Because you like Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver

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.

A brilliant "extractor," Dom Cobb has spent the past few years running from the authorities and his inner demons. See them in Inception.

Simon Belmont is a vampire hunter bravely carrying on the family business. See them in Castlevania.

Sideshow Bob is a bitter ex-performer who was forced to do inhumane stunts for slapstick comedy. Now he's exacting revenge on his former boss, a clown. See them in The Simpsons.

Eric Forman's interests include smoking weed, collecting Luke Skywalker memorabilia, eating Fatso burgers, and making his dad mad. See them in That '70s Show.

They say money can't buy happiness, but this reckless, high-flying banker knows otherwise. See them in The Wolf of Wall Street.

Hotheaded and arrogant, Kaneda is nevertheless fiercely protective of the biker gang he leads. See them in Akira.

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.

Kumar Patel is always high, always hungry for sliders. See them in Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle.

Suzy Bishop is only 12, but her withering stare and withdrawn personality are enough to make anyone wilt. See them in Moonrise Kingdom.

The self-proclaimed "only guilty man in Shawshank prison" has wisdom to share, such as the best way to smuggle a Rita Hayworth poster into a Maine prison. See them in The Shawshank Redemption.