Red Stinger

Red Stinger is a plant in Plants vs. Zombies 2. It's the first plant obtained in Lost City after beating Day 1. It was first revealed in the trailer for Lost City Part 1, and then more information was released with the Lost City Part 1 Dev Diary.

When planted on the first three columns to the left, Red Stinger will fire two seeds at a time, but have the same health as a regular Plant. If the Red Stinger is located in the next three columns to the right, it will be more defensive, but will fire just one petal. If it is placed on the last three columns on the right, it will be a defensive plant, but it will not be able to attack. Each petal does 1.5 normal damage shots killing a basic zombie with 7 petals.

Red Stinger is based on the Etlingera elatior, known as a torch ginger.

Almanac entry
Sun cost: 150

DAMAGE: Moderate RANGE: Straight RECHARGE: Fast

Red Stingers fire shots at full force when close to home, and become more defensive further from it.

Flexibility is of key importance to Red Stinger. "I do stretching exercises every morning," he says. "It's important to stay physically and mentally nimble."

Plant Food upgrade
When given Plant Food, Red Stinger fires a focused laser beam that pierces through all zombies in its lane that deals 34.5 Normal Damage Shots. It also slows them down.



Trivia

 * Red Stinger and Snapdragon both deal 1.5 normal damage shots each projectile/attack.
 * Even though it is called Red Stinger, it does not seem to sting anything.
 * Red Stinger could be a pun on "red ginger", which is an alternative name of torch ginger, the plant Red Stinger is based on.
 * It has the same idle animation as Dandelion.
 * Red Stinger, Scaredy-shroom, Shamrock, and Shamrockstar are the only plants that can hide.
 * Although it is a defensive plant when placed on the right side of the lawn, it cannot be healed by Wall-nut First Aid.
 * Red Stinger is the only plant with four different functions, including its Plant Food effect. Ghost Pepper, Guacodile and Lava Guava, the next three plants, have "just" three functions.
 * It is the only plant that has three different roles depending on its location of the lawn.
 * Despite playing having three different stances, it only displays one Plant Food effect no matter in which column it is planted.
 * Red Stinger during its Plant Food effect, Iceberg Lettuce in Frostbite Caves, Snow Pea, Winter Melon, Sap-fling, and Hurrikale are the only plants that can slow down zombies.
 * One of its costumes is a reference to Peter Pan.