Because you like Luigi in Super Mario Bros.
She got locked up so her husband could make it big, but now Cookie Lyon is coming for what's hers. See them in Empire.
Chicken resterauntier by day and drug overlord by night, Gus Fring doesn't let the stress of living a double life get to him. See them in Breaking Bad.
What Mako Mankanshoku lacks in common sense, she makes up for in sheer optimism and force of personality. See them in Kill la Kill.
Calling Alicia Florrick a "good wife" is damning this smart, capable, thoughtful woman with too-faint praise. See them in The Good Wife.
Anna Karenina doesn't want to be a respectable woman any more. She thinks respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. See them in Anna Karenina.
A Vietnam vet, Travis Bickle spends his days driving his taxi and watching porn flicks. See them in Taxi Driver.
How is angel Aziraphale supposed to stop the apocalypse when Hell's forces misplaced the Antichrist somewhere? See them in Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch.
Anywhere there's adventure, Jaskier is there to write a catchy song about it. See them in The Witcher.
A legendary warrior with a complicated relationship to the truth, Jaime Lannister is revered and reviled in equal measure See them in Game of Thrones.