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There's ''quite'' a few here. They're mostly to Kamiya's previous games and other Sega series, although you'll also see a few pop references here and there. Visual, lines, weapons, moves and trophies/achievements.

** Perhaps an Expy, but consider Vigrid. Well-armed security forces, people openly walk around in holy dress...Vatican City with another name? (And possibly transplanted to France...)

*** Or Gaudi's dream city.

*** The context when the song [[Anime/End Of Evangelion|Fly Me to the Moon]] is playing...

*** The swarming [[Mooks|Affinities]] strongly resemble the [http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/3785/angelse.jpg mass production Evas].

*** This probably means less than the others, but the ''Evangelion'' and ''Bayonetta'' soundtracks have similar naming schemes for the tracks: [letter]-[number] [title] (i.e. "A-1 Rei I" in the former and "[[EV 01]] Beginning" in the latter).

** Visiting Rodin in his bar on one occasion will prompt him to ask Bayonetta, "Hey, check this out. [[Resident Evil 4|Whadya buyin'?]]", after which he muses to himself, "Heh. Heard that in a game once." Also "If you brings me enough of these [[Halo|Halos]] maybe I can fly to space. I always wanted to be [[A Space Marine Is You|a bald space marine]]."

*** That chapter's game play is ripped straight from Space Harrier, bosses and all.

*** And the font for the display in the motorbike section control instructions? Straight out of ''Hang-On'', Sega's 1985 motorbike-based classic.

** In one of the early scenes where Bayonetta gets a ride from Enzo, the radio in Enzo's car is playing "Magical Sound Shower", one of the music tracks from the original ''Outrun''.

{{quote| '''Kamiya''': In this part, I had just randomly decided to use the word "Eggman". Then I found out it was the name of a character [[Sonic the Hedgehog|in another famous game.]] I figured if the fans get a kick out of it, [[Throw It In|then it is fine to leave it as it is.]]}}

** One of the demonic beasts Bayonetta can summon is a reference to Phantom from ''Devil May Cry''. Both happen to be giant demonic spiders filled with lava. Oddly enough, it's portrayed in almost the opposite way; this demon is one of only ''two'' demons referred to positively. It is described as curious, rare, and willing to offer treasures or rare knowledge to those who find it, as opposed to the others which are for the most part described as brutal monstrosities.

** [[Christopher Walken|"I've got a fever and the only cure is more dead angels."]]

** If you beat the game on its hardest setting, you unlock a weapon called Pillow Talk, which is basically a green, lightsaber-ish sword, and was taken straight out of ''Okami'' (including the name), in which it was wielded by Waka during both battles against him.

*** If you want to get really hardcore on this reference, Pillow Talk hosts a charge attack that will extend the blade and power, and hosts a cool but lengthy secret special attack that has Bayonetta perform a clockwise brandish before slicing downwards, unleashing a beam of energy when fully charged. Older fans will realize that these moves and even the weapon itself are brought over from the repertoire of Hayato Kanzaki of Star Gladiator fame. More fun references, Mahavirocana, the demon that inhabits Pillow Talk, is the king of Asura in Hinduism, and Hayato's blade extending move is called Asura, and his downwards energy wave slash is called Engetsu, meaning Full Moon. Even in Okami, Waka unsheathes Pillow Talk in the same fashion as Hayato. Someone down at Platinum must be very proud of Star Gladiator in his resume, and for good reason too, the game was Capcom's first foray into the 3D genre.

*** The Golem boss in Paradiso is basically an upgraded version of Yami, endboss of Okami.

** Back in the SMS days, the Sega-sponsored anime [[wikipedia:Zillion chr(28)animechr(29)|Zillion]] was popular enough to spawn two video games, laser tag merchandise, and more. And so we have the Bazillions.

** One of the [[Bonus Boss]] of the games attacks after you get his health halfway down is a [[Street Fighter|Akuma's Shun Goku Satsu]], complete with a blank screen and multiple hits shown. It drops your health down by [[Nintendo Hard|99% when you have full health, but kills instantly when you have less than 50% health left]]. [[Precision F-Strike|Fuck.]]

** Come on, Enzo?! Shares the same name with a man whose never appeared in the Devil May Cry games.

** [[Devil May Cry|"Flock off, feather face."]] Bayonetta's delivery is possibly even [[Narm|narmier]] than Dante's.

** Also from the first [[Devil May Cry]], In mission 17, when the [[An Ice Person|Frost's]] were introduced. It almost looked exactly like [[Demonic Spiders|Grace & Glory's]] [[Mook Debut Cutscene|intro cutsecene]].

 

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