Last Stand (Plants vs. Zombies)

For other uses, see Last Stand (disambiguation).

“	Sunny days are over! Try to build a strong defense with a limited amount of sun and hope it will stand up to the incoming zombie attack.	”
—Description of Last Stand in Crazy Dave's Twiddydinkies

Last Stand
Game	Plants vs. Zombies
Statistics
Location	Pool
Type	Mini-games
Flags	Five
Plants	Choice except sun-producing or free plants
Zombies
Rewards
First time	A trophy
Replaying	A money bag
Previous	<<<
Next	>>>

Last Stand is the sixteenth mini-game in Plants vs. Zombies, Plants vs. Zombies: Journey to the West, and Plants vs. Zombies: Great Wall Edition and is unlocked after beating Adventure Mode and completing 13 other mini-games. It consists of a series of five flags, located in the Pool area, which the player must survive in order to win. However, unlike the Survival Mode, the player is not allowed to switch seeds between a wave of attack. Additionally, The player cannot plant any sun-producing plants, Puff-shrooms or Sea-shrooms. However, they do get to spend 5000 sun in the beginning of the mini-game and as the player progresses, they will earn extra sun (250 sun) after each wave.

Origins

The mini-game may be named after many games or the actual term "last stand," which refers to when a small force holds its position when attacked by a much larger force, hoping to make a significant difference despite the disparity in power.

Icons

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  Current iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android icon

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  Old iPhone icon

Overview

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Gold farming in Last Stand

In the start, the player gets 5000 sun and can choose any plant except sun-producing plants and free plants. These plants include Sun-shrooms, Sunflowers, Twin Sunflowers, Puff-shrooms, Sea-shrooms, and the Imitater version of any of them. After the player defeats the last zombie for the flag, that last zombie will drop 250 sun. This is the only time they get sun after starting the first onslaught.

Last Stand is frequently used for gold farming, with as many Marigolds as possible, Gold Magnets collecting the coins automatically for the player and Gloom-shrooms for attacking. This will get them about 5000 to 9000 coins, depending what build they use. For more info, see Money guide.

Strategies

Main article: Last Stand (PvZ)/Strategies

Related achievements

	Sol Invictus Complete Last Stand with 2000 sun remaining.

	Beyond the Grave Beat all the Mini-games.

	Attention Deficit Earn a trophy in each Mini-game.

Gallery

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Last Stand
Simplified Chinese	坚不可摧
Traditional Chinese	堅不可摧
Dutch	Het laatste gevecht
French	Dernier rempart
German	Das letzte Gefecht
Italian	Resistenza estrema
Japanese	ラストスタンド
Spanish	El último batallón	It translates to "The last battalion"

Trivia

• If the player attempts to plant instant usage plants on their lawn before the onslaught, they will be used instantly even if there are no zombies, which will waste the sun.
• It is the mini-game with the most number of flags (excluding ones with unlimited flags), with 5 in total.
• It is the only mini-game where the word "Final Wave" does not appear on the last huge wave (or the final wave).
• The Nintendo DS version is the only version to share icons of the Last Stand mini-game with the PC version. The others are either a degraded Wall-nut or plants set up like Column Like You See 'Em
• Plants do not have to recharge before the player starts an onslaught.
• Ladder Zombies, Jack-in-the-Box Zombies and Dolphin Rider Zombies only appear in each huge wave.
• It is the first game where the player is restricted from selecting certain plants. The second is Versus Mode.
• In the newer iPhone and Android versions, the icon for this mini-game has changed to a second degrade Wall-nut; the previous picture is now used for Column Like You See 'Em. The iPad versions used these icons from the start.
• Unlike the Puzzle Mode counterpart in iOS or Android versions of the game, they have been used a faded Explode-o-nut icon instead of a mallet icon.
• The player will not get a refund of sun if they shovel/dig a plant that is planted during setup.
• The old iPhone icon of this mini-game is similar to Column Like You See 'Em's icon.
• Attempting to hack the game to get the restricted plants will cause it to crash.
• An Arcade Plants vs. Zombies game manufacture by Sega Arcade has the same name.
• When a zombie reaches the house, the losing dialog box says "You survived for (number of flags completed) flags!!", with the cutscene "THE ZOMBIES ATE YOUR BRAINS!" is not shown but instead the dialog box appears immediately and due to this, only the game over music plays.
  • In iOS and Android versions, the dialog box header says "GAME OVER", while on console, DS, and PC versions, the name of the mini-game is instead used (Last Stand).
    • The reason why the name of the mini-game is used on console, DS, and PC versions as the dialog box header instead of the generic "GAME OVER" text is because on Lawnstrings.txt, the text says "[LAST_STAND_DEATH_MESSAGE]: You survived for {FLAGS}!!", with [LAST_STAND_DEATH_MESSAGE] part is programmed to display the mini-game name (Last Stand) as the header.
  • This can also happen in its puzzle mode counterpart and Vasebreaker Endless.
  • This is one of the only two mini-games where a different losing dialog box is shown as well as only the game over music plays when losing, the other being Zombiquarium.
  • Due to the game over music being played when the dialog box appears, it is possible to skip the music by exiting the game over screen through restarting (Try Again) or exit the level (Main Menu/Menu/Quit (depending on the version)) while the music plays.

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