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Joy is an enemy that appears in the first Bayonetta game. They are powerful, female-looking angels and the Laguna's high-ranking soldiers that said to have broken free of any physical conception, these angels are capable of shape-shifting. They fight by transforming their bodies and weapons into angelic versions of Bayonetta's weapons and using her own moves against her.

Joys are members of the Seraphim class within the angelic hierarchy's First Sphere. These beings have broken free of any physical conception of form and have become truly spiritual.
Their body is as free as a flowing river, and it takes shape only on a temporary basis. Joys may take the shape of the human feminine form, but can also shape-shift, or even separate into multiple sentient forms, at will. ~Hierarchy of Laguna

Joy is infamous not for being one of the most powerful bosses in the game but also for her torture attack: Bayonetta summons a large living wooden horse and a a magical chain. As Joy tries to run away, Bayonetta lassos the chain around Joy's Body in the shape of a shibari or a bondage harness she then pulls the chain while pushing down on Joy's hips with her foot, causing tremendous pain and high damage.