Bayonetta/Characters

Bayonetta (AKA )


The main character of the game. Bayonetta is a witch who has lost her memories after being awoken 20 years ago from a 500-year slumber. Her goal in the game is to regain her memories of who she was.


 * Action Girl: Probably the most memorable female protagonist in an action game in quite some time, barring one or two examples. However...
 * Dark Action Girl: Whether or not she is this is debatable; see Anti-Hero below.
 * Anime Hair, Compressed Hair, Godiva Hair, Rapunzel Hair, Prehensile Hair, Magic Hair: Yes, just her friggin' hair is that crazy.
 * Animorphism: She learns to change into animals during the course of the game. She is very, very pleased by the development.
 * Anti-Hero: Likely of Type IV. On one side, she's generally nice and even shows a very soft spot for kids, on the other, she is a witch with infernal powers, although considering she saves the world, this might be just a case of Dark Is Not Evil. The real problems, which could label her as at least a Sociopathic Hero, are her casual sadism and that whenever she goes, collateral damage follows and she doesn't seem to care too much about it.
 * On the other hand, she only kills one actual person in the entirety of the game. So...
 * Badass
 * Beehive Hairdo: In place of a traditional pointy hat.
 * Berserk Button: Don't try to harm Cereza or Luka. Just... don't.
 * Bilingual Bonus: Her summon chants and some of her battle cries are in Enochian.
 * British Accents: She's voiced with an RP English accent.
 * Dark Is Not Evil: But it sure is snarky.
 * Fire, Ice, Lightning: Various weapons allow her access to all three - Durga provide fire and lightning, Odette gives ice.
 * Full-Contact Magic: With giant black fists and feet to back her up.
 * Godiva Hair: Her hair acts as Censor Steam when she summons demons with it.
 * Gun Fu: Taken to to a whole new level. Bayonetta scoffs at mere dual-wielding, instead wielding FOUR guns at once.
 * The Gunslinger: No character in videogame history comes close (yes, not even Dante). She can do things with guns that'd give The Punisher pause.
 * Hot Chick with a Sword: The moment she equips her katana, she becomes one of these.
 * Impossibly Cool Clothes: They're made out of her HAIR.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She can be nice, well, she is most of the time once you get to know her.
 * Kung Shui: Up there with The Hulk in sheer property-damaging capacity.
 * Mama Bear: Mess with little Cereza, and Bayonetta will take you down.
 * Ms. Fanservice: The sheer amount of Fan Service here gives you an idea.
 * Audio Erotica: As if her accented, breathy voice wasn't enough, many of her battle cries sound either bondage-queen-like or orgasm-like.
 * Biker Babe: While she doesn't really ride a bike for much of the game, when she does, it's hot, and awesome.
 * Erotic Eating: Her favorite snacks (as well as healing items) are lollipops.
 * Inverted. As Moviebob notes, with Erotic Eating, women are typically shown deriving enjoyment from the food in question, while Bayonetta looks like she's doing the candy a favor.
 * Form-Fitting Wardrobe
 * Hell-Bent for Leather: It's actually her hair that forms that outfit, but it has leather-like properties: black, shiny and form-fitting.
 * Hot Witch: Yup.
 * Jiggle Physics: Surprisingly, her breasts are actually pretty much under control during the game. Her butt, however... Dayumn!
 * Male Gaze: Because you can never have enough mentions about how much her ass is shown.
 * Meganekko: Subverted. Her glasses are certainly a huge part of what makes her attractive, but she is nowhere near sweet or innocent.
 * So rather, it's a clear case of Sexy Spectacles.
 * Naughty Nuns: Her first appearance in the game is dressed as a sexy nun. She then gets clothing damaged.
 * Orgasmic Combat: She's practically refined it into an actual martial art.
 * Sexy Backless Outfit: Pretty much everything she wears.
 * Sexy Walk: Ah-yup.
 * She's Got Legs
 * Statuesque Stunner
 * The Tease: Frequently does this with Luka to the point where it seems part of why she keeps saving him is just so she can keep messing with him.
 * Zettai Ryouki: Certain outfits of hers have the thigh high variants.
 * Person of Mass Destruction: And one who really doesn't give a crap about what she destroys as long as it suits her ends.
 * Precision F-Strike: "Don't fuck with a witch."
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old: Almost exactly 600.
 * Reverse Grip: Bayonetta can achieve this with several weapons when linked with Odette, most notably the swords.
 * The Sacred Darkness: The Left Eye of the World that she bears, overseeing the Darkness, is just as important as the Right Eye that oversees the Light.
 * She Fu: Mixed with Gun Fu and taken to ridiculous levels.
 * Sociopathic Hero: She takes a lot of delight in killing those angels.
 * Spy Catsuit: Her regular outfit resembles one, with a few odd touches here and there.
 * Summon Magic: She uses her hair as a medium to summon demonic entities to aid her in taking down enemies.
 * Tall, Dark, Bishoujo and Snarky
 * Third-Person Seductress: Face it, she's looking at YOU, tiger!
 * Too Many Belts: Her outfit has many buckled belts on the sleeves.
 * Trademark Favourite Food: Lollipops.
 * Transformation Sequence: Happens when she switches from the aforementioned nun outfit to her other one. She also learns how to shapeshift later.
 * Tricked-Out Shoes: Weapons are attachable to the heels.
 * Up to Eleven: Can be thought of as Dante Up To Eleven. For example, Dante has a pair of musically themed pistols: Ebony and Ivory. Bayonetta has four: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, collectively known as "Scarborough Fair".
 * Woman in Black
 * Wrestler in All of Us: She's fully capable of suplexing a dragon!! And half a dozen angels at the same time!
 * Woman in Black
 * Wrestler in All of Us: She's fully capable of suplexing a dragon!! And half a dozen angels at the same time!

Jeanne


Bayonetta's rival throughout the game. Product of a lot of Foe Yay with her.


 * Animorphism
 * Anti-Villain: She's only attacking Bayonetta because.
 * Badass
 * Badass Biker: Moreso than Bayonetta herself.
 * Biker Babe
 * Blondes Are Evil: Well, eviler.
 * Dark Action Girl
 * Distaff Counterpart: She is kinda similar to Dante: she has white hair and dressed in red,.
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: Among the staff at Platinum Games; the concept artist stated in her blog that, other than she and Kamiya himself, most of the staff prefers Jeanne over Bayonetta.
 * Evil Twin: To Bayonetta, from fighting styles, to clothes, to glasses. No family relation though.
 * Fluffy Fashion Feathers: Not on her outfit, but rather, she has massive feather tassels hanging off of the ends of her two guns. The concept artist, Mari Shimazaki, put them there to accentuate her movements, much like Bayonetta's long hair..
 * The fan wiki speculates that the feathers are from Angels that Jeanne has slain.
 * Grey DeLisle
 * The Gunslinger
 * Perfect Play AI: She follows this trope a shocking extent every time you fight her (and this starts as early as Chapter Two!), and she only gets better.
 * This alone categorizes her as the game's "Wake-Up Call" Boss, as well.
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old: She is around the same age as Bayonetta.
 * Vanity License Plate: The plate on her motorcycle reads "01 QTJ" (Cutie J).
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl
 * Woman in White: In flashback sequences.
 * Vanity License Plate: The plate on her motorcycle reads "01 QTJ" (Cutie J).
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl
 * Woman in White: In flashback sequences.
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl
 * Woman in White: In flashback sequences.

Cereza


An adorable little girl that tags along with Bayonetta and Luka and sees the former as her mother. .


 * Cheerful Child: Barring one or two incidents where she is about to cry, Cereza is really not that fazed by the horrible monsters constantly trying to attack her.
 * Goggles Do Something Unusual: Her glasses allow her to see the supernatural things around her, like the angels. Luka borrows them from time to time..
 * Although she can see them just fine without the glasses,.
 * MacGuffin Girl: The angels need her as part of their plan..
 * Meaningful Name: Her name means "Cherry" or "Cerise" in Spanish.
 * Morality Pet: She is the first person we see Bayonetta be nice to. [[spoiler:Which means that the first person Bayonetta is nice to... is herself.
 * Stephanie Sheh
 * Stephanie Sheh

Rosa
Rosa was an Umbra Witch and. She concieved when she fell in love with a Lumen Sage. When was born, Rosa and  were punished greatly by their respective clans. This was because a child born of darkness and light would ultimately undo the age-old pact between the overseers. Rosa was imprisoned for the rest of her life

Umbran Elder
At the beginning of the game, the Umbran Elder lectures Rosa and about their law-breaking.


 * The Faceless

Madama Butterfly
A demon taking the form of a woman who left this world under unfortunate circumstances, only to be reincarnated in hell. Unlike her beautiful, swallowtail butterfly-like appearance, this demon is particularly brutal, and her reputation is well known even amongst the denizens of Inferno.


 * Red Eyes, Take Warning

Madama Styx
Queen of the River Styx, the boundary between humanity and Hades, Madama Styx is said to be a moth living within the human world. These insects, born from the magical power that flows from a woman's body, are charged with luring the souls of sinners into Inferno.


 * Red Eyes, Take Warning

Gomorrah
A monstrous creature hailing from the demonic wood, Johnson Forest. Taking the form of a dragon, it is incredibly fierce, identifying all that moves as game and devouring it's prey. Territorial, it is most likely to be found alone.


 * Our Dragons Are Different
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning

Malphas
An enigmatic raven-black bird shrouded in the mysteries of the sky. Ever curious, Malphas has filled itself with all the world's knowledge and mysteries. However, this same curiosity has led to a rather brutal demeanor, causing the bird to tear those it encounters to shreds with its sharp beak and razor-like talons.


 * Ravens and Crows

Hekatoncheir
A giant endowed with six fearsome arms capable of pulverizing mountains, those unfortunate enough to fall underfoot of the demon are subject to days-long violent earthquakes.


 * Multi-Armed and Dangerous

Scolopendra
A vile centipede hailing from Frejentonta, a river of boiling blood in the depths of Inferno, rumors speak of it's body exceeding ten kilometers in length. Moving unlike anything its size, its deftness allows it to wrap around and constrict its prey in the blink of an eye.


 * Expy: Of the Gigapede boss of Devil May Cry 3.

Phantasmaraneae
Phantasmaraneae nests upon a sea of magma, deep within the furthest reaches of Inferno. Rarely seen upon the face of the Earth, even sightings of the demon in hell are a seldom event, leading to its name, which means phantom spider.


 * Expy: Of the boss Phantom from the first Devil May Cry.

Little King Zero
King to the Little Devils, he is an unlockable playable character, unlocked when the Lost Chapter is completed.

Little Devils
The Infernal Bad Boys, loyal to Little King Zero. Summoned by using the Infernal Communicator Bayonetta is able to temporarily contract the "Little Devils," calling upon their power to attack her foes.

Queen Sheba
When the cosmos was split into light, darkness and chaos in between, the incredibly powerful Sheba was born alongside the darkness controlling the world of Inferno. As she lives in the hellish land, and is often classified as a demon; however, the full details of her existence are unknown.


 * Evil Twin: She is basically this to Jubileus, although she is much, much, much bigger. . And if her file is to be believed, this is only a tiny portion of her real power. Good thing the enemy in the game is not Inferno, really.
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning

Father Balder


The mysterious CEO of the Ithavoll Group, who is eventually revealed as both the Big Bad and as.

"It looks like my plans have gone right out the window."
 * Agent Peacock: And he has an albino peacock.
 * Badass: He KILLS all the summons you send after him. Brutally.
 * Big Bad
 * Bilingual Bonus: His battle cries are in Enochian.
 * Bond One-Liner: After tossing through a window:
 * Bilingual Bonus: His battle cries are in Enochian.
 * Bond One-Liner: After tossing through a window:


 * The Chessmaster: Naturally, being a Big Bad who only actually appears in a small segment of the game, Balder has been pulling the strings from behind the scenes since the very first chapter of the game,.
 * Altought he only appears in a small segment,.
 * Climax Boss: In more ways than one. He meets all the criteria of the trope in the sense that he is fought after a hefty heaping of plot-twisting exposition, and the fight itself is overwhelmingly dramatic in every sense of the word - you're falling off the top of an impossibly high tower, headbutting skyscrapers at him and playing catch with a satellite. You have to hammer him with no less than three Climax attacks before he finally suffers a Critical Existence Failure. He can also be fought on Non-Stop Infinite Climax difficulty, while wearing the Climax bracelet. Needless to say, like everything else, this game takes the trope Up to Eleven.
 * Combat Sadomasochist: AND HOW!
 * Cool Mask
 * Corrupt Corporate Executive: Oh boy.
 * Elemental Powers: As a Lumen Sage, his powers are derived from the Sun, hence all examples technically count as solar magic:
 * Light'Em Up
 * Magma Man
 * Playing with Fire
 * Evil Is Hammy
 * Fashionable Asymmetry: He wears a black glove on one hand.
 * Fluffy Fashion Feathers
 * Kick the Dog: He's rather fond of this, to say the least.
 * Kung Shui
 * Large Ham: The guy chews the scenery into an extravagant paste.
 * Last of His Kind: His doing, alongside the genocide of the Umbra Witches.
 * Light'Em Up
 * Light Is Not Good: The fact that he's the last Lumen Sage does not in any way diminish his evilness.
 * Man in White
 * Motif
 * Animal Motifs: The Peacock.
 * Biblical/Mythical Motifs: Lucifer (specially as the Yezidi edition, Melek Taus; particularly more ironic in the latter since Satan Is Good in that religion), Balder (both in name, powers and role as the Last of His Kind), Enochian Angels (Babogel, Bornogo).
 * Feather Motif
 * Omnicidal Maniac
 * One-Scene Wonder: He only appears at the very end of the game, though we do hear lines from him in Bayonetta's head, but he steals the stage as soon as he makes his debut.
 * Orgasmic Combat
 * Peacock Man
 * Power Gives You Wings: Twelve of them, in fact.
 * The Power of the Sun
 * Purple Prose
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old: Over 600 years old.
 * Sissy Villain
 * Twelve Winged Angel
 * Wave Motion Gun: He tries to hit Bayonetta with a satellite laser cannon from space. When that doesn't work, he drops it on top of her. It doesn't help.
 * Sissy Villain
 * Twelve Winged Angel
 * Wave Motion Gun: He tries to hit Bayonetta with a satellite laser cannon from space. When that doesn't work, he drops it on top of her. It doesn't help.

Rodin


A Scary Black Man who serves as Bayonetta's shopkeeper with the Gates of Hell bar. .


 * Badass: He's such a Scary Black Man that the rulers of Paradiso are terrified of him. He IS the game's Bonus Boss after all.
 * Bald of Awesome
 * The Blacksmith: Though not in the traditional sense of the word. Whenever you bring him LP's, he teleports into the bowels of Inferno and plays the angelic music recorded on the disc, summoning demons to him like moths to a flame. He then defeats the demons and uses their spiritual essence to forge new weapons for Bayonetta. The Laguna text claims that Rodin's skills as a smith were legendary even amongst the echelons of Heaven, and that he often crafted weapons which struck terror into the hearts of The Legions of Hell.
 * Bonus Boss:.
 * Boss Subtitles: "The Infinite One: Father Rodin." Cue the player's Oh Crap reaction.
 * Cool Shades
 * Fallen Angel
 * Glowing Eyes of Doom: His eyes are sometimes seen emitting a red glow from behind his sunglasses.
 * Holy Halo: Seeing as how he is a fallen angel, it's only natural that he'd sport one of these when you return him to his true form. In a rather intimidating twist, the halo around his head is the same halo that Jubileus (i.e. God) herself wears.
 * Lightning Bruiser: Especially when you have the Gaze of Despair equipped. Rodin has ridiculous amounts of health, insane damage output, unbelievable attack speed - all the criteria you'd tend to associate with the Bonus Boss gets cranked Up to Eleven here.
 * Like a Badass Out of Hell: Walks in and out of Inferno on a regular basis. Seeing as how his body tends to be soaked in demon blood whenever he returns from one of his trips, it can be surmised that the results of these escapades are rather... messy.
 * Nintendo Hard: He practically takes this trope to incredible levels, especially when you have the Gaze of Despair equipped when fighting him.
 * Pop-Cultured Badass: He makes several references to other video games and makes a home run that would make even the most skilled of baseball players jealous.
 * Power Floats
 * Power Gives You Wings: Lots and lots of them.
 * Power Glows: Like all the other angels, Rodin is pimped out with a shiny, glowy halo in his true form.
 * Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: Rodin's most frequently used technique involves pummeling you about half a dozen times in the space of a second. One of his grab techniques involves hitting you so many times in a single instant that the game doesn't even bother rendering them - all you get is a white screen and the sound of a savage beating.
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old
 * Satan: Oddly, all of the character art for Rodin in the unlockable extras never uses that name, giving his name as "Mephisto", the name of a German folklore demon most prominently mentioned in the Faust legend and occasionally has been used as another name for the Devil himself. Appropriately, Rodin's role is broadly similar to the traditional devil: a fallen angel who is thwarted and punished from trying to conquer Heaven (and is feared by it) who rules his own "sub-basement" location after his punishment, and jokes about the "deals" he provides Bayonetta.
 * Scary Black Man

The Four Cardinal Virtues
Fortitudo, Sapientia, Justitia, and Temperantia, are the embodiments of The Four Cardinal Virtues and serve as Paradiso's generals and effectual leaders in Jubileus's absence. Their main objective is to bring their beloved creator back at any cost, and aren't above making use of their nature bending powers to do so.


 * Affably Evil: Mostly evident with Fortitudo and Temperantia - the Cardinals were very kind and polite as they addressed the heroine, and even as they were dragged down to Inferno, they chose to spend their last breath giving Bayonetta one final blessing.
 * Somewhat averted when you realize that when they say that, they are actually asking Jubileus to go easy on you!
 * What, asking the Big Bad not to be too vicious isn't affable?
 * Bilingual Bonus: They speak in Enochian, the language of angels.
 * Climax Boss: Not as much as Balder, but the fights against each of them is a chapter in and of itself.
 * Co-Dragons: As mentioned above, the four acted as the generals of Jubileus' army in Paradiso.
 * Colossus Climb: Although not played totally straight, Bayonetta must get onto Temperantia's body to attack the joints of his arms, and run along Justitia's tentacles to strike their roots.
 * Combat Tentacles: Justitia.
 * Early-Bird Cameo: Fortitudo appears on the short introductory fight and in subsequent flashbacks before confronting Bayonetta in the actual game's present.
 * Elemental Powers: Fire for Fortitudo, Wind for Temperantia, Earth for Justitia, and Water for Sapientia.
 * Also Magma for Fortitudo, Light for Temperantia and Justitia, Poison and Plants for Justitia and random Holy Magic for Sapientia.
 * Evil Sounds Deep: Played straight with all but Iustitia, who sounds child-like and high pitched in comparison to the others.
 * Famous Last Words: "May Jubileus, The Creator, grace you!".
 * Light Is Not Good: Being angels, they have holy halos and some light attacks.
 * Motor Mouth: Fortitudo. The cutscene prior to the actual Boss Battle against him opens with him talking to himself about cryptic things and Bayonetta needing to draw his attention to her by shooting at him. Then she has to shoot him in the face to interrupt him again twice when he tries to go off on long involved rants about her before the boss battle can actually begin. While this would apply to all the Virtues as far as Bayonetta is concerned, he's definitely the worst of the lot in this regard.
 * Although prior to the battle with Iustitia, it does not utter a single word, and only starts talking after its defeat.
 * Seven Heavenly Virtues: Oddly enough only four appear in the game. Maybe they're saving the other three for a sequel?
 * Even weirder when you consider Sapientia is not a cardinal virtue and should be Prudentia instead.
 * They're named after the four Catholic virtues.
 * Token Evil Teammate: Justitia is described as "the virtue closest to Hell", due to the ambivalence of Justice. His profile points out that he looks slightly less angelic and more Eldritch Abomination-like than the other virtues due to this.
 * Although ultimately it is only slightly more evil than the others, as they all want the same thing.
 * Video Game Historical Revisionism: Sapientia's profile states that he parted the Red Sea as reward to Moses's faith.

Jubileus


A mysterious entity referenced countless times throughout the game, who never appears until the final part of the game.


 * Distaff Counterpart: Fanon says she is this to either Mundus or The Savior
 * Light Is Not Good: In this case it's more like Light Has Gone Completely Berserk Without Any Balance.
 * Distaff Counterpart: Fanon says she is this to either Mundus or The Savior
 * Light Is Not Good: In this case it's more like Light Has Gone Completely Berserk Without Any Balance.
 * Light Is Not Good: In this case it's more like Light Has Gone Completely Berserk Without Any Balance.
 * Light Is Not Good: In this case it's more like Light Has Gone Completely Berserk Without Any Balance.
 * Light Is Not Good: In this case it's more like Light Has Gone Completely Berserk Without Any Balance.

Luka (AKA Cheshire)


The Non-Action Guy of the game. A womanizing Intrepid Reporter who accuses Bayonetta of killing his father. Ha ha, his girlfriend is a dog.

""His name is Cheshire. He's cute, isn't he?""
 * Action Survivor: How many times should he have died again?
 * Perhaps most notable is that he manages to reach the top of Balder's skyscraper, despite Bayonetta needing her ability to walk on walls to get there, and is just fine after Balder throws him out the window.
 * Butt Monkey: Comes with the territory of being a Muggle amongst the cast. He doesn't have it nearly as bad as Enzo though.
 * The Casanova
 * Chivalrous Pervert
 * Distracted by the Sexy: He will often start conversations swearing he will destroy Bayonetta, then start ogling some particularly attractive body part of hers, lose his train of thought, segue into sexual innuendo, then remember he's supposed to not like her by the end of the conversation.
 * Embarrassing Nickname: Cheshire. Quoth Cereza:
 * Embarrassing Nickname: Cheshire. Quoth Cereza:


 * Freudian Excuse: There is something odd about seeing a really hot woman kill your father, then spending the rest of your life chasing after her, but also flirting with her a ton and being a general Handsome Lech.
 * Grappling Hook Pistol: His only notable skill in the game is making flashy getaways.
 * Handsome Lech: He's even known some Capcom characters along the way. Dovetails into Butt Monkey when you realize one is "Ammy".
 * Informed Ability: Luka is supposed to be a renowned journalist who is tracking Bayonetta to expose her to the world, but all he seems to do is general Butt Monkey stuff.
 * One the other hand, he does have a considerable amount of knowledge on the supernatural, though it's not made clear how much of that he picked up on and what he got from his father.
 * Intrepid Reporter
 * Lovable Sex Maniac
 * Morality Pet: Not the extent of Cereza, but Bayonetta does not like to see him seriously hurt.
 * Motive Rant: Most of his dialogue. Subverted in that he can't seem to decide what his motive is himself, leading to the comical sight of him constantly switching motives, sometimes from one sentence to another.
 * Overshadowed by Awesome: That's what happens when you don't have guns attached to your feet.
 * Precision F-Strike: "Oh, fuck me!!"
 * Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "My. Name. Is. LUKA!"
 * Really Gets Around: Or so he claims.
 * Scarf of Asskicking: At least it would be if he wasn't Overshadowed by Awesome. It's still pretty distinctive.
 * Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist
 * Unfazed Everyman: Definitely by the end.
 * You Killed My Father: To Bayonetta..
 * You Killed My Father: To Bayonetta..

Enzo


Bayonetta's informant. He is the one that tells her of the other Eye of the World rumored to be in Vigrid, starting her quest.


 * Butt Monkey: Even more so than Luka. He is the one found on the worst level rating.
 * Cool Car: Enzo has a pretty sweet ride. It gets trashed whenever Bayonetta starts fighting something.
 * Cool Shades
 * Cluster F-Bomb: He drops more than everyone else in the game. Of course considering who he sounds like...
 * Mr. Exposition: A very forced one at the beginning of the game.
 * Although justified, since someone (either Luka or the Ithavoll Group) had him bugged for the conversation.
 * Nice Hat
 * No Celebrities Were Harmed: He is a short gangster guy who sounds a lot like Joe Pesci.
 * Sir Swearsalot
 * Vanity License Plate: The plate on his car reads "ED N EDNA" - speculated to be the names of his kids.