Every trio you make is kept here, newest first, up to the last 20. The list stays in this browser.
Trio of the day
Athena · The sidekick who does all the real work · Paris of Troy
Don Quixote · A ski instructor · Anne Elliot
Orpheus · The Fairy Godmother · Queequeg
The Grim Reaper · A florist · Cassandra
The villain with an excellent monologue · Rumpelstiltskin · The explorer who refuses to ask for directions
The pirate captain who gets seasick · The alien trying very hard to seem human · The Count of Monte Cristo
Ebenezer Scrooge · The Yeti · Iago
The space captain who ignores every regulation · Sinbad the Sailor · The Count of Monte Cristo
The small-town baker from every holiday movie · Porthos · An orchestra conductor
Captain Ahab · The outlaw who gives everything away · The stage magician whose tricks might be real
Ebenezer Scrooge · Mr. Rochester · The explorer who refuses to ask for directions
Athena · Finn McCool · Nick Carraway
The grumpy wizard who hates being asked for spells · The Yeti · The Sandman
A small-town mayor · An astronaut · A carpenter
Beowulf · A librarian · The court jester who is the smartest one in the castle
A crossword writer · Odin · Jonathan Harker
Captain Ahab · The Fairy Godmother · Aeneas
Heathcliff · The werewolf who apologizes after every full moon · The Lady of the Lake
The royal heir who would rather be a gardener · Passepartout · The robot learning what jokes are
A deep-sea diver · Sancho Panza · Cassandra
Perseus · The masked hero with terrible time management · The mummy with three thousand years of stories
A stunt double · The alien trying very hard to seem human · The Count of Monte Cristo
Jay Gatsby · Ares · A professional mascot
The brooding vampire with a castle and no hobbies · Pecos Bill · A clockmaker
Captain Ahab · A zookeeper · Ali Baba
Prince Charming · The werewolf who apologizes after every full moon · Colonel Brandon
The Phantom of the Opera · A florist · Quasimodo
Thor · Arsène Lupin · Nick Carraway
Mr. Darcy · Porthos · The Sandman
A small-town mayor · Passepartout · Morgan le Fay
Kiss Marry Kill Generator With Fictional Characters Only: how it works
This kiss marry kill generator deals three names at once from 258 fictional characters: heroes and villains of classic novels, gods and legends, invented archetypes and everyday jobs. Press New trio, then each player says who gets the kiss, who gets the wedding and who has to go, and why. No real people are in the pools, and every name is printed below.
Run a round from one phone
A first trio is on screen when the page opens. Read the three names aloud, then go round the group: each player gives all three verdicts and one sentence of reasoning, because the reasons are the game. Press New trio, or the space bar, for the next three. The lock beside a name keeps it for the next deal, and the swap button next to it changes that name alone. History holds your last 20 trios, and Copy puts one into the group chat.
The rules, with options
There is one fixed rule: three names, three verdicts, each used exactly once. No doubles and no passes. Everything else is a house rule. The usual reading is that the marriage lasts for life and the kiss happens once, which makes a charming villain a hard call. For a large group, count to three and have everyone hold up one, two or three fingers for the name they would send away, then make the minority explain itself. With younger teens or colleagues, say "kiss, marry, avoid".
The printed pools and what the phone remembers
Each position has its own pool of 86 characters and no name sits in more than one, so a trio never shows the same character twice. All three pools are printed below with a line on who each literary and legendary figure is. Print 30 trios makes a sheet for a road trip or a table without phones, and locked names stay on every line. Save keeps a trio on this phone's Saved page. Trio of the day changes once a day and is the same for every visitor.
Tips
Lock one name and press New trio three times. Seeing whether a player still marries Mr. Darcy against new rivals is a game in itself.
If nobody knows a name, find it in the printed list and read its note aloud. Koschei the Deathless is easier to judge once you know where he keeps his death.
Ask for the marriage first. The goodbye is usually the easy pick, and starting with the lifelong choice gets better arguments.
Famous sets are split across the three pools, so Holmes, Watson and Moriarty can land together. When they do, every player answers before anyone explains.
Lock an ordinary job, such as A beekeeper, and keep dealing. See how many gods and villains the table will pass over for someone who brings home honey.
Questions and answers
How do you play kiss marry kill?
One player names three people or characters, and everyone else must give each of them one fate: a kiss, a marriage or a goodbye. It is a forced-choice question game, so the fun is in defending a choice you did not want to make. It needs no equipment beyond three names, which is what this page supplies.
Why are there no celebrities or real people?
Because rating real people turns unkind quickly, and the game has been criticized for exactly that. Every name here is a character from an old, public-domain story, a figure of myth or folklore, or an archetype invented for this page. Nobody is hurt by your verdict on Count Dracula. If your group names its own trio, keep to fictional characters everyone knows.
Can the same character come up twice in one trio?
No. The first, second and third names are drawn from three separate pools of 86 that share no characters, so three different names are certain every time. Each pool is also dealt right through before any name in it repeats, so a long session keeps meeting new characters.
How many different trios are there?
There are 86 choices for each of the three names, which makes 636,056 possible trios. About a third of each pool comes from classic novels and plays, a third from myth, legend and folklore, and the rest are invented archetypes and plain jobs, so most trios mix a name you know with a role you have to picture.
Is this game suitable for teenagers?
The names are clean and nothing on the page is sexual, but the premise is about kissing and marrying, and "kill" is a joke that not every room enjoys. We suggest it for players of thirteen and up, with the softer wording "kiss, marry, avoid" for school groups. Every character is an adult in their story, and none is a real person.
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Anna KareninaThe title character of Leo Tolstoy's novel.
AthosThe eldest of the three musketeers in Alexandre Dumas's novel.
BeatriceThe sharp-tongued heroine of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
Captain AhabThe whale-hunting captain of the Pequod in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
Captain NemoCommander of the submarine Nautilus in Jules Verne's novels.
Count DraculaThe Transylvanian vampire of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel.
Don QuixoteThe would-be knight of Miguel de Cervantes's novel.
Dorian GrayThe man whose portrait ages for him in Oscar Wilde's novel.
Dr. JekyllThe respectable doctor of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella.
Ebenezer ScroogeThe miser of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
Emma WoodhouseThe matchmaker of Highbury in Jane Austen's Emma.
HamletThe prince of Denmark in Shakespeare's tragedy.
HeathcliffThe brooding master of Wuthering Heights in Emily Brontë's novel.
Hester PrynneThe heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.
Ichabod CraneThe schoolmaster of Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Jane EyreThe governess of Thornfield Hall in Charlotte Brontë's novel.
Jay GatsbyThe party-giving millionaire of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel.
Jean ValjeanThe former convict of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables.
Lady BracknellThe formidable aunt of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.
Long John SilverThe one-legged ship's cook of Stevenson's Treasure Island.
The Mad HatterThe Hatter of the tea party in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Mr. DarcyThe proud owner of Pemberley in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
The Phantom of the OperaThe masked musician of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel.
Phileas FoggThe punctual traveler of Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days.
Professor Henry HigginsThe phonetics professor of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.
Robinson CrusoeThe castaway of Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel.
RosalindThe heroine in disguise in Shakespeare's As You Like It.
Sherlock HolmesThe consulting detective of 221B Baker Street in Arthur Conan Doyle's stories.
Sydney CartonThe lawyer who makes the sacrifice in Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities.
TitaniaQueen of the fairies in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Myth, legend and folklore 28
AchillesThe greatest Greek warrior of Homer's Iliad.
AnubisThe jackal-headed Egyptian god of the dead.
AphroditeThe Greek goddess of love.
AthenaThe Greek goddess of wisdom.
Baba YagaThe witch of Slavic folktales whose hut stands on chicken legs.
BeowulfThe monster-slaying hero of the Old English poem.
BigfootThe ape-like creature of North American folklore, also called Sasquatch.
CirceThe enchantress of the Odyssey who turns sailors into pigs.
Father TimeThe old man with an hourglass who stands for the passing year.
FreyaThe Norse goddess of love.
GilgameshThe king of Uruk in the Mesopotamian epic.
The Grim ReaperDeath, pictured with a hooded cloak and a scythe.
HerculesThe Roman name of Heracles, the hero of the twelve labors.
Jason of the ArgonautsLeader of the Greek quest for the Golden Fleece.
King ArthurThe legendary king of Camelot.
OdysseusThe Greek king who takes ten years to sail home in Homer's Odyssey.
OrpheusThe musician of Greek myth who goes down to the underworld for his wife.
Paul BunyanThe giant lumberjack of American tall tales.
PerseusThe Greek hero who beheads Medusa.
The Pied PiperThe rat-catcher of Hamelin in the German legend.
Prince CharmingThe stock prince of European fairy tales.
Robin HoodThe outlaw archer of Sherwood Forest in English legend.
ScheherazadeThe storyteller of the One Thousand and One Nights.
SekhmetThe lion-headed Egyptian goddess of war.
Sir GalahadThe knight of the Round Table who achieves the Holy Grail.
ThorThe Norse god of thunder.
William TellThe Swiss crossbowman of legend who shoots an apple off his son's head.
ZeusKing of the Greek gods.
Invented archetypes 16
The big-city rival with a heart of gold
The billionaire with a secret cave
The brooding vampire with a castle and no hobbies
The cowboy who talks only to his horse
The detective who solves it in the first five minutes
The fortune teller who is right a little too often
The friendly giant who bakes
The ghost who just wants someone to chat with
The grumpy wizard who hates being asked for spells
The knight who polishes his armor more than he fights
The mad scientist with a very organized lab
The pirate captain who gets seasick
The royal heir who would rather be a gardener
The small-town baker from every holiday movie
The space captain who ignores every regulation
The villain with an excellent monologue
Jobs and roles 12
A beekeeper
A crossword writer
A deep-sea diver
A jazz pianist
A lighthouse keeper
A museum night guard
A night-shift baker
A park ranger
A small-town mayor
A stunt double
A tugboat captain
A wedding planner
How this list was compiled: Pool 1 of 3 for the kiss, marry, kill generator: 86 characters written and chosen by the editors, and no name appears in more than one pool, which is why a trio can never show the same character twice. No real person, living or dead, is included, and nobody who is a child or teenager in their story. The characters from novels and plays all come from works first published in 1925 or earlier, which are in the public domain in the United States; the one-line notes name the author and the work so you can check them in any library catalog or encyclopedia. Figures from myth, legend and folklore are described as standard references such as Britannica describe them, and legends differ from telling to telling. The archetypes and jobs are invented for this page and describe nobody. No modern film, show, comic or video game character is included. The description of the game on this page follows Wikipedia's article on it, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck,_marry,_kill, checked 2026-09-18. Licence: own work
Second: all 86 characters
Classic novels and plays 30
Algernon MoncrieffThe cucumber-sandwich eater of The Importance of Being Earnest.
Arsène LupinThe gentleman thief of Maurice Leblanc's stories.
Becky SharpThe social climber of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair.
BenedickThe confirmed bachelor of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
Bob CratchitScrooge's clerk in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
Captain WentworthThe naval officer of Jane Austen's Persuasion.
Count VronskyThe cavalry officer of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.
Daisy BuchananThe woman across the bay in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
Dr. WatsonHolmes's friend and chronicler in Arthur Conan Doyle's stories.
Eliza DoolittleThe flower seller of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.
Elizabeth BennetThe quick-witted heroine of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
Inspector JavertThe relentless policeman of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables.
Irene AdlerThe opera singer who outwits Holmes in A Scandal in Bohemia.
IshmaelThe narrator of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
Lemuel GulliverThe ship's surgeon of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
Lord Henry WottonThe witty cynic of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Mina HarkerThe schoolmistress who helps track the Count in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Mr. HydeDr. Jekyll's other self in Robert Louis Stevenson's novella.
Mr. KnightleyEmma's neighbor and frankest critic in Jane Austen's Emma.
Mr. MicawberThe ever-hopeful debtor of Dickens's David Copperfield.
Mr. RochesterThe master of Thornfield Hall in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.
OberonKing of the fairies in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
PassepartoutPhileas Fogg's valet in Around the World in Eighty Days.
PorthosThe loudest of the three musketeers in Alexandre Dumas's novel.
Professor Van HelsingThe vampire hunter of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
The Queen of HeartsThe croquet-playing monarch of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Rip Van WinkleThe man who sleeps for twenty years in Washington Irving's story.
Sancho PanzaDon Quixote's squire in Cervantes's novel.
Victor FrankensteinThe scientist of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel.
ViolaThe shipwrecked heroine of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
Myth, legend and folklore 28
AndromedaThe princess Perseus rescues from a sea monster.
ApolloThe Greek god of music, archery and prophecy.
AresThe Greek god of war.
AtalantaThe huntress of Greek myth who outruns her suitors.
BastetThe Egyptian cat goddess.
CalypsoThe nymph who keeps Odysseus on her island for seven years.
EnkiduThe wild man who becomes the friend of Gilgamesh.
EurydiceThe wife Orpheus tries to lead out of the underworld.
The Fairy GodmotherThe helper with the wand in Charles Perrault's Cinderella.
Finn McCoolThe giant hero of Irish legend, tied to the Giant's Causeway.
HectorThe greatest warrior of Troy in Homer's Iliad.
Jack FrostThe spirit of frost and cold weather in English-speaking folklore.
Koschei the DeathlessThe villain of Russian folktales who hides his death inside a needle.
LokiThe trickster of the Norse gods.
Maid MarianRobin Hood's companion in the English ballads and plays.
MedeaThe sorceress who helps Jason win the Golden Fleece.
MedusaThe Gorgon of Greek myth whose gaze turns people to stone.
Mother NatureThe natural world pictured as a person.
OdinThe one-eyed chief of the Norse gods.
OsirisThe Egyptian god of the afterlife.
Pecos BillThe cowboy of American tall tales who rides a cyclone.
PenelopeThe wife of Odysseus, who holds off her suitors for twenty years.
PoseidonThe Greek god of the sea.
RumpelstiltskinThe little man who spins straw into gold in the Grimm tale.
Sinbad the SailorThe voyager of the One Thousand and One Nights.
Sir GawainThe knight who accepts the Green Knight's challenge.
Sir LancelotThe greatest knight of King Arthur's Round Table.
The YetiThe Abominable Snowman of Himalayan folklore.
Invented archetypes 16
The alien trying very hard to seem human
The big-city lawyer stranded in a snowy small town
The butler who definitely did it
The dragon slayer who is secretly fond of dragons
The evil genius whose plan needs one more week
The henchman who is thinking about a career change
The immortal who has seen it all and is bored
The masked hero with terrible time management
The outlaw who gives everything away
The queen who rules the realm and the chessboard
The sea captain's ghost who still gives orders
The ship's cook with a mysterious past
The sidekick who does all the real work
The swashbuckler who duels over grammar
The werewolf who apologizes after every full moon
The witch with a thriving herb garden
Jobs and roles 12
A bridge engineer
A circus ringmaster
A firefighter
A florist
A food critic
A late-night radio host
A librarian
A mapmaker
A ski instructor
A veterinarian
A zookeeper
An astronaut
How this list was compiled: Pool 2 of 3 for the kiss, marry, kill generator: 86 characters written and chosen by the editors, and no name appears in more than one pool, which is why a trio can never show the same character twice. No real person, living or dead, is included, and nobody who is a child or teenager in their story. The characters from novels and plays all come from works first published in 1925 or earlier, which are in the public domain in the United States; the one-line notes name the author and the work so you can check them in any library catalog or encyclopedia. Figures from myth, legend and folklore are described as standard references such as Britannica describe them, and legends differ from telling to telling. The archetypes and jobs are invented for this page and describe nobody. No modern film, show, comic or video game character is included. The description of the game on this page follows Wikipedia's article on it, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck,_marry,_kill, checked 2026-09-18. Licence: own work
Third: all 86 characters
Classic novels and plays 30
Allan QuatermainThe hunter of H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines.
Anne ElliotThe heroine of Jane Austen's Persuasion.
AramisThe most secretive of the three musketeers in Alexandre Dumas's novel.
C. Auguste DupinEdgar Allan Poe's Paris detective.
Colonel BrandonThe quiet suitor of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
The Count of Monte CristoEdmond Dantès after his escape in Alexandre Dumas's novel.
FaustThe scholar who bargains with the devil in Goethe's play.
Frankenstein's creatureThe being Victor Frankenstein builds in Mary Shelley's novel.
Gabriel OakThe shepherd of Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd.
The Headless HorsemanThe ghost of Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
IagoThe schemer of Shakespeare's Othello.
The Invisible ManGriffin, the scientist of H. G. Wells's 1897 novel.
Jack WorthingThe man who invents a brother in The Importance of Being Earnest.
Jacob MarleyScrooge's dead partner, the first ghost of A Christmas Carol.
Jonathan HarkerThe solicitor who visits the Count's castle in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Madame DefargeThe knitter of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities.
MalvolioThe steward in yellow stockings in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
Milady de WinterThe spy of Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers.
Miss HavishamThe jilted bride of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations.
Mr. BingleyDarcy's cheerful friend in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
Mr. WickhamThe charming militia officer of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
Nick CarrawayThe narrator of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
Pierre BezukhovThe awkward heir of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.
Professor ChallengerThe explorer of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World.
Professor MoriartyHolmes's arch-enemy in Arthur Conan Doyle's stories.
ProsperoThe magician of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
QuasimodoThe bell-ringer of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.
QueequegThe harpooner of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
The Scarlet PimpernelThe secret identity of Sir Percy Blakeney in Baroness Orczy's novel.
Sir John FalstaffThe fat knight of Shakespeare's Henry IV plays.
Myth, legend and folklore 28
AeneasThe Trojan hero of Virgil's Aeneid.
Ali BabaThe woodcutter who learns the words "Open Sesame".
AriadneThe princess who gives Theseus the thread through the labyrinth.
HeimdallThe watchman of the Norse gods, guard of the rainbow bridge.
Helen of TroyThe queen whose departure starts the Trojan War.
HephaestusThe blacksmith of the Greek gods.
HeraQueen of the Greek gods.
HermesThe messenger of the Greek gods.
King MidasThe king of Greek myth whose touch turns things to gold.
Lady LuckGood fortune pictured as a person.
The Lady of the LakeThe enchantress who gives King Arthur the sword Excalibur.
Little JohnRobin Hood's second-in-command, famous for his height.
MerlinThe wizard of the King Arthur legends.
Morgan le FayThe enchantress of the King Arthur legends.
Old Man WinterThe cold season pictured as a person.
Paris of TroyThe Trojan prince who carries Helen away.
PersephoneQueen of the underworld in Greek myth.
RaThe Egyptian sun god.
The SandmanThe folklore figure who sprinkles sand to bring sleep.
The Sheriff of NottinghamRobin Hood's enemy in the English ballads.
TheseusThe Greek hero who kills the Minotaur.
ThothThe ibis-headed Egyptian god of writing.
Invented archetypes 16
The bounty hunter with a soft spot for stray cats
The castle librarian who knows every secret passage
The chosen one who would rather sleep in
The court jester who is the smartest one in the castle
The explorer who refuses to ask for directions
The genie who reads the fine print aloud
The mummy with three thousand years of stories
The retired superhero who runs a diner
The robot learning what jokes are
The rock star on a farewell tour that never ends
The spy who cannot keep a secret
The stage magician whose tricks might be real
The supervillain who never misses a family dinner
The time traveler who keeps spoiling the ending
The treasure hunter who is afraid of bats
The zombie who has gone vegetarian
Jobs and roles 12
A barista who remembers every order
A carpenter
A clockmaker
A farmer with forty goats
A game show host
A long-haul pilot
A marine biologist
A mountain rescue medic
A pastry chef
A professional mascot
A tour guide
An orchestra conductor
How this list was compiled: Pool 3 of 3 for the kiss, marry, kill generator: 86 characters written and chosen by the editors, and no name appears in more than one pool, which is why a trio can never show the same character twice. No real person, living or dead, is included, and nobody who is a child or teenager in their story. The characters from novels and plays all come from works first published in 1925 or earlier, which are in the public domain in the United States; the one-line notes name the author and the work so you can check them in any library catalog or encyclopedia. Figures from myth, legend and folklore are described as standard references such as Britannica describe them, and legends differ from telling to telling. The archetypes and jobs are invented for this page and describe nobody. No modern film, show, comic or video game character is included. The description of the game on this page follows Wikipedia's article on it, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck,_marry,_kill, checked 2026-09-18. Licence: own work