There are also a number of protagonists who follow the Jesus line and get "resurrected" somehow.

But I like this theory. The issue is that if he gets defeated in a narrative, then he was an Antichrist anyway, an anointed who didn't deserve it. The past few centuries have been notable for Antichrist types in both fiction and reality achieving great heights, more than those of the first century.

Yet very few people create a wholly sympathetic character, like Jesus appears in the gospels, and then kill that character violently as if it's a good climax. So the programming seems to me to tend to create more animus for antichrists than for Jesus. But it does have a secondary effect of getting people to distrust Jesus and to trust testimony treating him as unsympathetic, deserving of death, and less truthful than his detractors who know better. And that may be almost identical with the point you're making.