Tropescilloscope: Award-Bait Song

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

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