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