Tropescilloscope: Award-Bait Song

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

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