Because you like Rupert Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Catherine Linton was once spontaneous and rowdy but ever since marrying the wealthy Edgar, she has morphed into a boiling pot of emotional outbursts. See them in Wuthering Heights.
Veronica Lodge is a quintessential mean girl trying to make a better life, and a better self. See them in Riverdale.
Back in his hometown, Richie Tozier has been punched, dragged to a crackhouse and now has to kill a clown. See them in It.
Arthur Dent is an incredibly normal man on an incredibly abnormal adventure. See them in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Ted Mosby is a hopelessly romantic architect in search of someone to be the mother of his children. See them in How I Met Your Mother.
Red doesn't like to explain herself. She wants her work to do the talking. See them in Transistor.
Sophisticated and aloof, Darcy couldn’t care less about marriage, despite women throwing themselves upon him with wishes of matrimony. See them in Pride & Prejudice.
Hayley Stark is a sarcastic 14-year-old with an unusual passion. See them in Hard Candy.
A majestic ruler, Mufasa is respected throughout the animal kingdom. See them in The Lion King.
Captain Spock is on a five-year mission exploring the final frontier and boldly going where no man has gone before. See them in Star Trek.
John Locke is an eerily calm, confident believer in the magic of the island that gave him his legs back. See them in Lost.