Sunday Edition Zombie

Sunday Edition Zombie
The newspaper protects zombie, who becomes enraged when it is destroyed.
Almanac statistics
Toughness	Machined
Speed	Hungry
In-game statistics
In-game speed	Hungry, then Flighty
Health	1800 (newspaper) 490 (zombie)
Eat DPS	300, 1500 when enraged
Weakness	(ignores newspaper; only in international version) (from level 5 onwards) (also ignores newspaper) (ignores newspaper, while hiding) (prioritizes zombie)
First seen	Modern Day - Day 39
First seen (China)	Modern Day - Day 10
Code name	newspaper_veteran
Other code names	new_pvp_newspaper_veteran (Two-Player Mode)
Sunday Edition Zombie REALLY loves the comics section, which is why his rage is so all-consuming when it is torn to tatters before he's finished reading it.

Sunday Edition Zombie is a zombie encountered in Modern Day of Plants vs. Zombies 2. He is the veteran counterpart of Newspaper Zombie, with his newspaper having greater toughness and the zombie itself doing much more damage to plants.

Origins

The zombie is based on how the Sunday newspaper is usually larger. In addition, his description refers to the Sunday newspaper comics. It's usually a tradition for the newspaper comics to be larger and allow for more panels on Sundays.

Almanac entry

Sunday Edition Zombie
	TOUGHNESS Machined SPEED Hungry The newspaper protects zombie, who becomes enraged when it is destroyed. Special: become a flighty zombie when enraged Sunday Edition Zombie REALLY loves the comics section, which is why his rage is so all-consuming when it is torn to tatters before he's finished reading it.

Chinese version (China only)

周日版僵尸 报纸保护僵尸，当报纸被毁灭时，他们会被激怒。 周日版的僵尸真的很喜欢漫画，每次都要去漫画店购买大量新出漫画，他最爱漫画是僵尸忍者，航僵王，僵魂。 In English: Sunday Edition Zombie Newspapers protect zombies and they will be provoked when newspapers are destroyed The Sunday version of the zombie really likes comics, and every time he goes to the comics store to buy a lot of new comics, his favorite comics are zombie ninja, Hang Zombie king, and zombie soul.

Encountered

Plants vs. Zombies 2

• Modern Day - Days 39, 40, 43, and 44
• Arena: Explode-O-Nut's All-Out Tournament

Plants vs. Zombies 2 (Chinese version) (China only)

• Modern Day - Days 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23

Overview

The Sunday Edition Zombie absorbs 2290 damage in total. He degrades at 600, 900, 1800 (by that point, the newspaper is destroyed), and 2045 damage (where his arm is lost). He dies at 2290 damage. His attacks and running speed are quadrupled when his newspaper has been destroyed.

Strategies

Sunday Edition Zombie is essentially Newspaper Zombie but better. In Modern Day. Instant kill plants like Grimrose are the best way to get rid of him, especially if there are multiple Sunday Edition Zombies on the field, since they do enough damage to defeat the zombie and don't even have to destroy the newspaper as they ignore it. Other viable choices include Shadow-shroom, Imp Pear, Chomper or Toadstool.

Slowing them with plants such as Sap-fling or Winter Melon or freezing them with Kernel-pult, Apple Mortar, Stunion or Iceberg Lettuce can help to mitigate damage caused by him. Hurrikale, Chard Guard, and Primal Peashooter are also good as they can knock him back, giving you more time to handle him. A Blover can be played in tandem with either Chard Guard or Primal Peashooter to blow the zombie away, preferably before it starts rampaging. Explode-o-nut and Hot Date are also useful, as they deal damage when destroyed, usually just enough to kill the zombie.

If you can, hypnotize them to use their health/rage to your advantage, as these effects also don't have to get past his Newspaper.

Note: Avoid using any lobbed shot plants that do not slow or stall zombies like Cabbage-pult, Blooming Hearts, Melon-pults, A.K.E.E.s or Spore-shrooms as Sunday Edition Zombies can easily destroy them while enraged. This is because their attack speed is slow and Sunday Edition Zombies are very fast, which will cause the projectiles to miss them. Also, avoid using Bloomerang, Electric Blueberry, Nightshade or Citron as they have low attack speed.

Balance changes

Update 6.3.1

• ▼ Health decreased from 700 DPS to 490 DPS

Related achievement

	Hot Off the Presses Set a Newspaper Zombie's newspaper on fire

Gallery

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  HD Sunday Edition Zombie

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  HD poisoned Sunday Edition Zombie

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  Almanac icon

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  Sprites

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  Almanac entry

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  Almanac entry (10.5.2)

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  First degrade

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  Second degrade

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  Enraged Sunday Edition Zombie without his arm

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  Sunday Edition Zombie being enraged and running (animated)

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  Shrunken and glowing Sunday Edition Zombie

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  Dead Sunday Edition Zombie

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  Poisoned Sunday Edition Zombie

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  Poisoned enraged Sunday Edition Zombie without his arm

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  Sunday Edition Zombie on the inbox

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  Sunday Edition Zombie without his newspaper eating the player's brains

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  Sunday Edition Zombie loses his newspaper

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  Boosted Sunday Edition Zombie

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  Boosted hypnotized Sunday Edition Zombie

Chinese version (China only)

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  Warning screen

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  Almanac icon

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  Almanac entry

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Sunday Edition Zombie
Simplified Chinese	周日版僵尸
French	Zombie du dimanche
German	Sonntagsausgaben-Zombie
Italian	Zombi domenicale
Brazilian Portuguese	Zumbi de Edição Dominical
Spanish	Zombi dominical

Trivia

• There's an Egyptian Treasure Yeti on his newspaper.
• When his newspaper is rotated 180 degrees, the newspaper's front cover is really the back cover, and thus, the title is at the end.
• On his Almanac icon and when the newspaper is in its second degrade, the word "FOUND!" can be seen written in white text below (above if the newspaper is rotated 180 degrees) the image of the Egyptian Treasure Yeti. On his picture in the mail inbox, he is not holding his regular newspaper, but he is not holding Newspaper Zombie's newspaper either. Instead, he seems to be holding a unique newspaper with a smaller, black-and-white image of the Egyptian Treasure Yeti on it.
  • However, the "FOUND!" could be found in the game if he was boosted by potions in Dark Alchemy or brains thrown by Cardio Zombie.

Specific to the Chinese Version  (China only)

• Sunday Edition Zombie's inclusion was done due to Modern Day releasing after the international version started to add the world expansions.
  • Because of this, he's treated as a normal zombie in this game.
• Before version 2.2.1, his eating speed did not increase when enraged. The same applied to Newspaper Zombie.
• His Almanac entry has some parodies of three Japanese comics. Those comics are Naruto, One Piece, and Gin Tama.

See also

• Newspaper Zombie
• Newspaper

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