Characters that make you think "that's me"

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Of all the books I've ever read Jerome Belsey in On Beauty by Zadie Smith is the most like me. He is described as spending a summer in the living room on a ratty old beanbag writing mournfully into a notebook. He's not an extremely focal character but the instant the description of him began I wanted to bring the book to someone and say "I'm Jerome."

Anyone similarly seen themselves in a fictional character?

Dr. Daniel Jackson, Ph.D. (portrayed by Michael Shanks) of Stargate Command.

He's brilliant, well-learned, reasonably good-looking, and has a tendency to attract women in spite of himself.

Plus, he got to explore strange, new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and occasionally save them from megalomaniac oppressors, brain-sucking parasites, and religious fanatics.

... everything I've always wanted to be...

Sherlock Holmes, minus the brilliance.

Tom Ripley, minus the murdering streak.

Any given Philip K. Dick character, including the mental issues.

Fallom. Wrobik. Felka. Sax Russell. Y'get the idea.

And E. Timms.

hermione granger is just like me.

Rena Ryugu from Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni. The main difference between her and myself is that she has actually acted on her bad thoughts whereas I have not (at least not to the degree that she has). She is also said to be very observant of her surroundings, which I am not.

This isn't a character but I'm going to say Katy Perry.

Why?

She seems to like all the stuff I do. Colours in hair, cakes and cupcakes and sweet food clothing, cool outfits and cuddly pink cats. You don't usually find someone my age like that.

Rom from DS9: socially inept, brilliant engineer and problem solver who regularly makes a virtue of being underestimated.

Charlie Kaufman as written by Charlie Kaufman and then, portrayed by Nicolas Cage (who actually does a pretty nice job)

I don't know if there've been any characters that made me think, "That's me!" It's usually more along the lines of, "I do that!" or "I'm like that sometimes!" The character I most closely identify with, that I've seen, is probably Odo from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Randolph Carter. From different HP Lovecraft's tales.

Luna Lovegood

I'm pretty much the female version of The Dude

Lisbeth Salander from Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series- although she's way tougher and smarter than I could ever be. Her family situation was similar, although much worse than my early home environment, but had a similar kind of dysfunctional family dynamic.

Nita Callahan from Diane Duane's Wizard books-she even had an annoying yet brilliant little sister who was better at everything than she was!

Leonard Neeble from Daniel Pinkwater's novel Alan Mendelsohn, Boy From Mars- he was totally me in middle school, except I was skinny.

Georgia Lass from the Showtime TV series Dead Like Me-especially during the times in my life when I was suffering from depression and experienced a loss of motivation and started wondering what the point of everything in life was.

Ned the Piemaker from Pushing Daisies-produced by the same guy who created Dead Like Me-I'd like to meet Bryan Fuller in person someday, since they often say that writers, producers etc. put something of themselves into each character they create.

Briony Larkin from the novel Chime by Franny Billingsley-although I'd like to think my self-esteem is a little healthier than hers.

Also a lot of Tom Holt's male main characters who feel like hopeless losers a lot of the time, especially in the beginning of the books, but discover that they don't always have to be that way, which cheers me up when I read about that and see them develop.

Quite a few other characters from fictional works have resonated with me when I think about it, although it depends on where I am in my life and how I'm feeling about my own situation. I have noticed that I relate to a lot more female characters than male, although there are also some male characters who I really identify with as soon as I see them or read about them.