Glitter Zombie

*Trails glamorous rainbows that protect zombies behind her when she's feeling the beat.*

## Almanac statistics

### Special

Makes nearby zombies behind her invincible when pop jam plays

## In-game statistics

### First seen

NMT-I

Glitter Zombie inspires zombies everywhere to boogie their brains out, whether it's just one moment or maybe forever, or at least until the lights come on and they're kicking everybody out.

**Glitter Zombie** is the first special zombie encountered in Neon Mixtape Tour in *Alternate UniverZ*. When the pop jam plays, she will emit a rainbow trail behind herself, protecting all zombies in that area from incoming damage until she is killed or for the duration of the jam. The rainbow also negates negative effects from plants such as Kernel-pult's butter, Stallia's perfume, and Iceberg Lettuce's freezing effect. She will also kill any plants instantly when the pop jam is playing and when she encounters them, except for Spikeweed, Spikerock, Cactus, and Celery Stalker when hiding. However, the rainbow trail cannot protect herself or other Glitter Zombies.

## Almanac entry

**Glitter Zombie**

TOUGHNESS: Dense

SPEED: Basic

Trails glamorous rainbows that protect zombies behind her when she's feeling the beat.

Health: 590
Speed: 1.03
Special Ability: makes nearby zombies behind her invincible when pop jam plays

Glitter Zombie inspires zombies everywhere to boogie their brains out, whether it's just one moment or maybe forever, or at least until the lights come on and they're kicking everybody out.

## Overview

Glitter Zombie absorbs a total of 590 damage. Her appearance changes upon absorbing 295 damage (when her arm falls off) before dying.

## Encounters

* Player's House: Piñata Party

* Neon Mixtape Tour: NMT-I, NMT-III, NMT-IV, NMT-VI, NMT-VIII, NMT-X, NMTX-III, NMTX-IV, NMTX-VII, NMTX-VIII and NMTX-X

* Fright Theater: FT-III

* Plant Showcase: Law of Attraction, Gardened Guillotines and Dynamite Man

* Timeless Avenue: Roguelike Hunt and Arctic Show

* Endless Zones: Greatest Hits

* Veteran Quests: Just Dropping By and The Final Countdown

## Strategies

Despite being weak in terms of health, her ability to protect zombies behind her, as well as her ability to instant-kill plants by rolling over them during the pop jam, can cause this zombie to become very problematic if you do not have the right defenses. Normally, she is not hard to deal with and does not cause much of a problem as she rarely gets far enough into your lawn to quickly cause serious issues to your defense, due to the speed decrease by 50% for every zombie in this jam. However, do not underestimate her as she can be a problem if she appears early in undefended lanes or is left alive for long enough as all zombies behind her are invincible to almost all attacks, leaving the other zombies to quickly overwhelm defenses when she is destroyed. The main problem is that she can assist a Hair Metal Gargantuar behind her into your further defenses, which makes the Hair Metal Gargantuar invincible until she dies. Also, take caution if groups of Breakdancer Zombies appear in her lane, especially if pop and rap jams suddenly shift back and forth in a quick session such as some later levels in Greatest Hits, allowing her to crush the plants without moving towards them.

* Multi-directional plants such as Snapdragon or Lightning Reed can take out multiple Glitter Zombies at a time, making it easier to reduce the amount of zombies protected by the rainbow.
* Dandelion can quickly destroy groups of Glitter Zombies at a time as he can cover multiple lanes at a time and can deal splash damage.
* Slowing or immobilizing plants such as Snow Pea, Kernel-pult, Winter Melon and Stunion respectively, allow the player to slow down this zombie to an extent where other zombies can walk in front of her, removing their protection from damage.
* Ghost Pepper, Spikeweed, Spikerock, Cactus, and Celery Stalker (while hiding) cannot be killed by getting run over, making them effective at surviving to be able to continue to defeat other zombies. This is not recommended when Arcade Zombies or Hair Metal Gargantuars are nearby, though.
* Explode-O-Nuts can destroy a group of Glitter Zombies when they get crushed, which means several of them can wipe out an area of zombies.
* Spring Bean and Chard Guard can be very effective at pushing Glitter Zombies back, exposing the zombies she was protecting. However, there is a downside, as both plants can knock other zombies back into her rainbow trail, thus one should be careful when using them.
* Be careful not to use Hypno-shroom on another zombie or Zoybean Pod to deal with her when the pop jam is playing, because the hypnotised zombie/Zomboid will be knocked back and killed eventually instead.
* Toadstool can be used to eat her, exposing any zombies behind her to plant attacks. However, they will then be vulnerable to zombies, so take caution when using them.