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Cuphead: Threatenin' Zeppelin walkthrough

Inkwell Isle One, in the plane: a blimp rider who keeps changing into star signs.

  • About 2–3 min in the videos
  • 1 part · 3 steps
  • 1 boss

Compiled from 3 playthrough videos and 6 guides · checked Oct 18, 2026

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Video: ProsafiaGaming on YouTube. Loads from youtube-nocookie.com only when you press play.

What each player can do here

P1 · Cuphead
  • Plane fight: shoot, drop bombs, and shrink into the mini plane to dodge.
P2 · Mugman
  • Mugman can join or leave at any time. If one of you goes down, the other brings them back by parrying their heart while it is still on screen.

If your skill levels differ: Cuphead and Mugman play the same way, so split by job rather than by character. A fallen player only comes back if the partner parries their heart, so the steadier player should play it safe; a newer player can take the Smoke Bomb charm, which makes you invincible while dodging. How to split the roles

The fight

Part 1 of 1. Beat the boss phase by phase.

  1. BothStay out of the path of her laugh and the missiles; shrink the plane to get past the tornado.
  2. BothStar-sign forms: listen for the honk before the bull charges, circle around the twins' fire orb, and dodge the archer's arrow and its three blue shots.
  3. BothMoon: keep to the left half of the screen, watch for the UFO beams and spend your super.

Boss

Hilda BergThe boss of this fight

  1. Blimp rider: Shoots, laughs out 'HA' projectiles and spins up a tornado; she comes back to this form between the star signs.
  2. Star signs: Turns into a charging bull, twins with a fire orb, or an archer.
  3. Moon: Becomes the moon while small UFOs fly over and fire beams down.
  • Every fourth bullet the blimps fire can be parried.
  • On Simple the fight ends before the moon.
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Steps compiled from 3 playthrough videos and 6 text guides, checked Oct 18, 2026, and written in our own words. We did not play the game for this guide.