Cala Maria (Cuphead)

**Cala Maria** is one of the bosses on Inkwell Isle Three on the boss level, "High Seas Hi-Jinx!" Her stage is a side-scrolling shooter level.

Appearance

Cala Maria has a physical appearance reminiscent of a typical humanoid female character. She is a giant, tall, slender mermaid with fairly wide hips and a small waist. She has pale skin, an exposed belly, a small button-nose, and two scar-like markings on the bicep of her left arm (though how or why she got them is unknown, but it could be a reminiscent of eel bite marks).

On her head, she has a dead, purple octopus with pale lavender eyelids over X-crossed eyes, with a lighter purple coloring and pale pink suckers under the tentacles. The octopus clearly acts as her hair since the three tentacles in front of Cala's face are flipped back over her head, resembling curly hair-bangs in a pompadour, while the octopus's head vaguely resembles a hair bun. Although it appears to be dead, the octopus's eyes clearly open during Cala's "summoning" animation, revealing simple, black pupils.

Cala has big, pale turquoise eyes with sea-green eyeshadow and three short, black, triangular eye-lashes each. She also has thin, black eyebrows and light, rose-pink lips.

As a sign of her mermaid status, Cala wears a sky-blue sea-shell bra with no shoulder straps, and her lower body is replaced with a sea-green, fish-like tail with round scales, connected with a water-ripple-like pattern below the waist line and although we do not see her full body in the game, various merchandise has shown that her fin tail is shaped like two small waves split in two with three rounded tips on each side.

However, in her second phase, Cala Maria gets bitten on her midriff and shocked by two eels, resulting in a much more menacing appearance—a gorgon-mermaid hybrid, greatly resembling the famous mythology figure, Medusa.

Her once pale-lavender skin turns to a mint-green color. Her fingers become longer due to her fingernails becoming claw-like. Her lips turn an emerald-green color, her tongue becomes forked and reptilian and her teeth are now quite sharp, forming an eerie, Cheshire Cat-esque grin. The markings on her arm remain unchanged.

Her eyes become menacingly cat-like with yellow sclera and black, slit-shaped pupils, losing the irises completely.

Her lower body takes on a more forest-green hue and the scales become sharper and more triangular. Her once sky-blue sea-shell bra is now a green bikini top made from either seaweed or moss.

The most distinctive part of her new form is the octopus on her head, which has now seemingly fused onto her head and has become a marginally different shade of purple. The tentacles each transform into menacing-looking snakes with lavender, segmented underbellies, yellow, cat-like eyes, and small fangs and pink forked tongues in their mouths. Only the snakes acting as her bangs are active, while the rest are asleep.

Species

Human/Mermaid

Gorgon (formerly)

Gender

Female

Alignment

Bad, later good

Personality

Formerly

Cruel, mean, rude, scary, neutral

Later

Playful, funny, sexy, kind, cute, sweet, adorable, jolly, good-hearted

Friends

Cuphead

Mugman

Ms. Chalice

Porkrind

The Devil (formerly)

King Dice (formerly)

Sal Spudder

Ollie Bulb

Chancery Chauntenay

Ribby and Croaks

Goopy Le Grande

Hilda Berg

Cagney Carnation

Baroness Von Bon Bon

Djimmi the Great

Beppi the Clown

Wally Warbles

Grim Matchstick

Rumor Honeybottoms

Werner Werman

Captain Brineybeard

Sally Stageplay

Blind Specter

Conductor

Lollipop Ghouls

The Head of the Train

Dr. Kahl

Dr. Kahl's Robot

Enemies

Cuphead (formerly)

Mugman (formerly)

Ms. Chalice (formerly)

Porkrind (formerly)

King Dice

The Devil