Awesome / Bayonetta 2

As a Moments page, all spoilers will be unmarked!

The first game's Awesome Moments page was tipped with the Final Boss. This is the first boss. From the prologue.

Given that this game is made by the same people who brought us the first Bayonetta, Vanquish and The Wonderful 101, a page for documenting each Moment of Awesome is practically a prerequisite.

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• The opening where Bayonetta casually punts a military jet into the sky.
• The whole battle against Gomorrah, pictured to the right. For starters, you're battling as Gomorrah climbs up a skyscraper attempting to bite you and breathe fire at you, while you follow him up and knock the crap out of him, complete with Madama Butterfly giving him a giant headbutt. As you reach the top, the music swells as Gomorrah crawls around the top of the building, in a manner eerily reminiscent of King Kong (1933). Then the fight reaches the Climax, where Bayonetta summons a new Demon, Labolas, who bites into Gomorrah and puts him down by dragging him down the skyscraper he was just climbing. Oh, also, this is just the prologue. Things are only gonna escalate from here on out.
• The February 2014 trailer for the game shows off a battle between Bayonetta and a masked character identified as one of the last Lumen Sages in the world. Naturally, he and Bayonetta fight, and the trailer reveals that he's almost exactly the same as Bayonetta, in the sense that he has his own variants of Wicked Weaves and summoning. Yep, he can summon the Auditio you fought in the previous game. Oh dear. In response, Bayonetta summons her own monsters to fight back against the massive Auditio, with them fighting each other while the Sage and Bayonetta keep fighting in the foreground. In presumably another battle against him, they are both flying while fighting one another. The background... words can't really do it justice.
  • In game, the first time the Masked Lumen reveals his powers, i.e. getting shot at point blank range... at which point he activates Light Speed^note the Lumen Sage equivalent of Witch Time, and casually brushes the bullets aside like he's more annoyed than anything.
  • Round 1 with the Masked Lumen gives us the battles between demons and Audito, with their fights reflecting how well your battle with him goes. In particular, the second half features Madama Butterfly brawling with Tempermantia, and you get to control Madama Butterfly directly.
  • Round 2 in Chapter 7 is equally impressive. This time, you're doing battle with the Masked Lumen inside the Insidious that just swallowed you while huge tides of blood are surging all around you!
  • Round 3 delivers an awesome moment of the goosebump-y "connecting the dots" kind. As with Cereza in the first game, we get lots of hints regarding the Masked Lumen's identity, but The Reveal still carries plenty of fear and awe when we finally get it spelled out.
    Masked Lumen: Very well then, Bayonetta. You shall be the first Umbra Witch to die at my hands!
    (The shot turns into a Pastel-Chalked Freeze Frame as the Masked Lumen is recorded at last in the Hierarchy of Laguna and "You May Call Me Father" plays once more.)

    Lumen Sage

    BALDER
    Balder: I swear it on my honor as a Lumen Sage!
  • The fact that for the last fight against Balder, Bayonetta 2 reuses "You May Call Me Father" from the first game. Badass.
  • Tag Climax gives the Masked Lumen a starring role in the biggest Mirror Match in Platinum's history. Betting enough halos for three-star difficulty before his final fight will give you and your opponent the pleasure of fighting all three of him — yes, the Masked Lumens from the first two battles, plus Balder from the third — and if both players select Balder, this totals out to five of him in one fight◊, which no other Verse Card can accomplish.^note The original Bayonetta comes close, since one fight in Angel Slayer can potentially have four Jeannes onscreen at the same time. Between the combatants, five can cast screen-filling Lumen Sage spells, four can stop time^note although the computer-controlled Sages do it by firing an energy beam, and between one and three can be powered up into a wavy, feathery Lumen version of Umbran Climax. Also, the arena is spinning. Constantly. It's one crazy fight, as seen here, but the nature of who this combatant is makes it as entertaining as it is difficult.
• Little boy: 1. Centaur angels: 0.
• At the end of Chapter 1, Madama Butterfly defeats an angel whose head is on his sword (a Valiance) by grabbing the sword and repeatedly stabbing him with it.
  • Bayonetta starts the fight by interrupting the Valiance's speech with the gun equivalent of an Offhand Backhand.
• Bayonetta versus the three Glamors at the Gates of Paradiso. The Glamors themselves are impressive, then you start fighting the first one. While riding a piece of building, on the side of a maelstrom. Then you punch the seraph inside the maelstrom with Madama Butterfly and keep fighting him until you emerge from the whirlpool ... and you're before the Gates of Paradiso. Cue two more Glamors joining and you pushing both back before going for the one who stole your little one. You beat it, the other two come back to the rescue, only for you to summon Diomedes, who proceeds to slice and dice the suckers. Awesome.
• During Chapters VIII and IX, we see a familiar faceless - a Golem plagues Bayo and Loki while they're trying to open the gates of hell. The first round in Chapter VIII has the construct take off before you can call in a Climax summon, and Bayonetta proceeds to drop-kick the seal on the Gates once, twice... then in Chapter IX, she and Loki are preparing for a third time when the Golem comes back. Batter its health bar down... "Affa iada! Effna!" Hekatoncheir proceeds to pound it into oblivion and THEN go for the volleyball play... and he makes the spike this time, shattering the last bit of the seal and giving Bayo her entrance to Inferno.
• If the player pays attention to the background during the battle with the Prophet, they'll notice Loki is absolutely holding his own against the Lumen Sage, holding him off with impressive acrobatics and card tosses.
• Before reaching Alraune deep in Inferno, Bayonetta is met with Rodin, and the two proceed to venture towards her palace whilst riding on an Insidious. The kicker? Rodin is perfectly capable of one-shotting every single demon on their path, something no other NPC in the game is capable of.
  • Another bit of awesome from this fight is Rodin's Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: "Right. I'll go easy on you guys, so let's have some fun!" Whether or not you think he was being sarcastic, it paints Rodin as a being of such power that he views nothing as a threat.
    YouTube comment: Damn, Rodin. If that was "going easy," I hate to see what you do going 100% in a fight.
• The Alraune fight itself. After seeing everything she's been doing to Jeanne, including stealing her soul power to activate her One-Winged Angel form it is very satisfying to not only tear the everloving shit out of her but also tear Jeanne right out of her when she goes into her second phase.
  • After defeating Alraune, Rodin goes for another crowning moment when he stops Bayonetta from killing Alraune... by blocking Madama Butterfly's giant fist with one hand.
    Rodin: Damn, woman, I thought I told you to chill.
• Just after defeating Alraune, Bayonetta sees The Masked Lumen trying to kill Loki. What does she do? Summon Diomedes and cross Inferno to his rescue while Friendship is playing.
  • An Anti-Villain example with the final battle against The Masked Lumen, aka. Balder, as he, for what it's worth, wins the fight. Running on pure anger at the loss of his wife, he forces Bayonetta to her knees with his sword of light. It's only Loki's timely intervention that saves her. He may have been in the wrong, but being able to defeat Bayonetta is an incredible feat in and of itself. And considering who the Masked Lumen is, this makes it TWICE he's managed to overcome her.
  The Masked Lumen: He will not be forgiven! He will NEVER be forgiven! On my soul as a Lumen, he will draw his last breath before me!
• Rosa's entrance, which stuns Bayonetta in silent awe. Rosa is still in her shackles for her relationship with Balder, and is using a set of guns that are apparently devoid of the kind of high-end demonic power that the rest of the witches are using. Rosa uses the chains to strangle a pair of Affinities, then lines up a row of bullets on each angel's weapon so they impale their owners. Badassery is inherited.
• The Witch Hunt chapters. You are tag-teaming with Rosa and tearing through entire platoons of angels of all sizes (who are, incidentally, the exact same ones you fought in the first game), even kicking the ass of the four Cardinal Virtues in short order, before proceeding to down what amounts to an angel battleship! Anyone who played Asura's Wrath will see some familiarities. Also doubles as Heartwarming when you realize Bayonetta was teaming with her mother and enjoying it.
  • The last fight in Chapter XIII is a fight against a Beloved in a coliseum sumberged in lava. If you didn't think that was badass enough, the Climax finisher has Bayo summon Labolas and Rosa summon Gamorrah, the perfect reflection of old and new. The Beloved has a glorious look of "Oh, fuck me" on (what's left of) its face before Labolas grabs it, swings it towards Gomorrah, and they rip the angel in half before roaring in unison.
  • Chapter XIV starts with Rosa introducing Bayonetta to Umbran Armour. The look on Bayonetta's face says more than words could ever hope to. This chapter sees miniboss-scale angels like Beloved, Kinships, and Urbane go without health bars, and fodder like Affinities are barely even acknowledged. For context, Umbran Armour can be unlocked as a substitute for Umbran Climax, and Chapter XIV gives you permanent control over one for the duration of the chapter.
  • Chapter XV opens with a long fight against a horde of angels right outside a giant clock tower that is soon after blown to bits. This leads to a recreation of the first game's opening sequence, and it's just as glorious here. The game even throws in a boss fight against Loptr on top of that to drive the epicness home.
• Bayonetta pays Luka the ultimate compliment during the climax: "Just some fool always swinging in out of nowhere, albeit with absolutely impeccable timing. I suppose not even a god can see him coming?"
• Balder's Shut Up, Hannibal! to the Big Bad:
  Balder: Humans need not be told what their will shall be! We can create our world with our own eyes! [...] We may not see our next step. We may stumble, we may fall off the path. But we always move forward. That is the power of man! Bayonetta! Shall we illustrate?
  Bayonetta: Let's rock!
• Not as cool as punching Jubileus's soul into the sun but Bayo and Balder summoning a being that looks like Jubileus and Queen Sheba combined and dropkicking Loptr/Aesir was still very nice. And, instead of the sun, we have Jeanne summoning Gomorrah — the same demon that dragged her down to Hell, and that Jeanne has now bound to her — from atop her jet and Loptr/Aesir flailing helplessly as you steer him straight into the demon's mouth ... who proceeds to eat him. Devourer of the Divine indeed.
  • On another note, the fact that the two people who defeated Loptr were Bayonetta and Balder, after he had murdered Rosa and taken advantage of Balder’s grief over the death of his wife for his wicked plans to become Aesir again. It may have taken 500 years, but in the end, it was Rosa’s husband and daughter who avenged her and took down her killer.
• Bayonetta wielding the Chain Chomp (as if that image alone wasn't hilariously awesome enough) becomes one through Fridge Brilliance when you read the description for it. It states that Rodin gave the Chain Chomp to Bayonetta after he was unable to tame it (mind you, this is the same guy who provides Bayonetta her weapons by pounding demons into submission). When using it, the Chain Chomp never once lashes out at Bayonetta, implying that she's already got it tamed.
  • Like with the other weapons, when Rodin comes back with the Chain Chomp, he's all bloodied and shaken. Usually, whenever Rodin came back like this, he had a weapon powered by a demon's soul to show for it. With the Chomp? Rodin's all messed up, AND the Chomp's still alive and kicking. No wonder he decided to give it to Bayonetta: It's just as badass as he is!
  • The fact that the Chain Chomp is actually a powerful and useful weapon is an Awesome moment in itself.
• The Stinger. Balder, now corrupted by Loptr and back in his own time, floats in the ruins of the battlefield. He puts his mask on... and smiles.