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.

History
As revealed in the episode Desert Island Drought, Zig was born to a clan of extremely successful hunters who have found and killed many sea creatures throughout their lives.

At some point of his life, Zig got to the island and met Bernie.

Season I
Throughout the Season I, Zig has attempted to eat Marina. In the pilot episode Fishy Story, it is seen that Zig looks on Marina with teary eyes, with a thought bubble appearing with Marina, Marina's tail and an "equal" (=) sign between them, implying that Zig was hungry for a long time.

Season II
It is currently unknown how things will turn out in Season II.

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).

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.

Sharko
Zig and Sharko, the eponymous characters of the series, are constantly at each other's throat due to the one's goal to eat Marina and the other's protection of her. Zig sometimes tries to distract and get rid of Sharko; Sharko loves to beat up Zig and will gladly do that. Once, in Bottom's Bottom, when Zig and Sharko were trapped in an undersea place, they had to work together to escape it.

Marina
Zig and Marina, however, interact well, mainly due to Marina not knowing Zig's true, malicious intentions against her. Zig uses a gentleman facade in order for her to think about him as her friend.

Bernie
Zig and Bernie are partners in crime; Bernie usually helps Zig in his plans to finally eat Marina. While Zig sometimes abuses Bernie, Bernie is Zig's only friend, to the point where in Bernie Moves House, when Bernie and Zig had a quarrel, they were hugging tearfully.

Trivia

 * In the Hindi version of the show, Zig is voiced by Sahif Ali Khan.
 * Interestingly enough, while in The Coach Zig was shown not having any claws, in Bristlebeard's Adventure he is shown having them.