Orbital Kiss: Difference between revisions

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.
Content added Content deleted
VisualWikitext
(Rescuing 0 sources and tagging 2 as dead. #IABot (v2.0beta9))
m (Reverted edits by InternetArchiveBot (talk) to last revision by Gethbot)
Tag: Rollback
Line 1: Line 1:
{{trope}}
<!DOCTYPE html>
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]].
<html class="client-nojs" lang="en" dir="ltr">

<head>
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]].
<meta charset="UTF-8"/>
{{examples}}
<title>Login required - All The Tropes</title>

<script>document.documentElement.className = document.documentElement.className.replace( /(^|\s)client-nojs(\s|$)/, "$1client-js$2" );</script>
== [[Anime]] ==
<script>(window.RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function(){mw.config.set({"wgCanonicalNamespace":"Special","wgCanonicalSpecialPageName":"Badtitle","wgNamespaceNumber":-1,"wgPageName":"Special:Badtitle","wgTitle":"Badtitle","wgCurRevisionId":0,"wgRevisionId":0,"wgArticleId":0,"wgIsArticle":false,"wgIsRedirect":false,"wgAction":"view","wgUserName":null,"wgUserGroups":["*"],"wgCategories":[],"wgBreakFrames":true,"wgPageContentLanguage":"en","wgPageContentModel":"wikitext","wgSeparatorTransformTable":["",""],"wgDigitTransformTable":["",""],"wgDefaultDateFormat":"dmy","wgMonthNames":["","January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December"],"wgMonthNamesShort":["","Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec"],"wgRelevantPageName":"Special:Badtitle","wgRelevantArticleId":0,"wgRequestId":"1df0a1df7c832945105c1cb5","wgIsProbablyEditable":false,"wgRelevantPageIsProbablyEditable":false,"wgBetaFeaturesFeatures":[],"wgWikiEditorEnabledModules":[],"wgCategoryTreePageCategoryOptions":"{\"mode\":0,\"hideprefix\":20,\"showcount\":true,\"namespaces\":false}","wgCollapsibleVectorEnabledModules":{"collapsiblenav":true,"experiments":true},"wgMetrolookEnabledModules":{"collapsiblenav":true},"wgPreferredVariant":"en","wgMFExpandAllSectionsUserOption":true,"wgMFEnableFontChanger":true,"wgMFDisplayWikibaseDescriptions":{"search":false,"nearby":false,"watchlist":false,"tagline":false},"wgMediaViewerOnClick":false,"wgMediaViewerEnabledByDefault":true,"wgPopupsShouldSendModuleToUser":true,"wgPopupsConflictsWithNavPopupGadget":false,"wgRelatedArticles":null,"wgRelatedArticlesUseCirrusSearch":false,"wgRelatedArticlesOnlyUseCirrusSearch":false,"wgVisualEditor":{"pageLanguageCode":"en","pageLanguageDir":"ltr","pageVariantFallbacks":"en","usePageImages":true,"usePageDescriptions":false},"wgNoticeProject":"open","wgCentralNoticeCookiesToDelete":[],"wgCentralNoticeCategoriesUsingLegacy":["Fundraising","fundraising"],"wgCentralAuthMobileDomain":false,"wgVisualEditorToolbarScrollOffset":0,"wgVisualEditorUnsupportedEditParams":["undo","undoafter","veswitched"],"wgEditSubmitButtonLabelPublish":false});mw.loader.state({"ext.globalCssJs.user.styles":"ready","ext.globalCssJs.site.styles":"ready","ext.gadget.NoSmallFonts":"ready","site.styles":"ready","noscript":"ready","user.styles":"ready","user":"ready","user.options":"ready","user.tokens":"loading","ext.socialprofile.responsive":"ready","ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.noscript":"ready","mediawiki.legacy.shared":"ready","mediawiki.legacy.commonPrint":"ready","mediawiki.sectionAnchor":"ready","mediawiki.skinning.interface":"ready","skins.vector.styles":"ready","ext.globalCssJs.user":"ready","ext.globalCssJs.site":"ready"});mw.loader.implement("user.tokens@0phoura",function($,jQuery,require,module){/*@nomin*/mw.user.tokens.set({"editToken":"+\\","patrolToken":"+\\","watchToken":"+\\","csrfToken":"+\\"});
* 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.
});mw.loader.load(["site","mediawiki.page.startup","mediawiki.user","mediawiki.hidpi","mediawiki.page.ready","mediawiki.searchSuggest","ext.centralauth.centralautologin","ext.collapsiblevector.collapsibleNav","ext.eventLogging.subscriber","ext.gadget.ATTSiteCode","ext.gadget.Altredirects","ext.gadget.purgetab","ext.gadget.Auto_Complete","ext.gadget.HotLicense","ext.gadget.Edittools","ext.hideSection","ext.popups","ext.urlShortener.toolbar","ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init","ext.visualEditor.targetLoader","ext.centralNotice.geoIP","skins.vector.js"]);});</script>
* ''[[FLCL]]'' parodied this in the first episode, with the characters wondering how they can hold their breath while the camera pans around.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?debug=false&amp;lang=en&amp;modules=ext.socialprofile.responsive%7Cext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.noscript%7Cmediawiki.legacy.commonPrint%2Cshared%7Cmediawiki.sectionAnchor%7Cmediawiki.skinning.interface%7Cskins.vector.styles&amp;only=styles&amp;skin=vector"/>
** 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.}}
<script async="" src="/w/load.php?debug=false&amp;lang=en&amp;modules=startup&amp;only=scripts&amp;skin=vector"></script>
* 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.
<meta name="ResourceLoaderDynamicStyles" content=""/>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?debug=false&amp;lang=en&amp;modules=ext.gadget.NoSmallFonts&amp;only=styles&amp;skin=vector"/>
== [[Film]] ==
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?debug=false&amp;lang=en&amp;modules=site.styles&amp;only=styles&amp;skin=vector"/>
* ''[[The Thomas Crown Affair]]''
<meta name="generator" content="MediaWiki 1.31.1"/>
* ''[[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.
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/>
* ''[[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.}}
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/apple-touch-icon.png"/>
* 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.
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico"/>
* [[Larry the Cable Guy]] in ''[[Witless Protection]]'' before fading to black.
<link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="/w/opensearch_desc.php" title="All The Tropes (en)"/>
* Greg Pilkington and Graham in ''Priest'', complete with sweeping orchestral music on the beach.
<link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" href="https://allthetropes.org/w/api.php?action=rsd"/>
* 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.
<link rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"/>
** Baz Luhrman's ''Moulin Rouge'' also features the equivalent, at the end of the Elephant Love Medley. I sense a pattern.
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="All The Tropes Atom feed" href="/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&amp;feed=atom"/>
* 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]].
<link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//login.miraheze.org"/>
** They definitely kiss at the end of ''Three Idiots'', and it's definitely an Orbital Kiss
<!--[if lt IE 9]><script src="/w/load.php?debug=false&amp;lang=en&amp;modules=html5shiv&amp;only=scripts&amp;skin=vector&amp;sync=1"></script><![endif]-->
* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in the [[Princess Diaries]].
</head>
* 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.
<body class="mediawiki ltr sitedir-ltr mw-hide-empty-elt ns--1 ns-special mw-special-Badtitle page-Special_Badtitle rootpage-Special_Badtitle skin-vector action-view"> <div id="mw-page-base" class="noprint"></div>
* The finale of ''[[Serendipity]].''
<div id="mw-head-base" class="noprint"></div>
* 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.
<div id="content" class="mw-body" role="main">
* Played straight at the end of [[Airplane!]]—until the end, when the romantic background chorus sings so high they injure their voices.
<a id="top"></a>

<div id="siteNotice" class="mw-body-content"><!-- CentralNotice --></div><div class="mw-indicators mw-body-content">
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
</div>
* 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.
<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" lang="en">Login required</h1> <div id="bodyContent" class="mw-body-content">
* Ned and Moze in the ''[[Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide]]'' series finale.
<div id="contentSub"></div>
* 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.
<div id="jump-to-nav" class="mw-jump">
* Doogie and Michele in an episode of ''[[Doogie Howser, M.D.]]''
Jump to: <a href="#mw-head">navigation</a>, <a href="#p-search">search</a>
* 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.
</div>
* Josh and Donna in ''[[The West Wing]]''.
<div id="mw-content-text">Please <a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&amp;returnto=Orbital+Kiss&amp;returntoquery=action%3Draw" title="Special:UserLogin">log in</a> to view other pages.<p id="mw-returnto">Return to <a href="/wiki/Main_Page" title="Main Page">Main Page</a>.</p>
* Shawn and Juliet in ''[[Psych]]''. Their second after their first is a [["Shut Up" Kiss]].
<noscript><img src="https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" title="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;" /></noscript></div> <div class="printfooter">
* Mary and Matthew in ''[[Downton Abbey]]''.
Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:Badtitle">https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:Badtitle{{Dead link}}</a>" </div>
* Rachel and Finn in the [[Glee]] episode 'Michael'. It starts off as a hug then turns into a kiss.
<div id="catlinks" class="catlinks catlinks-allhidden" data-mw="interface"></div> <div class="visualClear"></div>

</div>
== [[Video Games]] ==
</div>
* The "first kiss" cutscene of ''[[The Sims]] 2'' does this.
<div id="mw-navigation">
* In ''[[Mass Effect]] 2'', this happens in {{spoiler|Thane's}} romance scene. (Well, the camera rotates by 180 degrees, but it's close enough.)
<h2>Navigation menu</h2>
* There is a mod that adds this to the pre-[[Final Battle]] dialogue with [[Romance Sidequest|your love interest]] in ''[[Dragon Age Origins]]''.
<div id="mw-head">

<div id="p-personal" role="navigation" class="" aria-labelledby="p-personal-label">
== [[Western Animation]] ==
<h3 id="p-personal-label">Personal tools</h3>
* The kiss in the series finale of ''[[Danny Phantom]]'': "Wow. Remind me to save the world more often."
<ul>
* Bob and Dot's kiss in a ''[[Re Boot]]'' season finale.
<li id="pt-login-private"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&amp;returnto=Orbital+Kiss&amp;returntoquery=action%3Draw" title="You need to log in to use this wiki [o]" accesskey="o">Log in</a></li> </ul>
* Happens in ''[[Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo]]'' with Robin and Starfire.
</div>
* ''[[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]].
<div id="left-navigation">
* ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' and Jasmine spin around on the magic carpet as they kiss at the end of the movie.
<div id="p-namespaces" role="navigation" class="vectorTabs" aria-labelledby="p-namespaces-label">

<h3 id="p-namespaces-label">Namespaces</h3>
{{reflist}}
<ul>
[[Category:Camera Tricks]]
<li id="ca-nstab-special" class="selected"><span><a href="/w/index.php?action=raw&amp;title=Orbital+Kiss" title="This is a special page, and it cannot be edited">Special page</a></span></li> </ul>
[[Category:Kissing Tropes]]
</div>
[[Category:Orbital Kiss]]
<div id="p-variants" role="navigation" class="vectorMenu emptyPortlet" aria-labelledby="p-variants-label">
<input type="checkbox" class="vectorMenuCheckbox" aria-labelledby="p-variants-label" />
<h3 id="p-variants-label">
<span>Variants</span>
</h3>
<div class="menu">
<ul>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="right-navigation">
<div id="p-views" role="navigation" class="vectorTabs emptyPortlet" aria-labelledby="p-views-label">
<h3 id="p-views-label">Views</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="p-cactions" role="navigation" class="vectorMenu emptyPortlet" aria-labelledby="p-cactions-label">
<input type="checkbox" class="vectorMenuCheckbox" aria-labelledby="p-cactions-label" />
<h3 id="p-cactions-label"><span>More</span></h3>
<div class="menu">
<ul>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div id="p-search" role="search">
<h3>
<label for="searchInput">Search</label>
</h3>
<form action="/w/index.php" id="searchform">
<div id="simpleSearch">
<input type="search" name="search" placeholder="Search All The Tropes" title="Search All The Tropes [f]" accesskey="f" id="searchInput"/><input type="hidden" value="Special:Search" name="title"/><input type="submit" name="fulltext" value="Search" title="Search the pages for this text" id="mw-searchButton" class="searchButton mw-fallbackSearchButton"/><input type="submit" name="go" value="Go" title="Go to a page with this exact name if it exists" id="searchButton" class="searchButton"/> </div>
</form>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="mw-panel">
<div id="p-logo" role="banner"><a class="mw-wiki-logo" href="/wiki/Main_Page" title="Visit the main page"></a></div>
<div class="portal" role="navigation" id="p-navigation" aria-labelledby="p-navigation-label">
<h3 id="p-navigation-label">Navigation</h3>
<div class="body">
<ul>
<li id="n-Home-Page"><a href="/wiki/Main_Page">Home Page</a></li><li id="n-ATT-Community-Portal"><a href="/wiki/All_The_Tropes:Community_Portal">ATT Community Portal</a></li><li id="n-recentchanges"><a href="/wiki/Special:RecentChanges" title="A list of recent changes in the wiki [r]" accesskey="r">Recent changes</a></li><li id="n-randompage"><a href="/wiki/Special:Random" title="Load a random page [x]" accesskey="x">Random page</a></li><li id="n-MediaWiki-Help"><a href="/wiki/Help:Contents">MediaWiki Help</a></li><li id="n-Upload-file"><a href="/wiki/Special:Upload">Upload file</a></li> </ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="portal" role="navigation" id="p-Troper_Tools" aria-labelledby="p-Troper_Tools-label">
<h3 id="p-Troper_Tools-label">Troper Tools</h3>
<div class="body">
<ul>
<li id="n-User-Blogs"><a href="/wiki/Special:ArticlesHome">User Blogs</a></li><li id="n-Newest-Blog-Posts"><a href="/wiki/Special:ArticleLists">Newest Blog Posts</a></li><li id="n-Write-a-Blog-Post"><a href="/wiki/Special:CreateBlogPost">Write a Blog Post</a></li><li id="n-Follow-Your-Friends"><a href="/wiki/Special:UserActivity">Follow Your Friends</a></li><li id="n-See-Friends.2FFoes"><a href="/wiki/Special:ViewRelationshipRequests">See Friends/Foes</a></li><li id="n-View-Your-Messages"><a href="/wiki/Special:UserBoard">View Your Messages</a></li><li id="n-See-Your-Gifts"><a href="/wiki/Special:ViewGifts">See Your Gifts</a></li><li id="n-Gift-a-Friend"><a href="/wiki/Special:GiveGift">Gift a Friend</a></li> </ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="portal" role="navigation" id="p-Troping_Utilities" aria-labelledby="p-Troping_Utilities-label">
<h3 id="p-Troping_Utilities-label">Troping Utilities</h3>
<div class="body">
<ul>
<li id="n-ATT-Page-Creator"><a href="/wiki/All_The_Tropes:ATT_Page_Creator">ATT Page Creator</a></li><li id="n-Trope-Workshop"><a href="/wiki/Category:Trope_Workshop">Trope Workshop</a></li><li id="n-ATT-Forums"><a href="/wiki/Special:WikiForum">ATT Forums</a></li><li id="n-ATT-Forums-.28old.29"><a href="/wiki/Forum:All_The_Tropes">ATT Forums (old)</a></li><li id="n-ATT-WebChat-.28IRC.29"><a href="/wiki/Special:WebChat">ATT WebChat (IRC)</a></li><li id="n-ATT-WebChat-.28onwiki.29"><a href="/wiki/Special:Chat">ATT WebChat (onwiki)</a></li><li id="n-Troper-Userboxes"><a href="/wiki/All_The_Tropes:Userboxes">Troper Userboxes</a></li><li id="n-Mechanics-of-Writing"><a href="/wiki/Mechanics_of_Writing">Mechanics of Writing</a></li> </ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="portal" role="navigation" id="p-Troper_Social_Networks" aria-labelledby="p-Troper_Social_Networks-label">
<h3 id="p-Troper_Social_Networks-label">Troper Social Networks</h3>
<div class="body">
<ul>
<li id="n-ATT-Twitter"><a href="https://twitter.com/ATTropes" rel="nofollow">ATT Twitter</a></li><li id="n-ATT-subreddit"><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/AllTheTropes/" rel="nofollow">ATT subreddit</a></li> </ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="portal" role="navigation" id="p-tb" aria-labelledby="p-tb-label">
<h3 id="p-tb-label">Tools</h3>
<div class="body">
<ul>
<li id="t-specialpages"><a href="/wiki/Special:SpecialPages" title="A list of all special pages [q]" accesskey="q">Special pages</a></li><li id="t-print"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:Badtitle&amp;action=raw&amp;printable=yes" rel="alternate" title="Printable version of this page [p]" accesskey="p">Printable version</a></li><li id="t-urlshortener"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UrlShortener&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fallthetropes.org%2Fw%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DSpecial%3ABadtitle%26action%3Draw">Get shortened URL</a></li> </ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer" role="contentinfo">
<ul id="footer-places">
<li id="footer-places-privacy"><a href="//meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy" class="extiw" title="m:Privacy Policy">Privacy policy</a></li>
<li id="footer-places-about"><a href="/wiki/All_The_Tropes:About" title="All The Tropes:About">About All The Tropes</a></li>
<li id="footer-places-disclaimer"><a href="/wiki/All_The_Tropes:General_disclaimer" title="All The Tropes:General disclaimer">Disclaimers</a></li>
<li id="footer-places-termsofservice"><a href="//meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use" class="extiw" title="m:Terms of Use">Terms of Use</a></li>
<li id="footer-places-mobileview"><a href="https://allthetropes.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Badtitle&amp;action=raw&amp;mobileaction=toggle_view_mobile{{Dead link}}" class="noprint stopMobileRedirectToggle">Mobile view</a></li>
</ul>
<ul id="footer-icons" class="noprint">
<li id="footer-copyrightico">
<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><img src="https://meta.miraheze.org/w/resources/assets/licenses/cc-by-sa.png" alt="Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)" width="88" height="31"/></a> </li>
<li id="footer-poweredbyico">
<a href="//www.mediawiki.org/"><img src="/w/resources/assets/poweredby_mediawiki_88x31.png" alt="Powered by MediaWiki" srcset="/w/resources/assets/poweredby_mediawiki_132x47.png 1.5x, /w/resources/assets/poweredby_mediawiki_176x62.png 2x" width="88" height="31"/></a><a href="https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/"><img src="https://static.miraheze.org/metawiki/7/7e/Powered_by_Miraheze.png" alt="Miraheze Wiki Hosting" width="88" height="31"/></a> </li>
</ul>
<div style="clear: both;"></div>
</div>
<!-- Matomo -->
<script type="text/javascript">
var _paq = _paq || [];
_paq.push(["trackPageView"]);
_paq.push(["enableLinkTracking"]);
(function() {
var u = "https://matomo.miraheze.org/";
var globalId = 1;
_paq.push(["setTrackerUrl", u + "piwik.php"]);
_paq.push(['setDocumentTitle', "allthetropeswiki" + " - " + "Special:Badtitle"]);
_paq.push(["setSiteId", "2"]);
_paq.push(["setCustomVariable", 1, "userType", "Anonymous", "visit"]);
if ( globalId ) {
_paq.push(['addTracker', u + "piwik.php", globalId]);
}
var d=document, g=d.createElement("script"), s=d.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; g.type="text/javascript";
g.defer=true; g.async=true; g.src=u+"piwik.js"; s.parentNode.insertBefore(g,s);
})();
</script>
<!-- End Matomo Code -->
<!-- Matomo Image Tracker -->
<noscript><p><img src="https://matomo.miraheze.org/piwik.php?idsite=2&amp;rec=1&amp;action_name=Special:Badtitle" style="border:0;" alt="" /></p></noscript>
<!-- End Matomo --><script>(window.RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function(){mw.config.set({"wgBackendResponseTime":160,"wgHostname":"mw3"});});</script>
</body>
</html>

Revision as of 00:00, 27 October 2018

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 lift a foot.

Subtrope of Orbital Shot. Not to be confused by a kiss on the orbitals. Or in near Earth space. A symptom of the Big Damn Kiss.

Examples of Orbital Kiss include:


Anime

  • At the end of Slayers Next, not only does the camera spin when 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. 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 wedding.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 don't even kiss, they just hug very dramatically.
    • They definitely kiss at the end of Three Idiots, and it's definitely an Orbital Kiss
  • 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 Boys Love ends with the former 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 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

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 Re Boot 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 and Jasmine spin around on the magic carpet as they kiss at the end of the movie.
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Orbital_Kiss?oldid=1655648"