Sweet Temptation

Summary

Cuphead's self-control is put to the test when he discovers a sugary dreamland where he can eat all the sweets he wants - with a catch.

Plot

Cuphead and Mugman go into their room after Cuphead apologizes for ruining and hurting Mugman's bum with a lit firecracker. Mugman thinks they deserve a treat for their troubles, and tells Cuphead to look away as he takes out his saved Halloween candy. Cuphead turns around and sees the candy, and is in shock. After Mugman leaves the room to eat his one piece of candy using a fork and knife, Cuphead eats all of his brother's sweets. Mugman goes back into their room, catches Cuphead in the act, and in a rage, throws Cuphead out of the house and tells him not to return until he learn to control himself.

Cuphead walks through a forest, sulking about the previous events when he spots a giant rolling peppermint, and is tempted by it, following it into a hole in a tree that leads to Sugarland; a land completely made up of sugary sweets. He then meets Baroness Von Bon Bon, who then invites him to eat all the sweet treats he desires. Cuphead initially is turned off due to him believing she is trying to trick him so she can eat him, but Baroness Von Bon Bon convinces him otherwise, stating she only eats "sweet treats". Cuphead then calls out her overly eccentric behavior, to which Baroness Von Bon Bon answers that she doesn't get out much and is in fact bound to Sugarland due to an ancient curse. Unphased, Cuphead questions why anyone would want to leave. She then gives Cuphead two rules to follow; One is do not tell anyone else about Sugarland, and two, do not eat any part of her candy castle, not even a teensy-weensy bite. Cuphead claims that he has no reason to eat her castle, and though he is nearly tempted in doing so by Baroness Von Bon Bon insistence on it being "irresistible", he stops himself and decides to leave Sugarland through the hole in the tree.

After having realized he controlled himself, he gets excited, and decides to go to Mugman. He tells Mugman that he had learned self-control, but sees that Mugman is still mad about the fact that he has no sweets. To make it up to him, Cuphead tells him about Sugarland, even though he didn't trust Baroness Von Bon Bon. After the two go to through the hole in tree and have fun eating everything, Mugman gets carried away and eats a part of Baroness Von Bon Bon's castle. Baroness Von Bon Bon then gleefully reminds them of the rules each of them broke. Cuphead once again assumes she'll eat them after all, but she says that she doesn't eat children and only sweets again, much to their relief. However, their relief was short as they then turn into sweets themselves. Cuphead turns into a gummy bear (or gummy cup(head)) and Mugman turns into a gingerbread man. Now that they were sweets, Baroness Von Bon Bon is able to eat them, and chases on top of her now alive castle made of sweets.

During the chase, Cuphead spots the giant rolling peppermint from before, and the two brothers stick themselves onto it because they are sweets. As they get to the hole in the tree, they both hit the sides of the tree's hole, and Mugman cannot get up because he is a gingerbread man. Cuphead tries helping him get up, and barely escape Sugarland, thanks to a splash of frosting from Baroness Von Bon Bon's castle landing beside them. Baroness Von Bon Bon is disappointed, but says "They'll be back. They always come back!" while laughing evilly.

They are relieved upon returning home, with Cuphead unphased by the fact that he and Mugman are still sweets and is just happy that nobody ate them. Elder Kettle then spots them in their room, and tries to eat them off-screen.