Should Heroic Corruptors Be Renamed Protectors?

Now that large numbers of villains are becoming heroes, should Corruptors be re-named Protectors, or some other less pejorative term? Brute, Stalker, Mastermind, and Dominator all have some heroic connatations, but Corruptor just doesn't sound particularly heroic. The heroic designations likewise work both ways, but the Corruptor, as a Hero, has an odd sound to it. One possibility would be to have Heroic Corruptors be re-named as Protectors, which I think would be a pretty cool way to do it. One way would be to re-name the entire archetype the Protectors. After all, they are essentially a modification of the Defender class, with the blasting powers primary and the defensive powers secondary: the exact reverse of the Defender class. I realize that the Heroic Corruptors might be seen by Lord Arachnos as corrupting to his Destined Ones, in the same fashion that the Fifth Column, as neo-Nazis, probably consider Jews corrupting to the purity of their "Aryan Hegemony," but nonetheless I think I would prefer the class be re-named or be, perhaps, the only class with a name switch. I'm curious how other players feel about this suggestion. Is the tradition of calling them Corruptors something we shouldn't fiddle with, or does anyone have a better name than "Protectors" to be considered? Does this bother anyone as it does me, or for many of you is this is a "non-issue?" Or do I have some support for my idea out there? I'd love to hear your comments!

I see no point to rename AT other then RP, and that doesn't matter in RP as there is no "AT" in RP IMO.

Now that many Heroes are becoming villains, I believe Defenders should be called Offenders!

It doesn't bother me in the slightest.

Not all Brutes are brutes. I'm sure that some are foppish tea-sipping Gentlemen Pugilists, but I don't expect the archetype name to change on their account.

In a related note, it always bothered me in Madeliene Casey's arc where she is describeed as "playing the Blaster LiveWyre on a TV series", as if people in paragon City identify supers by archetype. Its about the one place in game where I get the idea that the classification by archetype is more than a game mechanics.

I'd agree that now that we play in a post Going Rogue/Crossover game it's unfortunate that AT names like Corruptor, Defender and Peacebringer don't really fit when you have a heroic Corruptor or a villainous Defender/Peacebringer. Since the Devs have been considering allowing Crossovers for years (even well before CoV was finished) you'd think that they would've thought about that and named all ATs in this game using more alignment-neutral names from the start.

But now that the proverbial damage is done I -don't- think these ATs should be renamed. It'd be weird for only a few names to change (for any reason) so late in the game and it'd really only open the door for people to whine about the other names for even less reasonable reasons.

I would chalk this idea up to "It'd be nice on some level, but ultimately isn't really justified" all things considered.

There have been requests in the past to allow us to rename powers, so I wondered if players would want to be able to rename the archetypes, but I can see there is little interest in such a thing (at least so far). It is a reasonable solution, in my mind, to consider the names to be window dressing of little significance as they don't effect gameplay. It probably should be seen along the lines of more complete customization of characters, which NCSOFT has been very, very good to us players about. I'm pleased though that most players seem unconcerned about non-neutral archetype names. If it doesn't bother most of you, I can certainly adjust myself.

I think renaming the At's is a waste of energy, because any new names you come up with could most likely be applied to a whole new AT.