Villain: MAMMOTH-8

MAMMOTH-8 / Nadif Dahir Warsame
When a powerful sea pirating cartel stumbled across alien technology, a large chamber used to create slave labor for heavy-gravity planets, they abducted a scientist to learn its purpose. Using poor civilians as guinea pigs, and stolen mammoth DNA from a museum as a patterning element, the technology painfully transformed humans into massive brutes with incredible strength only to die a few days later.

Due to their heavy bulk, they called the transformed humans “mammoths.” On the 8th try, Nadif Dahir Warsame, reeling from the extermination of his family, underwent the process. In this case, however, Nadif grew so massive that he utterly destroyed the chamber. This time, however, the mammoth effect did not kill the subject. By far the most powerful of the eight test subjects, Nadif acted as an enforcer for the pirating cartel and became known as Mammoth-8, though he's made top guns nervous by toying with the idea of running the show to consolidate more power.

At twelve feet tall, Mammoth-8 has massive strength (has been confirmed as easily lifting and tossing a stolen Abrams tank 30 yards) and is nearly indestructible (has shrugged off an FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank guided missile), while a side effect of the mammoth DNA patterning has left him with the ability to instantly project or unleash super-hard bony spikes from his body that have been witnessed piercing armor plating. His reflexes and speed are deceptively fast and, unfortunately for any opponent, he's gifted with a threat sense that alerts him to an incoming attack.