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WARNING! There are unmarked Spoilers ahead. Beware.
Characters from Bayonetta include:
Umbra Witches[]
Bayonetta (a.k.a. Cereza)[]
The main character of the game. Bayonetta is a witch who has lost her memories after being awoken 20 years ago from a 500-year slumber. Her goal in the game is to regain her memories of who she was.
- Action Girl: Probably the most memorable female protagonist in an action game in quite some time, barring one or two examples. However...
- Anime Hair, Compressed Hair, Godiva Hair, Rapunzel Hair, Prehensile Hair, Magic Hair: Yes, just her friggin' hair is that crazy.
- Animorphism: She learns to change into animals during the course of the game. She is very, very pleased by the development.
- Anti-Hero: Likely of Type IV. On one side, she's generally nice and even shows a 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 Dark Is Not Evil. The real problems, which could label her as at least a Sociopathic Hero, are her casual sadism and that whenever she goes, collateral damage follows and she doesn't seem to care too much about it. On the other hand, she only kills one actual person in the entirety of the game. So...
- Baby Got Back: Her ass gets a lot of focus during the in-game cutscenes, on the Box Art and even the official Platinum blog!
- Badass
- Beehive Hairdo: In place of a traditional pointy hat.
- Berserk Button: Don't try to harm Cereza or Luka. Just... don't.
- Biker Babe: While she doesn't really ride a bike for much of the game, when she does, it's hot, and awesome.
- Bilingual Bonus: Her summon chants and some of her battle cries are in Enochian.
- Breast Attack: The "Game Over" screen results in this, as well as doubling as a Groin Attack, as multiple hands fly up and grab Bayonetta's boobs and lady bits.
- British Accents: She's voiced with an RP English accent.
- Dark Action Girl: Whether or not she is this is debatable; see Anti-Hero above.
- Dark Is Not Evil: But it sure is snarky.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Yes, she did. From Pluto to the FUCKING SUN.
- Fire, Ice, Lightning: Various weapons allow her access to all three - Durga provide fire and lightning, Odette gives ice.
- Form-Fitting Wardrobe: Her outfits accentuate her curves. Justified in that they're made with her Magic Hair.
- Full-Contact Magic: With giant black fists and feet to back her up.
- Godiva Hair: Her hair acts as Censor Steam when she summons demons with it.
- Groin Attack: The "Game Over" screen results in this, as well as doubling as a Breast Attack, as multiple hands fly up and grab Bayonetta's boobs and lady bits.
- Gun Fu: Taken to to a whole new level. Bayonetta scoffs at mere dual-wielding, instead wielding FOUR guns at once.
- The Gunslinger: No character in videogame history comes close (yes, not even Dante). She can do things with guns that'd give The Punisher pause.
- Hell-Bent for Leather: It's actually her hair that forms that outfit, but it has leather-like properties: black, shiny and form-fitting.
- Hot Chick with a Sword: The moment she equips her katana, she becomes one of these.
- Hot Witch: Yup.
- Impossibly Cool Clothes: They're made out of her HAIR.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She can be nice, well, she is most of the time once you get to know her.
- Jiggle Physics: Surprisingly, her breasts are actually pretty much under control during the game. Her butt, however... Dayumn!
- Kung Shui: Up there with The Hulk in sheer property-damaging capacity.
- MacGuffin Girl
- Male Gaze: Because you can never have enough mentions about how much her ass is shown.
- Mama Bear: Mess with little Cereza, and Bayonetta will take you down.
- Ms. Fanservice: The sheer amount of Fan Service here gives you an idea.
- Audio Erotica: As if her accented, breathy voice wasn't enough, many of her battle cries sound either bondage-queen-like or orgasm-like.
- Erotic Eating: Her favorite snacks (as well as healing items) are lollipops.
- Meganekko: Subverted. Her glasses are certainly a huge part of what makes her attractive, but she is nowhere near sweet or innocent. So rather, it's a clear case of Sexy Spectacles.
- Naughty Nuns: Her first appearance in the game is dressed as a sexy nun. She then gets clothing damaged.
- Orgasmic Combat: She's practically refined it into an actual martial art.
- Person of Mass Destruction: And one who really doesn't give a crap about what she destroys as long as it suits her ends.
- Precision F-Strike: "Don't fuck with a witch."
- Really Seven Hundred Years Old: Almost exactly 600.[1]
- Reverse Grip: Bayonetta can achieve this with several weapons when linked with Odette, most notably the swords.
- The Sacred Darkness: The Left Eye of the World that she bears (or more precisely that she is), overseeing the Darkness, is just as important as the Right Eye that oversees the Light.
- Sexy Backless Outfit: Pretty much everything she wears.
- Sexy Walk: Ah-yup.
- She Fu: Mixed with Gun Fu and taken to ridiculous levels.
- She's Got Legs: Sports a pair that could go on for miles.
- Sociopathic Hero: She takes a lot of delight in killing those angels.
- Spy Catsuit: Her regular outfit resembles one, with a few odd touches here and there.
- Statuesque Stunner: Her actual height's unknown, but the camera loves to look up at her and the civilians we see in Vigrid and Noatun are always at least a head shorter than her.
- Summon Magic: She uses her hair as a medium to summon demonic entities to aid her in taking down enemies.
- Tall, Dark, Bishoujo and Snarky
- The Tease: Frequently does this with Luka to the point where it seems part of why she keeps saving him is just so she can keep messing with him.
- Third-Person Seductress: Face it, she's looking at YOU, tiger!
- Too Many Belts: Her outfit has many buckled belts on the sleeves.
- Trademark Favourite Food: Lollipops.
- Transformation Sequence: Happens when she switches from the aforementioned nun outfit to her other one. She also learns how to shapeshift later.
- Tricked-Out Shoes: Weapons are attachable to the heels.
- Up to Eleven: Can be thought of as Dante Up To Eleven. For example, Dante has a pair of musically themed pistols: Ebony and Ivory. Bayonetta has four: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, collectively known as "Scarborough Fair".
- Woman in Black
- Wrestler in All of Us: She's fully capable of suplexing a dragon!! And half a dozen angels at the same time!
- Yin-Yang Bomb: She is the child of Dark and Light.
- You Killed My Mother: To Father Balder who is responsible for the witch hunts that killed her mother.
- Zettai Ryouki: Certain outfits of hers have the thigh high variants.
Jeanne[]
Bayonetta's rival throughout the game. Product of a lot of Foe Yay with her.
- Animorphism: She can transform into animals like Bayonetta.
- Anti-Villain: She's only attacking Bayonetta because she was brainwashed by Balder. She gets better though.
- Bag of Sharing: In the brief part of the first game where the player assumes control of Jeanne, she has access to anything that was in Bayonetta's inventory, although the weapons have different names.
- Badass Biker: Moreso than Bayonetta herself.
- Biker Babe: Jeanne is often seen riding a motorcycle of her own. She uses it in her third fight with Bayonetta.
- Blondes Are Evil: Well, eviler.
- Brainwashed: Why Jeanne is attacking Bayonetta. It wears off in the end.
- Dark Action Girl: Played with in Bayonetta, where Jeanne's associated with the holy-but-evil angels.
- Disney Death
- Distaff Counterpart: She is kinda similar to Dante: she has white hair and dressed in red, she even rescues Bayonetta and freed her from Jubileus just like on how Dante rescues Nero and freed him from The Savior.
- Ensemble Darkhorse: Among the staff at Platinum Games; the concept artist stated in her blog that, other than she and Kamiya himself, most of the staff prefers Jeanne over Bayonetta.
- Evil Twin: To Bayonetta, from fighting styles, to clothes, to glasses. No family relation though.
- Fluffy Fashion Feathers: Not on her outfit, but rather, she has massive feather tassels hanging off of the ends of her two guns. The concept artist, Mari Shimazaki, put them there to accentuate her movements, much like Bayonetta's long hair. They vanish inexplicably when she changes into her identical-to-Bayonetta's leather costume during their last battle. The fan wiki speculates that the feathers are from Angels that Jeanne has slain.
- Grey DeLisle
- The Gunslinger: Just like Bayonetta, she wields four guns.
- Heel Face Turn: When her brainwashing wears off.
- Perfect Play AI: She follows this trope a shocking extent every time you fight her (and this starts as early as Chapter Two!), and she only gets better. This alone categorizes her as the game's "Wake-Up Call" Boss, as well.
- Really Seven Hundred Years Old: She is around the same age as Bayonetta.
- Spanner in the Works: Jeanne is responsible for derailing Father Balder's plan because he didn't count on her snapping out of her brainwashing and saving Bayonetta.
- Too Cool to Live: Averted. Count how many times she almost died in the game, and she STILL pulls off an epic Big Damn Heroes moment.
- Vanity License Plate: The plate on her motorcycle reads "01 QTJ" (Cutie J).
- White-Haired Pretty Girl
- Woman in White: In flashback sequences and during her last battle with Bayonetta when she dons a white outfit identical to hers.
Cereza[]
An adorable little girl that tags along with Bayonetta and Luka and sees the former as her mother. She's actually Bayonetta as a child.
- Cheerful Child: Barring one or two incidents where she is about to cry, Cereza is really not that fazed by the horrible monsters constantly trying to attack her.
- Future Badass
- Goggles Do Something Unusual: Her glasses allow her to see the supernatural things around her, like the angels. Luka borrows them from time to time. But only if she enchants them. Although she can see them just fine without the glasses, she merely enchants them for Luka's sake.
- MacGuffin Girl: The angels need her as part of their plan. What she is actually needed for is to reawaken Bayonetta's memories.
- Meaningful Name: Her name means "Cherry" or "Cerise" in Spanish.
- Morality Pet: She is the first person we see Bayonetta be nice to. Which means that the first person Bayonetta is nice to... is herself.[2]
- Stephanie Sheh
Rosa[]
Rosa was an Umbra Witch and Bayonetta's mother. She concieved Bayonetta when she fell in love with a Lumen Sage called Father Balder. When Bayonetta was born, Rosa and Balder were punished greatly by their respective clans. This was because a child born of darkness and light would ultimately undo the age-old pact between the overseers. Rosa was imprisoned for the rest of her life
Umbran Elder[]
At the beginning of the game, the Umbran Elder lectures Rosa and Balder about their law-breaking.
- The Faceless: Her face is never seen.
Demons[]
Madama Butterfly[]
A demon taking the form of a woman who left this world under unfortunate circumstances, only to be reincarnated in hell. Unlike her beautiful, swallowtail butterfly-like appearance, this demon is particularly brutal, and her reputation is well known even amongst the denizens of Inferno.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Her red eyes reflect how powerful she is.
Madama Styx[]
Queen of the River Styx, the boundary between humanity and Hades, Madama Styx is said to be a moth living within the human world. These insects, born from the magical power that flows from a woman's body, are charged with luring the souls of sinners into Inferno.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Just as dangerous as Madama Butterfly.
Gomorrah[]
A monstrous creature hailing from the demonic wood, Johnson Forest. Taking the form of a dragon, it is incredibly fierce, identifying all that moves as game and devouring it's prey. Territorial, it is most likely to be found alone.
- Our Dragons Are Different
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: His red eyes warn you of his vicious appetite.
Malphas[]
An enigmatic raven-black bird shrouded in the mysteries of the sky. Ever curious, Malphas has filled itself with all the world's knowledge and mysteries. However, this same curiosity has led to a rather brutal demeanor, causing the bird to tear those it encounters to shreds with its sharp beak and razor-like talons.
Hekatoncheir[]
A giant endowed with six fearsome arms capable of pulverizing mountains, those unfortunate enough to fall underfoot of the demon are subject to days-long violent earthquakes.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: It has a total of six arms.
Scolopendra[]
A vile centipede hailing from Frejentonta, a river of boiling blood in the depths of Inferno, rumors speak of it's body exceeding ten kilometers in length. Moving unlike anything its size, its deftness allows it to wrap around and constrict its prey in the blink of an eye.
- Expy: Of the Gigapede boss of Devil May Cry 3.
Phantasmaraneae[]
Phantasmaraneae nests upon a sea of magma, deep within the furthest reaches of Inferno. Rarely seen upon the face of the Earth, even sightings of the demon in hell are a seldom event, leading to its name, which means phantom spider.
- Expy: Of the boss Phantom from the first Devil May Cry.
Little King Zero[]
King to the Little Devils, he is an unlockable playable character, unlocked when the Lost Chapter is completed.
- Joke Character
- Good Thing I Can Heal: To make up for his limited durability, anything that heals him gives him maximum health.
- Lethal Joke Character: On "Very Easy" setting he is actually rather formidable, seeing as he can regenerate, much like Bayonetta and Jeanne can on that setting.
- One-Hit-Point Wonder: A variation. He has 8,000 HP but takes 7,900 points damage from any attack at all, meaning any attack will kill him if he isn't at full health. To be frank, this guy should only be used by players who really want a challenge.
Little Devils[]
The Infernal Bad Boys, loyal to Little King Zero. Summoned by using the Infernal Communicator Bayonetta is able to temporarily contract the "Little Devils", calling upon their power to attack her foes.
Queen Sheba[]
When the cosmos was split into light, darkness and chaos in between, the incredibly powerful Sheba was born alongside the darkness controlling the world of Inferno. As she lives in the hellish land, and is often classified as a demon; however, the full details of her existence are unknown.
- Evil Twin: She is basically this to Jubileus, although she is much, much, much bigger. Much more powerful too − she effortlessly punches God's soul from Pluto to the sun. And if her file is to be believed, this is only a tiny portion of her real power. Good thing the enemy in the game is not Inferno, really.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: They should give you an idea of just how powerful she is.
Lumen Sages[]
Father Balder[]
The mysterious CEO of the Ithavoll Group, who is eventually revealed as both the Big Bad and as Bayonetta's father.
- Agent Peacock: And he has an albino peacock.
- Animal Motifs: The Peacock.
- Archnemesis Dad: To Bayonetta, although the second game downgrades it a lot.
- Badass: He KILLS all the summons you send after him. Brutally.
- Bayonetta, I Am Your Father: He has some shades of Pervert Dad as well. Bayonetta is understandably weirded out.
- Biblical/Mythical Motifs: Lucifer (specially as the Yezidi edition, Melek Taus; particularly more ironic in the latter since Satan Is Good in that religion), Balder (both in name, powers and role as the Last of His Kind), Enochian Angels (Babogel, Bornogo).
- Big Bad: Of the first game.
- Bilingual Bonus: His battle cries are in Enochian.
- Bond One-Liner: After tossing Luka through a window:
It looks like my plans have gone right out the window. |
- The Chessmaster: Naturally, being a Big Bad who only actually appears in a small segment of the game, Balder has been pulling the strings from behind the scenes since the very first chapter of the game, faking his own death in the process. Altought he only appears in a small segment, his voice is present throught the whole game, you just don't know who it is until you meet him.
- Climax Boss: 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 before he finally suffers a Critical Existence Failure. 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 Up to Eleven.
- Combat Sadomasochist: AND HOW!
- Cool Mask: He wears a golden mask that covers half of his face.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Oh boy.
- Early-Bird Cameo: He is The Lumen Sage from The Intro.
- Elemental Powers: As a Lumen Sage, his powers are derived from the Sun, hence all examples technically count as solar magic:
- Evil Counterpart: He is the right eye of the world while Bayonetta is the left eye of the world.
- Evil Is Hammy: As the Big Bad, he's one of the hammiest characters of all in the first game.
- Fashionable Asymmetry: He wears a black glove on one hand.
- Feather Motif: Besides having a lot of feathers in his design, he also uses feathers as a makeshift hair comb.
- Fluffy Fashion Feathers: His outfit is decorated with peacock feathers.
- Kick the Dog: He's rather fond of this, to say the least.
- Kung Shui: He destroys buildings and satellites throughout his fight with Bayonetta.
- Large Ham: The guy chews the scenery into an extravagant paste.
- Last of His Kind: His doing, alongside the genocide of the Umbra Witches.
- Light'Em Up: Primarily fights using the power of light.
- Light Is Not Good: The fact that he's the last Lumen Sage does not in any way diminish his evilness.
- Man in White: His predominantly white outfit gives him a rather ominous presence.
- Omnicidal Maniac: His plan to reunite the three realms would end up killing everyone.
- One-Winged Angel: When he prepares to fight Bayonetta, he sprouts twelve wings.
- Orgasmic Combat: Even your most powerful attacks does nothing more than make him groan or moan.
- Peacock Man
- Playing with Fire: Uses fire in some of his attacks such as tossing fireballs or summoning pillars of flame from below.
- Power Gives You Wings: Twelve of them, in fact.
- The Power of the Sun: As a Lumen Sage, he derives his power from the sun.
- Purple Prose: Don't expect his speeches to be simple.
- Really Seven Hundred Years Old: Over 600 years old.
- Sissy Villain
- Wave Motion Gun: He tries to hit Bayonetta with a satellite laser cannon from space. When that doesn't work, he drops it on top of her. It doesn't help.
Angels[]
Rodin[]
A Scary Black Man who serves as Bayonetta's shopkeeper with the Gates of Hell bar. He's also apparently a fallen angel, cast out of Paradiso.
- Badass: He's such a Scary Black Man that the rulers of Paradiso are terrified of him. He IS the game's Bonus Boss after all.
- Bald of Awesome: He's as bald as an egg, making it easy to see the slick tattoos he's got on his head, and alludes to his strength and preference for doing things with his bare hands.
- The Blacksmith: 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 The Legions of Hell.
- Bonus Boss: You can buy an item that'll cost enough Halos to turn him back into Father Rodin.
- Boss Subtitles: "The Infinite One: Father Rodin." Cue the player's Oh Crap reaction.
- Cool Shades: His sunglasses hide his eyes completely. In Tag Climax, they can also conduct his Eye Beams without sustaining damage.
- Fallen Angel: He used to be an angel before he was cast out of Paradiso
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: His eyes are sometimes seen emitting a red glow from behind his sunglasses.
- Holy Halo: 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.
- Lightning Bruiser: 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 Bonus Boss gets cranked Up to Eleven here.
- Like a Badass Out of Hell: 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.
- Nintendo Hard: He practically takes this trope to incredible levels, especially when you have the Gaze of Despair equipped when fighting him.
- Pop-Cultured Badass: He makes several references to other video games and makes a home run that would make even the most skilled of baseball players jealous.
- Power Floats: As Father Rodin.
- Power Gives You Wings: Lots and lots of them.
- Power Glows: Like all the other angels, Rodin is pimped out with a shiny, glowy halo in his true form.
- Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: 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.
- Really Seven Hundred Years Old: He used to be an angel, meaning that he's much older than he looks.
- Satan: Oddly, all of the character art for Rodin in the unlockable extras never uses that name, giving his name as "Mephisto", the name of a German folklore demon most prominently mentioned in the Faust legend and occasionally has been used as another name for the Devil himself. Appropriately, Rodin's role is broadly similar to the traditional devil: a fallen angel who is thwarted and punished from trying to conquer Heaven (and is feared by it) who rules his own "sub-basement" location after his punishment, and jokes about the "deals" he provides Bayonetta.
- Scary Black Man: One of the most intimidating characters in the series and one of the most prolific examples in video gaming. That said, he's a pretty cool dude once you get to know him.
The Four Cardinal Virtues[]
Fortitudo, Sapientia, Iustitia, and Temperantia, are the embodiments of The Four Cardinal Virtues and serve as Paradiso's generals and effectual leaders in Jubileus's absence. Their main objective is to bring their beloved creator back at any cost, and aren't above making use of their nature bending powers to do so.
- Affably Evil: Mostly evident with Fortitudo and Temperantia - the Cardinals were very kind and polite as they addressed the heroine, and even as they were dragged down to Inferno, they chose to spend their last breath giving Bayonetta one final blessing. Somewhat averted when you realize that when they say that, they are actually asking Jubileus to go easy on you! What, asking the Big Bad not to be too vicious isn't affable?
- Bilingual Bonus: They speak in Enochian, the language of angels.
- Climax Boss: Not as much as Balder, but the fights against each of them is a chapter in and of itself.
- Co-Dragons: As mentioned above, the four acted as the generals of Jubileus' army in Paradiso.
- Colossus Climb: Although not played totally straight, Bayonetta must get onto Temperantia's body to attack the joints of his arms, and run along Justitia's tentacles to strike their roots.
- Combat Tentacles: Iustitia.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Fortitudo appears on the short introductory fight and in subsequent flashbacks before confronting Bayonetta in the actual game's present.
- Elemental Powers: Fire for Fortitudo, Wind for Temperantia, Earth for Iustitia, and Water for Sapientia. Also Magma for Fortitudo, Light for Temperantia and Iustitia, Poison and Plants for Iustitia, and random Holy Magic for Sapientia.
- Evil Sounds Deep: Played straight with all but Iustitia, who sounds child-like and high pitched in comparison to the others.
- Famous Last Words: "May Jubileus, The Creator, grace you!".
- Light Is Not Good: Being angels, they have holy halos and some light attacks.
- Motor Mouth: Fortitudo. The cutscene prior to the actual Boss Battle 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. While this would apply to all the Virtues as far as Bayonetta is concerned, he's definitely the worst of the lot in this regard.
- Although prior to the battle with Iustitia, it does not utter a single word, and only starts talking after its defeat.
- Seven Heavenly Virtues: Oddly enough only four appear in the game. Maybe they're saving the other three for a sequel? Even weirder when you consider Sapientia is not a cardinal virtue and should be Prudentia instead. They're named after the four Catholic virtues.
- Token Evil Teammate: Iustitia is described as "the virtue closest to Hell", due to the ambivalence of Justice. His profile points out that he looks slightly less angelic and more Eldritch Abomination-like than the other virtues due to this. Although ultimately it is only slightly more evil than the others, as they all want the same thing.
- Video Game Historical Revisionism: Sapientia's profile states that he parted the Red Sea as reward to Moses's faith.
Jubileus[]
A mysterious entity referenced countless times throughout the game, who never appears until the final part of the game.
- Bigger Bad
- Climax Boss: A standout example in the history of Hack and Slash video games, and Holy Jesus HOW!
- Distaff Counterpart: Fanon says she is this to either Mundus or The Savior
- God: The most powerful angel of all and is referred to as The Creator by just about all the other bosses. Her Boss Subtitle is Dea, which is Latin for Goddess.
- God Is Evil: This god is not benevolent at all.
- Light Is Not Good: In this case it's more like Light Has Gone Completely Berserk Without Any Balance.
- Rasputinian Death: She has her powers beaten out of her several times, a Great Demon is summoned to punch her out and her soul fries in the Sun. Do note that since Bayonetta escaped her eyelids, Jubileus was at maybe 50% power at the time.
Others[]
Luka (a.k.a. Cheshire)[]
The Non-Action Guy of the game. A womanizing Intrepid Reporter who accuses Bayonetta of killing his father. Ha ha, his girlfriend is a dog.
- Action Survivor: How many times should he have died again? Perhaps most notable is that he manages to reach the top of Balder's skyscraper, despite Bayonetta needing her ability to walk on walls to get there, and is just fine after Balder throws him out the window.
- Butt Monkey: Comes with the territory of being a Muggle amongst the cast. He doesn't have it nearly as bad as Enzo though.
- The Casanova: He has a habit of flirting with any pretty women he sees.
- Chivalrous Pervert: He may be a shameless pervert, but he's ultimately a good guy who's very devoted to finding the truth.
- Disney Death: Gets thrown out of the top of Balder's building. And he's seen later without a scratch on him.
- Distracted by the Sexy: He will often start conversations swearing he will destroy Bayonetta, then start ogling some particularly attractive body part of hers, lose his train of thought, segue into sexual innuendo, then remember he's supposed to not like her by the end of the conversation.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Cheshire. Quoth Cereza:
"His name is Cheshire. He's cute, isn't he?" |
- Freudian Excuse: There is something odd about seeing a really hot woman kill your father, then spending the rest of your life chasing after her, but also flirting with her a ton and being a general Handsome Lech.
- Grappling Hook Pistol: His only notable skill in the game is making flashy getaways.
- Handsome Lech: He's even known some Capcom characters along the way. Dovetails into Butt Monkey when you realize one is "Ammy".
- Informed Ability: Luka is supposed to be a renowned journalist who is tracking Bayonetta to expose her to the world, but all he seems to do is general Butt Monkey stuff. One the other hand, he does have a considerable amount of knowledge on the supernatural, though it's not made clear how much of that he picked up on and what he got from his father.
- Intrepid Reporter: He's pretty active in his investigations, sometimes to the point where he ends up in places he shouldn't be in.
- Ladykiller in Love: Implied during the ending.
- Lovable Sex Maniac: He's a pervert, but a pretty nice guy otherwise.
- Morality Pet: Not the extent of Cereza, but Bayonetta does not like to see him seriously hurt.
- Motive Rant: Most of his dialogue. Subverted in that he can't seem to decide what his motive is himself, leading to the comical sight of him constantly switching motives, sometimes from one sentence to another.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: That's what happens when you don't have guns attached to your feet.
- Precision F-Strike: "Oh, fuck me!!"
- Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "My. Name. Is. LUKA!"
- Really Gets Around: Or so he claims.
- Scarf of Asskicking: At least it would be if he wasn't Overshadowed by Awesome. It's still pretty distinctive.
- Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: His goal in the first game is to try to expose Bayonetta to the world after believing she killed his father.
- Unfazed Everyman: Definitely by the end.
- You Killed My Father: To Bayonetta. It's actually Father Balder.
Enzo[]
Bayonetta's informant. He is the one that tells her of the other Eye of the World rumored to be in Vigrid, starting her quest.
- Butt Monkey: Even more so than Luka. He is the one found on the worst level rating.
- Cool Car: Enzo has a pretty sweet ride. It gets trashed whenever Bayonetta starts fighting something.
- Cool Shades: They don't make him that cool though.
- Cluster F-Bomb: He drops more than everyone else in the game. Of course considering who he sounds like...
- Mr. Exposition: A very forced one at the beginning of the game. Although justified, since someone (either Luka or the Ithavoll Group) had him bugged for the conversation.
- Nice Hat: Wears a bowler hat.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: He is a short gangster guy who sounds a lot like Joe Pesci.
- Sir Swearsalot: In a cast of characters where nearly everyone drops a couple of F-bombs, he still swears more than everyone combined.
- Vanity License Plate: The plate on his car reads "ED N EDNA": speculated to be the names of his kids.
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- ↑ Date of Birth: December 19, 1411.
- ↑ Love does start with the self after all.