Roddy Diesel

**Roddy Diesel** is a super-criminal and professional fighter, along with his brother Sammy Diesel. He is a supporting character in *Supercrooks*.

## Description

A hearty man, Roddy is heavy-set but very muscular. He has a mane of shaggy black hair that forms into large sideburns coming along his jawline until meeting in a thick black mustache. Although outwardly brutal and crass, Roddy describes himself as "a fucking brain-box", and has a genuine degree in "temporal physics" from Princeton University to prove it. He has been in and out of prison since he was four years old, and is close friends with Johnny Bolt.

## Biography

After repeatedly being captured by superheroes, who outnumbered super-villains more than fivefold, Roddy went into underground fighting with his brother Sammy to compete against other super-villains. Although they repeatedly won against their adversaries, they scarcely made minimum wage as most everyone refused to fight them with their "unfair advantage".

One day Johnny Bolt and The Heat came to watch them compete against super-villains with robotic arms and power gloves. Roddy quickly had his arm sliced off, regrew it, and when Sammy was incapacitated he ripped Sammy's leg off and beat his opponents into submission with them. For winning, Roddy took his opponent's power gloves while Sammy took their other opponent's robotic arms.

For his brutality, Johnny Bolt hired Roddy (along with Sammy) into a heist crew to rob The Bastard. Unlike his compatriots, Roddy was not concerned when their target was revealed, and needed no encouragement to go with Kasey on a mission to scope out The Bastard's mansion. Masquerading as "Professor Reichenbach", he pitched a time machine schematic that he had created himself to The Bastard for production. Although The Bastard rejected his proposal, Roddy's real aim was to walk around the mansion so that Kasey could form a blueprint of the mansion from the memories of security guards he passed.

After Johnny used the blueprint to form a plan and execute it, Roddy accompanied the heist crew, using his power gloves to punch through a wall and incapacitate the security guards on the other side. At the "molecular chainsaw" before the vault door, he and Sammy raced through the laser field, being sliced to ribbons and dismembered innumerable times over the course of 13 minutes, always regenerating whatever body mass they lost and leaving their old body parts behind in a trail of gore. To Roddy's consternation, Sammy beat him to the vault to disable the chainsaw.

After securing the take and beginning to depart, Roddy and the rest of the heist crew was intercepted by The Praetorian, who cloned himself and attacked the entire crew as a group. Although Roddy and Sammy absorbed the brunt of The Praetorian's assault, absorbing laser beams to the chest and lightning bolts in plenty, The Praetorian was still able to incapacitate most of the heist crew until The Gladiator put an end to The Praetorian.

Roddy then departed the mansion with the rest of the crew, and used his cut of the take to begin construction of the time machine he originally proposed to The Bastard.

## Powers

Like his brother Sammy, Roddy is "indestructible", being able to rapidly regenerate lost limbs and heal any degree of physical damage. The Heat described the pair as "the toughest sons of bitches I maybe ever worked with", having seen them defeat 10-20 "capes", superheroes, into submission at once.