How ILLEGAL Is The IMPOSSIBLE Cuphead RIP-OFF?

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  @kalvinchester4068 · 2 years ago

  At <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOa5g5Z0mpQ&amp;t=1229">20:29</a>, I know the source for that. The cactus character was not exactly a traced character, but the dancing animation comes from Lackadaisy, specifically the &quot;Jazz Cat Dance.&quot;<br><br>It was probably made as a cactus to avoid copyright, but the animation it comes from came out TWO YEARS AGO

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• DE

  @Descender98 · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOa5g5Z0mpQ&amp;t=1758">29:18</a> The Santa is a retrace of another Betty Boop cartoon, from the 40s titled “Be Human”. The Santa is actually Betty’s neighbor in that short, a farmer who becomes the villain due to his constant abuse of the animals in his “care”. The devs just retraced him to look like Santa.

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• RA

  @rayman3521 · 2 years ago

  Enchanted Portals: Cuphead at home <br>The Last Cup: Cuphead in the home&apos;s basement <br>Rubber Hose Rampage: Cuphead in the secret room hidden behind a fake wall in the darkest corner of the aforementioned basement

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  @SuperPerry1000 · 1 year ago

  Out of curiosity, I looked up the game on Steam and...its actually released! And it has new content with Felix the Cat and Popeye in it. And it somehow looks WORSE. The very first review is &quot;we all owe enchanted portals an apology&quot;.

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  @Midnightproductions-t6b · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOa5g5Z0mpQ&amp;t=1038">17:18</a> yeah, that is a really famous cartoon, even so that you get an achievement of the same name for beating the devil in Cuphead

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• MA

  @Matt_Werehouse · 2 years ago (edited)

  As a classic animation nerd, it&apos;s kind of incredible how I actually recognize most of these stolen animations lmfao. &quot;Pigs in a Polka&quot; and &quot;Swing You Sinners&quot; are some of my favorites. Also, sadly, I do not know what the cactus is from

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  @robloxianlaurapalmer · 2 years ago

  This game REALLY did their homework, and by homework I mean copied every student in the class&apos; homework to create this amalgamation of quite the...rubberhose rampage, you could say.

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  @p0laris74yt8 · 2 years ago (edited)

  For the cactus’ animation, it looks like the dance the girl character does from promotional material for the show “Lackadaisy”. In which case is VERY ILLEGAL considering how recent that is compared to everything else. Could be wrong, though, so feel free to take what I said with a grain of salt. <br><br>Edit: rewatched the video I’m referencing about for it, and I’m 100% sure that it’s it. And that was released 2-3 years ago now, so it’s definitely the furtherest from being public domain, with Cuphead being second.

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• DE

  @dexterity494 · 2 years ago

  The fact that so many characters are in public domain feels more like luck than intentional choice. I feel like the dev just went &quot;yeah these animations look nice&quot; and didn&apos;t care when they came out. It just so happened that most were around the time steam boat Willie did, and thus weren&apos;t copyrighted

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• JT

  @JTRogue151 · 8 months ago

  Here in 2026 and Betty Boop&apos;s copyright definitely no longer matters😂

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  @LockNessChompers-vd3zo · 2 years ago

  The fact that &quot;Cuphead clone&quot; is becoming a normalized term is actually going to give me a stroke

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  @Shark-Fist · 2 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOa5g5Z0mpQ&amp;t=1406">23:26</a> It&apos;s worth noting that the sun in the background of this stage is ALSO a band logo. It belongs to the Grateful Dead, a jam band that was famous throughout the 70s and 80s. The log cabin and turtle in the background were likewise lifted from the cover of their 1977 album, Terrapin Station.

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