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...Huh, interesting point.

But anyway. People aren't generally irked due to a character being more sympathetic than the other, but because of how they liked a character more. Making one character more sympathetic than the other is simply a means of inducing an emotional reaction from the audience, something many DB writers strive to do.

One of my best examples is Godzilla vs. Evangelion Unit-01 - while I knew that most of my audience would root for Godzilla, I still made Shinji and the EVA-01 far more sympathetic than Godzilla in the fight. Whether I succeeded in making the audience pay for that, I have no clue.

Long story short, since it's common for the more sympathetic one to win because rules of heroism but also common for the the sympathetic one to lose because subversive, it's difficult to predict who will win based on that anymore. It's used as a way of making the audience feel for a character.