Zig

Zig is the main, eponymous antagonist of the Xilam cartoon ''Zig & Sharko. ''He is a hyena who lives on the unnamed island and who also wants to eat Marina, the beautiful mermaid living in the sea. His attempts are sabotaged by Marina's protector and boyfriend, a shark named Sharko.

Zig is aided with the help of Bernie, an intelligent hermit crab who gives him the plans and helps him to build the contraptions important to getting to Zig's goal.

Appearance
Even though Zig is a hyena, he doesn't particularly look like any of the four real-life hyena species - he has no visible neck, with small, sharp ears, red eyes closely placed to each other, a short, paintbrush-like tail, light brown fur, a mane and a prolonged snout with large teeth, akin to that of a human (at some moments he is shown with more fitting carnivorous teeth). As a result, many viewers mistake him for another animal.

Zig is a villain of short stature, and is scrawny; he has long, thin arms and short legs.

Personality
Zig is an always hungry, embittered hyena, somewhat similar to a mindless predator in his obsession with eating Marina. However, he was much smarter than the creatures living next to him, although dumber in comparison to his partner Bernie.

Zig is a cunning, but somewhat naive villain who is willing to use anything to help him in his goal to eat Marina. Unfortunately, he has deceived many animals in order to do that, and, due to this, none of them will help him and will usually mock him.

Zig is also particularly charismatic and charming, even making a woman fall with love in him in Loony Cruise.

It is possible that Zig might be mentally ill from his hunger and starvation, which has been implied in the endings of Fishy Story and Caution, Genius at Work!, where he looks at Bernie with crazy eyes and foamy mouth.