Chef Saltbaker

* Shaker
* Salt
* Heart

Bake Cuphead's/Mugman's/Ms. Chalice's soul into the Wondertart to take complete control over the Astral Plane.
Kill Cuphead and his friends and turn their heads into serving dishes (all failed).
Redeem himself for his actions and rebuild his bakery (succeeded).

### Crimes

Mass murder (including child murder)
Attempted hegemony
Psychological abuse
Kidnapping
Treason
Assault
Malefic
Torture
Fraud
Theft

### Type of MB

Power Hungry Trickster

**Chef Saltbaker** is the main antagonist of the video game *Cuphead*'s DLC extension, *The Delicious Last Course*. He is an anthropomorphic saltshaker who is known as the greatest chef in all the lands because of his cooking skills.

At first, he comes off as a friendly saltshaker who seeks to help Cuphead, Mugman, and Ms. Chalice, but later on, reveals himself as a power-hungry and deceptive individual who is willing to bake one of the cups' souls with other ingredients to make a WonderTart just so he could obtain the cosmic powers in the astral plane. However, after being defeated by the cups, when taken to jail and sentenced to community service, he develops a change of heart and redeems himself, becoming a genuine ally with the cups in the aftermath.

He was voiced by Luke De Ayora.

## What Makes Him Magnificent?

* He is shown to be pretty smart, having knowledge on the necessary ingredients to make a wondertart as well as the benefits that come with eating it which is getting the cosmic powers of the astral plane.
* He is established as a very good chef, being known as the best tartbaker in all the lands.
* He manipulates the cups and essentially plays them like a fiddle, putting on the facade of a friendly and caring individual while telling them what they need to do to get the ingredients necessary for the Wondertart and pretending to help them out with their goal of helping Chalice only to then drop the act once they brought him the ingredients, revealing his true nature as a power hungry individual who seeks to obtain the cosmic powers in the universe and reveals that he left out the secret ingredient of the Wondertart which requires an individual's soul, leading to him to reveal that he successfully stole the soul of one of them right under the other two's noses and seeks to bake his soul with the other ingredients in order to make the Wondertart before proceeding to fight the cups.
* During his boss battle, he puts up quite a fight with the cups, keeping them on their toes while launching clever attacks like chopping up sapient ingredients or tearing off parts of dough and throwing their remains at the cups to try to defeat them which requires stealth to dodge, having sapient saltshakers attack them one at a time which requires the right timing to dodge, and him attacking them while in the form of a heart-shaped saltshaker while they are between two forms of him as salt tornadoes which would take a heart from them should they hit him.
* He ends up redeeming himself in the epilogue, becoming more willing to help others out during the later parts of community service, learning his lesson, and baking a tart for everyone in the isle including the cups whom he seems to have developed a genuine friendship with.
* While he does briefly lose his temper after being defeated in the second round in his boss battle by the cups, yelling in anger, it is too brief to be a disqualifying breakdown due to him instantly regaining his composure and continuing fighting the cups while in two different forms in the third round.
* While he does kill various sapient ingredients by chopping them up and tormenting a dough brutally, this doesn't make him too vile due to it being out of pragmatism so that he can use their parts to fight off the cups and being lessened by censorship since it is portrayed in a way that is reminiscent of real-life chefs chopping up food and are also portrayed the way they are to make the fight creative as per the intent of nearly every boss battle in both games. Another reason being that the kills are heavily implied to not be permanent with the same ingredients he's killed off being seen used again by him for the boss battle.
* While he does cry when being taken to jail and pleads for mercy from the judge before being sentenced to community service, he redeems his magnificence through his ultimate redemption, coming to enjoy helping out the folks of the isle with their situations taking his punishment well and working hard to rebuild his own bakery that he once lost.

## What Makes Him A Baddie?

* He was going to bake the soul of one of the cups along with the ingredients that the other two have brought for him in order to make the Wonder Tart so he could achieve the cosmic powers of the astral plane.
* He attempts to kill the other two cups in his boss battle so that he could get the ingredients and use their heads as serving dishes.
* He fights the cups by chopping up and essentially killing several sapient ingredients and tormenting a sapient dough by rolling it with a rolling pin before tearing out several pieces out of it in the form of animals and squeezing strawberries out of a sapient basket and breaking a sugar cube into multiple sugar cubes with a hammer in order to use their remains to fight off the cups.

## Trivia

* He, King Dice, and the Moonshine Mob are the only Magnificent Baddies from the *Cuphead* video games.

## Navigation

*Cuphead*
Main Game
King Dice
*The Delicious Last Course*
Moonshine Mob

*The Cuphead Show!*
Ms. Chalice

Fanon
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