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Multiple-Tailed Beast

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Normally in nature no creature has more than one tail. Not so in fiction.
Any creature at all can have more than one tail, often to establish its other-worldliness. Sometimes the tails look like they might come from different creatures entirely. Usually such a creature is some form of supernatural or semi-divine spirit being, elemental, Kaiju, or demon.
The tail might split partway along into two or more tips, or there might be more than one complete tail springing directly from the base of the spine.
Compare Asian Fox Spirit and Bakeneko and Nekomata, most instances of which will fall under this trope. Doesn't have anything to do with Twin Tails. Compare and contrast Multiple Head Case for the other end of the animal.
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Bound by Blades has one of the bosses, Vaeryth, who has two tails. And can use them both to perform an epic Tail Slap capable of covering half the arena.
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The Naked Gun 2½ has a nuclear power commercial, with the family dog having two wagging tails.
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One of the enemie types in Miscreated is a giant quadrupedal monster that has three tails.
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In the video games of Harry Potter, there are several references to the Gytrash, which are ghostly dogs with forked tails. The gytrash is a creature in English folklore, though only the Harry Potter games describe it with a forked tail.
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Subeta has the Escalade, Darkonite, and Kora pets (although in that last case, they're more tentacular than anything else).
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Kuro the demon cat from Blue Exorcist has two tails of the split version.
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In Naruto, there are nine tailed beasts, Animalistic Abominations that each have a different number of tails from one through nine. The Nine-Tailed Fox, his real name Kurama, is the strongest of the nine. Each was a creation of the primordial Ten-Tailed beast which was created by Kaguya Otutsuki to retrieve her chakra from her sons.
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The Harry Potter universe has (as mentioned in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) the Crup, which resembles a Jacky Russel apart from its forked tail. They normally have the ends clipped in order to preserve The Masquerade.
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Right there in the first chapter of Toriko, the titular hero catches a Five-Tailed Sea Eagle (a giant eagle-creature with five reptilian tails) while catching some fish for lunch. Another notable example is the Yamata Scorpion, a monstrous scorpion with eight tails, each imbued with a different venom, which needs to be removed before consuming them.
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Korean drama My Girlfriend Is a Nine-Tailed Fox, in the case of which the eponymous girlfriend is a magical nine-tailed fox spirit taking human form.
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Pathfinder: Player characters of the Kitsune race have access to a feat that grants them additional tails and associated magical abilities, and can be stacked up to 8 times for a total of 9 tails.
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Moro, the female Wolf God that raised San in Princess Mononoke, had a two-pronged split-tail.
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Dungeons & Dragons:
The demon lord Demogorgon has two tails.
Warped Beasts have multiple flail-like tails.
Dracohydras have multiple snakelike tails forking from a common base.
A crystal dragon's tail forks in two about halfway down its length.
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A rare mutation in Wobbledogs allows dogs to have more than one tail.
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The Shaikahan in RuneScape looks like a lion with two tails.
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Kitsune: Of Foxes and Fools: The players are kitsune who are awarded additional tails by the kitsune elders for tricking sinful mortals. The first one to get nine tails wins.
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Ultraman Mebius: The first kaiju of the series is Dinozaur, a two-tailed space dinosaur whose tails contains nerve clusters in them.
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Many species in Pokémon have multiple tails, such as Vulpix (six),note According to Pokédex entries it starts with one at birth and gradually grows more. Side media confirms this, but in-game you'll only ever see six. Ninetales (obvious), Tauros (three). Espeon has a forked tail with two tips, as do Uxie, Mesprit, and Azelf. Buizel and Floatzel have two (they even use them as propellers), as well as Ambipom, Electivire and Meowstic. There are also some ambiguous cases such as Grovyle (which has branching fern leaves for a tail) and Suicune (which has two ribbon-like appendages for a tail).
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King Ghidorah, who appears in several Godzilla movies. He has two long tails (and three heads).
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Cattus from BoBoiBoy Galaxy is a cat alien with three tails that allow him to disguise himself as a cactus.
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Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito stars a pair of kitsune, one with nine tails and one with just three.
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Touhou Project, with its focus on youkai, unsurprisingly has this.
There are Ran, a nine-tailed kitsune, Chen, a twin-tailed nekomata, and, somewhat oddly, Orin, a kasha, who looks just like a nekomata despite the fact that they're mythologically unrelated.
Fujiwara no Mokou is often seen with a three-tailed phoenix, sometimes one she creates out of fireballs.
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Magic: The Gathering: The first generation of Slivers possessed a serpentine body that split into two or more prehensile tails. In their latest appearance, said tails appear to have evolved into legs. Their new humanoid shape comes as a bit of a shock, but considering their predilection for spontaneously sprouting all manner of extra appendages, legs are small time.
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In I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level, Pecora, the current Maou, has three tails.
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Akita from Ninjago can transform into a three-tailed wolf.
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In El Goonish Shive, Grace's omega form is a three-tailed squirrel-girl.
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In Yokoka's Quest, Valyn is a five-tailed lion chimera beast, and Vivi is a two-tailed Scottish Fold/puppy beast.
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One of Aesop's Fables (later adapted by Jean de La Fontaine) concerns two travelers -a German and a Turk- who claim to have seen two dragons (one with a hundred heads and the other with a hundred tails) on the other side of a hedge. The multi-headed one was actually the least dangerous, because all its heads prevented it from going through the hedge, but the multi-tailed one passed through without issue (an allegory for the Holy Roman Empire having many armies each led by their princes, and the Ottoman Empire having only a single leader).
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League of Legends has Ahri, the Nine-Tailed Fox. Her lore is clearly inspired by the Gumiho (Korean version of the Kitsune mythology).
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Yaiba has one villain taking the shape of a gigantic weasel monster with a fan of six tails.
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Sanbi from Temtem has three tails that it uses to communicate its moods and intentions.
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In the Dragonriders of Pern series Pernese dragons have forked tails.
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Hc Svnt Dracones: "Twin Tailed" is a possible morphism. It's considered one of the more "attractive" morphisms and many Vectors have tails surgically added to mimic them. In fact it's so common among Canidae that true twin tails are assumed to have had surgery and take a social penalty among their own kind.
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Twin Tail from Return of Ultraman has Exactly What It Says on the Tin. His bizarre "upside-down" design had made him amongst the most iconic Ultra monsters and a Fountain of Expies in tokusatsu, so he tends to reappear often. Also supposedly inspired the Twin Tails hairstyle in Japan.
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The Greenhouse: The demon 'Red' once she's put into the body of a cat. Not yet known whether these twin tails are prehensile like her single tail was. As the cat is probably a magical construct rather than a real cat being possessed, this is best described as Glamour Failure rather than Mark of the Supernatural.
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