Sunflower

Note: This Article is about Sunflower, for the Plant Hero counterpart, see Solar Flare.
 
The Sunflower is one of the main protagonists of Plants vs. Zombies franchise. She is a supporter plant that can produce sun overtime to help the player fight the zombies.
In the credit music video Zombies on Your Lawn, she was voiced by , the former composer of the franchise.
==Appearance==
Sunflower is a plant that has sixteen yellow petals on her brown face, which includes black eyes and a smile. Her body is a green stem with four leaves as legs to help her moving around.
==Biography==
===Plants vs. Zombies===
She first appeared after the players completed Player's House - Day 1. In the next level, the game gave the Players instructions about her, as see can produce 25 suns in seven seconds.
In the credit music video, Sunflower appeared and sang the song "Zombies on Your Lawn", with many zombies dancing around her.
Sunflower can be upgraded to the Twin Sunflower after Level 3-4, after the Players bought Twin Sunflower's seed packet.
===Plants vs. Zombies 2===
She also returned in the sequel of the first game after the Players completed Player's House - Day 1. Unlike the first game, she gives you 50 sun each instead of 25. She is in Enlighten-mint family, a family of sun-producing plants.
===Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare===
In this game, she returned as one of the playable character on the Plants' side.
In the introduction of Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2, she spawned at the Zombies' side and the players had to help her get to the landing zone to get back on the Plants' side.
She returned in Battle for Neighborville as a playable character of Support Class on the Plants side.
===Plants vs. Zombies Heroes===
As seen in the introduction of Plants vs. Zombies Heroes, the malfunction of the Hero-Tron 5000 turned a Sunflower into Solar Flare, one of the Plant Heroes.
Sunflower also appeared as a Solar Plant Card. Her rarity is Basic - Common, she costs 1, with the Flower tribe, and her health is 1. Her trait is Team-up, allowing the players to plant tow plants in a column instead of 1. She can produce an extra sun for each turn. When attack, she spits a small sun that can deal with damages dependent on the amount of strength.
===Plants vs. Zombies 3===
Sunflower returned in this game to help the players plant their plant defenses with the sun. Unlike other versions, she cannot be planted. Rather, she appears on the sun meter as an idle determinant of the situation.
Sunflower, alongside Peashooter, Wall-nut, Bonk Choy, The Player, Crazy Dave, and Penny ventured through Neighborville to obtain the Solar Sunglasses. To do this, she had to find the magic beans and use their magic words to open the Vault. The heroes also encountered the Brainiacs on the way. 
Before she could utilize the Solar Sunglasses, Dr. Zomboss stole it and attempted to use them for his villainous purpose. The Magic Beans protected her from harm by defeating Zomboss. However, he is far from losing, as he proceeds with the second part of his plans.
==Other appearances==
===Plants vs. Zombies comics===
She appeared as one of the supporting characters to help Nate Timeley and Patrice Blazing fight the Zombies.
Also in the comics, there was a Sunflower named Fred, who appears to be square-shaped and a male.
===Plants vs. Zombies vs. Jay and Silent Bob===
She appeared as a minor character in the Episode 3, The Epic Conclusion.
===World of Warcraft===
She appeared as a Singing Sunflower pet in World of Warcraft.
===Little Big Planet 3===
She appeared as one of the costume in this game.
==Variants==
===Mystic Flower===
Mystic Flower is a Super Rare (Rare in Garden Warfare 2) enigmatic Sunflower variant whose Mysterious Energy is a weapon that turns into a blast when supercharged.
===Power Flower===
The Power Flower is a Rare energized Sunflower variant that utilizes her electrical Power Pulse.
===Fire Flower===
Fire Flower ignites enemies with her blasts of Flame Pulse.
===Shadow Flower===
Shadow Flower is a Super Rare (Rare in Garden Warfare 2) dark Sunflower variant whose Dark Energy fires faster than a standard Sunflower, with an exchange of a slower recharge.
===Metal Petal===
Metal Petal is a Rare (Super Rare in Garden Warfare 2) metallic Sunflower who is much more durable than a standard Sunflower but slower, and she utilizes her primary weapon Metal Blast.
====Metal Petal Sunflower====
Metal Petal returned in Plants vs. Zombies Heroes as a Flower Plant of Solar class. Her rarity is Premium - Uncommon, she costs 4 suns, and her strength and health are 3 and 4. Start of turn, the players earn an extra sun.
===Sun Pharaoh===
Sun Pharaoh is a Super Rare (Rare in Garden Warfare 2) Egyptian Sunflower who shoots three bursts of Cobra Laser with a single button press.
===Alien Flower===
Alien Flower is a Rare (Super Rare in Garden Warfare 2) extraterrestrial Sunflower variant whose Spore Mist is a single-shot primary weapon that leaves an aura to deal overtime damages to enemies.
===Vampire Flower===
Vampire Flower is a Super Rare Sunflower variant in Garden Warfare 2. Her primary weapon, Life Leech, heals herself upon dealing with damages. She also has lower health tan other Sunflowers, being 85.
===Stuffy Flower===
Stuffy Flower is a Rare Sunflower variant in Garden Warfare 2. Her Rainbow Sunburst drops healing droplets after she vanquishes a zombie.
==Powers and Abilities==
===Powers===
*Sun Production: Sunflower's signature move, as she produces suns to help the players collect them faster.
*Sun Pulse: Sunflower's primary weapon, a rapid-fire burst of sun she produces.
*Heal Beam: This ability allows Sunflower to heal allies when she sticks this beam to ally.
**Rainbow Heal Beam: Like the heal beam, but with rainbow color and heals faster than the vanilla ability.
*Sunbeam: Sunflower stays rooted, then fires a powerful precisely beam that damages the enemies.
**Solar Flare Beam: Like the Sunbeam, except that that has shorter ammunition in exchange for automation of fire and higher damage.
*Sunny Side Up: Sunflower drops a burst of sun droplets to support weakened allies.
===Flower pots===
*Heal Flower: This flower heal allies with three sun droplets.
*Dark Flower: Instead of healing, this evil flower rapidly fires Dark Energy at enemies.
*Rainbow Flower: This colorful flower quickly drops a sun droplet continuously.
===Skills===
*Singing skills: As seen in Zombies on Your Lawn, Sunflower can sing very well.
==Gallery==
Sunflower2.png|Sunflower
Sunflower-HQ.png|Sunflower in Plants vs. Zombies Adventures.
SunflowerGardenWarfare.png|Render of Sunflower.
GW Sunny.png|Another Render of Sunflower.
Heal FlowerGW2.png|Heal Flower
Dark FlowerGW2.png|Dark Flower
Rainbow_FlowerGW2.png|Rainbow Flower
Metal_Petal_SunflowerH.png|Metal Petal
Sunflower3.png|Sunflower's old design in Plants vs. Zombies 3.
Sunflower funko_pop.jpg|Sunflower's Funko Pop!
==Trivia==
===General===
*According to Tulo from Peggle Blast, another game developed by PopCap, Sunflower and Tulo are cousins.
===Specific to her variants===
*Sun Pharaoh and Metal Petal are the only Sunflower variants without the word "Sunflower" in their name.
*Vampire Flower, with Count Chompula, and Vampweed are the only plants that are vampires.
**Beside, despite being a vampire, her powers are associated with sunlight.
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