Because you like Legolas Greenleaf in The Lord of the Rings

Carl Gallagher is a budding psychopath fascinated with rule breaking. See them in Shameless.

You'll never get Alaska Young. And that's the whole point. See them in Looking for Alaska.

Lux Lisbon's flirtatious manner attracts a lot of male attention. She relishes the power that her sexuality grants her. See them in The Virgin Suicides.

Casey Gardner is an angsty teenage girl with quite a bit of sass that keeps getting her in trouble. See them in Atypical.

From secret organizations to alien attacks, Kyon's life has been one weird, unexplainable thing happening after another. See them in The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

After alien Haruko rides in on her Vespa, giant robots spouting from Naota Nandaba's forehead soon become the least of his worries. See them in FLCL.

Sydney Novak claims she’s “not special,” but her self-reportedly average life changes quickly once she begins to develop powers she can’t control. See them in I Am Not Okay With This.

Not a great influence with her classmates, this 13-year-old "cool girl" likes to shoplift, chug alcohol, and snort crushed pills. See them in thirteen.

Jessica Davis is the girl that guys like to like. See them in Thirteen Reasons Why .

A star student destined for Princeton, nerdy Devi Vishwakumar dreams of losing her virginity to a stone-cold hottie who can "rock her all night long." See them in Never Have I Ever.

Violet Harmon takes teen angst to a paranormal level. See them in American Horror Story.