Because you like Ellie Arroway in Contact

The only thing that can match Rose's looks are her hot temper and free spirit. See them in Titanic.

Optimus Prime is a shapeshifting sentient robot leading a team of robots to stop evil from taking over. See them in Transformers.

A daring hacker, Trinity is one of the few rebels who escaped the Matrix, a simulation in which most of humanity is enslaved. See them in The Matrix.

An aristocrat-turned-tomb-raider, Lara Croft does her best thinking while plunging off cliffs. See them in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

Ellen Ripley defines the word "badass." When she's not leading her crew on an interstellar voyage, she's slaying terrifying creatures. See them in Alien.

The Warden of the camp says that digging holes in the desert builds character, but Stanley Yelnats suspects there's more to it. See them in Holes.

Inmate "Crazy Eyes" is a poetic soul with some big, expressive eyes. See them in Orange Is The New Black.

Clementine Kruczynski thinks that too many guys think she's a concept, or she completes them, or she's gonna make them alive. See them in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Shaun is used to being lazy. And now, you're asking him to fight for his life? See them in Shaun of the Dead.

In his transformation from hardened convict to moral paragon, Jean Valjean is the kind of man we should all aspire to be. See them in Les Miserables.

Fiery, intelligent, and opinionated, Jo March rebels against the restrictions of her era. See them in Little Women.

Carl Fredricksen is a crotchety old man who may just have it in him to take one last, great adventure. See them in Up.