Bayonetta

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Bayonetta
Official artwork of Bayonetta from Bayonetta 2.
Universe	Bayonetta
Debut	Bayonetta (2009)
Smash Bros. appearances	SSB4 Ultimate
Most recent non-Smash appearance	Bayonetta 2 (2014)
Console/platform of origin	PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Place of origin	Vigrid
Created by	Hideki Kamiya (personality, abilities) Mari Shimazaki (physical design)
English voice actor	Hellena Taylor
Japanese voice actor	Atsuko Tanaka
Article on Wikipedia	Bayonetta (character)

For fighter info, see Bayonetta (SSB4). For the universe, see Bayonetta (universe).

Bayonetta (ベヨネッタ, Bayonetta) is the titular main protagonist from the SEGA and PlatinumGames game Bayonetta, its Wii U-exclusive sequel Bayonetta 2, as well as the film adaptation of the first game Bayonetta: Bloody Fate.

Character description

Bayonetta is one of the last members of the Umbra Witches, an entirely female clan of black magic practitioners. Umbra Witches form contracts with Inferno, granting them immense strength, knowledge, and the ability to summon Infernal Demons in exchange for their souls upon dying. Bayonetta is bound to the mighty Madama Butterfly, whose arms, legs, and even head are summoned during battle. She fights angels from Paradiso on a regular basis, working as a Nun as a way to locate them. She spends most of her time in the world between the human world, Inferno, and Paradiso called Purgatorio, where she and anyone else inside said world appear invisible to humans, though the environment is shared between the two. Using various weapons forged by the weapon smith/bartender Rodin, Bayonetta faces various members of the Laguna, her friend and rival Jeanne, and even the very demons she summons.

Personality wise Bayonetta is strong willed, determined, cocky, flirtatious, snarky, and has an endless supply of sarcastic come-backs for anything and everything thrown at her. Despite being a witch, and using the powers of Inferno to kill angels, Bayonetta's moral compass is as straight as an arrow. She has a soft spot when it comes to interacting with children. Upon meeting characters such as Cereza and Loki she initially acts like she doesn't care about them, treating them as an annoyance. However it does not take long for her to grow attached to said children, and begins fondly referring to them as "Little One", and will start going out of her way to make sure either child is safe regardless of the situation. Also being indirectly responsible for the murder of Luka's father when he was a small child, Bayonetta made it a point to always check up on him as he grew up, even going so far as to give him the nickname "Cheshire", after her favorite doll she had as a child.

She is also very loyal to those she cares about. In the second game, Jeanne's soul is stolen away as a result of one of Bayonetta's demons turning on her. Bayonetta was determined enough to save Jeanne that she would physically enter Inferno in order to save her friends soul. Despite the relationship between Rodin and Bayonetta being stated to only be a professional one, Rodin does have a soft spot for Bayonetta, just as she does for him, seeing each other as comrades and friends.

Bayonetta has a strong distaste for enemies who talk for long periods of time. When enemies who, in general campy fashion, go into tangents and begin giving speeches before fights, she is shown to be very irritated. Rubbing her temples, groaning, rolling her eyes, and even pacing around if there is room to do so. If these speeches go on for far too long, she will interrupt them by ether giving off an insulting snarky retort, or out right assaulting them in order to get them to shut up with either gun shots, or flinging parts of the surrounding terrain at them.

In Super Smash Bros. 4

Bayonetta in Super Smash Bros. 4.

Bayonetta appears as a newcomer in Super Smash Bros. 4, as the seventh and final downloadable character, as well as the winner of the Smash Bros. Fighter Ballot, being the highest-voted character in Europe and among the top 5 in North America, making her the overall #1 worldwide among realizable characters. Her appearance is based off of her redesign for Bayonetta 2. She was confirmed during the Super Smash Bros. - Final Video Presentation on December 15th, 2015, and will be released on February 3rd, 2016.

She also has an alternate outfit based off of her appearance in the first Bayonetta, which is known as "A Witch With No Memories".

Gallery

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  Bayonetta's appearance in Bayonetta, which inspired her alternate costume in SSB4.

Trivia

• Bayonetta is the second character featured in the Super Smash Bros. series to appear in M-Rated games, the first being Snake.
• Bayonetta is the second Sega character to be playable in the franchise, after Sonic, making her the second third-party character owned by a company already having one of their characters in the game, following Ryu from Capcom.
• Bayonetta is the only female third-party character in the Super Smash Bros. series.
• Super Smash Bros. 4 marks Bayonetta's third playable guest appearance in a video game, with the others being Anarchy Reigns and The Wonderful 101 (as "Wonder-Bayonetta"), which were both developed by PlatinumGames. It is also her second video game appearance in any form alongside various characters from the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise and Akira Yuki of the Virtua Fighter franchise, the first being their mutual appearances as monster cards as part of the SEGA All-Star Pack in the Japan-only game Samurai & Dragons for the PlayStation Vita.

External links

• Article on the Bayonetta Wiki