



Combined with his arrogant grin and mischievously furrowed eyebrows, one glance is all it takes to understand King Dice’s cunning, conniving nature. King Dice is also posed with one hand on his hip and the other raised in front of him as if he were inviting the player for a game in his casino. Instead of the solid black eyes that accompany most standard Pop! figures, this figure of King Dice uses pie-shaped eyes - a common design trope used in 1930’s animation. The die that King Dice has instead of a head has dots colored with a matching shade of purple and is numbered like a standard six-sided die, with the “1” side making up King Dice’s face. He wears his signature purple suit, lavender shoes, and white gloves. This entry into Funko’s popular Pop! Games series features the secondary antagonist, King Dice, standing confidently with a menacing grin on his face. Pop! Games: Cuphead Series 1 - King Dice Figure One notably popular figure of King Dice is the “Pop! Games: Cuphead Series 1 - King Dice”. An example of such a character is King Dice, the right-hand man of the Devil and the manager of his casino. The unique presentation and high difficulty, high reward-style gameplay caused Cuphead to be an incredible critical and commercial success, which eventually led to various kinds of merchandise being produced, with one of the most popular kinds being collectible figures of the unique, expressive characters from the game. The visuals of the game were designed with a classic 1930’s style cartoon aesthetic that was drawn by hand, then digitized to create animated sprites in-game.

The game centers around the titular protagonist, Cuphead, and his brother Mugman as they defeat the odds and pay off the debt they owe to the Devil after betting their souls in his casino. Cuphead is a platforming run-and-gun game that was developed and published by Studio MDHR for Windows and Xbox One on September 29th, 2017, with ports to other consoles made available in the following years.
