I hate how often I'm 100% correct about the fates of my fictional favs, but maybe it's just that fiction has a very bad way of treating second male leads in general, while that personality type is almost always more attractive to me than the protagonists'. (Exceptions include any good adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, since he'll always be my #1, and BBC Merlin, where Arthur annoyed the hell out of me despite being the second lead.)