Because you like Cookie Monster in Sesame Street

Yuki Cross is a cheerful, funny, bold young woman with hidden insecurities. See them in Vampire Knight.

After surviving a CIA mission that was supposed to kill him, ex-military man John Reese bets it all on a chance to redeem himself. See them in Person of Interest.

Liv Moore is a sarcastic high-achiever turned morally conflicted zombie. See them in iZombie.

Quiet and brooding, Ennis Del Mar keeps his true passions close to the chest. See them in Brokeback Mountain.

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

The self-proclaimed "only guilty man in Shawshank prison" has wisdom to share, such as the best way to smuggle a Rita Hayworth poster into a Maine prison. See them in The Shawshank Redemption.

An infamous vampire, Alucard is a one-man killing machine with a philosophical side. See them in Hellsing.

Raiden is an efficient soldier haunted by his repressed past. See them in Metal Gear Series.

Don't let his old age fool you, Heihachi Mishima is a ruthless pragmatist who values self-reliance above all else. See them in Tekken .

Back in his hometown, Richie Tozier has been punched, dragged to a crackhouse and now has to kill a clown. See them in It.

Irene Adler has to use both her brains and her body to survive. Luckily, she's usually the most brilliant person in the room. See them in Sherlock.