especially movies for children. Handsome princes kissed princesses, Wally Cleaver kissed Karen in
Leave It to Beaver, and Anna Chlumsky and Macaulay Culkin famously kissed in
My Girl. For a while, movies treated growing up as synonymous with kissing. It’s one of the first “adult” things people look forward to when they’re young (usually after a healthy period of being grossed out by the thought), and it’s something many people continue to look forward to well into adulthood. A good movie kiss is fun to watch
and an exciting story development, a sign that the relationship between two characters is going to get deeper or more complicated. If you’re a character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, though? It might never happen.