24. Yuki Nagato (The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya)
I love Yuki. She's not the most forceful personality in a cast ripe with forceful personalities (or just bizarre and wacky personalities), but it's her quiet robotic ways that make her truly amazing. She starts out as this girl who just happens to occupy the space that Haruhi wants to make her new clubhouse, and thus Yuki becomes a member of Haruhi's S.O.S. Brigade. No real reasoning, she just doesn't care. Oh wait, that's not it. Apparently Yuki is like an alien robot from the future or something that has a mission to watch Haruhi and examine her godlike powers from up close and personal. And Yuki is pretty f***ing godlike in her own light, as she takes on Asahina Ryoko (or is it Ryoko Asahina? I don't f***ing know how Japanese names work some time.) and winds up winning the fight by a technicality. But really, I just like how weird Yuki is without being downright abnormal. She's like River Tam if River could function in normal society. I have to also hand it to Yuki because she really helps send my favorite episode of the series, the one where they're all competing with the computer club, into the stratosphere, by just breaking the game system just because she wants to win for herself for once, rather than just sitting back and just kinda being there like usual. I just think she's adorable and is a great character amidst all the insanity Haruhi brings.