Who Is Tailhook? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Tailhook is a Marvel comic book character, the alter ego of Marissa Paulsen, with over 4 comic issue appearances. Tailhook kills rapists because her sister was raped and killed. Tailhook is armed with a whip covered in barbs, as well as a crossbow.

Who is Tailhook?

Marissa Paulsen was an excellent athlete in high school where she was All-State in swimming and gymnastics. Marissa was a great student as well and even attended Yale University but her life would change after a traumatic event took place involving her sister. Her sister was a Navy pilot who had distinguished herself in the Persian Gulf but she would become one of several women that were humiliated and assaulted during the Navy Tailhook Convention. Her sister was fondled, her clothes ripped off and some men tried to rape her but nothing happened to the men involved when she testified against them. The Navy brass shut her out of a promotion to the jets and she ended her own life without saying goodbye or leaving a note. Marissa decided to take matters into her own hand and execute her own form of justice as Tailhook. Tailhook would hunt down some men from the Yale campus accused of rape with her barbwire whip and crossbow. One of her targets was a junior named Carl Greenberg who tried to escape from Tailhook by jumping through a window at the Naples Bar on campus.

Key facts

Tailhook is of human origin and first appeared in "Tailhook". The character is published by Marvel. With 4 recorded issue appearances, Tailhook ranks among the most featured characters in comics.