Because you like Marlena Rosenbluth in Water for Elephants

Goh Peik Lin is funny, unfiltered, and a fiercely supportive friend. See them in Crazy Rich Asians.

Don't worry about this forensic scientist offing you unless you're a serial killer yourself. (You're not, right? Just checking.) See them in Dexter.

Carol Peletier's credo: your strength comes from who you are, not who you used to be. See them in The Walking Dead.

Billy Batson is a troublemaking teen grappling with a pretty weird superhero identity crisis See them in DC Extended Universe.

Gruff and efficient, Sam Fisher protects a nation that can never admit he exists. See them in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell.

Susanna Kaysen is an aspiring writer, despairing young woman who struggles with suicidal thoughts. See them in Girl, Interrupted.

Experiment 626 was designed for one thing: to destroy everything he touches. See them in Lilo & Stich.

Adrian Agreste is a charming rich teenage boy, model, and hero in a catsuit. See them in Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir.

Patrick Star enjoys life's simple pleasures because he can't wrap his brain around anything more complicated. See them in SpongeBob SquarePants.

A self-professed psychopath, James kills small animals for fun. After getting bored of that, he is ready for an ambitious murder. See them in The End of the F World.

Raj Koothrappali is an astrophysicist who sees stars when he feebly tries to chat up women. See them in The Big Bang Theory.

Leslie Knope can accomplish anything, literally anything, with a little grit and help from her office. See them in Parks and Recreation.