Diesel

is a small, sharp-tongued and sapient brown creature with two long appendages and a yellow eyepiece (he lost his eye in an accident), capable of flight with a hovercraft which he pilots. He is a business partner of Samus Aran and appears as the tritagonist of Samus & Joey and Metroid EX. He works as a junk dealer at the Junk Quixote.
==Biography==
Diesel does not appear in the story until chapter 4 of volume 1. He works as a car mechanic in a junk shop on a massive unnamed space station. Samus visits the station to leave Joey in his care, only to find Jealousy in the shop, and Diesel being held captive in a spherical container bound by a chain to the ceiling. Jealousy states that he stole Diesel's inventory and summons Bomad to combat Samus, who refuses to use her weapons for fear of hurting Diesel, while Joey uses the opportunity to rescue him. He mistakes him for Diesel's pet. Joey temporarily uses Diesel in his container as a shield when ambushed by Pirates, and he survives the detonation of Bomad's gravity bomb. Samus laughs as she reveals to Joey that Diesel himself was the hostage, and not his pet. Samus asks Diesel to take Joey under his supervision, which he gladly obliges to, seeing as he has a chance to put the boy to work.
Later, Diesel accompanies Joey to Degrade, where the Special Forces Ship Otowa carrying his mother has crashed. With the help of Samus, they are successful in rescuing the survivors, which includes Dr. Apronika. After this, Diesel and Joey return to the Junk Quixote. Sometime later, Joey befriends a robot he dubs U-ton, but soon discovers that it destroyed a ship and killed all of its passengers. Diesel follows Samus and Joey on their pursuit of Greed, who steals Samus' abilities and gives them to six entities called the Deadly Six Stars. Their mission eventually takes them back to Jatsuk, where Diesel has not been for a long time. He explains he left after his species stopped making machinery, which they only did because their technology was used in warfare. Diesel tries to convince them that their technological power is their pride, and capable of being used for good. They return to their machine-making ways after he solves the riddle of how to disable a bomb, by making it into a new mechanism instead of simply dismantling it. They create a rocket out of it, and shoot down Blast's ship. Samus kills him and restores her Bomb.
==Official data==
===Volume 1===
"Samus' friend from planet Jatsuk."
===Volume 2===
"The galaxy's best junk dealer. Samus asked him to take charge of Joey."
===Volume 3===
"Samus's friend. Runs a junk shop. Samus asked him to look after Joey."
==Development notes==
It is implied in chapter 12 that Diesel knows Samus is a woman. The author Idzuki Kouji confirmed he is the only character in the manga who knows her true identity, but has never seen her face. He later does, along with Joey, when Samus removes her armor before leaving them to confront Greed in the final chapter.
Diesel was created when Kouji needed a character who Samus could leave Joey in the care of. This would allow Joey to remain in contact with Samus while not being in immediate danger. Diesel's name is in reference to both horsepower, since he runs a vehicular junk shop, and pollution, due to his foul mouth.Idzuki Kouji (moonup777). 突き放してもいずれ無鉄砲に宇宙に飛び出すのが目に見えてる少年は眼の届く知り合いに預けるしかない。これならサムスとの接点を持ったまま物語に少年を絡められる。そこでサムスの仕事仲間としてディーゼルを設定した。名前は馬力(行動力)と環境汚染(口が悪い)からイメージ。 18 March 2021 9:00 a.m. Tweet. https://twitter.com/moonup777/status/1372533450721300482 The partnership between Samus and Diesel, where she provides him with trash from her missions, allowed Joey to see what Samus does outside of bounty hunting.Idzuki Kouji (moonup777). ディーゼルはスクラップ屋をしているのでサムスと関わればサムスが色々壊すから自然と儲かり、少年ジョイはサムスの活躍を側で見れてラッキー！こうしてサムス・ジョイ・ディーゼルの歪で不思議な組み合わせが物語を賑やかせます♪ 18 March 2021 9:00 a.m. Tweet. https://twitter.com/moonup777/status/1372533490655260674
==Gallery==
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==References==
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