Because you like Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Miss Havisham is the creepiest old rich lady in town. See them in Great Expectations.
M. Bison is a diabolical megalomaniac hell-bent on dominating the world. See them in Street Fighter.
Handsome Jack is wearing a mask of his own face to hide his scarred real one. See them in Borderlands Series.
This cannibalistic villain may be a loner, but Killer Croc doesn't have problems with self-confidence. See them in Suicide Squad.
Basil Hallward is dominated, soul, brain, and power by Dorian. See them in Dorian Gray.
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.
Javert is an inspector with a single-minded focus: to bring criminals to justice. See them in Les Miserables.
Bad-ass Rayne has sworn her life to finding and destroying her vampire dad, Kagan, and killing as many other vampires as she can in the bargain. See them in BloodRayne .
A cruel pirate, Captain Hook still fancies himself a gentleman. See them in Peter Pan.
Cyclops shoots lasers out of his eyes, destroying anything in his line of sight. See them in X-Men Series.
Despite the undeniably awful turn her life has taken, Rachel handles herself with remarkable grace. See them in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl .