Basic Trope: Someone's joints crack painfully, often someone who is elderly or middle-aged.
- Straight: During a fight, Bob's back ends up cracking, causing him injury.
- Exaggerated: Every joint in Bob's body cracks, causing him to immediately collapse.
- Downplayed: Bob's back cracks, which causes him issues for a moment, but he gets over it.
- Justified: Truth in Television: This often happens to elderly or middle-aged people, but can happen to just about anyone, especially those with certain conditions.
- Inverted: Bob cracks his joints, and it feels good.
- Subverted: Bob is initially injured, but after straightening his back, he ends up feeling better.
- Double Subverted: And then he gets hit again.
- Parodied: Bob and Emperor Evulz are both elderly, and so their entire battle consists of almost nothing but complaining about how much their backs hurt.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Nobody's joints crack painfully.
- Enforced: "Our hero is elderly, or at the very least middle-aged, right? Maybe we should add in some Surprisingly Realistic Outcome and give him an injury that would result from someone in his age group doing those same stunts."
- Lampshaded: The trope name, or a variant, is said.
- Invoked: Bob forcibly bends his back until it gives out, and then he says the trope name.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Bob decides to become more agile in an attempt to avoid these injuries.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "I don't feel like fiction ever points out how much your body tries to kick your ass when you start getting old. Interesting that Bob is a notable exception to that."
*Crack!* "Oh, My Back!"... Look, I gotta go to the main page. It's the nearest place where I can get a suitable chiropractor.
