if you haven't bought the dlc and go to the dlc menu in the main menu, at the top of the image, it says that the boat departs on june 30, 1932

It seems pretty clear to me that the DLC was designed to take place whenever you beat it. You beat the devil and then played the DLC? Congrats, Chalice’s adventure takes place after the main game. You beat one mausoleum and then went on an adventure to save Chalice’s soul and then beat the devil? Congrats, that’s the order it takes place. If the newspaperboy and the story’s disconnectedness is anything to go by, the developers clearly wanted to make the DLC’s placement in the timeline work wherever it laid out for YOU while playing it. This is exactly why a lot of old Cuphead players (who are beating the DLC long after the main game) feel like it’s a sequel, and why many of the new players feel that it a sidequest: it’s literally DESIGNED to slide in wherever you play it, and that means the devs did a good job at making the new content flexible.

The main reason I say sequel is because, why would the brother’s go to another island when they have one day to get all the souls of the main game, and if they don’t they die? Why waste time instead of do it later. I personally believe the dlc is the end of cuphead (the game) because of that line in the key ingredient’s, but I can see both ways of it being before and after the end of the base game

You see the 1932 if it isn’t installed yet, go to the ticket when it’s not installed and it says leaving for dlc isle 1932 or something along those lines

It's a sequel, because if you remember in the main game whenever you go to a mausoleum Miss challiss acts like she's never seen you before and thanks you as you two are unknown Heroes who save her from the ghost. However in the delicious last course, you seen their interaction that they're talking like they've known each other AKA through the events of the main game. The timeline is the Netflix show is before the main game the main game is after and then the DLC is the last part.

Another thing to mention is that after beating the base game at the end of the credits King dice says "that's all there is, there isn't any more...or is there" but he says nothing during the credits of the DLC. Just a little thing I noticed

I am pretty sure this DLC takes place after the main game. But that doesn't mean it is the ending. I assume they meant Delicious Last Course like the dessert in a meal. But with the show running, I am sure they will make a cuphead 2. It isn't "the end" just the end for now.

It's canonically a side-story wich is also why you can start the D.L.C. at isle 1 if you want.

I say sequel due to the "debts are paid" line in the song. Yes it can refer to saltbaker and his community service. However, the term "debts" in cuphead is very well associated with the soul contracts and the Debtors. With how well detailed the game is the writers would certainly acknowledge that correlation, and the decision to make "debts" instead refer to saltbakers community service, which would at no other point be referred to as "debts", would be odd to say the least.

I would give some attention towards the ending of the base game, as one clue towards the D.L.C being a sequel that you missed in the video. The final slide has the text "As an all-day celebration began, the brothers promised to never wander into trouble again. And they didn't - until the next time, of course! But that is another story..." Now that may either hint at a sequel, or to the D.L.C, as that is certainly the brothers(and Chalice) wandering into trouble again, and we're certainly being told another story in the D.L.C. I'd say that makes it very obvious where it is supposed to be canonically.

I honestly think all of these events can (and do) happen at around the same time, and they can happen in any order depending on how the player individually goes about the game.

Fun fact: did u know that the secret boss was a scraped devil phase and when u beat it he will lean in and start it like normal non dlc

There's honestly plenty of material to explore if they ever did make Cuphead 2. Judging from the statues of cups, plates, and dinnerware in Rugged Ridge, and the shield with the term Calix Animi, which means Soul Cup, Rugged Ridge was once some sort of Cup themed kingdom that was brought to ruin somehow, and Cuphead and Mugman seem to be the reincarnations of its guardians. Chalice appears to be some sort of goddess by her statue's appearance. There's a LOT of hidden lore they stuck in here. Why is any of this here? What happened to this kingdom? There's a massive amount of questions that could make for a great sequel.

I for sure think it’s a sequel. One of my (less logical) reasons is because of the song mentioned in the video *Now the debts are paid, the pastries are baked* This might sound stupid but I originally thought of the bolded line as “they already paid their debts to the devil, now they’re collecting ingredients for a pastry”. (But it does make sense if it’s referring to saltbaker) Plus like he said canonically Cuphead and Mugman had till midnight to collect all of the soul contracts or else they’d like…die. So I feel like they wouldn’t stop to bake along the way. Also cuphead and mugman sort of acted like legendary chalice was their friend, which would make more sense at the end of the game cause they ran into her way more times. (Plus if it was a prequel, why wasn’t she like…trapped in another mausoleum?) One more thing to consider is the end credits of the main game where the voice goes "That's all there is...There isn't any more...Or is there?". Which I think is hinting to a sequel, the dlc.

The thing about The Devil's skeleton is, According to the main story, we're the first to have ever seen the devil's transformation, since we're the first people who fought and defeated him, meaning that the secret fight couldn't take place in the past, because Cuphead didn't know about the devil's skeleton at that time, which means that this was either a dream that took place after the devil is defeated, or a fight with the devil in the astral plane, although we know he isn't dead so, that's not possible! What this means is that the dream most likely takes place after the devil fight, adding onto the proof that this is a sequel! Or this is just a game with no lore because it's based around 1930's cartoons, where literally anything can happen!

the DLC takes place two years later. on the DLC screen before you purchase it, there’s a passport that says June 30, 1932. I have an Xbox screenshot as proof if you’d like to see.

Something else to note is that chalice appears in the bad ending of the base game if you give up your soul at the end I think there just isn’t a set timeline for what happens and it depends on how you play the game but the fact that it shows 1934 in the end credits of the dlc does make this a bit confusing and inconsistent if that’s the case

On the topic of a "Cuphead 2", as much as I want that to happen, I don't think we'll be getting one (at least not for a long time). Studio MDHR has been vague on what's next from them, responding to interviews with something along the lines of "we having nothing to announce at this time, but we will continue to use hand-drawn animation." I think they might try some new ideas separate from Cuphead, perhaps in different animations styles (could be interesting to see something in an later 40s style or an UPA style), but I think the D.L.C. is the last we'll be seeing of Cuphead outside of the Netflix show and merchandise for awhile.

I always considered the DLC to be another episode of a 1920~1930's cartoon. Theres no plots, the characters don't learn a lesson, everything just resets at the end of the day.

I like to think that there is no “one time” that the DLC takes place. It just takes place whenever the player encounters it. The main reason is because the newspaper boy’s dialogue changes depending on how far you are in the main game. You can’t really make a timeline for an open ended game like Cuphead. It’s like trying to figure out the “canonical” order in which Cuphead and Mugman fought the game’s bosses. Ooh, did the cups fight the Root Pack or Goopy le Grande first? There is no answer, because the player can fight them in whatever order they want! Just like how they can access the DLC whenever they want.

I think that the dlc has no cannon timeline. It takes place whenever you go there during the game. Like how how paperboy says different things depending on where you are in the game. Also somewhat unrelated but I also think the Cuphead show is still in the cannon timeline and it takes place before the game so that's why ms chalice knows you

It’s actually take place in 1934 , the proof is shown when judge Wise Owl is sentencing chef Saltbaker to community service on the upper left corner of the paper where the judge is holding , you can see it’s clearly says 1934 . So in conclusion it’s actually 4 year after cuphead and mugman defeated the devil

I believe that the DLC takes place when you played it. If you went through the DLC before defeating the devil, then it takes place there. If you went through it after defeating the devil, then the same is true. It's like how you can choose some bosses to do before others and vice versa.

When I first had the fight with saltbaker, I immediately went "This is no longer Fleischer... this is Disney". If there will be a continuation of a tried and true animation style of the past, they will move forward a good notch to an era in animation where you had beutiful animation such as the Old Disney, like fantasia and whatnot, but contrasting with limited animation such as Hannah Barbera and even Old Anime. I honestly think, budget wise this is a feasible idea for a Cuphead sequel where you are bringing the historical clash of animations from different eras, and then end it with Computer 3D animated boss fight. Would be an amazing ode to animation history in general.

I would say my reasoning for having the dlc coming after would be that If I remember correctly, The Devil said something about them having one day to get all the souls to him, and I don't think if they were on a time limit like that they would just hop over to a new isle that has no souls for them to get

I’d definitely say that the Delicious Last Course is a sequel as the boys already have their powers, powers they only received from Elder Kettle’s potion after getting in trouble with the Devil. I’d also say that the Cuphead show is an alternate universe with Chalice having no problem with her form, Elder Kettle being incredibly blind without his glasses, the boys having no powers etc

I just think it takes place during the events of the main game as something you can take part in. Although slightly after the events so I quess I'm on team Sequel. Ps: Also due to the fact that the boys already have to start there quest to unlock the dlc and I wouldn't think they would pause the current adventure to go with some guy with a boat but after they still see him after they beat the devil they figure they should go.

I would say that the biggest reason for a sequel is that the trio knows their name but in the base game you only learn her name after the second mouseleum. With that fact in its either in the story of the main game or after it.

What I'm thinking is that the dlc is taken place whenever the player decides to go to the island. You can just go in the island anytime you want, just as long as you beated the Musullium. And no, the devil is not dead, the boss battle can just prove that he's not dead, it's just his skeleton.

My problem with this is why didn't Cuphead and mugman get community service too, I mean they were the ones who fought the residents of inkwell 4 so wouldn't they also be held somewhat accountable if it was in they were just some nobodies who came on to that island rather than heroes who beat the devil

Has anyone Just considered that fact that it could be a side quest

It's easy to tell that this is a sequel because miss chalicenow knows the two and doesn't refer to them as unknown hero's and the devil's dead body in the grave is just obvious and you also go into this with all your abilitys whilst prequels strip you of your previous abilities so I don't know what is so confusing

Hear me out, the Dlc happens whenever you do it. Whether that's years after beating the devil or after just one masuleuem

"Alive and well" seeing that he has an arm cast i dont agree with the "well" part

The problem with your assertion that Ms. Chalice exists out of time is that Cuphead and Mugman DON'T, but they still recognize Ms. Chalice when the DLC begins implying they've met.

The answer is simple: it's an old cartoon, there IS no continuity, things are mentioned from previous adventures and things are reused from different places, but even characters that get crushed to pieces come back the next episode like nothing ever even happened.

My theory about of the DLC: It's neither a sequel nor a prequel, just another episode of the story. Like old cartoons that didn't had continuity.

I feel like DLC happens canonically at no specific point in time, *it happens at whatever point you decide to go there*

The dlc’s timeline placement depends on if you play it before beating the devil or after, as the news boy’s dialogue depends on your game state. So because of this it depends on when the player chooses to play the dlc to put it on the timeline

I like how Pogobro is becoming the Mossbag of Cuphead. Love it!

Yes! I was waiting for this video!

Honestly, the delicious course is active on a new file if you beat Mausoleum 1. So it’s probably just a little fun side island, confused on the Devil being dead tho.

I think it takes place whenever you decide to do it. Since the cat's dialogue changes based on your progress

it's very clear to me that studio mdhr just isn't focused on in depth lore with cuphead. they have a basic backbone of a story so that nothing feels out of place and everything has some sort of cohesion, but they are more focused on just making a fun gameplay experience. plus, not having a timeline with set continuity might just be one of the many nods to old age cartoons, which were usually just one offs and not part of a greater story.

I can’t blame you about being confused about Inkwell Hell not being a place you could boat to, but take notice that there are no forms of water that lead from the ocean to the inside of the cave that is Inkwell Hell.

Here's one more thing that confounds the year issue; if you look at the small plaque on Chef Saltbaker's table in the first phase of "A Dish to Die For", it reads as follows: SALTBAKER GENT Canada, '38 I'm guessing that the DLC folder stating a date of departure for 1932 is a reference to the fact that this DLC was supposed to come out 2 years after the original game did (which ended up not happening for various reasons). The question's sort of a wash anyway, since Studio MDHR's stance on it since promoting the game in the month leading up to it's release is that it's both a quest that can take place simultaneously or after the base game, and numerous interviews state that the DLC is more of a 'final farewell' and a 'cool sendoff' to the game of Cuphead (until a sequel happens in like...the 2040s or something).

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The question is more if the dlc takes place before or after deafening the devil, seeing as you have to beat one mausoleum to play it, but honestly I think the timeline for it is fluid and the dlc is intended to take place anytime during the first game seeing as the boatman is on all the isles and because the cat has dialogue for different situations, depending if you’ve beating certain bosses or not

The credits mentions miss chalice is a NEW FRIEND I like to imagine miss chalice goes to the mausoleum as an alternative to the wonder tart

I personally believe that the DLC not only takes place after the events of the base game but is also the grand finale to Cuphead. I base this belief off of the book titled "The Art of Cuphead," released on March 17, 2020. In that book, there is a section at the end that gave a sneak peek of "The Delicious Last Course." On page 257, it describes how they came up with the idea for the DLC. It says that they came up with so many new ideas after they finished the base game that they "approached the team and proposed the idea of taking another trip together to the Inkwell Isles for one more grand adventure." This seems to imply that the DLC is the grand finale to Cuphead and there will therefore be no sequel. The book then goes on to say on the same page, "With their quest to defeat The Devil and save their souls already complete, we knew the prospect of going on another journey together was the perfect opportunity to introduce a third playable character." This seems to prove that the DLC does indeed take place after the events of the base game. That being said, this book was published while the DLC was still being worked on, so their plans to make it take place after the events of the base game and have it be the grand finale to Cuphead could have changed since then. However, there has been nothing officially said by them that would lead me to believe that anything has changed, which is why I believe what I do.

I think it just takes place whenever you as the player play it. It would be weird if you completed a bunch of bosses from the base game, got on the boat to Inkwell Isle 4 and then it's like "oh yeah, this took place before everything you just did", even though you got on the boat after all that. The newspaper boy shouting your base game progress seals it for me.

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That makes sense because the paper guy that gives you 3 coins talks about them beating the devil and also the dlc was released on June 30th

I feel like the first game is like a movie and the second is like the cartoon of the movie The story of the cartoon does not affect the movie but the latter settles the cartoon

Theory: If you beat the secret Devil and Angel boss, they get sucked into the Devil's skeleton, what I think that means is that when that happens, the Devil is automatically healed once more and is able to be stronger than ever, because you see the Angel is begging very much.

This video summed up in a couple words: “Idk it’s confusing to figure out the timeline” 🤷‍♂️

It’s obviously a sequel. The Devil gave them until midnight of the next day to bring him all the souls. Unless they did a speedrun of the DLC I doubt they’d be wasting time helping someone else

I would say at the very least the DLC takes place during or after the events of the main game. The only reason you even have the Peashooter is because Grandpa Kettle gave it to the boys after hearing about their debts to the Devil.

I support the nightmare theory because when you do the fight the character you play as fall's asleep in front of the grave

I think it's a curse from the Devil. The Devil has condemned everyone to live in a time loop, and that's why Cuphead and Mugman can fight every boss as many times as they want. So the time is broken, we can also get a clue of this in the loading screen of the Angel and Demon who were created by the Devil.

Well, Cuphead and his pal Mugman Their new friend chalice too By chance, they stopped into a bake shop Mischief was on the menu Now the debts are paid, the pastries are bake There is one thing left to say WHERES SEASON TWO TO THE CUPHEAD SHOW

I've been watching a lot of Cuphead content recently and I noticed that in the dice house, (where you get from isle to isle in the main game), there is a black board in the background with I, II, III, IV and V on it. This may be hinting to the Isles and if so where is the fifth isle? It could be counting ink well hell but I doubt it as that isn't listed as isle four or five.

5:48 “He is alive and well” The devil sitting in background with the crap beat out of him.

I don’t really think the timeline matters much lore-wise, but I think the Devil being the final boss canonically is more…grand, I guess? As far as we know, Chef Saltbaker is kinda just a normal guy who can bake magical pastries, while the Devil is, well, the Devil. Just feels like a step down in terms of stakes Also the nightmare of the Devil makes more sense to happen while he’s still an active threat, but it’s also kinda weird that the boys would decide to just…sleep? Like they have a day to get dozens of contracts before they die, and they decided to not only go on a whole separate adventure, but also take a nap? Seems kinda odd

Theory: it’s based on what you do in the game. If you already beat the devil it’s a sequel, if not it’s before the end of the main story

The simple answer is that the dlc isn’t a sequel or a prequel. It completely depends on the player and when they complete the dlc I like to think of it as a really big side quest.

in the menue stands arriving 1932 if you didnt bought it. i think it plays after the story because why they should help someone else if they need to save their own souls

I would say sequel, meant to take place after the main game. But I think they left it open enough so that it could take place anywhere after the first mausoleum.

I like to think the Netflix show takes place in a different universe than the game.

My guess is that it depends on if you beat The Devil or not yet.

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Literally there is a npc that says that you "sent that imp packing"

The cutoff at the end is so funny

I heard that the secret boss was supposed to a phase of the Devil fight but was scrapped I think that it was going to be after the first phase because of the Devil's skeleton in the background and I think that those spirit versions of the boss getting pulled into the eye sockets was to transition to the next phase where the Devil is huge

I realized that no matter what, in the secret boss fight you'll never see the angel, pretty neat

Personally I think the best proof of the DLC being a sequel is the airplane guy. He helps you out without introducing himself at all and you already know how to fly

I don't know if you realized this but in the DLC Ms. Chalice looks way younger in fact in Cuphead she looked like an adult. Strange right?

Awesome and cool! ^_^

I don't know where the show stands on lore but, Cuphead has nightmares of the devil. That is all.

Isn’t it funny that Clockface is called Clockface even he’s a Compass?

Did you see the statues in rugged ridge? A lot of the statue are dishware related- and One of them is miss chalice. Several of them relate to her super-arts move with the ghost army. If you want maybe bring this bit up to attention

I would also like to note that in the end shot of saltbaker you can see chalice with a body along cuphead and mugman, and in the mausoleums she’s just a ghost.

Honestly, i think that the main game and the dlc all take place in one period, so the dlc is done first because ms. chalice says at the end of the dlc, "If you ever find yourself in a pickle, I'm always just one cookie bite away!"

“Alive and well” You sure he’s well?

I wouldn’t say the devil is alive and WELL, he is just… alive and pyschically traumatized.

I think it's obvious that it's the sequel . You mentioned how the newspaper boy gives the coins whether or whether not you beat the game. However in the end he still mentions how we beat the devil like a week ago. (I think it was a week I don't remember exactly) Technically this is one of the biggest pieces of evidence. Think of it like a book. Let's say you've read the first book out of a series and when the second one was released you read it too. You have a friend who hasn't read any of the books. Even though they haven't read the first book, you give them the second book to read. The second book is going to continue the story from the first book. Whether you read the first book or not the story still continues after the ending in the first the book. And it may even have reference towards the first book. To sum it up, the story is going to continue whether you're caught up or not. And considering the references to the original game, it's easy to tell that it's a sequel

Please make a theory on werner werman!! He has a lot of lore!!

"It would be weird for there to be no Cuphead 2" I don't know, the progress of making Cuohead 1 itself sounded fairly troublesome. In fact, I'm pretty sure someone had to mortgage their house to keep making it

The DLC sets itself as a side story and a sequel. It is both dependent on how you want to play it. Much like episodes of Looney Tunes each fight and each story bit can be fit together in a coherent sense without much loss. Let's just say that Cuphead took that wrong turn on Alberquere.

I thought that the paper boy always said something about you beating the devil, good thing I heard that before commenting

I feel like this is one of those things where it's kind of just separate with no real concrete time period when it takes place.

Good vid

The DLC takes place after the main game because at the start of the main game the elder kettle gives cuphead the potion that allows him to fight the enemies and cuphead then carries this ability into the DLC.

When it comes to Cuphead lore I just don’t try to think about it to hard

the DLC in the main menu is June 30, 1932, I think when you don't have it installed, and the epilogue is 1934 on the judges sentence. Either the trip to inkwell isle 4 was longer than we thought or the more logical option, the trail took place 2 years after the events of the DLC.

“The devil is alive and well” The devil who’s clearly in pain

i think its prequel because when the devil gives you the choice to fight him or join him, chalice becomes evil as well

Everyone is talking about the dlc, and theories, but nobody is talking about the compass's cake when bringing you to the Isle IV

Tbh I wonder how like the dlc bosses were put in charge of these ingredients like imagine Mortimers cult is just worshipping those icy sugar cubes or are you like plankton in easters fight because you fail it so many times.

The skeleton in the background has a horn that the devil doesn’t