They removed the name of the voice actor, Chris Niosi, not the name of the character.
Both male and female avatars are called Byleth. What's happening here is that Male Byleth VA, which is/was involved in lot of bad things, was taken off from FE Heroes VA credits. So that means Nintendo/NoA IS trying to distance themselves from that VA and will probably recast the VA in either DLC or Heroes future content.
No, Chris Niosi
Unless Nintendo acts quicker than usual, our only chance at that happening is for whenever the story DLC comes out for Three Houses. Either that or whenever they do a Byleth alternate costume for Heroes, which may take a few months unless they already have one in the pipeline. With that said, I could see Nintendo & Intelligent Systems going back to redub Byleth's voice in both instances for the base game (Three Houses) & base version (Heroes).
Both of them are gross sex pests though.
No, they're both still called Byleth. The game mentions the name of the voice actor for each character. The name of Male Byleth's English voice actor was removed.
Both are called Byleth.
voice actor name has been scrubbed, not character name. both chargers are named Byleth.
Most Nintendo games are non-union, so there's not much the actor(s) can do about this. I guess the Adam Baldwin situation with Code Name: STEAM served as a cautionary tale for NoA, & the ordeal with Chris Niosi will probably only solidify NoA's decision to stick with making their productions non-union.
Yes, it's like Awakening. Both male and female are called the same name, in this case Byleth. And no, the avatar name didn't change. His canon name still is Byleth. The voice actor for the Male Byleth had his name taken off from the credits of the Byleth character in FE Heroes. In Heroes, each character is voiced and has their VA listed below the character stats. What happened here is that a update last night took off the VA credits from the Male Byleth character screen, which means Nintendo is probably distancing themselves from him and will recast the VA for future content. So the character name still is Byleth, for either male or female, but the voiceactor(VA) for the Male character had his credits removed and the character will probably get a new VA in case they make more content(Like DLC).
Yeah, that's the gist of it. For example, if Byleth is to get in Smash Ultimate, he will likely have a new voice actor.
Adam Baldwin is the voice of Henry Fleming in Code Name: STEAM. He pretty much started GamerGate & is an overall bigot.
He voiced Reigen in Mob Psycho 100's English dub, which put him on the map for many (myself included). As someone who loved his performance in MP100's dub, this whole thing was a punch in the gut.
This should explain everything.
