Top 10 Reasons to Hate Bayonetta

I am going to talk Bayonetta from Super Smash Bros, sometimes I'll talk about her game
The Top Ten
1 She's overpowered

Before one of her daddies, husbands, sons, brothers, or lovers tries to "correct" this by whining that she was nerfed, yes there was that patch whose sole purpose was that, but it really didn't do that much good except to said fanboys and scrubs who use her and no one else.

Unfortunately, it seems the most recent Smash Ultimate update (the one that added the stage builder and Joker) undid any nerfing she may have had. I don't use her, but in CPU battles against her I've had to deal with her ridiculous counter move more than ever!

This was supposedly addressed with the most recent software update, but now we run into the "can't just not buy her" problem because now everyone's whining about how she was nerfed.

2 They are other characters that fit better with Smash Bros

Like most of the characters relegated to mere Assist Trophies and most if not all the characters who only "appear" as Mii costumes (who uses Miis at all let alone whatever costumes for them in this game anyway)? Ashley, Waluigi, Takumaru, The Prince of Sable, Shadow the Hedgehog, Saki Amamiya, Lyn (yes, I KNOW she'd be Yet Another "Fire Emblem" Character), and Magnus, anyone (all Assist Trophies)? How about KK Slider, Lloyd Irving, Tails, Knuckles, Geno, King K. Rool, and the Inklings (Mii suits)?

Someone from the Soul Caliber would have made a lot more sense, even. If for no other reason than bringing full circle the fact that Link was in one of their games.

Sans and anyone else from that overrated Earthbound ripoff don't. I'm even angrier at that Sans Mii costume than I am at this psycho slt being (supposedly) voted in!

3 People are now happy to be able to use her to beat up undeserving characters

Previous commenter forgot Robin. Everyone ignores if not hates him/her, and now here's the great, wonderful, awesome, perfect Bayonetta to give that guy/chick a "well deserved" beating. Though at least I can say that the one time I've ever faced a Bayonetta online, the joke was on them because they had to hear the announcer say "The winner is... Robin" (played by me) and they ended up in FOURTH place.

It's mostly the Peach, Zelda, and Rosalina haters who would think this, though Link, Mario, Dedede, Meta Knight, Paluntena, Wario, Yoshi, Marth, and Pit are also subject to being called "lame-os" or whatnot and yay now being able to have "sexiest/most badass character ever" beat up on them. Meanwhile, I can't even hate the Duck Hunt dog anymore, in Smash he's just too cute!

Worse, I'm sure more than a few people decided to buy "Smash" because they heard she was in it (or saw/bought at least one of her Amiibos depending on when you're reading this), then bought her upon realizing she was DLC for the sole purpose of beating up all the other characters in the game because they're all "lame" (yes, even Samus and Link) and she's so badass.

Bad enough everyone showed this attitude with Snake in Brawl.

4 You can't "just not buy her"

Whether you download her or not, that stupid notification of her availability "in all her glory" still shows up on the main menu screen, and since she was the last DLC addition we're all going to be seeing that notification forever. Also people raving about her inclusion-- and judging you if you don't have her yourself.

Sure you can not buy her, but that doesn't stop her from appearing! It's like you're being forced to buy her just to stop all the nagging and bothering! It's like what Konami did with the Link Summoning, but as a violation of the ESRB ratings instead of a violation of the fundamental rules of trading card games!

How about the fact that those who did indeed "just not buy her" still had to install an update that was ALL about her?

5 We now have to endure her being shipped with other characters who made it into "Smash"

Earlier "Smash" games already spawned crossover pairings, most of which were quite random, many downright weird, and very few (like can be counted on one hand) that made a lick a sense AND weren't because of how they looked together. Now that Bayonetta's in there, SHE'S going to be paired with anyone and everyone else in the game. And knowing her, "paired" if we're lucky if you know what I mean!

I hate seeing her paired with anyone who was in Smash 4, but not gonna lie: I'm actually hoping with Snake's return in Ultimate, people will start shipping him with her. The stupid overrated who never should've been part of the Smash series deserve each other!

She's being shipped with Pit and Palutena even though she'd sooner kill them.

6 Her "ask your mum" taunt

Several of the characters have "mums" that have died or disappeared (this explicitly being mentioned or shown in their games of origin) and in some of those cases their mothers' fates are what drives the plot of their original games/the character's actions in said games. Ness's mother may be alive and well but in "Earthbound" he could get "homesick" and not be able to do much if he hadn't seen or called her in a while. And while one of Lucina's potential mothers (only her father's identity is set in stone in "Fire Emblem Awakening", the mother could very well end up being fem Robin if the player so dictates) is actually in "Smash" herself with Lucina, but there's that whole thing about Lucina having traveled back in time to prevent a bad future where among other things whoever her mother was things did not end well for said mother. Of the remaining characters, best case scenario we don't know the status or fate of their mothers (or fathers) or even what kind of relationship they may have had with said mothers. Insensitive and condescending, that remark.

7 She gets a pass for things other characters are condemned for

Rosalina doesn't belong in the game because she's (somehow) "too sexy", you say? Peach's taunts are annoying and immature? Cloud too cheap? Cloud and all the "Fire Emblem" characters too violent for what should be a fun little game? Snake was too "adult" and violent a character for "Smash", that's why he didn't return after Brawl? Outside of "Smash": Mai Shiranui, Tharja, Morrigan Aesland, Cammy, Ivy Valentine, Lara Croft, and Chun-Li wear too little clothing or have too big whatever attributes (usually breasts but thighs and gluteus maximus apply as well) thus are offensive and degrading to women? Heck, you even go as far as to say games like "Dead or Alive" (especially its beach volleyball and "paradise resort" spin-offs), "Final Fantasy X-2", "Lollipop Chainsaw", "Final Fantasy XIII-2", and "Bikini Samurai Squad"- the games themselves, not just any specific character(s)- are grossly sexist and degrading?

If you do indeed say any or all of the above, yet also say Bayonetta is the best thing to ever happen to "Smash" or anything else to that effect, you are one of the biggest hypocrites in the universe.

8 Her clothes and her hair are one and the same

And of course that's even if you can even call them "clothes". Either way, creepy and actually kind of disgusting.

9 She doesn't deserve to win the Super Smash Bros. Ballot

Her winning the ballot and Nintendo going through with putting her in rather than consider the highest ranked character from a game rated no more than T just shows me that if enough people had voted General Custer with a... thing certain over-advertised perscription medicines supposedly help a guy with wearing nothing but a cowboy hat and bandana (and yes this was indeed from a video game) he would have made it in. Or if enough people had voted for the heroine of "Jungle Fever", a naked chick who lactates out a fire to save a naked guy being burned at the stake, she would have made it in without a second thought. That scares me beyond words.

I'm not a huge StarFox fan or anything, but I could've sworn lots of people were hoping for Krystal. Did they just assume she'd win and not vote? How was she not "realizable" if that was the problem? I am not and will never be convinced more people wanted Bayonetta, especially since Nintendo didn't say she actually won.

10 She ruined Super Smash Bros.

If I wanted a game with a barely-dressed woman wielding actual deadly weapons, I'd play a Mortal Kombat game of my choice instead of Super Smash Bros. And I tried to get into the Bayonetta series itself but I couldn't, all I saw was a pathetic rip-off of Devil May Cry that people only seem to love because yay female protag who gets away with stuff a male character wouldn't have and other female characters somehow didn't before. A series whose existence I now can't just ignore because the fans swarmed the Smash Ballot and Nintendo gave in to them.

Not everybody hates her only for that. Why are you so doggone defensive? Her raunchy self brought nothing all that wonderful and new to the table as it was, there was nothing indicating or implying she or her games were so popular people wanted her in above literally any other game character ever even ones owned by Nintendo themselves, and did I mean her raunchiness thus ruining what's supposed to be an E10+ rated game (toning down didn't help, what if someone- possibly a kid- now wanted to go check out that "Devil May Cry Penthouse Edition" that is her original game where she's not toned down). Not to mention people who didn't buy her still had to waste time and disk space on an update solely for her- that's sounds like ruining to me.

The Contenders
11 The way her fans keep insisting she really was the only legit choice as if they knew the full results of the Smash Ballot

All the announced newcomers for Ultimate to me further prove that the ballot was a crock of fecal matter from a male bovine. Simon and Ricther Belmont, King K Rool, Inkling, Ridley, Chrom- pretty sure I saw way more love for them than Sarah Palin as a bad Aeon Flux cosplayer while the balot was going on, and they most certainly are "realizable".

12 The Smash Ballot was rigged in her favor

With the possible exceptions of Incineroar, Ken, Richter, and Isabelle, I'm 99% sure all the newcomers in Ultimate beat out Bayonetta in the ballot. But Nintendo had just bought the Bayonetta franchise, wanted to promote it, and needed an excuse to put her/everything else representing her series into an E10 rated game, so...

Consider this: In Ultimate Chrom became playable yet Robin's Final Smash is unchanged. So it's possible Chrom got more votes but was deemed "unrealizeable" at the time because he was already Robin's Final Smash. Which we can now plainly see is bs.

Yeah, funny how Nintendo's announcement of having acquired the Bayonetta franchise and the second game being Wii U exclusive just happened to "coincide" with the announcement of the Smash Ballot. *eyeroll*

13 Nintendo cut a trophy for being too sexy for Smash 4's E10+ rating yet included Bayonetta as a playable character without a second thought

This is true. The 3DS Smash was supposed to have a trophy of Tharja from Fire Emblem Awakening (and indeed had trophies of many of the rest of the characters from that game), but it did not appear in the final product because while Awakening itself was rated T Nintendo still wanted Smash to be rated E10+. Then the Smash Ballot happened and they put in this playable character who's actually even more inappropriate than Tharja ever was even in her own game.

They also disallowed an ACTUAL iconic character (Mai from "Fatal Fury") from appearing at all for the same reason they cut the Tharja trophy from Sm4sh. Yet Bayonetta remains in Smash Ultimate (and no longer optional) because "everyone is here" unfortunately includes her AND Tharja is a spirit (what replaces trophies in Ultimate). Effing hypocrities!

And Smash Ultimate is still rated E10 despite her now not even being optional DLC. *rolls eyes*

I'm no fan of Tharja (yes I have played the game she's from), but it's the principle of the thing.

14 She is not for kids

Those who want to argue that she was toned down for Smash: she's still effectively PROMOTING her own games, which AREN'T toned down at all. Meanwhile, the only thing preventing people from checking out the games Mai Shiranui appears in (which are all actually rated a mere T) is that everyone recomends or gravitates towards Garou Mark of the Wolves as the Fatal Fury game to buy.

Yet she's allowed- and as a playable character- in a game allegedly for "goid boys and girls". Meanwhile, a character whose game isn't one "let's push the boundaries of what can still not merit an Adult's Only rating" after another can't even appear in the background of a stage.

Said it on another list, and I'll say it again: So (hypothetically) you were worried about Bayonetta being in "Smash 4". Then you realized she was only DLC and your kids don't play online anyway, so no problem. Now those same kids are begging for Smash Ultimate, but because they had to bring back LITERALLY EVERY PAST CHARACTER, that nasty (w)itch is in, not DLC, and apparently won't even need to be unlocked. Now what?

15 She's a genderbent version of Dante from Devil May Cry

Reviving comment buried by Bayonetta worshiper: "Maybe her design is different, but at the end of the day her games really are just Devil May Cry starring a woman, and because it's a woman she has to dress in a way that just barely gets the game an M rating instead of an AO rating instead of getting her ow version of the most iconic red coat this side of Carmen Sandiego."

Maybe her design is different, but at the end of the day her games really are just Devil May Cry starring a woman, and because it's a woman she has to dress in a way that just barely gets the game an M rating instead of an AO rating instead of getting her ow version of the most iconic red coat this side of Carmen Sandiego.

Let's be honest, Dante and "Devil May Cry" didn't really bring anything new and exciting to the table themselves (not to mention Dante would also be a terrible ft for "Smash Bros." despite his popularity). Bayonetta- game and character- only get a pass because third-wave feminism.

More like a genderbent and sexed-up version of Duke Nukem from, well, Duke Nukem.

16 She rips off Zero Suit Samus' look

I'm pretty sure that's the real reason she supposedly "won". By "realizable" they meant "can just re-skin a model we already have so we don't have to build a new one".

17 Seeing her in group fanart of "all the Smash females" while other female characters in Smash get left out

There's this pic on Tumblr (possibly DeviantArt as well) called "Smash Princesses". This unholy abomination who never should've been in Smash at all was present but Lucina (an actual princess, mind you) and the female versions of Robin and Villager were missing.

18 Her home series is only popular because she's a female

Not true huh? If I wasn't surrounded by every movie, game, or T.V. show with a female lead being screamed from the rooftops as the best thing ever and must be supported because female representation, I'd agree. But that's not the case.

More like, because the lead character designer is a female. Seriously, feminists who decried Bayo for being too sexy suddenly sang a different tune when they found out the lead character designer happened to have the same genitals as Bayo herself.

Her overt sexiness is actually seen as a sign of independence by feminists who in the past have decried characters like Morrigan Aensland, Ivy Valentine, and Mai Shiranui.

19 Spirit battles in Ultimate

Person who thought she'd be the Gruntilda spirit: you were wrong. They used Dedede, this not representing Grunty's "bad ending" form. However, when Terry drops any female SNK character spirits we get could very well be Bayonetta (not *just* Mai- 99% of all female characters from both Fatal Fury and King of Fighters are... pretty front heavy), so...

The good news: she doesn't represent Mai in a Spirit Battle

The bad news: there is no Mai Spirit Battle, not even an appearance in Terry's stage (yet bleeping ROCK HOWARD made it in there). Somehow Bayonetta is okay "for good boys and girls" but Mai isn't.

Spirits of characters who have nothing to do with her are represented by her. Characters who have nothing to do with her are used to represent spirits from her games.

20 She is rated M

And Mai Shiranui, whose not allowed a cameo or "spirit" and who allegedly "really is literally nothing but sex appeal" (that's what her detractors say whilst defending their precious Bay-bae), is rated a mere T. Seriously, every game in the "Fatal Fury"/"King of Fighters" series itself- including the ones she's in- are rated T.

I'm sorry, but M rated games have no place in Smash. Even Snake felt oddly out of place in Brawl, and unlike Bayonetta is actually iconic.

21 Her fans make certain Elsa fans look sane

You mean the ones who keep saying "she's cool" at every opportunity and leave it at that? That say the haters make up lies while they make up lies themselves? That say she's only hated for being oversexualized and being in Smash Bros yet giving no compelling reason (or any reason at all really) why anyone should look past that and love her as much they do themselves? The ones that outright bully other users for daring not to like her? Yeah, I wouldn't go so far as to say they make the Elsa and Frozen fans look sane, but they are just as if not more annoying.

How is her presence in Smash Bros more overhated here or anywhere else than Elsa (as per the "most overhated things" list)? Oh yeah, because the Elsa fans surprisingly aren't getting hyper defense of her like one would expect while the Bayonetta fans are.

Note to fans: saying stuff like "Best female character in smash because the rest are garbage or can't fight." is not going to win anybody over to "your side". The other characters in Smash, male and female alike, are not "garbage" and *can* fight.

22 Her game's soundtrack is awful

I agree that "tune" that plays during the Loki Spirit Battle does sound like elevator music, but there are others that are quite grating that aren't from the Bayonetta series (the one that plays during all the Rabbid Spirit Battles for example).

23 Her original voice actress lied about the reason she was fired
24 Her game makes no sense

It's not supposed to. Her extreme rudeness and... constant visual reminders that she is a woman were the big, and only real, selling points. The fans of course think that's awesome in and of itself, making me fear all the more for humanity.

25 Her part in perpetuating that "Villager is EVIL!" meme

That stupid promo poster that had the otherwise wonderful cast now sadly reduced to playing second fiddle to this obnoxious, overrated, word-I-don't-think-I-can-say-here split between a "good" side and "evil" side behind said overrated you-know-what? Villager was on the "evil" side even though neither they nor their game has anything "evil" about them. That "ha ha Villager's actually evil" thing stopped being funny very soon after it started and it sure didn't need a boost (especially not from that insufferable word-not-allowed who dear god I hope isn't in the next Smash game at all).

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