History Main / PrehensileTail

** ''ComicBook/XMen'': Part of [[Characters/XMen70sMembers Nightcrawler]]'s physical mutation is a long, prehensile tail. How capable is it? Swashbuckler Kurt Wagner has been known to use it to wield a '''third''' sword when he's DualWielding, and he's more than capable of matching master fencers with it. This is in addition to it being strong enough to lift a full sized adult's body off the ground or restrain a punching fist.

* ''Manga/{{Kekkaishi}}'' has Princess, a {{kitsune}} who has [[CombatTentacles nine tails]] that she often uses to wrap an opponent to the point of nearly mummifying them.

* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'': Tangle the Lemur has a very flexible tail which she can extend and contract at will. She has been shown using it as a as a rope, a bungee cord, a slingshot, or even a pully for herself. By curling it up like a coil, Tangle can also use her tail like a spring to bounce around.

* ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager'': Nee'Lix is a [[RatMan rodent-like creature]] with a prehensile tail who evolved from a forest-dwelling species. The tail comes in handy on the eponymous rocketship which doesn't have ArtificialGravity.

* One of the many rules put in place for Blog/MrWelch specifically forbids him from having a prehensile ''anything''.

* ''Film/TheHost'': The fish-creature uses its tail to brachiate under bridges and to carry off its victims.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'': Abu.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'': Rattlesnake Jake, who wields a gatling gun in place of a rattle at the end of his tail. Despite this handicap, he is dextrous enough to be able to take fill a small glass with his venom and divest Rango's sixshooter of all but one of it's bullets.

* ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'': Squirrels are often described as hanging by their tails, something real s squirrels cannot do.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': Tieflings can take the alternate racial trait "prehensile tail", which lets them retrieve small objects from their person as a swift action. Since the default trait it replaces is only useful for sorcerers, most take the tail.

* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': Drago has used his tail as an extra limb.

* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': In "The Full Monkey", when Kim is turned into a humanoid monkey, she uses her tail to grab a weight out of Doug's hand and throw it at Monkey Fist, then undoes the shackles on her chair.

** Miss Heinous has one as well about which [[RaisedByRobots Saint Olga]] tells her an old "Rhyme": Guys don't make passes at girls with devil.. [[LastSecondWordSwap tails]].

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': Similarly Pepe LePew has been known to use his tail to ensnare prospective girlfriends.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionhearts'': As a retired circus star, Lana Lionheart can grab things in the tassel of her tail.

* ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'': The Shen Gon Wu Monkey Staff gradually transforms its user into a monkey, offering enhanced strength and agility useful for a kung-fu master. In addition as the transformation nears completion, the user will sprout a tail which has all the utility of a normal monkey's tail, including allowing the user to lift their own bodyweight (or others').

* Some animals have this, like New World monkeys, chameleons, possums, and seahorses -- primarily for the purpose of holding onto branches. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehensile_tail Here's the full list.]]

* ''WetsernAnimation/TheLionhearts'': As a retired circus star, Lana Lionheart can grab things in the tassel of her tail.
* ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'': The Shen Gon Wu Monkey Staff gradually transforms it's user into a monkey, offering enhanced strength and agility useful for a kung-fu master. In addition as the transformation nears completion, the user will sprout a tail which has all the utility of a normal monkey's tail, including allowing the user to lift their own bodyweight (or others').

** ''ComicBook/XMen'': Part of ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}}'s physical mutation is a long, prehensile tail. How capable is it? Swashbuckler Kurt Wagner has been known to use it to wield a '''third''' sword when he's DualWielding, and he's more than capable of matching master fencers with it. This is in addition to it being strong enough to lift a full sized adult's body off the ground or restrain a punching fist.
%%** ''ComicBook/XMen'': The Exiles' Nocturne has a [[{{Squick}} retractable version]].

* Spyro in VideoGame/SpyroAHerosTail uses his purple dragon tail to grab on and swing on poles this way to get across areas that are too wide for him to fly and he needs to use poles to get across them.

%%* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'': Tangle the Lemur can use her tail to confront enemies in various ways.%%Meaning?

* ComicBook/{{Cheetah}} can use her tail to grab and strangle foes. At the start of "[[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 The Witch and the Warrior]]", Cheetah uses his tail to strangle Superman. He's working for Circe at the time so its unclear which of their magic allowed the attack to be so effective.

%%* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
%%** ''ComicBook/XMen'': ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}}. The Exiles' Nocturne has a [[{{Squick}} retractable version]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Spiderman}}'': While normally used to shoot acid, classic villain Scorpion was very able to use his mechanical tail to take hostages if he needed to by wrapping it around potential victims.
* ''ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}}'': Part of the Herr Wagner's physical mutation is a long, prehensile tail. How capable is it? Swashbuckler Kurt has been known to use it to wield a THIRD sword when he's DualWielding, and he's more than capable of matching master fencers with it. This is in addition to it being strong enough to lift a full sized adult's body off the ground or restrain a punching fist.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'': There's a monkey who has an advantage over humans in the workplace because of his tail. He has directly questioned why humans designed the default mouse and keyboard layout, since the arrangement seems specifically made to accomodate two hands for typing and a tail to use the mouse.

* ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager'': Nee'Lix is a RatMan with a prehensile tail who evolved from a forest-dwelling species. The tail comes in handy on the eponymous rocketship which doesn't have ArtificialGravity.

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It should be noted that a few {{Beast M|an}}en and most HornyDevils both tend to have these for FantasticArousal [[{{Fanservice}} Service]]. For the less dexterous there may still be [[TailSlap another]] option. See also, BewareMyStingerTail, when the tail has stuff attached, and HandyFeet for other dexterous appendages. Can fall under BizarreAlienLimbs.

* ''VideoGame/CryptOfTheNecrodancer'': Coda is a goblin-like creature who wields a dagger in the coiled tip of her long tail -- and, indeed, besides being a musical term, "coda" means "tail" in Italian.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'': The Monkey Staff gives this power.

* ''ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}}'': Part of the Herr Wagner's physical mutation is a long, prehensile tail. How capable is it? Swashbuckler Kurt has been known to use it to wield a THIRD sword when he's DuelWielding, and he's more than capable of matching master fencers with it. This is in addition to it being strong enough to lift a full sized adult's body off the ground or restrain a punching fist.