Because you like Alice Pieszecki in The L Word

Not a great influence with her classmates, this 13-year-old "cool girl" likes to shoplift, chug alcohol, and snort crushed pills. See them in thirteen.

Princess Fiona is a damsel who doesn't need saving, but she's cursed with an embarrassing secret. See them in Shrek.

Don't ask the ruthless queen of the Tokyo underworld any questions unless you're fine with losing a limb. See them in Kill Bill vol. 1.

A hurricane of a human being, Marla Singer is destructive and unforgettable. See them in Fight Club.

Major Marquis Warren is a talkative, sharp-eyed, and cold-hearted Civil War soldier-turned-bounty hunter. See them in The Hateful Eight.

Stan Marsh is a fourth grader who is the ladies man of his classroom. See them in South Park.

Underneath his preening narcissist exterior, Schmidt is, well, still kind of a preening narcissist. But he has a good heart too. See them in New Girl.

Everything is fascinating to Octavia Blake who has been locked away for her entire life. See them in The 100.

Driven yet empathetic, Emily Prentiss brings humanity to the pursuit of inhuman killers. See them in Criminal Minds.

Prim and proper Allie Hamilton was raised to follow the rules. But she's got a fiery rebellious side too. See them in The Notebook.

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.

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.