Dr. Zomboss (PvZ)

Template:Plantpic

For other uses, see Zombot.

For the version in the Garden Warfare series, see Dr. Zomboss (PvZ: GW).

Dr. Zomboss (PvZ)
Dr. Zomboss rules them all.
Almanac statistics
Toughness	Extreme
In-game statistics
First seen	Level 5-10
Edgar George Zomboss achieved his Doctorate in Thanatology in only two years. Quickly mastering thanatological technology, he built his fearsome Zombot and set about establishing absolute dominance of his local subdivision.

Dr. Edgar George Zomboss is one of the zombies, the main antagonist and the leader of the zombies in the Plants vs. Zombies series. He is battled on the Night Roof during Level 5-10 as the final boss in Plants vs. Zombies and appears multiple times as a themed boss for each world in Plants vs. Zombies 2.

Origins

The name Zomboss is a portmanteau of the words "Zombie" and "Boss", meaning "Zombie Boss", while Zombot is the portmanteau of the words "Zombie" and "Robot", meaning "Zombie Robot". His middle name, George, is the name of the series' creator, George Fan.

Personality

Dr. Zomboss is an intelligent and evil being, able to construct a powerful machine and to deploy a mass array of zombies in order to thwart Crazy Dave and his botanical arsenal. He is destructive and ruthless as seen in Plants vs. Zombies where he will send a giant fireball or an iceball to destroy everything in his way. This was heightened in Plants vs. Zombies 2 where it goes beyond the point of killing his own allies.

Dr. Zomboss also shows no concern or remorse towards his enemies per Plants vs. Zombies 2. He sends down many of his henchmen even on lanes where absences of lawn mowers are imminent. He is also arrogant, mocking Crazy Dave most of the time and using profane or vulgar words whenever conversing with him.

Dr. Zomboss is also a smart strategist. He holds a lot of backup plans to fill in should one of his machines malfunction and should the Gargantuars that he stationed to protect the world key falls.

He has also shown to be deceitful per Plants vs. Zombies 2, able to plague Penny's thoughts when Dr. Zomboss remarked that Crazy Dave constructed Penny from decommissioned parts of Dr. Zomboss' past creation in Pirate Seas - Day 25. Some time later on Wild West - Day 25, he deceives the player, breaking the fourth wall, and as well as Crazy Dave, that the zombies and him are just helping him out as normal residences of the west. Furthermore, he also remarks that the zombie apocalypse that he experiences are just mere illusions. He also broke the fourth wall on Far Future - Day 25 to persuade the player that they are being misled by Crazy Dave, only to be followed by a hypnosis. This only ended on Dark Ages - Night 20 when he said that Plant Food is made from zombies. Some time after the battle, he was foiled out by Penny, revealing that there are no organisms or any other substances circulating within Plant Food's nutrition facts.

Overall, his only goal is to persuade Crazy Dave to quit his journey in search for taco, to submit to his will, and to let the player's brains be consumed.

Audio

Plants vs. Zombies

Sound	Description
	Zombot exploding when Dr. Zomboss defeated

Plants vs. Zombies 2

Sound	Description
	Dr. Zomboss Intro Pre-Battle
	Zombot Sphinx-inator/Zombot Sharktronic Sub Intro
	Zombot Plank Walker Intro
	Zombot Tuskmaster 10,000 BC Intro
	Zombot Aerostatic Gondola Intro
	Zombot Tomorrow-tron Intro
	Zombot Dark Dragon Intro
	Zombot Dinotronic Mechasaur Intro

Battles

Plants vs. Zombies

The battles with Dr. Zomboss are set in the Night Roof level, probably so that Coffee Beans would not need to come in order to wake up the Ice-shrooms (which can be troublesome). He is the second-to-last zombie encountered in Adventure Mode.

He sends out other zombies to attack the player, except Flag Zombies, Dancing Zombies, Backup Dancers, Digger Zombies, Balloon Zombies, aquatic zombies, Zombie Yetismand the Zombie Bobsled Team (despite ice trails from Zombonis). The Zombot also has its own attacks, most importantly fireballs and iceballs which are released from its mouth when it bends down which is the only time when it can be damaged. The boss battle itself is a conveyor-belt level, so seed packets come on the conveyor belt at the top (or left) of the screen. The only seed packets that can appear are Flower Pot, Cabbage-pult, Kernel-pult, Melon-pult, Jalapeno, and Ice-shroom. Jalapenos and Ice-shrooms are the most effective. The Jalapeno can be used to cut-off the effect of the iceball and ice trail from Zomboni, while the Ice-shroom is effective against the fireball.

Brainiac Maniac on DS

Brainiac Maniac on DS

Plants vs. Zombies 2

Dr. Zomboss returns in Plants vs. Zombies 2. Although the Zombot does not return, he has plenty of other robots to wreak havoc in the game.

Ancient Egypt

Main article: Zombot Sphinx-inator

Pirate Seas

Main article: Zombot Plank Walker

Wild West

Main article: Zombot War Wagon

Far Future

Main article: Zombot Tomorrow-tron

Dark Ages

Main article: Zombot Dark Dragon

Big Wave Beach

Main article: Zombot Sharktronic Sub

Frostbite Caves

Main article: Zombot Tuskmaster 10,000 BC

Lost City

Main article: Zombot Aerostatic Gondola

Neon Mixtape Tour

Main article: Zombot Multi-stage Masher

Jurassic Marsh

Main article: Zombot Dinotronic Mechasaur

Suburban Almanac entry

Almanac entry of Dr. Zomboss

DR. ZOMBOSS

Dr. Zomboss rules them all.

Toughness (in Zombot shell): extreme

Edgar George Zomboss achieved his Doctorate in Thanatology in only two years. Quickly mastering thanatological technology, he built his fearsome Zombot and set about establishing absolute dominance within his local subdivision.

Overview

When playing Adventure Mode for the first time, Dr. Zomboss approximately absorbs 31660 damage per shot and his appearance changes upon absorbing 6340 damage per shot and at 15380 damage per shot. Dr. Zomboss suffers an explosion at 23540 damage per shot before surrendering at 31660 damage per shot.

Every other playthrough of Adventure Mode, and in Dr. Zomboss's Revenge, Dr. Zomboss has double his health, and absorbs 63300 damage per shot, and his appearance changes upon absorbing 12660 damage per shot and at 30740 damage per shot. Dr. Zomboss suffers an explosion at 47060 damage per shot before surrendering at 63300 damage per shot.

Attacks

Dr. Zomboss will randomly do one of the following actions:

• Summons zombies by dropping them down with the Zombot's hand. In all versions, Dr. Zomboss will usually neglect lanes with mowers destroyed by zombies, but not iceballs or fireballs.
• When the Zombot lowers its head and opens its mouth, its eyes will glow either blue or red.
  • If its eyes glow red, it will launch a fireball. Use an Ice-shroom to put it out.
  • If its eyes glow blue, it will launch an iceball. Use a Jalapeno to defrost it. Make sure the Jalapeno is in the correct lane or the iceball will not be affected.
• If a plant is on the flat part of the roof, the Zombot may step on it and crush it.
• The Zombot will occasionally summon down three Bungee Zombies from its hand. The best ways to deal with them are to either freeze them with an Ice-shroom, giving you time to attack them, or to burn them with a Jalapeno.
• The Zombot will drop a camper van, crushing all plants in a 2x3 area (two tiles tall by three tiles long).

Strategies

• Always have an Ice-shroom and a Jalapeno starting for the Zombot's iceball and fireball attacks and to freeze Dr. Zomboss to defeat him quicker.
• Do not plant Melon-pults on the first column and instead, plant Cabbage-pults there. This will prevent you from losing the Melon-pults to the Catapult Zombie's basketballs.
• Conserve your plants, especially Melon-pults and Kernel-pults. Try not to keep all your Melon-pults and Kernel-pults next to each other/put them in a square position; doing this helps keep plants from the camper dropped by the boss. You will risk losing a last line of defense if this happens. Don't panic planting Cabbage-pults next to each other, as they get killed and to appear a little too often.
• Only when Dr. Zomboss reaches down to attack you with a fireball should you use the Ice-shroom to freeze Dr. Zomboss and put out the fireball, so that your Ice-shroom is not wasted.
• You should not use a Jalapeno while the Zombot is frozen. This will unfreeze him and let him give you trouble to complicate matters.
  • It is also possible to keep re-freezing him with multiple Ice-shrooms before he drops providing an opening for your plants.
  • Butter cannot paralyze the Zombot.
• If you freeze Dr. Zomboss while he sends out his iceball attack, you will have to deal with the snowball with a Jalapeno, thus unfreezing Dr. Zomboss, so either use the Ice-Shroom after exterminating ice ball, or don't use it at all.
• Leave a column of empty Flower Pots on the first slanted column of the roof as a buffer endless zone and to plant Jalapenos and Ice-shrooms in and keep your plants behind them, but do not plant them farther up the roof or Dr. Zomboss may kill them.
• Plant the Flower Pots on the flat part of the roof when you plant Jalapenos or Ice-shrooms.
• If possible, when tough zombies such as Gargantuars, Zombonis, or Catapult Zombies appear, try to wait until they get as close to your most frontal plant before planting a Jalapeno to finish them all. This makes your use of Jalapenos in case Dr. Zomboss wants to put more zombies on the same row.
• Dr. Zomboss has a set pattern that he follows at the beginning of the fight. He always places four regular Zombies, four or five Conehead Zombies, then lowers down to breath out a snow/fire ball, then he comes back and places four or five Buckethead Zombies (sometimes he places one Conehead Zombie), then lowers down his head again. After that, the Zombies he places are completely random, except he will not send normal zombies again. After his head lowers the third time, he will then release his Bungee Zombies, then after the fourth, he will drop the RV; after that, his attacks are all completely random. However, they do appear to observe patterns that vary with each fight - sometimes may include more or less of a particular zombie or attack than usual, or placed in different lanes.
• The first few plants you get on the conveyor belt are Cabbage-pults, followed by Melon-pults; try to save your Melon-pults for the Conehead Zombies.
  • The first four plants on the conveyor-belt come out in the following order: Cabbage-pult, Jalapeno, Cabbage-pult, Ice-shroom. The order of plants coming in afterward is completely random.
• If you have only one Roof Cleaner left, he will put almost all of the zombies in the row with the last Roof Cleaner left.
  • If he sends zombies on another lane, use Jalapenos to kill it or else it will make you lose.

Gallery

Plants vs. Zombies Wiki has a gallery for Dr. Zomboss (PvZ).

Visit this page to see it.

Trivia

General

• Dr. Zomboss is the only zombie that uses proper grammar. It is possible that he has brains as opposed to his allies
• Dr. Zomboss has a degree in Thanatology; the study of death and the emotions surrounding it. This further shows his intelligence as opposed to other zombies.
• In the comic Plants vs. Zombies: Bully For You, it is revealed that Dr. Zomboss has a pet goldfish bowl named "Ziggy". The reason why is because that his pet goldfish kept running away so he now just has a pet goldfish bowl. According to him, it is simpler.
  • In the Garden Warfare comics, he is shown to have a pet hedgehog named Mr. Stubbins.
    • However, Mr. Stubbins' original owner is one of Dr. Zomboss' rivals of Bully for You, though this changed at the end of the comic.
• Some of the descriptions in Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare and its sequel reveal some part of Zomboss's personal life.
  • He once lost a battle against a tennis ball machine according to Tennis Star's Stickerbook description.
  • When the player talks to Grumpy Stumpy, he reveals that Zomboss is a good cook.
  • He owns a company named Zomboss Inc.
• In Plants vs. Zombies Heroes, when unlocking Professor Brainstorm, a comic strip shows that he was once a judge in a science fair.
• According to some Wiz Factz signs in the Seeds of Time map, Dr. Zomboss was born in the Year of The Naked Mole Rat.
• He is one of the zombies that smile, the others being Imp, Jack-in-the-Box Zombie and Money Bag Zombie.
• When you defeat Zomboss in the original game, he makes the same death sound as Gargantuar.
• In Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare, the original Zombot makes a cameo. In one of the stages, the player can see the Zombot's head lying on the ground.
• Dr. Zomboss keeps a swear jar, as seen in the Garden Warfare comics.

Plants vs. Zombies

• In the online Almanac, he is just referred to as Zomboss.
• His tagline "to rule them all" might be a reference to the One Ring in Lord of the Rings.
• In the "reanim" folder, Dr. Zomboss is referred to as Zombie Boss.
• Dr. Zomboss has his own music, that is called Braniac Maniac.
• In the Xbox 360, PS3, and PS Vita versions, the Utility Pole that marks where the zombies appear is removed to allow the player to see more of the roof and the Zombot's details, unlike other Roof stages where the other parts are blocked.
• Dr. Zomboss is seen doing experiments on a single Zombie in the Nintendo DS trailer, trying to shrink it and having unlucky results. When this happens, a censored bleep can be heard, hinting profanity. In other words, he does swear.
• A very serious glitch may occur when you play Dr. Zomboss's Revenge: When Dr.Zomboss lose 45% - 49% of his health, he may throwing up to 4 campers towards player's defense, sending a huge wave of zombies toward players, and end the attack with bungee zombies.
• On the DS version, Dr. Zomboss is shown in the Zombot on the top screen, with the progress bar on the bottom portion if the screen and will be pulling levers when performing attacks. The only two times he will not be there are right before the level begins and when he gets defeated (where he will fall off the edge of the screen).
  • The progress bar on the DS version will only increase when he receives a specific small percentage of damage (the progress bar is instead shown on the bottom right corner of the touch screen on Air Raid, but Zomboss will still be on the top screen).
• Every time the fire/ice ball squishes something, a chomping sound from the generic zombie is heard.
• On the mobile version, if the mobile device has a vibration feature while battling Dr. Zomboss, there will be three occurrences when the vibration is triggered: at the start of the level when he steps on the roof (once per leg), throwing a camper, and the final explosion once Dr. Zomboss is defeated.
• If Dr. Zomboss has so low health that can be defeated in one shot, and an Ice-Shroom is planted, his Zombot starts to disintergrate even before the plant blows up, despite the damage should be dealt after the explosion.
• If Dr. Zomboss is defeated and there are zombies remaining, they will disappear.
  • However, when there is a Zomboni and the above situation happens, he will also disappear but the ice trail will remain, but after an amount of time passed or if the player uses Jalapeno, it will also melt and disappear.

• If you will hack Spikeweed or Spikerock into the boss fight, you can see how Spikeweeds and Spikerocks can survive iceball or fireball.

Plants vs. Zombies 2

• He, Basic Zombie, Shield Zombie, Knight Zombie, Wizard Zombie, Snorkel Zombie, Octo Zombie, Troglobite, Lost Pilot Zombie, Relic Hunter Zombie, Boombox Zombie, and Jurassic Zombie are the only zombies that have represented the game icon.
• Starting at Lost City, the podium for the Zomboss level in each world was majorly dumbed down, instead of a gigantic platform.
  • However, Modern Day made the podiums slightly bigger, mainly due to being 3 levels long.
  • Due to an update, all the podiums from every world except Lost City and Modern Day were given new designs to match the new style of the Zomboss podiums.
    • Modern Day's podium only shrunk and had lost its animation in the update.
• Above each last level in each world, the icon is a hologram of his head. His holographic head has three forms: one for before the initial playthrough, a defeated form once the level has been completed, and a special animation only playing if the player waits too long.
  • The special animation that can sometimes occur starts with Dr. Zomboss looking to the right of the screen while he's brushing his teeth. Then when he looks forward, he remembers he is on camera, the hologram then reverts to normal. In this animation, he also has a towel wrapped around his head like he's just come out of the shower.
• As of Dark Ages and the further worlds, Dr. Zomboss now tends to pretend that he is part of the timeline he is in. (For example, in Dark Ages, Dr. Zomboss uses the Old English language, which uses extra words like thy, or thine. In Big Wave Beach, he speaks in "surfer lingo". In Frostbite Caves, Dr. Zomboss speaks in a prehistoric style and in Neon Mixtape Tour he often makes references to popular music at the time, including the popular Rick Astley song "Never Gonna Give You Up", better known on the internet as the "Rickroll". In Modern Day, he talks normally.
  • However, in Lost City he just talks normally, possibly hinting that the world is at modern times or very close to modern times. He also talks normally in Jurassic Marsh, probably because human language did not exist at those times.
• If the player attempts to plant a plant after Dr. Zomboss is defeated, the message about seeds needing time to refresh before being able to plant them again will appear, despite there being no seed refresh time, as all Zombot levels are Special Delivery levels. This also applies for other Special Delivery levels.
• Before the 3.3 update, the player was allowed to plant on the eighth and nine columns in the first four fights while the Dark Dragon and Sharktronic Sub fights allowed the player to plant on the seventh column (trying to plant on the columns where the Zombot is in these fights will display the messages "You can't plant on a scorched tiles" and "You can't plant on a school of sharks" respectively.
• Dr. Zomboss appears to be shorter in this game than he was in the first.
• Any Zombies that are left will turn into ashes or play their death animation (in case of some objects like the barrel will disappear) once one of his creations were defeated.
• You can use Plant Food on offensive plants to stop his Zombots attacking two lane of plants and zombies.

V · E	Zombies (Tower defense)	L · G