Multipurpose Tongue

Multipurpose Tongues can do a lot more than taste, such as grasp, sting, or bash objects. A great variety of creatures could possess this kind of tongue, but they're usually reptilian or amphibians. Many characters add an Animal Motif based on their ability. A Multipurpose Tongue is sometimes fully prehensile, allowing characters to grab and carry things solely with their tongue. Less prehensile variants may be coated in some sticky substance, or have tiny suction pads like an octopus's tentacles. Alternatively, a Multipurpose Tongue could be covered in a slimy substance, allowing the character to escape a grapple hold with their saliva. Particularly in the case of stinging Multipurpose Tongues, the appendage may have a venomous component (or skin-contact poison) that causes paralysis in the target. This is a very common trait for fictional chameleons and frogs, despite the fact that real-life frog tongues aren't actually prehensile or all that long. This is often extended to other reptiles and amphibians, as part of the general confusion of cold-blooded creatures that tends to go on in fiction. Power Perversion Potential abounds. Can fall under Bizarre Alien Limbs. Usually, this trope needs an Overly-Long Tongue just to function.