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But the connection between Elizabeth and the Creature is romantic. The fact that there's no kiss doesn't change that.

Guillermo del Toro literally talks about this scene ☝️ this way :

“That is their wedding,” del Toro explains. “Her dress is meant to evoke the bandages of Elsa Lanchester in the James Whale film. So the Bride is Elizabeth — and their love is impossible.” [...] “There is a beautiful marriage of souls in the film,” del Toro continues. “The creature gets a bride and loses her on the same day. They realize they're both alive and their love dies shortly thereafter. I think it's one of the most poignant ways to address the Bride aspect of the story.”

It's between the Creature and Elizabeth that there is a romantic nuance (more than that she also embodies his Bride).

Especially since Elizabeth feels close to the Creature because she herself feels like a Creature who is not of this world.

Worse, some people say that about Elizabeth & Victor :

Elizabeth and Victor have feelings for each other, but she was already engaged to someone else.

There is no romantic nuance between Elizabeth & Victor. At least not mutual. Victor is in love with Elizabeth. And with a certain perversion since she is literally the perfect replica of his own mother (it's the same actress who plays both roles). Elizabeth, for her part, hates Victor.

The fact that Harlander only saw Victor's science, his creation, as a means to preserving himself. His own name.

The fact that Victor had only thought so far as the creation itself, and not what comes after. That the perfection in his mind began and ended with the act of creation.

How men only see (pro)creation through the lens of carrying on their legacy.

And when told no, that the creature will not be Harlander and his legacy? He seeks to ruin it all. And when the creature seems too slow, too difficult, too painful for Victor to deal with? He tries to destroy him.