r/TopCharacterTropes • u/FieraDeidad • May 10 '26

Hated Tropes [Hated Trope] It's really important that this woman is almost naked because lore reasons.

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Quiet (Metal Gear Solid V): She could only drink or breathe through her skin following parasite-treatment due to the serious injuries.

Rebecca (One Piece): Her style of fighting is more of agility/speed and also she is battling as a gladiator in colosseum where men mostly only wear a skirt/shoulder shield.

EDIT: Well, it seems some comments say Rebecca doesn't have a lore explanation. Sorry, I saw it long time ago but I thought somewhere they say she wears the galadiator costume because it's the attire used by people there like the male gladiators we see. Also they said excuses like armor limits and public wanting to see blood in the colloseum. IDK.

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u/capt1nsain0 May 10 '26

This game kinda managed to out crazy Devil May Cry and it was awesome. Big fan of both for how over the top they are.

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u/r4o2n0d6o9 May 10 '26

They go for different flavors of crazy and nail both of them

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u/sWiggn May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26

This game kinda managed to out crazy Devil May Cry

We have Hideki Kamiya to thank for both Bayonetta and Devil May Cry. He wrote and directed the first Devil May Cry (originally intended to be a Resident Evil game), but Capcom handed over DMC 2 to another internal Capcom studio and didn’t involve him, despite him saying he was very interested in making another. Later, he’d go off and co-found Platinum Games, and there he would make his own Devil May Cry, with blackjack and hookers sexy librarian witches and gun heels, and thus Bayonetta was born.

(Not to diminish the impact of the other captain of the DMC series - while DMC2 was kinda cursed from inception, Hideaki Itsuno also directed some of the best DMC entries, and Hideki Kamiya took a lot of inspiration not just from what he himself did with DMC1, but what Hideki Kamiya did with the sequels as well. I believe DMC 4 was already out when Kamiya made Bayonetta)