Plants vs. Karate

Plants vs. Karate

Tapped Out Quest Information Level: 15 Update: Treehouse of Horror XXXIV Required characters: Lisa, Normal Springfielders, Homer Optional characters: Bart, Xylem, Kung Fu Werewolf, Professor Frink, Mighty Oak Leader, See Currency-earning jobs Internal name(s): PlantsVsKarate ID(s): 273006 - 273010 Previous quest(s): Encounters of the Not-Very-Spooky Kind Next quest(s): Just Wait Till Next Year

Plants vs. Karate is an event-exclusive questline in The Simpsons: Tapped Out. It was introduced in the Treehouse of Horror XXXIV content update.

Dialogue

Pt. 1

Between October 15, 2023 and November 15, 2023 Attention Springfield, the Ki-Ya Karate Monsters have arrived! FINALLY! WOO-HOO...I think? Now who sent us those HOWWL-IBLE character ranking memes! Do you always have to howl when you talk? Do you always have to suck blood when you bite? Wait. This is what you humans wanted for Halloween? Dusty old knockoff movie monsters? This dusty old knockoff is gonna knock YOUR block off! There you go. You CAN speak without howling. I just forgot. HOWWWWL! Task: "Collect Plastic Fangs" (x115). If Bart is owned: Task: "Make Bart Geek Out to Karate Monsters". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Springfield Park Entrance, or Simpson House and takes 4 hours. Task: "Make Lisa Explain the Plot". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Springfield Park Entrance, or Simpson House and takes 4 hours. If Xylem is owned: Task: "Make Xylem Mock "Lazy Monster Stereotypes"". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Springfield Park Entrance, or Simpson House and takes 4 hours. Quest reward: 100 and 10 Angry Christmas Trees

Pt. 2

After completing Pt. 1 All right, let's throw down these moldy monsters so we can get back to conquering this town ourselves. "Throw down"? So it's a mixed martial arts duel you want? Duel? Wait, what? Pick your fighters! One of you versus one of us...in the octagon! Why would we physically fight when we have fungal weapons and spore mortars that do our dirty work? Ick! Good idea. We also have ick cannons! Task: "Collect Plastic Fangs" (x155). Task: "Make Springfielders Call Out Plant Aliens" (x5). The jobs take place at the Town Hall, Springfield Park Entrance, or Simpson House and take 4 hours. Task: "Make Homer Try to Make Fungus Jokes". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Springfield Park Entrance, or Simpson House and takes 4 hours. If Kung Fu Werewolf is owned: Task: "Make Kung Fu Werewolf Challenge Xylem's Courage". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Springfield Park Entrance, or Simpson House and takes 4 hours. If Xylem is owned: Task: "Make Xylem Start to Worry". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Springfield Park Entrance, or Simpson House and takes 4 hours. Task: "Make Lisa Root for Plants". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Springfield Park Entrance, or Simpson House and takes 4 hours. If Bart is owned: Task: "Make Bart Root for Karate Monsters". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Springfield Park Entrance, or Simpson House and takes 4 hours. If Professor Frink is owned: Task: "Make Frink Also Root for Karate Monsters". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Springfield Park Entrance, or Simpson House and takes 4 hours. Go Karate Monsters! Yeah! Get 'em, Karate Monsters! Professor Frink, you're rooting for the Karate Monsters? But plants are hands down better for the environment! True. I am a dedicated environmentalist. But c'mon...kung fu is so cool! Quest reward: 100 and 10 Monster Business School

Pt. 3

After completing Pt. 2 Okay, wolfman, as the great leader of my people, I will prepare to fight you— *punches Xylem in the face* OW! I said I was PREPARING! Now just let me arm myself with some superior Xylem technology, and— *punches Xylem in the face again* OW! Damn it. Boss, you're embarrassing us! You're getting beaten from stem to stamen! You guys think this is easy? You fight him! Bring it! AH-OOOO! You know, I just remembered...we're getting our roots touched up this afternoon. Good luck, Boss! Task: "Collect Plastic Fangs" (x155). If Xylem is owned: Task: "Make Xylem Try Not to Embarrass Himself". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Springfield Park Entrance, or Simpson House and takes 4 hours. If Kung Fu Werewolf is owned: Task: "Make Kung Fu Werewolf Kick Plant Butt". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Springfield Park Entrance, or Simpson House and takes 4 hours. Task: "Make Lisa Cringe at Alien Ineptness". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Springfield Park Entrance, or Simpson House and takes 4 hours. If Bart is owned: Task: "Make Bart Enjoy Watching His Heroes Kick Butt". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Springfield Park Entrance, or Simpson House and takes 4 hours. Hey, ya know, maybe military conquest isn't our thing. Your defeat was not unexpected, considering you forgot the first scientific law of fighting. Which is? Fighting isn't science. Quest reward: 100 and 10 Alien Control Center

Pt. 4

After completing Pt. 3 *karate punches* HA-CHA! KI-YA! What is all that racket?! It's that human boy and those Karate Monsters — who, by the way, just kicked our root balls! I bet that makes you angry. Nah, not so much. But Mighty Oak, you need to stand up to these Karate Monsters — mostly to stop my brother's gloating and his awful kung fu noises! *karate kicks and thrusts* WA-TAH! HI-YAH! KA-PUNCH! They are pretty annoying. Task: "Collect Plastic Fangs" (x155). If Mighty Oak Leader is owned: Task: "Make Mighty Oak Leader Challenge Monsters". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Springfield Park Entrance, or Simpson House and takes 4 hours. Task: "Make Lisa Encourage Trees to Challenge Karate Monsters". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Springfield Park Entrance, or Simpson House and takes 4 hours. If Kung Fu Werewolf is owned: Task: "Make Kung Fu Werewolf Break Boards". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Springfield Park Entrance, or Simpson House and takes 4 hours. If Bart is owned: Task: "Make Bart Enthusiastically Watch Monsters Break Boards". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Springfield Park Entrance, or Simpson House and takes 4 hours. All right, Judo junkies, time for this oak to hickory smoke your beastly butts! KI-YA! *breaks a stack of thirty boards* Ohhh-kay. Not fighting these guys. That's right. Now make like an oak and leaf! Quest reward: 100 and 10 Alien Spore Cannon

Pt. 5

After completing Pt. 4 Fine. We give up. The Xylem are NOT conquering Springfield. Happy? WOOHOO! This all started when we got that idiotic message with those stupid Marble Cinematronic Universe memes. Wait, you guys aren't the jerks who sent that? Uh-oh. I take it back, Bart. I love this plan now. Task: "Collect Plastic Fangs" (x195). Task: "Make Springfielders Celebrate Alien Plant Defeat" (x5). The jobs take place at the Town Hall, Springfield Park Entrance, or Simpson House and take 4 hours. Task: "Make Lisa Change Her Mind About Bart's Plan". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Springfield Park Entrance, or Simpson House and takes 4 hours. If Xylem is owned: Task: "Make Xylem Insist They Didn't Send the Message". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Springfield Park Entrance, or Simpson House and takes 4 hours. If Kung Fu Werewolf is owned: Task: "Make Kung Fu Werewolf Demand to Know Who Sent the Message". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Springfield Park Entrance, or Simpson House and takes 4 hours. If Bart is owned: Task: "Make Bart Say That Frink Sent the Message". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Springfield Park Entrance, or Simpson House and takes 4 hours. So you potted plants didn't send the message? Read my knothole — NO! We have much bigger concerns on our own planet — like un-stunting our bonsai tree forests. Anyhoo...now that you're here, you can help us make our Halloween awesome! But we don't want anything that promotes negative monster stereotypes. That's right. Instead, we're going to conquer Springfield ourselves! High five! Okay, but not one of your karate chop high fives. I'm still healing from the last time we celebrated. Quest reward: 200 and 20 Taekwon Dracula

Currency-earning jobs

Task Character(s) Time Location(s) Reward Buy Plastic Fangs Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Quimby, Wiggum, Skinner 4h Halloween Headquarters, Sprawl-Mart, Try-N-Save, a Kwik-E-Mart, or Shop 5, 45 Order Plastic Fangs Online Alien Bart, Mighty Oak Leader, Kung Fu Werewolf Visitable Homes 8, 70

Behind the Laughter

The quest name is a reference to the Plants vs. Zombies video game franchise.

The Simpsons: Tapped Out Treehouse of Horror XXXIV quests
Encounters of the Not-Very-Spooky Kind • The Horror Happening • Plants vs. Karate • The Monsters Mash • The Human League of Humans • Just Wait Till Next Year • A Special Message From Kang & Kodos • Technically Fixed
Mighty Oak Leader	The Not-Giving-A-Rip Tree
Chainsaw Willie	Back on the Chainsaw Gang
Alien Bart	Now You See Me • Speak No Evil
Monster Hunter Homer	Flame Off
Taekwon Dracula	Drac on Drac Violence
Kung Fu Werewolf	Howl of the Wild
Ninja From the Black Lagoon	Shinobi-Dooby-Doo
Mixed Martial Medusa	Stone-Faced Killer
MMA Jesus	Holy War Throwdown