Bayonetta (real name Cereza) is the main protagonist of the Bayonetta series. She is a coquettish and mysterious Umbra Witch. Considered the black sheep of the Umbra Witches due to her Umbran and Lumen descent, she possesses a remarkable talent for Bullet Arts and possessed the Left Eye of Darkness.
In the first game, she was sealed away during the Witch Hunts until she was found and awakened 500 years later. Spending 20 years with amnesia, she battles against the angelic hordes of Paradiso and fights to end the malicious plans of the last Lumen Sage, Balder.
In the second game, Bayonetta journeys to Inferno to save Jeanne's soul while also uncovering a deeper plot of a former god conspiring to reclaim his lost power and discovering the truth behind the Witch Hunts.
In the third game, Bayonetta encounters new enemies called Homunculi led by Singularity, who intends to destroy the Multiverse. She meets Viola, a witch-in-training from an alternate universe who joins her to defeat Singularity.
Bayonetta is portrayed as a beautiful woman with a slender yet curvy bewitching figure. She has black hair, gray eyes and a beauty mark on her chin. Her hair is wrapped into a beehive hairdo adorned with gold chains and two red ribbons. Her signature glasses have the design of butterfly wings close to the lenses. Her main attire is composed of a black skin-tight bodysuit with gold chains and rose-like patterns and an opening at the back. She has white gloves with red palms, black and gray heels, three buckled straps on each arm with 'sleeves' of hair draping down, and a pair of gold, cat-shaped earrings. She wears her Umbran Watch on her chest which contains a red jewel thought to be the Left Eye of Darkness. Because of her Wicked Weave techniques, Bayonetta's outfit becomes more revealing as she uses them. Her suit's inner section becomes a leotard and her hair drapes over her chest to cover it. When summoning full demons, the entire suit disappears, leaving behind only her gloves, shoes and watch.
Bayonetta's appearance in Bloody Fate is very similar to her appearance in the first game with a few slight differences. Her earrings have changed to golden crescent moon shapes and the medallions hanging from her 'sleeves' of hair have been removed. The black pattern around her wrists has also changed to a simple ring of black and the extra loop of leather above her shoes has been removed as well. Apart from these changes, she still retains her former outfit's major features.
In Bayonetta 2, Bayonetta's hair has been cut short and her glasses have a ribbon design near the lenses. She retains her skin-tight bodysuit, though the design has been radically altered. The suit is more gray in color with jagged patterns resembling thorns and a frilly collar. She has sharp shoulder pads and a cloak of hair over her chest, as well as triangular earrings. The palms of her gloves are blue with frills at the wrists. The back of her suit features a diamond shaped opening, and several diamond cutouts on her legs.
In Bayonetta 3, Bayonetta's appearance perfectly encapsulates her larger-than-life personality and design, as it is the most regal and decorated outfit she's worn to date. Her facial features are softer, while her hair is styled in thick braids, similarly to Cereza's, with her red ribbon wrapped in between. Her new glasses have a more wavy, textured design that seemed to resemble her Wicked Weaves with smaller decorative elements that look like the Lumen Sages' watches and larger, more rounded lenses. She also wears new earrings with floral designs. She wears a black bodysuit with puffy sleeves and a braided skirt decorated with medallions and a large braided bow on the back, both fashioned out of her hair. The sides of her legs feature slits with floral designs. She wears light purple gloves with purple palms decorated with golden roots, flowers, a crescent moon on the back of the palm and golden decorative fingernails.
