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.
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.
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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), and 1235 damage (where its arm 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.
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.
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 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.
Gallery
Plants vs. Zombies Wiki has a gallery for Screen Door Zombie.
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.
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).