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Its unabashedly sexual themes caused some amount of controversy, but the fact that the game was developed by the formerly dissolved Clover Studios (now reassembled as [[Platinum Games]]) and the director of ''[[Okami]]'' (with which ''Bayonetta'' shares a character designer, Mari Shimazaki), ''[[Devil May Cry]]'', ''[[Resident Evil 2]]'' and ''[[Viewtiful Joe]]'' piqued the interest of many gamers who might otherwise have taken a more cynical stance on the matter.
The [[Xbox 360]] version received [http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/105/1056885p1.html rave reviews], even becoming only the 12th game to ever be [http://xbox360.gamespy.com/xbox-360/bayonetta/1036688p1.html?RSSwhen2009-10-20_035200&RSSid=1036688 awarded a perfect 40 score] in ''Famitsu'' and the eleventh to receive 10/10 in ''Edge''. The [[Play Station 3]] version [http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-bayonetta-demo-showdown-blog-entry has suffered porting issues] and has [https://web.archive.org/web/20091226035445/http://ps3.ign.com/articles/105/1057012p1.html received solid, but not glowing reviews.] Spoilers will be marked when possible, but there are still some '''unmarked spoilers'''.
Not to be confused with ''[[Bullet Witch]]''. Nothing to do with [[Bayonet Ya]] either.
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* [[Action Commands]]: Torture Attacks, Climax Attacks and {{spoiler|playing Hot Potato with ''missiles''}}. May overlap with [[Press X to Not Die]] for some sequences.
* [[Action Mom]]: Cereza may not be her daughter, but Bayonetta protects her like one. Subverted when it turns out that {{spoiler|Cereza is actually Bayonetta as a child, and Balder is her father. Then he absorbs the younger Bayonetta and becomes the penultimate boss}}. [[Zig-Zagging Trope]] indeed.
* [[Affably Evil]]: The Cardinal Virtues are generally very polite and respectful when they speak to Bayonetta... certainly more polite and respectful than [[Talk to the Fist|she is to them]].
* [[Affectionate Nickname]]: Bayonetta calls Luka "Cheshire", much to his annoyance.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: Information about various topics in the game are found in literal manuals that you can pick up on the field and read. Plus there's The Hierachy of Laguna that has info on all the enemies in the game.
* [[Almost Kiss]]/[[Nonchalant Dodge]]: Bayonetta to {{spoiler|Luka, though he was probably the one who thought it was an [[Almost Kiss]]}}.
* [[Always a Bigger Fish]]/[[Summon Bigger Fish]]: Part of how Bayonetta defeats the below mentioned {{spoiler|Jubileus. To put it into perspective, the demon she summons, Queen Sheba, is as huge compared to Jubileus as Jubileus is compared to Bayonetta}}.
* [[Aluminum Christmas Trees]]: Enochian is indeed a real - but obsolete - language, intended for ritual magic. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enochian#:~:text=Enochian%20(English%20pronunciation%3A%20%2F%C9%9B,Dee%20in%20his%20magical%20investigations Read up on it here.]
* [[Amazing Technicolor Battlefield]]:
** You face the final boss in a {{spoiler|spherical confinement IN SPACE}}. Not sure how that works... [[Rule of Cool|but it's awesome.]]
** The [[Bonus Boss]], {{spoiler|Father Rodin}}, teleports both you and him to one of these... likely so {{spoiler|his bar}} won't be ruined during the battle.
* [[An Arm and a Leg]]: Bayonetta literally has to tear some of the main bosses apart to defeat them. Not always "arms", per see, given their [[Bizarre Alien Biology]].
* [[An Axe to Grind]]: Beloveds.
* [[And Now for Someone Completely Different]]:
** At the beginning of the Epilogue, you play as {{spoiler|Jeanne}} as she rushes to save Bayonetta from {{spoiler|being used as a power source for Jubileus}}. It doesn't sound like much unless you know that you spend it {{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|riding a motorcycle up a disintegrating in-flight rocket into space while killing angels]]}}.
** You can also unlock {{spoiler|Jeanne}} and {{spoiler|Little King Zero}} as playable characters. The former can't activate Witch Time as easily and the latter is a [[One-Hit-Point Wonder|Two Hit Point Wonder]]. Makes the game a bit harder in both cases.
* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: Complete the game on Normal and you can buy Couture Bullets to change your outfit.
* [[Animal Motifs]]:
** Butterflies all over the place for Bayonetta.
** Moths for Jeanne.
** {{spoiler|Balder}} seems to have a peacock theme.
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* [[Apocalypse How]]: {{spoiler|Balder wants to instigate this in order to reunite the Trinity of Realities, which in turn, would destroy all life in the current universe to do so. This makes this a Class X-5}}.
* [[Action Prologue]]: Features Bayonetta and Jeanne fighting angels on a broken clock tower that is ''plummeting off a cliff!''
* [[Arc Words]]:
** '''"May Jubileus, the Creator, grace you!"''' This is said by all the Cardinal Virtues Bayonetta faces, and becomes [[Fridge Horror]] when you realize {{spoiler|they're praying for Jubileus to ''go easy on her'' when Jubileus wakes up and destroys the world}}.
** "The {{spoiler|Left Eye}}, our treasured {{spoiler|Left Eye}}, will never fall into the hands of another!"
** "My dear, sweet child."
* [[Armed Legs]]: Guns. On. Feet. The Durga set when equipped to the legs and Odette ice skates cleave closer to usual use of this trope. We don't even know if the leg-mounted Lt. Col. Kilgore tonfas fall under this or a particularly over-the-top example of [[Pistol-Whipping]]
* [[Artistic License Gun Safety]]: Notoriously bad for this. Firing indiscriminately and wildly while fighting (especially in enclosed spaces) is ridiculously unsafe in itself, but anyone who twirls pistols during punch combos, wields shoe guns that apparently fire themselves and ''[[Rule of Cool|adjusts their glasses with the]] [[Too Dumb to Live|business end of a pistol]]'' is just asking to be killed by misfire.
* [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever]]: Most of the bosses.
* [[Author Appeal]]: As Mari Shimazaki stated in her character design blog, "Glasses! This was something that Kamiya-san really pushed for, as he was aiming to differentiate Bayonetta from other female characters and give her a sense of mystery and intelligence. Of course, I think it is just because he likes [[Meganekko|girls with glasses]]."
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]:
* [[Awesomeness Meter]]: You're ranked either '''Stone''' ([[Butt Monkey|Enzo]]), '''Bronze''' ([[Morality Pet|Cereza]]), '''Silver''' ([[Ted Baxter|Luka]]), '''Gold''' ([[Scary Black Man|Rodin]]), '''Platinum''' ([[Player Character|Bayonetta]] herself), or '''[[Rank Inflation|Pure Platinum]]''' ([[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|Bayonetta holding a purple crescent over her head]]), depending on how well you did at the end of each chapter.
* [[Badass Biker]]: Bayonetta and Jeanne.
* [[Bad Guy Bar]]: Supposedly, the Gates of Hell is this to the layman; located in a [[Wretched Hive]] of a city called the Dump, it is populated by thieves and black marketeers. Only a few - like Bayonetta - know that it's also [[Bazaar of the Bizarre| a demonic weapons market
* [[Bad Habits]]: Bayonetta dresses up like a nun at the beginning of the game, as does {{spoiler|Jeanne}} at the end of the game.
* [[Bad Moon Rising]]: The full moon in a cloudless sky lets Bayonetta {{spoiler|(and Jeanne)}} use "Witch Walk", and walk up walls.
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* [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy]]: The description of an item you can buy from Rodin states that Cleopatra was a head witch in the Ancient Egypt.
* [[Beyond the Impossible]]: At one point, Bayonetta starts a motorcycle by [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|jamming her middle finger into the ignition switch.]]
* [[BFG]]: Lt. Col. Kilgore. A set of ROCKET LAUNCHER TONFAS. Quadruple wielded, of course! The in-game description states that this weapon actually [[Living Weapon| contains the soul]] of [[Apocalypse Now| the character it is named after]]. While it probably does more damage than any other weapon in the game, it is unfortunately rather slow.
** Jeanne's equivalent is called [[Scent of a Woman|Col. Slade]].
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]:
** Bayonetta during the start of Chapter XI, where she cleans house on a flock of angels threatening Luka and Cereza.
** {{spoiler|Jeanne during the Epilogue}}.
** Luka has his moments a few times too, usually involving a stolen vehicle of some kind.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Bayonetta's summoning chants, the angels' dialogue/battle cries, and some of Balder's battle cries are said in Enochian, "the language of angels".
** Throughout the game, there is a ''lot'' of text written in angelic and demonic script. For those interested in what it all actually says, [http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps3/946345-bayonetta/faqs/58989 here's a guide].
* [[Black and Grey Morality]]: On one side, you have the forces of Heaven, who are not above slaughtering humans and merging realities for their own ends. On the other side, you have the forces of Hell, whose reputation precedes them.
* [[Blood Knight]]: Sure, she has to kill angels to keep demons from dragging her to Hell, but it's pretty clear she enjoys punishing angels a bit too much. Nearly every fight scene begins and ends with a smile on her face (with a few very serious exceptions) and, other than recovering her memories, she states that one of the initial reasons she was going to Vigrid was because the weak angels being sent at her had her bored.
* [[Bonus Boss]]:
** {{spoiler|Rodin}}. Or rather, {{spoiler|Father Rodin, as he calls himself as a boss}}. Possibly one of the hardest bonus bosses in a hack and slash game ever, expect Bayonetta to get her perky ass kicked a few dozen times before you defeat him. Also might be the best example of this boss in a game like this that isn't really story related. {{spoiler|To unlock him, you need to finish the game and buy the Platinum Ticket (costs 999,999 Halos, and defeating him nets you a weapon [[Infinity Plus One Sword| that is also called Rodin]]}}.
** He is also a [[Bonus Boss]] in the second game, where he's just as hard, but this time, {{spoiler|he turns into a demon called the Infinite One}}. Here, unlocking costs 9,999,999 Halos, and again, defeating him grants you the same weapon as the first.
** A second bonus boss can be fought at the end of Angel Slayer mode. It turns out to be {{spoiler|Bayonetta herself}}.
* [[Bonus Level of Hell]]/[[Bonus Level of Heaven]]: The Lost Chapter Angel Slayer {{spoiler|that you unlock by completing all the Alfheim challenges}}. Going through dozens of waves of enemies and insane bosses (fighting two Jeannes on Hard setting being one of the easiest) wouldn't be fun if you could use healing items, would it? Also the difficulty setting starts on Normal and increases progressively, ending with Non-Stop Climax. And if you die, don't expect you can just select "yes" at the continue screen cause there are no check-points: you are expected to do all of it in one shot. [[Nintendo Hard]] indeed.
* [[Bonus Round]]: The Alfine Portals lead to arena-like areas where you have to fight a group of foes with a time limit, limited health, and at least one other condition. For example, in one you can only hurt enemies while in Witch Time, in another you must complete 6 Torture Attacks, and another has enemies only vulnerable to Angel Arms. Completing them awards Broken With Hearts or Moon Pearls.
* [[Book Ends]]:
** {{spoiler|The intro ends with Bayonetta calling out to Jeanne, who responds "I'm okay!" They then pose back to back as they plummet off a cliff face amidst falling rubble. After the final boss fight, the two witches repeat this exact dialogue exchange (complete with pose), only this time the rubble is Jubileus' statue fragments rather than rocks, and they are plummeting towards ''the planet'' rather than a canyon}}.
** The {{spoiler|funeral scene}} in the ending invokes this trope several times:
*** First, the conversation between Bayonetta and Luka. {{spoiler|When they first meet, Luka tells Bayonetta that rosemary equates to remembrance, contrasting it with Bayonetta's amnesia. Bayonetta retorts by saying that rosemary is a demon repellent. In the ending, Luka places large bunches of rosemary by the grave and, recalling them as demon repellent, says he hopes they will help her in Hell. After the fake funeral, Bayonetta remarks that rosemary's symbol of remembrance now suits her}}.
*** On a lesser note:
*** And, of course, [[Naughty Nuns|the nun outfit]].
* [[Boss-Only Level]]: Each of the Four Cardinal Virtues resides in these, though one has a few enemies before the boss.
* [[Boss in Mook Clothing]]: [[Elite Mooks|Gracious and Glorious]] are exactly the same as [[Demonic Spiders|Grace and Glory]], but are faster, more
* [[Boss Subtitles]]:
** Every time a new type of enemy appears (except Gracious and Glorious, most likely because they are the only enemy that doesn't appear on the two easiest difficulties), it's accompanied with a short cut scene and a [[Pastel-Chalked Freeze-Frame]] that gives the name and class of the enemy. Is also used to remind the player to put on an appropriate [[Oh Crap]] face when {{spoiler|'''Umbra Witch: Jeanne''' finally appears after fighting her at least three times prior, and '''[[Physical God|Dea:]] Jubileus'''}}.
** {{spoiler|Rodin}}. Somebody with a title like [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|"The Infinite One"]] probably isn't one to be messed with.
* [[Bragging Theme Tune]]: "Mysterious Destiny" is mostly this, although the lyrics are not only about Bayonetta's awesomeness.
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: {{spoiler|This is the reason Jeanne has it in for Bayonetta for the majority of the game. If the other tropes on this page haven't clued you in, she gets better}}.
* [[Bring It]]:
** Bayonetta does a ''lot'' of this in different ways. One of her taunts is "Do you want to ''touch'' me?" Surprisingly, this is actually a line shared by [[Mirror Boss|Another Joe]] from ''[[Viewtiful Joe]]''.
** [[Memetic Mutation|"I've got a fever, and the only cure is MORE DEAD ANGELS."]]
** Think Bayonetta's got some good ones? Play as Jeanne. {{spoiler|"You muthaFUCKAH!" Then for shits and giggles, equip Angel Slayer}}.
* [[British Accents]]: Bayonetta and Jeanne are European and both have English accents.
* [[Bruce Lee Clone]]: Quite possibly the only female version of this trope in existence that does it correctly, BAYONETTA becomes this when you give her the nunchuck like weapons, Sai Fung. When you do the basic 5 punch combo, she even does Bruce Lee's [[Kiai]]. It's made even more awesome by the fact that the nunchucks have GUNS in them. [[Crazy Awesome]] indeed.
* [[Bullet Time]]: "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn1mdp6CbN8 Witch Time]".
* [[Bullying a Dragon]]: Honestly, you have to admire Bayonetta's patience for not crushing Luka like some annoying bug for the constant insults and accusations he makes.
* [[Butt Monkey]]:
** Enzo gets a lot of abuse during the opening chapter. He's also the poster boy for the "Stone" grade, as the award looks like him falling flat on his rear, accompanied by his quip "oh, what a day!".
** The lowest-ranking angels, Affinities, are the enemy version of this, considering how much abuse Bayonetta gives them during cutscenes (like being used as a surfboard to ride a magma wave).
* '''''[[Camp]]''''': Obviously, the developers set out to purposely make this game as cheesy and whimsical a satire as possible. It is even addressed in-game with Antonio's journal entry on Isla De Sol admitting that "I know it sounds absurd, but I've seen things on that island so strange that I believe it now with all my heart and soul."
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Enzo is basically Joe Pesci.
* [[Car Fu]]: Jeanne's first appearance in chapter two and {{spoiler|in her first boss battle}}.
* [[Cat Fight]]: Bayonetta
* [[Catgirl]]: When equipped with the specified perfume, Durga causes Bayonetta to gain a tail and a pair of cat ears [[Incendiary Exponent|made of flames]].
* [[Censor Steam|Censor Hair]]: When Bayonetta uses a Climax Attack, her hair takes a [[Censor Steam]] shape spiraling around her body. Technically, she's always in [[Censor Steam|Censor Hair]], seeing as how the only actually clothing she wears are glasses, gold chains, and ribbons... The rest is all hair.
* [[Chainsaw Good]]: The Torture Attack for one type of flying enemy involves Bayonetta pulling a chainsaw three times her size from [[Hammerspace]]. And unlike other torture devices, she gets to keep it afterward, mostly because it's the only one that's an actual melee weapon and because the said enemy doesn't have any weapons to drop. This is both foreshadowed and lampshaded by one of Rodin's quotes when entering his bar: "I'm not putting a [[Evil Dead|chainsaw on your arm]]."
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]:
** Bayonetta's {{spoiler|lipstick. Luka tries to trick her so that he can get some camera shots. She later uses it as a bullet to kill Father Balder}}.
** Also {{spoiler|her watch. Telling Cereza to wear it over her heart is what keeps her from being sealed away by Jeanne in the past}}.
** {{spoiler|The stone that Bayonetta carries for Jeanne, as she uses the power in it to protect herself from an otherwise fatal explosion}}.
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* [[Combat Sadomasochist]]: Father Balder, and ''how''.
* [[Combat Stilettos]]. Which double as guns.
* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]:
* [[Cool Car]]: Irenic.
* [[Credits Gag]]: {{spoiler|After Bayonetta defeats Jubileus, she crouches down upon the wreckage of Jubileus as it falls to the earth. The credits roll, but are then cut off by Jeanne appearing and declaring that the falling debris is still going to destroy Earth, provoking a shooting sequence to destroy the wreckage, and thus, the true ending cutscene. As in she ''literally'' stomps out the credits}}.
* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: The boss deaths and just about all the Torture Combos, but especially on the Joys. Taunt her, then finish with a Torture Combo. See where the spike on the horse is sticking in?
* [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]]/[[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp]]: The game involves Heaven and Hell, but calls them [[The Divine Comedy|Paradiso and Inferno]]. Plus, angels don't really look or act conventionally, and {{spoiler|God is a woman}}.
* [[Cutscene Power to the Max]]: The cutscenes always involve Bayonetta performing amazing aerial maneuvers, one-shotting enemies with her handguns, and performing moves that would put The Matrix to shame.
* [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!]]: Get used to Hard Mode, go back to Normal Mode, and have trouble dodging due to changes in timing.
* [[Dance Battler]]:
** Bayonetta's move "Breakdance" has her do a dozen headspins all while shooting her feet-guns. Then she finishes in a super sexy pose.
** Joys mimic many of Bayonetta's moves, and thus, follow suit. An entry in the Platinum Games blog even mentions their dance battle motif.
* [[Dancing Theme]]: Several of Bayonetta's attacks involve ''poledancing'' and ''breakdancing''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTvgW2LpEfc The game finishes itself off with one].
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]/[[Light Is Not Good]]: Witch heroine versus evil angels.
* [[Dark Magical Girl]]: Bayonetta tends to feel like this with her ''[[Transformation Sequence]]'' at the start of the game when she goes from sexy nun to gun-toting action witch.
* [[Dark Reprise]]: "Blood & Darkness" is one to "Red & Black", signifying that Jeanne's not fucking around anymore.
* [[David vs. Goliath]]: Bosses in the game are often as big as skyscrapers, but Bayonetta is somehow able to body-slam them.
* [[Deal with the Devil]]: How the Umbra Witches gain their powers. The inevitable trade off for all the [[Crazy Awesome]] is an eternity in Hell when they finally die.
* [[Degraded Boss]]: The climactic angel fights from the early chapters all return as regular enemies in later levels. You are also accosted by weaker knock-offs of the four Cardinal Virtues after killing their respective real deal.
* [[Did Do the Research]]: The game's angels look pretty bizarre when placed next to their counterparts from other media, but the Bible states that angels spent a lot of their time trying to calm down the people they appeared to. Also, there's one enemy that looks like a locust with a scorpion tail, a sort of creature which is supposed to appear ''just'' before Christ's return and sting unbelievers to death. Of course, depending on whether you're drawing from the Bible or from later sources/artists, the accuracy will vary as the modern image of angels (people with wing) came out long after the Bible was written.
** Also, the language spoken by the angels, and [[Magical Incantation| by Bayonetta when she uses magic]], is actually [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enochian Enochian], a dead language that was invented by British occultist John Dee and his colleague Edward Kelley in the 16th Century. Dee claimed this was an actual language of angels.
*
* [[Difficult but Awesome]]/[[Simple Yet Awesome]]: "Dodge offset" doesn't sound all that complicated
* [[Disney Death]]:
** {{spoiler|Luka and Jeanne pull this off not once, but twice! On four separate incidents! Cereza does it once too, sharing it with one of Luka's}}.
** {{spoiler|Bayonetta's at the end}} as well.
* [[Distaff Counterpart]]:
** [[Zig-Zagging Trope]]: The ''Devil May Cry'' reboot is being nicknamed ''Dantenetta'' in that it's basically a distaff version of ''Bayonetta''
* [[Disturbed Doves]]: Luka's first appearance has this happen - mid-leap - while he is running from a Vigrid security officer.
* [[Dragged Off to Hell]]: First of all, it happens to any boss that you kill
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: ''Everyone'' during the Route 666 stage, so much that the musical score is a direct [[Shout Out]] to ''[[After Burner]]''.
* [[Dual Boss]]: Not truly bosses, but [[Elite Mook| Grace and Glory]] are usually found together.
* [[Dual Wield]]: Guns. Melee weapons. Chainsaws. You name it, she can double wield it. She can also dual wield twice: once for her hand weapons and once for her leg weapons. Is it Quadruple Wielding?
* [[Dueling Games]]: Released nearly at the same time as another Heaven VS Hell beat-em-up ''[[Darksiders]]''.
** And ''Dante's Inferno''. And ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]] 3''.
* [[Dummied Out]]: The 修羅刃 Shuraba katana was actually supposed to have a special animation where the hilt would open and show the beating heart of an Ashura, just like in its description. However, somewhere down the line the animation was never programmed into the katana, although the file still remains buried in the game data.
* [[Easier Than Easy]]: Very Easy/Automatic mode, derided in some circles as "Fap Mode".
* [[Easter Egg]]: The "Lollipop Trick" is something the developers put into the game so players who discovered it could make some difficult battles easier. Simply put, when Bayonetta has a lollipop during a cutscene, the player can mash a button corresponding to the color of a lollipop - for example, on the Switch, B=Yellow, A=Red, Y=Green and X=Blue - and when the cutscene ends and the fight starts, Bayonetta will gain a Buff similar to the one the lollipop provides. Even better, this ''does not count'' as an "Item", so it won't deduct from your score.
* [[Eaten Alive]]: Many of Bayonetta's Climax Attacks summon demons that do this to a foe.
* [[The Ending Changes Everything]]: Play this game, and {{spoiler|you'll likely see Baldur as a horribly evil man [[Asshole Victim|
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: Every boss. The regular angels qualify too. At least, once their armor cracks away and you see what they really look like...
* [[Eldritch Location]]: Several.
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* [[Erotic Eating]]: Bayonetta's [[Trademark Favorite Food]] are lollipops.
* [[Escort Mission]]: Some levels have you protecting and rescuing Cereza. They are surprisingly well done and avoid becoming overly frustrating, possibly thanks to being brief (Cereza's regenerating health doesn't hurt either).
* [[Everything's Better with Spinning]]:
** Bayonetta spins her guns after every attack if you equip any guns in her hands. The Breakdance attack also makes Bayonetta perform multiple windmills while firing off any guns on her feet in every direction.
** Picking up the staff dropped by angels lets you do a spinning stripper pole dance that hits everything on the screen at once.
* [[Evil Is Bigger]]: Bosses in this game are ''enormous'', and the [[Final Boss]] is the size of ''a planet''.
* [[Evil Brit]]: Well, her [[Evil Twin]] is also an [[Evil Brit]].
* [[Evil Counterpart]]:
** Jeanne acts this way to Bayonetta. {{spoiler|Balder}} as well, since {{spoiler|he is the Right Eye of the world while Bayonetta is the Left Eye}}.
** Also, the Joys seem to be this to both Bayonetta and the Umbra Witches in general. In fact, all of their animations are based on Bayonetta's, to the point of using her Scarborough Fair Taunt as their own, along with using her "finger snap" animation for some moves, the same parry animation, and the same animation while summoning feathers that Bayonetta uses when making Torture Attacks. The first Joy you fight even disguises itself as you to try to lure Cereza away.
* [[Evil Is Hammy]]
* [[Evil Knockoff]]: The shapeshifting Golem can mimic the demons Bayonetta summons throughout the game.
* [[Evil Laugh]]: Temperantia and Sapientia do this.
* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: Played straight with Fortitudo, Temperantia and Sapientia, but bizarrely inverted with Iustitia. The combination of a ridiculously high-pitched and [[Voice of the Legion|slightly reverberating voice]] just adds to his creepiness. However, you can hear a deep voice coming from the other heads on Iustitia's body at times when he is attacking.
* [[Evil Twin]]:
*
** Also, {{spoiler|Queen Sheba looks exactly like Jubileus}}. Except much taller.
* [[Excuse Plot]]: Not that the overall story is bad, but the whole deal with Bayonetta looking for a stone {{spoiler|that she never even ''gets'' (presumably the Right Eye, not like the game ever ''tells'' you that)}} is only there to keep her moving from point A to point B. The story manages to remain interesting due to character interaction and Bayonetta's [[Loss of Identity|returning memories]]. Plus, of course, the ''several'' [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Crowning Moments]]...
** {{spoiler|The real Right Eye, Balder, knew that Bayonetta ''was'' the Left Eye, and probably had found out that she thought her stone was the Left Eye. The Right Eye stone was likely a scheme he cooked up to get her attention}}.
* [[Expy]]:
** The final boss is a huge statue representing God that comes to life by absorbing someone. [[Devil May Cry|The Savior]], anyone?
** There are also two demons that are based on ones from ''Devil May Cry'': Scolopendra is an expy of Gigapede, and Phantasmaraneae is an expy of Phantom.
* [[Face Doodling]]: Bayonetta does it to Luka. And the markings [[Shout-Out|look]] [[Okami|pretty familiar]]...
* {{spoiler|1=[[Faking the Dead]]: Pulled off to absurd levels as, even if a character plummets several vertical miles or is consumed by a fiery explosion, it's pretty much certain they'll be back on their feet in no time thanks to some unseen HandWave-able event (such as Luka's grapple even getting him out of explosions unscathed). Major characters who invoke this include Rodin, Luka, Father Balder, Bayonetta and Jeanne (who merits a mention for not only surviving about seven certain deaths, but for managing to return after the Jubileus fight '''''by using a motorcycle in space''''')}}.
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* [[Fan Service]]: Most of the game. The lollipops, the gradually disappearing clothing, the [[Male Gaze|ass shots]], the dialogue and... it's actually harder to think of what ''isn't'' intended to titillate.
* [[Fantastic Measurement System]]: Megatons for Torture Attacks, gigantons for [[Quick Time Event|Climax moves]], and {{spoiler|infinitons for the [[Final Boss]]}}.
* [[Femme Fatalons]]: Durga (or Kali, in Jeane's case), magical claws used by the heroine that give her [[Elemental Punch| fire and lightning charged]] claw attacks.
* [[Fighting with Chucks]]: The Sai Fung (or Tang Lung in Jeanne's case) is an unlockable weapon you can get after completing 100 chapters on Normal Mode. They're very fast and can quickly stun any enemy smaller than a Beloved, but don't do much damage.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Earlier in the game, Bayonetta asks Jeanne "Who are you? And don't you dare say my long lost sister." At first, Jeanne scoffs, but this becomes [[Fridge Brilliance]] when, way later in the Epilogue of the game, you pick up on what Jeanne says: {{spoiler|"I am here to reclaim my Umbran sister!"}}
* [[For Want of a Nail]]: More like "due to the presence of a nail" here. {{spoiler|Simply witnessing Bayonetta fight inspires Cereza, such that she does ''not'' fall into the [[Despair Event Horizon]] during the Witch Hunts, is never sealed by Jeanne, fights alongside her for five centuries, and gains the power of the Left Eye, enabling Bayonetta, in the present day, to defeat Jubileus}}.
* [[Full-Contact Magic]]: Umbra Witches know how to shoot with both hands and feet, how to summon demons with their hair, how to summon Wicked Weaves to take their enemies down, and how to kick angel ass stylishly.
* [[Future Badass]]: {{spoiler|Cereza, who's actually Bayonetta as a child}}.
* [[Gainaxing]]: Not much from our heroine, but it happens with the Joys occasionally, including during the Torture Attack.
* [[Gambit Roulette]]: The entire twisted plot and most of its equally as twisted backstory {{spoiler|turns out to have been one massive scheme perpetrated by Balder, in order to unite the Eyes of the World and thereby resurrect Jubileus}}.
* [[Game Breaking Bug
* [[Gameplay Roulette]]: The gamplay is rather regular in the first twelve chapters, save for a brief passage in chapter 6 where you must [[Improbable Weapon User|fight a few angels using a lightpole]], and the motorbike section in Chapter 8. Then you fight a boss on a surfboard, ride said boss to lead him to the giant spider you just summoned (Chapter 13), shot your way through a ''Space Harrier''-like level (Chapter 14), fight a mini-boss with a defense turret, have a platforming section, outrun a fireball (Chapter 15), and have to direct a lipstick-bullet into the penultimate boss' forehead (Chapter 16). Then in the Epilogue, you get another motorbike section (where, in the first part, you run ''towards'' the camera). Finally, after maiming the [[Final Boss]], a mini-game makes you send its soul into the sun [[Earthshattering Kaboom|while avoiding to crash into a planet]], and you have to destroy its body while falling in the middle of space.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: The game is hardly subtle, but ask any S&M enthusiast about "the horse", and those torture scenes with Joy and Bayonetta [[Les Yay|take on a whole new meaning]].
* [[Giant Foot of Stomping]]: Bayonetta can summon these as combo finishers.
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* [[Gorn]]: The Torture Attacks definitely qualify.
* [[Guest Fighter]]: In ''[[Anarchy Reigns]]''.
* [[Guide Dang It]]:
** The Alfheim portals often (but not always) require [[Back Tracking|backtracking]] through entire portions of a level, as they appear only after you get past a certain point or have done a certain action, without any indication whatsoever. One of them only appears ''if you shoot a specific trash can''. And a few Alfheim challenges can let you clueless; like staying in the air 30 seconds with nothing to help you but an aggressive and [[Captain Obvious|uncooperative]] pair of [[Demonic Spiders|Grace&Glory]].
** Finding all the crows that carry the Umbran Tears Of Blood without a walkthrough is quite a feat. Not only are they ridiculously difficult to spot and sometimes perched in the most uncanny places, their location changes depending on the difficulty mode, and some can only be acquired ''after'' you finish specific Alfheim portals.
** Good luck trying to obtain all the weapons, by cheating or otherwise. One of them, the Sai Fung, can't even be obtained through the cheat phone that you could normally use.
* [[Guilt Based Gaming]]: Choosing "No" on the 'Continue?' screen causes Bayonetta to be [[Nightmare Fuel|dragged screaming down to Hell by multiple demonic hands]].
* [[Gun Fu]]: Guns. On. ''Feet''. Including '''[[Shotguns Are Just Better|shotguns]]''' on feet. Including ''rocket launcher tonfa'' on feet. Sometimes she does all this while ''poledancing''.
* [[Guns Akimbo]]. Both in her hands and strapped to her feet, just to screw with the trope some more.
* [[Hand Cannon]]: While Jeanne's guns are just big semi-autos, artwork and renders show Bayonetta's Scarborough Fair pistols are gigantic break-open manual loaders that look to take rounds in the 4-gauge range. [[Bottomless Magazines|She never breaks them open because that wouldn't be awesome]]. She does open one of them, but only at the end of the boss fight against {{spoiler|Balder}}, and loads it with {{spoiler|the lipstick Luka used as bait earlier}}, making it a literal [[Chekhov's Gun]].
* [[Harder Than Hard]]: Non-Stop Infinite Climax mode, which is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|well, harder than Hard]]. Also, [[Bullet Time|Witch Time]] is disabled. Have fun!
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Jeanne}}.
* [[Hell-Bent for Leather]]. Bayonetta's leather catsuit is not (technically speaking) leather, it's actually her own hair and witch magic. Which dramatically damages the sexiness for those who think too much about what clothing made of tightly-wound human hair would actually feel like.
* [[A Hell of a Time]]: The lore and cutscenes say that Bayonetta and Jeanne, being Umbran Witches, made a [[Deal with the Devil]] and will one day be [[Dragged Off to Hell]]. But they, and Rodin, don't seem too concerned. {{spoiler|Especially in the ending}}.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: {{spoiler|The Lipstick that ends up embedded in Balder's forehead was apparently a gift from him to Bayonetta's mother, given to her when he was putting his plan in motion}}. {{spoiler|'''Engraved on lipstick in demon-text''': BALDER & ROSA, 19.3.1394, WITH LOVE UNTIL THE END OF TIME}}. {{spoiler|And then, when he's ''actually'' killed, it's by getting crushed in Jubileus' eyelids, since he can no longer control it after Jeanne pulls Bayonetta out of the other eye}}.
* [[Holy Halo]]: The angels, of course. The number of layers and elaboration of the design depends on the sphere of the angel in question. {{spoiler|Jubileus, naturally, sports the most impressive one of all}}.
* [[Hood Hopping]]: The level "Route 666".
* [[Hot Witch]]: And not just the title character.
* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: Let's see
* [[The Immodest Orgasm]]:
** Bayonetta moans sensually early in the game when Affinity angels slash off her nun costume, before [[The Reveal|revealing her true outfit]].
** The Joys whenever you use a Torture Attack on them.
* [[Impossibly Cool Weapon]]: [[Bottomless Magazines]], [[Absurdly Sharp Blade|Absurdly Sharp Blades]], [[Improbable Weapon User|ice skates]] (that work off the ice), [[Fighting with Chucks|bullet-firing nunchaku]], [[Macross Missile Massacre|rocket launcher tonfas]], [[Whip It Good|snake whips]], [[Laser Blade|Laser Blades]], [[Playing with Fire|element]] [[Shock and Awe|shifting]] [[Wolverine Claws|claws]], [[Swiss Army Weapon|and a shape-shifting angelic weapon]].
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: {{spoiler|Balder does this after tossing Luka through a window. He tops it of by chuckling at his own bad joke: "It looks like my plan has gone right out the window."}}
* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]: {{spoiler|Pillow Talk, which is basically a giant [[Laser Blade]]}}, is the strongest weapon in the game. You can only acquire it after completing the game on its highest difficulty, Non-Stop Infinite Climax Mode. {{spoiler|Alternatively, you can enter Up, Up, Up, Up, Down, Down, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, A at a certain area to unlock it}}.
* [[Informed Flaw]]: For someone so afraid of their fate, Bayonetta sure doesn't show it.
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* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons]]: The first boss
* [[Intrepid Merchant]]: Rodin stays at the Gates of Hell bar for most of the game, but Bayonetta can frequently access it via portals that appear in several locations.
* [[Invisible to Normals]]: Angels normally inhabit Purgatorio, an in-between dimension where they can influence the mortal world, but cannot be seen by mortal inhabitants. Bayonetta can enter and leave Purgatorio, freely in order to fight them, and when she does so, she is also Invisible to Normals.
* [[Item Crafting]]: Bayonetta can find ingredients in the environment and mix them up to make healing and attack/defense buff items.
* [[Jiggle Physics]]: Just look at the Joys' chests during the Torture Attacks against them. The game only indulges in the jiggle-closeup if the Joys haven't been significantly ''flayed'' by Bayonetta's attacks.
* [[Karmic Death]]: Whenever Bayonetta uses a Torture Attack, she conjures up a weapon that was used to execute Umbral Witches during the Witch Hunts; in effect, she's using Paradisio's weapons against them.
* [[Katanas Are Better]]: Bayonetta's ''Shuraba'' is one of the most popular weapons among players, doing decent damage with sweeping range and enabling a variety of combos.
** Jeanne's equivalent is called ''Angel Slayer''.
* [[Kill It with Fire]]: This is how Bayonetta finishes off {{spoiler|Temperentia}}.
* [[Kill Sat]]: One gets used against you in the fight against {{spoiler|Balder}}. It even malfunctions and falls out of the atmosphere after a while, but {{spoiler|still tries to kill you}}.
* [[Last Chance Hit Point]]: Even though it's never explicitly stated to be in effect.
* [[Laser Sword]]: The most powerful weapon in the game is Pillow Talk (Bloody Moon in Jeanne's case); unfortunately, in order to unlock it, you need to finish the game on Nonstop Climax Mode, meaning [[Infinity+1 Sword| you're not likely to need it anymore]].
* [[Leitmotif]]: Parts of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKWgJNm9Mg0 "One of a Kind"] are reused in many of the game's tracks, especially near the end of the game.
* [[Lethal Lava Land]]: Most of Chapter 3, after Fortitudo unleashes a fiery cataclysm on Vigrid. Not only does this make for hazards that can harm the heroine, but enemies become scorching hot and impervious to non-magical attacks.
* [[Levels Take Flight]]: The level in Ithavoll Group's huge cargo plane, with even a listing camera during the fight against Jeanne.
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* [[Luck-Based Mission]]: A minor example, but getting the "Touch it and it will really hurt" Tear of Blood (counter-attacking 3 times in a row with the Moon of Maha-Kaala) is basically this since, neither in the game nor in the manual is there any indication on how counter-attacks work. You actually have to counter with a pixel perfect timing, like when you activate the bat form, but most people will just succeed by chance, without knowing how the hell they did it.
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: {{spoiler|Balder}}.
* [[Macross Missile Massacre]]:
** If you equip Lt. Col. Kilgore on Bayonetta's legs and do the combo YYYYB (Xbox) or ΔΔΔΔΟ ([[Play Station 3]]), you will unleash one of these. [[Guide Dang It|And]] [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|for an even bigger one]], {{spoiler|first equip Durga on both hands and feet, do the aforementioned combo, and switch to Lt. Col. Kilgore with LT/L2 the instant you hit B/O}}. God only knows if this is a [[Good Bad Bugs|bug]] or a secret combo, [[Game Breaker|but it can pulverize all but the toughest angels instantly]].
** Kinships also do it often. [[Demonic Spiders|And it's infuriating]].
* [[Magic Is Evil]]: The source of all that [[Crazy Awesome]] magical power Bayonetta employs? Selling her soul to the demons of Inferno, most of which are genuinely evil monsters, which means ''all'' Umbra Witches suffer for all eternity. Since Bayonetta is apparently no longer mortal, she ''has'' to kill angels or risk damnation. Declining a continue in the Game Over screen causes a bunch of reaching hands to rip through the ground and pull Bayonetta, struggling and screaming, into Inferno.
* [[Magical Incantation]]: Bayonetta has a lot of cool phrases (spoken in Enochan, mentioned above) she uses when using Torture Attacks and Climax attacks, like "LEVITHMONG!" ("Beasts of the Field") for the Iron Maiden attack and "AVAVAGO!" ("Thunders") to summon [[Hell Hound|Gomorrah]].
** Naturally, Jeanne has a different set of them, replacing the two above with "EMNA OL!" ("I herein make you") and "OXEX RACLIR!" ("To vomit weeping")
** {{spoiler|Father Baldur}} does this too, with phrases like "MADZILODARP!" ("Stretch forth, God, and conquer") to activate the [[Kill Sat]] weapon.}}
* [[Male Gaze]]: Practically the entire freakin' game. In some cases, [http://www.gametrailers.com/player/58319.html literally].
* [[Mama Bear]]: Bayonetta, even though Cereza is not her actual daughter.
* [[Marathon Boss]]: {{spoiler|Jubileus}}. You fight her for a while and take away a bit of health, then avoid fire balls in a lava field, then ice balls in an ice field, then thunder balls in the middle of a freaking ''hurricane'', then fight her directly again for a while, then bond her with your hair and take away the last of her health, then punch her from Pluto to the sun while avoiding to [[Earthshattering Kaboom|crash her into a planet]]. And ''finally'', you have to destroy what remains of her body. Geez. The whole process will take a good ten minutes even for the best players, and likely twice as much the first time.
* [[Marathon Level]]:
** Chapter {{spoiler|[[That One Level|15]]}}. Takes place inside a huge building, is littered with [[Demonic Spiders|Grace and Glory, Fairness and Fearless, Ardors, and Joys]], {{spoiler|[[Recurring Boss|Iustitia, Temperantia and Sapientia return]]}}, and it even has a {{spoiler|''[[Unexpected Gameplay Change|platforming segment]]''}}. Don't be surprised if it takes you 45 minutes on your first attempt.
** [[Brutal Bonus Level|Angel Slayer]]. {{spoiler|50}} levels of fights against ''[[Demonic Spiders|every]] [[Boss in Mook Clothing|enemy]] [[Goddamned Bats|in]] [[Elite Mook|the]] [[That One Boss|game]]'', [[Difficulty Spike|Raises in difficulty]] every 10 levels, has multiple [[Boss Fight|boss fights]] against {{spoiler|Jeanne}} (including having to fight '''[[Beyond the Impossible|THREE AT ONCE]]'''), and even has a boss fight against {{spoiler|[[Mirror Boss|Bayonetta]] herself}}. As mentioned above, ''you cannot continue if you die''. So no [[Save Scumming]]: you're expected to do all this in ''[[Check Point Starvation|one go]]''. It can take at least 80-100 minutes to complete. [[Sarcasm Mode|I'm sure you'll love it]].
* [[Meaningful Name]]:
** Rodin shares his name with the famous sculptor Auguste Rodin, and also runs a bar called "The Gates of Hell", which was also the name of one of the real Rodin's greatest works.
** Subverted with {{spoiler|Balder. In Norse mythology, Balder is the god of light, innocence, and the son of Odin. He is good and just. In the game, Balder is a dishonest entity who only wants to resurrect Jubileus}}.
* [[Meaningless Meaningful Words]]: {{spoiler|Balder}} spends his (very long) introductory cutscene talking nonstop without actually saying a whole lot. Jeanne is guilty of this as well due to her fondness of ranting about the [[MacGuffin|Left Eye of the world]], though not to the same degree.
* [[Mega Corp]]: This seems to be the case with the Ithavoll Group, which is unique in that it's also a [[Corrupt Church]]. Supposedly it was once a medium-sized IT company which has grown so powerful it owns ''two'' private cities, the walled enclave of Vigrid and the far more modern Isla Del Sol nearby, along with their own military base and an [[Evil Tower of Ominousness]] ''three kilometers tall''. Many believe the CEO is a descendant of the original Luman Sages, {{spoiler|but this is inaccurate; Father Baldur ''is'' one of the original Sages}}.
* [[Meganekko]]: Bayonetta and Cereza.
* [[Mook Chivalry]]: Of the ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'' kind. <ref>[[Don't Explain the Joke|Meaning, non-existent
* [[Mook Debut Cutscene]]: With dedicated music too! Only [[Boss in Mook Clothing|Gracious and Glorious]] don't have one.
* [[More Dakka]]: Bayonetta has guns on her feet. [[Lampshaded]] in the opening, as Rodin is tossing her pistols:
{{quote|'''Bayonetta:''' Guns!... Guns!... Guns!... Guns!... Guns!... Guns!... Guns!... GUNS!}}
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Bayonetta's the head of the National Organization of [[Ms. Fanservice]]s.
* [[Murderous Thighs]]: In an early cinematic cut scene, Bayonetta uses her thighs to catch a ride on an Affinity, while shooting countless numbers of them out of the air, then using said thighs to spin the Affinity she rides it into the ground.
* [[My Future Self and Me]]: {{spoiler|Bayonetta and Cereza}}.
* [[Mysterious Animal Senses]]: It's implied that animals can see into Purgatorio, or at least sense the presence of someone in Purgatorio. Cats, understandably, don't seem to spooked by Bayonetta (seeing as she's a witch). Crows and doves, on the other hand, will flee if you get too close. Crows are naturally associated with darkness and, thus, witches. There are 50 specific crows in the game carrying Umbran Tears of Blood which you need to get the Clamax Bracelet. Bayonetta herself can transform into a crow, and one of Bayonetta's Climax Attacks involves summoning Malphas, a giant crow demon.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]:
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** Thou shalt shit their pants upon merely hearing the name of {{spoiler|Father Rodin, the Infinite One}}.
* [[Names to Trust Immediately]]: Overlaps with [[Fluffy the Terrible]] with the names of the angelic enemies such as [[Ax Crazy|Beloved]] and [[Our Dragons Are Different|Inspired]]. Of course, the more good and angelic the name sounds, the stronger an angel you're dealing with and the less you (their enemy) should trust them.
* [[Naughty Nun]]: How Bayonetta appears in the beginning of the game.
* [[Naughty Tentacles]]: The name of one of the [[Bragging Rights Reward|achievements]].
{{quote|"Tentacles! Why did it have to be tentacles?"}}
* [[New Powers as the Plot Demands]]: Probably justified by Bayonetta slowly recovering her memories as the story progresses, and thus her magic becoming more flexible. Her method of hot-wiring a motorcycle is pure [[Rule of Funny]], however. And oddly enough, Jeanne won't summon a demon in her fights unless Bayonetta's already used it on a boss.
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: While the game is actually easier for new players to get into than most entries in this genre, that doesn't mean you can get lazy on Normal. Even after Normal is finished, the jump to Hard difficulty is ''staggering''. A boss fight example: {{spoiler|Jubileus}}. Oh so very much. {{spoiler|Rodin}} is worse. Much, MUCH worse. You can even make the game harder with the Gaze of Despair item.
* [[Nonstandard Game Over]]: When Cereza is captured by a Joy disguised as Bayonetta, if you take too much time to save her, the Joy takes Cereza away, and you will have a [[Game Over]] screen with Cereza's doll on the ground instead of Bayonetta. And to expand on the [[Guilt Based Gaming]] entry above, [[What the Hell, Player?|pick "No" at said Game Over screen]] [[My God, What Have I Done?|and not feel like a total scumbag for doing so]].
* [[Noodle People]]: Bayonetta, especially notable in scenes with Cereza copying her cool pose, the latter having proportions of a porcelain doll. In one scene where the two are standing side-by-side, it is made clear that Cereza's height goes up to Bayonetta's ''knees''.
* [[Number of the Beast]]: Route 666, where the heroine can be [[Squashed Flat]] if she isn't careful.
* [[Oh Crap]]:
** Luka is extremely fond of this. For the most hilarity, watch his face in Chapter 14. {{spoiler|"Oh, fuck ME!"}}
** The Joys' reaction to an incoming Torture Attack.
** Quite a few players probably had one when {{spoiler|they first summoned Gomorrah to eat Balder, only for the latter to kill the former like it was nothing}}.
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* [[Older Than They Look]]: Virtually everyone.
* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]: There's lots of it during the boss battles. Makes the fight more satisfying too.
* [[One-Hit Kill]]:
** {{spoiler|The final boss Jubileus}} has a somewhat nasty one with vacuum-like properties, although {{spoiler|being ejected out into space}} would probably do that you.
** On Route 666, if you end up in the wrong lane and run into an oncoming semi, even witch powers will not save you from instant flaming death.
* [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]]: {{spoiler|Little King Zero}}. Get hit once? Lose your entire health bar. Get hit a second time? [[Captain Obvious|Die]].
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* [[Power-Up Food]]: The powerups all come in lollipop form.
* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]]: "Don't fuck with a witch."
* [[Precision F-Strike]]:
** While Bayonetta doesn't precisely [[Gosh Dang It to Heck|avoid profanity]], her vocabulary remains clean more often than not... especially around Cereza.
** Jeanne, on the other hand, has quite the mouth on her. Unlock her, and you'll find that she curses in almost all of her taunts. Perhaps to fit with her more (mostly) serious attitude?
** A better example would be with Luka. When Bayonetta told him to look at something, he looks up from Bayonetta's chest {{spoiler|to see missiles heading towards their helicopter}}.
{{quote|'''Luka:''' "Oh, [[Precision F-Strike|FUCK]] me!"}}
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{{quote|'''Bayonetta:''' I feel like a fucking celebrity in this town.}}
* [[Press X to Not Die]]: Not ''too'' many, but Quick Time Events can show up rather suddenly, often subtly. It can often take a few deaths before you even notice it.
* [[Promoted to Unlockable]]: Jeanne can be unlocked by completing all the chapters in Normal with Platinum trophies. She's a bit faster, but takes more damage, can dodge indefinitely without pausing (Bayonetta is [[That Came Out Wrong|wide open]] for a second after 5 consecutive dodges), her wicked weaves do more damage, and [[Bullet Time|Witch Time]] is ''much'' harder to use: she can only activate it by activating Moth Within (like Bat Within), which requires pixel-perfect dodging the exact moment an attack hits... but if successful, Jeanne will gain '''double''' combo points during Witch Time as opposed to the 1.5x points that Bayonetta earns. And needless to say, [[Secret AI Moves|she can't do any of the crazy things (such as doing multiple wicked weaves in a row or summoning demons mid-fight) her boss equivalent does
* [[Pummel Duel]]: Between Bayonetta and Jeanne in all their fights.
* [[Purple Prose]]: Balder's introduction monologue would be twice as short if he expressed himself with ''simple words''. Even lampshaded by Bayonetta.
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* [[Samus Is a Girl]]: {{spoiler|Jubileus is female, despite her masculine-sounding name}}.
* [[Save Scumming]]: The game auto-saves after every verse, and often saves in the middle of a verse, or even in the middle of a boss fight. Since getting Pure Platinum medals requires you to never take damage, one may find themselves quitting and reloading a lot.
* [[Scary Black Man]]: Rodin. Seriously. This is a guy who can do Badass Drink Mixing and make it look awesome, take down the nastiest of demons to make into weapons of dark magic, and even hit angels for home runs. And if you give him a special item, he becomes {{spoiler|Father Rodin. In this form, he is considered to be so powerful that even JUBILEUS HERSELF feared him}}.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: Through the second half of Chapter 15, you get to see Isla del Sol from the top of a very high building.
* [[Sculpted Physique]]: The angels have this, at least to begin with. Specifically, note what Temperantia looks like at the end of the fight.
* [[Sequence Breaking]]: In
* [[Sequential Boss]]: Fortitudo, Temperantia, Sapientia, last-round Jeanne and the [[True Final Boss]] all qualify due to their multi-layered life meters.
* [[Serial Escalation]]. ''Constantly''. When you have characters like Joy [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aovjii973Nc making this sort of entrance], its awesome even for [[Crazy Awesome]]. Each boss fight is crazier and more insane than the previous one. The sheer volume of bosses and mini bosses is practically inconceivable and it only gets more awesome as time goes by. Special mention goes to the [[Mirror Match]] battle with Jeanne where you spend half the fight duelling atop an armed missile ''after it's been launched'', and the final boss battle where Bayonetta {{spoiler|takes on God herself in a floating cocoon in outer space}}! ''Devil May Cry'' may escalate the action, but Bayonetta ''accelerates''.
* [[Seven Heavenly Virtues]]: Four are used as antagonists: Fortitudo (Diligence), Temperantia (Temperance), Sapientia (Wisdom) and Iustita (Justice).
* [[Sexy Backless Outfit]]: Of the backless dress made of hair variety.
* [[Sexy Spectacles]]: Invoked. To the point one can purchase her glasses. They're quite expensive.
* [[Sexy Walk]]: Bayonetta swings her hips and arches her back a little when she walks normally.
* [[She Fu]]: Expect to be doing acrobatic backflips a lot since it's the standard dodge, and it triggers Witch Time! She can even do this in ''mid-air''!
* [[Shotguns Are Just Better]]: Onyx Roses (or Garnet Roses in Jeanne's case) are one of the first LPs you can find, but they're only slightly better than Scarborough Fair.
* [[Shout-Out]]: [[Bayonetta/Shout Out|So many, it deserves it's own section]].
* [[Skyscraper City]]: Isla del Sol is basically hundreds of skyscrapers disposed around one that must be [[Star Scraper|something like a kilometer high]]. See [[Scenery Porn]] above.
* [[Sliding Scale of Realistic Versus Fantastic]]: While the game is infamous for being safely placed on the absurd side of the scale, any [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]] is long dead and buried before the conclusion. For example, while the plot starts with guns in shoes and hair demons, they seem pretty feasible when {{spoiler|Bayonetta is murdering her father with lipstick to save her past self, before going on to punch God's soul into the sun}} in the final chapters.
* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Rodin [[Cigar Chomper| smokes cigars]] after lighting them by producing a flame with his thumb.
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: "If you get in my way, I will... how do the Americans put it? Oh yes. ''Bust a cap in yo' ass''."
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To ''[[God Hand]]'' (in terms of general insanity) and the original ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' (in terms of gameplay).
* [[Squashed Flat]]: In a rather bizarre moment in level 9 with the Golem, [[Slapstick Knows No Gender|Bayonetta can be flattened like a cartoon character]].
* [[Stable Time Loop]]: {{spoiler|Bayonetta's entire personality is based on subconsciously imitating herself from what she remembers when she was Cereza, before she was sent back to her own time (though she remembers it as her mother)}}. {{spoiler|It seems Balder's [[Gambit Roulette|generally vague plan]] involved engineering this time loop to occur, so circumstances revolving around Bayonetta's sealing 500 years back will change, resulting in her memories being retained in the present}}.
* [[The Stinger]]: During the credits, you play through 3 verses. Two are from earlier moments in the game. The last one picks up right where the cutscene leading into the credits left off. You have a hidden time limit, and failing to complete the verse during it results in no medal. It actually counts against you to fail these verses, as they are scored as part of the last chapter in the game.
* [[Stripperiffic]]: Bayonetta uses her hair as clothing and to summon demons. And since she cannot do both at the same time, her clothing vanishes during her summons.
* [[Summon Bigger Fish]]: Story-wise, most boss fights are really spent just softening the angel up for a proper mauling by whatever ravenous hellbeast Bayonetta summons with her hair. She averts the danger of the demon turning on her by the fact that [[Deal with the Devil|she's as good as theirs anyway]].
* [[Summon Magic]]: Forms a major part of Bayonetta's attacks, both as Torture Attacks (where she can conjure up iron maidens, chainsaws, guillotines, and the like), and as a [[Finishing Move]] to take out particularly strong angels and boss fights by summoning up higher demons and [[Eldritch Abomination|eldritch abomination-like creatures]].
* [[Super Mode]]: During some plot specific sequences, Bayonetta will let her hair down. This will have the effect of making all of her attacks Wicked Weaves, which are normally finishers to her combos.
* [[Suplex Finisher]]: In the opening cutscene, Bayonetta slams about five or six angels into each other, then ''suplexes all of them simultaneously'', causing their [[Your Head Asplode|heads to explode]].
* [[Swiss Army Weapon]]: The last weapon you are likely to get, {{spoiler|Rodin}}, that you earn after beating the [[Nintendo Hard]] [[Bonus Boss]] is a set of gold bracelets that can take the form of any angel weapon depending on the combo you do. One of these angel weapons is itself a [[Swiss Army Weapon]] in a smaller extent: a large bow that can separate into a pair of [[Whip Sword|Whip]] [[BFS]].
* [[Talk to the Fist|Talk To The Fist/Bullet/Boulder/Car/Etc]]: Bayonetta LOVES doing this to the Cardinal Virtues... sometimes multiple times in one conversation!
{{quote|''"Ugh, ''another'' talkative type..."''}}
* [[Talking Is a Free Action]]: Zigzagged. The heroine is safe in a cutscene, but the player had to be ready the ''second'' it stops to prevent her from becoming a sitting duck.
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]: Bayonetta and Jeanne.
* [[Tennis Boss]]: The flashback encounter with Fortitudo in chapter 1 can become this once you get the Moon of Maha-Kaala (which allows you to deflect attacks). If you send his fireballs back at him instead of using your bullets, the fight can be ended in a few seconds.
* [[Theme Music Power-Up]]:
** "Fly Me To The Moon" starts playing whenever Bayonetta is commencing with ass kicking. In the Cardinal Virtue fights, the boss music will be replaced with a more triumphant theme once you get them down to their last life bar.
** There's also the songs for [[That Came Out Wrong|climaxing on]] larger mooks and finishing off a boss.
* [[Theme Naming]]: The quartet of pistols Bayonetta starts with are [[Named Weapons|named Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme]], herbs that are named in the folk song [[Simon and Garfunkel|"Scarborough Fair"]]. The set of guns themselves are named Scarborough Fair. Same goes for Jeanne's set of pistols named "All 4 One", with the individual names being [[The Three Musketeers (novel)|Athos, Porthos, Aramis and d'Artagnan]].
* [[Third-Person Seductress]]: Taken [[Beyond the Impossible]]. Quite possibly a parody of this trope since pretty much ''anything'' Bayonetta does that is supposed to be sexy usually comes off as completely hilarious instead.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Y'know, Luka, it's a really good thing that Bayonetta likes you. Otherwise, calling out the person you ''know'' killed your father, while she's armed and you're not, in an isolated area with no potential witnesses for ''miles'' around, would have shortened your lifespan considerably. And so what if it would prove everything you said about her? You're still dead. No witnesses also means that no one knows who actually killed you.
* [[Torture Technician]]
* [[Town with a Dark Secret]]: Vigrid is a closed community with very tight security; the only entrance is via a single rail line, and getting a ticket requires a long and arduous screen process. It's not know what government jurisdiction it's under, but in truth, {{spoiler|
* [[Troperiffic]]: The game is basically a love letter to action game tropes, both retro and contemporary.
* [[Turns Red]]: All enemies and bosses do this when you taunt them, which causes them to attack faster and hit harder.
* [[Underboobs]]: Bayonetta's "Queen" [[And Your Reward Is Clothes|outfit]].
* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]]: Chapters 8 and 14, the first of which is a freeway chase, the second of which is a [[Shout-Out]] to ''Space Harrier''. Also note that the boss battle of Chapter 12 takes place entirely on open water, with your only platform being a scrap of metal that you ride around like a surfboard (and much faster than your usual movement or evasion speed, at that).
* [[Unflinching Walk]]: Unless you purposely make her run, Bayonetta constantly acts like she's on a catwalk, even after a massive amount of destruction has taken place.
* [[Unreliable Narrator]]: Reading the bestiary is bound to confuse any player who cares, since almost ''every one'' of your enemies is described as a glorious and benevolent protector of good. This is quite at odds with the blink-and-you'll-miss-it hints that they originate from human sacrifice, or their callous disregard for human life. Somewhat justified in that the bestiary is written from the perspective of the church of Laguna, and therefore it would only make sense that they be described as benevolent beings. This also plays into the theory that Bayonetta is a [[Villain Protagonist]].
* [[Vanity License Plate]]:
** The plate on Jeanne's motorcycle reads "01 QTJ" (Cutie J).
** The license plate on Enzo's car reads "ED N EDNA". The reason for this has not been officially confirmed, but some parts of the fandom speculate that "Ed and Edna" are the names of Enzo's kids.
* [[Vapor Trail]]: The title character ''slams'' a tanker into Temperantia by way of another angel and creates the leak via a fountain statue that [[Urine Trouble|pisses the gasoline all over the poor bastard]] for that extra sadistic touch. {{spoiler|It doesn't work. When the fire goes out after a brief second, Bayonetta just heaves a sigh and [[Shoot the Fuel Tank|does it the "boring" way]]}}.
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]:
** In an otherwise goofy, lighthearted spectacle fighter, the Torture Attacks are rather wince-worthy in their sadism and don't look like they would be particularly out of place in ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]]''. Particularly jarring because they go without any comment whatsoever.
** While you can't directly interact with generic human [[Non-Player Character|NPCs]], due to Bayonetta being on the Puragotrio plane, you can still make them freak out by destroying objects near them.
* [[Visible Sigh]]: In a scene after Temperantia is defeated, a Fearless is ''just'' missed being hit by a falling streetcar. It puffs out a cloud of white vapor in relief. Then the streetcar tips over on it.
* [[Visual Pun]]: {{spoiler|Balder was killed in the blink of an eye}}.
* [["Wake-Up Call" Boss]]: Jeanne. While earlier angel foes have totally predictable patterns, she doesn't. Moreover, she is a [[Perfect Play AI]], blocking everything unless her own attack leaves her off-guard. So, this fight serves as a crash course in dynamic dodging and using [[Bullet Time|Witch Time]].
* [[Wall Crawl]]: The "Witch Walk" ability allows Bayonetta to walk on walls, ceilings, and some bosses
* [[Wasted Song]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF49ZCjXygo Battle For The Umbra Throne] only plays during the flashback fight with Jeanne, and it's [[Crowning Music of Awesome|EPIC]].
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: Everything Bayonetta does is sexy and awesome. Every. Single. Thing.
* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?]]: Most of the first game takes place in the walled enclave city of Vigrid, which is somewhere in Europe; exactly where is hard to say. The name suggests Scandinavia, but the pre-Renaissance era architecture suggests Italy or Germany.
* [[Whip It Good]]: Both [[Prehensile Hair|hair whips]] and the magical whip Kushedra (or Vritra, in Jeanne's case). They do meager damage, but have incredible reach.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: Jeanne.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: "Tentacles! Why did it have to be ''tentacles''?"
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* [[World of Badass]]: Every single character in the game is badass in their own way. Bayonetta manages to kill angelical asses without losing her temper, Luka is capable of pulling [[Big Damn Heroes]] moments despite not having any superpowers, Jeanne is among the few opponents capable of making Bayo lose her temper and truly offering a life-or-death combat to her, and Balder is the only living being who can survive a Climax attack from Bayonetta.
* [[World of Ham]]
* [[Wretched Hive]]: Hell's Gate
* [[You Killed My Father]]: The reason that Luka initially pursues Bayonetta. {{spoiler|It turns out that Balder was the one responsible for it}}.
* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: Done twice. The first time, after you defeat {{spoiler|the apparent final boss
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