Tropescilloscope: Award-Bait Song

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

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