Because you like Rupert Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Living with a curse, Kyo Sohma is sick of being treated like garbage his whole life. See them in Fruits Basket.

Violet Harmon takes teen angst to a paranormal level. See them in American Horror Story.

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.

Alison DiLaurentis believes you're always better off with a really good lie. See them in Pretty Little Liars.

Light Yagami has a plan to make a better world, and morals won't stop him. See them in Death Note.

Reclusive, quiet, and seemingly emotionless, Lain Iwakura feels like an outsider in her hyper-connected world. See them in Serial Experiments Lain.

Po is a clumsy, friendly panda who likes to take it easy. But now he's expected to save the world? See them in Kung Fu Panda.

Barry Allen is a nerd, forensics expert‚ and superhero with supersonic speed who is determined to solve his mother's murder. See them in DC Extended Universe.

SpongeBob SquarePants lives in a pineapple under the sea. Absorbent and yellow and porous is he. See them in SpongeBob SquarePants.

The quiet, intense Daryl Dixon lets his crossbow do the talking. See them in The Walking Dead.

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.