Bayonetta/Characters

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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.

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.


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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It looks like my plans have gone right out the window.

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.


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?"

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.

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  1. ↑ Date of Birth: December 19, 1411.
  2. ↑ Love does start with the self after all.
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