Because you like Miss Havisham in Great Expectations
Told her son will one day save the world, Sarah Connor dedicates her life to training him to do just that. See them in The Terminator.
Ursula will oh-so-generously grant your wishes for a price. See them in The Little Mermaid.
Eliot Waugh is the unspoken leader of his group of friends at a school for magic. See them in The Magicians.
Herion is Mark Renton's favorite drug. He sniffs it, smokes it, swallows it, sticks it up his arse, and injects it into his veins. See them in Trainspotting.
She's a survivor of gunshots, of being buried alive, nand of paralysis. And now Beatrix Kiddo is going to make her abusers pay. See them in Kill Bill vol. 1.
Prim and proper Allie Hamilton was raised to follow the rules. But she's got a fiery rebellious side too. See them in The Notebook.
As a doctor-in-training, John Dorian should have his head in the game. But most of the time, it's in the clouds. See them in Scrubs.
We're all puppets. Dr. Manhattan is just a puppet who can see the strings. See them in Watchmen.
Just call Jeff Lebowski The Dude. Or His Dudeness, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into that whole brevity thing. See them in The Big Lebowski.
Alien insists on taking the party with him wherever he goes. And if you're lucky, you'll get to see his gun collection. See them in Spring Breakers.
Kara "Starbuck" Thrace will beat you in cards, drink you under the table, then fly circles around you in her fighter plane. See them in Battlestar Galactica.
Nomi Marks is a brilliant hacker with an open-minded, accepting spirit. See them in Sense8.