Character Select: Bayonetta  Name: Bayonetta  Game: Bayonetta
(2010)  Species: Umbra Witch  In Her Own Words: “Come now,
Cheshire…look at me. Do I look like I have any interest in
children? Now making them…well, that’s another story.”
Bayonetta is outrageous. She is about eight feet tall, her high
heels are a pair of guns, she’s thousands of years old, she
likes to punish her enemies by bending them over her knee and
spanking them and, best of all, her impossibly long hair forms a
catsuit that she can also use to summon a mighty demon at will;
should the situation call for it. And given that she spends much
of her time fighting angels (apparently not the good guys here,
but whatever), the situation calls for it frequently.  When the
game was released in 2010, our heroine miraculously avoided
being swamped by a tidal wave of criticism on account of her
appearance, behaviour and absent clothes, perhaps because the
quality of the gameplay itself was so unprecedentedly high.
Still, she did not escape it entirel