History Main / FlightOfRomance

* ''Art/CupidAndPsycheBouguereau'': Is there anything more romantic than leaning on the shoulder of your beloved, as they carry you through the parting clouds? Psyche certainly seems to be taken by the experience in "The Rapture of Psyche".

Sister trope to RomanticRideSharing. Not to be confused with FreeFallRomance, where the flight part is dismissed entirely and the lovers succumb to gravity during their intimate moment. May involve MidflightWaterTouching.

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* ''Anime/IzettaTheLastWitch'', near the end, has Izetta take Finé on a broomstick ride overloaded with romantic subtext.
* In episode 39 of ''Anime/JewelpetTwinkle'', Akari takes her crush Yuuma flying through Jewel Land.
* At the end of ''Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie'' [[spoiler:Naruto and Hinata]] do this when they share TheBigDamnKiss.
* In ''Franchise/SailorMoon'', Chibiusa goes flying in the dream world with Helios.

[[folder:Film -- Animation]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'', Astrid's first ride on Toothless turns into this for her and Hiccup after Toothless decides to play nice. Appropriately, the music during this scene is titled 'Romantic Flight' on the soundtrack.

* ''Film/{{Superman}}'' does this with Lois Lane in every single movie (except the third one, in which she became DemotedToExtra).

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'': Subverted by [[spoiler:Hal/Titan]]. They think saving Roxanne will be cool and [[RescueRomance make her instantly smitten]], so they throw her out the window themselves and dive to rescue her... then continue to fling her around as they fly through the city, [[ItsAllAboutMe too self-absorbed]] to notice she is ''not'' enjoying the experience.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'': Subverted by [[spoiler:Hal/Titan]]. They think saving Roxanne will be cool and [[RescueRomance make her instantly smitten]], so they throw her out the themselves window and dive to rescue her... then continue to drop and catch her repeatedly as they fly through the city just so they can "save" her, [[ItsAllAboutMe too self-absorbed]] to notice she is ''not'' enjoying the experience.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'': Subverted by the ''actual'' villain, [[spoiler:Hal/Titan]]. He thinks saving his crush Roxanne will be cool, so he throws her out the window and dives to rescue her... then lets her fall again just so he can "save" her again, [[ItsAllAboutMe too self-absorbed]] to notice she is ''not'' enjoying the experience.

** Subverted in that Ishani isn't actually romantically interested in Dusty (yet...); she's using the flight as a chance to talk to Dusty and give him racing advice which is bad bordering on suicidal - following the railroad tracks rather than climbing over the Himalayas. Rusty follows the advice anyway, flying ''through'' the railroad tunnel, a maneuver he and only one other racer (who was not present) had wingspan short enough to acomplish. She has a change of heart when he turns up at the next stop in first place, and almost having killed himself to get there.

* ''Film/NineteenFortyOne'': Played for raunchy humor and schaedenfreude: one of the film's many subplots involves a member of the USAAF (who ironically failed his piloting tests) getting his hands on a plane to fly TheGeneralsDaughter (who has a MileHighClub fetish). The "having sex" part succeeds, but unfortunately the plane is mistaken for a Japanese attack and almost shot down from the sky.

* ''Film/{{1941}}'': Played for raunchy humor and schaedenfreude: one of the film's many subplots involves a member of the USAAF (who ironically failed his piloting tests) getting his hands on a plane to fly TheGeneralsDaughter (who has a MileHighClub fetish). The "having sex" part succeeds, but unfortunately the plane is mistaken for a Japanese attack and almost shot down from the sky.

* A more grounded version happens in the ScreenToStageAdaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney'', when Quasimodo brings Esmeralda to the top of the bell tower. Despite Esmeralda's fear of heights, the two of them end up straddling the balustrade and pretending to soar over Paris. It's a moment of loving friendship from Esmeralda, but it also cements Quasimodo's (doomed) romantic feelings for her.

* A more grounded version happens in the ScreenToStageAdaptation of ''[[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney]]'', when Quasimodo brings Esmeralda to the top of the bell tower. Despite Esmeralda's fear of heights, the two of them end up straddling the balustrade and pretending to soar over Paris. It's a moment of loving friendship from Esmeralda, but it also cements Quasimodo's (doomed) romantic feelings for her.

* Played fairly straight but also for laughs both in ''Film/ThoseMagnificentMenInTheirFlyingMachines'' and ''Film/NineteenFortyOne''.

* Link and Zelda fly on their Loftwings together in the beginning of ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]'', with Zelda about to say something important before she gets hurtled to the surface world by a tornado.

** [[MoodWhiplash Cut back to]] [[AlasPoorVillain Bowser...]]

** [[MoodWhiplash Cut back to Bowser...]]

Not to be confused with FreeFallRomance, where the flight part is dismissed entirely and the lovers succumb to gravity during their intimate moment. May involve MidflightWaterTouching.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'': Subverted by the ''actual'' villain ([[spoiler:Hal/Titan]]). He thinks saving his crush Roxanne will be cool, so he throws her out the window and dives to rescue her... then lets her fall again just so he can "save" her again, [[ItsAllAboutMe too self-absorbed]] to notice she is ''not'' enjoying the experience.

* The late Music/GuruJosh flew a PPG trike with his love interest in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEEd4NZhNHw "Ray of Sunshine"]].

* Viciously mocked (like everything else) in ''{{Theatre/Twisted}}'' with "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLImMSewqWk Take Off Your Clothes]]", where Aladdin tries to convince the Princess to sleep with him, cataloguing every UrbanLegend about sexual innuendo in Disney films.