History Main / AmazingFreakingGrace

* In ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest: VideoGame/{{SWAT}}'', if the player character dies, a bagpiper plays this at his funeral.

-->-- '''Carly''' stalling for time at a wake in the ''Series/ICarly'' episode "iPie"

* Famously used during [[TheSpock Spock's]] funeral at the end of ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan''. Presumably it was Scotty's request that it be a part of the service to allow him to [[TearJerker say his goodbyes]] [[ToAbsentFriends to an old friend]].

* England from ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia'' has this as his cellphone ringtone.

* ''Cold Lazarus'' by Dennis Potter. A boy runs away from church where the choir is singing Amazing Grace -- the sweet music continues poignantly over the reveal that [[spoiler: all these are memories a semi-revived frozen head, far in the future is being forced to relive]]: ironically reaching "was blind but now I see."

* And now there's a musical on Broadway about the songwriter's spiritual journey from slave trader to abolitionist, entitled (appropriately enough) ''Amazing Grace''.

* ''VideoGame/{{Honkai Impact 3rd}}'' uses this at the last stage of Chapter XI-EX when [[spoiler:[[TheObiWan a vision of]] Himeko]] appears in front of Kiana. Especially fitting to the lyrics since, at this point of the game, Kiana had lost practically everything including her will to live [[spoiler:due to her SuperpoweredEveilSide briefly taking over and throwing the world into chaos]], with the sight [[spoiler:of the teacher who did everything she can to save her]] pulling her back from the brink and giving her the HeroicResolve to fight on.

Another fun fact: It uses the CommonMeter, which is, naturally, very common. As such the same lyrics can be sung to the tune of ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies'', ''Series/GilligansIsland'', "Camp Town Races," "House of the Rising Sun," and "[[Disney/TheLionKing I Just Can't Wait to be King]]," along with many other songs.

* An unlikely HardcorePunk style version appears on the album '',Hate Your Friends'' by the Lemonheads.

* In the ''[[Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse Global Guardians]]'' story "Two Towers", Dogfight is singing this hymn to himself as the World Trade Center collapses around him during his HeroicSacrifice that saved six first responders from sharing his fate.

* It's a DreamMelody in ''Anime/SoundOfTheSky''.

* Used as the ending credits in the first film of the MardockScramble trilogy, and in the background of the third film.

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* In the ''Series/DeathValley" episode "Partners", "Amazing Grace" is played on the bagpipes at the funeral of the cops killed in the siege.

* ''VideoGame/{{Honkai Impact 3rd}}'' uses this at the last stage of Chapter XI-EX when [[spoiler:[[TheObiWan a vision of]]]] Himeko appears in front of Kiana. Especially fitting to the lyrics since, at this point of the game, Kiana had lost practically everything including her will to live [[spoiler:due to her SuperpoweredEveilSide briefly taking over and throwing the world into chaos]], with the sight [[spoiler:and memory]] of her teacher [[spoiler:who had saved her]] pulling her back from the brink and giving her the HeroicResolve to fight on.

* ''VideoGame/{{Honkai Impact 3}}'' uses this at the last stage of Chapter XI-EX when [[spoiler:[[TheObiWan a vision of]]]] Himeko appears in front of Kiana. Especially fitting to the lyrics since, at this point of the game, Kiana had lost practically everything including her will to live [[spoiler:due to her SuperpoweredEveilSide briefly taking over and throwing the world into chaos]], with the sight [[spoiler:and memory]] of her teacher [[spoiler:who had saved her]] pulling her back from the brink and giving her the HeroicResolve to fight on.

* The song is used quite effectively in the climax of LAStory. Bonus points for making the bagpipes be a minor plot point.

* ''Series/{{Shameless}}'': During the Season 4 episode "Iron City," a woman at [[spoiler: the hospice that Frank visits]] delivers a folk rendition. We only get to hear a bit of it, though.

And since it's [[PublicDomainSoundtrack not under copyright]], and everyone knows it, it's one of very few songs you're ever going to hear at a funeral on TV or film. (It's this or Danny Boy, people.) On a [[EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes bagpipe]] ("One of the three songs that sound good on the bagpipes," it's been called.)[[note]]The other two are 'Danny Boy' and 'Scotland the Brave'.[[/note]] No ifs, ands, or buts. Or in any other situation that requires a hymn, for that matter. Even though almost ''every other'' hymn is in the public domain, too.

Fun fact: Amazing Grace, like many hymns, was not married with the tune it's sung to now until sometime in the mid-19th century.[[note]]The tune is called "New Britain"[[/note]] Any example of it being sung to the same melody [[HollywoodHistory before then]] is an (admittedly understandable) case of artistic license. On rarer occasions, the final verse ("When we've been there ten thousand years…") may be heard in a setting before it was actually added in the late 1800s. (The original last verse was "The earth shall soon dissolve like snow, / The sun forbear to shine; / But God, who call'd me here below, / Will be forever mine.", and is rarely used today.) To hear what it would have sounded like in its old tune, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgSt5vnN3h4 check out this link]] of Sacred Harp singers (who also sing a lot of other old-timey hymns in a much more lively and bombastic fashion than what you might picture as typical dull church music).

* In ''VideoGame/PoliceQuestSWAT'', if the player character dies, a bagpiper plays this at his funeral.