, BOMB All Together!, Zombie Trap, Sunny Day, Big Time
• Puzzle Mode: Chain Reaction, M is for Metal, Scary Potter, I, Zombie (level), All your brainz r belong to us, I, Zombie Endless, all Last Stand (Puzzle Mode) levels except Last Stand: Fog
• Survival Mode: all levels
• Co-op Mode: all levels except Co-op Day and Co-op Bowling
• Others: Versus Mode

Strategies

Adventure Mode and Survival Mode

The player obtains the Hypno-shroom after beating Level 2-5, so they can try to hypnotize the Football Zombie to make the level easier when instant kills are not enough, and the Football Zombie is just as effective for the player as against them.

The Suburban Almanac also advises the use of a Magnet-shroom, which removes his helmet, making him no different than a faster Zombie. Otherwise, this zombie is very dangerous, being fast and having very high health, so tons of firepower will have to be piled onto him in order to defeat him with brute force. He's not the biggest threat, but never underestimate what he could do.

The use of heavy damage plants, such as Melon-pult or movement restricting plants, such as Snow Pea, Kernel-pult, and Winter Melon, are other options. If these options are unavailable, use an instant kill such as Squash. Spikeweed and Spikerock can heavily damage the zombie as he approaches the player's plants, though the two are better when in front of a Wall-nut, Tall-nut or a Pumpkin to stall him while being damaged. Also, Gatling Pea is useful to weaken their helmets quickly once the player buys them. Using Gatling Pea is better when combined with Torchwood.

Football Zombie also has a larger than usual hitbox, which means he can trigger an armed Potato Mine in a Pumpkin. This can either be a blessing or a curse, as while it allows the Football Zombie to be easily eliminated, it can cause the Potato Mine to miss other zombies.

I, Zombie

Deploy this zombie when very large amounts of damage needs to be absorbed (sometimes, it may be more efficient to use a Ladder Zombie instead if there is a Snow Pea to avoid its slowing effects. Magnet-Shrooms are to be avoided per usual.

Giga-Football Zombie

Main article: Giga-Football Zombie

Giga-Football Zombie

Giga-Football Zombie is a black and white Football Zombie that is only seen in the online versions of Survival Mode and Vasebreaker. Giga-Football Zombie is identical to the original Football Zombie but with the health of a Gargantuar, and serves as their effective replacement as Gargantuars were absent in online versions.

Gallery

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Football Zombie
Simplified Chinese	橄榄球僵尸 元帅僵尸 in Plants vs. Zombies: Great Wall Edition
Traditional Chinese	橄欖球殭屍
Dutch	Footballzombie
French	Zombie quaterback
German	Football-Zombie
Italian	Zombi rugbista
Japanese	フットボールゾンビ
Russian	Зомби-Футболист
Spanish	Zombi deportista	"Sportsman zombie"

Trivia

• In Zombies On Your Lawn, the Football Zombie states that he used to play football, contrary to his almanac description which states that he does not know what a football is.
  • However, as the first part of the description implies that he used to play the sport, he might be only unable to recognize a football.
• Most zombies lose their left arm when they take enough damage. The Football Zombie loses his right arm instead (unless he has eaten a Hypno-shroom, which mirrors the zombie's sprite).
  • Football Zombie, Dancing Zombie (when moonwalking), Zombie Yeti, and the hypnotized zombies (excluding Football Zombie) are the only zombies in Plants vs. Zombies that lose their right arm before death.
• If a Football Zombie chews on a Garlic, he will go to another lane without stopping or making a disgusted face.
• Football Zombie's helmet is available in the Xbox Live Marketplace for 160 Microsoft Points.
• Football Zombie himself has the same health as a regular zombie (equivalent to 10 normal damage shots); the only reason why his toughness is so high is because of his helmet absorbs seventy. Because of this, Football Zombie's hit points are on par with an Imp, despite him being much bigger than the Imp, and he has less hit points than a Pole Vaulting Zombie or Ladder Zombie (seventeen hit points each).
• If a Football Zombie is hit by butter while running, he may get paralyzed in mid-air with both of his legs above the ground. This may also happen if he is frozen by an Ice-shroom. This happens due to him being technically on the ground at all times.
  • Football Zombie is the only zombie that can be frozen in mid-air. Balloon Zombies and Pogo Zombies can be slowed, but cannot be frozen while they still have their balloon and pogo stick, respectively.
  • Spikeweed and Spikerock can still damage Football Zombie when he is in mid-air, if he happens to be above them.
• Football Zombie, Giga-Football Zombie, Zombie Bobsled Team, Balloon Zombie, Dancing Zombie, Backup Dancers, and Imp are the only zombies that fall backward when they die.
• Football Zombie has the second toughest headwear, the toughest being Giga-Football Zombie's headwear.
• He is one of the fastest headwear zombies, with the other being Digger Zombie while he is underground.
• In the Nintendo DS version of the game, when a Football Zombie loses its arm, instead of showing his arm falling off, the game shows the arm of an ordinary Zombie falling off.
• The football helmet protects Football Zombie from projectiles and some plants like Spikeweed even though they mostly hit him in the other body parts except for lobber plants.
  • This applies to any other headwear zombies.
• Football Zombie (with his helmet) makes the same sound when hit as Conehead Zombie and Digger Zombie.
• Football Zombie is one of three zombies to have facepaint, the others being Gatling Pea Zombie and Giga-Football Zombie. All of these characters have their facepaint under their eyes.
• Football Zombie is by far the most powerful zombie appearing in the first wave, as seen in Column Like You See 'Em (not including Survival: Endless, which can spawn Giga-gargantuars).
• In the Nintendo DS version of the game, Football Zombie eats and runs faster.
• Due to the Football Zombie not appearing in the web version when hovering over the Giga-Football Zombie it will instead be mislabelled as a normal Football Zombie.
• On the I, Zombie seed packet for this zombie, his head is bigger than it should be.
• Imp, Newspaper Zombie (after the newspaper is destroyed), Football Zombie, and Giga-Football Zombie are the only zombies that can look straight at the player's house.
• Many promotional images for the game show the Football Zombie as having a piece of dirt stuck in the mouth guard of his helmet.
• In the game, Football Zombie's eyes are red and he has black makeup on his face while in the artwork which is on promotional images, his eyes are normal and he does not have the eye black makeup on his face.
• There is a glitch that when the Football Zombie is hypnotized, the dirt kicks in front of the cleats rather than behind.
• A rare glitch exists in the DS version when Football Zombie eats a Hypno-shroom, he can run infinitely in one place until he dies. This has a higher chance of happening on Survival Mode when lag occurs.
• For some reason the Football Zombie's eyes appear slightly red tinted, though not as red as a Giga-gargantuar's eyes. This red tint never appears again in any of this zombies subsequent appearances with new art including artwork from this game.
• He is the first zombie to not have a twisted leg. This trait is shared with the original Dancing Zombie, Balloon Zombie, Pogo Zombie (only with pogo stick), Zombie Yeti, Bungee Zombie, Gargantuar, and Imp

See also

• Giga-Football Zombie
• Football helmet
• Zombies
• Mecha-Football Zombie
• All-Star Zombie

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