Tropescilloscope: Award-Bait Song

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

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