Smoothie Shaker Zombie

Smoothie Shaker Zombie is a Zombie in Plants vs. Zombies 2, encountered in Penny's Pursuit, Arena, Piñata Parties, and Big Wave Beach expansion levels, wearing a tropical shirt and matching blender-glass backpack. Like most zombies, he's a big fan of walking onto your lawn. He behaves as normal until he receives damage from any plant with a projectile that can be turned into a smoothie. The projectile will only deal half damage to Smoothie Shaker Zombie, then it gets blended up and turned partially into a delicious smoothie. It also partially fills the blender on his back by about a tenth. Depending on what the projectile was, the smoothie's color will be different. Upon the blender filling up entirely, Smoothie Shaker Zombie makes a smoothie, which does different things depending on what type it is, and gives it to himself and the nearest two zombies that can benefit from it. 
There are several different kinds of smoothies:
*Damage smoothies are a bright green color, formed by (most) damage-dealing plants, with notable exceptions like Magnifying Grass. A very strange tasting, sugary smoothie that reduces straight-shot damage by 50% and enhances the abilities of certain special zombies for 20 seconds.
*Stally smoothies are a bright blue color, formed by slowing or stalling plants, overriding the damage smoothie if the plants in question also deal damage. The cold only enhancing it, it speeds up zombies that it's given to by 50% and makes them immune to all slowing and knockback for 20 seconds.
*Explosive smoothies are a neat tan color, formed by explosive plants and explosive splash damage. The gunpowder giving a sort of explosive booster, it makes zombies that drink it immune to Bombard-mint family plants for 60 seconds, as well as making them explode upon defeat in a 3x3 area, dealing 1000 damage.
*Fruit smoothies are a hearty red color, formed by specific plants such as Melon-pults and Strawbursts that are fruits, and overriding all other kinds of smoothies. These super sweet and tasty smoothies apply ALL of the above buffs, as well as healing them to full health. Oh gosh.
Smoothie Shaker Zombie can give out one smoothie to himself and buddies every 10 seconds. If he's hit more than 10 times before he can give out another smoothie, smoothie will leak out of the blender on his back and splatter onto the ground somewhere in his lane or an adjacent lane. Zombies that walk over the spilled smoothie receive the benefits of the smoothie. If two plants that make different smoothies take part in making a smoothie, the plant that did damage more times has their smoothie made. If each type of smoothie is half and half, or all equal fourths inside the blender, then two or even four kinds of smoothies are made at once and distributed.
==Origins==
Smoothie Shaker Zombie is partially based off both smoothie stands (such as the one pictured), which are stands where smoothies are sold. Smoothies in particular were chosen and not like shakes or sundaes because that's what the creator thought of first and also because they can't draw bowls. 
The blender on his back came from a similar idea that the creator has already done with one of his zombies of a mechanism being on their back. The blender was based on more old-fashioned blenders instead of modern depictions, especially the big red button.
The bucket hat was based off of the tropical drip of Fisherman Zombie because that guy has some illegal drip on him.
==Overview==
Smoothie Shaker Zombie absorbs 500 damage per shot. At 190 damage per shot, his bucket hat falls off. At 250 damage per shot, his arm falls off. Then finally, at 500 damage per shot, his head falls off and he dies.
=== Detailed list of special zombies affected by the damage smoothie ===
There is an extraordinary amount of special zombies that are affected by the boosts from the damage smoothie. So much, in fact, they had to be contained in this nifty little template down here. Only release them if you are prepared.
==Almanac==
==Strategies==
Smoothie Shaker Zombie is a very dangerous zombie, creating smoothies that counter your defense and apply absurd buffs to himself and his buddies every time he gets hurt enough. It's even worse that the projectiles that create smoothies deal half damage. Most plants in the game will deal half damage to him since their projectiles constitute as smoothie ingredients. However, there are a few which deal normal damage and ignore his blender, mostly ones that can't logically be turned into a smoothie. These plants include, but aren't limited to: most melee plants, non-explosive instant use plants like Squash and Tangle Kelp, and other plants with attacks that logically can't be turned into smoothies, such as Magnifying Grass, Fume-shroom, Lightning Reed, and Snapdragon. In defenses made up of these plants, Smoothie Shaker Zombie is easily reduced to no more than a fancily dressed-up Conehead Zombie. Magnifying Grass in particular stands out as a very good option here; where the other plants have long recharges or may not be strong enough to deal with the rest of the zombie horde, Magnifying Grass serves as a cheap, easy-to-use attacker that instantly defeats Smoothie Shaker Zombie, who recharges quickly to boot.
Smoothie Shaker Zombie's drinks are easily the most dangerous part to look out for. While they buff very few zombies, each grant them dangerous abilities. Damage smoothies, stally smoothies, and fruit smoothies are the ones to look out for the hardest, since they provide the most absurd buffs. Don't let his smoothies put you down entirely from using the plants that make them, though. Careful management of your lawn can help with tracking down, singling out, and defeating dangerous boosted threats. Certain plants like Banana Launcher and Missile Toe can snipe the boosted zombies in question, as well as snipe Smoothie Shaker Zombies. Trap plants like Olive Pit can be useful for destroying boosted zombies that manage to breach your defenses. Dangerous as they are to your side, they could also do a great bit of damage to the zombie side if you manage to hypnotize them with plants like Hypno-shroom or Caulipower, and can also be transformed and defeated instantly if they get too out of control by Witch Hazel.
If the player wants to be extra safe from his drinks, they could always bring less attackers so they can reliably predict which smoothies Smoothie Shaker Zombie would be creating and adapt to them instead. However, this could be a risky move, depending on how important the plant they're shelving is to their defense, and may not be worth risking it instead of just manning up and dealing with the smoothie'd zombies and possibility for throwing multiple drinks.
==Trivia==
*His appearance uses sprites from Beach Flag Zombie.
==Gallery==
SmoothieShakerHD.png|Smoothie Shaker Zombie in HD
SmoothieShakerTile.png|Smoothie Shaker Zombie as he appears in the almanac
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