Because you like Charlotte York in Sex and the City
Morticia Addams hates anything bright and cheery and loves all things ghoulish, ghastly, and violent. See them in The Addams Family.
You don't teach a class called "How To Get Away With Murder" without knowing a thing or two about getting away with things. See them in How to Get Away with Murder.
Will Byers is just like any other twelve year old, except he's stuck in another dimension. See them in Stranger Things.
Nick Miller might not have a bank account, but he defintely has a lot of love to give. See them in New Girl.
Pro tip: the psych ward is not the best place to find a mentor like Lisa Rowe. See them in Girl, Interrupted.
Sabriel is smart enough to understand the dangers that await her and brave enough to face them anyway. See them in Abhorsen Series.
When you live your life in public, like Mima Kirigoe, it's hard to know who you really are. See them in Perfect Blue.
Most of the world has been wiped out from The Beast. And when The Beast comes, Cole MacGrath will be ready. See them in inFAMOUS.
Yuri is living in the afterlife, which takes the form of a high school where no one dies. But if you follow the school's rules and live a "normal" life you vanish. See them in Angel Beats!.
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 .
The last war left his economy devastated, and now Germany is engaged in another war and stuck with two barely trained allies for help. See them in Axis Powers Hetalia.