Because you like Boromir in The Lord of the Rings
Andrew Glouberman is trying to make it through puberty with his sanity intact. See them in Big Mouth.
Talking to a stranger on a train is the best decision Jesse Wallace ever made. See them in Before Sunrise.
Veronica Mars is a sarcastic private eye whose biggest mission is surviving high school. See them in Veronica Mars.
Dr. Gordon Freeman is a brilliant physicist is a quiet hero. And given all the violent aliens, he better be. See them in Half-Life.
Dante Alighieri is a crusader fighting his way to absolution. See them in Dante's Inferno.
Red doesn't like to explain herself. She wants her work to do the talking. See them in Transistor.
Summer Roberts is privileged and preppy but also surprisingly open-minded and fiercely loyal. See them in The O.C..
Daria Morgendorffer is so defensive that she actively works to make people dislike her so that she don't feel bad when they do. See them in Daria.
Some say to survive in Underland you need to be as mad as a hatter–which, luckily, he is. See them in Alice in Wonderland.
Nick Fury is an enigmatic, manipulative, and eye-patched director of the Avengers Initiative. See them in Marvel Cinematic Universe.