Newspaper Zombie

The Newspaper Zombie is a low-health zombie reading a newspaper, which appears to be an elderly person with glasses and heart-patterned boxers. When your plants destroy the newspaper, it pauses, then quickly charges forward at your plants in a rage. Fume-shrooms and Gloom-shrooms damage both the zombie and the newspaper at the same time. It is first encountered in Adventure Mode level 2-1. His eyes will grow red after he loses his newspaper and he will not give up the newspaper when he eats.

Overview
Zombie absorbs 10 normal damage shots and the newspaper absorbs 8 normal damage shots. Zombie's appearance changes upon 5 normal damage shots and dies upon 10 normal damage shots, while newspaper's appearance changes upon 2, 4, and 6 normal damage shots and is destroyed upon 8 normal damage shots.

Strategy
The newspaper is useless against the lobbed-shot plants, instants, the Fume-shroom, and the Gloom-shroom. In Wall-nut Bowling and Wall-nut Bowling 2, the zombie loses the newspaper after being hit by one Wall-nut, and dies after a second hit, like the Conehead Zombie. The Newspaper Zombie pauses and charges very quickly towards the end of the row after your plants destroy the newspaper, so you will need to be fast in order to kill it. The Snow Pea, Winter Melon, or Ice-shroom are effective for this, as they can slow its movement, leaving plenty of time to kill it.

Trivia

 * When an enraged Newspaper Zombie bites a Garlic, it will, like some zombies, look and sound disgustedSpecial_pages.png and move on to the next lane. However, its eyes turn back to white while it does this.
 * A hypnotized Newspaper Zombie will die quickly when it encounters other zombies, as the newspaper cannot protect it from them.
 * When you observe his newspaper, there is a zombie head printed below the 'ZOMBIE' text.
 * The Newspaper Zombie's glasses are available in the Xbox Live Marketplace for 80 Microsoft Points.
 * The Newspaper Zombie is reading the newspaper upside-down.
 * It is possible that the Zombie had forgotten that his newspaper is upside-down, like the Buckethead Zombie forgot that he had a Bucket.


 * The Newspaper Zombie is the only zombie that has red eyes besides the Giga-gargantuar.
 * A Newspaper Zombie is shown standing in place the paused screen
 * The Newspaper Zombie is one of the five zombies with eyewear (the others being Dancing Zombie, Snorkel Zombie, Zombie Bobsled Team, and Pogo Zombie) and is one of the three zombies with glasses (the others being Dancing Zombie and Pogo Zombie).
 * It is the only zombie that goes from slow to fast instead of fast to slow unlike other zombies such as the Pole Vaulting Zombie.
 * When the Newspaper Zombie is killed by a catapult plant and its newspaper is bypassed its head comes off and look's exactly like a normal zombie head.
 * The Newspaper Zombie becomes enraged because he wasn't able to finish the daily Sodoku puzzle.