If your Cuphead plan calls for a Male Characters, this is your shortlist: 29 entries that all share that Gender. The table shows what each one actually does, so you can pick the one that fills the slot you need.
The full Characters list
| Name | Gender | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Djimmi The Great | Male | Djimmi The Great is one of the two flying bosses fought in Inkwell Isle Two, the other being Wally Warbles. He is encountered in the level Pyramid Peril. His battle takes place in the air, so Cuphead and his companions have to fight him with airplanes in their attempts to get his contract. Djimmi The Great is a muscular red genie wearing a turquoise vest with a yellow inside, and a turban the same color as his vest that has a red gem and a large white feather on it. Djimmi is almost always seen with his cob pipe clenched between his teeth. He also wears black and cream arm bands and light blue pants. In official art for the Switch version of Cuphead, he has a tail that matches his body. His shoes appear to be magic genie lamps. |
| Beppi The Clown | Male | Beppi The Clown is a boss in Cuphead that is fought in the Carnival Kerfuffle level of Inkwell Isle Two. Beppi is a tall clown with a red and blue clown suit with a blue and a red diamond drawn on each side, as well as a collar that has blue and red triangles on the sides with the top and bottom of the collar being white. He also seems to have a red and white face as well as a small black top hat. He also has yellow eyes with black pupils, red and blue eyebrows, a long red nose, and short eyelashes. |
| Cyclops | Male | The Cyclops is a sub-boss encountered in the Run ‘n Gun level Rugged Ridge from Inkwell Isle Three. He makes his lair near the stage’s end, and the fight against him is unique due to his invincibility. The Cyclops is an enormous ogre-like behemoth with a slight resemblance of an ape, sporting grey skin, black fur, double pairs of fang-like tusks in his mouth, a large lumpy nose, and elvish ears with both golden rings. Based on the Greek mythological monster of the same name, he has a large single yellow eye with a broader brown eyebrow. |
| Glumstone The Giant | Male | Glumstone The Giant is one of the new bosses in the DLC, fought in the level Gnome Way Out. He is the keeper of the Gnome Berries. Glumstone is a giant that wears roughly-tailored clothes. His head has a few bruises with bald spots similar to the peaks of a mountain and his beard lays across the battlefield where the player(s) actually have to walk on. He has a big red nose and a few missing teeth, with pink puffy cheeks and thick eyebrows. Though not shown in-game, he wears open-toe sandals and a blue belt. |
| Cuphead (character) | Male | Cuphead is the titular protagonist of Cuphead. Cuphead is Mugman’s irresponsible older twin brother and, like the rest of his family, lives on Inkwell Isle. He is usually played by the first player and, as a result, was the default character for Player One before the update in April 2019, after which the first player can choose whether to play as him or Mugman. He is voiced by Tru Valentino in The Cuphead Show! |
| Chef Saltbaker | Male | Chef Saltbaker is the hidden main antagonist and final boss of Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course. He is also the founder and owner of his bakery, claiming to have a recipe for the proper ingredients to bring a soul back to life. Cuphead and his gang have to fight him in the laboratory that Chef Saltbaker had set up below his bakery in the stage A Dish To Die For. Saltbaker cannot be fought in Simple Mode like King Dice & The Devil. Chef Saltbaker is an anthropomorphic salt shaker who has a pointy nose and wears a chef’s uniform, including a traditional white jacket with red-trimmed sleeves, and a red ascot around his neck. In addition, his metal cap (which has holes to pour salt from on it) resembles a toque blanche. |
| Goopy Le Grande | Male | Goopy Le Grande is one of the first bosses in Cuphead. He appears in Ruse Of An Ooze from Inkwell Isle One. Goopy is a blue slime with a small red nose. During Phase 2, he grows to double his normal size and he gains a pair of thick, brown eyebrows. In his final form, he manifests as an angry face on a grey gravestone with a cross on top, displaying the term “RIP” (Rest In Peace). |
| The Devil | Male | The Devil is the main antagonist and the final boss of Cuphead: ‘Don’t Deal With the Devil. As ruler of the underground isle of Inkwell Hell, he resides within the colossal, castle-like casino that takes up most of the isle’s landscape. The Devil is encountered in his throne room inside of the casino, after which he is fought in the final stage One Hell of a Time. Upon his defeat, the game’s narrative concludes. |
| Hot Dog | Male | This article is about the Funfair Fever mini-boss. The Hot Dog is a mini-boss found in Funfair Fever. It serves as the second mini-boss of the level. His location is close to the stage’s end after some moving signs, and defeating him allows the player to reach the end goal. |
| The Knight | Male | The Knight is a boss in The Delicious Last Course. He is one of the King of Games’ five champions and the second one to face the player, after the Pawns. His battle takes place in the Hall of Knights, and upon defeating him, the Bishop can be fought. The Knight is a gray anthropomorphic horse with a body shape similar to his namesake chess piece, with a round bottom and lanky arms and legs. He dons a golden knight helmet with his ears sticking out, a pink plume of his hair, and neck protection. His tunic is mostly red with gold diamonds at the bottom, with a gold seam around his hips. His armor has some round plating on the elbows and knees. His knockout animation shows him to have yellow horse hooves for feet. The Knight wields a short sword with a round golden guard in his left hand and a wooden shield in his right arm. |
| Grim Matchstick | Male | Grim Matchstick is the dragon boss in Cuphead. He appears in Inkwell Isle Two and is fought in the Fiery Frolic level. Grim Matchstick bears an appearance similar to a typical dragon character from the game’s time period. |
| Anteater | Male | The Anteater (whose name is currently unknown) is a member of the Moonshine Mob and the third mini-boss in Bootlegger Boogie. The Anteater has a teal and red bowler hat like most of the members of the Moonshine Mob. He has brown fur with a striped trunk that contains a long tongue. |
| Announcer Snail | Male | The Announcer Snail (whose name is currently unknown) the leader of the Moonshine Mob and the last mini-boss in Bootlegger Boogie. The Announcer Snail, who serves as the Moonshine Mob’s boss, is an anthropomorphic snail with a scar over his left eye wearing a yellow suit. On his back is a dark yellow shell, and he carries a megaphone to amplify his voice and a cane in the intro. |
| Captain Brineybeard | Male | Captain Brineybeard is a pirate boss in Cuphead. He appears in the level Shootin N’ Lootin, and resides in Inkwell Isle Three. Captain Brineybeard looks like a stereotypical cartoon pirate, with an eye patch, a red pirate bandana with a yellow line across it, and two wooden peg legs. His eye patch sometimes opens to reveal his intact second eye. He wears a slightly torn grey shirt with the sleeves seemingly stitched on and has yellow cuffs. He also wears a black belt with a golden, rectangular buckle, with deep red pants. Captain Brineybeard has a deep red nose, a short, but shaggy black beard, and a rotund body. He dons a golden ear piercing. |
| Cuppet | Male | Cuppet The Art of Cuphead, page 106, also known as Puphead, is a minor boss created by Djimmi the Great in Phase 4 of Pyramid Peril. Cuppet is a sentient, Pinocchio-Esque Marionette version of Cuphead, sharing the same color scheme as Djimmi The Great. Since Djimmi took inspiration from Cuphead and Mugman, he bears a striking resemblance to them. He has a cylindrical, red nose, a mug-like head, a white and turquoise striped straw and pie cut eyes. He also wears what appears to be a red wooden shirt, turquoise puffy pants, white gloves and red plunger-shaped shoes. |
| Cagney Carnation | Male | Cagney Carnation is the boss of the level titled Floral Fury. He is one of the bosses that can be encountered in Inkwell Isle One. Cagney Carnation, like his last name implies, is a tall, sentient carnation flower. |
| Jelly The Octopus | Male | Jelly the Octopus is an unused boss who would have been one of the bosses for The Airship stages. He is a yellow octopus with cyan, triangular eyebrows and white and lavender tentacles with cyan blobs between each tentacles. He has a yellow antenna with a pink tip which can turn cyan when parried. Jelly simply idles while looking at the player, before moving around. He can only be damaged by having his antenna parried; once it is parried, he will speed up a bit. |
| King Dice | Male | King Dice is the right-hand man of the Devil and the secondary antagonist of Cuphead, making his very first appearance in the game in the opening cutscene. He can be found within every Die House, where he acts as a gatekeeper, blocking passage between isles until a required list of soul contracts are turned in to him by either Cuphead or Mugman. King Dice is later fought in the stage All Bets Are Off! which serves as the penultimate boss-fight in the game. Instead of being able to damage him immediately, a minimum of three mini-bosses must be defeated before one can directly attack King Dice himself. |
| Head of the Train | Male | The Head of the Train is the final phase of the Phantom Express in Railroad Wrath. He is not fought in Simple Mode. The Head of the Train is a blue and purple anthropomorphic saddle-tank steam engine with yellow eyes. After uncoupling from the rest of the train, he looks similar to a horse, with his body raised above his wheels by four legs and a tail that ends in a light-bulb. |
| The Rook | Male | The Rook is the fourth boss fought in the King’s Leap within the Delicious Last Course. He is encountered in the Dungeons. The Rook overall takes on the appearance of a medieval executioner, with his overall design giving him an intimidating appearance, a stereotype of executioners. |
| Werner Werman | Male | Werner Werman is a boss in Cuphead. He is encountered and fought in the level Murine Corps, which is located in Inkwell Isle Three and takes place in a house that Werner apparently lives in. Werner is a long-snouted brown rat who operates a dented red tin soup can that bears 4 gold stars perched on a wooden cart that he uses as a battle tank. (Although during his second phase, it crumbes, leaving behind only the cart that his tank was perched on and exposing him to his opponents.) He wears white gloves, blue shoes, and light brown pants (with a tan stripe running down each side of the pants) held up by a single suspender strap. His most notable feature is his metal Pickelhaube helmet strapped to his head, giving him a slight resemblance in his design to a Prussian soldier. He also smokes a cigar. |
| Tuba | Male | Tuba is one of the enemies found in the Run ‘n Gun level Funhouse Frazzle of Inkwell Isle Two. He is a giant anthropomorphic tuba with light vinyl colors of orange, yellow, and aqua-green. He has an orange nose, a yellow tongue, and a mustache. |
| Wally Warbles | Male | Wally Warbles is a bird boss that can be found in Inkwell Isle Two. He appears in the level Aviary Action!, which is an airplane level. Wally is a red-headed, blue-feathered bird who wears a cuckoo clock for armor that hides most of his body save for his legs, wings, and head. His legs are disguised as a pendulum before the battle with him begins. He has red and blue feathers and an orange beak and feet. Inside the clock resides his son. |
| Mortimer Freeze | Male | Mortimer Freeze is one of the new bosses featured in The Delicious Last Course. He is fought during Snow Cult Scuffle, and his battle takes place in an ice palace, although damaging him enough shifts his fight to above his ice palace. He is the keeper of the Icy Sugar Cubes. Mortimer Freeze is a plump old man with pale blue skin that looks frozen and an icy beard and eyebrows that looks a bit melted, has a long, pointy nose, and large ears. He wears a purple wizard hat with a band. His robe is also purple and looks ragged with patches on the arms, it is held up by yellow buttons. His pants are lavender also with some patches and he has yellow shoes. |
| Mr. Chimes | Male | Mr. Chimes is a mini boss that appears in the boss fight for King Dice when landing on Space 9. His stage is set inside a claw machine with the airplane. Mr. Chimes is a cymbal-banging monkey toy with empty eye sockets. He wears a white hat with a red stripe on it, a turquoise sleeveless shirt, and red and white striped shorts. He also has cymbals strapped onto his hands. |
| Pilot Bulldog | Male | The Pilot Bulldog (whose true name is currently unknown) is a pilot for the Howling Aces, and the first mini-boss faced by the player in Doggone Dogfight. The Fighter Pilot Bulldog wears a sleeveless top, brown open finger gloves, trousers and a red beret, and his arms have two bone tattoos on his left arm that creates a cross. He has a bandage on his chin. |
| Ludwig | Male | Ludwig is a grumpy looking gramophone that has a slight rivalry about their music tastes with another instrument, named Wolfgang. Talking with them will unlock the piano themes for the overworld. He can be found on Inkwell Isle Three standing outside the entrance to Rugged Ridge. Ludwig is a simple-looking gramophone with a yellow tube and yellow turning handle that is constantly spinning. He wears what appears to be a blue jacket/sweater and a white shirt. He also wears white gloves and brown shoes. |
| Mugman | Male | Mugman is the deuteragonist of Cuphead. He is Cuphead’s sensible younger twin brother and, like the rest of his family, lives on Inkwell Isle. He is controlled by the second player and can join or leave the game at any time. Due to his deuteragonistic role, Mugman formerly could not be controlled by the first player. However, as of the update in April 2019, the first player can choose to play as Mugman instead of Cuphead, making it so that Mugman won’t have to be controlled by the second player. Mugman is very similar in overall appearance to his twin older brother Cuphead, with his head reminiscing a mug and his body being almost identical to his sibling: wearing a black, long-sleeve shirt, yellow gloves, a pair of shorts and brown shoes, although artworks sometimes show him with white gloves. |
| Mangosteen | Male | Mangosteen is a mini boss that appears in the boss fight with King Dice when landing on Space 8. Mangosteen is a round, black 8-ball with two rows of teeth acting as a mouth and two eyeballs situated at each end of the mouth. |
The numbers at a glance
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Total Characters tracked | 29 |
| With a written description | 29 |
| Without a written description | 0 |
| Male — Gender | 29 |
What the Characters data tells us
If you only remember one thing: the gender split is the fastest way to narrow 29 Characters down. Male is the largest group at 29 entries, so start your comparison there before looking at anything else.
Entries worth a closer look
Djimmi The Great — Djimmi The Great is one of the two flying bosses fought in Inkwell Isle Two, the other being Wally Warbles. He is encountered in the level Pyramid Peril. His battle takes place in the air, so Cuphead and his companions have to fight him with airplanes in their attempts to get his contract. Djimmi The Great is a muscular red genie wearing a turquoise vest with a yellow inside, and a turban the same color as his vest that has a red gem and a large white feather on it. Djimmi is almost always seen with his cob pipe clenched between his teeth. He also wears black and cream arm bands and light blue pants. In official art for the Switch version of Cuphead, he has a tail that matches his body. His shoes appear to be magic genie lamps. Beppi The Clown — Beppi The Clown is a boss in Cuphead that is fought in the Carnival Kerfuffle level of Inkwell Isle Two. Beppi is a tall clown with a red and blue clown suit with a blue and a red diamond drawn on each side, as well as a collar that has blue and red triangles on the sides with the top and bottom of the collar being white. He also seems to have a red and white face as well as a small black top hat. He also has yellow eyes with black pupils, red and blue eyebrows, a long red nose, and short eyelashes. Cyclops — The Cyclops is a sub-boss encountered in the Run ‘n Gun level Rugged Ridge from Inkwell Isle Three. He makes his lair near the stage’s end, and the fight against him is unique due to his invincibility. The Cyclops is an enormous ogre-like behemoth with a slight resemblance of an ape, sporting grey skin, black fur, double pairs of fang-like tusks in his mouth, a large lumpy nose, and elvish ears with both golden rings. Based on the Greek mythological monster of the same name, he has a large single yellow eye with a broader brown eyebrow. Glumstone The Giant — Glumstone The Giant is one of the new bosses in the DLC, fought in the level Gnome Way Out. He is the keeper of the Gnome Berries. Glumstone is a giant that wears roughly-tailored clothes. His head has a few bruises with bald spots similar to the peaks of a mountain and his beard lays across the battlefield where the player(s) actually have to walk on. He has a big red nose and a few missing teeth, with pink puffy cheeks and thick eyebrows. Though not shown in-game, he wears open-toe sandals and a blue belt. Chef Saltbaker — Chef Saltbaker is the hidden main antagonist and final boss of Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course. He is also the founder and owner of his bakery, claiming to have a recipe for the proper ingredients to bring a soul back to life. Cuphead and his gang have to fight him in the laboratory that Chef Saltbaker had set up below his bakery in the stage A Dish To Die For. Saltbaker cannot be fought in Simple Mode like King Dice & The Devil. Chef Saltbaker is an anthropomorphic salt shaker who has a pointy nose and wears a chef’s uniform, including a traditional white jacket with red-trimmed sleeves, and a red ascot around his neck. In addition, his metal cap (which has holes to pour salt from on it) resembles a toque blanche. Goopy Le Grande — Goopy Le Grande is one of the first bosses in Cuphead. He appears in Ruse Of An Ooze from Inkwell Isle One. Goopy is a blue slime with a small red nose. During Phase 2, he grows to double his normal size and he gains a pair of thick, brown eyebrows. In his final form, he manifests as an angry face on a grey gravestone with a cross on top, displaying the term “RIP” (Rest In Peace). The Devil — The Devil is the main antagonist and the final boss of Cuphead: ‘Don’t Deal With the Devil. As ruler of the underground isle of Inkwell Hell, he resides within the colossal, castle-like casino that takes up most of the isle’s landscape. The Devil is encountered in his throne room inside of the casino, after which he is fought in the final stage One Hell of a Time. Upon his defeat, the game’s narrative concludes.