Quote Originally Posted by Renmiri View Post
Vayne isn't such a bad guy ?!?!?
Killing two brothers and his father aren't bad enough for you ? How about killing people who have just surrendered ? How about driving the Bahamut to Rabanastre to obliterate the city ?

Face it, Vayne lost it. He might have started with good intentions but in the end he lost it.

Which brings me to the point that XII is badly written. Vayne is shown to us as a guy who wants to be fair and nice to Rabanastre and wants to free humanity of the Occuria then - all of a sudden - he turns into a cartoon villain madman bent on genocide. Like it was time to have a villain and he was handy. Not believable at all.
Vayne's intentions are never made totally clear, so it didn't appear to me that he "suddenly becomes a cartoon bad guy". For all we know Vayne's speech in Rabanastre near the beginning was merely a ruse, and his vicious, scheming side is shown from early on anyway. Certainly I never get the impression that his plan was simply to free humanity from the Occuria for the sole benefit of humanity. He may have wanted that, while at the same time taking advantage of the situation to maximize his own power. Or perhaps was willing to go to great lengths to achieve this "liberation", believing that any ends justify the means. This is hardly rare in real human history - there was much talk during the cold war of "saving western christian civilization/democracy/freedom from communism", while the reality for many people on the recieving end of this "salvation" was death squads, torture, disappearance and carpet bombing (no, I'm not interested in discussing politics here). The whole plot is quite open ended and morally ambiguous, perhaps excessively so for a video game.