History Characters / BayonettaInferno

* SitcomArchNemesis: Her rivalry with Madama Butterfly is played this way. Alraune is livid, but Madama Butterfly doesn't respond, and Bayonetta is rather amused by the whole thing. [[spoiler:''3'' later pokes fun at this by awarding you a [[AchievementSystem Bewitchment]] if you finish off Alraune by summoning Madama Butterfly.]]

* DeadlyHug: Its main method of killing is to simply squeeze its prey to death. Father Balder gets around this by forming a large barrier around himself.

* DeadlyHug: Similar to Scolopendra before her, Hydra uses her smaller serpentine heads to squeeze her enemies to death.

* LoopholeAbuse: If a soul is claimed by Inferno as penance for a Demon Contract there's nothing stopping someone from retriving the soul from Hell and reuniting it with the body on Earth thus reviving the person as if nothing had happened provided the soul hasn't been entirely absorbed into Inferno and the body is still in tact.

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* BarrierWarrior: The AoE effect of her singing effectively creates a barrier that she uses to fight the hordes of homunculi and thwart Mictlantecuhtli's attacks.

* DropTheHammer: Not the demon itself, but the sequel has a hammer weapon that allows Bayonetta to summon Hekatoncheir's fists with her Wicked Weaves.

* SilkHidingSteel: A beautiful, elegant opera songstress who attacks by using the power of song? Highest confirmed bodycount of all the demons summoned in the series.

* LoopholeAbuse: If a soul is claimed by Inferno due to forming contracts with demons, they can continue to do so if they manage to escape back to Earth.

* SonicScream: Some of its Umbran Climax attacks have it attacking with a loud shriek that can destroy enemies in a large radius.

* MakeMeWannaShout: Some of its Umbran Climax attacks have it attacking with a loud shriek that can destroy enemies in a large radius.

* MakeMeWannaShout: Her snake heads are capable of releasing soundwaves that can deflect projectiles.

* MakeMeWannaShout: Her singing is powerful enough to even block a laser blast from Mictlantecuhtli, and then shatter it alongside a possessed Paris Bayonetta.

* UnstoppableRage: As a demon, Lex is constantly trapped in endless rage, with it's endless hunger and thirst only making it worse for herself.

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Shows up out of nowhere at the end of the prologue, completely unrelated to the invading Homunculi, attacks Bayonetta and Jeanne for seemingly no reason and is never seen again after it's driven off. Strangest of all, it's clearly a demon summon, but Bayonetta and Jeanne are the only two Umbra Witches left in creation, and the summoner is nowhere to be found. Our main characters wonder about it for a bit, but due to the fate of the multiverse in the balance and all, it's quickly forgotten. [[spoiler:It finally comes back in TheStinger, where we find out it's the demon partner to Dark Eve]].

* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: YourSizeMayVary edition. She can appear more or less of the same size as Sin Gomorrah, or at a staggering size of 8900 metres. Making her undisputedly the second biggest summon in the franchise, after Sheba.

** ''Bayonetta 3'' reverses the original description, instead describing Baal as being extremely nimble for her size. Indeed, in battles with her, she performs giant leaps and swimming charges as often as she uses her tongue. It’s unknown if this is intended to be a retcon, or if it is just for this Baal, who is more fit than the one from ''Bayonetta 2''

** To Balder. [[spoiler: Both are exiles from their clans, Balder being cast from the Lumen Sages and Morgana from the Umbra Witches. Both try to manipulate Cereza for their own purposes, Balder's being to restore Jubileus and Morgana's being to save her son Lukaon. Balder is a LargeHam who recognized as being grandiose and flowery. Morgana is stern, serious, and blunt. Both become enemies to Cereza, but for different reasons. Balder, as it turns out, was forced to oppose Cereza, due to a combination of being manipulated himself by the Angels and being corrupted by the evil of Loptr's soul. Morgana, on the other hand, opposed Cereza out of her own free will, intending to sacrifice Cheshire to break the curse on Lukaon.]]

** To Balder. [[spoiler: Both are exiles from their clans, Balder being cast from the Lumen Sages and Morgana from the Umbra Witches.]]

** To Rosa. Both Rosa and Morgana are maternal figures to Cereza; Rosa is Cereza's biological mother and Cereza admits at the end of ''[[VideoGame/BayonettaOriginsCerezaAndTheLostDemon Bayonetta Origins]]'' that she sees Morgana as a mother to her for how she protected and trained her. [[spoiler:Cereza is also forced to battle both of them. In the case of Rosa, she is forced to fight an alternate version of her in Alternate France in ''VideoGame/Bayonetta3'' thanks to Singularity taking control of her. In Morgana's case, she's attacking Cereza and Cheshire of her own volition, forcing them to defend themselves against her.]]

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** To Rosa. Both Rosa and Morgana were maternal figures to Cereza; Rosa is Cereza's biological mother and Cereza admits at the end of ''[[VideoGame/BayonettaOriginsCerezaAndTheLostDemon Bayonetta Origins]]'' that she sees Morgana as a mother to her for how she protected and trained her.

* AnimalMotifs: Spiders. Her Umbran Watch has a spider engraved on it, there are spider webs across her costume and in her hair and the bracelet she gives Cereza is designed like a butterfly caught in a spiders web. [[spoiler:Fittting, since her contract is with a spider demon.]]

* PracticalTaunt: The tower can open the eyes beyind its clock faces, which taunts every enemy in range, and forces them to attack the tower.

* KilledOffScreen: We've already learned in the first game that she didn't survive the great Umbra-Lumen war, though the account of her death only got elaborated on in the third game via Umbran Clock Tower's demon compedium.

* FoodAsBribe: “Devourer of the Divine” isn’t just a scary title. Gomorrah getting to eat angels and other divine beings is a major part of any deal he makes with a witch. Food motivates Gomorrah to the point that when Bayonetta commands him to eat a Homonculus (a creature that is not from Paradiso), it’s enough to ''break the contract'', and only the Demon Slave magic is able to stop him from attacking Bayonetta immediately.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: As stated in his ''Cereza and the Lost Demon'' game bio, due to the affection and kindness the young witch showed him, he started to feel a fuzziness he can’t explain. [[spoiler:This went further when Cereza was willing to sacrifice some of her hair to patch up Cheshire's wound from the faeries. After spending the majority of the game bickering, this event caused Cheshire to finally form a true bond of trust with the girl. When he amicably parted ways with her and returned to Inferno, he was hoping he might be able to see her again someday.]]

* AnimalisticAbomination: A huge, demonic manta-ray.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: as stated in his ''Cereza and the Lost Demon'' game bio, due to the affection and kindness the young witch showed him, he started to feel a fuzziness he can’t explain. [[spoiler:This went further when Cereza was willing to sacrifice some of her hair to patch up Cheshire's wound from the faeries, from that point on he knew she was the only one she could rely on, and when he returned to Inferno, and while he may not have shown it, but he was hoping he might be able to see her once more.]]

* DemonicPossession: In ''Origins'', Bayonetta's inexperience causes her to accidentally stuff him into her beloved stuffed cat, Cheshire. In Jeanne's Tale, [[spoiler:Jeanne transfers him into her own cat plushy, Charles, which she comments is far superior to Cereza's, but the demon chooses to go back to Cheshire anyway]]. In ''Bayonetta 3'', he uses the plush cat decal hanging off the end of Viola's Mab Dachi ''nōdachi'' to manifest a body.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: During Viola's introductory scene, it's seen wandering around in the background while she explains what's going on in the Multiverse. No one acknowledges it until Rodin snaps and demands to know what's up with it. Apparently it manifests outside of Viola's say-so pretty often.