Because you like Julia Flyte in Brideshead Revisited

A daring hacker, Trinity is one of the few rebels who escaped the Matrix, a simulation in which most of humanity is enslaved. See them in The Matrix.

The poster child for relentless cheer and resilience, Kimmy Schmidt may be an abuse survivor but she's also a lover of dancing and karaoke, candy, and dolphins. See them in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

Deadpool thinks life is an endless series of train wrecks with only brief commercial-like breaks of happiness. See them in Deadpool.

Trying to get through school without being a burden to anyone, Tohru Honda stays cheerful despite her difficulties. See them in Fruits Basket.

Newt Scamander is more comfortable with animals than people, even if the animals are super-dangerous magical creatures. See them in Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them.

As Jane Villanueva grapples with a truly unexpected pregnancy, she realizes that her life is "now the stuff of telenovelas." See them in Jane the Virgin.

Rick Sanchez is a gruff, alcoholic mad scientist, with the emphasis on "mad." See them in Rick and Morty.

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.

She's a survivor of gunshots, of being buried alive, nand of paralysis. And now Beatrix Kiddo is going to make her abusers pay. See them in Kill Bill vol. 1.

Clementine Kruczynski thinks that too many guys think she's a concept, or she completes them, or she's gonna make them alive. See them in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Eponine is a scrappy street urchin with a bad case of unrequited love. See them in Les Miserables.

As a psychokinetic who was raised in a lab, Eleven is finding Indiana to be a scary world. But at least she's discovered Eggo waffles. See them in Stranger Things.