Plants vs. Zombies Heroes

Plants vs. Zombies Heroes
Developer: PopCap Games Publisher: Electronic Arts Platforms: iOS, Android Released internationally: October 18, 2016 This game has unused animations. This game has unused playable characters. This game has unused code. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused text. This game has revisional differences. This game has a prerelease article

This article is a work in progress. ...Well, all the articles here are, in a way. But this one moreso, and the article may contain incomplete information and editor's notes.

To do: The game's update history needs to get covered, seeing that cards often got changed. The PvZ wiki has an article about this should be used as a starting point (Not sure if its comprehensive). Rip the unused animations for plants and zombie cards, There's a lot of them, as seen in the Overshoot Animations section. Rip more unused graphics, including the full bodies of Crazy Dave and Dr. Zomboss. There lots of instances on this page/subpages of stuff thats "referenced in the code", would be nice if this code in question was in the article. Some cards, like Dr. Spacetime and Shroom for Two feature different designs between their card graphics and their actual designs, these could possibly in an oddities section Similarly, Green Shadow is depicted with a belt in some comic cutscenes, likely a leftover from an early design of her. Document all instances of this appearing.

What do you get when you put Plants vs. Zombies, Hearthstone, and Marvel Comics in a blender? A surprisingly decent card game, that's what!

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Prerelease Info

Unused Hero Content Unused content releated to the game's heroes, their superpowers and anything else.

Unused Card Content Unused cards, early versions of cards, basically everything you can imagine.

Unused Graphics

Fastest Match icon

An unused icon of a burning clock can be found in the game's files. Interestingly, in the game's 1.18.3 update, it claimed to add a 'Fastest Match icon,' stating that 'In Multiplayer, if you can get faster matchmaking at your Rank by playing Plants or Zombies, you'll see a Fastest Match icon." While this mechanic was never seen in game, it's possible this was the icon it was referring to.

Funnily enough, this is actually just an edited version of the Detonator icon from Bejeweled Stars.

Zombie Nurse Early Access Pack

An unused Early Access card pack, showing off a cut Zombie Nurse card. A Zombie Nurse card was never added to the game.

Game of Plants?

The Game of Plants, likely a reference to the television series Game of Thrones, is referenced a few times in the code, likely a scrapped event similar to the Galactic Gardens event.

Removed Content

To do: Verify how much of the following is still in the game's code.

Removed Card Stats

Name	Stat Type	Notes	Cards that used this stat	Update Removed	Still in the files?
Afterlife	Trait	A trait exclusive to zombies that after a card gets destroyed, you would receive a token card. Its description was as follows: "When this is destroyed, you can play it a second time"	Cyborg Zombie, Octo Zombie, Haunting Zombie	v1.16.10	TBA
Vacation	Tribe	Various tribes that were once in the game, they were likely removed due to how few cards used these them	Surfer Zombie	v1.22.12	Yes
Ghost			Haunting Zombie, Haunting Ghost	v1.4.14	Yes
Garbage			Stealthy Imp, Trash Can Zombie	v1.22.12	Yes
Pepper			Chilly Pepper, Pepper M.D.	?	Yes
Vine			Grave Buster, Whipvine	v1.22.12	TBA

Removed Cards

Name	Stats	Update Removed	Notes
Zombie	Strength: 1 Health: 1 Cost: 1 Class: Hearty (formerly none) Tribe: Professional Zombie Traits: None Abilities: None Set: Token Card description: Owns a closet full of brown coats. And one plaid coat.	Removed from the player's inventory in v1.2.12, and made completely unobtainable in v1.22.12.	The regular garden-variety browncoat zombie seen throughout the series. While not removed from the game outright, it has been made unusable by players, even with conjuring.
Returned Octo Zombie	Strength: 8 Health: 8 Cost: 8 Class: Beastly Tribe: Pet Zombie Traits: Amphibious, Frenzy Abilities: None Set: Token	v1.16.10	End result of the Octo Zombie's Afterlife trait, removed alongside the trait. Strangely was the only card that lacked a description.
Flick-a-Zombie	Cost: 1 Class: None Tribe: Superpower Trick Ability: Do 1 damage. Rarity: Common Card description: Bad Zombie! BAD Zombie!	v1.2.11	Simple damaging superpowers that could be used by any hero. Removed likely to improve synergy of cards and heroes.
Flick-a-Plant	(Zombie equivalent of Flick-a-Zombie) Card description: Annoying AND effective!
Inspire	Cost: 1 Class: None Tribe: Superpower Trick Ability: A Plant gets +1 Strength/+1 Health. Rarity: Common Card description: One small step for Plants. One giant leap for Plant-kind!		More simple superpowers that give the target a small buff.
Motivate	(Zombie equivalent of Inspire) Card description: Ask not what the Zombies can do for you. Ask what you can do for the Zombies!
Rejuvenate	Cost: 1 Class: None Tribe: Superpower Trick Ability: Heal 2. Rarity: Common Card description: Like a salve for a Plant's soul.		Another pair of simple superpowers, I'm starting to notice a pattern here.
Get Well	(Zombie equivalent of Rejuvenate) Card description: Helps with the boo-boos.

Unused Text

Shielded

A Shielded Plant/Zombie can't be hurt

A description for the Shielded/Can't be hurt effect.

Winter is coming

A quote from Game of Thrones. Likely related to the unused Game of Plants.

Summer is coming

The same quote from Game of Thrones... But summer! Also probably related to Game of Plants.

Mekka Lekka Hi-Mekka Hiney BRAINS!

Erm... Yeah, whatever this means. May also be related to Game of Plants

BRRAAINZ!

Uses the same formatting as the the gameover text.

joe,momma

The devs making a joke.

TEST_STRING,Test String

Testing.

BUTTON_TEXT_HOORAY,Hooray!

Perhaps the button would say hooray for winning.

Internal Oddities

Cat Lady and Fraidy Cat

Cat Lady and Fraidy Cat's textures used be located in the same section of the files in earlier versions of the game. It's possible that these two cards were originally linked in some way, perhaps even a part of the same card.

Tricks

Internally, tricks are known as 'Bursts' in the game files. This is most likely an earlier name for Tricks.

Internal Names

Several of the heroes, cards, and even certain classes have internal names that are quite different compared to their names in-game.

Heroes

Interestingly, during a loading of a multiplayer match, the internal names for the heroes in the code are used instead of their actual name. These names are sometimes used for multiplayer names for users under the age of 13 or if connection is too slow to load the username.

In-game name	Internal name
Captain Combustible	scortchwood
Electric Boogaloo	disco
Green Shadow	penelopea
Immorticia	witch
Rustbolt	cyborg
The Smash	gargantuar
Super Brainz	cptbrainz
Chompzilla	chomper
Solar Flare	sunflower

Cards

In-game name	Internal name
Kite Flyer	kitescientist
Flourish	bloomfortwo
Threepeater	treepeater/threepeater
Swashbuckler	pirateCaptain
Trickster	pranksterzombie
Headstone Carver	GravestoneCarver
Octo-Pet	ZombieOctopus
Mixed Up Gravedigger	gravedigger
Briar Rose	rosethorn
Sour Grapes	grapeshot
Valkyrie	OperaZombie
Squirrel Herder	SquirrelWranglerZombie
Walrus Rider	ZombieWalrus/WalrusRider
Telepathy	Epiphany
Zombot 1000	DrZombossMegaGargantaur
Fishy Imp	mermaid_imp
Loudmouth	MegaphoneImp
More Spore	FungalDrop
Nurse Gargantuar	DrGargantuar
Drone Engineer	EngineerZombie
Vimpire	ImpVampire
Smashing Pumpking	pumpkin
Firefighter	FiremanZombie
Gargantuars' Feast	GargFeed/DinnerFor3
Bungee Plumber	BungeeJumper/plumber
Sweet Potato	SweetPatato
Poppin' Poppies	Poppies
Camel Crossing	CamelPlates
Abracadaver	MagicianZombie
Summoning	Necromancy
Bubble Up	ThrowAFriend
Terrify	ScareAway
Zombie King	Tomb Raiser

Classes

In-game name	Internal name
Crazy	madcap
Beastly	hungry