Kiss Marry Kill Generator With Fictional Characters Only

Three fictional names, and you decide who gets the kiss, the wedding and the goodbye.

A beekeeper · Enkidu · Quasimodo

  • FirstA beekeeper
  • SecondEnkidu
  • ThirdQuasimodo
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    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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    First: all 86 characters

    Classic novels and plays 30

    • Anna Karenina The title character of Leo Tolstoy's novel.
    • Athos The eldest of the three musketeers in Alexandre Dumas's novel.
    • Beatrice The sharp-tongued heroine of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
    • Captain Ahab The whale-hunting captain of the Pequod in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
    • Captain Nemo Commander of the submarine Nautilus in Jules Verne's novels.
    • Count Dracula The Transylvanian vampire of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel.
    • Don Quixote The would-be knight of Miguel de Cervantes's novel.
    • Dorian Gray The man whose portrait ages for him in Oscar Wilde's novel.
    • Dr. Jekyll The respectable doctor of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 novella.
    • Ebenezer Scrooge The miser of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
    • Emma Woodhouse The matchmaker of Highbury in Jane Austen's Emma.
    • Hamlet The prince of Denmark in Shakespeare's tragedy.
    • Heathcliff The brooding master of Wuthering Heights in Emily Brontë's novel.
    • Hester Prynne The heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.
    • Ichabod Crane The schoolmaster of Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
    • Jane Eyre The governess of Thornfield Hall in Charlotte Brontë's novel.
    • Jay Gatsby The party-giving millionaire of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel.
    • Jean Valjean The former convict of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables.
    • Lady Bracknell The formidable aunt of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.
    • Long John Silver The one-legged ship's cook of Stevenson's Treasure Island.
    • The Mad Hatter The Hatter of the tea party in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
    • Mr. Darcy The proud owner of Pemberley in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
    • The Phantom of the Opera The masked musician of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel.
    • Phileas Fogg The punctual traveler of Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days.
    • Professor Henry Higgins The phonetics professor of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.
    • Robinson Crusoe The castaway of Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel.
    • Rosalind The heroine in disguise in Shakespeare's As You Like It.
    • Sherlock Holmes The consulting detective of 221B Baker Street in Arthur Conan Doyle's stories.
    • Sydney Carton The lawyer who makes the sacrifice in Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities.
    • Titania Queen of the fairies in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

    Myth, legend and folklore 28

    • Achilles The greatest Greek warrior of Homer's Iliad.
    • Anubis The jackal-headed Egyptian god of the dead.
    • Aphrodite The Greek goddess of love.
    • Athena The Greek goddess of wisdom.
    • Baba Yaga The witch of Slavic folktales whose hut stands on chicken legs.
    • Beowulf The monster-slaying hero of the Old English poem.
    • Bigfoot The ape-like creature of North American folklore, also called Sasquatch.
    • Circe The enchantress of the Odyssey who turns sailors into pigs.
    • Father Time The old man with an hourglass who stands for the passing year.
    • Freya The Norse goddess of love.
    • Gilgamesh The king of Uruk in the Mesopotamian epic.
    • The Grim Reaper Death, pictured with a hooded cloak and a scythe.
    • Hercules The Roman name of Heracles, the hero of the twelve labors.
    • Jason of the Argonauts Leader of the Greek quest for the Golden Fleece.
    • King Arthur The legendary king of Camelot.
    • Odysseus The Greek king who takes ten years to sail home in Homer's Odyssey.
    • Orpheus The musician of Greek myth who goes down to the underworld for his wife.
    • Paul Bunyan The giant lumberjack of American tall tales.
    • Perseus The Greek hero who beheads Medusa.
    • The Pied Piper The rat-catcher of Hamelin in the German legend.
    • Prince Charming The stock prince of European fairy tales.
    • Robin Hood The outlaw archer of Sherwood Forest in English legend.
    • Scheherazade The storyteller of the One Thousand and One Nights.
    • Sekhmet The lion-headed Egyptian goddess of war.
    • Sir Galahad The knight of the Round Table who achieves the Holy Grail.
    • Thor The Norse god of thunder.
    • William Tell The Swiss crossbowman of legend who shoots an apple off his son's head.
    • Zeus King 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 Moncrieff The cucumber-sandwich eater of The Importance of Being Earnest.
    • Arsène Lupin The gentleman thief of Maurice Leblanc's stories.
    • Becky Sharp The social climber of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair.
    • Benedick The confirmed bachelor of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
    • Bob Cratchit Scrooge's clerk in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
    • Captain Wentworth The naval officer of Jane Austen's Persuasion.
    • Count Vronsky The cavalry officer of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.
    • Daisy Buchanan The woman across the bay in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
    • Dr. Watson Holmes's friend and chronicler in Arthur Conan Doyle's stories.
    • Eliza Doolittle The flower seller of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.
    • Elizabeth Bennet The quick-witted heroine of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
    • Inspector Javert The relentless policeman of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables.
    • Irene Adler The opera singer who outwits Holmes in A Scandal in Bohemia.
    • Ishmael The narrator of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
    • Lemuel Gulliver The ship's surgeon of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
    • Lord Henry Wotton The witty cynic of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.
    • Mina Harker The schoolmistress who helps track the Count in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
    • Mr. Hyde Dr. Jekyll's other self in Robert Louis Stevenson's novella.
    • Mr. Knightley Emma's neighbor and frankest critic in Jane Austen's Emma.
    • Mr. Micawber The ever-hopeful debtor of Dickens's David Copperfield.
    • Mr. Rochester The master of Thornfield Hall in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.
    • Oberon King of the fairies in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
    • Passepartout Phileas Fogg's valet in Around the World in Eighty Days.
    • Porthos The loudest of the three musketeers in Alexandre Dumas's novel.
    • Professor Van Helsing The vampire hunter of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
    • The Queen of Hearts The croquet-playing monarch of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
    • Rip Van Winkle The man who sleeps for twenty years in Washington Irving's story.
    • Sancho Panza Don Quixote's squire in Cervantes's novel.
    • Victor Frankenstein The scientist of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel.
    • Viola The shipwrecked heroine of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

    Myth, legend and folklore 28

    • Andromeda The princess Perseus rescues from a sea monster.
    • Apollo The Greek god of music, archery and prophecy.
    • Ares The Greek god of war.
    • Atalanta The huntress of Greek myth who outruns her suitors.
    • Bastet The Egyptian cat goddess.
    • Calypso The nymph who keeps Odysseus on her island for seven years.
    • Enkidu The wild man who becomes the friend of Gilgamesh.
    • Eurydice The wife Orpheus tries to lead out of the underworld.
    • The Fairy Godmother The helper with the wand in Charles Perrault's Cinderella.
    • Finn McCool The giant hero of Irish legend, tied to the Giant's Causeway.
    • Hector The greatest warrior of Troy in Homer's Iliad.
    • Jack Frost The spirit of frost and cold weather in English-speaking folklore.
    • Koschei the Deathless The villain of Russian folktales who hides his death inside a needle.
    • Loki The trickster of the Norse gods.
    • Maid Marian Robin Hood's companion in the English ballads and plays.
    • Medea The sorceress who helps Jason win the Golden Fleece.
    • Medusa The Gorgon of Greek myth whose gaze turns people to stone.
    • Mother Nature The natural world pictured as a person.
    • Odin The one-eyed chief of the Norse gods.
    • Osiris The Egyptian god of the afterlife.
    • Pecos Bill The cowboy of American tall tales who rides a cyclone.
    • Penelope The wife of Odysseus, who holds off her suitors for twenty years.
    • Poseidon The Greek god of the sea.
    • Rumpelstiltskin The little man who spins straw into gold in the Grimm tale.
    • Sinbad the Sailor The voyager of the One Thousand and One Nights.
    • Sir Gawain The knight who accepts the Green Knight's challenge.
    • Sir Lancelot The greatest knight of King Arthur's Round Table.
    • The Yeti The 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 Quatermain The hunter of H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines.
    • Anne Elliot The heroine of Jane Austen's Persuasion.
    • Aramis The most secretive of the three musketeers in Alexandre Dumas's novel.
    • C. Auguste Dupin Edgar Allan Poe's Paris detective.
    • Colonel Brandon The quiet suitor of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
    • The Count of Monte Cristo Edmond Dantès after his escape in Alexandre Dumas's novel.
    • Faust The scholar who bargains with the devil in Goethe's play.
    • Frankenstein's creature The being Victor Frankenstein builds in Mary Shelley's novel.
    • Gabriel Oak The shepherd of Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd.
    • The Headless Horseman The ghost of Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
    • Iago The schemer of Shakespeare's Othello.
    • The Invisible Man Griffin, the scientist of H. G. Wells's 1897 novel.
    • Jack Worthing The man who invents a brother in The Importance of Being Earnest.
    • Jacob Marley Scrooge's dead partner, the first ghost of A Christmas Carol.
    • Jonathan Harker The solicitor who visits the Count's castle in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
    • Madame Defarge The knitter of Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities.
    • Malvolio The steward in yellow stockings in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
    • Milady de Winter The spy of Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers.
    • Miss Havisham The jilted bride of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations.
    • Mr. Bingley Darcy's cheerful friend in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
    • Mr. Wickham The charming militia officer of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
    • Nick Carraway The narrator of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
    • Pierre Bezukhov The awkward heir of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.
    • Professor Challenger The explorer of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World.
    • Professor Moriarty Holmes's arch-enemy in Arthur Conan Doyle's stories.
    • Prospero The magician of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
    • Quasimodo The bell-ringer of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.
    • Queequeg The harpooner of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
    • The Scarlet Pimpernel The secret identity of Sir Percy Blakeney in Baroness Orczy's novel.
    • Sir John Falstaff The fat knight of Shakespeare's Henry IV plays.

    Myth, legend and folklore 28

    • Aeneas The Trojan hero of Virgil's Aeneid.
    • Ali Baba The woodcutter who learns the words "Open Sesame".
    • Ariadne The princess who gives Theseus the thread through the labyrinth.
    • Artemis The Greek goddess of the hunt.
    • Cassandra The Trojan prophetess whom nobody believes.
    • Dido The queen of Carthage in Virgil's Aeneid.
    • Friar Tuck The friar of Robin Hood's band.
    • Guinevere King Arthur's queen.
    • Hades The Greek god of the underworld.
    • Heimdall The watchman of the Norse gods, guard of the rainbow bridge.
    • Helen of Troy The queen whose departure starts the Trojan War.
    • Hephaestus The blacksmith of the Greek gods.
    • Hera Queen of the Greek gods.
    • Hermes The messenger of the Greek gods.
    • King Midas The king of Greek myth whose touch turns things to gold.
    • Lady Luck Good fortune pictured as a person.
    • The Lady of the Lake The enchantress who gives King Arthur the sword Excalibur.
    • Little John Robin Hood's second-in-command, famous for his height.
    • Merlin The wizard of the King Arthur legends.
    • Morgan le Fay The enchantress of the King Arthur legends.
    • Old Man Winter The cold season pictured as a person.
    • Paris of Troy The Trojan prince who carries Helen away.
    • Persephone Queen of the underworld in Greek myth.
    • Ra The Egyptian sun god.
    • The Sandman The folklore figure who sprinkles sand to bring sleep.
    • The Sheriff of Nottingham Robin Hood's enemy in the English ballads.
    • Theseus The Greek hero who kills the Minotaur.
    • Thoth The 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