Funny / Bayonetta 2

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While darker in tone than its predecessor, this game is not without its funny moments.

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• During the first fight, Bayonetta spanking the Acceptance (a centaur angel) with her gun to make it go batshit and attack its compatriots out of sheer pain. In gameplay, this can also done to hammer-wielding Accolades (stronger versions of Acceptance) as a punishment attack.
  • There is also a piece of bonus artwork that depicts Bayonetta riding an Acceptance while in the Hero of Hyrule costume, near-perfectly imitating the poses from official artwork of Link riding Epona◊. The Acceptance's tormented expression adds to the hilarity of the situation.
• The very sight of Rodin dressed as Santa is worth a laugh.
• Rodin getting hit with a sign and not even reacting to it in the prologue.
• The way Bayonetta starts the Valiance boss fight. Interrupting its monologue with the firearm equivalent of an Offhand Backhand.
• Just after Loki gives Bayonetta the Snake Within power to save her from drowning, Loki appears to have died after Bayonetta rescues him. She is distraught... until Mood Whiplash ensues when Loki starts laughing his ass off. Bayonetta is less than pleased.
  Bayonetta: "Do you really think it's safe to play dead with someone who can make you dead?"
• Luka smashing into a wall while trying to catch Bayonetta in mid air, not realizing that being able to see things in Purgatorio doesn't mean you can touch things in Purgatorio.
• After reuniting with Luka one of the first things Bayonetta does is put on his hat and start looking at herself in some glass, Luka doesn't even react given its just Bayonetta being Bayonetta.
• Half of Loki's dialogue can qualify, proving that he can snark it up with the best of them. Of special note is this gem upon him meeting Luka:
  Loki: Hey, you're the pervert staring at Bayonetta's tits all the time. You really need to learn how to talk to a lady!
  • Especially ironic considering Loki spends most of his time in Bayonetta's Secret Compartment.
  • The occurrence that leads to this meeting? Loki wakes up mid-fall and switches to his flying squirrel form... and Luka just happens to be swinging by on his little grappling hook.
    Luka: OOOHHHHH SHIIIIIIITTTTT!
• Bayonetta interrupting Luka's bragging about his knowledge on Noatun lores with a megaton kick. She does that to save him from some oncoming angels, but still...
  Luka: Would you expect anything less from... the marvelous, magnificent, magnanimous... Lu-
  * BOOT*
  Luka: -KAAAaaaaaa!
• Bayonetta performing a fist-bump with Madama Butterfly. By which we mean, she summons a Wicked Weave for the express purpose of fist-bumping her.
• If you go to use Panther Within while in the Galactic Bounty Hunter outfit, Bayonetta turns into a Morph Ball instead... and if you do so while Loki is riding around in her Victoria's Secret Compartment, he'll be running on top in his squirrel form, trying not to fall off. Attention to detail at its finest.
• Except during his third and final battle, most likely because he's madder than hell and actually trying to kill you this time, the Masked Lumen is so chivalrous and honorable that he'll stop mid-attack just to call you out if you use an item.
  Masked Lumen: You have disappointed me...
• In the last chapter, there's this bit of banter between Bayonetta and the Masked Lumen:
  Bayonetta: I have to admit, I like you much better this way, Balder. You actually shut up and follow directions.
  Masked Lumen: Hmph. I do as I choose!
• Alraune hates Madama Butterfly. We have no idea why, but she hates Madama Butterfly.
  Bayonetta: I don't know what you did to piss her off, but whatever it was... nice.
• Alraune calling Bayonetta a "filthy bitch"? Precision F-Strike at best. Realizing that someone at PlatinumGames had to try translating that into a 500-year-old occult language? Hilarious.
• When Jeanne finally wakes up after being freed from Alraune's clutches at the end of Chapter XI, what's the first thing that Bayonetta tells her? Concede that Jeanne was never much of a morning person. And when Bayo tells her to get going back to the realm of the living, she tells her "No stopping for anything along the way!" in a tone that sounds like a stern parent.
• Bayonetta and Rosa finish off a Beloved by summoning two demons, causing the Beloved to look back and forth at the demons repeatedly before understandably trying to run away, to no avail.
• Luka appearing out of nowhere right before the final boss battle to get Loki, surprising even Aesir.
  Aesir: What on earth was that?
  Bayonetta: I suppose not even a god can see him coming.
  • What makes that part even more hilarious is just the sheer bewildered tone Aesir has when it happens.
• Loptr being kicked out of his soul (the exact reverse of what happened to Jubileus in the first game) by Omne and flailing all the way to his doom, Gomorrah's open maw. If you thought being personally in charge of burning a goddess's soul was fun, wait until you see Lotpr flailing pathetically as he tries to evade his very humiliating death. Also serves as a very powerful cathartic moment, especially given all the evil things he's done.
  • Just before Omne's ultra-dropkick-of-fatal-death connects with Loptr, the camera gives up a nice close up of his face. His look of sheer terror paints an absolute picture.
  • Then there's Bayonetta and Balder summoning Omne in the first place. By now we're used to seeing Bayonetta do incredibly provocative dance moves for her big summons, but watching Balder do the same thing is utterly hilarious and its own flavor of awesome. Seems that even the Lumen Sages aren't exempt from sexy dancing to summon beasties.
  • On closer inspection it looks like Balder is disco dancing complete with the pointing pose.
• One particular event in the ending is totally hilarious: In the midst of year-end shopping, Bayonetta nonchalantly drops her shopping bag on Enzo for him to carry... having completely forgotten that she earlier has left Enzo stranded in Noatun with a broken plane. The sheer awkwardness of Bayonetta dropping her shopping bag straight onto the pavement is priceless.
  Bayonetta: Dammit, I forgot Enzo.
  Jeanne: I was wondering why there wasn't a short, foul-mouthed Italian within an earshot. Where did you leave him?
  Bayonetta: He said he would wait for me on a plane...
  • It should be noted that Jeanne asks Bayo where she left Enzo with a tone like that of a mother who's kid has forgotten where they put their shoes.
  • And then cue Enzo tearing through the city in the plane with a dozen angels on his ass, with Bayonetta's "You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!" face. "Again?!"
    Enzo: What a day!!!! WHAT A DAY!!!!
  • Meanwhile, Luka is spreading around flyers for Gates of Hell, with Rodin unconcerned about the absolute chaos going on around the two.
• Another from the ending - as Bayonetta and Jeanne exchange some Casual Danger Dialogue during another angel attack, Jeanne notices Bayonetta giving her a funny look and realizes one of the angels' blades has left a slice in her outfit right across the buttocks. With a gasp, she quickly moves to stand back-to-back with Bayonetta, in one of the only times we ever see her flustered.
• This one is easy to miss: Towards the beginning of Chapter IV, following the tsunami and flood caused by Glamor, Bayonetta is jumping across rooftops when she reaches a tower with a closed door. She kicks the door to open it just like any other, but instead of opening, the building snaps in half at the bottom of the door and falls over. Bayonetta just uses the fallen tower as a bridge.
• Jeanne and Rosa are playable in story mode as well as Tag Climax, but with the cutscenes still using the same voice acting (with the exception of Climax summon vocalizations), it can be kind of grating... unless one interprets it as Bayonetta cosplaying as her best friend or mother, in which case it's absolutely hilarious.
• Rodin is cracking a few more jokes when Bayo visits his bar than he was in the first game.
  Rodin: Welcome to the Gates of Hell. We've lit our prices on fire, so there won't be hell to pay. (chuckles) C'mon, I gotta say some cheesy shit sometimes.
  Rodin: New shop rule: No shoes, no shirt, no service. Hair doesn't count. (chuckles) Just kiddin'. What'll it be?
• One of the last weapons Rodin will get for you is a Chain Chomp from the Super Mario franchise... and while hilarious enough by itself, the fact that Rodin used a hellgate to travel to Bob-omb Battlefield from Super Mario 64, if even for a few minutes, is hysterical!
  • The Chain Chomp has the nice touch of being affected by gravity when it's sitting on its chain. So during airborne fights like Glamor and Gomorrah, or underwater fights like Valor and Insidious? It dangles off-screen, pops up when an enemy gets in biting range, and then dangles again.
  • The Umbran Elegance for the Chain Chomp? Mario's hat and mustache. Seeing Bayonetta run around with a red hat (With the M replaced with a B) and facial hair is nothing short of hilarious. Wearing it while playing as Jeanne gives you the same effect, except Jeanne gets Luigi's accessories, although what really seals the deal is spamming Jeanne's taunts and having her repeat "You motherfucker!" constantly while wearing Luigi's hat and moustache and wielding a Chain Chomp as a weapon.
  • There's also the fact that, for most weapons, Rodin, from what we can gather, fights a demon and barely escapes with his life, with the demon's soul trapped in a weapon. But for the Chain Chomp, he can't kill the thing or take its soul. Note that a Chain Chomp is the Super Mario Bros. equivalent of an Angry Guard Dog.
  • For a little bonus humor, keep in mind that Chain Chomps have also appeared in The Legend of Zelda games, and one even gets used as an item in Link's Awakening and Hyrule Warriors... which, when combined with Shuraba turning into the Master Sword for her Hero of Hyrule costume, gives Bayonetta a Link cosplay with a fully series-accurate weapon set.
• A Negated Moment of Awesome becomes this when Bayonetta tries to free Loki from an angel's corpse using one of his cards. She's her classic suave, cool self, taunting him about how 'negotiation comes from a position of strength'. Then she flicks the card at him, expecting it to destroy the angel: it doesn't, instead missing entirely, bouncing off a rock and sticking into the ground. Bayonetta looks at it for a few seconds as Loki tries to explain that the cards use his power... getting interrupted when she blasts the angel to smithereens with her guns, looking uncharacteristically grumpy.
• The Switch port gives us this gem whenever a Samus amiibo is scanned in at the Gates of Hell:
  Rodin: 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? Might have to whip somethin' up for her someday.
• When you get a Platinum Award, you'd expect Bayonetta, who the trophy takes the shape of, to say some sort of badass one-liner. Instead, she...asks if you like her new haircut.
• Enzo attempts to ogle Jeanne's (naked) corpse after the prologue while Rodin keeps it safe, but he realizes he's not into it.
  Enzo: You know, she's pretty hot for a dead chick, heh. Wasn't a big fan of her shit when she was in the realm of the living, but looking at her now... Nah. Still not a fan.

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