Ms. Chalice
- For the game character, see Ms. Chalice.
"The name's Chalice, Ms. Chalice. But listen, you don't wanna get mixed up with a gal like me! This chalice is nothing but trouble!"
—Ms Chalice about herself, In Charm's Way
Ms. Chalice is a major character of The Cuphead Show!
Profile
Appearance
Ms. Chalice's head is a chalice cup with what seems to be some sort of liquid inside, topped with a white and gold striped straw. Her eyes are similar to Mugman's, only with eyelashes and a beauty mark on the corner of her right eye.
As for her outfit, Ms. Chalice wears a black shirt with a white collar and a seafoam green skirt. For her lower body, she wears a pair of orange Mary Janes occasionally used as a way to charm others via Tap Dancing.
Personality
Ms. Chalice is shown to be very cute and charming, but also very manipulative and aloof. She uses her charm to get free stuff, something that prompts Cuphead and Mugman to follow her. She may be confident, but she is also very private, and dislikes anybody following her around. Despite that, she is capable of showing care for those she grows close to, but not enough to deal with the police. When she discovers Cuphead and Mugman following her around, she even asks "Who sent (them)," implying she has a reason to be wary of people following her.
She is likely wary of others due to her ability to turn into a ghost, as revealed at the end of "In Charm's Way," when she turned into a ghost to escape through the walls of the cookie factory. However, after the events in "Charmed and Dangerous," Chalice seemed to had a change of heart, as she stuck with the boys and protected them from the mob. She has since become loyal to the Cup brothers, and protected them when they needed them, implying she really does value them.
Powers and Abilities
- Ghost form: Unlike in the game, Chalice can turn into a ghost at will.
- Intangibility: She can move through solid objects.
- Invisibility: She can turn invisible, using it to fight off an angry mob.
- Flight: She can float and fly while in her ghost form.
- Possession: She can take over the bodies of others and control them.
- Shapeshifting: She can change her appearance to look scary, such as sprouting crooked teeth and tentacles.
- Tap dancing: Chalice is a gifted tap dancer, using it in tandem with her natural charm to get whatever she wants, as well as win a dance contest with help from Cuphead and Mugman.
- Driving: Despite her age, Chalice knows how to drive cars, seen when she "borrows" Elder Kettle's truck with Cuphead and Mugman in tow. She is also seen driving a taxi during her song, "Turn Up The Charm".
Appearances
Season One
"In Charm's Way"
Ms. Chalice first appears in this episode, where she enters a repair shop and manages to charm Beatrice there into giving her a free pair on sunglasses. Her acts of charming others is further shown, through dressing as a homeless person to avoid arrest from a cop, tickling a gumball machine for its gumballs, charming a hot dog vendor for all of his hot dogs, and using those hot dogs to bribe her way into watching a movie.
Cuphead and Mugman then follow her into the theater, until they realize she has already left. Once they realize that Chalice has gone through an alleyway, she indirectly confronts the two, before she lets them go as a request on how to charm people. She then teaches the brother via song, and later that night, attempts to test them on charming a guard at the cookie factory. After the brothers fail, Chalice simply charms the guard herself and get in. During the break in, she accidentally turns on the silent alarm, which results in the cops arriving at the factory, tempting her to escape as the brothers knocked themselves out, leaving them up for arrest.
Season Two
"Charmed & Dangerous"
Ms. Chalice hides out at the brother's house from an angry mob. By the end of the episode, she reveals to Cuphead & Mugman that she's a ghost.
"The I Scream Man"
Ms. Chalice appears as one of the crew members in Mugman's imagination when he's reading a story.
"Dead Broke"
Ms. Chalice, Cuphead, and Mugman create a fake ghost-removal business to make some money.
Season Three
TBA
Relationships
In General
Given her disinterest in socialization, it's unknown whether or not Ms. Chalice had any friends before meeting Cuphead and Mugman.
Cuphead & Mugman
At first, she didn't seem to be interested in the duo, claiming to be a solo act and that she gets by without "friends" or "partners". However, after teaching them her methods on how to get free items, she's shown to have warmed up to the brothers and admits that they are "kinda fun" and even brought them to a cookie factory after hearing their story of how they failed to steal cookies themselves. While she did leave them behind to get arrested, she did so with hesitance and at least told Elder Kettle what had happened and gave him his glasses while doing so. Later on, she went to visit the brothers again and apologized for leaving them out to dry. She attempted to make amends with them despite Mugman's distrust of her.
When the boys protected her from the mob, Chalice returned the favor and has since become loyal to them, trusting them with her secret and protecting them.
Elder Kettle
TBA
Sally Stageplay
It is unknown what Sally and Chalice's history is. The second trailer for the second season shows her second ghost form scaring the daylights out of Sally. However in Dead Broke, Chalice scared Sally as part of a plan to get herself, Cuphead and Mugman enough money for ice cream.
Trivia
- Ms. Chalice can turn into a ghost at will, as seen in the end of "In Charm's Way". But when the boys ask if she's half-ghost, she answers with half-right, presuming she is fully a ghost that can just transform to look alive.
- Ms. Chalice speaks in a Brooklyn accent.
- Despite being initially referred to as "Ms" and contrast to her in-game counterpart, where she's a full grown woman and only appears to be about Cuphead and Mugman's age because she temporarily possesses their bodies, Chalice is aged down in the show and appears to be exactly their age, both in her living and ghost form.
- However, being a kid doesn't stop her from being a decent manipulator. In season 2, it's also revealed she knows how to drive.
- Chalice often calls the Cup brothers 'Ding-Dongs', but it is said with fondness.
- In the Polish dub, she is translated as Panna Kieliś, however in the game she is translated as Czarka.
Gallery
Ms. Chalice and friends in her taxi
Ms. Chalice in the glasses shop
Ms. Chalice concept sketches
Ms. Chalice leg study
Ms. Chalice as a pirate
Ms. Chalice appearing as a ghost with a bat
Cuphead, Mugman, Ms. Chalice and their pet goat planning
Ms. Chalice trying to board the windows from the angry mob
Videos
- The Cuphead Show! - Tap Dancing - Netflix