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"You cannot milk shake hands with a clenched fist."

— Indira Gandhi, Prime Government minister of Bharat

Knuckle Cracking happens when a character cracks their knuckles to evidence that they are ready to deal out a whuppin' or tackle a challenge. Frequently used as an intimidation tactic in fights, this is a specially effective manner of showing that The Stoic is bothered plenty past someone to become serious. Cracking knuckles may also exist sign that a character is ready to get to work on a peculiarly arduous task, especially ane that requires a lot of muscle. Comes in two varieties: Type i, shown to the right, involves raising one's hands and proceeding to use hand A to fold the fingers of hand B in towards hand B'southward palm, and then immediately using hand B to practise the aforementioned with manus A. Blazon 2 involves cracking both hands at in one case by lacing the fingers together a la Finger-Tenting and bending them away from the palms, pushing one'southward hands either downwards towards the ground, forward away from your chest, or some angle in betwixt, such that ane'southward arms take on a wishbone shape. A less mutual variant, sometimes seen in martial arts films, involves cracking the knuckles ane-handed by slowly and dramatically clenching one'southward hand into a fist.

Sometimes the knuckle cracking sound is removed, maybe for the sake of realism, possibly considering some people find it too squicky and then it will be replaced by the hero crushing something in their hand. Bonus points if it'southward made out of metal, points removed if it's only a paper note.

Sometimes other joints are cracked too, virtually oft in the neck. Corking joints in the shoulders or back provides a convenient excuse to flex your muscles and show off your powerful physique. Another reason for this is to flex the muscles, loosen the joints, and open up the claret vessels which helps to improve blood-flow and reduce the strain and potential damage from overexerting a stiff trunk part.

A Sub-Trope of Kinetic Clicking. Compare and contrast with *Fissure!* "Oh, My Back!", in which a character's joints crack painfully, often to show that they are crumbling or have an injury.

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    Anime & Manga

• Bleach: In anime Episode 201, Kenpachi Zaraki does a neck cleft during his fight with Nnoitra Gilga in Aizen's fortress of Las Noches in Hueco Mundo.
• Dragon Brawl:
  • The protagonists do this all the fourth dimension before and during a fight.
  • Super Buu does a LOT of neck-cracking, even though he doesn't take bones.
• The outset sign that someone is already dead in Fist of the North Star is a bang-up noise coming from Kenshiro.
• Scar of Fullmetal Alchemist cracks the joints in his right hand dramatically when he'due south about to apply the Ability Tattoo located on his right arm.
• Inuyasha: The protagonist does it with his mitt open while showing off his claws.
• In Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Battle Tendency, the first affair the Colonnade Man Wamuu does afterward freeing himself is to casually crack his cervix as he observes the Nazi soldiers investigating the Pillar Men, clearly unimpressed.
• In Episode four of Kill la Kill, Ryuko gives this along with a Death Glare to Maiko Ogure later she tried to steal Senketsu from her, but couldn't actuate information technology.
• Naruto: The main character does it all the time. Repeatedly on the same hand, making the same bully noise equally he does information technology five times in succession.
• Luffy of 1 Piece always cracks his knuckles menacingly during Permit'due south Get Dangerous! moments.
• Ranma ½:
  • In his introduction story in the anime, Ryōga crushes several walnuts to dust with his fist, vowing to make Ranma pay for something or other. In the manga, he crushes a single walnut... between index and thumb. Effortlessly. Since Ryōga constantly does things like lifting immense boulders and smashing walls by banging his head against them in frustration, this isn't surprising
  • Ranma is pretty addicted of the "cracking knuckles and popping joints to show he's getting serious" version, and much like Inu-Yasha he favors the "cracking fingerjoints with an open up fist" method. Also, in at least the anime version of Hinako's arrival, he effortlessly bends a yen money completely in half afterward taking it from her. Betwixt thumb and forefinger.
• In Existent Bout High School, Midori gets cracking when she gets cracking.
• Sgt. Frog. This is practically Natsumi Hinata'due south go to move. When you hear cracking knuckles, a certain green house guest is fixing to become a beating.
• Lina Inverse of Slayers does it as well, on occasion. ("Did you say flatchested?")
• Dr. Stein from Soul Eater cracks the joints in his neck at one betoken. This is tension leaving his body as he stops holding back his insanity.
• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Arc-Gurren Lagann cracks its neck shortly subsequently its first transformation, and immediately earlier wiping out a swathe of Mugann. That's correct, a city-sized mecha cracks its neck.
• Tokyo Ghoul: Kaneki Ken develops a habit of cracking his index finger with his pollex before diving into a fight, something he probably picked upward from Jason
• Vinland Saga: Askeladd cracks his knuckles before his outset duel with Thorfinn.
• While there'south not that much obvious noise, when Blue or Toboe from Wolf's Rain starting time clenching shaking fists, somebody'due south in for an asskicking.

    Comic Books

• Superman:
  • In Bizarrogirl, Supergirl cracks her knuckles — and makes her optics glow to reinforce the event — when she warns a monster that it tin can choose between spitting its victim out voluntarily or getting him cut out of its insides.
  • The Killers of Krypton: During the final boxing between the Omega Men and the Citadel, one Supergirl clone cracks her knuckles to show she is non listening Kara's pleas to stop fighting.
  • In the Starfire'southward Revenge storyline, Rodney Marlowe starts peachy his knuckles equally request who killed his twin brother.
  • The Hunt for Reactron: When they are deciding their strategy to appoint Reactron, Flamebird says she "will go high", Nightwing says he "will go depression", and Kara says she "will kick his barrel upward the eye" while cracking her knuckles.

    Fairy Tales

• "Morozko": Male parent Frost cracks his knuckles and gnashes his teeth before unleashing waves of extreme cold upon someone.

    Fan Works

• In The Butcher Bird, Kaneki is fond of doing this just prior to a fight, as are, to a bottom extent, the rest of the Nightmare Pirates.
• Dungeon Keeper Ami: In "Surprise Guest", when a bar patron is talking and laughing virtually burning the place down, some other patron responses similar so:

  One of the nervous trolls turned to glare at the night-clad figure. "Y'all think that's amusing? Close up or I'll evidence you something really amusing!" He cracked his knuckles threateningly.

    Films — Animation

• Earlier their bot fight in Big Hero six, Yama cracks his neck with his easily. Hiro tries to imitate him, making a cracking sound effect vocally.
• Tai Lung has the habit as well in Kung Fu Panda.
• Cobra Bubbles, the badass social worker in Lilo & Stitch, cracks his cervix in his second advent.
• North cracks his knuckles just before he confronts Jack Frost about his "center" in Ascent of the Guardians.
• Another example of "graphic symbol who has no basic and is therefore invincible merely shows being invincible by neat his neck despite having no bones later existence browbeaten up" is in Ultimate Avengers two, when the alien Nazi shapeshifter (who is kind of a colony of slugs) does this after falling from a great elevation.

    Films — Live-Action

• Random Chore in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery does this. Largely as a parody of Odd Job from Goldfinger, the ultimate Stoic.
• Blade II: After drinking his fill up of blood and rejuvenating, Blade gives his cervix and knuckles a dainty cleft while limbering up to tear through a small army of Faceless Goons.
• In The Nighttime Knight, when the Joker is captured, and taunting the cop assigned to watch him, he finally gets a ascension out of the baby-sit, who tells him "I know you're gonna enjoy this. I'one thousand just gonna take to enjoy it even more." The Joker'southward only response is to stoically crack his neck.
• At the end of Kick-Ass, 11 yr old Mindy McCready aka Hitting Daughter is going to school for the first time, when two older kids endeavor to shake her downwardly for her lunch money. Cue Hit Daughter cracking her duke with an evil grin, and then the camera pans away as nosotros hear the bullies screaming in pain.
• Kung Fu Hustle uses it equally a parody of/homage to (it's difficult to tell which with Stephen Chow) Bruce Lee, when the Landlady menaces Brother Sum with knuckle-cracking to warn him away from Pig Sty Alley.
• Bruce Lee likes this one:
  • An onetime standard of Kung Fu movies is to accept a group from a rival school (often Japanese) come in and start disrespecting the Hero's schoolhouse and his recently deceased master, peradventure making a laissez passer at his girlfriend. Fist of Fury, which uses the Chin Woo school as a basis, has a scene where this occurs and we go Lee continuing there, taking the insults only with a knuckle crevice to show how angry he is getting and to step upwardly the tension.
  • On the flip side, an instance of the "cool" diverseness, earlier his fight with Chuck Norris at the Colosseum in Way of the Dragon, both fighters step up to each other accept off their shirts and then plow around to warm upwardly. Norris just does some knuckle cracking before starting on some karate moves only Lee goes on to crack his entire upper body and bear witness off his muscular definition.
• Amanuensis Smith cracks his cervix a lot in The Matrix films.
  • He cracks his knuckles and his neck during the subway fight in the get-go movie.
  • As they start to wander off at the terminate of the Burly Brawl in the 2d film, several of the Smiths practise it as an ensemble.
• Men in Black. After the Issues kills Edgar, dons his new Edgar suit and climbs out of the hole fabricated past his crashing starship, he cracks his neck.
• Mortal Kombat
  • Subverted with some random mook in the kickoff movie, right earlier he promptly got owned by Sub-Zero.
  • Played straight in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. Perhaps a little also straight. Shao Kahn must have a actually bad neck, because he barely moves his caput and it nevertheless cracks.
• My Demon Lover, a film where Nick from Family Ties turns into The Devil whenever he gets an erection, has the, er... "hero" going nuts over a misplaced pack of Fritos followed by some gut-wrenching knuckle cracking.
• In Pacific Rim, Raleigh and Mako have Gypsy do this before a major fight. Presumably, the pilots themselves are limbering up for the fight and the jaeger is merely matching their movements. Moments like these help remind the viewer of the humanity living within the behemothic mecha.
• Resident Evil (2002). Later on she succumbs to the T-virus infection and turns into a zombie, Rain Ocampo does the neck groovy variant simply before she attacks.
• In The Sandlot, Benny cracks his knuckles (one handed) when he faces off with The Beast.
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Afterward Joseph "Joe" Sullivan (AKA Heaven Captain) enters his office and pours out some Milk of Magnesia he cracks his neck, presumably to relieve stress.
• In Snatch., "One-Punch" Mickey stretches and cracks his knuckles to warm up for a fight while his opponent his pounding on him.
• Undercover Brother: Later on killing iii guards with his bare hands, Lance does a neck scissure.
• In the X-Men Film Series, it appears a side upshot of mutant healing factors is mutant joint-cracking, with Wolverine and Lady Deathstrike actually going at this trope for all it's worth. Deathstrike really crunches those fingers of hers. Of course, they don't have to worry most arthritis. Justified in Deathstrike'due south case, since her claws are within her fingers. They need to exist kept loose, and are probably sore quite often. Bonus points for adding a metal clanking noise when they crack their knuckles, hinting at their adamantium skeletons.

    Literature

• Discworld:
  • In both Soul Music and Maskerade, the Librarian cracks his knuckles before he begins playing the organ, which the narrator notes takes a while when you have every bit many knuckles every bit an orang-utan.
  • Done in The Truth past both Mr Tulip when considering violence on Mr Slant, and Otto von Chriek when threatening to get full vampire on the leader of the conspiracy.
  • In Unseen Academicals, Ridcully is reminiscing about his gramps, who used to stop fights by throwing anybody into the street, and says he wishes he had something to call back him by, causing the other wizards to look down at his massive hands. And so:

    He cracked his knuckles. There was an echo.

• Uncle Andrew does this in The Magician's Nephew, when he's cornered the children in his cranium room. Interestingly, he doesn't show whatever inclination to start a (concrete) fight; the bang-up seems to accept been designed to make him more intimidating (and generally creepy).
• Variation in Titus Groan, in which Flay is constantly followed around by a leitmotif of joint-cracking, and his Let's Get Dangerous! scene involves him wrapping his knees in bandages to allow him to sneak upwards on his enemy without his skeleton betraying him.

    Live-Activeness TV

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In "Hush" when demons steal the voices of everyone in Sunnydale, Giles cracks his duke earlier undertaking the task of... changing the overhead transparencies in social club to deliver his usual exposition.
• In Dinosaur Revolution, the rival Tyrannosaurus king often cracks his neck before going in for the impale.
• Spoofed on Family Matters. When Urkel uses a machine to turn himself into Bruce Lee, he starts out an fight with an extended series of slap-up, the noises of which barely even match up with the motions that are supposed to be making them. Then it goes Up to Eleven and Overly Long Gag when Urkel, Richie and 3J all go literal Bruce Lee Clone and brainstorm nifty and whining noises.
• The Flash (2014). Subverted when Felicity Smoak tries this while bragging nearly her Hollywood Hacking skills.

  Felicity: When information technology comes to hacking, I'chiliad the fastest woman live. (does interlaced finger version and winces in pain) Arrgh! That was not equally badass as I pictured...

• The henshin devices in Juken Sentai Gekiranger crave the users to perform knuckle-cracking movements to activate.
• Whenever Kotaro Minami transforms in Kamen Rider BLACK, his fists make cracking noises.
• Kamen Rider Ryuki has Asakura/Ouja and US counterpart Kamen Passenger Dragon Knight has JTC/Strike (but not Price, the 2d, non-sociopathic Strike) do a neck-crevice before going in to inflict some suffering.
• In Kamen Rider Den-O, Kintaros' Grapheme Tic is great his neck; since he has Super Forcefulness, he tin reach this merely by putting ane thumb against his chin and pushing.
• Lois & Clark: One episode features a shapeshifting assassin who reveals his identity to the audition through his Grapheme Tic of not bad his cervix earlier doing something insidious.
• Spoofed on an NCIS episode. McGee tries to act tough by doing this, while Tony (falsely) points out that doing and then is a warning sign for the early stages of arthritis.
• Sherlock. Jim Moriarty does a neck crack before enacting his program to break into the Tower of London, the Banking concern of England and Pentonville prison house simultaneously.

    Professional person Wrestling

• Chris Benoit would ofttimes practise this during matches.

    Video Games

• In Breath of Fire 3, Bunyan cracks his duke after catching your team robbing his house cerise-handed.
  • Marshall and Forest Police, likewise, had some knuckle and wrist corking and are consummate Bruce Lee Clones.
• At the start of the Ostagar battle in Dragon Age: Origins, an advancing Hurlock Alpha is depicted bully his neck.
• Doomguy does this before punching out Dr. Hayden's speaker at the cease of his Establishing Grapheme Moment during the first level.
• Duke Nukem cracks his knuckles at the beginning of every level in Duke Nukem 3D. He will as well do it if you look around too long.
• Guilty Gear'due south Sol Badguy does this in one of his fight intros.
• In The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel, Rean's idle animation in the field is to crack his knuckles.
• Shepard invokes this trope in Mass Event a lot, ordinarily as warm up in lodge to extract information from a hesitant informant. Unsurprisingly, if y'all empathise anything well-nigh Shepard, it works. Ane volus was savvy enough that all she\he had to do was crack knuckles to comply.
  • Joker does this also quite a few times, nigh oft when he's near to make Normandy trip the light fantastic. Which is strange, seeing how he could break his fingers quite easily..
• In Metallic Gear Solid Five: The Phantom Pain Venom Snake tin "Knock" by twisting his prosthetic wrist around, causing it to fissure loudly and spark, cartoon attending towards his location. Diamond Dogs that take over strike missions in Big Boss's place can do the same thing... and it looks similar they're cracking their wrists so loudly a soldier could hear.
• In the Overwatch video "Recall", Reaper cracks his neck earlier fighting Winston himself.
• Wesker does this in Resident Evil 5 at the beginning of your fight with him and Jill assuming you don't shoot them get-go.
• In RUINER, swell your duke is one of the prompts given when you lot're about to get into a boss fight.
• Tokugawa Ieyasu from Sengoku Basara dramatically cracks his duke earlier his Basara attack, appropriate since he's a fist fighter. Kuroda Kanbe also cracks his neck during his taunt, complaining that he "needs a break".
• In Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time in the animated short "Timing is Everything" Sly does this before opening a safe.
• Vector the Crocodile cracks his duke in Sonic Heroes when he finds out their client is unable to pay for their detective work.
• A deleted scene from Spider-Man: The Movie: The Game has Shocker doing this. With no sound, oddly.
• In one skit of Tales of Destiny two, Loni Dunamis starts mentioning on how no guy will exist attracted with Nanaly Fletch, because... she's a tomboy. So cue to Nanaly cracking her duke (with sound furnishings), which scared Loni shitless and the rest, she starts cracking his basic.
• Warframe has Lavos, who cracks his duke every bit part of his Idle Animation. Curiously, he's non a brawler past design.
• The grapheme select screen in Warhammer Online has the Chaos Called flex his fingers and clench his fist in a soundless example of the trope, but the Orc Choppa but grabs his own head and noisily cracks his cervix.
• Yakuza 0 (and the remake of the original game on the same engine, Yakuza Kiwami); Kiryu will scissure his duke and roll out his cervix whenever he is switched into his default Brawler stance.

    Web Animation

• Spoofed in Dragon Ball Z Abridged. Piccolo cracks his neck with a very satisfying audio which inspires Krillin to do the same. The result is a meaty crunch and him screaming in pain. And calculation another notch on the Krillin Owned counter.
• Once they were able to do non-machinima sequences in Blood-red vs. Blue, Tex unremarkably enters fights with a knuckle crack and neck pop.

    Webcomics

• In Goblins, the "lesser finger horror" makes this sound every fourth dimension it moves. (Information technology's been explained that its form of movement involves breaking its own bones and healing them again.)
• In the BDSM webcomic Sunstone, Lisa does this at the very start of the series before beginning the memoirs and again later when to assistance wake herself upwards she cracks her cervix. It's 1 of the few things about her that annoys the crap out of Ally.
• The Bull from Tower of God gave us a loud and deadened example of neck bang-up.
• Van Von Hunter sort of plays with this trope; the signature motility of the Flaming Prince is saying "I will CRUSH you like this [noun]!" while acting this out. Often said object is something he really does not want to crush, due to it being valuable or very painful.

    Web Original

• The Adventures of Captain Bucky and his Space Marshals, in Outer Space. A Infinite Corporal (Temporarily Assigned) does this when ordered to state the ship, with fanfare, simply for him to employ his finger to push a Big Red Button which does the job.

    Spider web Videos

• Played for Horror in the Gus Johnson sketch "Crack". Two characters start cracking their knuckles, but they soon commencement contorting and even dismembering their limbs.
• The Nostalgia Critic has Angry Joe cracking his knuckles at Zack Snyder in their crossover review for Batman five Superman: Dawn of Justice.
• In her co-review of Award & Celebrity with Obscurus Lupa, The Nostalgia Chick starts doing this when Lupa rejects Todd for about the millionth fourth dimension.
• MiniFett's Team Fortress 2 weirdo, Spyper, unremarkably speaks with a Spy's voice, but he'll randomly twitch and beginning talking similar a Sniper, usually to spout something loud and tactless. Every time it happens his cervix cracks audibly.

    Western Animation

• Occasionally played for comedy, with a pianoforte histrion well-nigh to endeavor a difficult slice. For example, Bugs Bunny in "Rhapsody Rabbit".
• In one episode of Avatar: The Concluding Airbender, Xin Fu does this earlier facing off with Toph.
• In 1 Batman: The Animated Serial episode there's a crook who is loudly declaring "I'grand no squealer" that Batman needs to get information out of. Batman just cracks his duke and narrows his optics threateningly. The guy talks.
• In Ben 10: Alien Force: Kevin Levin sometimes does this.
• In The Cleveland Show, Roberta gets ready to put a beatdown on some college guys for harassing her and punching out her boyfriend (in "B.K.O.C."). She cracks her neck, and so shoulders, then knuckles, then boob duke.
• Taken Up to Eleven in the Ed Eddn Boil episode "Shoo Ed" by Jonny 2x4, who not simply cracks his knuckles to annoy everyone, but cracks all the other joints in his body during the last segment of the episode.
• In Jackie Chan Adventures, Yang Jackie tends to practice the cervix variant before getting into a fight.
• Mongul in the Justice League Unlimited episode "For the Man Who Has Everything".
• Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil: Rock Callahan, Kicking Buttowski's favorite action hero, has a habit of cracking his neck while delivering his Ane Liners.
• The Legend of Korra: Korra is known to do this when she's about to throw downwardly.
• The Loud Firm: Lynn Loud does this in the episode "Making the Example" [1] ◊.
• Middlemost Post: Angus cracks his knuckles while preparing to hug Parker for 30 seconds.
• Phineas and Ferb features this in "Ferb Latin." The episode focuses on the duo reinventing societal community. They assign pregnant to several gestures including neat your knuckles.Doing and then means that you're hungry.
• Ready Jet Go!:
  • Celery does this in "Castaway Carrot".
  • Jet cracks his knuckles in "Treasure Map" equally he prepares to make a treasure breast.
  • These ii moments signal that Bortronians have bones, even though they are stretchy.
• The first aired (but not "true" starting time) Regular Show episode, Mordecai and Rigby vigorously crack their knuckles, spines, and shoulders for a few seconds before engaging in..... Rock, Paper, Scissors
• Of all people, Richie Rich's mother had this as a habit.
• The Simpsons:
  • Like the SpongeBob example above, Bart Simpson likewise hurts his duke when he tries this.

    Bart: Ow, my bones are and so brittle! Only I always potable plenty of—... [looks at carton] Malk?

  • Besides to temporary mob boss Homer. He and so blames his bodyguards for not protecting him.
  • In "Homer the Whopper" Comic Book Guy cracks his knuckles, neck and ponytail.
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • When SpongeBob tries keen his knuckles, he ends up breaking them instead.
  • Earlier "kicking SpongeBob'south butt", Flatts the Flounder cracks his knuckles normally, and then cracks them with a nutcracker and so he brushes his teeth.
• The titular character of Steven Universe cracked his knuckles in one case, however they made no noise. When questioned he said his duke are polite.
• Teen Titans:
  • As for neck corking, Starfire does one badass neck smashing in "Go", where y'all really see what an upbringing past a warrior race volition practise for yous when you're scared and in a foreign identify having just escaped existence a war prize and unsaid sex slave. Scary.
  • A more humorous, nonetheless still serious case occurs near the end of "Only Human." This time, information technology'due south Cyborg's turn for a double neck cleft, merely since half of his head is robotic, the second crevice is really a mechanical whine.
• Full Drama:
  • Owen is the final ane to jump the 1.000-foot cliff in "Not So Happy Campers -- Part ii". If he jumps, his squad wins, then scared equally Owen is he resolves to do it. He prepares a run-up, cracks his knuckles by tightening his hands into fists, screams, and goes for information technology.
  • Every bit Izzy and Chef Hatchet prepare to fight in "Hide and Be Sneaky", beginning Chef cracks his knuckles merely past making a fist, and so Izzy does the aforementioned and 1-ups Chef by cracking her neck while she's at information technology.
  • One of the things Beth has to say about Brady in "Masters of Disasters" is that he has a habit of dandy his duke. She acknowledges that most people find it gross, but she finds it adorable when he does information technology.
• Would you believe that Optimus mimes the knuckle-cracking move in Episode 41 of Transformers Cybertron (or 42, if yous follow Galaxy Strength)?

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