Tropescilloscope: Award-Bait Song

That epic, sappy song in a movie that wins all the acclaim. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Serious Business Breaking the Fourth Wall Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Take a Third Option Black Comedy Rape Dressing as the Enemy The Film of the Book Hong Kong Films The Vamp Punny Name The Dragon Offscreen Teleportation Madness Mantra Shown Their Work After the End Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Scary Black Man Evil-Detecting Dog Oh, Crap! Here We Go Again! Fan Disservice As You Know Coming-of-Age Story Grey and Gray Morality Faux Affably Evil Silent Movie Woman in White Historical Villain Upgrade Married to the Job Back from the Dead Heel–Face Turn Thriller BFG What the Hell, Hero? And I Must Scream British Films Mood Whiplash Beware the Nice Ones Pragmatic Villainy Babies Ever After All Girls Want Bad Boys Conspicuous CG Those Wacky Nazis Corrupt Corporate Executive Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Big Bad Duumvirate Badass Boast I Need a Freaking Drink Dutch Angle Our Vampires Are Different Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Evil Counterpart Cain and Abel Wham Line Framing Device He Who Fights Monsters Kubrick Stare Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Brother–Sister Incest Suspiciously Similar Substitute Ambiguous Ending Improbable Aiming Skills Bloody Hilarious Age Lift Bloodless Carnage The Lancer Death Seeker Morality Pet Idiot Ball My Beloved Smother The Cavalry Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! An Axe to Grind A God Am I Soft Glass Destination Defenestration The Faceless Unresolved Sexual Tension Stealth Hi/Bye Captain Obvious Rasputinian Death Chewing the Scenery Mythology Gag Affectionate Parody Berserk Button Poor Communication Kills Mexican Standoff Pimped-Out Dress Based on a True Story Only Known by Their Nickname Rule of Cool Take That! Taking You with Me Plot Hole Dissonant Serenity Corpsing Romantic Comedy Actually Pretty Funny Fire-Forged Friends World of Ham Male Frontal Nudity The Dreaded Stealth Pun Wretched Hive Eiffel Tower Effect Smug Snake Psychological Thriller Sequel Escalation Belligerent Sexual Tension Fainting Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! As Himself Exactly What It Says on the Tin Crucified Hero Shot My God, What Have I Done? The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Mama Bear Heroic BSoD Disney Death Off-into-the-Distance Ending Expy More Dakka Camera Abuse The Starscream Humiliation Conga Wrong Genre Savvy Gold Digger You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Dogged Nice Guy Friend to All Children Knight Templar Implacable Man Cool Guns Empathic Environment Kill It with Fire Made of Iron I Did What I Had to Do Off with His Head! Does This Remind You of Anything? Translation Convention Country Matters Dying Moment of Awesome Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Lock and Load Montage Intrepid Reporter Pretty in Mink The Bad Guy Wins No Ending Left the Background Music On Men Are the Expendable Gender Crapsack World Match Cut Action Prologue Tranquil Fury Earn Your Happy Ending No Antagonist The Lost Lenore No-Holds-Barred Beatdown No Good Deed Goes Unpunished The Sociopath Gratuitous English Deliberate Values Dissonance Hollywood Darkness Double-Meaning Title Becoming the Mask Redemption Equals Death The '50s Face–Heel Turn Damsel in Distress A Date with Rosie Palms Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Beta Couple Red Oni, Blue Oni Drill Sergeant Nasty Drowning My Sorrows Villain Opening Scene It Can Think Defrosting Ice Queen Foregone Conclusion Animated Credits Opening Jerkass Has a Point Sir Swears-a-Lot Cat Fight Green-Eyed Monster Immune to Bullets One-Word Title Zombie Stories Eyepatch of Power Catapult Nightmare Black Comedy Freudian Excuse Overprotective Dad Ambiguously Gay Evil Sounds Deep Skewed Priorities Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil The Smurfette Principle Big-Bad Ensemble Stalker with a Crush Homage Rated M for Manly Genre Shift Loads and Loads of Characters Henpecked Husband Hypocritical Humor Failed a Spot Check Sports Stories Pragmatic Adaptation Drives Like Crazy Chekhov's Skill Heroes Want Redheads The End... Or Is It? Fingore Cold-Blooded Torture Closed Circle Film Series Chekhov's Gunman It's All About Me Television Movie Index Italian Films Chekhov's Gun Older Than They Look The Ghost As Long as It Sounds Foreign Dark Action Girl Bury Your Gays Amoral Attorney Maybe Ever After Put on a Bus Big Brother Instinct Betty and Veronica Gorn Fish out of Water Mystery and Detective Films Hair-Trigger Temper Genre Savvy Big "NO!" Spared by the Adaptation Adaptation Name Change The Quiet One Karma Houdini Improbable Weapon User Evil vs. Evil Credits Gag Silence Is Golden Insult Backfire Bi the Way All Just a Dream Did Not Get the Girl Establishing Character Moment Author Avatar "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Action Girl Cluster F-Bomb Monumental Damage Captain Ersatz Mind Screw Deconstruction Never Found the Body Arranged Marriage Chiaroscuro Vacation Films Artistic License – Gun Safety Imagine Spot Girl-on-Girl Is Hot The Brute Moment Killer All There in the Manual Big Fancy House Meaningful Echo Anyone Can Die Properly Paranoid Costume Porn Random Events Plot Cool Old Lady Continuity Nod Title Drop Gory Discretion Shot The X of Y Bring My Brown Pants Fiery Redhead Light Is Not Good Logo Joke Shirtless Scene The Cameo Dwindling Party Sci-Fi Horror Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Politically Incorrect Villain Blood from the Mouth Blatant Lies Nice Guy Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Jerk with a Heart of Gold Auto Erotica Too Dumb to Live In Name Only Fanservice Extra Race Lift Punch-Clock Villain timeperiod Cassandra Truth Famous Last Words Roaring Rampage of Revenge Extreme Doormat Jump Scare Early-Bird Cameo Brutal Honesty Genre Throwback Artistic License – Military It's Personal Deliberately Monochrome Creepy Child No Celebrities Were Harmed Science Fiction Films Adapted Out Throwing Your Sword Always Works Red Eyes, Take Warning Film Noir Expository Hairstyle Change Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Ship Tease Even Evil Has Standards Deadpan Snarker Let's Get Dangerous! Half the Man He Used to Be Contrived Coincidence Eagleland Combat Pragmatist Adaptation Distillation Fate Worse than Death Black and Gray Morality Beauty Is Never Tarnished You Have Outlived Your Usefulness The Ace I Have Your Wife Ambiguous Disorder Mooks Bond One-Liner Made of Explodium Manly Tears The Musical Villain with Good Publicity Show Within a Show Determinator aka: The Determinator Artistic License – Physics Artistic License – Geography Blood Knight Adaptation Expansion Male Gaze Celebrity Paradox You Killed My Father Storming the Castle Horror Comedy Bullying a Dragon An Arm and a Leg Badass Bookworm Villain Protagonist Music Stories Horror Films Cruel and Unusual Death Deus ex Machina Undying Loyalty Affably Evil Offscreen Moment of Awesome Pretty Little Headshots Police are Useless Adaptation Dye-Job Reality Is Unrealistic Artistic License – History Only a Flesh Wound Screw This, I'm Outta Here! The Voiceless Hooker with a Heart of Gold Naïve Newcomer Product Placement Say My Name Broken Bird Anti-Villain The '90s Cat Scare Hope Spot Cool Shades Alas, Poor Villain Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Guns Akimbo Adaptational Attractiveness '80s Hair Central Theme Dark Is Not Evil Big Applesauce Even Evil Has Loved Ones Gainax Ending Vitriolic Best Buds Historical In-Joke Bald of Evil Stock Footage Sacrificial Lion Have a Gay Old Time Manic Pixie Dream Girl Suddenly SHOUTING! Armor-Piercing Question Mr. Exposition Those Two Bad Guys Riddle for the Ages Kick the Dog What You Are in the Dark Obfuscating Stupidity Nothing Is Scarier Chuck Cunningham Syndrome "Awesome McCool" Name Intergenerational Friendship Rousing Speech Facial Horror Break the Haughty Shut Up, Hannibal! Advertised Extra No OSHA Compliance Works Set in World War II Dirty Coward Antagonist Title True Companions Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Shell-Shocked Veteran Despair Event Horizon Woman Scorned Action Survivor She Cleans Up Nicely Gone Horribly Right Exact Words Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Soundtrack Dissonance In Medias Res Yandere Super Strength Names to Run Away from Really Fast Parental Abandonment Reality Has No Subtitles Bond Villain Stupidity Bolivian Army Ending Russian Films Easily Forgiven Evil Plan Comically Missing the Point Would Hit a Girl Only Sane Man He Knows Too Much Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Knife Nut Demoted to Extra Meaningful Name Unreliable Narrator Lampshade Hanging Card-Carrying Villain The Chick Car Fu Defiant to the End Action Genre Neck Lift Only One Name Playing Gertrude Freeze-Frame Bonus Spanner in the Works Diabolus ex Machina Badass Longcoat Evil Brit Death by Sex Cloudcuckoolander Hate Sink Not So Above It All Superhero I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Bloodier and Gorier Dramatic Irony Romantic False Lead War Is Hell Sequel Hook Vomit Indiscretion Shot Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Arc Words Laughing Mad Instant Death Bullet Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Disproportionate Retribution Fourth Date Marriage Anachronism Stew How We Got Here Red Shirt Retcon Bowdlerise Red Herring Hidden Depths Dull Surprise Rewatch Bonus Police Brutality Get Out! Crazy-Prepared Toplessness from the Back Love Triangle Casting Gag German Films Small Name, Big Ego Bavarian Fire Drill All Men Are Perverts Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Reckless Gun Usage Meet Cute Due to the Dead Actor Allusion Break the Cutie Ironic Echo Villain Ball Outrun the Fireball My Greatest Failure Daylight Horror Ascended Extra Improvised Weapon Hoist by His Own Petard Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Funny Background Event All for Nothing There Is No Kill Like Overkill Broken Aesop Hollywood Law Large Ham Greater-Scope Villain A Father to His Men Ripped from the Headlines Shoot the Shaggy Dog The Un-Reveal Rule of Funny Sole Survivor Villainous Breakdown Bare Your Midriff Dirty Cop Wounded Gazelle Gambit Reasonable Authority Figure Getting Crap Past the Radar Fatal Family Photo Body Horror Didn't Think This Through For Want of a Nail Big Bad Anachronic Order Slap-Slap-Kiss Authority Equals Asskicking "Well Done, Son!" Guy Abusive Parents The Atoner Leave the Camera Running Your Cheating Heart Narrator Pre-Mortem One-Liner Manipulative Bastard Dual Wielding A.I. Is a Crapshoot Sealed Evil in a Can Humans Are Bastards In the Back Camp Gay Cowboy Cop Faking the Dead The Casanova Apocalypse How Not What It Looks Like Trailers Always Spoil As the Good Book Says... Index of Film Westerns Rule of Three Sassy Black Woman Really Gets Around Anguished Declaration of Love Nice Hat Posthumous Character Ax-Crazy Lighter and Softer Daddy's Girl Paper-Thin Disguise Would Hurt a Child Revenge Recycled IN SPACE! Irony The Alleged Car Loophole Abuse Darkest Hour Bound and Gagged Mundane Made Awesome Almost Kiss Fatal Flaw Cool Old Guy Up to Eleven Brainless Beauty Face Death with Dignity Not Even Bothering with the Accent Time Skip Eureka Moment Darker and Edgier Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Important Haircut Real Life Dark Reprise Took a Level in Jerkass Bland-Name Product Took a Level in Badass Book-Ends Smoking Is Cool Retired Badass Catch-Phrase The Dog Bites Back Ominous Latin Chanting Not So Stoic Alliterative Name Final Girl Ghost Fiction Hypocrite Slashed Throat Token Minority Calling the Old Man Out Truth in Television Noodle Incident Frame-Up Protagonist Title Mad Scientist Author Appeal Be Careful What You Wish For Adaptational Badass Only in It for the Money Insane Troll Logic Bittersweet Ending Cool Car MacGuffin Double Entendre Word of God Slasher Smile Rape as Drama This Is Gonna Suck Man on Fire Batman Gambit Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Does Not Like Shoes Re-Cut Our Zombies Are Different Psychopathic Manchild Dirty Old Man Abhorrent Admirer The Ditz Foil Precision F-Strike Bunny-Ears Lawyer No Name Given Death by Irony B-Movie Martial Arts Movie Fun with Acronyms The Place Mugging the Monster Amusing Injuries Very Loosely Based on a True Story Big Eater Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Fake Shemp Reality Ensues And Starring Adaptational Villainy Tagline Refuge in Audacity Better to Die than Be Killed Pyrrhic Victory Spell My Name with an "S" Sinister Minister Deal with the Devil Black Best Friend Straight Gay Arch-Enemy "Shaggy Dog" Story Beard of Evil Gender Flip Novelization Red Right Hand Funny Foreigner Plucky Comic Relief Big Damn Heroes Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Bar Brawl Distracted by the Sexy Kick the Son of a Bitch Victoria's Secret Compartment Meaningful Background Event Awesome, but Impractical Film Noir Index Stuff Blowing Up Pet the Dog Star-Crossed Lovers Alpha Bitch Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Five-Man Band Disguised in Drag Missing Mom Dropped a Bridge on Him Aside Glance Dark and Troubled Past Tap on the Head Needs Wiki Magic Love Taking the Bullet Character Development Fantasy Films Animal Motifs Together in Death Hero of Another Story Dumb Blonde Interrupted Suicide Developing Doomed Characters Those Two Guys Dramatic Gun Cock Call-Back Honor Before Reason Wicked Cultured Mr. Fanservice Unwitting Instigator of Doom Four-Temperament Ensemble Rich Bitch Mercy Kill Every Car Is a Pinto Video Credits Heroic Sacrifice The Remake Bait-and-Switch Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking The Oner Jerk Jock Spiteful Spit Canon Foreigner Shipper on Deck folderlabel Jerkass Artistic License – Law Historical-Domain Character Curse Cut Short Fat Bastard Good Is Not Nice Stepford Smiler Kids Are Cruel Market-Based Title Parental Neglect Heterosexual Life-Partners Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Visual Pun Malevolent Masked Men Ungrateful Bastard Sanity Slippage Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Karmic Death Naked People Are Funny The Mafia Everyone Has Standards Badass in a Nice Suit The Alcoholic A Minor Kidroduction Spiritual Successor Shout-Out I'm a Humanitarian Boom, Headshot! Aluminum Christmas Trees Parental Incest Mighty Whitey Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass The '60s Broken Pedestal Black Dude Dies First The Big Guy Major Injury Underreaction Scenery Gorn The Reveal What Happened to the Mouse? N-Word Privileges Pay Evil unto Evil 20 Minutes into the Future Psycho for Hire Overly Long Gag Insistent Terminology Sadistic Choice Race Against the Clock Attempted Rape Canadian Movies Manchild The Great Depression Depraved Bisexual One-Man Army Scare Chord Rule of Symbolism Laser-Guided Karma Scenery Porn Enemy Mine Once More, with Clarity! May–December Romance Well-Intentioned Extremist Accidental Misnaming Asshole Victim Room Full of Crazy Guile Hero Biopic From Bad to Worse Parental Substitute Jitter Cam The Stinger Kill 'em All Bilingual Bonus Vampire Fiction Leaning on the Fourth Wall Award-Bait Song Adult Fear Public Domain Feature Films Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Epic Fail Children Are Innocent You Have Failed Me The Power of Love From Nobody to Nightmare Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Disney Villain Death Happily Married Dramedy The Hero Dies Blackmail The '80s Fantastic Racism Department of Redundancy Department Never Trust a Trailer Ass Shove Brick Joke Dies Wide Open Tempting Fate Downer Ending Sexy Discretion Shot Unusually Uninteresting Sight Accidental Murder For the Evulz Australian Movies The '70s Not Quite Dead The Chessmaster Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Not So Different Real Life Writes the Plot Suspiciously Specific Denial Self-Deprecation Peek-a-Boo Corpse Eye Scream Agony of the Feet Creative Closing Credits Whole Plot Reference Flashback Death by Adaptation Retirony Obviously Evil Heel Realization Curb-Stomp Battle Military and Warfare Films Villain Song Call-Forward Motor Mouth Artistic License – Biology The Mole The Stoic Eldritch Abomination Training Montage Your Head A-Splode The Smart Guy Chase Scene Mistaken for Gay Grievous Bottley Harm Disappeared Dad Wham Shot Obstructive Bureaucrat Vomit Discretion Shot O.O.C. Is Serious Business Early Installment Weirdness Stylistic Suck Fanservice Badass Grandpa Worthy Opponent Adults Are Useless Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Determinator Unusual Euphemism Slasher Movie Leitmotif Same Language Dub Anti-Hero Bad "Bad Acting" Domestic Abuse Covers Always Lie Non-Indicative Name Make It Look Like an Accident Animal Title Index Setting Update Shower Scene Historical Hero Upgrade Neck Snap Hell Is That Noise Decoy Protagonist Composite Character Adorkable Creator Cameo Christmas Movies Index Last-Name Basis Annoying Younger Sibling Femme Fatale Papa Wolf Serial Killer Handicapped Badass Ms. Fanservice Evil Is Petty Hero Antagonist Demonic Possession The Stoner The Hero Love at First Sight Twist Ending The Bully Never My Fault Unspoken Plan Guarantee Death of a Child La Résistance Air-Vent Passageway Death Glare French Films Killed Mid-Sentence No-Sell It Will Never Catch On She's Got Legs Drugs Are Bad Adaptational Heroism Epic Movie NO INDOOR VOICE Line-of-Sight Name The Load Evil Laugh Driven to Suicide Foreshadowing Redshirt Army Informed Ability Butt-Monkey "The Reason You Suck" Speech Not Using the "Z" Word Danny Peary Cult Movies List All There in the Script Badass Normal Documentary Gilligan Cut One Steve Limit Evil Is Hammy Bottomless Magazines Bad Boss Totally Radical And the Adventure Continues Flipping the Bird Extremely Short Timespan Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Running Gag Crazy Jealous Guy An Aesop Japanese Films Groin Attack