Orbital Kiss

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.

Anime

 * At the end of Slayers Next, not only does the camera spin when 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.
 * 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.
 * 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

 * The "first kiss" cutscene of The Sims 2 does this.
 * In Mass Effect 2, this happens in 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 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 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.