Martin Brundle was unique from the moment of his birth; although his mother, Veronica Quaife, was human, his father, Seth Brundle, was a unique genetic hybrid of human and housefly. Due to an accident with his experiemental Telepods — booths that allowed matter to be instantly transported from one location to the other — Seth Brundle was merged at the genetic level with a fly that accidentally slipped into the sending Telepod with him. Brundle's girlfriend, Veronica, discovered that she was pregnant by him after he began mutating into a deformed hybrid of man and insect. Fearing that her unborn child had been conceived after Brundle's fateful teleportation, Veronica wanted to have an abortion, but after she was forced to kill the mutated Brundle, Anton Bartok (Brundle's employer) convinced