History VideoGame / Bayonetta

* MacrossMissileMassacre: If you equip Lt. Col. Kilgore on your feet and do the combo YYYYB (Xbox) or ΔΔΔΔΟ (PS3), you will unleash one of these. [[GuideDangIt And]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill for an even bigger one]], [[spoiler: first equip Durga on your hands and feet, do the aforementionned combo, and switch to Lt. Col. Kilgore with RB/R2 the instant you hit B/O.]] God only knows if this is a [[GoodBadBugs bug]] or a secret combo, [[GameBreaker but it can destroy all but the toughest angels instantly]].

** This also plays into the AlternateCharacterInterpretation that Bayonetta is a VillainProtagonist.

* AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield: You face the final boss in a spherical confinement IN SPACE. Not sure how that works... [[RuleofCool but it's awesome.]]

* {{Underboobs}}: Some of her "outfits", er, hair arrangement. Oh, whatever.

* TheWorfBarrage: You know the climax techniques, the super {{Finishing Move}}s that kill bosses in [[NoKillLikeOverkill the most brutal fashion imaginable]]? Yeah, they don't work on Balder.

* {{Scrub}}: One of these may come out in video comments to signal that using the Kilgore glitch is cheating and if that if you do you're not really skilled.

* SquashedFlat: In a rather bizarre moment in level 9 with the Golem, Bayonetta can be flattened like a cartoon character.

* TheGodsMustBeLazy: One of the rare ''inversions'' of this trope. Not only are God and Heaven active and sending down mooks, but the forces of Hell only show up for finishing moves.

* VanityLicensePlate: The plate on Jeanne's motorcycle reads "QTJ" (Cutie J).

* BilingualBonus: Bayonetta's summoning chants and the Angel's talking are said in Enochian, "the language of Angels".

* BloodKnight: Sure she has to kill angels to keep demons from dragging her to hell, but it's pretty clear she enjoys punishing angels a bit too much. Nearly every fight scene begins and ends with a smile on her face(with a few very serious exceptions) and, other than recovering her memories, she states that one of the initial reasons she was going to Vigrid was because the weak angels being sent at her had her bored.

** Subverted when it turns out that [[spoiler: Cereza is actually Bayonetta as a child and Father Balder is your father. Then he absorbs the younger Bayonetta and becomes the penultimate boss.]] ZigZaggingTrope indeed.

* AlmostKiss / NonchalantDodge: Bayonetta to [[spoiler: Luka, though he was probably the one who though it was an AlmostKiss]].

* BraggingThemeTune: Mysterious Destiny is mostly this, although the lyrics are not only about Bayonetta's awesomeness.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: It's implied that [[spoiler: this is the reason Jeanne has it in for you for the majority of the game. If the other tropes on this page haven't clued you in, she gets better.]]

* '''''{{Camp}}.'''''

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: It's implied that [[spoiler: this is the reason Jeanne has it in for you for the majority of the game. If the other tropes on this page haven't clued you in, [[IGotBetter she gets better.]]]]

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Some combination of adrenaline and Viagra.

* HeyItsThatVoice: YuriLowenthal as Luka.
** And GreyDeLisle as Jeanne.
** Bayonetta herself is voiced by Hellena Schmied/Taylor who also voiced [[RODTheTV Yomiko.]]
** [[VideoGame/StarcraftII Gabriel Tosh]] as Rodin, brother.
** Liam O'Brien is the voice that follows you around Vigrid [[spoiler:and Father Balder]].

* FantasticMeasurementSystem: "Megatons", "Gigatons", and "Infinitons" for [[QuicktimeEvent Climax moves]].

* Expy: The final boss is a humongus white statue representing a god, that comes to life by absorbing a couple of powerful people. [[DevilMayCry The Saviour]], anyone?

* StableTimeLoop: [[spoiler: Bayonetta's entire personality is based on subconsciously imitating herself from what she remembers when she was Cereza, before she was sent back to her own time.]]

* NotSoFastBucko: Done twice. The first time, after you defeat [[spoiler: the apparent final boss, Father Balder, he comes back to life and imprisons Bayonetta into the body of Jubileus, setting up a DownerEnding until Jeanne pulls a BigDamnHeroes moment, setting up the fight with the ''real'' final boss, Jubileus itself. After you beat Jubileus, the credits roll, only to realize that you're not done yet, and you have to destroy Jubileus' physical body to prevent it from crashing into the earth!]]
** What's so awesome about the last part is that [[spoiler: Jeanne [[BreakingTheFourthWall LITERALLY STOMPS]] the credits!]]

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* AwesomenessMeter: You're ranked either Stone (Enzo), Bronze (Cereza), Silver (Luca), Gold (Rodin), Platinum (Bayonetta herself), or Pure Platnium (Bayonetta holding a purple crescent over her head) depending on how well you did at the end of each chapter.

** RavensandCrows: Crows are naturally associated with darkness and, thus, witches. There are 50 specific crows in the game carrying Umbran Tears of Blood which you need to get the Clamax Bracelet. Bayonetta herself can transform into a crow, and some of Bayonetta's Climax attacks involve summoning Malphas, a giant Crow demon.

* TennisBoss: The flash-back encounter with Fortitudo in chapter 1 can become this once you get the Moon of Maha-Kaala (which allows you to reflect attacks). If you send his fireballs back at him instead of using your puny bullets, the fight can be ended in a few seconds.

Its unabashedly sexual themes caused some amount of controversy, but the fact that the game was developed by the formerly dissolved Clover Studios (now reassembled as PlatinumGames) and the director of ''{{Okami}}'' (with which ''Bayonetta'' shares a character designer, Mari Shimazaki), ''DevilMayCry'', ''ResidentEvil2'' and ''ViewtifulJoe'' piqued the interest of many gamers who might otherwise have taken a more cynical stance on the matter. The [[XboxThreeSixty Xbox 360]] version received [[http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/105/1056885p1.html rave reviews]], even becoming only the 12th game to ever be [[http://xbox360.gamespy.com/xbox-360/bayonetta/1036688p1.html?RSSwhen2009-10-20_035200&RSSid=1036688 awarded a perfect 40 score]] in ''Famitsu'' and the eleventh to receive 10/10 in ''Edge''. The PS3 version [[http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-bayonetta-demo-showdown-blog-entry has suffered porting issues]] and has [[http://ps3.ign.com/articles/105/1057012p1.html received solid, but not glowing reviews.]] Spoilers will be marked when possible, but there are still some '''unmarked spoilers'''.
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