Because you like Annie Edison in Community
If Lisbeth Salander can hurt a bastard who deserves it by digging up stuff about him, she feels good. See them in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Jax Teller can be cool or vengeful, calm or wrathful, depending on the situation. See them in Sons of Anarchy.
Dipper Pines is investigating a truly strange town during the world's wildest summer vacation. See them in Gravity Falls.
Poison Ivy is a seductive, venomous botanist laments the fact that there are so many people to kill, yet so little time. See them in DC Extended Universe.
Madman, murderer, or musician? No one knows the Phantom behind the mask. See them in The Phantom of the Opera.
A Vietnam vet, Travis Bickle spends his days driving his taxi and watching porn flicks. See them in Taxi Driver.
In his transformation from hardened convict to moral paragon, Jean Valjean is the kind of man we should all aspire to be. See them in Les Miserables.
Ellen Ripley defines the word "badass." When she's not leading her crew on an interstellar voyage, she's slaying terrifying creatures. See them in Alien.
For Dana Scully, sometimes looking for extreme possibilities makes you blind to the probable explanation right in front of you. See them in The X-Files.
The vampire that killed Zero Kiryu's family also infected him, and he starts to crave blood, much to his horror. See them in Vampire Knight.
If it means fulfilling her ambitions, Satsuki Kiryuin will show neither shame nor hesitation. See them in Kill la Kill.
