History Fridge / Bayonetta

* Bayonetta has multiple elements of butterflies in her design: Butterflies appear when she jumps, her glasses have them, her ''entire shadow is a giant butterfly''. Now look at the demon she summons to make giant fist and boot attacks - the game manual [[AllThereInTheManual mentions her name is Madame Butterfly.]] This is also the name of a famous opera whose theme is a an american soldier and a japanese woman during the war who fall in love, but eventually he leaves her alone and pregnant with a child born of both world who will be accepted by none... [[spoiler: and Bayonetta herself is the daughter of a Lumen Sage and Umbra Witch!]] ~Drakkenmensch

* Bayonetta has multiple elements of butterflies in her design: Butterflies appear when she jumps, her glasses have them, her ''entire shadow is a giant butterfly''. Now look at the demon she summons to make giant fist and boot attacks - the game manual [[AllThereInTheManual mentions her name is Madame Butterfly.]] This is also the name of a famous opera whose theme is a an american soldier and a japanese woman during the war who fall in love, but eventually he leaves her alone and pregnant with a child born of both world who will be accepted by none... [[spoiler: and Bayonetta herself is the daughter of a Lumen Sage and Umbral Witch!]] ~Drakkenmensch

** What you punched into the sun was the god-form of Jubileus. the stone statue was the hollow shell which held her, and was left over.

** I just assumed it was Jubileus' hollow shell of a body, drained of a soul and all power or whatever. Probably why it was stone and crumbled when you hit it.

* Just how the heck does Bayonetta actually ''fire'' the guns on her heels? They don't even have any trig-- [[HotWitch ...Oh,]][[AWizardDidIt wait...]]

* Just how the heck does Bayonetta actually ''fire'' the guns on her heels? They don't even have any trig-- [[AWizardDidIt ...Oh, wait...]]

** Maybe the soul wasn't the only thing punched out of the Technicolour Sphere?

* The last real challenge of the game is [[spoiler: destroying the body of Jubileus as it plummets to the Earth in order to prevent a ColonyDrop. However, just a few seconds ago, Queen Sheba was summoned and punched Jubileus's soul from its body, leading to a sequence where you steer the soul from PLUTO into the sun. How in the world did the body go from outside of the solar system to the Earth in the blink of an eye?]]

* Shortly after ''{{Bayonetta}}'''s introduction cutscene jumps to present day, we see a group of priests apparently commit ritual suicide, [[ShadowDiscretionShot and the enemy footsoldiers emerge from the corpses]]. Later, Rodin says that the people of Vigrid are "closer to Paradiso" than any human should ever be. It's harder to notice because they only appear as silhouettes, but whenever Bayonetta ends up fighting angels in Vigrid, ALL of the humans disappear from the area. And in the penultimate level, on your way to fight [[spoiler: Balder]], you can examine strange machines and containers of red fluid (shaped like ''caskets'') all wired to the top of the building, where [[spoiler: [[PhysicalGod Jubileus]] is being stored]]. One of the bosses even mentions how Vigrid has become their 'foothold' in the human world. This is a prosperous, heavily-fortified city state with super-advanced technology, and EVERYONE in it is a potential incubator for a Cthulhu-angel. OhCrap doesn't even begin to cover this.

** On the other hand, they may be aware that Bayonetta needs to sacrifice angels everyday or Madama Butterfly will have her soul dragged to hell, so the reason could also be that they are intentionally sacrificing themselves in order to buy Balder more time to complete his scheme.

* I only just realised this. Notice that during fights with Jeanne that she has these feathers attached to her guns? I only just realised that [[Spoiler: since she's under the control of Baldur, the feathers aren't part of her design. You aren't fighting Jeanne as a person, you're fighting Jeanne as a puppet operated by Baldur!]]

* The Joy class angel can invoke ParanoiaFuel with its shapeshifting abilities. According to the Hierachy Of Laguna, they've broken free of physical form (hence why they can change their form). It's all well and good if you can see Purgatorio or Paradiso because you could probably rule them out by their halo. But what about normal humans? What if someone amongst you is a Joy that has taken the physical form of someone close to you and is ready to spirit you away?

*This troper always thought that there were no humans left after a fight with angels because they all ran away (as demonstrated in the opening scene, although humans can't see angels, they can see explosions and collateral effects of the fight such as objects being flung through the air). Also, humans can be seen running around in some fights (difficult to see because they are Silhouettes). That doesn't explain the creepy blood coffins though...

*This troper always thought that there were no humans left after a fight with angels because they all ran away (as demonstrated in the opening scene, although humans can't see angels, they can see explosions and collateral effects of the fight such as objects being flung through the air). That doesn't explain the creepy blood coffins though...

* Shortly after ''{{Bayonetta}}'''s introduction cutscene jumps to present day, we see a group of priests apparently commit ritual suicide, [[ShadowDiscretionShot and the enemy footsoldiers emerge from the corpses]]. Later, Rodin says that the people of Vigrid are "closer to Paradiso" than any human should ever be. It's harder to notice because they only appear as silhouettes, but whenever Bayonetta ends up fighting angels in Vigrid, ALL of the humans disappear from the area. And in the penultimate level, on your way to fight [[spoiler: Balder]], you can examine strange machines and containers of red fluid (shaped like ''caskets'') all wired to the top of the building, where [[spoiler: [[PhysicalGod Jubileus]] is being stored]]. One of the bosses even mentions how Vigrid has become their 'foothold' in the human world. This is a prosperous, heavily-fortified city state with super-advanced technology, and EVERYONE in it is a potential incubator for a Cthulu-angel. OhCrap doesn't even begin to cover this.