Because you like Merry Brandybuck in The Lord of the Rings
Terence Fletcher is a brutal and unflinchingly strict music teacher hell-bent on whipping his students into shape. See them in Whiplash.
Joel is a hardened, jaded survivor who keeps finding things to fight for. See them in The Last of Us.
It's easy for Brian O'Conner to fake his way into the world of extreme racing because he's been popping cars since his teenage years. See them in The Fast and the Furious.
She's mostly doom and gloom, but you'd get nowhere without Sadness. See them in Inside Out.
With her consciousness so easily shifted between bodies, Motoko Kusanagi is left unsure of who or what she really is. See them in Ghost in the Shell.
Light Yagami has a plan to make a better world, and morals won't stop him. See them in Death Note.
Ava may just be the perfect woman. So long as she can pass a Turing test. See them in Ex Machina.
Ichigo Momomiya is a bubbly student by day, magical cat-powered superhero by night. See them in Tokyo Mew Mew.
Everyone is just a chess piece, and Izaya Orihara is a master player. See them in Durarara!!.
Izzie Stevens is a model-turned-med student who can do it all, even if people underestimate her. See them in Grey's Anatomy.
Armin Arlert was wrong. This world hasn't become hell; it's been hell. He just couldn't see it before. See them in Attack on Titan.