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Odette, the demon trapped inside the ice skates, is the only mention in bayonetta of a "Demon witch". She traded her soul for eternal youth (being turned into a swan), and made a pact with demon queen odile. Both are references to the two leads of the ballet "Swan Lake"
According to Kamiya, something considered for rodin's past was a mysterious lover whom he once swore to love forever.
Each Homunculi is named after a different cloud formation or cloud related phenomenon.
for example: Asperatus is a type of cloud with a wave like formation and smooth features
Queen Sheba, Ruler of Inferno is noted to be an extremely powerful being to the point that any sole witch would die summoning her
Meaning Bayonetta was ready to sacrifice herself to stop Jubileus, luckily Jeanne assisted without Cereza realizing
Queen Mab, the queen of faeries that instructed the blacksmith to create Mab Dachi in a dream, and whose power viola is heir to, is a reference to a character originatting from romeo and juliet. Described as "the faerie's midwife", she helps people "give birth to their dreams".
According Mari Shimazaki in the Bayonetta 1 Artbook, jeanne's prologue hat was inspired by the fancy headwear worn by Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle in the movie "My fair lady".
Malphas' move "Tales of solomon" references the biblical King solomon, who commanded a legion of demons. These were written down as 72 demons under the "Ars goetia"/"Lemegeton's guidebook", inspiring Baal, Malphas & Labolas. Solomon also traveled with the queen sheba to jerusalem
For bayonetta bloody fate, the lead character designer came up with a concept for bayonetta's brother, showing him with bleeding nipples because pain brought him the joy of being alive in the material world.
In the concepts of bayonetta 1, demons had designs more similar to angels, depicting them with birdlike features for a scrapped demon vs angel battle. This scrapped design and battle is referenced in the opening of Bloody Fate, depicting an image of what it could've looked like.
Bayonetta β4 is most likely based on “Arsène Lupin” a fictional French character described as a Gentleman Thief and Master of Disguise
In his novels, Lupin is shown to be a character who’s morality is blurred with heroic and selfish motives
Many may not know but the Bayonetta universe isn’t the first reality to exist, formerly there was a universe that would be destroyed by an unbalance of light and dark, titled “First Armageddon”
The First Armageddon is what would create the Trinity of Realities and its rulers
The lumen sages have direct parallels to the Catholic church. ✝️
- Faith based around angels and one true god
- Misogyny, mostly male
- Controlling jeanne (visions of God)
- Right vs Left symbolism
- Religious city with italian architecture
According to the Eyes of Bayonetta artbook, Balder’s purposely copied the outfit of Father Rodin because before he fell from grace, Rodin was a renowned figure of Heaven
About the different "names" of the gates of hell, not everyone calls it that!
- According to bayonetta 1, those who attend the bar affectionately call it "The dump" in reference to the bad company that frequents it
- According to wonderful 101, it's also called "The dive"
It was common during umbran training that young witches would die, especially during the training for "Witch Walk" as it had a high mortality rate.
Rodin is named after Auguste Rodin, a French sculptor considered the father of modern sculpting. He created the statue named “Gates of Hell” in honor of The Divine Comedy
Loki’s animal form being a squirrel is a reference to Ratatoskr in Norse Mythology,
a squirrel that travels up and down the World Tree Yggdrasil to carry messages between the eagles perched on top of the tree and the serpent Nidhogg at the roots
Malphas’ name derives from Grand-President Malphas of the Ars Goetia who commands 40 armies and builds formidable citadels and towers
The infernal’s bird like appearance references Malphas’ tendency to take on the form of a small crow to spy on others
According to the Bayonetta 2 artbook, jeanne's white hair is genetically inherited from the people of noatun, the far ancestors of all sages and witches.
Pulley’s Butterfly is said to be crafted by the witch Turandot for divine protection
This is a reference to the opera “Turandot” where the titular cold hearted princess tells a suitor to solve three riddles, a wrong answer will result in his death
In bayonetta 3, cheshire is 500 years old, referencing his origin in origins even in another universe. However the reasons for his friendship with viola are left unexplained.
Lukaon’s name is a combination of “Luka” and Lycaon, a Greek figure who was transformed into a wolf by Zeus, which is where the word “lycanthropy” comes from
His name could also be referencing Oberon, a king of faeries from European tales
Congestus can manipulate time due to being imbued with singularity's own power. Singularity uses congestus when destroying strategically important points in his invasion to lock the events in time, preventing his opponents from interfering.
The association between the Kraken and Cassiopeia is not a reference to any of their respective myths, but rather to the 1981 "Clash of the titans" movie, where Thetis asks for the sacrifice of Cassiopeia's daughter Andromeda to the Kraken in exchange to not unleash it.
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