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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Tap on the Head Dramedy Drives Like Crazy Fantasy Films Gratuitous English An Aesop Aside Glance Improbable Weapon User Refuge in Audacity Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Anachronism Stew Earn Your Happy Ending The Alcoholic The '70s My Beloved Smother Laughing Mad Stealth Pun Death by Sex Kick the Dog Novelization Immune to Bullets Leaning on the Fourth Wall Christmas Movies Index The '50s Retcon Cluster F-Bomb Kids Are Cruel Gilligan Cut Decoy Protagonist Accidental Misnaming Imagine Spot Paper-Thin Disguise Gorn Well-Intentioned Extremist All There in the Script Skewed Priorities "Shaggy Dog" Story Fiery Redhead Chewing the Scenery Vitriolic Best Buds Soundtrack Dissonance NO INDOOR VOICE Alliterative Name Drill Sergeant Nasty This Is Gonna Suck My Greatest Failure Meaningful Name Stock Footage Serial Killer Red Oni, Blue Oni Ambiguous Ending Only a Flesh Wound folderlabel Deliberate Values Dissonance Works Set in World War II Bitch in Sheep's Clothing From Bad to Worse Epic Movie Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other An Axe to Grind Corrupt Corporate Executive Match Cut Fanservice Extra Double Entendre Artistic License – Gun Safety May–December Romance Pragmatic Adaptation Failed a Spot Check Book-Ends Plucky Comic Relief Motor Mouth '80s Hair Loads and Loads of Characters Throwing Your Sword Always Works Historical Villain Upgrade Retired Badass Race Lift The Ace Police are Useless "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue The Cavalry Hooker with a Heart of Gold Catapult Nightmare Fantastic Racism Casting Gag Famous Last Words Blood from the Mouth Kubrick Stare Lock and Load Montage In Name Only Not Using the "Z" Word Cruel and Unusual Death Beta Couple Curb-Stomp Battle Authority Equals Asskicking Japanese Films Advertised Extra Hero of Another Story Drugs Are Bad Did Not Get the Girl Back from the Dead Conspicuous CG As Long as It Sounds Foreign Amoral Attorney Foreshadowing Rousing Speech The Lost Lenore Dirty Coward Deliberately Monochrome Bunny-Ears Lawyer Chekhov's Gun All Men Are Perverts Sequel Escalation Hoist by His Own Petard Shipper on Deck He Knows Too Much Dressing as the Enemy Not So Different I Have Your Wife Domestic Abuse What the Hell, Hero? Horror Films Demoted to Extra Unresolved Sexual Tension Woman Scorned Eiffel Tower Effect Slasher Smile Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane The Oner Off-into-the-Distance Ending Adaptation Expansion Rule of Cool Punny Name Wretched Hive Slap-Slap-Kiss Horror Comedy Not Even Bothering with the Accent Left the Background Music On Show Within a Show Arranged Marriage Celebrity Paradox Fainting The Film of the Book The Place Disproportionate Retribution Film Noir More Dakka Insistent Terminology Naked People Are Funny Dirty Old Man Sports Stories Pyrrhic Victory Breaking the Fourth Wall Frame-Up Rule of Three Parental Substitute Every Car Is a Pinto Cowboy Cop Genre Savvy Cassandra Truth Stalker with a Crush Meaningful Echo Catch-Phrase Heel–Face Turn Shout-Out Military and Warfare Films Running Gag The Voiceless Unspoken Plan Guarantee Mighty Whitey Never Trust a Trailer Would Hit a Girl Implacable Man Malevolent Masked Men Too Dumb to Live Artistic License – Geography Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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