The Unused Content of Plants vs. Zombies 

Before you comment, I know that Timestopper is meant to be an apple. Save some energy from slamming your fingers on the keyboard.

I see a common theme in this unused content. A lot of it might have been unused to make the game distance itself from the fact that zombies USED to be people with jobs and families, and reminding the player of that might have been too dark for the "fun" aesthetic Popcap was going for with the game Examples of that being the case are the removal of references to the jobs that the conehead and buckethead used to have before dying (which could also have been to standardize the appearance of the zombies after their armor gets removed) and the removal of the children and mom zombies (the children zombies might have been replaced by imps?? idk) In the finalized version of the game, the zombies ended up seeming more like _"cRaZy!!"_ and _"wAcKy!!"_ cartoon monsters who take random stuff from the streets because they're dumb, rather than _actual people_ who died, and I think that was a good decision from Popcap

god i love stinger's design, the one used in the betas, i don't care what it does i love how it looks

I think if Stinger wasn't just cactus but worst she would shoots bee stingers that slowly poisons zombies over time. She can also make honey to slow down zombies in there tracks.

One very interesting thing to mention about the Ice Level is that it was supposedly the inspiration for the Yeti Zombie, who was added alongside it for the April Fool's joke and then kept in as his current incarnation

In the files of the pvz beta you can find things like a gargantuar helmet, golden fertilizer, golden gramophone. Those are the ones I remember, but there are more things too.

5:47 Bruh i cant unsee the Conehead and Bucket head designs They look so much better with theire respective jobs, its kindoff sad that it got scrapped as i even preffer these versions

3:43 - Not gonna lie, I kind of prefer the concept art for Chomper to the one that we got. How you said, it looks more organic, and for me, somehow cuter than the final version

I have no clue if it’s an intentional reference or not, but the early Split-Pea’s design immediately made me think of Invader Zim. Specifically the episode where Zim grows a giant zit and disguises it as his friend “Pustulio.” Looking it up, they even both have little purple suits!

i love how they converted the name Bloom and Doom from the game's title to being part of the lore by creating Bloom and Doom co. as the manufacturer of these plants as seen in the seed packets

Stinger is a nice concept, considering one of the arts is a beehive on a plant, leading to a lot of potential uses. Maybe bees would fly at zombies and sting them and, if there are no zombies on a lane, the amount of bees builds up. The timestopper isn't actually that odd looking, considering flower pot and plantern exist, it kinda looks like an apple with clock hands on it. It could be neat, if it slowed down time for a few seconds while also recharging your plants, letting you micro manage everything.

3:10 BALD BALD BALD MY EYES

I'm almost sad they didn't stick with the concept name "Zombies ate my Beans!"

I think a good alternative name for an ice-variant of Cabbage Pult would be Coldslaw

I actually see Duplicator Cycle's use here. It becomes useful as soon as you place the 2nd one. You can only bring a certain number of plants for a level. However, as soon as you place the 2nd Duplicator Cycle, it will look as if you brought an additional Imitater. Imagine choosing Doom-shroom for a level and having 5 Duplicator Cycles on the lawn. With enough sun, you can immediately end the game lmao.

Underrated content. Keep grinding my man.

1:38 it might be an apple cut in half. Just like how the grave buster is supposed to be like- tree bark- I think?

You forgot about the unused track titled 'Zombotany' which was the beta track for the Zomboss stage. It was scrapped due to it's intense part being too short (or something like that). People tend to believe it was for the zombotany minigame but the claim was disproven by Laura Shigihara.

Man I'm kinda done with pvz as a whole, but I still enjoy watching you so much. One of the few content creators I watch daily and its so sad you arent more well known.

"one leaf sticking out of a clock means its a plant species?" magne-shroom is literally just a magnet also, flower pot is literally a pot with 2 LEAVES sticking out of it, time stopper would definitely fit in the game

6:20 Finally this detail got noticed. I bought a cd of pvz when I was a child and I've noticed that the past dancing zombie was changed with disco zombie. I mean, I like them both, but I kinda feel nostalgic

8:31 Creepy Ghouls and Garden Tools: Attack of the vegan 2?? What kinda title is that?? I like it!

the timestopper isnt such a weird plant when u remember plantern, magnetshroom, and flowerpot. AND I AM SO GLAD WE GOT THE FINAL FORM OF EACH PlANT AND NOT THE CREEPY CRAP WE ALMOST GOT!!!!!!!

Aight so I wasn't tripping the entire time. I clearly remember the dancing zombie wearing the red outfit while I played the game as a kid and was confused by the replaced one.

Crazy that Iceberg Lettuce was scrapped from not only the very first PVZ game, but PVZ Battle For Neighborville as well. She can't catch a break.

Zombie kids are so creepy im gonna see them in my nighmare toonight

Thank you for making these, I have never been able to find an English Speaker do a video on the unused content of the PvZ games and have voiceover. Heck, I don't think I've even seen ANY English videos of the first game's unused content at all (like on screen text OR commentary). So you are a HERO for these! THANK YOU SO MUCH! =D

"Zombies Ate My Garden" would have been a GOAT'ed title fr.

5:47 I gotta say, these unused details are insanely good. No wonder why they got cone and bucket on their head.

Two things I want to say that weren't featured in the video as cut content was that there was gonna be a sixth level in the game which would've been the night time variant of the Roof which is where Dr Zomboss was gonna be fought in, but the idea was dropped and only 1 night time roof level remained in the final game being level 5-10 the part where adventure ends and you fight Dr Zomboss in, there is a concept that features a night time level that looks like fog except without the pool and fog with it having six lanes of the regular ones from Day and Night and some sort of corner on the top right end of where 4 lanes were in the corner while the other 2 weren't it can be played in the beta version of the game, the 2nd being cut on the PC version of the game is Versus mode, originally PC players would've been able to play Versus mode prior to the Xbox, PS and DS versions coming out, but was of course scrapped, idk why but it's honestly a shame we didn't get a PC version of versus, cause it would've been nice for us PC players to play and compete against other players.

the bloom and doom name is kind of catchy ngl

4:23 Well, in a dev conference they mentioned that you used to start out with 100 sun

1:40 its an apple

Good vid. The zombotany title makes sense with the unused sound track, zombotany, what was a scrapped 5-10 music

The hover cherry bomb could've had a similar function to Umbrella leaf, defending a plant(s) from bungee zombies or other aerial threats

I love pvz. finding this channel is nothing but a blessing

3:45 god dayum that chomper looks hella slick, the design looks better imo than the chomper we have today

That beehive one wouldve been cool if it had a better use. Like, it has bees that come out of it and attack zombies around the lawn similar to cattail and even pop balloons or something. Maybe the bees would slow zombies instead or just act like electric blueberry where they come in a cloud, sting a zombie to death and go to rest in the hive. Honestly this was a good idea.

I wish they kept the potato mine early design, but make the leaves blink red when ready to explode. It looks much more like a plant than the current one (but I prefer it's buck tooth and round black eyes though).

i think videos showcasing and talking about the worlds and plants/zombies unique to the Chinese version would make for a great series, great video as usual.

3:59 I think Hypno shrooms design inspired the doom shroom

Damn i didn't know some of these underused plants noice you earned a sub :D

This was a great watch, I didn't know most of these somehow even though I've been a huge fan for PVZ for years

A new pvz creator looks nice and it is i didnt think i would see this much unused content other youtubers show the same Respect+

İ feel like iceberg lettuce in pvz 1 could have been an upgrade to cabbage pult just like how the other cattapult plants have upgrades

Feels great seeing someone talk about these thx

I actually liked the Iceberg Lettuce's ability in this one.

But the most unused plant in pvz is marigold,has anyone use him since you can just farm coins in zen garden

Fun fact: text for the dog walking zombie still exist in the strings.txt (along with a lot of other unused stuff that doesn’t have art or other files in the final game)

I think Dog-Walker Zombie may be a concept that got reused/changed into Newspaper Zombie. A two-phase zombie that has a counterpart with higher movespeed and damage after phase 1 is killed. Just that a zombie dog didn't fit as well so it got changed. Explains why Newspaper exists, it is kind of a weird zombie compared to the rest.

I wonder what PVZ 2 could have been if the original team was still in place

The Ice Level using a photo realistic background makes me want to figure out how to replace the background to be my lawn.

The [TIME STOPPER] is the ultimate plant

Koala: How is the Time Stopper even a plant? Spikerock: Well, it actually doesn't care so much

Wow it's interesting how the jack in the box zombie looks similar to the big top event zombies in pvz2 , in fact the monkey varient looks like the inspiration for the monkey zombie from that event

Have you looked on the Cutting Room Floor? I recently found a video about a week ago that showed 2 different PVZ prototypes live in 2010.

That old Split Pea design makes it look like he has a ventriloquist dummy.

important: the "bloom and doom" name was also used in the final version, in the label the seed packets have

I think the time stopper is an apple

Magnet shroom used to have another design that is apperantly ripped from flas (pvz wiki)

It's weird to see what a strange, unusual bumpy road the game to get to where it is now. Only thing is just that I WISH we got endless survival for each area

i would have loved the conehead and buckethead designs they are way better than just the hats. they bassically would have been like garden warfare variants.

I'm pretty sure the imp replaced the kids. I had no idea that the old dancing zombie design was changed, I remember it from when I was a kid.

Potato mine's early design screams World of Goo vibes to me

But the Stinger wasnt that lost, I imagine it gave the devs the idea of the Bee Shooter from PvZ Adventures

Bloom & Doom would have actually been a really nice name

That isn't a Jack-in-the-Box Zombie, that is the John-Wayne-Gacy Zombie.

on the topic of sunflower's old sun cost, it actually wasn't changed to speed up the game in the early versions of the game, player's tended to ignore planting sunflowers early on due to their high sun cost, a habit that wouldn't be sustainable once they reach the later levels to remedy this, sunflower's price was reduced to match your starting price, as this would let its seed packet glow at the start of the level to signify it was ready to be planted, which means players are naturally more likely to plant it at the start this also resulted in a lot of changes to the game's balance, since they had to nerf its sun production, and even made cheap plants like potato mine and wall nut start the level having to recharge so sunflower was the only plant ready to be planted

This is so cool! awesome content

A lot of these ideas seem to get added in pvz 2 in some shape or form

Please do more unused content I love it

Never knew the red on bucket head was paint I can’t be the only one who thought it was blood

i love this kinda series seriously of pvz lost content

i really like the concepts of the conehead and buckethead

Unused content is one of my favorite things about video games... there are so many interesting concepts

1:43 *Apple*

6:40 I remember this screen when I was very young, I was like 3,(I am still young), it was on the disc version. I think it's in the newer version where it's stuck in the files, but I remember this like it was a week ago.

I thought the red thing on Buckethead Zombie's bucket is blood, just knew it after 11 years

The time-stopper is actually a cut in half apple, as it has the same red skin and white flesh an apple has, with the clock hands being like the seeds. Also I didn't know Cactus was considered one of the worst plants, she's pretty damn useful in both PvZ1 and PvZ2 imo

You are underrated,love from Romania

2:52 special zombie death

My mom drove me to school fifteen minutes late on Tuesday. However, I was watching this VID the entire HECKIN TIME!!! It made me say this: Her mug froze solid in the winter cold. And I say that as a former "KOALA" Myself! Add divinerpg to plants vs zombies UNUSED endition, a new mod that we will be creating

The pogo and zomboni packets are usable in console pvz's versus mode

Holy shit, they brought the first jack-in-the-box zombie back in PvZ 2 in a way

god damn that early chomper art 🥵

Fun fact: There was a book called "The Art of Plants Versus Zombies" that showed some of the cut content, such as the zombie children and mom.

Bloom and Doom is the name of the seed packet company at least in the first game if you zoom in

This is great and underrated content I hope your channel grows

Is nobody gonna mention how if Micheal Jackson didn't die, the disco robot from FF would be a Micheal Jackson robot?

The dog zombie be like "PITBULL, ATTACK THOSE KI-"

Whats the link to the cover (background music) 2:35 ?

i dont know why they scapped the conehead and buckethead shirt because it look like it fit them very well

This is one of the best PvZ channels in my opinion.

The cover art for zom botany is really good

Why cactus is so hated? It's basicly a pea shooter but +25 sun, it's not much

i never knew that the michael jackson zombie was only on the first release of the game. i've only played pvz using the disc i got on release. i was so confused about the afro zombie but never cared to look into it since i thought it was cheated in

Zombotony sounds great i could see this being the final name

6:28 the fact that my parents installed the first ever version of the game when i was a baby that has the Micheal Jackson zombie i consider it very rare to have the first version of the game

I feel like the version of stinger shown in the thumbnail could have been a sort of land cattail or something

stinger would be good as a 25 sun plant you use until you get cactus but besides that the only thing it has going for it is the looks