Zyg was found in a meteor crater by a childless couple, who took him home to their pig-farm and raised him as their own son. As he grew up, he displayed remarkable supertalents. These included making eggs disappear, peeling potatoes a bit faster than normal people, and the ability to turn milk yellow. When he became an adult, his parents revealed the truth about his origin, and that they were not his biological parents. Zyg accepted it, as well as the fact that he had been growing up under the care of two half-witted strangers. He murdered them and slipped away at night with their few belongings.