Because you like Troy Bolton in High School Musical

A gentle alchemist who is soul-bound to a giant suit of armor, Alphonse Elric is growing into the responsibility handed to him. See them in Fullmetal Alchemist.

Seth is short-tempered, crude, and terrible at school, but hopefully there's nothing an epic party can't fix. See them in Superbad.

A fight every now and then makes Dante's life a little more interesting. See them in Devil May Cry.

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.

Nomi Marks is a brilliant hacker with an open-minded, accepting spirit. See them in Sense8.

Howl puts the "tortured" in tortured artist. He just wants to be recognized for his work, but no one wants to trust a boy that sorta looks like a bird. See them in Howl's Moving Castle.

While he might be too cool for school, Soul isn't too cool to do the right thing. See them in Soul Eater.

Holden Caulfield is convinced that the whole adult world is full of phonies. See them in The Catcher in the Rye.

Sterling Archer is a fun-loving, car-driving spy extraordinaire. But one can tell his mother didn't hug him as a child. See them in Archer.

Loyal to his family and associates and distrustful of anyone else, Tony Soprano is a good guy to have on your side. See them in The Sopranos.

Armed guards, FBI agents, notorious serial killers – Hannibal Lecter has bested them all, with time to finish dessert afterwards. See them in The Silence of the Lambs.

Francis Freeman may be impervious to pain, but he sure knows how to inflict it. See them in Deadpool.