The only way I could do that would be to break character.

And logically, the ejection would work. 

Erde is 12 feet tall and 3 feet from back to front. The tail at the point it would have to be at to reach around his body is only 5 feet thick. Ejecting it from his body would put it WELL out of the reach of the tail. Unless this thing can turn around as fast as a smaller creature, at which point I call shenanigans yadda-yadda-yadda.