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“	Gives 110% on the field. Has no idea what a football is.	”
—All-Star Zombie's Plants vs. Zombies Heroes description

For other uses, see Football Zombie (disambiguation).

All-Star is a recurring character within the Plants vs. Zombies franchise. All-Star has had his abilities and role change between games, from being simply a zombie with high health to a playable character.

He is based off a traditional American football player, his original name having "football" in it and wearing football armor. Despite this, his Plants vs. Zombies entry as well as Plants vs. Zombies Heroes and Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville's descriptions reveal he doesn't know what a football actually is.

As of Plants vs. Zombies 3, All-Star has appeared in nine games.

History

Plants vs. Zombies

Main article: Football Zombie

In the original Plants vs. Zombies game, as well as all Chinese spin-off games based on it, Football Zombie first appears in Level 2-6, the eight zombie encountered in Adventure Mode. Here he has high health (the helmet absorbing 1,400 DPS) and fast speed. He is meant to be initially countered with Hypno-shroom, unlocked in the previous level and can be crippled with Magnet-shroom who is unlocked later and is able to pull his helmet off.

He costs 175 sun to use in I, Zombie while he costs 150 brains in Versus Mode.

Due to web version only reaching Level 2-4, instances of Gargantuars are replaced by a giga variant of Football Zombie, the Giga-Football Zombie. Giga-Football Zombie only appears in the version's Survival Mode and Vasebreaker, having the exact same health as a Gargantuar but with Football Zombie's speed. While Giga-Football Zombie can provide to be quite a challenge to defeat, due to being a retextured Football Zombie, a Chomper can instantly destroy one with no assistance.

Oddly enough, Football Zombie does not appear in this version, due to where the version ends, though Giga-Football Zombie is misnamed as Football Zombie in-game.

Plants vs. Zombies Adventures (Archived content)

Main article: Football Zombie (PvZA)

Football Zombie made a reappearance in PopCap's ill-fated Facebook game Plants vs. Zombies Adventures, retaining the same role as the previous game. Football Zombies are first encountered in U of Z and reappear in certain levels of later maps. Like the first game, Football Zombie has a weakness to magnets, in this case, Magnet Plant, who can take his helmet.

He costs 3,000 coins to attack a neighbor and 1,500 coins and 8 minutes to train in Brainball.

Plants vs. Zombies 2

Main article: All-Star Zombie

Following All-Star's introduction into the Garden Warfare series, Football Zombie returned in the form of All-Star Zombie in Modern Day. Here his ability has been drastically changed, starting his assault on the lawn by charging towards the plants, instantly destroying the first one he runs into and kicking any Super-Fan Imps in his way. After tackling the plant, he will simply act like a normal zombie.

His health has been lowered to 1,100 DPS, but Magnet-shroom can no longer remove his helmet. He also has an achievement related to him, You're an All-Star?, obtained if no All-Star Zombie is able to tackle a plant in a level.

Garden Warfare series

Main article: All-Star (PvZ: GW)

All-Star has a prominent role in the Garden Warfare series of shooter games, being a tank class with high health and having infinite ammo in his Football Cannon, though it will overheat if used for too long.

All-Star's main purpose, as stated in his stickerbook entry, is to be on the front lines, two of his abilities being close range heavy hitting attacks, having a grand 200 health and being able to provide cover for allies with the Dummy Shield.

As with the other playable classes in the Garden Warfare series, he has numerous character variants based on him, each having their own traits which differentiates them from the standard base character. Garden Warfare is the game that first had "Football Zombie" be referred to as All-Star or All-Star Zombie.

Giga-Football Zombie also returns in these games, appearing as either Beserker or Blitzer, depending on the game, during special Garden Ops waves. These zombies attack only with Sprint Tackles and the occasional Zombie Hurt, making them a major threat to plant players. Oddly enough, they count as All-Stars when doing a "Vanquish All-Stars" quest.

Plants vs. Zombies: All Stars (China only) (Archived content)

Main article: Football Zombie (PvZ: AS)

Football Zombie appeared in the Chinese-exclusive turn-based game Plants vs. Zombies: All Stars as a zombie appearing in the American Suburbs.

Unlike other early game zombies in the American Suburbs, he could throw footballs at the plants, making him a threat even when far away, and his skill was to kick a football into the sky which landed on a random plant, dealing damage to them.

Plants vs. Zombies Heroes

Main article: All-Star Zombie (PvZH)

All-Star Zombie also appears in the turn-based mobile card game Plants vs. Zombies Heroes, as a Premium Super-Rare in the Hearty class. He is a Sports Zombie who costs 5 and has 4/6.

Along with those stats, All-Star Zombie also has both the Armored 1 and Frenzy traits naturally.

Before he was renamed to All-Star Zombie, this game was the latest game in the series to use the original name of "Football Zombie".

Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville

Main article: All-Star (PvZ: BfN)

All-Star once again appears in the third-person shooter game Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville. He is a Defend class who specializes in defending the rest of the team, either with his Dummy Shield (which has been changed to provide a shield of protection in an area) or with his Football Cannon.

Unlike in the Garden Warfare series, All-Star no longer has any character variants, but instead has a large number of character upgrades, some of which grant abilities to All-Star's primary weapon and abilities.

Plants vs. Zombies 3

Main article: All-Star Zombie (PvZ3)

All-Star Zombie's latest reappearance is in Plants vs. Zombies 3 as a Earthy Minion to Ballpark Frank. Like Plants vs. Zombies 2, he tackles the first plant he runs into for heavy damage and now can kick any type of Imp ahead of him.

He is warned as an Armored, Fast, and Crushing threat.

Gallery

Plants vs. Zombies Wiki has a gallery for All-Star.

Visit this page to see it.

Trivia

Oddly, while Zombies on Your Lawn, the music video in Plants vs. Zombies, has All-Star state that he used to play football, his Almanac description states he doesn't even know what a football is.
All-Star's helmet is available in the Xbox Live Marketplace for 160 Microsoft Points (listed as Football Zombie's.)
All-Star's appearance in Plants vs. Zombies has the second toughest headwear, the toughest being Giga-Football Zombie's headwear.

V · E	Recurring characters

Plants
Plants vs. Zombies	Peashooter · Sunflower · Cherry Bomb · Wall-nut · Potato Mine · Snow Pea · Chomper · Repeater · Puff-shroom · Sun-shroom · Fume-shroom · Grave Buster · Hypno-shroom · Scaredy-shroom · Ice-shroom · Doom-shroom · Lily Pad · Squash · Threepeater · Tangle Kelp · Jalapeno · Spikeweed · Torchwood · Tall-nut · Sea-shroom · Plantern · Cactus · Blover · Split Pea · Starfruit · Pumpkin · Magnet-shroom · Cabbage-pult · Flower Pot · Kernel-pult · Coffee Bean · Garlic · Marigold · Melon-pult · Gatling Pea · Twin Sunflower · Gloom-shroom · Cattail · Winter Melon · Spikerock · Cob Cannon · Imitater
Plants vs. Zombies Adventures	Fire Peashooter · Bamboo Shoot · Chilly Pepper · Power Flower
Plants vs. Zombies 2	Bloomerang · Bonk Choy · Snapdragon · Coconut Cannon · Chili Bean · Lightning Reed · Laser Bean · Citron · E.M.Peach · Magnifying Grass · Red Stinger · Sweet Potato · Witch Hazel
Plants vs. Zombies 2 (Chinese version)	Carrotillery · Dandelion · Tactical Cuke
Plants vs. Zombies Online	Venus Flytrap · Endurian
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2	Rose · Kernel Corn
Plants vs. Zombies Heroes	Night Cap

Zombies
Plants vs. Zombies	Browncoat Zombie · Flag Zombie · Conehead Zombie · Buckethead Zombie · Newspaper Zombie · Screen Door Zombie · All-Star · Disco Zombie · Backup Dancer · Ducky Tube Zombie · Snorkel Zombie · Balloon Zombie · Digger Zombie · Zombie Yeti · Gargantuar · Imp · Dr. Zomboss
Plants vs. Zombies: Great Wall Edition	Talisman Zombie
Plants vs. Zombies Adventures	MC Zom-B
Plants vs. Zombies 2	Zombie Chicken · Zombot Sharktronic Sub
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare	Foot Soldier · Engineer · Scientist
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2	Z-Mech · Super Brainz · Captain Deadbeard

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 {{Main|Football Zombie}}
 [[File:Football_Zombie1.png|thumb|left|96px]]
-In the original ''Plants vs. Zombies'' game, as well as all [[Plants vs. Zombies: Great Wall Edition|Chinese]] [[Plants vs. Zombies: Journey to the West|spin-off]] [[Plants vs. Zombies Social Edition|games]] based on it, Football Zombie first appears in [[Level 2-6]], the eight zombie encountered in [[Adventure Mode]]. Here he has high health (the helmet absorbing 1,400 [[Damage per shot|DPS]]) and [[:Category:Zombies with "Fast" speed|fast]] speed. He is meant to be initially countered with [[Hypno-shroom (PvZ)|Hypno-shroom]], unlocked in the [[Level 2-5|previous level]] and can crippled with [[Magnet-shroom (PvZ)|Magnet-shroom]] who is unlocked later and is able to pull his helmet off.
+In the original ''Plants vs. Zombies'' game, as well as all [[Plants vs. Zombies: Great Wall Edition|Chinese]] [[Plants vs. Zombies: Journey to the West|spin-off]] [[Plants vs. Zombies Social Edition|games]] based on it, Football Zombie first appears in [[Level 2-6]], the eight zombie encountered in [[Adventure Mode]]. Here he has high health (the helmet absorbing 1,400 [[Damage per shot|DPS]]) and [[:Category:Zombies with "Fast" speed|fast]] speed. He is meant to be initially countered with [[Hypno-shroom (PvZ)|Hypno-shroom]], unlocked in the [[Level 2-5|previous level]] and can be crippled with [[Magnet-shroom (PvZ)|Magnet-shroom]] who is unlocked later and is able to pull his helmet off.
-He costs 175 [[Sun|sun]] to use in [[I, Zombie]] while he only costs 150 [[Brain|brains]] in [[Versus Mode]].
+He costs 175 [[Sun|sun]] to use in [[I, Zombie]] while he costs 150 [[Brain|brains]] in [[Versus Mode]].
 [[File:Giga-Football_Zombie1.png|thumb|left|96px]]
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 {{Main|Football Zombie (PvZA)}}
 [[File:Football_ZombieA.png|thumb|left|96px]]
-Football Zombie made a reappearance in PopCap's ill-fated Facebook game ''Plants vs. Zombies Adventures'', retaining the same role as the previous game. Football Zombies are first encountered in [[U of Z]] and reappear in certain levels of later maps. Like the first game, Football Zombie has a weakness to magnets, in this case, [[Magnet Plant]], who can take their helmets.
+Football Zombie made a reappearance in PopCap's ill-fated Facebook game ''Plants vs. Zombies Adventures'', retaining the same role as the previous game. Football Zombies are first encountered in [[U of Z]] and reappear in certain levels of later maps. Like the first game, Football Zombie has a weakness to magnets, in this case, [[Magnet Plant]], who can take his helmet.
 He costs 3,000 coins to attack a neighbor and 1,500 coins and 8 minutes to train in [[Brainball]].
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 {{Main|All-Star Zombie}}
 [[File:All-Star_Zombie2.png|thumb|left|96px]]
-Following "All-Star"'s introduction into the ''Garden Warfare'' series, Football Zombie returned in the form of All-Star Zombie in [[Modern Day]]. Here his ability has been drastically changed, starting his assault on the lawn by charging towards the plants, instantly destroying the first one he runs into and kicking any [[Super-Fan Imp]]s in his way. After tackling the plant, he will simply act like a normal zombie.
+Following All-Star's introduction into the ''Garden Warfare'' series, Football Zombie returned in the form of All-Star Zombie in [[Modern Day]]. Here his ability has been drastically changed, starting his assault on the lawn by charging towards the plants, instantly destroying the first one he runs into and kicking any [[Super-Fan Imp]]s in his way. After tackling the plant, he will simply act like a normal zombie.
-His health has been lowered to only 1,100 [[Damage per shot|DPS]], but [[Magnet-shroom (PvZ2)|Magnet-shroom]] can no longer remove his helmet. Meanwhile, he also has an achievement related to him, [[You're an All-Star?]], obtained if no All-Star Zombie is able to tackle a plant in a level.
+His health has been lowered to 1,100 [[Damage per shot|DPS]], but [[Magnet-shroom (PvZ2)|Magnet-shroom]] can no longer remove his helmet. He also has an achievement related to him, [[You're an All-Star?]], obtained if no All-Star Zombie is able to tackle a plant in a level.
 ===''[[Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare|Garden]]'' ''[[Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2|Warfare]]'' series===
 {{Main|All-Star (PvZ: GW)}}
 [[File:All-StarGW1.png|thumb|left|96px]]
-All-Star lays a prominent role in the ''Garden Warfare'' series of shooter games, being a tank class with high health and having infinite ammo in his '''Football Cannon''', though it will overheat if used for too long.
+All-Star has a prominent role in the ''Garden Warfare'' series of shooter games, being a tank class with high health and having infinite ammo in his '''Football Cannon''', though it will overheat if used for too long.
 All-Star's main purpose, as stated in his stickerbook entry, is to be on the front lines, [[Sprint Tackle|two of]] [[Imp Punt|his abilities]] being close range heavy hitting attacks, having a grand 200 health and being able to provide cover for allies with the [[Dummy Shield]].
-As with the other playable classes in the ''Garden Warfare'' series, he has numerous [[Character variants]] based on him, each having their own traits which differentiates them from the standard base character. ''Garden Warfare'' is the game that first had "Football Zombie" be referred to as All-Star or All-Star Zombie.
+As with the other playable classes in the ''Garden Warfare'' series, he has numerous [[character variants]] based on him, each having their own traits which differentiates them from the standard base character. ''Garden Warfare'' is the game that first had "Football Zombie" be referred to as All-Star or All-Star Zombie.
 [[File:Blitz.png|thumb|left|120px]]
-Giga-Football Zombie also returns in these games, appearing as either Beserker or [[Blitzer]] depending on the game during special [[Garden Ops]] waves. These zombies attack only with [[Sprint Tackle]]s and the occasional Zombie Hurt, making them a major threat to plant players. Oddly enough, they count as All-Stars when doing a "Vanquish All-Stars" quest.
+Giga-Football Zombie also returns in these games, appearing as either Beserker or [[Blitzer]], depending on the game, during special [[Garden Ops]] waves. These zombies attack only with [[Sprint Tackle]]s and the occasional Zombie Hurt, making them a major threat to plant players. Oddly enough, they count as All-Stars when doing a "Vanquish All-Stars" quest.
 {{Clear}}
 ===''[[Plants vs. Zombies: All Stars]]''{{ChineseTag}}{{ArchivedTag}}===
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 Football Zombie appeared in the Chinese-exclusive turn-based game ''Plants vs. Zombies: All Stars'' as a zombie appearing in the [[American Suburbs]].
-Unlike other early game zombies in the Suburbs, he could throw footballs at the plants, making him a threat even when far away and his skill was to kick a football into the sky which landed on a random plant, dealing damage to them.
+Unlike other early game zombies in the American Suburbs, he could throw footballs at the plants, making him a threat even when far away, and his skill was to kick a football into the sky which landed on a random plant, dealing damage to them.
 ===''[[Plants vs. Zombies Heroes]]''===
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 {{Main|All-Star (PvZ: BfN)}}
 [[File:All-StarBfN.png|thumb|left|96px]]
-All-Star once again appears in the third-person shooter game ''Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville''. He is a [[File:PvZ BfN Defend Class Icon.png|15px]] Defend class who specializes in defending the rest of the team, either with their [[Dummy Shield (PvZ: BfN)|Dummy Shield]] (which has been changed to provide a shield of protection in an area) or with their '''Football Cannon'''.
+All-Star once again appears in the third-person shooter game ''Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville''. He is a [[File:PvZ BfN Defend Class Icon.png|15px]] Defend class who specializes in defending the rest of the team, either with his [[Dummy Shield (PvZ: BfN)|Dummy Shield]] (which has been changed to provide a shield of protection in an area) or with his '''Football Cannon'''.
-Unlike in the ''Garden Warfare'' series, All-Star no longer has any [[Character variants]], but instead has a large number of character upgrades, some of which grant abilities to All-Star's primary weapon and abilities.
+Unlike in the ''Garden Warfare'' series, All-Star no longer has any [[character variants]], but instead has a large number of character upgrades, some of which grant abilities to All-Star's primary weapon and abilities.
 ===''[[Plants vs. Zombies 3]]''===
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 All-Star Zombie's latest reappearance is in ''[[Plants vs. Zombies 3]]'' as a [[:Category:Earthy Type zombies|Earthy]] [[:Category:Minion zombies|Minion]] to [[Ballpark Frank]]. Like ''Plants vs. Zombies 2'', he tackles the first plant he runs into for heavy damage and now can kick any type of [[:Category:Imps|Imp]] ahead of him.
-He is warned as an [[:Category:Armored Zombies|Armored]] threat, as well as being Fast and Crushing.
+He is warned as an [[:Category:Armored Zombies|Armored]], Fast, and Crushing threat.
 ==Gallery==
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 ==Trivia==
-*Oddly, while the [[Zombies on Your Lawn]], the music video in ''[[Plants vs. Zombies]]'' has All-Star states that he used to play football, his Almanac description states he doesn't even know what a football is.
+*Oddly, while [[Zombies on Your Lawn]], the music video in ''[[Plants vs. Zombies]]'', has All-Star state that he used to play football, his Almanac description states he doesn't even know what a football is.
 *All-Star's helmet is available in the Xbox Live Marketplace for 160 Microsoft Points (listed as Football Zombie's.)
 *All-Star's appearance in ''Plants vs. Zombies'' has the second toughest headwear, the toughest being Giga-Football Zombie's headwear.