Screen Door Zombie (Plants vs. Zombies)

For other uses, see Screen Door Zombie (disambiguation).

Screen Door Zombie is a zombie holding a screen door for use as armor, ignoring the chilling effects of any Snow Peas, but not Winter Melons and the area damage of any torched peas hitting it. It is the seventh zombie encountered in Adventure Mode.

The screen door is useless against Fume-shrooms, Gloom-shrooms, lobber plants, Spikeweeds, Spikerocks, and projectiles that hit it from behind, as the fumes go through the door, Spikeweeds/Spikerocks attack from below, and the lobbed objects go over it. These zombies are identical in all respects to regular Zombies, with the obvious difference being the addition of a screen door. It is almost the same as the Trash Can Zombie, other than their health and speed.

Suburban Almanac entry

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Screen Door Zombie
His screen door is an effective shield. Toughness: low Screen Door Toughness: high Weakness: fume-shroom and magnet-shroom He got his screen door from the last inexpertly defended home he visited, after he ATE THE HOMEOWNER'S BRAINS.

 (China only)  (Archived content)

门牌僵尸
他手里的门是有效的盾牌。 强度： 低 门强度：高 弱点：大喷菇和磁力菇 门牌僵尸上次拜访过的房主防守并不专业，在吃掉那房主的脑子后拆走了那扇门。

In English: Door Zombie The door he has in his hands is an effective shield. Toughness: low Door Toughness: high Weakness: fume-shroom and magnet-shroom The last house owner Door Zombie visited did not have a good defense, after eating the house owner's brain he took the door with him.

Overview

Animated Screen Door Zombie

The Screen Door Zombie absorbs 1370 damage and its appearance changes upon absorbing 380, 740, 1100 (when the screen door is destroyed), 1190 (when his arm falls off), 1280 (when his head falls off) before dying at 1370 damage. If it is killed by attacks that ignore the screen door, the zombie does not lose its arm and only degrates when defeated.

Fume-shrooms, lobber plants, Spikeweed, Spikerocks, or the backwards projectiles of a Split Pea or Starfruit can kill these zombies in 270 damage.

In Wall-nut Bowling 2, Screen Door Zombies are even stronger, as the Screen Door takes three hits to destroy and the zombie itself takes one, which usually only occurs if the Wall-Nut strikes it from the side after hitting another zombie.

Encounters

• Adventure Mode: 1-7 (Android TV version), 1-9 (Android TV version), 1-10 (Android TV version), 2-3 and Android TV version, 2-4 and Android TV version, 2-7 and Android TV version, 2-9, 2-10 and Android TV version, 3-3 (Android TV version), 3-7 (Android TV version), 5-10
• Mini-games: It's Raining Seeds, Beghouled, Beghouled Twist, Last Stand, Wall-nut Bowling 2, Dr. Zomboss's Revenge, Buttered Popcorn, Heat Wave, Big Time, High Gravity
• Puzzle Mode: I, Zombie Too, Last Stand: Night, Last Stand: Fog, Last Stand Endless
• Survival Mode: all levels
• Co-op Mode: all levels except Co-op Day and Co-op Bowling
• Others: Versus Mode

Strategies

Magnet-shroom can be used to take away the screen door, which constantly happens in Beghouled and Beghouled Twist, turning the Screen Door Zombie into a normal, weaker Zombie. Fume-shroom and Gloom-shroom fire fumes that go through the door's mesh and damage the zombie directly (it also damages the door at the same time). Lobber plants simply throw their projectiles over the shield, once again, making it useless. It is a good idea to use Cabbage-pults, Kernel-pults, Melon-pults, and Winter Melons in hard levels to negate the door. The screen door also negates the splash effect of flaming peas. Instant kills work normally on Screen Door Zombie. The player can plant two or three Spikeweeds side-by-side or one Spikerock (and maybe another Spikeweed) to kill it, as they ignore shields by attacking from below. The player can use plants that fire backwards, such as the behind of a Split Pea or a Gloom-shroom, because the door is on the opposite side of them. This makes killing this zombie easier.

Screen Door Zombie eating a Peashooter in I, Zombie Too

Wall-nut Bowling 2 mini-game

Screen Door Zombie is the hardest zombie to kill as he can take four direct hits to kill, the first three of which will merely destroy the door. If a Wall-nut hits a Screen Door Zombie from the side after ricocheting off of another zombie, or the edge of the screen, it will kill the zombie immediately, as it goes past the screen door and hits the zombie directly. Therefore, try to use this technique to hit them. Giant Wall-nut and Explode-o-nut can also kill the Screen Door Zombie in one hit, as Giant Wall-nuts will crush all zombies, and Explode-o-nut's explosion is enough to eliminate hordes of them in a single well-timed hit.

I, Zombie Too

Screen Door Zombies cost 100 sun in I, Zombie Too. They should be your primary choice against rows with Snow Pea and another Peashooter. Keep in mind not to place them in rows with two Spikeweeds, as the Screen Door doesn't protect against them. They only appear in I, Zombie Too.

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In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Screen Door Zombie
German	Fliegengitter-Zombie
Spanish	Zombi portero	"Doorkeeper zombie"
French	Zombie moustiquaire
Italian	Zombi con porta
Japanese	スクリーンドアゾンビ Sukurīndoa Zonbi
Korean	스크린도어 좀비 Seukeulindo-eo Kombi
Dutch	Hordeurzombie
Brazilian Portuguese	Zumbi com Tela
Russian	Зомби с Дверью
Simplified Chinese	铁网门僵尸 Tiěwǎngmén Jiāngshī 门牌僵尸 Ménpái Jiāngshī
Traditional Chinese	鐵網門殭屍 Tiěwǎngmén Jiāngshī

Trivia

• If the player enters the code "dance," Screen Door Zombie will not dance regardless, even after it degrades into a normal zombie.
• If killed, Screen Door Zombie does not lose its arm, unless the screen door is taken by a Magnet-shroom or it is destroyed by the player's plants.
• Screen Door Zombies cannot be hit by splash damage from Fire Peas created by Torchwood.
• The overall toughness of the screen door is the same as the Buckethead Zombie's bucket.
• Similar to other shield items, the Screen Door will always appear at its final degrade if the zombie dies to normal attacks regardless of how much damage it took.
• When a Screen Door Zombie puts down its door to eat, its door gets put partially in front of the plant it is eating; however, this does not allow plants to bypass its screen door.
• Screen Door Zombie, Conehead Zombie, Trash Can Zombie, and Buckethead Zombie are the only zombies in this game that can degrade to a normal Zombie, although Trash Can Zombie's speed will remain slower than that of a normal Zombie.
• Screen Door Zombie is the only zombie whose Suburban Almanac entry states that had previously eaten someone's brains.
• Screen Door Zombie appears in Zombies on Your Lawn, saying "I have a screen-door shield."
• In Wall-nut Bowling, Screen Door Zombie is the only zombie that takes more than one hit (four, to be exact) from the front, but can be killed with a single rebound hit.
  • For some reason, Screen Door Zombie takes four hits while Buckethead Zombie takes three, despite having the same health value (1370 damage).
  • It is odd that Screen Door Zombie dies from a reflected Wall-nut in Wall-nut Bowling 2 if the nut hits the front of the door, although Wall-nut may have more power when reflected than going straight the first time to kill the screen door and the zombie.
• In Level 5-10 and Dr. Zomboss's Revenge, his screen door shield is completely useless, since the offensive plants given are Cabbage-pults, Kernel-pults, and Melon-pults, which all ignore the screen door and attack the zombie directly. In addition, a Jalapeno can take it down directly. The same also goes for the Ladder Zombie and Newspaper Zombie if hit by Cabbage-pult and Kernel-pult without Melon-pult (PvZ) on the same lane as both zombies as the first two plants mentioned before will only hit the zombie without damaging their shield.
• In I, Zombie, Screen Door Zombie only appears in I, Zombie Too.
• During December, in the iOS versions, it sometimes wears a Santa hat.
• If the Player uses the I, Zombie hack to spawn the Screen Door Zombie in the pool, he will wear a ducky tube, implying it was a planned feature but got scrapped. This is likely due to how plants that are usually effective against it are usually not avaliable in the first playthrough (instants, Chomper and Tangle Kelp are the only theoretical options in water, as catapults and the Coffee Bean needed for Fume-Shroom is unlocked on later Roof levels).
  • However, in Plants vs. Zombies: Journey to the West, Ducky Tube Screen Door Zombies appear in some Dave's Backyard Garden and War of the Spider Woman levels, though only on the seed choosing menu, and they still make no appearences as an actual opponent.

See also

• Ladder Zombie
• Screen door
• Fume-shroom
• Gloom-shroom

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