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If the Devil finds Stickler so annoying, why doesn’t he just destroy the guy? He is The Devil after all. He could replace the auditor with someone like Henchman, who wouldn’t dare make him angry.
Presumably Stickler's the only one with the necessary skillset and millennia of experience needed to keep all the millions of souls recorded properly, and the paperwork filed properly for same. Annoying as he is, he has a job to do and he does it—since Cuphead's soul is the ONLY one in arrears at this point, this is the first accounting error the Devil's really had to deal with, and so it's not likely Stickler has a history of bringing the boss down over paperwork.
Why does the magic invisible sweater need to be made from the hair of an unspecified extinct animal? You'd think an item that protects your soul from the Devil would be made of something more holy, like the hair of an angel.
If the animal's extinct, the Devil would no longer have access to its soul, making it beyond his forces
Considering the Devil seemed to recognize the type of sweater it was, maybe the animal whose hair it was made from was some sort of innately holy creature, and it's extinct because of that…
Hilarious as it was to watch, why did Mugman put the sweater on the Devil instead of keeping it? Now Cuphead will be defenseless the next time the Devil comes to collect.
Because Cuphead’s soul was already being torn out of his body, it was much quicker and safer to force it onto the Devil than to try to get it on Cuphead. If he tried to do that, there was a good chance he’d be too late and that the Devil would have snagged Cuphead's soul.
Why was the Devil always obsessed with taking Cuphead's soul and after Cuphead obtained a sweater, he never bothered to take Mugman's soul? Was Cuphead's soul really that important considering there are billions of souls to get?
Because Cuphead’s soul is the only soul he is owed but hasn’t been able to collect it. It’s likely a point of pride since so far, the Devil hasn’t missed collecting any soul he’s owed. Also, Stickler wouldn’t stop irritating him about it until he got it.
Also, it can be assumed he can't just take Mugsy's soul. Keep in mind, Cuphead doesn't owe his soul for nothing—he played a game, he lost, and per the implied rules of the game that means the Devil gets to claim his soul. Mugman never played the game and doesn't owe the Devil anything, so he's probably off-limits.
During the episode that was previewed during Netflix's Geeked Week Table Read "The Devil's Pitchfork" The Devil does just that. In exchange for Cuphead taking The Devil's pitchfork, he kidnaps Mugman.
Why didn't the devil go back after Cuphead immediately after he took the sweater off? Sure, he's in pain but it probably wouldn't take much effort to poof in front of him, grab his soul, and scram.
If Ms. Chalice can take a ghostly form and phase through walls, then what does she have to lose in being captured by the cops? She's visibly distraught at the prospect of throwing Cuphead and Mugman under the bus, but why does she feel the need to if the police can't even hold her against her will?
Depends on who knows she's a ghost. If she's trying to keep it a secret for some reason, she can't just go all intangible in front of the cops because then her secret's out.
If Elder Kettle was just going to glue Cuphead and Mugman's handles back on himself, why didn't he just say so? Why bother telling them a story about the Handle Fairy?
Mugman was feeling like a freak because he was a mug with no handle. Elder Kettle made up the Handle Fairy as a coping mechanism for Mugman—losing his handle then becomes less of a scary accident and more of a rite of passage into cup manhood. As to why Elder Kettle didn't just glue it back on right there, it's possible that he needed more time to find the glue and thought "the Handle Fairy comes while you're sleeping" would give him lots of time to find some.
Another question, if Mugman felt like such a freak of nature that he didn't want to be seen in public, why didn't he just stay home while Cuphead went out to try to buy some glue?
One: It's Cuphead. Of the brothers, Mugman's the more level-headed and focused of the two, so sending Cuphead out on his own may not be a great idea—he could spend the glue money on snacks, get distracted and forget what he was sent out for, or any number of shenanigans and it would be perfectly in-character. Two: the Devil is still after Cuphead's soul, and without Mugman's interference he's much closer to getting it—Mugman, being the protective brother he is, might not want to risk that. And three: it could be that Mugman, in his state of panic and shame, didn't want to wait for his brother to bring him the glue. He goes to the shop, buys the glue, slaps it on, and has his handle back in half the time.
Why did the invisible sweater work with Stickler, if it only works on account of CUPHEAD AND MUGMAN's brotherly love?
Cala Maria's kiss undoes the petrification of Captain Brineybeard because of his Power of Love being ignited by her returning his affections... but how did his parrot break free from being stoned?
In the ending of "The I Scream Man", the ice cream man calls the protagonist of the book Mugman is reading "Captain Mugbeard" when he spoils that he dies in the end. One can assume Mugman simply self-inserted himself and the people he knows into the story, but the ice cream man also calling the protagonist Captain Mugbeard begs the question: is the text ACTUALLY like that?!? There's a published book with characters based on Mugman and his acquaintances that even banks on his Precocious Crush? What's up with that?
Mugman may not be a totally unique name. There are surely other mugs in the world. The name was similar and that further encouraged Mugman to insert himself.
Stickler states in response to the Devil's furious threat of eating his soul that it isn't possible specifically because he's wearing the invisible sweater. So does Stickler, a literal demon from the Underworld, have a soul?
If a carnival hot dog can have a soul, why not a demon? Let's just assume, for sake of logic, that "soul" is synonymous with "personality and memories usually (but not necessarily) contained within a physical form". Stickler has a body, he has memories, and he has a personality (annoying and bland as it is), ergo he should have a soul.
In "Cupstaged", why does Sally Stageplay kick out Mugman alongside Cuphead and the Devil? In the case of Cuphead and the Devil it's at the very least understandable because they were sabotaging each other, but it's obvious as day Mugman did absolutely nothing wrong - he was taking his role seriously before very clearly getting slammed and injured by forces outside his own control, right in front of Sally, and she still yells at him and kicks him out! What kind of logic did she follow that led her to decide that he should have been punished at all, let alone in the same way as his saboteurs?
Probably cutting her own losses—Mugman became a liability the second it was clear there was someone out to get him. If she let him stick around, who knows how much of the theater would be destroyed in the crossfire? Callous, sure, but Sally's got to protect her own interests after all.
But then... Would it not make more sense for Sally to (personally) deal with Cuphead and the Devil and leave Mugman out of it rather than collectively kicking all 3 out? That way it would probably be a win-win situation: Mugman would likely get the role, Sally's theater would be safe, and Cuphead and the Devil would be reduced to backstage actors or outright banned from the theater for the chaos they caused. Either that, or at least having tact and telling Mugman why he can't have the role while rightfully punishing the other two. In the way she handles it, protecting her interests or not, Mugman is basically treated as a troublemaker solely because he was on the receiving end of the actual troublemakers and his efforts to do well at the audition also go to complete waste as a result, which also means she indirectly helps the other two in succeeding in dragging him down with them.
Sally is also a Prima Donna Director with a massive ego given that she ends up playing both Cup Rogers and the evil Catman rather than picking up two other participants in the audition. It is likely that the whole play is a vanity project for her (and she plays virtually everyone).
Sally being an egoistical Prima Donna Director definitely makes the most sense and probably explains why she did what she did; in that case she could've either not cared or felt so insulted by the sabotage that she was blinded by rage and perceived Mugman in the same way as she did Cuphead and the Devil. That might likewise be another reason why she didn't find other people to fill the roles, as the others waiting to audition offscreen may have decided to back out when they saw her acting out, forcing her to do the roles herself anyway. It is still unfair to Mugman that it happened given he did nothing wrong and was working so hard to get the role, but at least there is evidence that it was not a random decision - not a nice or maybe even reasonable one either, but also not random.
