She also tries to make her grandmother "Cranky", "just a little less cranky". Flint is old, ornery, cranky, and gruff. She has a bored attitude, and can be a bit cranky and rude at times. Murtaugh's a little cranky about his age until everything he loves is threatened. Towards the end of his life, Cook often played dim witted or cranky elderly characters. John McCanless was once a gunslinger and has become a cranky old rancher. Monisha thinks he is her mother's friend and tries to act cranky. If she doesn't eat sweets for a long time she can get very cranky. Davis described Mr. Hooper as "slightly cranky but good-hearted". His prose style, famously cranky and occasionally savage, helped cement an air of irascibility. He sounds more like a cranky Redditor than a fantastical crime boss. In "Nature", for example, death is depicted as bedtime for a cranky child. However, behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. She also noted his "low-blood sugar moments" make him look cranky. Thea Clayhill is about to lose her position as secretary to a very cranky publisher.