Diesel 10

**Diesel 10** is an antagonist in the Thomas and Friends franchise, serving as the main antagonist of the 2000 film Thomas and the Magic Railroad, an anti-hero in Calling All Engines, a cameo character in The Great Discovery and Misty Island Rescue as well as the main antagonist of Day of the Diesels and the episode The Missing Christmas Decorations.

He is a villainous diesel engine with a claw nicknamed "Pinchy" who serves as the main arch-nemesis of Thomas.

In Thomas and the Magic Railroad, he was voiced by Neil Crone. In Calling All Engines, he is voiced by Michael Brandon in the US version while in the UK version, he was voiced by the late Michael Angelis. In the TV Series as well as Misty Island Rescue and Day of the Diesels, he was voiced by Matt Wilkinson.

## History

### Thomas and the Magic Railroad

Diesel 10 is first racing past Thomas and Gordon at Killabon Station, kicking dust and dirt everywhere saying, "Get out of my way, I had unfinished business here and I want to finish it fast!" which also scares Gordon. Diesel 10 is seen again when Thomas is talking to James at Tidmouth Sheds, making fun of them and explaining his plan to find and destroy the lost engine and dominant them as telling them that they're not nothing but scrap and asking his claw Pinchy if he is right which is before he left.

At the mountain, Diesel 10 tells his dimwit sidekicks Splatter and Dodge about their jobs as well as explaining his plans to them and when he said the word destroy, Splatter and Dodge were shocked since Mr. Conductor is coming to Sodor, and he will not let their boss destroy anything, but Diesel 10 can say he can do whatever he wants as well as getting Mr. C with his claw which is before the claw accidentally hits his face which cause his henchmen to laugh at Diesel 10. Diesel 10 is then seen singing Old Mcdonald had a Farm but with his own words at Knapford Station. Diesel 10 also sends sends Splatter and Dodge to Tidmouth Sheds, so they spy on the steam engines and while they started laughing at Thomas, Harold flies by, spreading sneezing powder by Diesel 10, all over the three engines.

That night, when Mr. Conductor and the engines are sleeping, Diesel 10 rolls up and smashes down the side of the sheds with his claw, waking up Mr. Conductor and the engines. Mr. Conductor reprimands Diesel 10 by using his gold dust, but however discovers his gold dust is gone. Diesel 10 also discovers this as well as demanding Mr. Conductor to reveal Lady's whereabouts. Mr. Conductor said that he won't find Lady in the sheds. Diesel 10 then tells Mr. Conductor that he is not clever enough to stop enough which is before Mr. Conductor threatens him to put sugar in his tanks to seize him up for good, causing Diesel 10 to leave.

Later, Percy and Thomas talk about Mr. Conductor and conclude that he travels to Sodor on the Magic Railroad by a set of magic buffers. Diesel 10 overheard this and heads to the Sodor Ironworks. Toby then tells Thomas and Percy about that as well as saying that he is going after Diesel 10 to see what he does next. At the Sodor Ironworks, Diesel 10 talks with Splatter and Dodge about his plan of destroying the buffers tahat lead to the magic railroad in order to make the magic railroad end. To prevent Diesel 10 from trying to find the magic buffers. Toby rings his bell loudly, causing Diesel 10 to tried to attack Toby by using his claw although his claw knocks down the whole shed, trapping Diesel 10 and his sidekicks under its roof. Splatter and Dodger then asks Diesel 10 if he did mean to let the roof fall in to which Diesel 10 replies he always mean what he does.

The next morning, when Mr. Conductor traveled across Sodor to find the windmill in order to search for gold dust, Diesel 10 found him and captured Mr. Conductor with his claw before holding him over a viaduct, threating Mr. Conductor that he will drop him to his death which was in the river if he doesn't tell him where the buffers as well as explaining his plans to him. When Diesel 10 tells Mr. Conductor that he got 10 seconds to tell him where the buffers are, Mr. Conductor manages to escape by using a pair of wire cutter to cut one of the cables connected to his claw, causing Diesel 10's claw to fling across the island towards the windmill. At the coaling plant, Splatter and Dodge tells Diesel 10 how he could let Mr. Conductor escape, Diesel 10 lies to them by saying that he did that on purpose and was testing to see if he could escape. Splatter and Dodge mock him which caused Diesel 10 to angrily to teach the two a lesson about "how to stop being stupid", but accidentally gets himself covered in coal, causing James, Gordon, and Henry to laugh at him. As the coal stops falling on Diesel 10, Diesel 10 angrily said that is going to ruin his facial.

While Mr. Conductor's cousin Junior was thrown in the air due to a strong wind while riding on the windmill after bringing Burnett's granddaughter Lily to Sodor as well as helping Mr. Conductor, he landed on the roof of Diesel 10 who was prowling around Sodar (most likely searching for the magic buffers) until he arrived at the Sodor Ironworks and during that, Diesel 10 flipped Junior onto James and attempted to force the two towards a deep pit which would killed them. Junior tries to use to his whistle, only to discover that he is out of gold dust, just like his cousin. As Diesel 10 prepares to send them falling their deaths, Junior uses the last of his extra gold dust to teleport himself and James away to safety, much to Diesel 10's shock.

When Thomas and Lady arrive to Sodar, Diesel 10 finds them as well as ordering Splatter and Dodge to come and destroy the two engines, but they refused due to their master's attitude on them, telling Diesel 10 to do the work himself. Diesel 10 then decides not have Splatter and Dodge help them. After that, Diesel 10 chases Thomas Lady and Burnett Stone through the island of Sodar until they arrived at the viaduct and when viadcout was destroyed, Diesel 10 tries to stop but it was late making to fall off the viaduct which is before having his claw hold one of the tracks. Diesel 10 calls Thomas and Lady (likely to make them helped him in order to destroy them) but however instead, the track breaks which caused Diesel 10 to fall in a barge filled with sludge. It's unknown what happen to Diesel 10 after this.

### The Great Discovery

Diesel 10 makes a cameo in the quarry scene alongside the other diesels.

### Misty Island Rescue

Diesel 10 only appears in the end of the film where he remarks that the steamies will laugh on the other side on their boilers soon.

### The Missing Christmas Decorations

In the episode, Diesel 10 is angered by fact that the Dieselworks has less Christmas decorations than Tidmouth Sheds. When Norman tells Diesel 10 about him going to Tidmouth Sheds to fetch some trucks and the steamies haves loads of decorations, Diesel 10 decided to steal the steam engines' decorations as well as also having Paxton helping him. Diesel 10 first steals the Christmas tree and takes it to the Dieselworks. Diesel 10 then realizes that he needs some lights and the big decorations for the tree. Diesel 10 then steals the Christmas lights as well as having Paxton helping him again.

That night, Diesel 10 and the other diesels are celebrating that they almost have all of the steam engines' decorations. It's also revealed that Diesel put the lights on Sidney since he said he can be the diesels' decoration since he is still on the hoist. When Norman reminds Diesel 10 about needing something to put on the tree, Diesel 10 decides the steal the steamies' garland as well as ordering Paxton to help him but Paxton, having enough of Diesel 10 evilness, tells him that he doesn't want to take more decorations and he has to collect the truck Sir Topham Hatt told him to collect. Despite being angered by this, the next day, Diesel 10 decides to steal the garland from Tidmouth Shed, unaware that Percy is watching him. When Diesel 10 notices Percy, he tries to run away from Percy as fast as he could. Percy and the other steam engines then chase Diesel 10 until they arrived to the Dieselworks.

When the steamies realize Diesel 10 is the one who stole their decorations, Diesel 10 points out that they got more decorations than him and the diesels as well as believing Sir Topham Hatt likes steamies than diesels, in Thomas says that Sir Topham Hatt cares about all of the engines. Paxton then came along pushing a truck full of Christmas decorations for the Dieselworks, in which cause Diesel 10 to feel embarrassed and guilty after that considering he now sees its unnecessary to steal the steam engines' decorations. The steamies later got their decorations back after that. Diesel 10 is then shown along with the other diesels, giving their own decorations to the steam engines as an apology for stealing the steamies' decorations (despite Sidney not being involved in Diesel 10's plan).

## Personality

Diesel 10 is an evil, conniving, manipulative, bullying and raving diesel who despise stream engines since he is a diesel. He is also murderous, as he once tried to push James and Junior and the smelling pit as well as threating Mr. Conductor to drop him to his death if he does not tell him where are the buffers.

Despite that, he can be sometimes good as shown in Calling All Engines,

## Trivia

* In Thomas and the Magic Railroad, Diesel 10 was originally going to be voiced by Australian voice actor Keith Scott but was cut in the final version because the test audiences complain about Diesel 10's voice believing that it's scary for younger viewers. However, despite this, Keith Scott's voice is heard in the original trailer
	+ Also, when Neil Crone replaced Keith Scott as the voice of the Diesel 10, he had a Russian accent. However due to complaints from test audiences, who believed it could be considered offensive, he uses a New Jersey accent.

* In the original story of Thomas and the Magic Railroad, Diesel 10 was a new engine to the island and his claw or Pinchy was going to be hidden beneath Diesel 10's roof. These were kept in the book Diesel 10 Means Trouble.
* Diesel 10 only appeared in movies and specials until the Season 17 episode, The Missing Christmas Decorations where it was also Diesel 10's last appearance, through his popularity with the fanbase allows merchandise of him to continue production even after his discontinuation in media.
* Pinchy was originally built with no gaps between its buckets, which carried onto early promotional arts/illustrations.
* Outside of Thomas and the Magic Railroad, Pinchy has not been named and is simply referred as a claw.
* Despite being named Diesel 10, in Thomas and the Magic Railroad, almost all of the characters called him Diesel.
* Diesel 10's evil grin in the model era may be inspired by the Grinch from the 1957 Dr. Suess book How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
	+ And speaking of that, Diesel 10's plan in The Missing Christmas Decorations is very similar to the Grinch's plan since they both steal Christmas decorations as well as learning their mistakes in the end.
	+ Also, not to mention, Thomas and the Magic Railroad was released in 2000, the same year the live-action Grinch film was released.

* Diesel 10 is the only character introduced in Thomas and the Magic Railroad to appear in CGI where Splatter and Dodge were both dropped in both early drafts of both Day of the Diesels and The Great Race.
* Diesel 10 had a total of eight facial expressions, one of which, a clenched face was never shown on-screen. There have also been copies of some of his face masks as well.
* For some reason, the original Diesel 10 wooden railway has 3 windows and the front and the back but in Thomas and the Magic Railroad, Diesel 10 has two windows. This is either that Diesel 10 was originally going to have 3 windows, or this is a mistake.