Cuphead

> Clearly you've never rodeo'd with the cup meister. I only just got here, ditching this joint's not a question on my mind.
>
> Cuphead, Indie Cross Episode 1

Cuphead is the main protagonist of the video game of the same name, a major character in MORO's animations, and a supporting character in Indie Cross. A cup-headed boy, he tends to get himself into trouble, of which he can then get himself out of, but not without difficulties.

## Cuphead

* Normal (yellow gloves)
* Normal (white gloves)
* Nightmare

### Aliases

Nightmare Cuphead
Cupdude
Magic flask (shovel knight - indie cross episode 1)
Absent Minded buffoon (shovel knight - indie cross episode 1)

### Allies

Mugman (formerly)
Hank J. Wimbleton (briefly)
Shovel Knight (sometimes)

### Enemies

Boyfriend (FNF)
The Devil
The Auditor
Tricky
Choo Choo Charles
Shovel Knight (sometimes)

## Personality

Cuphead is described as a chipper kid. He is shown to always be up for a battle, not declining any from Tricky or Choo-Choo Charles. He seems to be always quick to trust people, as he instantly befriended Hank J. Wimbleton. He is shown to care for his loved ones, as he felt a sting of pain seeing Mugman died. He has been starting to get annoyed when transporting to a new dimension. However, judging from his interactions with Shovel Knight, he seems to have a sort-of PTSD-like effect from his previous encounters, as his first instinct when alone with Shovel Knight is to attack him.

In his Nightmare form, he is shown as far more aggressive, being fully capable of killing anyone who stands in his way.

## History

### Indie Cross V1

##### Pre-Snake Eyes

Cuphead is first seen walking through a forest of Inkwell Isles, on the hunt for a portal. He stops to see Boyfriend in a crater. Cuphead confirms that that's what he's looking for. Once Boyfriend pops out of the crater, Cuphead confronts him.

##### Pre-Technicolor Tussle

After Snake Eyes, Cuphead realizes Boyfriend won't go down without a fight, charges an attack, only for Mugman to appear, stopping Cuphead's plans. Cuphead, however, gets Mugman to go away, and then he charges an attack.

##### Technicolor Tussle

Throughout Technicolor Tussle, Cuphead will repeatedly attack Boyfriend with the Peashooter, and must be hit with Boyfriend's microphone.

##### Pre-Knockout

After Technicolor Tussle, Cuphead gets hit with Boyfriend's microphone once more, although Cuphead quickly recovers, just in time to see Boyfriend taunting him. Cuphead starts to say something, only for lightning to strike right next to him and start a fire. After momentary eye twitching, Cuphead lashes out, stomping his foot down. He tries to recall what Mugman said about violence, although convinces himself that Mugman barred him from attacking anyone, with the exception of Boyfriend. Cuphead charges an attack, and faces Boyfriend down one last time.

##### Knockout

Halfway through Knockout, Cuphead will attack Boyfriend a lot more, using a Peashooter, Mega Blast, Chaser, and Jumbo Rebound, and at one point will accidentally shoot Mugman, who wanders onto the scene.

##### Post-Knockout

After Knockout, Cuphead will fire a charge shot behind him, setting the surroundings on fire. Cuphead shoots another Charge Shot at Boyfriend, followed by a Energy Beam. During this, Boyfriend throws his microphone at Cuphead, only for the latter to notice the former's microphone and grab it, pulling Boyfriend toward him. Cuphead finishes it with a Mega Blast. Cuphead walks up toward Boyfriend, preparing a Charge Shot, however Boyfriend vanishes through a portal, leaving Cuphead to stay in confusion.

#### Sans's week

Cuphead and Boyfriend's battle is later illustrated at the start of Sans's week, and is also mentioned by Sans briefly.

#### Nightmare Songs

Cuphead reappears in his final nightmare song. During this song, he throws out various Mega Blasts and Peashooters. Note that this is supposed to take place after Nightmare Cuphead vs. The Devil.

### Nightmare Cuphead vs. The Devil

These events take place directly after Indie Cross V1. As Boyfriend disappears, Cuphead realizes his mistake of accidentally shooting Mugman. Cuphead looks over at Mugman's body, and sees Mugman's soul fly out as his body vanishes. Cuphead rushes toward Mugman's soul, tries to revive Mugman, and misses his soul. Cuphead lands, and falls to his knees, realizing he lost his brother.

A crack appears in the sky, sending various bursts of energy around Cuphead. He instantly stands up, and looks down to see blood running up his leg. He looks down as he slowly succumbs to the Nightmare energy, with his only thought being... The Devil.

As the Devil sits in his chair, Cuphead, now fully in his Nightmare form, appears. He then teleports behind the Devil, his eyes glow, his straw bursting aflame, and instantly blasts the Devil in the face.

Cuphead instantly raises his finger and sends various Jumbo Rebounds at the Devil, to which the latter barely dodges and managed to avoid. In that time, Cuphead appears in front of the Devil. The Devil blasts Cuphead with his pitchfork, only for Cuphead to emerge from the flames and smack the Devil in the face, resulting in the two dealing multiple blows to each other, to which Cuphead breaks by shooting a laser. The Devil tries to attack Cuphead from behind, however Cuphead dodges unscathed. Cuphead simply lets multiple projectiles explode on him, knowing they're futile, and the Devil appears from behind and summons a Demonic Bomb, to which Cuphead and the Devil whack the bomb back and forth to each other, until it eventually explodes at the Devil. Cuphead sends multiple lasers from his fingers, which the Devil avoids, and one big Mega Blast. Cuphead fires countless bullets at the Devil, until the Devil snaps.

As the angry Devil flies toward Cuphead, Cuphead simply charges up another Mega Blast, landing the final blow to the Devil. Cuphead stares at the Devil, dead in his throne, and turns around.

### Cuphead vs. Tricky

Somewhere in Nevada, a portal appears, and Cuphead flies out. He raises up a shaky finger and manifests another portal. Cuphead jumps to the portal, only to be blocked by the Auditor, who tries to punch him, only for Cuphead to block the punch. They fall to the ground, and Cuphead punches and kicks the Auditor in various ways, before finally turning the Auditor into a parry, and Cuphead simply parries the Auditor.

Tricky appears and wants to attack Cuphead, and bashes his head, rotating it 90 degrees counterclockwise, to which Cuphead responds by destroying Tricky's mask and blowing off small parts of his face, knocking Tricky off a cliff in the process.

Cuphead started cracking and glowing, a sign of overheating, before finally reverting to his original form. Cuphead looks around, and then Tricky emerges in his Hellclown form. Cuphead turns around to sees Tricky, and then pulls up his shorts, and stands Tricky down.

Cuphead shoots Tricky for a while, while also evading Tricky's fists. Later, Cuphead goes out onto the field, still running past Tricky's fists. Cuphead is startled to see Tricky behind him, but easily ducks when Tricky bursts out a beam of fire. During this time, Cuphead attempts to shoot Tricky, however cannot land a hit on his head. After that, Cuphead shoots Tricky a bit more, dashing and jumping away from Tricky's fists. Cuphead avoids the fireballs Tricky sends out, and shoots Tricky a bit more. Once Tricky breathes fire on the ground, Cuphead runs to the right, and jumps to a safe spot. Cuphead shoots Tricky and avoids more fireballs. When Tricky comes behind Cuphead, Cuphead tries to simply duck, but then runs toward Tricky and ducks near to the clown when realizing it's his only option.

Cuphead dodges a fireball, jumps over another, but is hit by another. He is blasted back, and sees various fireballs coming toward him, which would've killed him had it not been for a grenade from Hank J. Wimbleton. Cuphead turns and sees Hank.

With Hank by his side, Cuphead proceeds to shoot Tricky, avoiding fireballs and fists. While shooting Tricky, he ducks to avoid various fireballs and miniature fireballs. He avoids flying fireballs, parrying one. He then shoots Tricky, and ducks near the clown under his fire beam. As Tricky is burning the ground, Cuphead is standing and shooting him, bringing out 2 Mega Blasts, eventually leading to Tricky's demise.

### Nightmare Bendy vs. Nightmare Sans

Cuphead briefly appears while the Ink Demon and Sans are ascending. He comes out of a portal, and looks down to see the Ink Demon and Sans hurtling toward him. He tries to protect himself with an energy orb, however gets hit by the duo. Holding his head, he summons a portal which takes him away. This takes place before the events of Cuphead vs. Tricky.

After the credits, Cuphead, alongside Hank, watch as Tricky reverts to his original form, which falls to the ground. Cuphead raises his hand to his new friend for a high five, and after the high five, kneels on the ground screaming. After a while of screaming, he looks to his side, to see a portal. He stares for a bit, but then jumps into the portal after being coerced to by Hank.

### Cuphead vs. Choo Choo Charles

Cuphead jumps out from a portal onto the island of Aranearum. Cuphead notices the oddity of the new area, and expresses displeasure with the oddity, muses confusedly, and then gets hit by the train. He peels his face off the light, jumps into the train, and studies the controls. He throws a lever, which turns off the train. He jumps out and glares at the train, but is then ambushed by Charles himself. He barely jumps out of the way, dashes to the train, throws the Derailer off the train, and challenges Charles himself, preparing a bullet shot.

The first phase of the battle begins with Cuphead shooting Charles, occasionally throwing out the Mega Blast, gained by parrying something (someone put what it is). Cuphead then runs to the train cabin to change his shot to Charge Shots. He then throws a Charged Charge Shot, and goes back to Peashooters and Mega Blasts. However, upon Charles retaliating by slamming himself into the train, Cuphead jumps onto the train roof. After that, Cuphead shoots two Charged Charge Shots, a Mega Blast, another Charge Shot, a few more Peashooter bullets, and another Mega Blast. Cuphead jumps on the train roof against to avoid Charles, jumps back down, and shoots a Charged Charge Shot, some Peashooter bullets, another Charged Charge Shot, more Peashooter bullets, parries that thing, (put what it is) and another Charged Charge Shot. Cuphead jumps onto the train roof again to avoid Charles, jumps down, consistently shoots Peashooter bullets, a Mega Blast, more Peashooter bullets, and runs back into the train one final time to switch his shot to Converge. As the train succumbs to its damage, Cuphead jumps out and starts running.

Cuphead stops on a dime when he sees Charles coming in to his left. Charles runs past him, and appears behind him again. Cuphead shoots Charles with a lot of Converges, an Electro-Bolt, and ducks as Charles runs above him. Cuphead avoids Charles again, and shoots the latter with more Converges when he appears behind Cuphead. Cuphead then goes on to shoot two Charged Charge Shots, and ducks as Charles runs over him. (literally) He avoids Charles again, shoots some Converges, and shoots an Energy Beam.

Cuphead ducks under Charles one last time, and stands idle while Charles upgrades to Hell Charles. When Charles reveals himself, Cuphead jumps, and resumes running. Cuphead starts shooting more Converges, however stops when Charles teleports away. Cuphead stops on a dime when Charles runs in the direction of him, but teleports again. All while avoiding and ducking under fireballs, Cuphead dashes away from Charles's lasers, shoots more Converges, and stops on a dime when Charles approaches him but misses. Finally, Cuphead dodges Charles, and watches him fall off a cliff. After Charles falls down the cliff, Cuphead sees a portal and runs toward it.

## Indie Cross (series)

### Episode 1

After the Giant Drone attacks Shovel Knight, Cuphead draws the attention of the drone, shooting a charge shot at it. After commenting on whether or not it hurts, Cuphead nearly jumps as the drone lands in front of him. He dashes away from the drone's fist, and then reappears on top of the drone, proceeding to parry it. He charges another charge shot which the drone nearly flies into, and then he shoots out a eletro-bolt, which the drone absorbs.

After the drone is defeated by Shovel Knight, Cuphead looks around, and thinks. He then attempts to shoot at it, but is interrupted by more spider drones entering the stage.

Cuphead attempts to fight the drones, albeit being warned by Shovel Knight of the danger, which Cuphead quickly disputes. However, Cuphead is drabbed by the handle by Shovel Knight, to which he tries to make the knight let go of him, and Shovel Knight responds by calling the former a flask, to which Cuphead corrects him, saying he's a cup. After banter, Cuphead dashes out of Shovel Knight's grip, and preparing to shoot, before realizing that he dashes off a cliff. He falls, and Shovel Knight jumps after him.

Cuphead endures a hard landing, and then reprimands Shovel Knight for dragging him away. As Shovel Knight pokes at Cuphead's head, the latter dashes away. After more banter, Cuphead comes to the conclusion that Shovel Knight saved Cuphead so that the former could have the pleasure in killing the latter. After even more banter, Cuphead proceeds to start shooting the Peashooter.

After even longer of shooting at Shovel Knight, the knight temporarily blinds Cuphead via dust. While Cuphead rubs his eyes, Shovel Knight knocks his head around. Cuphead attempts to charge a Charge Shot, but is beaten down by Shovel Knight, which Cuphead escapes from via a parry. Cuphead fires another Eletro-bolt at Shovel Knight, attempts to charge a Charge Shot but fails, attempts to charge another, and fails again via a hit from the shovel. Cuphead kicks Shovel Knight in the face, tries to charge a Charge Shot, but is smacked backward by the shovel yet again. Cuphead then uses a Super Art III, which he uses to punch Shovel Knight in the gut, spin him around, and send him flying. Cuphead then fires a Mega Blast and various Chasers, all of which directly explode upon contact with Shovel Knight. However, Shovel Knight stands his guard, and Cuphead dashes toward him, firing a Jumbo Rebound afterwards, to which Shovel Knight blocks. Cuphead then attempts to fire a Charge Shot, however must duck under the shovel, all for Shovel Knight to get hit by the Jumbo Rebound. Cuphead attempts to parry Shovel Knight from behind afterwards, and dashes past a swing from the shovel, proceeding to instantly hit Shovel Knight with an attack. Cuphead then confronts Shovel Knight with a Super Art II, and flies toward the Shovel Knight, and vice versa. Both of them miss each other, with Cuphead frowning. Cuphead proceeds to jump over Shovel Knight, only for Shovel Knight to kick Cuphead in the face. Shovel Knight tries to shovel Cuphead, although the latter dashes behind the former, kicking him. Cuphead then proceeds to use an Energy Beam, and barely dodges the shovel attack. Cuphead fires a Charge Shot mid-air, and lands, proceeding to dash through Shovel Knight as he runs, followed up with an instant Charge Shot. Cuphead is then hit with the shovel, dodges the shovel, flies away, only to be hit with the flaming shovel again. Cuphead then proceeds to barely dash away from the Shovel Knight digging his shovel into the Earth, however the force throws him backwards, incapacitating him.

## Scrapped

### Indie Cross V1

#### Cuphead's week

The cutscenes would've worked differently. Before Snake Eyes, Cuphead would've been holding a paper with a detailed description of Boyfriend. After Technicolor Tussle, Cuphead would've gotten hit by Boyfriend's microphone, angering him even more. A few hours later, he would've hit Boyfriend with a Charge Shot. The rest of the week works the same overall.

#### Bonus Songs

In Devil's Gambit, Cuphead was supposed to have a laser attack as opposed to his current Peashooter bullets. At the end of the song as well, Cuphead was also supposed to shoot an Energy Beam.

## Gallery

Cuphead's original appearance.
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