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| “ | Fault, scratch, and choke -- are you trying to hustle me? | „ |
| ~ Mangosteen's death screen |
Mangosteen is a minion of King Dice in the game Cuphead.
Appearance[]
Mangosteen has two rows of teeth acting as a mouth and two eyeballs situated at each end of the mouth.
Personality[]
Mangosteen seems to be quick to jump to conclusions, possibly sometimes not realizing that said conclusions they make are false, considering their accusation of how Cuphead and Mugman tried to "hustle" them (as shown in their death screen), when in fact they just want them out of the way. They also appears to have a weak stomach (if they even have one), as evidenced by their vomiting, when they are defeated.
Battle[]
Before the battle starts, Mangosteen is basically a faceless 8-ball, but then their eyes and teeth slide over to become a face.
The boss has only one known attack, which is shooting color spectrum orbs from their mouth that aim at the player's position, which can be easily avoided. Mangosteen is also accompanied by billiard chalks, dropping from the sky in an attempt to crush the player(s). The chalks will try again by jumping in an arc and slamming down on them, the green one jumps the highest, then violet, and the lowest is orange, but this is also easy to avoid. Usually there will only be two different color chalks on screen. In Expert mode, however, all three color chalks can be on screen at the same time.
After enough damage, Mangosteen's body will start melting and ink will spill out from their mouth, making them appear to be vomiting.
Trivia[]
- The background of the battle with Mangosteen looks very similar to the background that appears when you get farther in the platforming level Funhouse Frazzle.
- Mangosteen is named after a tropical fruit of the same name.
- The attack where they spits out an orb of energy from their mouth is similar to a bomb that the boss Dark Mind can fire from his belly in Phase 1 when Kirby fights him in Kirby and the Amazing Mirror, except there's no catastrophic explosion later.
- Mangosteen's design is a reference to Melon Bread from Gunstar Heroes and other Treasure games, which inspired Cuphead. In fact, analogous to their inspiration, they's also named after a fruit and fires a single ball of energy as their sole direct method of attack, having sensory organs floating and dying animation is puking, just like their inspiration.
- Mangosteen represents billiard games.
- Mangosteen's place is number 8, referring to an 8-ball.
- When Mangosteen fires a colored orb, the sound that is made sounds similar to when two billiard balls collide.
- When Mangosteen is defeated, they spew ink out. This is a reference to Magic 8 Ball toys, which resemble 8-balls and are filled with a blue liquid and a die that can be used to predict the future.
- In the sense that Mangosteen is using it in their death line, the term "hustle" refers to secretly robbing an individual of their money, referring to the fact that many casino games are rigged.
- It can also be referring to the technique of a pool player tricking inexperienced players into losing a game and their money by pretending to be worse than them before the player reveals their actual level of skill. This probably means that Mangosteen thought that Cuphead and Mugman lost to them on purpose.
- Mangosteen's first three words in their death quote refers to types of errors in pool billiards.
- In the unused Simple Mode, they would just look around and never attack, and the billiard chalks would never appear. They only have the default 100 health. In later version like 1.1.3, the Simple Mode differences have been removed and would play like Regular Mode instead.