Zombie King

Zombie King is the tenth zombie in Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time that appears in Dark Ages. As a king of the zombie army, its main role is to provide support and boost morale of its Peasant Zombies. The Zombie King will periodically boost a nearby Peasant Zombie's toughness, transforming it into a Knight Zombie. It doesn't move, rather, an Announcer Imp will appear on a tile in the first row, blow a horn, and the Zombie King will crush the Announcer Imp and remain on that tile until defeated.

Almanac Entry
TOUGHNESS:  Dense

Grants knight helms to nearby peasant zombies.

As Shakespeare once wrote, "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." And Zombie King couldn't agree more. It is incredibly difficult to get a good night's sleep with a crown on your head. That thing is all kinds of uncomfortable.

Appearances
Dark Ages: Night 16, 17 ,18 ,19 and Arthur's Challenge.

Overview
Zombie King absorbs 50 normal damage shots and its appearance changes at 18 normal damage shots before dying at 50 normal damage shots.

Strategies
When you see this zombie on the lawn, kill all Peasant Zombies quickly, because it will slowly transform all the zombies nearby into Knight Zombies, which absorb a lot of damage. Though it doesn't move, close-range plants like Snapdragon, Bonk Choy aren't useful, zombies will quickly overwhelm them. The best strategy to deal it is Magnet-shroom, because it can attract any knight helms or bucketheads and is fast. That means if Zombie King has just granted a knight helm, Magnet-shroom will attract it immediately, making it become Zombie King's weakness. Put Spikerocks the rightmost edge of the column but to be safer, double the Spikerocks to slow down upgraded Peasant Zombies. Brute force from your plants will also work if you have enough fire-power.

Trivia

 * It is the only zombie who does not have its speed listed on its Almanac Entry.
 * This is because the Zombie King cannot move.
 * However, it moves exactly like the Imp Cannon.
 * Strangely enough, Imp Cannon has its speed listed. Most likely this is how fast it shoots.
 * It is the second zombie who provides support with Dr. Zomboss being the first one.
 * Dr. Zomboss' way of providing support is that he will compress all zombies that he summoned in one square with the zombie with a least toughness or so will be the leading one. This provides him enough time to evade or to charge forward.
 * William Shakespeare's passage "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" is a reference to the first scene of the third act of Henry IV.
 * It only implies that King Henry IV should have not seized the throne from Richard II and had him murdered.
 * He also slightly resembles King Henry IV.
 * If you look closely you can see it is crushing another zombie.
 * It is the Announcer Imp.
 * The Announcer Imp present in the Dark Ages trailers. He holds two parts of a coconut and makes a galloping horse sound to pretend that the Knight Zombie was riding a horse. Then they would stop by and visit the Jester Zombie and the Imp Monk Zombies.
 * This is likely a reference to the British comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
 * The Zombie King in its Almanac Picture is seen with a scepter.
 * It uses the scepter to grant zombies knight helms.
 * It can upgrade Coneheads and Bucketheads and damaged Knight Helmets, as well as regular Peasants.
 * When it dies, a necklace on its neck is revealed.
 * If you look closely you can see part of its belly sticking out from its clothes meaning it is too fat to fit its clothes.
 * This and Treasure Yeti are the only zombies has Dense toughness. But before the 2.4.1 update, Pharaoh Zombie has the same toughness.
 * It can restore helmets to Peasant Zombies again if they lose their helmets.
 * Zombie King will die instantly when there are no more Peasants to transform. This means that this is the undead counterpart of Puff-shroom.
 * This and Imp Cannon are the only zombies that can self-destruct.
 * If the player uses Cherry Bomb or instant-kill plant at the right time, the player will see that the Announcer Imp is imperishable.
 * The death animation of this zombie is  unique: its head breaks away of its body and rolls down its belly, and then its throne disappears.
 * Spikeweed and Spikerock cannot be planted on the King Zombie, unlike the Imp Cannon.
 * The only reason why is this is because the fall might of submerged it to the ground, as you can see dirt around the throne like the Potato Mine.
 * It occasionally coughs on itself, then slurps up the saliva.
 * Zombie King cannot be blown away by Blover if falling.
 * It might be cause it is falling at a high velocity.
 * There can only be one Zombie King per lane.
 * It cannot be moved by Spikeweeds or Spikerocks, or tossed.
 * If the Zombie King has Plant Food, then the Announcer Imp will have Plant Food too.