true love kiss
Spell-breaking smooch
A true love kiss is a kiss between soulmates, especially one with magical power to break curses or awaken the unconscious.
The trope appears throughout fairy tales and their adaptations: Only a true love's kiss could wake Sleeping Beauty.
Modern usage is often playful or ironic, acknowledging the fantasy: I'm not waiting around for a true love's kiss to fix my problems.
- once upon a timeTraditional narrative opening
- fairytaleMagical children's narrative
- princessMonarch's daughter or heir
- princeRoyal family male
- knight in shining armorIdealized rescuing hero
enchanted · spell · awakening · soulmate · romance · magical · lips · embrace · romantic gesture · happily ever after · happily married · cursed · passion · destined · heartfelt · tender · devotion · eternal
- frog folkloretransformation, shape-shifting, curse breaker, cursed prince, golden ball
- happy endingshappy ending, fairy tale ending, happily ever after, underdog victory, forever after
- kissespeck, smooch, snog, buss, smack
- ShrekShrek, Fiona, Lord Farquaad, Puss in Boots, Prince Charming
true, love, kiss, truly, truthful, truthfully, untruthful, truths, truer