Free Hugs

Free Hugs
The most harmless zombie ever.
Main Stats
Health 10 Melee Damage 0
Crit. Chance	0%
Speed	0
Rage Drop	50
Behavior Stats
Agility	100
Aggression	100
Morale Stats
Charisma	-8
Charisma Radius	50

Free Hugs is an easter egg infected dressed in a torn black sweater and a "Free Hugs" sign in front of it, a red and black checkered skirt, and a yellow hair hoop. She has white hair.

Overview

Free Hugs is a special infected that can be randomly encountered upon the beginning of any regular or challenge mission. Whenever Free Hugs is encountered, she will always face towards the barricade. She does not move or attack.

Units and marauders will never directly target her. Melee units cannot target her even when attacking other enemies extremely close to her or with attacks that hit in a small area right in front of them.

Free Hugs' chance of spawning is equal to 1%. Throughout February 7th to February 15th this chance is increased to 25%, as a part of the Valentine's Day event.

Strategy

Despite her being harmless, killing Free Hugs is highly recommended as she drops 50 rage points on death, a trait shared only among boss enemies. This makes Free Hugs one of the very few zombies who can be used to players' advantage, albeit the least reliable due to her rare appearances throughout the main game as she is unlikely to appear when you need rage points the most, and the most reliable way to do so is through support items, which cost rage to use in the first place.

The only way to kill Free Hugs is by specifically targeting her with support items or by using ranged units, which can catch her in the crossfire. Grenadier, Queen, and Lionheart can use their respective manual abilities to kill her. Dr. Miller can place his mine in front of her. Death explosions caused by certain units could also work if they happen to die close to her. Depending on the mission players encounter Free Hugs in, certain zombies can be used to kill her, typically those who explode on death as well like Fat Zombie or Slob.

Trivia

• Free Hugs is one of the rarest enemies in the entire game, having an extremely low chance of appearing in any given regular or challenge mission and only spawns one at a time.
• Free Hugs can be considered, in some ways, a neutral entity in the game. Although she is still an enemy (given that she has a Zombiepedia entry), she is unable to harm player units, marauders or the bus, directly or indirectly.
• Due to a bug, it is possible for other zombies to attack and kill her should she spawn in a mission containing marauders.
• Free Hugs shares the same AI as a Zombie that appears in the first mission of the game, hence why she's unable to do anything.
• In update 2.8.1, an error drastically reduced her spawn chance. In update 2.8.3, not only was that bug fixed, but her spawn rate was also slightly increased.
• Free Hugs is the only entity whose sprite faces to the left on an internal level. Unlike her, all other enemies and units are depicted facing to the right.

Gallery

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  Journal entry.

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  Free Hugs in love (iMessage sticker).

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  Free Hugs in the Saint Valentine's Day Declaration of Love contest.