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2. James Marsden Loses His Love Interest To The Hero

James Marsden can't catch a break. Despite the fact that he's been in a lot of romantic comedies, Marsden also has a nice side-line in playing men who end up being passed over for the film's main male hero.

In X-Men, his boy scout Cyclops is no match for the rugged charms of Wolverine and he's unceremoniously killed off; in Superman Returns, he's rewarded for stepping in when Superman bails on his family by Lois Lane going back to Supes; in The Notebook his fiancee chooses Ryan Gosling over him and in Enchanted he loses his fiancee again, this time to Patrick Dempsey's cynical real worlder.

In every case, it's not like he's even that bad an alternative for the women who leave him: he's just not as dangerous or edgy or as much of a gamble. Which probably makes him even more of a draw! Apparently, someone in the casting agencies around Hollywood thinks he's got a good face for romantic rejection.