Cuphead (character)
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| Cuphead | |
|---|---|
| Cuphead character | |
 Cuphead as seen in Cuphead (2017) | |
| First game | Cuphead (2017) |
| Created by | Chad Moldenhauer |
| Voiced by | Tru Valentino (The Cuphead Show) |
Cuphead is the title character from the 2017 video game Cuphead. He, alongside his brother Mugman, served as the main protagonists in which they lose a game of dice against the devil and they made a deal with the Devil. He was created by Chad Moldenhauer to replace their placeholder character in which Chad and Jared Moldenhauer has brainstormed and sketch lots of character ideas.
Cuphead has been generally positively received, with one critic comparing him and his brother to Mario and Luigi. Cuphead would also appear in other games, including Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
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During the early development of the game, Studio MDHR needed a main character to replace a “little weird green guy” with a hat they been using as a placeholder according to Jared Moldenhauer. The team brainstormed lots of 1930's-themed concepts while his brother Chad Moldenhauer started paying attention to the backgrounds in the old cartoons, instead of the characters.[1][2] Moldenhauer also designed few concept sketches of the character which started with simple ideas based on people and animals, but soon realized that these designs were common in classic animation works. Chad and Jared Moldenhauer began designing the character's head look like a light bulb, a cactus, and a fishbowl and existing characters from retro video games and old cartoons as inspiration.[3][4] Chad elaborated during the brainstorming process, jested to draw something like an anvil for a head however, the two couldn't remember the exact object of inspiration. Chad randomly tried drawing a character with a cup as it head and Jared found the design was "a lot skinnier and spindlier."[2] Once him and Jared Moldenhauer came up with the character, they knew that they had something special.[5]
Cuphead's gloves are coloured white while sometimes, it was yellow due of characters from the golden age of American animation such as Mickey Mouse also having his gloves sometimes white and yellow according to TheGamer writer Sean Murray.[6] Tru Valentino got the audition from his agent to voiced Cuphead for The Cuphead Show. Since the character doesn't speak in the original game, in an interview with Valentino alongside with Frank Todaro and CBR writer Sam Stone, who he asked the two if have the benefit of having a relatively blank canvas however, Valentino said that it had to be an East Coast kind of vibe.[7]
