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Bayonetta not being in just cause her games are M rated is not true at all. In Brawl there was a little character that wad a whole sea of M rated games: Solid Snake.

The rating has nothing to do with being accepted into smash, and while Bayonetta is a 3rd party Nintendo funded the 2nd game so they have partially the rights due the 2nd game being an exclusive,

So she's more like a 2nd party character, kinda like the Wonders from Wonderful 101 so it isn't that "out of place" that she has a chance to get into smash