Can I beat up an NPC in the story eventually?

[KisaiTenshi]

There's a cutscene early on in the Alexander storyline where the Illuminati leader and his two lackeys are LITERALLY SURROUNDED by the WoL, Mide, Cid, Biggs, Wedge and Backrix... and they just let him monologue for 5 minutes and then he walks away. Like they're not even doing anything, just standing around talking.

Why dont you just shoot them you have at least one person with a gun!

I know there is a trope name for this, but basically every piece of entertainment does "let the villain monologue" because it shows how haughty/narcissistic/oblivious they are to reality. A non-canon-fodder villain would never reveal their plan, and leave the good guys to guess what their endgame is. "We" want to know the villain's plan because it wouldn't make for good entertainment if we did all this and the villain was just wanting attention and really did it because they could.

Like Zenos endgame isn't really isn't known. We know he wants to become more powerful by any means, but he treats basically everyone as toys.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Like Zenos endgame isn't really isn't known. We know he wants to become more powerful by any means, but he treats basically everyone as toys.

Zenos's only real goal is to find more strong people to fight. He treats people like crap to make them rise up against him so he can keep fighting. He's only interested in the WoL because we don't immediately die when he looks at us funny.

[Ramesses]

Zenos's only real goal is to find more strong people to fight. He treats people like crap to make them rise up against him so he can keep fighting. He's only interested in the WoL because we don't immediately die when he looks at us funny.

I personally like Zenos for several reasons, foremost being that I believe story line had evolved to a point whereby we needed a clear cut powerful and ruthless villain.