Because you like Merry Brandybuck in The Lord of the Rings

Dante Alighieri is a crusader fighting his way to absolution. See them in Dante's Inferno.

Miss Havisham is the creepiest old rich lady in town. See them in Great Expectations.

Red doesn't like to explain herself. She wants her work to do the talking. See them in Transistor.

An opportunistic fugitive-turned-bounty-hunter, Faye Valentine uses both grit and her good looks to get ahead. See them in Cowboy Bebop.

Kevin Khatchadourian is a disturbed, affect-less teen on a dark path. See them in We Need to Talk About Kevin.

Juliet Starling is a cheerleader by day, gleefully unhinged zombie killer by night. See them in Lollipop Chainsaw.

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

Despite the dissolution of his state, Prussia hangs on – mooching off his younger brother Germany and reading comics. See them in Axis Powers Hetalia.

Cosima Niehaus loves exploring the unknown. Even her own DNA is a puzzle, waiting to be unlocked. See them in Orphan Black.

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.