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