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So you have made TheStoic and you have made him well. Not a crease or indent ever forms when the action starts around him and the blood starts flowing since he's such a tough, battle-ready anti-hero and possibly because action stars don't make the best emotive actors. The problem is what do you do when you need to show off that emotion? When the Big Bad comes to your hometown, [[DoomedHometown burns it to the ground]], [[IHaveYourWife enslaves his family]], [[KickTheDog kicks his puppy]] and leaves his girlfriend's corpse inside some sort of [[BodyInABreadbox chilled food storage device]]. Do you make him explode with rage and potentially lose his badass image to your lead's {{Narm}}tastic acting or just leave him standing there with the same implacable look on his face leaving the audience unconvinced that ItsPersonal?
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So you have made TheStoic TheStoic, and you have made him well. Not a crease or indent ever forms when the action starts around him and the blood starts flowing since he's such a tough, battle-ready anti-hero and (and possibly because action stars don't make the best emotive actors. actors). The problem is is, what do you do when you need to show off that emotion? When the Big Bad comes to your hometown, [[DoomedHometown burns it to the ground]], [[IHaveYourWife enslaves his family]], [[KickTheDog kicks his puppy]] and leaves his girlfriend's corpse inside some sort of [[BodyInABreadbox chilled food storage device]]. Do device]], do you make him explode with rage and potentially lose his badass image to your lead's {{Narm}}tastic acting or just leave him standing there with the same implacable look on his face face, leaving the audience unconvinced that ItsPersonal?
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A series of short sharp crackling noises and a close up of the hero's fist shows you that his Kung Fu grip has gone into overload and that his anger has manifested itself not into pointless words but into preparing his fist for the hard beatdown. Wow before he wasn't even trying hard enough to stress his joints but now he is willing to clench! And he's not just using his hands, either; his neck, his shoulders, his knees are all giving off threatening sounds as he works them. The sound released has nothing to do with the bones themselves, but rather with the joints between the bones[[note]]The popping sound is thought to be trapped bubbles of gas being released, amongst other theories[[/note]]; as such, any joint on the body is ripe for a satisfactory cracking. You're not actually damaging the joints or bones ''significantly'' by doing this, and it does not increase the chance of having arthritis - contrary to an old piece of "advice".
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A series of short sharp crackling noises and a close up of the hero's fist shows you that his Kung Fu grip has gone into overload overload, and that his anger has manifested itself not into pointless words words, but into preparing his fist for the hard beatdown. Wow before Wow! Before he wasn't even trying hard enough to stress his joints joints, but now he is willing to clench! And he's not just using his hands, either; his neck, his shoulders, his knees are all giving off threatening sounds as he works them. The sound released has nothing to do with the bones themselves, but rather with the joints between the bones[[note]]The popping sound is thought to be trapped bubbles of gas being released, amongst other theories[[/note]]; as such, any joint on the body is ripe for a satisfactory cracking. You're not actually damaging the joints or bones ''significantly'' by doing this, and it does not increase the chance of having arthritis - contrary to an old piece of "advice".
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So you have made TheStoic and you have made him well. Not a crease or indent ever forms when the action starts around him and the blood starts flowing since he's such a tough, battle-ready anti-hero and possibly because action stars don't make the best emotive actors. The problem is what do you do when you need to show off that emotion? When the Big Bad comes to your hometown, [[DoomedHometown burns it to the ground]], [[IHaveYourWife enslaves his family]], [[KickTheDog kicks his puppy]] and leaves his girlfriend's corpse inside some sort of [[StuffedIntoTheFridge chilled food storage device]]. Do you make him explode with rage and potentially lose his badass image to your lead's {{Narm}}tastic acting or just leave him standing there with the same implacable look on his face leaving the audience unconvinced that ItsPersonal?
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So you have made TheStoic and you have made him well. Not a crease or indent ever forms when the action starts around him and the blood starts flowing since he's such a tough, battle-ready anti-hero and possibly because action stars don't make the best emotive actors. The problem is what do you do when you need to show off that emotion? When the Big Bad comes to your hometown, [[DoomedHometown burns it to the ground]], [[IHaveYourWife enslaves his family]], [[KickTheDog kicks his puppy]] and leaves his girlfriend's corpse inside some sort of [[StuffedIntoTheFridge [[BodyInABreadbox chilled food storage device]]. Do you make him explode with rage and potentially lose his badass image to your lead's {{Narm}}tastic acting or just leave him standing there with the same implacable look on his face leaving the audience unconvinced that ItsPersonal?
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A series of short sharp crackling noises and a close up of the heroes fist shows you that his Kung Fu grip has gone into overload and that his anger has manifested itself not into pointless words but into preparing his fist for the hard beatdown. Wow before he wasn't even trying hard enough to stress his joints but now he is willing to clench!
Sometimes the knuckle cracking sound is removed, maybe for the sake of realism, maybe because some people find it too squicky and then it will be replaced by the hero actually [[AGlassInTheHand crushing something in his hand]]. Bonus points if its made out of metal, points removed if its only a paper note.
[=OK=], great job. Your hero is walking around and he sure is pissed. He's walking [[ImplacableMan at a constant pace]] to fight TheDragon who killed his old master and then vent his fury on the BigBad in the ultimate showdown. Oh hold on, there are some lowly mooks in the way, oh it's even worse than that, it's just some random gang who's getting in the way. Well geez, how are we meant to play this for drama? The guy has already gone through swaths of baddies and gotten all the best equipment, they can't be a threat, we've got to hold the BadassBoast and speech for the top fight but the audience will get bored if he kills a man with one punch and then keeps punching him anyway.
Well, it did work the first time...
'''''Crck-crck-crk-ckchk'''''
He's cracking his knuckles, he's cracking his neck, his shoulders, his knees, he's even making a few stretches. Aha, this time he's unimpressed. You may not tell it from his face, you may not have realised that thing on his face was a smirk but now he's so unworried by the oncoming fight, he's taking time to get comfortable first. You can even go one further and hold off the cracking until ''after'' the fight, that shows he never even had to worry about being uncomfortable even while unleashing a flurry of judo chops and kung fu kicks.
It might be useful to know that the sound released has nothing to do with the bones themselves, but rather with the joints between the bones[[note]]The popping sound is thought to be trapped bubbles of gas being released, amongst other theories[[/note]], and that you're not actually damaging the joints or bones ''significantly'' by doing this, and does not increase the chance of having arthritis - contrary to an old piece of "advice". What it does is provide increased looseness and flexibility of a joint temporarily following a crack, at the cost of a slight cumulative reduction in the joint's strength - crack your knuckles and you get a weaker grip.
Sometimes the knuckle cracking sound is removed, maybe for the sake of realism, maybe because some people find it too squicky and then it will be replaced by the hero actually [[AGlassInTheHand crushing something in his hand]]. Bonus points if its made out of metal, points removed if its only a paper note.
[=OK=], great job. Your hero is walking around and he sure is pissed. He's walking [[ImplacableMan at a constant pace]] to fight TheDragon who killed his old master and then vent his fury on the BigBad in the ultimate showdown. Oh hold on, there are some lowly mooks in the way, oh it's even worse than that, it's just some random gang who's getting in the way. Well geez, how are we meant to play this for drama? The guy has already gone through swaths of baddies and gotten all the best equipment, they can't be a threat, we've got to hold the BadassBoast and speech for the top fight but the audience will get bored if he kills a man with one punch and then keeps punching him anyway.
Well, it did work the first time...
'''''Crck-crck-crk-ckchk'''''
He's cracking his knuckles, he's cracking his neck, his shoulders, his knees, he's even making a few stretches. Aha, this time he's unimpressed. You may not tell it from his face, you may not have realised that thing on his face was a smirk but now he's so unworried by the oncoming fight, he's taking time to get comfortable first. You can even go one further and hold off the cracking until ''after'' the fight, that shows he never even had to worry about being uncomfortable even while unleashing a flurry of judo chops and kung fu kicks.
It might be useful to know that the sound released has nothing to do with the bones themselves, but rather with the joints between the bones[[note]]The popping sound is thought to be trapped bubbles of gas being released, amongst other theories[[/note]], and that you're not actually damaging the joints or bones ''significantly'' by doing this, and does not increase the chance of having arthritis - contrary to an old piece of "advice". What it does is provide increased looseness and flexibility of a joint temporarily following a crack, at the cost of a slight cumulative reduction in the joint's strength - crack your knuckles and you get a weaker grip.
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A series of short sharp crackling noises and a close up of the heroes hero's fist shows you that his Kung Fu grip has gone into overload and that his anger has manifested itself not into pointless words but into preparing his fist for the hard beatdown. Wow before he wasn't even trying hard enough to stress his joints but now he is willing to clench!
Sometimes the knuckle cracking sound is removed, maybe for the sake of realism, maybe because some people find it too squicky and then it will be replaced by the hero actually [[AGlassInTheHand crushing something in his hand]]. Bonus points if its made out of metal, points removed if its only a paper note.
[=OK=], great job. Your hero is walking around and he sure is pissed. He's walking [[ImplacableMan at a constant pace]] to fight TheDragon who killed his old master and then vent his fury on the BigBad in the ultimate showdown. Oh hold on, there are some lowly mooks in the way, oh it's even worse than that, it's just some random gang who's getting in the way. Well geez, how are we meant to play this for drama? The guy has already gone through swaths of baddies and gotten all the best equipment, they can't be a threat, we've got to hold the BadassBoast and speech for the top fight but the audience will get bored if he kills a man with one punch and then keeps punching him anyway.
Well, it did work the first time...
'''''Crck-crck-crk-ckchk'''''
He's cracking his knuckles,clench! And he's cracking not just using his hands, either; his neck, his shoulders, his knees, he's even making a few stretches. Aha, this time he's unimpressed. You may not tell it from his face, you may not have realised that thing on his face was a smirk but now he's so unworried by the oncoming fight, he's taking time to get comfortable first. You can even go one further and hold knees are all giving off the cracking until ''after'' the fight, that shows threatening sounds as he never even had to worry about being uncomfortable even while unleashing a flurry of judo chops and kung fu kicks.
It might be useful to know that theworks them. The sound released has nothing to do with the bones themselves, but rather with the joints between the bones[[note]]The popping sound is thought to be trapped bubbles of gas being released, amongst other theories[[/note]], and that you're theories[[/note]]; as such, any joint on the body is ripe for a satisfactory cracking. You're not actually damaging the joints or bones ''significantly'' by doing this, and it does not increase the chance of having arthritis - contrary to an old piece of "advice". What it does "advice".
However, there are a few different reasons why you might not want to use that particular. First isprovide if you're going for realism; the knuckle-cracking action provides increased looseness and flexibility of a joint temporarily following for a crack, brief period, at the cost of a slight cumulative reduction in the joint's strength - crack your knuckles and you get a weaker grip.
grip, so if the grip is important to what follows, the crack is counter-productive. And some people find the sound a bit {{Squick}}y rather than satisfying, so if you, your actor, or your sound effects artist is one of those people, you shouldn't do something displeasing to them. But what alternatives are there?
'''''Crckcrkcrrrrrrrrnch...'''''
Your hero grabs something from the environment, and [[AGlassInTheHand crushes it in their grip]]. Different audio, same effect - a show of strength, and an intimidating sound to let his opponent know that he's serious. If it's still solid, he can promptly throw it aside for an emphatic ''clang''; if it's left in pieces, he can open up his fingers and let the fragments fall. Obviously, the effect in this case is proportionate to what is being crushed; the deformation of a metal item can show off his SuperStrength, whereas balling up a piece of paper comes across more like TantrumThrowing.
Sometimes the knuckle cracking sound is removed, maybe for the sake of realism, maybe because some people find it too squicky and then it will be replaced by the hero actually [[AGlassInTheHand crushing something in his hand]]. Bonus points if its made out of metal, points removed if its only a paper note.
[=OK=], great job. Your hero is walking around and he sure is pissed. He's walking [[ImplacableMan at a constant pace]] to fight TheDragon who killed his old master and then vent his fury on the BigBad in the ultimate showdown. Oh hold on, there are some lowly mooks in the way, oh it's even worse than that, it's just some random gang who's getting in the way. Well geez, how are we meant to play this for drama? The guy has already gone through swaths of baddies and gotten all the best equipment, they can't be a threat, we've got to hold the BadassBoast and speech for the top fight but the audience will get bored if he kills a man with one punch and then keeps punching him anyway.
Well, it did work the first time...
'''''Crck-crck-crk-ckchk'''''
He's cracking his knuckles,
It might be useful to know that the
However, there are a few different reasons why you might not want to use that particular. First is
'''''Crckcrkcrrrrrrrrnch...'''''
Your hero grabs something from the environment, and [[AGlassInTheHand crushes it in their grip]]. Different audio, same effect - a show of strength, and an intimidating sound to let his opponent know that he's serious. If it's still solid, he can promptly throw it aside for an emphatic ''clang''; if it's left in pieces, he can open up his fingers and let the fragments fall. Obviously, the effect in this case is proportionate to what is being crushed; the deformation of a metal item can show off his SuperStrength, whereas balling up a piece of paper comes across more like TantrumThrowing.
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So you have made TheStoic and you have made him well. Not a crease or indent ever forms when the action starts around him and the blood starts flowing since he's such a tough, battle-ready anti-hero and possibly because action stars don't make the best emotive actors. The problem is what do you do when you need to show off that emotion? When the Big Bad comes to your hometown, [[DoomedHometown burns it to the ground]], [[IHaveYourWife enslaves his family]], [[KickTheDog kicks his puppy]] and leaves his girlfriend's corpse inside some sort of [[StuffedIntoTheFridge chilled food storage device]]. Do you make him explode with rage and potentially lose his BadAss image to your lead's {{Narm}}tastic acting or just leave him standing there with the same implacable look on his face leaving the audience unconvinced that ItsPersonal?
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So you have made TheStoic and you have made him well. Not a crease or indent ever forms when the action starts around him and the blood starts flowing since he's such a tough, battle-ready anti-hero and possibly because action stars don't make the best emotive actors. The problem is what do you do when you need to show off that emotion? When the Big Bad comes to your hometown, [[DoomedHometown burns it to the ground]], [[IHaveYourWife enslaves his family]], [[KickTheDog kicks his puppy]] and leaves his girlfriend's corpse inside some sort of [[StuffedIntoTheFridge chilled food storage device]]. Do you make him explode with rage and potentially lose his BadAss badass image to your lead's {{Narm}}tastic acting or just leave him standing there with the same implacable look on his face leaving the audience unconvinced that ItsPersonal?
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[=OK=], great job. Your hero is walking around and he sure is pissed. He's walking [[ImplacableMan at a constant pace]] to fight TheDragon who killed his old master and then vent his fury on TheBigBoss in the ultimate showdown. Oh hold on, there are some lowly mooks in the way, oh it's even worse than that, it's just some random gang who's getting in the way. Well geez, how are we meant to play this for drama? The guy has already gone through swaths of baddies and gotten all the best equipment, they can't be a threat, we've got to hold the BadassBoast and speech for the top fight but the audience will get bored if he kills a man with one punch and then keeps punching him anyway.
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[=OK=], great job. Your hero is walking around and he sure is pissed. He's walking [[ImplacableMan at a constant pace]] to fight TheDragon who killed his old master and then vent his fury on TheBigBoss the BigBad in the ultimate showdown. Oh hold on, there are some lowly mooks in the way, oh it's even worse than that, it's just some random gang who's getting in the way. Well geez, how are we meant to play this for drama? The guy has already gone through swaths of baddies and gotten all the best equipment, they can't be a threat, we've got to hold the BadassBoast and speech for the top fight but the audience will get bored if he kills a man with one punch and then keeps punching him anyway.
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It might be useful to know that the sound released has nothing to do with the bones themselves, but rather with the joints between the bones[[hottip:* :The popping sound is thought to be trapped bubbles of gas being released, amongst other theories]], and that you're not actually damaging the joints or bones ''significantly'' by doing this, and does not increase the chance of having arthritis - contrary to an old piece of "advice". What it does is provide increased looseness and flexibility of a joint temporarily following a crack, at the cost of a slight cumulative reduction in the joint's strength - crack your knuckles and you get a weaker grip.
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It might be useful to know that the sound released has nothing to do with the bones themselves, but rather with the joints between the bones[[hottip:* :The bones[[note]]The popping sound is thought to be trapped bubbles of gas being released, amongst other theories]], theories[[/note]], and that you're not actually damaging the joints or bones ''significantly'' by doing this, and does not increase the chance of having arthritis - contrary to an old piece of "advice". What it does is provide increased looseness and flexibility of a joint temporarily following a crack, at the cost of a slight cumulative reduction in the joint's strength - crack your knuckles and you get a weaker grip.
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[[quoteright:350:[[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_kenshiro_5317.jpg]]]]
->''You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.''
-->-- '''Indira Gandhi''', Prime Minister of India
So you have made TheStoic and you have made him well. Not a crease or indent ever forms when the action starts around him and the blood starts flowing since he's such a tough, battle-ready anti-hero and possibly because action stars don't make the best emotive actors. The problem is what do you do when you need to show off that emotion? When the Big Bad comes to your hometown, [[DoomedHometown burns it to the ground]], [[IHaveYourWife enslaves his family]], [[KickTheDog kicks his puppy]] and leaves his girlfriend's corpse inside some sort of [[StuffedIntoTheFridge chilled food storage device]]. Do you make him explode with rage and potentially lose his BadAss image to your lead's {{Narm}}tastic acting or just leave him standing there with the same implacable look on his face leaving the audience unconvinced that ItsPersonal?
'''''Crck-crck-crk-ckchk'''''
A series of short sharp crackling noises and a close up of the heroes fist shows you that his Kung Fu grip has gone into overload and that his anger has manifested itself not into pointless words but into preparing his fist for the hard beatdown. Wow before he wasn't even trying hard enough to stress his joints but now he is willing to clench!
Sometimes the knuckle cracking sound is removed, maybe for the sake of realism, maybe because some people find it too squicky and then it will be replaced by the hero actually [[AGlassInTheHand crushing something in his hand]]. Bonus points if its made out of metal, points removed if its only a paper note.
[=OK=], great job. Your hero is walking around and he sure is pissed. He's walking [[ImplacableMan at a constant pace]] to fight TheDragon who killed his old master and then vent his fury on TheBigBoss in the ultimate showdown. Oh hold on, there are some lowly mooks in the way, oh it's even worse than that, it's just some random gang who's getting in the way. Well geez, how are we meant to play this for drama? The guy has already gone through swaths of baddies and gotten all the best equipment, they can't be a threat, we've got to hold the BadassBoast and speech for the top fight but the audience will get bored if he kills a man with one punch and then keeps punching him anyway.
Well, it did work the first time...
'''''Crck-crck-crk-ckchk'''''
He's cracking his knuckles, he's cracking his neck, his shoulders, his knees, he's even making a few stretches. Aha, this time he's unimpressed. You may not tell it from his face, you may not have realised that thing on his face was a smirk but now he's so unworried by the oncoming fight, he's taking time to get comfortable first. You can even go one further and hold off the cracking until ''after'' the fight, that shows he never even had to worry about being uncomfortable even while unleashing a flurry of judo chops and kung fu kicks.
It might be useful to know that the sound released has nothing to do with the bones themselves, but rather with the joints between the bones[[hottip:* :The popping sound is thought to be trapped bubbles of gas being released, amongst other theories]], and that you're not actually damaging the joints or bones ''significantly'' by doing this, and does not increase the chance of having arthritis - contrary to an old piece of "advice". What it does is provide increased looseness and flexibility of a joint temporarily following a crack, at the cost of a slight cumulative reduction in the joint's strength - crack your knuckles and you get a weaker grip.
Subtrope of KineticClicking.
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[[quoteright:350:[[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_kenshiro_5317.jpg]]]]
->''You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.''
-->-- '''Indira Gandhi''', Prime Minister of India
So you have made TheStoic and you have made him well. Not a crease or indent ever forms when the action starts around him and the blood starts flowing since he's such a tough, battle-ready anti-hero and possibly because action stars don't make the best emotive actors. The problem is what do you do when you need to show off that emotion? When the Big Bad comes to your hometown, [[DoomedHometown burns it to the ground]], [[IHaveYourWife enslaves his family]], [[KickTheDog kicks his puppy]] and leaves his girlfriend's corpse inside some sort of [[StuffedIntoTheFridge chilled food storage device]]. Do you make him explode with rage and potentially lose his BadAss image to your lead's {{Narm}}tastic acting or just leave him standing there with the same implacable look on his face leaving the audience unconvinced that ItsPersonal?
'''''Crck-crck-crk-ckchk'''''
A series of short sharp crackling noises and a close up of the heroes fist shows you that his Kung Fu grip has gone into overload and that his anger has manifested itself not into pointless words but into preparing his fist for the hard beatdown. Wow before he wasn't even trying hard enough to stress his joints but now he is willing to clench!
Sometimes the knuckle cracking sound is removed, maybe for the sake of realism, maybe because some people find it too squicky and then it will be replaced by the hero actually [[AGlassInTheHand crushing something in his hand]]. Bonus points if its made out of metal, points removed if its only a paper note.
[=OK=], great job. Your hero is walking around and he sure is pissed. He's walking [[ImplacableMan at a constant pace]] to fight TheDragon who killed his old master and then vent his fury on TheBigBoss in the ultimate showdown. Oh hold on, there are some lowly mooks in the way, oh it's even worse than that, it's just some random gang who's getting in the way. Well geez, how are we meant to play this for drama? The guy has already gone through swaths of baddies and gotten all the best equipment, they can't be a threat, we've got to hold the BadassBoast and speech for the top fight but the audience will get bored if he kills a man with one punch and then keeps punching him anyway.
Well, it did work the first time...
'''''Crck-crck-crk-ckchk'''''
He's cracking his knuckles, he's cracking his neck, his shoulders, his knees, he's even making a few stretches. Aha, this time he's unimpressed. You may not tell it from his face, you may not have realised that thing on his face was a smirk but now he's so unworried by the oncoming fight, he's taking time to get comfortable first. You can even go one further and hold off the cracking until ''after'' the fight, that shows he never even had to worry about being uncomfortable even while unleashing a flurry of judo chops and kung fu kicks.
It might be useful to know that the sound released has nothing to do with the bones themselves, but rather with the joints between the bones[[hottip:* :The popping sound is thought to be trapped bubbles of gas being released, amongst other theories]], and that you're not actually damaging the joints or bones ''significantly'' by doing this, and does not increase the chance of having arthritis - contrary to an old piece of "advice". What it does is provide increased looseness and flexibility of a joint temporarily following a crack, at the cost of a slight cumulative reduction in the joint's strength - crack your knuckles and you get a weaker grip.
Subtrope of KineticClicking.
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