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| “ | ♪ In case you ain't heard, I'm the Devil! I'm a real low-down, not on the level! They call me Old Scratch, Mr. S, the Big D, I'm the King of the Underworld; yeah, it's great to be me! ♪ |
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| ~ The lyrics from the Devil's song |
| “ | The Devil: He didn't escape! He played the game, he lost! His soul belongs to me! I'LL GET THAT CUP! Henchman: ...Head? The Devil: [smacks him with his pitchfork] Oh, shut up! |
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| ~ The Devil declaring his revenge on Cuphead for destroying his carn-evil, including his soul-ball, after he and his brother Mugman ran away from him. |
| “ | Thank you, Henchman. | „ |
| ~ The Devil’s catchphrase |
The Devil is the main antagonist of the 2022 Netflix animated series The Cuphead Show!.
He is the demonic ruler of the Underworld, who continually torments the residents of Inkwell Isle and schemes to steal their souls. After Cuphead manages to escape having his soul stolen, he becomes obsessed with claiming it and destroying him. He is the boss of King Dice, his own demons (most notably Henchman and Stickler), and the archenemy of Cuphead, Mugman, and Ms. Chalice.
He is voiced by Luke Millington-Drake.
Description[]
Appearance[]
The Devil mostly resembles his game counterpart with a few changes. The Devil is now always depicted with a tail (unlike in the game), his nose is red, and the red irises he is only occasionally depicted with in-game are now a permanent part of his design. His fur, horns, and claws have both also gained slight blue and yellow tints, and his ears are a bit longer and spikier.
Personality[]
The Devil is manipulative and evil with a flamboyant demeanor and an obsession with collecting souls. He's jollier and more playful than he is in the game and behaves in a more childish manner. However, he can be very intimidating as shown when he threatens King Dice after his failure.
The Devil is also more actively involved in pursuing his goals than his counterpart character from the game.
In the second season, the Devil’s hatred of Cuphead becomes more intense, to the point where just talking about him is enough for him to have explosive bursts of anger. He also becomes more bad-tempered and wrathful in general, including towards other demons such as Henchman and Stickler.
By season 3, the Devil still keeps his wrathful and negative traits, going as far as draining the life out of Ms. Chalice and forcing her to betray Cuphead and Mugman, to kidnapping Mugman. He is also shown to be a fan of opera, and feels joy and happiness in ruining Christmas as the holidays.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Demon Physiology: The Devil is a powerful demon who boasts a wide-array of abilities.
- Shape-shifting: The Devil has the ability to shape-shift into whatever he desires, such as fearsome creatures to attack enemies or disguises to fool them.
- Contact Bestowal: The Devil can also create contracts with others to gain ownership of their souls or grant them special abilities.
- Magic Pitchfork: The Devil possesses a magic pitchfork that he is heavily dependent on for extra abilities.
- Immortality: The Devil is without a doubt Immortal. In "A Very Devil Christmas" it is revealed that The Devil was around since the beginning of time.
- Teleportation: By tapping the bottom-end of the pitchfork on the ground, the Devil can instantly teleport himself to anywhere he wants.
- Fire Generation: The pitchfork can blast fire from its head, incinerating anything in its path.
- Levitation: The pitchfork can levitate the user and anything else should the user command it.
- Transformation: The pitchfork can transform anything into anything else the user wants.
- Conjuration: The pitchfork can create almost anything out of thin air.
Biography[]
The Devil is the demonic ruler of the Underworld beneath the Inkwell Isles. He often plays cruel tricks upon the inhabitants and comes up with evil schemes to collect their souls (which are unexplained). His former right-hand man, King Dice, also worked in collecting souls for him while presenting himself as a popular celebrity. He made a deal with Chalice to bring her back to life after she was run over by a trolly.
Season 1[]
"Carn-Evil"[]
At some point, the Devil sets up a sinister carnival (spelled Carnevil) to attract victims, and if they lose a game, their souls get sucked out and are then transported directly to him. However, his scheme is interrupted by the arrival of Cuphead, who begins a winning streak at a skeeball booth. Angered by this, the Devil appears and scares away the other patrons and approaches both Cuphead and his brother, Mugman. Cuphead nearly loses his soul in the process, but Mugman saves him and they both run for it. The Devil chases them down while spewing fire at them. Afterwards, Mugman gets an idea and as the Devil fires one last shot from his pitchfork against the brothers, they jump out of the way in time, causing him to destroy the skew-ball booth, and by extension, the pipes connected to his Soul Vault, freeing the captured souls, much to the Devil’s anger. The Carnevil was destroyed during the scuffle and the Devil swears his revenge on Cuphead.
"Roll the Dice"[]
| “ | The Devil: Oh, and, number one? Dice: Yeeesss~? The Devil: I hate disappointment. |
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| ~ The Devil to King Dice, warning him not to disappoint him before ending the phone call to continue his bath. |
Later on, the Devil is taking a bubble bath when he gets a call from King Dice that he had just captured Cuphead, making him proud. He then warns King Dice not to fail him or else before hanging up. Later after King Dice fails he fires him from his role as both "Number One" and the host of "Roll the dice".
"Sweater Off Dead"[]
After that, he decided to have a celebration in honor of himself, only for Stickler to point out that he has not yet collected Cuphead's soul. Soon he tries to take Cuphead's soul quickly to only notice that Cuphead was wearing an invisible sweater that blocks him off, then he tries to get Cuphead to take off the sweater almost succeeding with this anger then failing by Mugman giving Cuphead a hug blocking also his flames causing him to go crazy. Then he returns ripping apart Stickler's book to give him time.
"Sweater Luck Next Time"[]
Afterwards, he decides to try and take Cuphead's soul failing many times despite knowing Cuphead has the sweater. Then he makes a deal to paint the fence so that Cuphead could take off the sweater in return. After finishing, he notices he was tricked then goes to the carnival where Cuphead and Mugman are, later for Mugman to go to get this sweater. After hearing some jokes from Cuphead he finally notices that Cuphead isn't wearing the sweater, by then trying to take his soul, almost succeeding, if it weren't for Mugman putting the sweater on him. Now he notices he can now take Cuphead's soul whenever he wants, but it will most likely be when his wounds heal.
Season 2[]
"Release the Demons!"[]
Some time later, now that his fur had grown back, the Devil was tearing up a book on anger management. After hallucinating about Cuphead, the Devil declared he was going to throw everything he had at him, and asked Henchman to bring him his finest demons.
The Devil admired the ferocious in his top demons, but he accidentally burned them all to death while talking about why he hated Cuphead. Then he the same thing to his second finest demons. So now, he was left with his third finest demons, which were pathetic and useless. The Devil was furious at this, and wanted to destroy them all, but he didn’t want to be left with the forth finest demons. He then sent his demons out, after threatening to destroy them if they failed, along with King Dice.
Later on, Dice was the only survivor, so he was forced to send out the four horsemen. They also failed because their horses were scared of Mugman’s horse mask.
Tired of minions failing, the Devil went over and was about to take Cuphead’s soul, only to be stopped by Stickler. Stickler also reveals a rule that said if the Devil had failed to collect someone soul with 30 days, the soul debt expired, and that it had been 31 days, so the Devil couldn’t take his soul. The Devil then tried to kill Stickler, but it was revealed that he was wearing the invisible sweater, and that he was the undisclosed location.
Tired and defeated, Stickler and the Devil went back to Inkwell Hell. Stickler tried to cheer the Devil up by saying things couldn’t get worse. Until the elevator broke down, leaving them both stuck. Stickler decided to pass the time by singing, much to the Devil’s annoyance.
"The Devil’s Pitchfork"[]
| “ | Say goodbye to Cuphead. | „ |
| ~ The Devil mockingly taking Mugman with him. |
After failing to claim Cuphead’s soul, The Devil was feeling down. He no longer has the right or will to take his soul as originally authorized, much to his frustration. He then felt worse went he saw a critic claim that he was losing his touch due to failing to get Cuphead’s soul. To make himself feel better, he wreaks havoc around the Inkwell Isles and terrorizes many of its civilians. However, the moment is ruined when learning he lost his pitchfork and realizes Cuphead has it. The latter uses it to shock him multiple times under the guise that he's giving it back to him, which causes him to accidentally reveal the fact that he can no longer take his soul out of anger. Seemingly showing sympathy after realizing how troubled he was, Cuphead offers the pitchfork... only to shock him yet again. With his patience and anger reaching its limit, he claims that since he has taken something important from him, he will do the same and take something important from him; Mugman. With a smug grin on his face, the Devil and Henchman captures Mugman and drag him down to the underworld, leaving Cuphead horrified and devastated that his brother is paying the price for his irresponsible actions.
Season 3[]
"The Devil’s Revenge!"[]
"Cupstaged"[]
"Roadkill"[]
"A Very Devil Christmas"[]
| “ | Ho Ho Oh no! | „ |
| ~ Devil after been turned to Santa. |
As all of the citizens of Inkwell Isle is enjoying their Christmas, The Devil ruins it and starts to sing about a song of how he enjoys ruining Christmas and terrorizing citizens during that time. As soon as he finishes that musical number he hears a train whistle and pushes some kids aside to look at a toy train set in a toy store window. This ignites his interest on wanting to own one, until he overhears a kid (Sammy Sandwich) whining about wanting the train too, before going off his list on what he also wants, before his mother reminds him about the naughty list, much to the Devil's confusion. He then goes up to Sammy and questions him about the naughty list, before the latter answers him about how if he's on the list, he won't get any presents.
The Devil the goes back to Inkwell Hell and hosts a meeting about him attempting to get on Santa's Nice List, much to the others shock. When one imp tells Henchman on not knowing the nice list, he is obliterated and his words are know pinned on Henchman, who then tells him that he can't qualify for the Nice List, due to his villainy. This prompts the Devil to go out and try to get himself on the Nice List.
Meanwhile in the North Pole, Santa Claus has just arrived back at his workshop, and goes to his office to find the Devil there already. The Devil then goes over to Santa and requests that he gets a toy train set, before eventually finding the Devil on the Naughty List. This severely upsets the Devil, and Santa decides to make it up for him to get on the Nice List. If the Devil can be a good boy until midnight, he will be moved onto the Nice List. He then attempts this, only to fail fast as he accidentally obliterates an old lady, much to Santa's disappointment later on. Here the Devil is now stuck on the Naughty List forever, as the latter then begs to do anything, Santa then hatches an idea. Here the elves are doing a ritual, and Santa performs a spell on the Devil that seemingly does nothing at first.
Later in Inkwell Hell, the Devil then starts to transform into Santa Claus himself, before Henchman finds him. Here, the Devil then confesses that he just wants a toy train, before Henchman logically questions on if he wants a train so bad, why doesn't he summon one? The Devil then answers that he wants to get the train through morality, and goes back to the North Pole. Here he questions the elves about Santa's whereabouts to turn him back to normal, before an elf version of Stickler appears, and explains to him that Santa has disappeared and that he is the new Santa, and to get back to normal, he must delivery all the nice people presents, otherwise, he stays as Santa Claus for all eternity if he fails. After going through a few more rules, the Devil then hops onto the sleigh and mispronounces the reindeers names very insultingly, causing all of them to flee. Henchman then substitutes into flying his sleigh.
Here, the Devil then delivers all the presents as he gets tortured through several ways, tangled up and electrocuted by Christmas lights, stabbed by icicles, mauled by dogs and getting sick after eating and drinking too much cookies and milk respectively, as he sobs. After delivering several more presents, Henchman announces that the Devil only has one house left, that being Elder Kettle's cottage, much to the latter's frustration, as Henchman reminds him to be jolly.
As they land, Henchman motivates him, as the Devil enters the cottage, and notices the dead tree. The Devil then proceeds to gift Mugman a stack of books, Elder Kettle a new radio, before finding the toy train that he wants, before lifting up the tag that he must give it to Cuphead (thinking that he was very naughty all year). As he then considers on taking the train for himself, Cuphead then finds him and confesses how hard it has been for him to be nice, when he goes out to be more naughty. This emotionally breaks the Devil's heart, as he then gives the train to Cuphead. The Devil then teleports outside the cottage to look at the Nice List if he got onto it yet. The results is that he hasn't, much to his dismay, before it actually writes his name down there.
The two then head off back to the North Pole, where his transformation wears off, turning the Devil back to his normal self. Here, Santa Claus reappears where he is about to present the Devil with a gift better than a toy train: "The joy of being nice." This at first, doesn't seem serious to the Devil, but then, he later soon goes into a mental breakdown as he scolds him for breaking the deal, before teleporting back to Inkwell Hell, as he brings Henchman back as well, who happily says good bye.
As the Devil returns, he goes into a state of depression as he didn't get what he wanted, as he eats Stickler's sandwich. Suddenly, he hears a train whistle and finds a larger version of the toy train in the middle of his throne room. The Devil then becomes joyed, (thinking that Santa did get him the train that he wanted) as he then dons a conductors' outfit and rides it. The dramatic irony is actually that Henchman built the train, as he hides behind the throne and wishes the Devil a happy Christmas.
"Special Delivery"[]
The Devil appears at the very end of the episode. He appears flossing his teeth in his bathroom when an explosion from Porkrind's shop cause a chain reaction by breaking a piece of the ceiling and check to see with his periscope. He turns to see the Cups and Chalice, to which he surprisingly knows her from before. Seeing her being friends with them, he decided to use it to his advantage.
"Down & Out"[]
"Dance with Danger"[]
"The Devil and Ms. Chalice"[]
Quotes[]
Season 1[]
| “ | Everyone loves a carnival. What a haul. | „ |
| ~ The Devil’s introduction. |
| “ | Ooh! I love it when they run! | „ |
| ~ The Devil upon seeing Cuphead and Mugman flee before chasing them to steal the former's soul. |
| “ | The Devil: So, Dice, you know Henchman, don’t you? Henchman: Hi! King Dice: Yeah. I know Henchman. The Devil: He’s a big fan on your show. Never misses an episode. King Dice: (gulps) Is… that a fact? The Devil: He was just telling me that tonight you had your first loss. Ever. King Dice: Look, look, I can explain. The Devil: SLIENCE!!! (The Devil’s throne turns around as fire rises, only to reveal an empty throne.) King Dice: Huh? (The Devil teleports right next to him.) Aaah! The Devil: You had him right in the palm of your HAND!!!!! (Using his magic, the Devil levitates King Dice.) The Devil: I AM VERY, VERY DISAPPOINTED!!! King Dice: Give a second chance to your number one! (The Devil slams King Dice back to the ground.) The Devil: You are no longer my number one… And you will NOT be hosting your PRECIOUS little show! King Dice: But if I’m not hosting, then WHO?! |
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| ~ The Devil scolding and firing King Dice for failing to bring him Cuphead’s soul. |
| “ | Attention, everyone. We're having our most productive year in a millenium, all thanks to my hard work and dedication. | „ |
| ~ The Devil praising himself for the work his minions do. |
| “ | So let’s all raise a glass to me! | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
| “ | Oh! Deviled eggs! You know, I invented these. | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
| “ | You're wearing an impenetrable, invisible sweater! But how?! | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
| “ | Take it off, and I'll give you ten bucks! | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
| “ | I hate those cups. | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
| “ | Oh, that's right. Well, don't let us keep you. Bye! Who still needs cake, huh? | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
| “ | I didn't actually get his soul yet, okay? I just said that to buy myself some time before Stickler finds out. I hate that guy. | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
| “ | The only thing that'll make me feel better is getting that cup's soul. He's gotta take that sweater off sometime. | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
| “ | Listen, you little shoehorn... Stupid cup making me go around the back. I'm the Devil! Nobody tells me what to... | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
| “ | Nothing! I'm the Devil! | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
| “ | Let's see. I paint the fence. You take off the sweater. I take your soul. Hmm... Painting the fence. Oh, yes. Oh! | „ |
| ~ The Devil’s. |
| “ | Is that so? Watch this. And on the one, and on the two, here we go. | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
| “ | And that is how you paint a fence! Unbelievable! Where did those two nitwits go? | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
| “ | How delightfully unexpected! You know, Cuphead, you're not so bad after all. | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
| “ | You're not wearing the sweater! | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
| “ | Are not! | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
| “ | Thank you, Henchman. Perfect. Without the sweater, I can just go and take that cup's soul any time I want! Yow! | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
Season 2[]
| “ | The Devil: That’s IT!! I’m throwing everything I’ve got that cup! Head. The Devil: Thank you, Henchmen. Now bring me my FINEST DEMONS!!! |
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| ~ The Devil requesting Henchmen to summon his finest demons. |
| “ | The Devil: I assume you’re all wondering why I summoned you here today. Let me tell you about this cup. Henchman: Head. The Devil: Thank you, Henchman. Never before have I been subjected to such criminal disrespect by a mortal. First, he lost at Soul Ball, but his dumb brother grabbed his soul, and stuffed it back in, which is completely unethical, after I stole it fair and square. And then they destroy THE WHOLE CARNIVAL!!! (breaths) Then he goes on Roll the Dice, which is impossible to lose. And wouldn’t you know it? He couldn’t name Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. I mean, who can’t name Twinkle Twinkle Little STAAAAAARRRRR!!!!! |
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| ~ The Devil ranting about his hatred of Cuphead to his finest demons, before accidentally killing them. |
| “ | BRING ME MY SECOND-FINEST DEMONS!!! | „ |
| ~ The Devil requesting his second-finest demons. |
| “ | I mean who can’t name Twinkle Twinkle Little Star? Hmm. And then, he had this-this-this sweater. It was invisible, and impenetrablex, and dumb. And I couldn’t just take his soul out, and eat it, before his very EYEEEEEESSSSSS!!!!! | „ |
| ~ The Devil accidentally killing his second-finest demons. |
| “ | For a millennium, it was clear without debate who that figure was. After a recent stirring of... humiliating setbacks however, it is becoming blatantly apparent that the Devil is LOSING HIS TOUCH?!? A silly caricature of his once powerful self. Time to pass the walking stick to the next contender?! IT'S A PITCHFORK!!! | „ |
| ~ The Devil angered by the critics review of him. |
| “ | Stupid critic, what does he know?! | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
| “ | You know, Henchman, you're right. I AM the Devil. I need to get out there and be the Devil I was born to be! Oh, thank you, Henchman! I'm about to make a lot of people VERY miserable… | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
| “ | Lost my touch? I think not! | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
| “ | Very well, Henchman! First I tortured some children… Then I blew up… | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
| “ | Uh…. uh…. uh!! Where is my pitchfork? Guh… Uh, uh….. Ohh! | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
| “ | AAGH! YOU calm down! | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
| “ | I didn’t do that! Which means… Someone has my pitchfork! | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
| “ | Haah-! Agghh, you’re doing that on purpose!! | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
| “ | You think this is funny? You think you have the upper hand? Just because you have my pitchfork and your soul debt as expired?! | „ |
| ~ The Devil accidentally reveals Cuphead’s soul is no longer under his control in a fit of rage after the latter zapped him with his own pitchfork. |
| “ | Ohh! The humiliation! | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
| “ | And you… you won’t zap me? | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
| “ | You have taken something of great value to me, so I shall take something of great value to you. | „ |
| ~ The Devil kidnapping Mugman as payback for Cuphead taking his pitchfork. |
Season 3[]
| “ | If that’s mug’s brother thinks he can steal my pitchfork, he’s got another thing coming! | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
| “ | RULES?! I don’t care about rules! They stole my pitchfork! Half of my powers are tied up in that thing! I can’t zap stuff, I can’t shoot fire. I can’t even teleport! | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
| “ | THAT’S NOT AS MUCH FUN AS SHOOTING FIRE!! It was my whole style. I was so expressive when I had my pitchfork. Now, I don’t even know what to do with my hands. | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
| “ | I hope you all enjoyed yourselves, because today's performance... shall be my last! | „ |
| ~ The Devil in "Cupstaged". |
| “ | ♪ Chrismas time's my favourite time. Christmas time's my favourite time of the year. ♪ | „ |
| ~ The Devil singing about Christmas. |
| “ | On Sleazy, on Stinky, on Leary and Fatso! Were any of those right? OH, WHY DO YOU HAVE SUCH STUPID NAMES?! | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
| “ | Ah. The joy of being nice. that is so... STUPID! YOU'RE ALL OF BUNCH OF IDIOTS! Henchman, we're leaving! (Henchman: Bye, Santa!) | „ |
| ~ The Devil. |
| “ | Santa got me a choo-choo after all. I can't belive it! And this one even makes a bigger noise! All aboard! WHOO-HOO! (making train noises) | „ |
| ~ The Devil when sees a choo-choo thinking that Santa gave him. |
| “ | It can't be. My choo-choo! (gasps) WHAT?! This must be sort of mistake. This is supposed to be my choo-choo. That little cup has been naughty all year! HE DOESN'T DESERVE A CHOO-CHOO! But what if, I just keep his present for myself. That should teach a brat a lesson. Ah yes. What better present is there than learning a valuable lesson. | „ |
| ~ The Devil when sees a choo-choo thinking that Cuphead is naughty every year. |
Trivia[]
- Instead of deal-making, The Devil steals souls through cons and trickery.
- Unlike the soul contracts in the game, the Devil's soul contracts have expiration dates, meaning he has to collect a soul within 30 days before the deadline or forfeit the deal.
- "Old Scratch", one of his self-appointed aliases in the song, was an actual nickname used for the Devil in old times, especially in South USA.
- During the Devil's dance at the end of his song, if one looks hard enough, the background has what appears to be a pair of photorealistic eyes.
- It is unknown why soul debts expire so the Devil cannot take their soul from the person they owed him. Stickler explains that in over a month or 31 days; if you failed to have collected a soul after that time, it reverts to its' original owner, thus prohibiting the Devil from collecting it.
- The Devil is one of the four characters in the show to have a British accent rather than an American one, the other three being the ghosts Duke, Emma, and Jasper.
- The Devil is the only major character in the show who doesn't wear any gloves.
- The Devil claims to have invented deviled eggs.
- According to the head writer Deeki Deke, the Devil's favourite food is a filet of souls.
- Like with his game counterpart, the Devil's name is changed to Satanasso in the Italian dub, with "Satanasso" being an Italian folk nickname for Satan.
- It's possible that the ghosts from both the game and the graveyard episode were killed by the Devil through trickery but escaped.
External Links[]
- The Devil on the Cuphead Wiki
- The Devil on the Inconsistently Heinous Wiki
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