History Characters / BayonettaParadiso

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/courage_9.png]

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/temperance_9.png
A mini boss that resembles Temperantia with a green colour scheme.

%%[[folder:Courage
%%[[folder:Temperance]]

%%Courage
%%Temperance

* ClassicalElementsEnsemble: Each embodies a different classical element just like the virtues they are made to resemble--Courage copies Fortitude and is fire, Temperance copies Temperence and is air, Justice copies Iustice and is earth, and Prudence copies Prudence and is water.

* ColourCodedTimeStop: Starting with his second boss fight, he will perform an attack where he shoots out a deceptively fast beam of symbols shaped like clocks. If it hits Bayonetta, she will be left defenseless as the Sage enters Light Speed, turning everything greyscale.

* TimeStandsStill: Like all Lumen Sages, he can perform Light Speed and slow down time. Though he only uses it once during the cutscene before the fight, the difficulty of getting a slowdown off of his normal attacks suggests that he can undo Witch Time as fast as it's triggered.

* BreathWeapon: Launches [[{{Fireball}} fireballs]].

* HateSink: Bayonetta 2 turns him into this. He was the one who tricked Balder into starting the Witch Hunts, and gloats about it to Balder's face as Rosa lays dying. By his own admission, he wanted the sages wiped out too. In the first game, one of the first things we see him do is take great pleasure in eating two RedShirt Umbra Witches slowly and painfully. In another flashback, he has a crowd of innocent civilians cornered with his own angels preparing to kill them all.

* {{Wrath}}: He's a little blinded by his desire for revenge and isn't too keen on making sure he's killing the person who's actually responsible.

* RecurringBoss: He's fought three times over the course of the second game. [[spoiler:Actually, four times. The first time is in the first game's penultimate chapter.]]

* {{Bishonen}}: He's an androgynous-looking man under his mask, with flowing, [[LongHairedPrettyBoy waist length]] platinum blonde hair, narrow eyes, thin lips, smooth pale skin, and a slender build. The impressive thing is you can tell he's one when just a ''sliver'' of his mask gets knocked off, revealing only one of his eyes and the general shape of his features around it. [[spoiler:[[IWasQuiteALooker Balder was quite a looker]] when he was younger.]]

* TheChessmaster: Naturally, being a BigBad who only actually appears in [[OneSceneWonder a small segment of the game]], Balder has been pulling the strings from behind the scenes since the very first chapter of the game, [[spoiler:faking his own death in the process]]. Although he only appears in a small segment, [[spoiler:his voice is present throughout the whole game, you just don't know who it is until you meet him.]]

* FourElementEnsemble: Each embodies a different classical element--Fortitudo is fire, Temperantia is air, Iustitia is earth, and Sapientia is water.

* FourElementEnsemble: Each embodies a different classical element--Courage is fire, Temperance is air, Justice is earth, and Prudence is water.

* ClippedWingAngel: A near-literal example. While still a God with god-like reserves of power, she wasn't nearly as powerful as she should have been since Jean removed Bayonetta (the Left Eye) before her resurrection could be completed, hens why she was unable to annihilate one Umbra Witch and her infernal-counterpart Queen Sheba was so much more impressive by comparison.

* {{Irony}}: The cardinal virtue of justice attempts to kill Bayonetta without a word, and doesn't care about plowing through the innocent child and mortal man nearby to get to her, and in Bayonetta 2, Iustitia does not care at all about all the innocent civilians Fortitudo's forces killed to get at the witches. Even despite being listed as the Cardinal Virtue who represents Justice and who's the closest to Inferno, he doesn't care about the iffy circumstances the angels and Sages used to start the Clan Wars, either. A Justified case considering his apperance "warps based on the concept of justice of mankind", which is rather twisted, to say the least.

Lowest-ranking and weakest angels of the Second Sphere. They oversee the balance of powers among men, inspiring consceince among mortals and keeping the history of Heaven.

The first of the Audito, representing the viture of Courage and Fortitude, as well as the element of Fire. A massive, two-headed, dragon-like creature, he played a large role in the Witch Hunts, and therefore is a key part of Bayonetta's lost memories. She encounters him the most during her journey.\\\

* HeroesPreferSwords: His Holy Glaive straddles the line between this and BladeOnAStick, [[spoiler:and he turns out to be GoodAllAlong.]]

* BladeOnAStick: They wield what look like halberds or war hammers.

* BladeOnAStick: Other kinds use the same type of bladed staff that the Affinities use.

* BladeOnAStick: The most commonly encountered variation uses a golden staff with a sharp decoration on top.

** All of them display traits that are a stark contrast to the virtue they embody. Fortitudio repeatedly tries to discourage Bayonetta from confronting him, Temperantia has some rather suggestive dialogue with her, etc. They may behave in opposition to their virtues in order to inspire the corresponding virtue in humanity. Or they're just a bunch of hypocrites.

* {{Irony}}: He is supposed to be courage, and while he isn't outright cowardly, he prefers to avoid violence. In his first meeting with Bayonetta, he flees from her when she tries to shoot him and afterwards presumably sets Vigrid aflame with fire and lava while he's safe at the Colosseum. And when he does fight, he spends much of the battle off in the background, hucking fireballs at his foe from a safe distance away. He also enjoys preying on those smaller or weaker than he is, gloating as he has his angels attacking civilians during the Witch Hunts.

* {{Irony}}: He is supposed to be temperance, yet he has anger issues and possibly lust as well, since he makes remarks about how attractive Bayonetta is. Then there's also the fact that he's responsible for the storm occuring in the next few chapters until you face him, and he initially shows up as a massive tornado, which is befitting anything but the virtue of Temperance.

* {{Irony}}:
** The cardinal virtue of justice attempts to kill Bayonetta without a word, and doesn't care about plowing through the innocent child and mortal man nearby to get to her.
** In Bayonetta 2, Iustitia does not care at all about all the innocent civilians Fortitudo's forces killed to get at the witches.
** Even despite being listed as the Cardinal Virtue who represents Justice and who's the closest to Inferno, he doesn't care about the iffy circumstances the angels and Sages used to start the Clan Wars.

* {{Irony}}
** He's meant to represent wisdom and prudence, yet he is a reckless, boastful asshole that is bigoted against humans. [[TooDumbToLive All of this only makes Bayonetta want to kill him even more]].
** He also tries downing the airplane Bayonetta, Cereza and Jeanne are on. [[spoiler: The former two are highly integral to Balder's plans, which showcases a lack of foresight or care the Cardinal Virtue of Prudence is supposed to exhibit.]]

[[Characters/BayonettaMainCharacters Main Characters]] ([[Characters/BayonettaTitularCharacter Bayonetta]]) | [[Characters/BayonettaSupportingCharacters Supporting Characters]] | '''Paradiso''' | [[Characters/BayonettaInferno Inferno]] | [[Characters/BayonettaHomunculi Alphaverse]] | [[Characters/BayonettaOther Other Characters]]]]-]]]

* IronicName: This Angel is called "Joy" and they make rather...lustful poses akin to Bayonetta. It would be far from heaven's standard depiction of Joy and go way over to being Lust, a cardinal sin instead.

* {{God}}: The most powerful angel of all and is referred to as The Creator by just about all the other bosses. Subverted in the second game, where she's just the head of the light. [[TopGod Aesir]] is the head of the chaos world, which is Earth. Her [[BossSubtitles Boss Subtitle]] is Dea, which is Latin for Goddess.

* HaveYouSeenMyGod: She was forced into sleep in order to form the Trinity of Realities, but [[CosmicKeystone her mere presence is required to keep the world in balance]]. [[spoiler:Her destruction at the end of the first game has serious reprecussions in the sequel.]]

* IdenticalStranger: Like Queen Sheba, she resembles Bayonetta. According to WordOfGod, this is deliberate, and when she and Queen Sheba merge at the climax of ''2'', it becomes even more pronounced. [[invoked]]

* MotherGoddess: The Angels worship Jubileus as the creator of the world.

* ActuallyADoombot: [[spoiler:The "Affinities" that appear in ''Origins'' are actually illusions created by Puca, owing to the genuine Laguna being immune to the mind control he attempted to use on them.]]