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# Characters.AmericanGirlsCollectionHistoricalCharacters (Marie-Grace Gardner): Sings "Amazing Grace" for her uncle and teacher's wedding. '''Assuming that this wedding takes place at a church.'''



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# Characters.AmericanGirlsCollectionHistoricalCharacters (Marie-Grace Gardner): Sings "Amazing Grace" for her uncle and teacher's wedding.

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# Recap/CriminalMindsS2E16FearAndLoathing: Complete with AmazingFreakingGrace playing, in memory of the detective who is [[AccidentalMurder shot by a civilian who thought he fit the profile of the [=UnSub=]]].

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# Manga/ADevilAndHerLoveSong: A song sung often by Maria.

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# Literature/MardockScramble: The ending theme of the first movie. Appears again as background music in the third movie.

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# YMMV.GuiltyGearStrive (SuspiciouslySimilarSong): Elphelt's theme [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiViLUEi11I "Extras"]] borrows from Music/MariahCarey's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSoewptWMR0 "All I Want For Christmas Is You"]], with a nod to the Christian hymn [[AmazingFreakingGrace "Amazing Grace"]].

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# YMMV/DeadlyPremonition (Tear Jerker): The usage of AmazingFreakingGrace in the infamous scene near the end. When you go by the original religious intent of the song (that no one is beyond redemption, regardless of their sins in life, and that we all are able to do the right thing) and what the character is trying to do: spoiler: get to the clocktower and stop the gas, [[WordOfGod according to the director]]. '''I guess this is death-adjacent?'''

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# WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether: Plays in the background pretty much any time a character delivers a moral of some sort.

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# Film/CrimeOfTheAge: When we first meet the cook, he's heard singing "Amazing Grace" (during which the detective joins in during the 2nd half of the verse), though the cook noticeably [[ChekhovsGun substitutes the word "cook" for the word "wretch"]]; something that becomes significant with his eventual slip-up that [[spoiler:the cook took the book, and by extension was not truly a Christian]]. '''I think this counts as a religious use.'''

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# SwissBankAccount: "Foot of Pride" by Music/BobDylan: - - > They like to take all this money from sin\\ Build big universities to study in\\ Sing [[AmazingFreakingGrace "Amazing Grace"]] all the way to the Swiss banks!

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# Characters.{{Kakegurui}} (Sumika Warakubami): Her performance of this old classic brings everyone in the audience to tears and gives Yumemi a lesson that she's not to be trifled with when Yumemi loses in a [[CurbstompBattle 92-8 vote blowout]].

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My concern is that the trope is basically "Amazing Grace" exists, which might be redundant with StandardSnippet. For what it's worth I've also never liked the name - it comes across a little complain-y in a way we don't like to use in trope names anymore ("Amazing Freaking Grace again!") A rework, focusing on its frequent occurrence in funerals, may work ("AmazingGraceMeansFuneral"). An expansion into "Stock Hymn" to cover other commonly heard hymns like "Ave Maria" or "Blessed Be The Ties That Bind" may also be an option, although that may still be chairs-y.

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My concern is that the trope is basically "Amazing Grace" exists, which might be redundant with StandardSnippet. For what it's worth I've also never liked the name - it comes across a little complain-y in a way we don't like to use in trope names anymore ("Amazing Freaking Grace again!") A rework, focusing on its frequent occurrence in funerals, may work ("AmazingGraceMeansFuneral"). An expansion into "Stock Hymn" "StockHymn" to cover other commonly heard hymns like "Ave Maria" or "Blessed Be The Ties That Bind" may also be an option, although that may still be chairs-y.

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# TerribleIntervieweesMontage: In ''Film/TheFightingTemptations'', the main character is looking for people to audition for a church choir. The interviewees include a girl who sings AmazingFreakingGrace badly, a bunch of kids who do a dance about Jesus baptizing them, a guy who sings "Isn't She Lovely" (including the instrumental) and some hillbilly who plays multiple mouth-related instruments but doesn't sing.

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# DiegeticSwitch: This happens in ''Film/{{Star Trek II|The Wrath of Khan}}'' at the end of Spock's funeral, in which Scotty plays "[[AmazingFreakingGrace Amazing Grace]]" on the bagpipes, and the tune is taken up by the soundtrack as the scene cuts to an exterior of the ship and Spock's casket being fired into space.

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# CommonMeter: Gospel group The Blind Boys of Alabama recorded a version of "[[AmazingFreakingGrace Amazing Grace]]" set to this tune. It works but some may find the MoodDissonance confusing. '''Also wicked in the description as an example of a Common Meter song.'''
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# Series/ExtremeHomeMakeover: On the final night of the Teas family build, a camper at Camp Barnabas thanked the volunteers and sang this song.

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# HeelFaithTurn: AmazingFreakingGrace: English sailor John Newton converted to Christianity after his life was saved in a storm, became a minister, and penned the hymn about his experience. However, it is a myth that this also led him to free the slaves the ship was carrying. In fact, he continued in the slave trade for some years before leaving to enter the ministry, and only became an abolitionist years later, participating in William Wilberforce's Parliamentary campaign to abolish the African slave trade. '''Also used in the page quote.'''
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# Film/DogDays2018: Dr. Mike's assistant Ernie (Creator/JohnGemberling) sings "Amazing Grace" to spoiler: Jimmy, as he sits in the waiting room crying over Brandy's death. '''Not a funeral, but death-related nonetheless.'''



# Funny.AlfaLegion: It's also revealed that the Assassins murdered Karl. spoiler: But as he was protected by the Broodlord Karl returns to life, complete with the AmazingFreakingGrace bagpipes reversing. '''I'm assuming Amazing Grace played at Karl's funeral.]]

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# Funny.AlfaLegion: It's also revealed that the Assassins murdered Karl. spoiler: But as he was protected by the Broodlord Karl returns to life, complete with the AmazingFreakingGrace bagpipes reversing. '''I'm assuming Amazing Grace played at Karl's funeral.]]'''



# Website/YTMND: Whenever a celebrity passed away, some sites would show a picture of the celebrity while "Amazing Grace" played.



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# WebVideo/VideoGameHighSchool: Multiple times in [=S2E5=] Law talks about working his thighs. It seems like Law's usual boasting until spoiler: near the end of the episode he is precariously over a pit of water holding on only by his '''[[AmazingFreakingGrace amazing freaking quads.]]''' '''Can't tell if Amazing Grace was actually played over this scene. Might just be a pun.'''

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# WebVideo/IncognitoCinemaWarriorsXP: Rick and the 'bots do this in wolf howls when the werewolf dies in ''Werewolf in a Girl's Dormitory''.

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# Heartwarming.HonkaiImpact3rd: In Chapter 11-EX, Kiana is at her lowest, and considered [[DrivenToSuicide committing suicide]] to prevent herself to become a Herrscher again. Fu Hua's spirit stops her, saying that she regrets having doomed Kiana to this fate (from what happened at the end of Chapter 6). Kiana, who previously was hard on Fu Hua for betraying her, goes to forgive the class president and accept her help in subduing the HOV inside her mind; with their efforts, they eventually succeed. Then, when she finds herself being surrounded by Honkai Beasts, Kiana sees an "image" of Himeko walking past her as AmazingFreakingGrace plays, saying "Kiana, what are you waiting for?" This gives the Kaslana girl her HeroicResolve to assume partial control of her Herrscher powers with her own mind and trash the beasts with it, as she vows to "turn this imperfect world into what she always dreamed of". Fu Hua is rightfully impressed at her feat. '''This one is death-adjacent, since Kiana is seeing a vision of the dead Himeko encouraging her, but it's not funeral/mourning related so I put it here.'''
# HorizonZeroDawn.TropesAToM: One of the first audio logs a young Aloy finds is recorded by a dying Old One, singing the strangely apropos last verse of the hymn. - - > "The earth shall soon dissolve like snow, / The sun forbear to shine; / But God, who call'd me here below, / Will be forever mine." '''Also death-adjacent, but not funeral/mourning related.'''
# TearJerker.PublicServiceAnnouncement: Covenant House have made some really gloomy commercials over the years. Most of them tend to be very downbeat and serious, [[https://youtu.be/LsOPkopUSxc But this one]] is just downright melancholic. It starts off with a teenage girl in a blanket (which is also her makeshift home), sitting near a bus stop. She stares into the camera with a blank expression as the words "How Young" swipe in. [[WhamShot The screen then cuts to a crying baby in the same spot]] as the words "Do They Have to Be" "Before we Care?" swipe in. The fact that anyone would leave a baby on the street is just wrong on so many levels, and the commercial doesn't get any better after that. Video clips of teenagers laying on the street are shown one by one. And to make things more emotional, we hear people talking about their abusive parents ("I felt like my life was in danger, like, the abuse was getting worse and worse" "I slept anywhere that I could find. I slept on a subway, I slept on the street, i slept in a park"). [[AmazingFreakingGrace All while "Amazing Grace" plays in the background, thus adding to the emotional factor]].
# VideoGame/RavensCry: Plays over the flashback to Chris' parents getting killed at the end of the game.
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# Heartwarming.HonkaiImpact3rd: In Chapter 11-EX, Kiana is at her lowest, and considered [[DrivenToSuicide committing suicide]] to prevent herself to become a Herrscher again. Fu Hua's spirit stops her, saying that she regrets having doomed Kiana to this fate (from what happened at the end of Chapter 6). Kiana, who previously was hard on Fu Hua for betraying her, goes to forgive the class president and accept her help in subduing the HOV inside her mind; with their efforts, they eventually succeed. Then, when she finds herself being surrounded by Honkai Beasts, Kiana sees an "image" of Himeko walking past her as AmazingFreakingGrace plays, saying "Kiana, what are you waiting for?" This gives the Kaslana girl her HeroicResolve to assume partial control of her Herrscher powers with her own mind and trash the beasts with it, as she vows to "turn this imperfect world into what she always dreamed of". Fu Hua is rightfully impressed at her feat. '''This one is death-adjacent, since Kiana is seeing a vision of the dead Himeko encouraging her, but it's not funeral/mourning related so I put it here.'''
# HorizonZeroDawn.TropesAToM: One of the first audio logs a young Aloy finds is recorded by a dying Old One, singing the strangely apropos last verse of the hymn. - - > "The earth shall soon dissolve like snow, / The sun forbear to shine; / But God, who call'd me here below, / Will be forever mine." '''Also death-adjacent, but not funeral/mourning related.'''



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# Theatre/TheKentuckyCycle: Naturally, it's "Amazing Grace" that the hillbillies are singing when Jed Bowen gets home, having deserted from the war, and walks right up to his grandfather Patrick's in-progress funeral.

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