History Characters / Bayonetta

* ClimaxBoss: Not as much as Balder, but the fights against each of them is a chapter in and of itself.

* FightingWithChucks: Sai Fung, which have built-in revolvers and the best stagger capabilities in the first game. Complete chapters 100 times and they're yours.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: In ''2'', Luka aids Bayonetta by leaving [[FlavorText pages of his notebook]] around Noatun in the hopes that she'll find them useful. They don't turn out to be very vital to the plot, but that doesn't change the fact that some of them are left in [[IntrepidReporter places that are damn near impossible for an ordinary human to reach]], and the player usually ends up forced to carve a path through baddies of all kinds to reach those pages. This means that Luka either survived those very same monsters just to help Bayonetta in her quest, [[ButtMonkey or they just didn't think he was worth killing]].

* PrecisionFStrike: "[[OhCrap Oh]], ''[[OhCrap fuck me]]''!!"

* GogglesDoSomethingUnusual: Owns a pair of glasses that allow him to see Purgatorio that he got from Rodin in exchange for Japanese Shinshu Sake.

* ClimaxBoss: She's fought in chapter XIII (out of 16) and her fight [[spoiler:wraps up the "rescuing Jeanne" plot]], although Bayonetta still has some other business afterwards.

* ClimaxBoss: She's fought in chapter XIII (out of 16) and her fight wraps up the "rescuing Jeanne" plot, although Bayonetta still has some other business afterwards.

* ClimaxBoss: In more ways than one. He meets all the criteria of the trope in the sense that he is fought after a hefty heaping of plot-twisting exposition, and the fight itself is overwhelmingly dramatic in every sense of the word -- you're falling off the top of an impossibly high tower, headbutting skyscrapers at him and playing catch with a satellite. You have to hammer him with no less than three Climax attacks (where just ''one'' suffices against building-sized archangels) before he finally suffers a CriticalExistenceFailure. He can also be fought on Non-Stop Infinite Climax difficulty, while wearing the Climax bracelet. Needless to say, like everything else, this game takes the trope UpToEleven.

* ClimaxBoss: [[spoiler:A standout example in the history of HackAndSlash video games.]]

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: You would NOT expect this kind of mouth on a child.

* MagicalGirl: She's either this, or a straight-up {{superhero}} when she dons the "Cutie J" costume, complete with a cute mask and dorky [[BadassCreed creed]]. A loving reference to ''Anime/CutieHoney.''

* HiddenDepths: Concept art and ''[[Anime/BayonettaBloodyFate Bloody Fate]]'' reveal that Jeanne's day job is teaching history at a high school.

* ShowyInvincibleHero: From a story perspective, it takes a Lumen Sage to even inconvenience her. The first game's cutscenes have Bayonetta trashing everything from Affinities straight up to the Cardinal Virtues; even Jeanne's fights only leave her out of breath, and Balder is the first enemy that actually gives her trouble. Less prominent, in the second game; aside from Gomorrah's betrayal catching her off-guard, Infernals don't give her much more trouble than the angels do, but the Masked Lumen and [[spoiler:Loptr]] have much more frequent clashes with her.

* WingDing: Right after she's summoned, she winks with both the sound and a cute little heart accompanying the beating.

* UnexplainedRecovery: Each of them are torn to pieces and dragged to Inferno when defeated, and yet they are back for the sequel under the control of the Masked Lumen. No one seems to think it strange.

-> ''"Take care of my babies, will ya? Some people may have a thing for the forty-fives, but to me, these are the real works of art."''

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: [[spoiler:She fell in love with a monster who eventually killed her and who went on to instigate the witch hunt that led to the near-complete eradication of the Umbra Witches.]] However, the second game reveals that [[spoiler:she and Balder genuinely loved one another and the latter was once an actually heroic individual. It was through sealing Loptr away inside of him that he became the villain you see in the first game. Furthermore, Loptr killed her, and Balder was horrified by this]].

* BadPowersGoodPeople: Her powers come from demonic pledges and she ''is'' going to end up in Inferno when she dies... but she's trained to use her dark powers [[TheSacredDarkness for the sake of protecting and guiding humanity]], and she's really not a bad person when you get to know her.

-> ''"What's wrong can be made right through human hands!"''

** A far sadder example is at the end of ''2'', when she watches [[spoiler: Balder trap Loptr within himself, effectively damning himself to become the monster he was in the first one. At this point, Bayonetta realizes [[GoodAllAlong who her father truly was]], and as Balder is dragged through a rip in time, she screams "DADDY!" in a heartbreaking tone.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: By default, Bayonetta is a massive DeadpanSnarker who can throw out ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}-esque snazzy one-liners. But when she ''stops snarking'', you have sorely and genuinely pissed her off and the final moments of your life will be in complete agony. Only three characters in the series have triggered this reaction. [[note]]Father Balder, Loptr, and Alraune[[/note]] To say it didn't end well for them would be the ''nicest'' way to describe it.