Comment by mickeyp
1 day ago
Indeed he does. There are many of these hidden things.
You can kill Anna on the plane where you're supposed to kill Lebedev; the game accounts for this with voice dialogue and everything. Crazy. At that point in the game there is no reason for you to even try (and she's a tough match) unlike later on --- but you can!
Fallout: New Vegas wins the award for allowing you to kill seemingly plot-essential NPCs. As far as I know, there are only two characters in the entire game you can interact with that can't be killed, both robots. One is a vendor, so you always have at least one shop, the other is the head of a faction that allows you to complete the game even after alienating (or killing) all the other factions.
She disappears without a fight from a single lam placed at the entrance, but you have to know to put it there before entering the cutscene.