History Characters / Bayonetta

* [[spoiler: {{God}}: The most powerful angel of all and is reffered to as The Creator by just about all the other bosses.]]

* ChaoticNeutral: Protects a few people she cares about and ''despises'' authority figures, and that's about all the morality she has.

* NeutralEvil [[spoiler: / NeutralGood]]

* TrueNeutral: Explicitly states that he's only in it for business and won't help Bayonetta any more than that.

* LawfulEvil

* {{Badass}}

* GreyDelisle

* GreyDelisle

* NonActionGuy: That's what happens when you don't have guns attached to your feet.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: At least it would be if he wasn't the NonActionGuy. It's still pretty distinctive.

*** Wait, Bayonetta kills an actual person? As in, someone not an angel or [[spoiler:Father Baldur]]? When does this happen?

* AnimeHair, GodivaHair, RapunzelHair, PrehensileHair: Yes, just her friggin' '''''hair''''' is BeyondTheImpossible!

** HartmanHips

* ElementalPowers: [[KillItWithFire Fire for Fortitudo]], [[BlowYouAway Wind for Temperantia]], [[DishingOutDirt Earth for Justitia]], and [[MakingASplash Water for Sapientia]].

* The Chessmaster: 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]].

* [[spoiler: ClimaxBoss: Easily the MostTriumphantExample in the history of HackAndSlash video games, and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Holy Jesus HOW!]]]]

* GogglesDoSomethingUnusual: Her glasses allow her to see the supernatural things around her, like the angels. Luka borrows them from time to time.

* BabyGotBack

* EvilIsSexy: Evil? Arguable. Sexy? Sexy as all [[IncrediblyLamePun hell]].

* FashionVictimVillain: And ''how''.

* MotorMouth: Fortitudo. The cutscene prior to the actual BossBattle against him opens with him talking to himself about cryptic things and Bayonetta needing to draw his attention to her by shooting at him. Then she has to shoot him in the face to interrupt him again twice when he tries to go off on long involved rants about her before the boss battle can actually begin.

* AntiHero: Likely of [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes Type IV, or maybe Type II if you're very forgiving]]. On one side, she's generally nice and even shows a [[MamaBear very soft spot for kids]], on the other, she ''is'' a witch with infernal powers, although considering she saves the world, this might be just a case of DarkIsNotEvil. The real problems, which could label her as DesignatedHero, are her casual sadism and that whenever she goes, collateral damage follows and [[WhatTheHellHero she doesn't seem to care too much about it]].

* [[spoiler: ClimaxBoss: Easily the MostTriumphantExamples in the history of HackAndSlash video games, and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Holy Jesus HOW!]]]]]

!Rodin
A ScaryBlackMan who serves as Bayonetta's shopkeeper with the Gates of Hell bar. [[spoiler:He's also apparently a fallen angel, cast out of Paradiso.]]

* {{Badass}}: He's such a ScaryBlackMan that the rulers of Paradiso are terrified of him. He IS the game's BonusBoss after all.
* TheBlacksmith: Though not in the traditional sense of the word. Whenever you bring him LP's, he teleports into the bowels of Inferno and plays the angelic music recorded on the disc, summoning demons to him like moths to a flame. He then defeats the demons and uses their spiritual essence to forge new weapons for Bayonetta. The Laguna text claims that Rodin's skills as a smith were legendary even amongst the echelons of Heaven, and that he often crafted weapons which struck terror into the hearts of TheLegionsOfHell.
* BonusBoss: [[spoiler:You can buy an item that'll cost enough Halos to turn him back into Father Rodin.]]
* BossSubtitles: "The Infinite One: Father Rodin." Cue the player's OhCrap Reaction.
* FallenAngel
* HolyHalo: 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. God) herself wears.
* LightningBruiser: Especially when you have the Gaze of Despair equipped. Rodin has ridiculous amounts of health, insane damage output, unbelievable attack speed - all the criteria you'd tend to associate with the BonusBoss gets cranked UpToEleven here.
* LikeABadassOutOfHell: Walks in and out of Inferno on a regular basis. Seeing as how his body tends to be soaked in demon blood whenever he returns from one of his trips, it can be surmised that the results of these escapades are rather...messy.
* NintendoHard: He practically takes this trope to incredible levels, especially when you have the Gaze of Despair equipped when fighting him.
* PowerGivesYouWings: Lots and lots of them.
* PowerFloats
* PowerGlows: Like all the other angels, Rodin is pimped out with a shiney, glowy halo in his true form.
* RapidFireFisticuffs: Rodin's most frequently used technique involves pummeling you about half a dozen times in the space of a second. One of his grab techniques involves hitting you so many times in a single instant that the game doesn't even bother rendering them - all you get is a white screen and the sound of a savage beating.
* ScaryBlackMan
* TrueNeutral: Explicitly states that he's only in it for business and won't help Bayonetta any more than that.