Because you like Merry Brandybuck in The Lord of the Rings
Kat Stratford is part of the "out" crowd and proud of it. See them in 10 Things I Hate About You.
Nina Sayer finally landed the role of prima ballerina, but as tension ramps up in rehearsal, she starts losing her mind. See them in Black Swan.
Underneath her brassy, sarcastic exterior, Olive Penderghast is more sensitive than she pretends to be. See them in Easy A.
Terence Fletcher is a brutal and unflinchingly strict music teacher hell-bent on whipping his students into shape. See them in Whiplash.
Castiel might be an immortal angel, but the human world is still more than a little confusing. See them in Supernatural.
Steven Universe is an excitable youth who likes junk food and trying to save the world. See them in Steven Universe.
SpongeBob SquarePants lives in a pineapple under the sea. Absorbent and yellow and porous is he. See them in SpongeBob SquarePants.
Bridget Jones is a wanton sex goddess, struggling 30-something, and semi-hot mess. See them in Bridget Jones's Diary.
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.
Nadine Franklin likes to wallow in her misery almost as much as she likes to torment her mother. See them in The Edge of Seventeen.