Space Racer

Space Racer is a General zombie that can only be found in Arena and Penny's Pursuit in Plants vs. Zombies 2. Unlike most other General zombies, she prefer moving around the lawn, similar to Pumpkin Knight Zombie and Bumper Car Zombie, though she does have several different stages of attacks just like all of them.
She has 3 different attacks. First is "Rainbow Ram", which will have her charge forward with her space motorcycle to deal high damage to the first plant she hit, capable of destroying most plants except defensive plants. Second ability is "Stun Star", where she will fire 5 pink-colored stars from her wings at the first plant of every lane. Each star stun them for 5-15 seconds (Depending on her phase). Stunned plants will still need to be eaten so defensive plants and deathrattle plants that activate their abilities when eaten or destroyed will not be affected. Instant-used plants can't be stunned at all but will still take hit from the star.
Her third and final ability is the most disruptive, For "Galaxy Gateway" she will spawn 2 or 4 portals (Depending on her phase) which connect to each other in pairs of 2. They act similar to the portals in Portal Combat from PvZ1, where they will teleport zombies and projectiles from one to another. Attacks that could go through portals also include Area of Effect projectiles like Fume, Laser or Jalapeno's fire, but not melee attacks, lobbed projectiles or other explosion, zombie's projectile like snowball and her own Stun Stars can go through as well. She can go into a portal herself while performing Rainbow Ram. hitting plants in different lanes.
As a General Zombie, he is immune to the following effects:
* Hypnosis
* Knockback
* Stunning
* Freezing
* Shrinking
* Imp Pear's Plant Food ability
== Origins ==
Space Racer has multiple origins. Her name comes from a character with the same name from the comic Invincible. He is an alien who rides on a hoverbike and has a powerful gun that can damage even the toughest of other aliens. He is recruited to The Coalition of Planets by Omni-Man and join the fight against villains in that universe. The inspiration for her space motorcycle is from his hoverbike which he used to fly around in space. Though the design is original.
Speaking of design, her design is mainly based on General Sweet Mayhem from The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part. She is one of the movie's antagonist at first, kidnapping the protagonist's friend. But as the film goes on, it is revealed that she and her Queen Watevra Wa'Nabi doesn't actually have bad intention. Space Racer's helmet, wings and suit are all based on her and her color scheme. While Sweet Mayhem doesn't have a motorcycle, she does have a space ship that she used to travel in space.
Her abilities are based on other PvZ side of things. Her Rainbow Ram ability is based on All-Star's Sprint Tackle, but also from Zombie Fighter, a zombie in PvZ2C where they will ram into your base when near them to deal high damage. Her Stun Star ability while not based on anything specifically, uses pink-colored stars from Starfruit, so similar to Angel Starfruit in that regard. Her Galaxy Gateway ability is based on PvZ1's Portal Combat mini-game, while the look of the portal is from Supernova Gargantuar played animation. Most of these have something to do with flight and space, matching the theme of Space Racer.
== Almanac entry ==
== Stages and overview ==
Space Racer has no visual degradation.
Phase	Length 	Health 	Points on defeat	Attacks
1 	45 seconds	14,000 damage	100,000 	Seldom Rainbow Ram into plantsShoot 5 Stun Stars at plants that stun them for 5 secondsCreate 1 pair of Galaxy Gateway that can teleport zombies and projectiles to the other one.
2 	45 seconds	16,000 damage	120,000 	Sometimes Rainbow Ram into plantsShoot 5 Stun Stars at plants that stun them for 10 secondsCreate 1 pair of Galaxy Gateway that can teleport zombies and projectiles to the other one.
3 	45 seconds	18,000 damage	140,000 	Often Rainbow Ram into plantsShoot 5 Stun Stars at plants that stun them for 15 secondsCreate 2 pairs of Galaxy Gateway that can teleport zombies and projectiles to the other one.
== Audio ==
Sound	Description
 	Her Entrance
 	Her "Rainbow Ram" ability
 	Her "Stun Stars" ability
 	Her "Galaxy Gateway" ability
== Encounters ==
* Arena (certain tournaments)
* Penny's Pursuit (certain levels)
== Strategies ==
Space Racer is a support General Zombie. Her powers are more for supporting her fellow zombies in order to easily infiltrate your defense. Space Racer on her own is not that threatening but when paired with fast and strong zombies like All-Star Zombies, she can be one of the strongest support they have. While her strongest move is Galaxy Gateway, it isn't the only powerful move in her arsenal. Therefore unlike Sea Serpent Zombie, you should take care of other zombies rather than herself first. And also because of this, her powers might not have a clear counter at first.
For her first ability, Rainbow Ram is simple and effective. It can destroy a plant and is the most often ability she will perform. This is a crucial part of her moves as it can create holes in your defense by striking them, while may seem simple at first, can be combined with Galaxy Gateway to even further destroying plants even from the inside. With this power, a simple defensive plant is not enough. You best course of action is using Primal Wall-nut, as their fast recharge speed allows you to plant them quickly in different spot, while blocking multiple times. Other defensive plants of choice is Explode-O-Nut or Explode-O-Vine, they can blow up when killed to damage Space Racer a lot, Explode-O-Nut able to withstand multiple attacks while Explode-O-Vine allows you to put another plant within. Vine plant in general are good but Pumpkin would be the best one as they can block damage multiple times. If she move her portal, you can shovel the old one and replant them in a different spot. This wouldn't be enough sometimes so bringing a low sun cost fast recharge plant can also help, such as Puff-shroom or Sunflower. As she can't reach your house by herself, if a lane has no plant, she will end up wasting her time, though this wouldn't be that effective since her whole thing is that she can move zombies around, having an empty lane will only make it harder to keep up. 
Her second ability is similar to the first one, except its on every lane instead of one, but has less effect. Stun Stars can be very strong in its own right, as it means you have to cover multiple lanes to not let it affect your strong attackers. Since the star can only hit one target, your best choice of option is to put your attackers in the very back, even behind sun producers since you want constant damage against her. This might backfire as you might run out of sun due to all of the sun producer getting stunned, so you have to be prepare with defensive plants, once again, like Primal Wall-nut. If you don't like that, using plant that activate their ability when destroyed like Hot Date, Torchwood and others can also work as their ability won't be gone when stunned and Torchwood specifically will still set peas on fire when stunned. For this ability however, most Vine plants won't be as useful as both the vine and the plant within will be stunned, therefore don't rely on Pumpkin for every defense. You can also use instant-plant to block one lane from stunning, however this will be the least reliable strategy as you have to be fast to do that. Infi-nut's Plant Food shield once again shine here, since it can block all lanes at once while not suffering from the stun.
Her third, final and the most dangerous ability is Galaxy Gateway. She can reshape the entire lawn with this ability as zombies can enter a portal to the right to another lane closer to your defense to the left. She will change the position from time to time, therefore its important that you have to plant your defense around this. Using catapult and non-straight shot attacks like Banana Launcher can negate this entirely, but this comes with the fact that their Plant Food can't exactly deal a lot of single-target damage to Space Racer herself. This also means the usual Pea Vine and Torchwood strategy won't work easily as her portal can redirect them to another lane. Melee plants are not a bad choice as you can plant them right next to Space Racer to deal decent damage and even more with Plant Food. Knockback plants like Hurrikale can push zombies right back to the portal, so you can use this to redirect them to a different lane if the portals changed right after. Avoid using friendly zombies making plants like Hypno-shroom or Zoybean Pod as Space Racer can create a portal to redirect them to somewhere without any zombies to attack, effectively making them useless. Ultomato might looks like a straight-shot plant at first, but since portals count as obstacles like gravestones, they can still target zombies and attack Space Racer easily, making them one of the best attacker to fight Space Racer with.
Her biggest weakness comes from her overreliance on other zombies. This can be solved with strong attacks that destroy those zombies like Cherry Bomb. When a wave died down, that's when you can focus your attack powers on her. Focusing power on her by using plants like Boom Balloon Flower to damage her. She doesn't have a lot of self-defense option and can't summon zombies on her own, therefore you don't have to worry about other lawns except the one she's in and the one with a connected portal. Pokra is a good choice as melee go through portals, so they can deal high amount of damage without problems.
== Gallery ==
File:Space Racer.png|HD Space Racer
File:Space Racer Almanac.png|Space Racer on the Penny's Pursuit Lawn
File:Space Racer Almanac Icon.png|Almanac Icon
File:Space Racer's Rainbow Ram.png|Her first ability "Rainbow Ram"
File:Space Racer's Star Stun.png|Space Racer's second ability "Stun Star"
File:Space Racer's Galaxy Gateway.png|Her third ability "Galaxy Gateway"
File:Spece Racer Advertisement.png|Space Racer's Advertisement
File:Space Racer Screenshot.png|In-game screenshot
== In other language ==
== Trivia ==
* She is trans.
* Like every General Zombie, her almanac incorrectly state his Toughness as Hardened and his Speed as Creeper. Yes I reused this the third time now.
* She was going to have degrade looks, but was scrapped due to time constraint.
* She will be a General Zombie in Plants vs. Zombies: Kingdom of Taco.
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