How Many Monster High Main Characters Have Romantic Arcs?

Totally love this little deep dive — romance in 'Monster High' is one of those fun, messy things that shifts depending on which version you’re watching or reading. If you mean the classic, original core characters (think Draculaura, Cleo de Nile, Clawdeen Wolf, Frankie Stein, Lagoona Blue, Ghoulia Yelps, and Deuce Gorgon), the answer changes a bit depending on how strictly you define a “romantic arc.” In the strictest sense — characters who have clear, recurring, central romantic plotlines — I’d say there are three obvious ones: Draculaura’s relationship with Clawd (her steady beau across a lot of the original media), Lagoona’s established romance with Gil (that’s one of the more consistently shown couples), and Cleo/Deuce’s on-again, off-again tension that functions as a genuine arc for both of them. Those three are the ones that show up most consistently and feel like bona fide arcs rather than one-off crushes or background flirting.

If you loosen the definition to include meaningful but continuity-dependent or lighter romantic subplots, you can add a couple more names to the list. Frankie Stein gets a handful of sweet, tentative romantic beats across various specials, movies, and toy-line tie-ins — sometimes flirtations or tiny relationships (they’re often written as awkward, adorable beginnings rather than full soap-opera arcs). Ghoulia, meanwhile, is usually romance-adjacent rather than a center of it; she’s more often the brainy side character whose romantic life is slow-burn or subtle, but she does have moments and minor pairings in some stories. So depending on how generous you are with “romantic arc,” that brings the number up to around four or five main characters with at least some romance woven into their stories.

Part of what makes this tricky and kind of delightful is that 'Monster High' has been rebooted and reinterpreted several times — the original 2010-era canon, later webisodes and movies, plus the various reboots and toy-line narratives. Some reboots double-down on relationships, others emphasize friendship and identity first and keep romance as a background beat. So a strict count is almost a trick question: three core, consistently shown romantic arcs in the classic telling, but about four to five if you include recurring minor arcs and continuity-specific romances. Personally, I love how the franchise balances crushes and relationships with friendship, fashion, and monster drama — it keeps things cozy without tipping into soap territory, and that’s exactly the vibe I keep coming back for.