#<- supports theory of them being called zombies even if they technically aren't

[mikumutual]

i truly believe that the zombies in plants vs zombies are not, by the traditional definition, zombies. i don't believe that there is any official lore so this is my speculation based on the (first) game.

zombies in popular culture are humans who have died and their corpses are reanimated through some means, and they attack/eat humans, who then become zombies in turn. why might one assume the pvz enemies match this definition?

one, they are called zombies. two, they enjoy eating brains. three, lyrics in the ending song support this: "we are the undead" and "i used to play football". these lines imply that the zombies used to be living, then died, and now are undead. however, i don't believe this. i think that they refer to themselves as undead because they understand their similarities to traditional zombies. and i think the football zombie assumes he used to play football, based on his outfit, but doesn't actually remember it (seeing as his description in the suburban almanac says "he has no idea what a football is").

i believe that they are not truly undead because - the crux of my argument - all of the zombies are created from scratch by dr zomboss. as in, i don't think he's reanimating humans. i think he's creating these grunts to do his bidding because he personally benefits from what they do. this can be supported by crazy dave in level 5 of the pool levels: "funny thing about the zombie process, sometimes it makes them come out real little. and real mean!" and then the level is filled with extremely tiny but fast zombies. i refuse to believe that this could have resulted from the reanimating of humans. dr zomboss has some kind of machine somewhere that zombies just emerge from wholecloth, and if he fucks it up then they come out tiny. see also: the gargantuar zombie, which absolutely could not have been the corpse of a human. i know crazy dave is cartoonishly stylized and human, but there's just no way. plus the fact that each zombie of each type wears identical clothing, acting identical, and they just keep coming without fail. i mean, i know the main character lives across the street from a graveyard, but there cannot possibly be that many graves.

actually i just read backup dancer zombie's description which says that he graduated from a performing arts center in "zombie new york city" so actually i think zombies just live in this world alongside humans, terrorizing humans, and dr edgar zomboss just built the robot and is a sort of cult leader. ignore everything i said above because i have no fucking idea what the lore is

#i mean their thing definitively is 'we want to eat your brains' and not 'we want to turn you into a zombie' #so even still. who KNOWS where they come from #EDIT GOD I WROTE THIS POST TOO HASTILY. THE PLANT ALMANAC ONLY RAISES MORE QUESTIONS #puffshroom 'didn't know that zombies existed until now' and assumed they were just movie monsters #<- supports theory of them being called zombies even if they technically aren't #grave buster works at a 'zombie rehabilitation center'?!?!?! what happens to them?????? #hypno shroom says 'we should do more to bring them around to our way of thinking' so like. you can't un-undead them #i mean apparently twin sunflower was created in a 'crazed night of forbidden science' and that sounds pretty zombosscore to me #god. who fucking knows man