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{{trope}}
An '''Orbital Kiss''' is a phenomenon in [[Film]], [[Western Animation]], [[Live-Action TV]] and visual media, where two characters kiss, and the camera rotates a full 360 degrees around them as this happens. This may or may not be accompanied by [[Slow Motion]]. Look for one of the two to [[Foot Popping|lift a foot]].
Subtrope of [[Orbital Shot]]. Not to be confused by [[Anywhere but Their Lips|a kiss on the orbitals.]] Or in [[Recycled in Space|near Earth space]]. A symptom of the [[Big Damn Kiss]].
{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] ==
* At the end of ''[[Slayers]] Next'', not only does the camera spin when {{spoiler|Lina and Gourry}} kiss, but ''they'' spin too. In mid air.
* ''[[FLCL]]'' parodied this in the first episode, with the characters wondering how they can hold their breath while the camera pans around.
** And again in a later episode, Naota is sent flying toward the class rep- who has a massive crush on him- and, for several seconds, time slows down, the [[Bishie Sparkle]] comes in and it seems like they're going to have the most painful, glorious, awesome kiss in all history. {{spoiler|Their foreheads collide and he goes tumbling down a nearby staircase, simultaneously infecting her with the latest forehead-burst monster.}}
* This happens once in ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'', when Miaka resolves to stay in the book world with Tamahome. However, they don't kiss, they just embrace.
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[The Thomas Crown Affair]]''
* ''[[Vertigo]]'' has one between Scottie and a made-up Judy. The lips of the two kissers are obscured by scenery during the rotation at regular intervals, due to rules at the time that forbade showing a kiss for more than a few seconds.
* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: At World's End'' has this happen at Will and Elizabeth's [[Married At Sea|wedding]].{{spoiler|In the midst of a battle, no less.}}
* A particularly disturbing one takes place in ''Outbreak''. Jimbo and Cindy have one, but Jimbo's got Motaba virus and passes out in Cindy's arms when the orbit comes full circle.
* [[Larry the Cable Guy]] in ''[[Witless Protection]]'' before fading to black.
* Greg Pilkington and Graham in ''Priest'', complete with sweeping orchestral music on the beach.
* In Baz Luhrman's ''Romeo + Juliet'', our eponymous star-struck lovers share a kiss in an elevator - which was actually too small to fit cast and crew inside. There were a lot of breathless grips running around the outside of the tiny lift set, removing and replacing panels to allow the steadicam to move freely around the couple.
** Baz Luhrman's ''Moulin Rouge'' also features the equivalent, at the end of the Elephant Love Medley. I sense a pattern.
* Every [[Bollywood]] film ever. Except the characters in question [[Kissing Discretion Shot|don't even kiss]], [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|they just hug very dramatically]].
** They definitely kiss at the end of ''Three Idiots'', and it's definitely an Orbital Kiss
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in the [[Princess Diaries]].
* Such a kiss, set to This Year's Love by David Grey, takes place in The Girl Next Door as the party drunkenly spins around the kissers.
* The finale of ''[[Serendipity]].''
* The second version of Kotaro Terauchi's ''[[Film/Boys Love|Boys Love]]'' ends with the former [[Hot for Student|teacher and student]] kissing while the camera spins around them.
* Played straight at the end of [[Airplane!]]—until the end, when the romantic background chorus sings so high they injure their voices.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* One features at the end of the ''[[Supernatural]]'' episode "Monster Movie" fits beautifully as the entire episode is shot in the style of old black-and-white monster movies.
* Ned and Moze in the ''[[Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide]]'' series finale.
* Sydney and Vaughn's kiss at the end of the ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'' episode "Phase One" was the culmination of almost two solid seasons of UST.
* Doogie and Michele in an episode of ''[[Doogie Howser, M.D.]]''
* Kirk and Uhura's famous "first interracial kiss" in a 1968 episode of ''[[Star Trek]]'' was, as a result of cultural taboos, hidden by an Orbital Kiss that just didn't make it all the way around.
* Josh and Donna in ''[[The West Wing]]''.
* Shawn and Juliet in ''[[Psych]]''. Their second after their first is a [["Shut Up" Kiss]].
* Mary and Matthew in ''[[Downton Abbey]]''.
* Rachel and Finn in the [[Glee]] episode 'Michael'. It starts off as a hug then turns into a kiss.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The "first kiss" cutscene of ''[[The Sims]] 2'' does this.
* In ''[[Mass Effect]] 2'', this happens in {{spoiler|Thane's}} romance scene. (Well, the camera rotates by 180 degrees, but it's close enough.)
* There is a mod that adds this to the pre-[[Final Battle]] dialogue with [[Romance Sidequest|your love interest]] in ''[[Dragon Age Origins]]''.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The kiss in the series finale of ''[[Danny Phantom]]'': "Wow. Remind me to save the world more often."
* Bob and Dot's kiss in a ''[[ReBoot]]'' season finale.
* Happens in ''[[Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo]]'' with Robin and Starfire.
* ''[[Recess]]'' plays this one for all it's worth, complete with the playground scenery suddenly transforming into a fairy-tale land and back again, in the episode where TJ and Spinelli have their [[Test Kiss]].
* ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' and Jasmine spin around on the magic carpet as they kiss at the end of the movie.
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[[Category:Camera Tricks]]
[[Category:Kissing Tropes]]
[[Category:Orbital Kiss]]
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