Angel and Demon
The Angel and Demon are a duo of secret bosses who are fought during the level One Hell Of A Dream in the DLC. The duo consists of an Angelic and Demonic entity. After defeating them, the fight can be triggered again by stand in front of the middle tombstone and hold L+R, LT+RT, ZL+ZR, L1 + R1, or Tab+Backspace for a bit, reactivating the tombstone.
There is no difficulty selection for this boss.
Description
Appearance
The Angel and Demon both resemble The Devil, being horned fuzzy bipedal creatures with wings and yellow eyes with black pupils, though their designs are different. They take the appearance of stereotypical angels and devils respectively, as the Angel looks more benevolent with a warm smile and a praying gesture while Demon has a malevolent grin and deathly stare.
The Angel is light blue blue with a dark-blue toga. His wings are birdlike, and he has small horns and a halo. The tips of his fur are also slightly rounder and soft.
The Demon is red with bigger ram horns sprouting from his head. His wings are batlike, his eyes have narrower pupils (much like how the Devil himself has narrow pupils in his eyes), and his hands have claws, and he wears no clothing. His fur tips are also pointed, much like the Devil's.
Intro
Like the Tipsy Troop, neither the Angel nor the Demon do anything special for their intro and are just simply in their idle poses, but the screen becomes less blurry as the battle starts.
Battle
"Wish you may, wish you might, your soul is now trapped in the night."
—Angel and Demon, Death Screen
In this battle, the Angel and Demon will use a variety of attacks, which are the following:
| Angel | Demon |
| The Angel summons three transparent halos. It can have a pink shine and turn into a pink fireball. |
The Demon summons three fireballs. The third one can be parried. |
| The Angel sings as he creates a wall of water. | The Demon roars as he creates a wall of fire. |
| The cloud platform below them will have lightning under it, damaging the player upon touch. | |
The Angel's attacks deal no damage.
The Demon always faces the player and the Angel hovers behind them. Their positions and attack properties will switch depending on the player's orientation (in co-op, both players must turn around).
After taking enough damage, the Angel and Demon will be defeated and sucked into the skeleton's eye sockets. The Demon is shielding his face with his arms while the Angel has his torso turned away with his "foreground arm" turned lifted to his face. Hitpoints = 800
Gallery
Angel and Demon knocked out
A bug where there are two demons for a short while.
Angel and Demon swapping when the player turns around (Animated)
Angel and Demon knocked out (Animated)
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Walkthrough
| File:How To Beat the Angel and Demon NO DAMAGE - Cuphead DLC |
Trivia
- The Angel and Demon's names are conjectural.
- They and Goopy Le Grande are the only bosses in the game that do not have any kind of minions.
- This is the only one that does not have any at any point in development all. Technically, Goopy still has unused Bothersome Blueberries that would've run about during his last phase.
- Excluding mini-bosses or Simple mode of regular bosses, the Angel and Demon are the only bosses to have one phase.
- They are also the only boss in the game that doesn't have a results screen at the end, excluding mini-bosses. They also don't appear on the list in the equip menu.
- Unlike all others, their death quote lack quotation marks.
- This battle was originally going to be used as a phase for the Devil's original fight and exists as part of his code already.
- The design of the Devil's skeleton holding up a platform is very similar to an unused animation for his transition after jumping into the hole after the first phase. This may be where the Angel and Demon phase happens. After landing the huge Devil's skeleton hands and defeating the duo, they get sucked back into the Devil and regenerate his flesh, he lowers his hands and the fight may continue with the five platform phase.
- There is a bug where there will be two Demons for a short while. This may apply to the Angel.
- The Angel is slightly transparent.
Inspiration and similarities
- Their existence might be a reference to how the Devil is usually portrayed as a fallen angel.
- The Angel and the Demon's Death Screen quote is a reference to an old poem "star light, star bright", the full poem continues with "The first star I see tonight; I wish I may, I wish I might, Have the wish I wish tonight."
- This is also used in the 1940 Disney film Pinocchio, in which there is a scene where Geppetto wishes upon a star, saying "I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I make tonight."
- The achievement received upon defeating the Angel and Demon is "A Horrible Night to Have A Curse" which is a reference to Castlevania II: Simon's Quest.
- Their gimmick of switching sides when the player turns around may be based on Silhouette Mirage.
- They might be a reference to a "shoulder angel" a common trope seen in various media, but more often in animation in which the angel dishes out good advice, while the demon dishes out bad advice.