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Starting Units: He's the first plant you get in most versions of Plants vs.Promoted to Playable: In Garden Warfare.Overshadowed by Awesome: Later on, you get flashier plants with better side effects, making the peashooter less useful.Also, his upgrades in the Chinese version of Plants vs. Legendary in the Sequel: At least in the second game, it is mentioned that he has become famous.Gatling Good: In the second game, his Plant Food ability.Frankenstein's Monster: His Halloween costume in the second game turns him into this.Famed in Story: Becomes this in the second game.Combine the aforementioned level-ups with the fact that Torchwood, a plant that boosts pea plants, is unlocked very early on, and you get the most powerful offensive plant in your arsenal for quite a while.
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Super Spit: Several straight-shooting Plants attack via spitting seeds or spores or spikes, most notably all the Peashooter variants.Special mention goes to Wall-Nut, Plantern, Blover, and Imitater. Punny Name: Most of the plant names involve some kind of pun.Plant Person: They at least have faces, and according to their Almanac entries, they're quite human-like in personality.No Mouth: Many plants have this design, while usually having at least a pair of eyes.Must Have Caffeine: All mushrooms need a Coffee Bean to stay awake during day levels.Long-Range Fighter: A variation most plants that shoot projectiles work at any distance, but you'll want them as far in the back as possible so they have more time to shoot at approaching zombies.The catch is, theyre nocturnal, and are only useful when its night out (unless you give them a Coffee Bean). Fungi Are Plants: Various kinds of mushrooms are among the titular "plants" that players can grow on their lawns.Elemental RockPaperScissors: Fire plants in general do not work well with ice plants in tandem.Edible Ammunition: As a good number of the shooting plants are based on edible fruit or vegetables, the attacks they fire out also tend to be fruit, vegetables, or seeds.Death Trap: Some of the plants act like this, such as Potato Mine and Tangle Kelp.Exceptions are the defensive plants (in a visual sense, anyway their ability to block advancing zombies stays the same). Critical Existence Failure: All plants' performance will stay the same even if they're at the brink of death.A few certain plants also have their own cooldown after action. Cooldown: Plants are given cooldown/recovery time after planting some plants have longer cooldown than others.Bullet Seed: Most plants (most notably all the Peashooter variants) attack by spitting or launching their seeds or spores at zombies.This trope seems to be played up in the Garden Warfare spin-off, as both the plants and zombies look more militarized. Badass Army: Especially the more powerful offensive plants.Badass Adorable: Most of the plants: beady eyes, friendly, and capable of vanquishing wave upon wave of invading undead.Anthropomorphic Food: Being plants, quite a few are fruits and vegetables.Ambiguous Gender: Several plants' genders aren't mentioned in the almanac.Abnormal Ammo: Most long-ranged plants shoot these.