Because you like Eli Cash in The Royal Tenenbaums
A wildly brilliant detective, Sherlock Holmes can figure out everything except how to interact with other human beings. See them in Sherlock.
After surviving consecutive fights-to-the-death (damn you, President Snow!), Katniss Everdeen is thrust to the front lines of a real war. See them in The Hunger Games .
He's an eccentric pirate making it up as he goes along. He's Jack Sparrow, savvy? See them in Pirates of the Caribbean: the Curse of the Black Pearl.
A bookish know-it-all with a bossy streak, Hermione Granger always stands up for what she believes in. See them in Harry Potter Series.