Cracking
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In the X-Men film series, it appears a side effect of mutant healing factors is mutant joint-cracking, with Wolverine and Lady Deathstrike really going at this trope for all it's worth.
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As for neck cracking, Starfire does one badass neck cracking in "Go", where you really see what an upbringing by a warrior race will do for you when you're scared and in a strange place having just escaped being a war prize and implied sex slave. Scary.
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To really drive it in, you hear a loud cracking sound and the screen develops cracks!
Source: Video Game / Oni
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