Talk:Infernal Demons/@comment-37.231.188.86-20140803173904/@comment-1661895-20140805114437

Bayonetta is extremely respectful to those that she trusts, that's her whole point. She may be very rude and insulting to the Cardinal Virtues ("No quarrel? You're in no position to decide that.") and indeed some of the other angels that she comes across ("I know you don't want me here, but you really could have been more subtle about it") because she knows that she can easily dominate them in battle. And yet when it comes to characters like Luka and Cereza, she doesn't see them as beneath her. She treats them more as an equal, even if she does wind them up ("No crying now, little one. You know the rules."). She doesn't treat Cereza as just a little kid when they meet, but a person that's on her level and should be able to understand her commands (Shimomura, the cinematics designer, even said this was the intention in their first meeting scene).

Phantasm also isn't really 'disrespected' by Bayonetta in the first game either. She hands it up a Cardinal Virtue to eat and share with all of it's offspring and that's a pretty big thing for a demon. Plus, she never would be able to summon or control it if her attitude was something clashed with it's values. In Bayonetta 2, the very fact that she's in Inferno when she shouldn't be normally may cause their fight or it may be a product of Phantasm simply being in the way to Jeanne's soul and there isn't really a choice.