Tyran-tree is my nemesis. With the power to control trees and summon demonic Ents to do his bidding! Alex Barkman, AKA the Tyran-tree, was best friend to our hero King Beetle before his transformation. Turned Nemesis by fate, when Dani King AKA King Beetle donated a kidney to his friend after the bus they were raiding crashed into a lumber mill! (Because of his regeneration powers, his blood type and organs are compatible with anyone so long as they are human)
Unluckily, the large pieces of wood which were stuck into Alex Barkman were treated with a special pesticide that reacted rather poorly with the super blood now coursing through his veins! The experimental pesticide was powered 10 fold by the super blood, causing his friend to grow nearly 3 feet (so he was now 8'9), and form a thick bark like skin. Hideous to most, and shook in horror as his once perfect Physic had been disfigured, and mutated! Swearing to take revenge on King Beetle for this curse, he set forth to destroy everything Dani King holds dear!
And yes, King Beetle (Or just King to friends) is the hero of the story. He was an art major, on a vacation in Japan to learn about traditional arts. He entered a old Japanese Temple, and was asked by a monk what he wanted most. Sadly, do to his poor knowledge of the japanese language, instead of saying, "Fast cars, beautiful women, piles of money and the power of the gods", he said "I want to be like the humble beetle that washes in the morning dew". And thus, we was given the strength, regeneration, and amazing immune system of the Rhinoceros Beetle. He also can turn his skin into a nearly bulletproof exoskeleton, but with how mind-numbingly painful this act is, he spends weeks at a time as Either Human Dani, or King Beetle, switching between the two as rarely as possible. And because the transformation takes upwards of several hours (for his exoskeleton to fully harden. LOL HARDEN), he stays in beetle form more often then not. Hes like Tony Stark in the fact everyone knows who King Beetle is, and how he openly flaunts it.