Sunday Edition Zombie

Sunday Edition Zombie
The newspaper protects zombie, who becomes enraged when it is destroyed.
Almanac statistics
Toughness	Machined
Speed	Hungry
In-game statistics
In-game speed	Hungry, then Flighty
Absorbs	1800 (newspaper) 490 (zombie) damage
Weakness	(ignores newspaper; only in international version) (from level 5 onwards) (also ignores newspaper) (ignores newspaper, while hiding) (prioritizes zombie)
First seen	Modern Day - Day 39
First seen (China)	Modern Day - Day 10
Sunday Edition Zombie REALLY loves the comics section, which is why his rage is so all-consuming when it is torn to tatters before he's finished reading it.

Sunday Edition Zombie is a zombie encountered in Modern Day of Plants vs. Zombies 2. He is an upgraded version of Newspaper Zombie, with his newspaper having greater toughness.

Origins

The zombie is based on how the Sunday newspaper is usually larger. In addition, his description refers to the Sunday newspaper comics. It's usually a tradition for the newspaper comics to be larger and allow for more panels on Sundays.

Almanac entry

TOUGHNESS Machined SPEED Hungry	Sunday Edition Zombie
The newspaper protects zombie, who becomes enraged when it is destroyed. Special: become a flighty zombie when enraged Sunday Edition Zombie REALLY loves the comics section, which is why his rage is so all-consuming when it is torn to tatters before he's finished reading it.

Sunday Edition Zombie

TOUGHNESS: Machined
SPEED: Hungry

The newspaper protects zombie, who becomes enraged when it is destroyed.

Special: become a flighty zombie when enraged

Sunday Edition Zombie REALLY loves the comics section, which is why his rage is so all-consuming when it is torn to tatters before he's finished reading it.

Chinese version (China only)

周日版僵尸 报纸保护僵尸，当报纸被毁灭时，他们会被激怒。 周日版的僵尸真的很喜欢漫画，每次都要去漫画店购买大量新出漫画，他最爱漫画是僵尸忍者，航僵王，僵魂。 In English: Sunday Edition Zombie Newspapers protect zombies and they will be provoked when newspapers are destroyed The Sunday version of the zombie really likes comics, and every time he goes to the comics store to buy a lot of new comics, his favorite comics are zombie ninja, Hang Zombie king, and zombie soul.

Encountered

Plants vs. Zombies 2

• Modern Day - Days 39, 40, 43, and 44
• Arena: Explode-O-Nut's All-Out Tournament

Plants vs. Zombies 2 (Chinese version) (China only)

• Modern Day - Days 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23

Overview

The Sunday Edition Zombie absorbs 2290 damage per shot in total. He degrades at 600, 900, 1800 (by that point, the newspaper is destroyed), and 2045 damage per shot (where his arm is lost). He dies at 2290 damage per shot. His attacks and running speed are four times as high when enraged compared to while the newspaper is still present.

Strategies

This is a very dangerous zombie; he has all of the deadly capabilities of the Newspaper Zombie, but his increased health makes him one of the most deadly and hardest to defeat zombies in Modern Day. Instant kill plants like Grimrose are the best way to get rid of him, especially if there are multiple Sunday Edition Zombies on the field. Shadow-shroom is also effective for getting rid of him. Not only that, a Chomper or Toadstool will instantly devour them, as they both ignore the newspaper entirely.

Slowing them with plants such as Sap-fling or Winter Melon or freezing them with Stunion or Iceberg Lettuce can help to mitigate damage caused by him. Hurrikale, Chard Guard, and Primal Peashooter are also good as they can knock him back, giving you more time to handle him. A Blover can be played in tandem with either Chard Guard or Primal Peashooter to blow the zombie away.

If you can, hypnotize them to use their health/rage to your advantage.

A very good way to deal with them is a Magnifying Grass which takes 4 shots to kill this zombie. Level 2 or 10 is preferred, as it will kill the zombie without it entering the enraged state.

Note: At Level 1, Magnifying Grass requires 5 shots to kill this zombie, and at Level 10 it will die after 3 shots.

Balance changes

Update 6.3.1

• ▼ Health decreased from 700 DPS to 490 DPS

Related achievement

	Hot Off the Presses Set a Newspaper Zombie's newspaper on fire

Gallery

Almanac entry

First degrade

Second degrade

Enraged Sunday Edition Zombie without his arm

Sunday Edition Zombie being enraged and running (animated)

Sunday Edition Zombie's sprites

HD Sunday Edition Zombie

Shrunken and glowing Sunday Edition Zombie

Dead Sunday Edition Zombie

Poisoned Sunday Edition Zombie

Poisoned enraged Sunday Edition Zombie without his arm

Sunday Edition Zombie on the inbox

Sunday Edition Zombie without his newspaper ate the player's brain

Sunday Edition Zombie loses his newspaper

Boosted Sunday Edition Zombie

Boosted Hypnotized Sunday Edition Zombie

Chinese version (China only)

In-game warning

Almanac entry

Trivia

• There's an Egyptian Treasure Yeti on his newspaper.
• When his newspaper is rotated 180 degrees, the newspaper's front cover is really the back cover, and thus, the title is at the end.
• On his Almanac icon and when the newspaper is in its second degrade, the word "FOUND!" can be seen written in white text below (above if the newspaper is rotated 180 degrees) the image of the Egyptian Treasure Yeti. On his picture in the mail inbox, he is not holding his regular newspaper, but he is not holding Newspaper Zombie's newspaper either. Instead, he seems to be holding a unique newspaper with a smaller, black-and-white image of the Egyptian Treasure Yeti on it.
  • However, the "FOUND!" could be found in the game if he was boosted by dark potions or brains thrown by Cardio Zombie.
• He is the only veteran zombie to appear in the Chinese version.
• Before version 2.2.1, in the Chinese version, his eating speed did not increase when enraged. The same applied to Newspaper Zombie.
• His Almanac entry in the Chinese version has some parodies of three Japanese comics. Those comics are Naruto, One Piece, and Gin Tama.

See also

• Newspaper Zombie
• Newspaper

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