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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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* [[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.]]
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** 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}}.
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* [[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.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: {{spoiler|Yes, you did, and hard enough that her soul was knocked out of her body and flew all the way from Pluto into the '''sun'''}}. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Suplexing a DRAGON]] certainly qualifies, as well.
* [[Difficult but Awesome]]/[[Simple Yet Awesome]]: "Dodge offset" doesn't sound all that complicated: continuing an interrupted combo after dodging by holding the attack button − but in the heat of battle it requires quite a bit of coordination to pull out spontaneously. If you master it though, it becomes extremely useful in situations where you can't use Witch Time (like the [[Boss in Mook Clothing|Gracious and Glorious]] fights or the entire Infinite Climax Mode). It looks pretty sweet too.
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* [[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|who got what he deserved]] and whom nobody will mourn or miss; play the sequel, however, and [[Alas, Poor Villain|you'll tearfully forgive ''everything'' he did]]}}.
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* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons]]: The first boss Fortitudo is a giant angel with two dragon heads. Why? [[Rule of Cool|Because dragons are awesome]].
* [[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.
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** 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.
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* [[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}}.
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