Mugman

**Mugman** is the titular deuteragonist of Studio MDHR's 2017 video game *Cuphead*, and the game's DLC, titled *The Delicious Last Course*, as well as one of the two main protagonists (alongside Cuphead) of the Netflix-animated series, titled *The Cuphead Show!*.

Mugman is Cuphead's sensible younger twin brother, Yuri's cautious best friend and like the rest of his family, lives on Inkwell Isle. He is controlled by the second player and can join or leave the game at any time. Due to his deuteragonistic role, Mugman formerly could not be controlled by the first player. However, as of the update in April 2019, the first player can choose to play as Mugman instead of Cuphead, making it so that Mugman will not have to be controlled by the second player.

In-game, he is voiced by Luke De Ayora for one specifically line when being revived and saying "Thank you!" similar to his brother Mugman. In *The Cuphead Show!,* he is voiced by Frank Todaro.

## Description

### Appearance

Mugman, in terms of overall appearance, heavily resembles his twin older brother Cuphead, with his head reminiscing a mug and his body being almost identical to his sibling: wearing a black, long-sleeve shirt, yellow gloves, a pair of shorts and brown shoes, although artworks sometimes show him with white gloves.

The major difference of Mugman's appearance compared to his brother is possessing a blue coloration scheme to replace Cuphead's red, a shorter straw (which elongates to a longer length in one of his intro animations breaks 20% of the direction up from the bottom when something damages him, only to pull itself back together), and a much bigger nose. His eyes are smaller and his head is slightly thinner compared to his brother. His body also separates at the waist upon receiving damage, but pulls itself together within half a second.

His ghost, when his health completely dissipates, makes him legless with his legs replaced by a ghostly tail. In this state, he lacks his blue shorts. Mugman can also summon an ally that resembles his ghost, albeit more muscular with one of his Super Arts.

If accepting to deliver the Devil the soul contracts before beginning the final battle—triggering the bad ending—Mugman's nose, pants and the stripes on his straw turn into indigo, his handle is broken and he gains yellow-colored eyes with red pupils and black irises. He also loses a marginal portion of his teeth, and his straw appears to be slightly congealed. He has fire coming out of his head in other artworks, and has sharp teeth like his brother.

### Personality

Mugman is a joyful and goofy person and "kidult" who cares for his older twin brother, Cuphead, at the fullest. As Cuphead's younger and more sensible brother, however, Mugman appears to have more maturity and self-awareness than his older brother Cuphead, who personalizes greed and cockiness.

He is more cautious than his brother and is a bit of a worrier. While he secretly loves the adventures Cuphead drags him into, he often frets about the collateral damage they might cause. He has a somewhat dorky nature and tends to over-prepare for a battle rather than jumping right in.

Mugman is fun-loving like Cuphead, but is shown to be careful and less rash compared to his brother, and acts as the voice of reason for him. This is shown when he begs Cuphead to not make the deal with The Devil, as that would end up costing them their souls in the introduction. However, Mugman is also quite forgiving and sympathetic, as he doesn't seem to possess grudge against Cuphead at all for putting both their lives at risk. Finally, Mugman likes to play with Cuphead outside, as seen in the introduction.

Like Cuphead, Mugman is also shown to be somewhat of a psychic; in the final page of Rushed Wardrboe, Cuphead and Mugman predict the imminent/upcoming events of the main story of DDLC during Natsuki and Yuri's arguement after messing up the Ice Climbers' wardrobe (actually revealed to be Sayori), under Cuphead's most infamous line "*I'm hearing the voices again, Dan Salvato.*" However, this would often cause the fourth wall to break on certain video games Mugman and Cuphead are in.

## References

1. ↑ https://cuphead.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000000092786/r/4400000000000419117#:~:text=But%20in%20the%20game%20they,kidults'%20and%20are%20over%2018.
2. ↑ https://www.deviantart.com/mickmick247/art/Rushed-wardrobe-Origin-by-Pika-Robo-984330740