Trash Can Zombie

For the version in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes, see Trash Can Zombie (PvZH).

Trash Can Zombie
A can of trash makes him slower but stronger.
Almanac statistics
Damage	1000
In-game statistics
Special	Moves slow; very slow in Versus Mode Has a trash can shield to protect itself from peas and spores
Weakness
Seen	Versus Mode, Co-op or Survival (console)

Trash Can Zombie is a zombie exclusive to the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo DS versions of Plants vs. Zombies that can only been seen in Survival: Fog, Survival: Roof, hard survival levels, Survival: Endless, Co-op Endless, and as a selectable zombie in Versus Mode.

Trash Can Zombies are zombies holding a trash can/rubbish bin for use as armour, negating the freezing effects of any Snow Peas hitting it or the splash effect of torched peas, but since Winter Melons throw their melons over the trash can, they can hit the zombie.

These zombies are slower than usual, with or without the Trash Can.

Suburban Almanac Entry

Note that the description below is taken from the Plants vs Zombies: Official Guide to Protecting Your Brains

Trash Can Zombie
A zombie holding a trash can. Toughness: high Sadly the Trash Can Zombie isn't here to pick up litter, or offer helpful tips on how to recycle your vegetable peelings or glass. If you've been closely studying this book, you will have realized by now that this zombie wants to eat your brains. He just uses the trash can to protect himself, not tidy up. What a shame. That said Trash Can Zombie is all about recycling waste. In this case he's eager for you to recycle the "waste" brains sloshing about in your skull into something better-- his dinner.

Overview

The Trash Can Zombie absorbs 1000 damage and its appearance changes upon absorbing 280, 540, 800 (at this point the trash can is destroyed) and 900 damage (when it loses its arm) before dying at 1000 damage.

Encounters

This is only on console versions.

• Survival Mode: Survival: Fog, Survival: Roof, all Survival (Hard) and Survival (Endless) levels
• Co-op Mode: all Co-op Hard levels, Co-op Endless
• Others: Versus Mode

Strategies

Magnet-shroom can be used to remove the trash can, turning Trash Can Zombie into a weaker normal zombie. Lobbed-shot plants simply throw projectiles over the shield, damaging the zombie directly, making the shield useless.

It is a good idea to use Cabbage-pults, Kernel-pults, Melon-pults, Winter Melons, Fume-shrooms, Gloom-shrooms, Spikeweeds, and Spikerocks in hard levels to negate the protection of the trash can. Melon-pults are much more useful.

However, since Trash Can Zombies appear a bit later in the rounds when there are large groups of zombies to begin with, the chances of a Cabbage-pult or a Kernel-pult actually killing one are slim. The trash can also negates the splash effect of fire peas.

It would not be advised to hypnotize it though, as unlike your average Buckethead, the Trash Can does not shield them from other zombies, making them very weak allies compared to the Football Zombie or Buckethead Zombie, since they will eat them, thus wasting your sun. However, Gargantuars, Zombonis, or any zombie that never eat plants don't kill it, but you don't need this to hypnotize it. Instant-kills work normally on the Trash Can Zombie.

Versus Mode

Due to their very slow speed of movement, Trash Can Zombies are most useful offensively when used in combination with other zombies. Their high health and low cost make them a good choice to clear a row of plants when the plants in question can't circumvent the trash can and/or are slow to kill zombies.

Trash Can Zombie can be also used as a cheap shield to protect the gravestones and Target Zombies in sudden death when you cannot plant any more gravestones, making it kind of similar to a zombie counterpart to Wall-nut.

Gallery

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Visit this page to see it.

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Trash Can Zombie
Simplified Chinese	垃圾桶僵尸 in Plants vs. Zombies Android TV
Dutch	Vuilnisbakzombie
French	Poubelle
German	Mulltonnen-Zombie
Italian	Bidone zombi
Russian	Зомби с Мусорным Ведром
Spanish	Zombi basurero	"Trash can zombie"

Trivia

• This is the first zombie that has been added in a later release of the game, not counting Dancing Zombie and Backup Dancer which were only re-styled (though some other changes have been made with its sprite change).
• It is one of the zombies that can degrade into a basic zombie.
  • The others are Conehead Zombie, Buckethead Zombie and Screen Door Zombies.
  • However, it still moves as slow as before it loses it.
  • Others like Balloon Zombie, Ladder Zombie, Pogo Zombie or Pole Vaulting Zombie technically turn into one after losing their item but they still keep their appearance and health.
• In the Nintendo DS version, the trash can has a bigger border.
• In Survival and Co-op Levels, it moves as fast as a normal zombie.
• It, Zombotany Zombies, Target Zombie, Giga-gargantuar, Catapult Baseball Zombie and Baseball Zombie don't have any almanac entry.
• This is one of the few zombies that only appear in certain versions of the game, the others being Giga-Football Zombie, Target Zombie, Baseball Zombie, and Catapult Baseball Zombie.
• The trash does not seem to have the same design as the rest of the game, possibly because the artists are different.

See also

• Screen Door Zombie
• Trash can

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