History Characters / BayonettaMainCharacters

--> "You [[PrecisionFStrike motherfucker!]]"

* WillfullyWeak: According to WordOfGod, Jeanne is a compulsive daredevil, which is why she doesn't enter Witch Time if she doesn't use her [[{{Animorphism}} Moth Within]] – that ability puts her at a far greater risk of being hit than simply dodging. {{Averted}} with her Wicked Weaves, which deal 1.5x the damage of Bayonetta's.

* ActionSurvivor: How many times should he have died again? One notable instance had him surviving being left on a missile during Bayonetta's fight with Jeanne, and he still got away and survived. Bayonetta is as shocked by this as the player. Another case is when [[spoiler:Balder sets a few Affinities on him, who nearly yank his limbs out of his sockets, and then he's tossed out of the top window of Balder's skyscraper. The next time we see Luka, he doesn't have a scratch on him, but his surviving the fall is justified by Bayonetta's control over another missile.]] In ''3'', [[spoiler: he drops the survivor part and becomes full on badass in his faerie-werewolf form.]]

* BadassNormal: Luka may be a PluckyComicRelief at times, he never fights and his only fantastical aids are his grappling hook and his glasses (in ''VideoGame/Bayonetta2''), but somehow, he's shockingly capable of some things that are ''completely'' over his head, or can show up and try to save the day wherever Bayonetta is. Luka is also ''extremely'' lucky and has survived everything the plot has thrown his way, and when you're a squishy human in this kind of setting, ninety percent of badassery is just showing up in the same place as the heroes and villains. [[spoiler: By ''3'', the normal is dropped when he gains a faerie-werewolf form.]]

* ButtMonkey: Comes with the territory of being an [[spoiler: apparent]] {{Muggle}} among the cast. He doesn't have it nearly as bad as Enzo though. He's an IronButtMonkey, however, to the point where he should be suspected of possessing quantum immortality...

* DraggedOffToHell: [[spoiler: He willingly goes to Inferno alongside Bayonetta at the end of ''3'']].

* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler: Heavily downplayed, but the reason he suddenly transforms into a lupine form in ''3'' is that a past incarnation of himself was half fae (and one such incarnation in one universe survived to the present day), and the reverberations of the multiversal collapse initiated by the Singularity drove it to the surface and out of control.]]

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: During ''3'' he's uncharacteristically self-admonishing during [[spoiler: his second fight with Bayonetta, ashamed of his uncontrolled actions as Strider and calling himself a hateful monster]]. Bayonetta has none of it.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Briefly has these in ''3'' before [[spoiler: he turns into the wolf dark fairy, Strider.]]

* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: Allows himself to be pulled into Inferno alongside Bayonetta at the end of ''3'' once her Umbral Watch shatters]].

--> ''Hey, got somethin' here from the toughest bounty hunter in the galaxy. You know I love a badass with a big heart... or was it the other way around?''

* CombatSadomasochist

* HolyHalo: Collects these. [[spoiler: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. a God) herself wears.]]

-->'''Rodin:''' (''first game'') I gotta hand it to you. You sure let me have my fun. I never thought a girl would beat my ass so hard. But I gotta admit, I kinda liked it. You win... ''This'' time, baby.
-->'''Rodin:''' (''second game'') ''Shiiett...'' Where'd ''that'' come from? Credit where credit is due, you just put your foot straight up my ass. You won this time, but remember, the devil always gets his due.

* CatchPhrase: "Fuggetaboutit" and "motherfucker" seem to be the most common words he uses.

-->'''Enzo''': 20 years ago, you woke up stuck in a casket at the bottom of a lake. All you can remember is that you're a witch. But now you're stuck, because you've gotta sacrifice our halo-wearing friends everyday or they'll drag your ass back down to hell. I know I thought I got screwed, but bein' forced to slap around the divine for a livin'? That's ''really'' getting screwed!
-->'''Bayonetta''': If I needed a biographer, you wouldn't be my first choice.

* SoleSurvivor: Of his family in ''3'' and that's only because Rodin kept him from rushing out. [[spoiler: Thankfully, their deaths were reversed in the end]].

* ThrowTheDogABone: [[spoiler: The ResetButton ending in ''3'' prevents his family's deaths, and he gets to go home to them with nothing bad happening to him]].

* {{Catchphrase}}: Whenever entering combat, she has habit of announcing, "It's bacon time!!"

** The first words [[spoiler: Lukaon]] asked her is whether or not she was similar to that beast-man and notes that she shared a bond with both the beast-man and [[spoiler:Lukaon]], suggesting a blood bond. [[spoiler:Said beast-man is Luka which would later hint that Viola is Luka's daughter]].

* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: It hasn't happened in the games yet, but the character profiles indicate [[spoiler: she's the rightful Princess of Avalon through her father's alternate self Lukaon.]]

--> '''Bayonetta:''' What was that? You wouldn't happen to be-\\

* TraumaCongaLine: ''3'' is NOT kind to her: First, she has to watch her version of Bayonetta [[spoiler:(her birth mother)]] and Sigurd die in order to buy her time to escape. Then, after a long journey with the current Bayonetta, [[spoiler: her hopes of a possible solution are dashed when it turns out the Alphaverse was just a decoy to trap them both, and the Dr. Sigurd that Jeanne had "rescued" turned out to be Singularity in disguise. Finally, after watching Bayonetta nearly die several times and revealing their connection, Viola ends up losing both her and Luka (her father) for good when they are dragged down into Inferno - as Luka decides to join Bayonetta so she wouldn't be alone -- leaving Viola a sobbing wreck]].

* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: Viola learns to [[spoiler: tap into her fairy ancestry to transform]] after [[spoiler:Strider-Luka impales her on one of his claws]].

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* ABirthdayNotABreak: PlayedForLaughs. The opening level in the first Bayonetta has him repeatedly attacked and nearly killed by angels, Enzo complaining about the situation happening on his birthday.