Electric Peashooter comes from the Plants vs Zombies games, where the plant fires electrified peas that can arc between nearby zombies. Online, the character has become a shorthand for simple electric power jokes, and the title how electric peashooter was born frames this single lightning strike as the whole origin story. The humour comes from that gap between expectation and delivery. Short strike clips like this spread easily on soundboards and in edited videos because they are instantly readable, easy to loop, and fit almost any sudden power up moment.