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This is a sub-page of Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2.

Various strings not only from the first game are still present within the games files, but also various strings that are only in this game as well... there's quite a bit of reading to do here!

Unused Private Play AI Names#

Certain variants that do not spawn in Private Play have unused names in case they were to appear. Due to these characters not appearing in any of the character sets, the names go unused.

Variant	Unused AI Names (separated by dashes)
Unicorn Chomper	Unicorn - Cousin B
Disco Chomper	Dancy - Jiggly
Iron Citron	Iron Round - Legendary Citron - LC-1000 - Unstoppable Orange
Computer Scientist	ASCII Madness - Monochrome Mayhem
Toxic Brainz	Toxic Man! - Revenge of Toxicity - Noxious Nomad - Wholesome Grim

Early Mission Names#

Several of the Story Mode missions had their names changed during development. Not all names are available, as these early names are pulled from unused strings that were left over, and only exist for zombie missions. Some of these names imply different ordering of certain missions, as each string mentions the mission code within it.

Old Name	Final Name	Notes
Top Secret	No Baloney, No Problem!	None
Flower Power	Ancient Knowledge	This name seems to be mismatched with the current placement of the mission "Yuck!" Further evidence to this is that, internally, the mission uses a prototype prefab as its name, hinting towards it possibly being made later.
What's the Zombish word for friend?	Yuck!	This mission may have possibly been different earlier in development, as this name has nothing to do with the final quest placement.
19 Imps and Counting	Imp Roundup	None
I need a vacation...	Steve-cation	None
Brainvengers, Assemble!	The League of Awesome	The old name is a reference to the Avengers
No Autographs, Please	The Bean Situation	This name is rather confusing as it makes no mention of the Super Bean boss fought during the mission. No remnants of if this mission was different before release exist internally.
Gray's Anatomy	Hitting a Snag	According to Chassel, one of the developers of the game, said on Reddit that the Shark stuck in the side of the boat in Captain Deadbeard's ship was originally named Grayson before being renamed to Snaggles, explaining the old name.
Deadbeard's Big Surprise	Ol' Deadbeard's Big Surprise	Very minor difference, only having "Ol'" added to the beginning of the name.
Booty Call	Gold Rush	None

Unused Special Waves/Challenge Waves/Boss Waves#

There are several string ID's related to special waves that don't go used at all within the garden and/or graveyard ops gamemodes. Some of these are from the first game, but there are others that depicted, possibly interesting enemy combinations.

String	Notes
SPECIAL WAVE - LEGION OF BOOM	Wrestling themed wave, in the first game this features primarily wrestling stars with occasional explody imps and berserkers.
SPECIAL WAVE - MARATHON	Flag zombie themes wave. Spawned a massive horde of flag zombies to speed to your base.
SPECIAL WAVE - THE PYRE PRINCE	Special wave featuring the Prye Prince, a centurion mini boss.
SPECIAL WAVE - NOT YOUR GRANDPA	I... we're gonna be real with you we don't actually know what this would've been. Most likely an inside joke from the dev team. (NOTE: If asked I can prove this string exists)
SPECIAL WAVE - THE DINO KING	Special wave featuring the Dino King, a Paleontologist mini boss.
SPECIAL WAVE - THEY HUNGER	Food themed special wave, all enemies wear food related hats.
SPECIAL WAVE - HOT GARBAGE	Most likely a fire and toxic themed special wave. String is also in the first game but doesn't go used.
SPECIAL WAVE - THE ELDER KING	Special wave featuring the elder king, a Golf Star mini boss.
SPECIAL WAVE - DINO DNA	Most likely a special wave featuring Paleontologists & Archeologists.
SPECIAL WAVE - THE ROYAL GUARD	Given this string is also in the first game, this is likely a mini boss that was scrapped.
SPECIAL WAVE - BRICK LAYERS	Likely meant for brick theme'd enemies but none exist outside of cosmetics.
SPECIAL WAVE - FROM THE DEEP	Probably based around variants that involve sea based wildlife like Marin Biologists, S.H.R.Imps, & Captain Sharkbites.
SPECIAL WAVE - THE NEW KIDS	Most Likely a special wave dedicated to the new classes since one exists for all of the old zombie classes.
SPECIAL WAVE - CONE COMPANY	A special wave dedicated to nothing but cone heads. Was in the first game but its wave has been removed, but oddly the plant counterpart to this does exist.
SPECIAL WAVE - SAFETY FIRST	Safety themed wave. All enemies wear safety themed cosmetics.
SPECIAL WAVE - THE FAST & FLABBERGASTED	Likely to be a speed based special wave given an unused buff exists that suggests all enemies spawned would've had it.
SPECIAL WAVE - REGAL REJECTS	Uncertain what this one could've been.
SPECIAL WAVE - SCI-FI ACTION THEATRE	Sci-fi themed wave where all enemies had futuristic cosmetics.
SPECIAL WAVE - THE GARBAGE KING	Special wave featuring the Garbage King, a Sanitation Expert mini boss.
SUPER TOMBSTONE WAVE	A Super boss wave from the first game that primarily spawned tombstones with occasional coffin zombies. 3 always spawned when the wave first started. Restoring the right connections can allow these to become possible once again.
Hunt the Chieftains	A challenge wave that composed of hunting down 3 specific enemies known as "Chieftains". Was replaced by hunt the champions

Unused Ability Descriptions#

Certain abilities that are unable to be viewed in the booth or Stickerbook have unused descriptions that would have been used if they were viewable there.

Ability	Description	Notes
Missile Madness	Arm your shoulder-mounted launchers and let loose with a volley of crazy little missiles as you send the Plants running!
Explosive Escape	When even the mighty Z-Mech can’t handle the heat, arm your Explosive Escape and destroy the Plant threat as you eject to safety!
Robo Stomp	What’s the best part about riding around in a Z-Mech? Why, stomping on Plants with your giant metal feet, of course!
Dragon Swoop	Let the power of the dragon loose as you fly through your enemies with ease.
Wing Flap	Create a mighty pocket of wind that temporarily protects you from all frontal damage!
Drag Race	Get your engines revving and plow through some Plants with this high octane attack!
Pylon Mine	These cute little guys are obsessed with with safety, and uh… exploding. Mostly exploding.
Shrimp Jump	Powerful water turbines launch your S.H.R.Imp Z-Mech towards the skies, before changing direction and rocketing it back down towards your foes!
Water Cyclone	Create a wild water cyclone that sucks opponents towards it, before taking them along for a ride!
Biotic Pull	Generate a mass-lowering field, which levitates enemies and pulls them towards you.
Zomni-Blade	This diamond-hard pylon blade is created in a tiny mass effect field, and is capable of mulching innumerable forms of Plant life.
Explosive Party	All the functionality of the normal Explosive Escape, but with way more party!
Crusty Gigabomb	Watch it roll and watch Plants run. This timed bomb is sure to vanquish some enemies should they get caught in its might blast!	There is a typo in the word ‘mighty’.
Peg Leg Kata	It’s like the impkata, but with cannons!	‘Impkata’ is not capitalised correctly.
Daisy Beam	"Rapid Firing bursts of pure sunlight at her targets she can take Zombies down with the best of them."	Description is from regular sunflower.

Unused Weapon Names#

There are several weapons that have names that either are not seen in normal in-game circumstances or go unused.

Weapon Name	Notes
Great Mushroom	Giga Gnome primary weapon.
Flux Laser	Giga Gnome Laser weapon.
Orange Burst	Primary Weapon name for Citrus Cactus.
Berry Blast	Primary Weapon name for the Berry Shooter.
Future Tallnut	Alternate for the tall-nut wall ability.
Bling Nugget	Alternate for the potato mine ability. Would've been the bling version of the nugget mines.
Crazy Dave Airstrike	The airstrike ability for the plant boss mode from the previous game.
Ground Pound	Name of a weapon that doesn't exist. Was in the first game strangely in All-stars weapon UI set up.
Arm Grenade	Name of a weapon that formerly was meant for the old Gravedigger class.
Sprint Smash Weapon	Name of an unused alternate ability for the playable Torchwood class.
!!! Auto Turret	Name of an unused alternate turret ability for the engineer class. Interestingly it does not use a String ID, the name was manually typed in.
Dr. Zomboss Airstrike	Like the Crazy Dave airstrike, but for zombies.
Cheese Blaster	The primary weapon name for Dr Chester.
Cheesy Warp	The cheetos alternate ability for warp.
Sticky Cheetah Ball	Ditto but for the sticky bomb ability.
Cheetah Heal Station	Ditto but for the heal station ability.
Coconut Spotting Station	Name of the spotting ability formerly used by the previous games boss mode.
Revive Rainbow	Name of the revive ability also used by boss mode.
Cheesy Chomp	Primary name for the Chester Chomper.
Chester Weed	The cheetos alternate ability for spikeweed.
Cheesy Goop	Ditto but for the goop ability.
Hulk Slam	Name for a weapon that doesn't exist, is also in All-stars weapon UI set up, though it likely would've been for something that's present within his concept art relating to some kind of berserk mode.
Superb Zomboss Radar	Name of the spotting ability used by the zombies Boss Mode.

Unused/Unseen Upgrade Names#

Various upgrades also have names to them that don't go used, either because their a part of a default stat, or something else entirely.

Upgrade Name	Notes
Tennis Default Speed Upgrade	Is assigned to Tennis Stars default speed upgrade alongside a placeholder description. Never gets seen due to it being a default upgrade you can't unequip.
ID_M_WEP_UPG_AS_MOTO_4	Ditto but for Moto-X Stars Speed upgrade. Also has a description but neither its name or description have a proper string so it just has a string ID.
Vampire Chomper Zoom Upgrade	No item exists for this, but the string does... although how would a chomper exactly zoom if its not ranged like the yeti one?
Chomp Thing Zoom Upgrade Description	A description for a chomp thing zoom upgrade... a spray character. Also doesn't exist.
Armor Chomper Zoom Upgrade Description	We're not joking, they actually made strings for chompers to have zoom upgrades... we wonder if its implied that they were going to grant him a ranged attack that wasn't goop.

leftover strings from GW1#

A lot of strings from the first game are still present, although it seems likely some of them have been removed due to them not being present

String	Notes
Garden Center	Name of the old Garden Center map. Likely still around with it being zombified for the second game.
Port Scallywag	Name of the old Port Scallywag map from the first game.
Zomboss Estate	Ditto but for Zomboss Estate.
Cactus Canyon	Ditto but for Cactus Canyon.
Jewel Junction	Ditto but for Jewel Junction.
Chomp Town	Ditto but for Chomp Town.
Push the Golf-Bomb into the Hole in Cactus Canyon.	Description for the final minigame objective in the Cactus Canyon Stage.
The Mega Flower is the guardian of the coast and the Zombies are trying to destroy it! Will the Plants be able to stop them?	Description for the Driftwood Shores map when loading in.
Watch out for the Pain Train! Play Team Vanquish on our favorite map, Jewel Junction.	Likely from one of the limited time modes that was hosted in the first game where it presumably was team vanquish on exclusively Jewel Junction.
AQUAFINA FLAVORSPLASH and the AQUAFINA FLAVORSPLASH Label Designs are trademarks of PepsiCo, Inc.	Leftover from the Aquafina collab they did.
Chomper gains a speed boost due to getting in shape.	Description of chompers speed upgrade from the first game.
Peas that exist in a wave of probability help you reload faster.	Ditto but for Plasma Pea's old reload upgrade.
Turns out the bluer the blueberry, the more damaging it is to Zombies!	Ditto but for Berry Shooter's damage upgrade.
Sharper metal flakes cause more damage.	Ditto but for metal petals damage upgrade.
Extra Toxic Peas increase ammo capacity and are good for diets.	Ditto but for Toxic Pea's old damage upgrade.
Top secret peas do more top secret damage.	Ditto but for Agent Pea's old damage upgrade.
Movement speed increased due to addition of a supercharged turbo.	Ditto but for Hot Rod Chompers old speed upgrade.
The ammo capacity Thing-a-ma-bob is larger now and able to hold more Zomboss Rounds.	Ditto but for Foot soldiers old ammo upgrade,
Super Heated Sabot Rounds offer a damage increase but create a poor acronym. S.H.S.R.	Ditto but for Tank Commanders old Damage upgrade.
By making a Zombie Makeshift Thingy, reload time has decreased.	Ditto but for Super Commando's old reload upgrade.
Urbrainium Storage increases ammo capacity through enlarging the thing that holds the ammo.	Ditto but for Dr Toxic's old ammo upgrade.
ZOMBIE TRANSMITTER ONLINE	Text that would display when a transmitter spawned in their respective challenge waves.
MEGA FLOWER HEALTH	Text that would be placed on the mega flowers health bar from the driftwood shores end of map minigame.
Protect my Wee Gardens! Don't lose any!	What Crazy Dave would say when you rolled the protect the wee gardens challenge.
Chester Cheetah® special offer. Unlocks Chester Chomper abilities.	Description provided with the Pack containing the Chester Chompers abilities.
Chester Cheetah® special offer. Unlocks Dr. Chester abilities.	Ditto but for Dr. Chester's abilities.
Injured characters will only auto-regenerate to half health—look for healing characters to restore the rest.	Old tip text from the first game. Outdated now since everyone can regenerate to full health.

Miscellaneous#

These strings go unused... most likely either because they are debug strings or the developers messing around.

String	Notes
Just making sure the new DB works! 333333	Likely a string testing something with the initials "DB" whoever/whatever it is.
Mystery Portal Test Event	String related to them testing mystery portal events.
TEST STRING	Exactly like it says.
Pathfinding Debug	Debug string used for when they were testing AI pathfinding.
The PvZ Garden Warfare 2 Beta is now closed. We sincerely thank you for playing the Beta.	String for back when the game was in Beta
AI DEBUG	Likely debug text for when they were testing AI behavior
Placeholder	Likely does exactly as it says... there's also a lot of these, like a good hundred or so
Oh Yeah! Putting “Super” before anything REALLY does make it better! First team to reach 100 vanquishes wins, however the pot is sweetened with random rewards and traps that will appear from vases scattered around the map.	Some string that relates to an unused gamemode that was in the first game.