Professor Poultry

Professor Poultry is a Zombie in Plants vs. Zombies 2, encountered in Modern Day, Penny's Pursuit, and Arena. He rides a giant chicken onto the lawn, firing Mystery Eggs out of his bazooka that break on impact, releasing Zombie Chickens to attack your Plants.
Professor Poultry fires his bazooka every 3 seconds, launching a Mystery Egg four tiles in front of him which creates 7-12 Zombie Chickens in a 3x3 area around the impact point. Mystery Eggs will also break immediately when hitting a Plant, and Zombie Chickens will not be spawned on tiles already containing a Plant.
Along with this, Professor Poultry's chicken can jump over Slider Tiles and certain trap Plants, including Potato Mine and its Primal variant, Iceberg Lettuce, and Olive Pit.
==Origins:==
Professor Poultry is based on a mad scientist, a scientist who is described as "mad" or "insane" owing to a combination of unusual or unsettling personality traits and the unabashedly ambitious, taboo or hubristic nature of their experiments. He is also based on a chicken, a domestic fowl kept for its eggs or meat. His appearance is based on the sterotypical mad scientist, with a deranged expression and scientist's lab coat
==Overview:==
With a fairly average toughness and speed, Professor Poultry is not a very big threat on his own. His real danger comes from his chicken-spawning ability, especially if you are using slow-attacking Plants or a defense without a good source of crowd control damage. Luckily, he doesn't spawn chickens very often, so you can usually take care of him before too many shots have been fired off.
==Almanac:==
==Strategies:==
Due to his low attack speed and fairly average health, Professor Poultry isn't much of a threat on his own. However, don't underestimate his ability; not only does he summon swarms of fast-moving chickens, but he summons them quite far on the lawn, greatly decreasing your time to react to them. Because of this, AoE damage plants such as Snapdragon or Winter Melon work very well to combat his chicken swarms, hopefully destroying them before they can wreak havok on your defenses. Overall, strategies that work on Chicken Wrangler will also work well on Professor Poultry.
To stop the chicken swarms, chilling Plants like Snow Pea can also help a lot, increasing the time between egg launches to allow you to defeat him much easier. Winter-Mint or Iceberg Lettuce's Plant Food also work well, freezing him solid and preventing more chickens from being launched. Just be careful to avoid trying to use Iceberg Lettuce on him directly as the chicken will simply jump over the lettuce, completely avoiding the freezing effect. You can also use Cherry Bomb or other explosive Plants to kill him right away, an especially helpful option if he's in a crowd of Zombies that would otherwise make defeating him hard.
==Trivia:==
*His almanac entry references Poultry Man, Grian's superhero alter ego on the HermitCraft Minecraft server.
*The giant chicken he rides on is actually a robot, as seen in its degrades.
*His appearance uses sprites from Zombie Chicken, Mad Chemist, and Foot Soldier.
*Professor Poultry was made for the 2020 Zombie contest.
== Gallery: ==
Professor Poultry.png|Professor Poultry on a transparent background
Professor Poultry2.png|Professor Poultry on the lawn
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