Diesel Turner

**Diesel Turner** was one of the original Rebel Knights in the series. He was originally a school bully at Santo Domingo High School. He is shown/implied to normally be hostile and even violent towards those he dislikes and uncaring for most other people, but this behavior changes as the show progresses. He is often seen carrying around pocket knives and weapons. His best friend was Lyle. Other than him and Lyle working for a moving company in the past summer, much of his familial and personal information from before the events of season 1 is not told or explained. Throughout his time as a Rebel Knight, Diesel became the big brother figure to fellow knight, Cleo Costello, after the death of her older sister, Molly. He formed friendships with newer knights such as Matt Walker, Lori Tran, and twins Cassie and Caitlyn Flores. He would later butt-heads with Jennifer Malone, but they learned to be civil towards on one another due to having similar broken homes. Diesel leaves the knights to join their alien ally Aria in space after his relationship with girlfriend, Natalie Callaway ends due to her having an affair with Grover Jones.

He is played by actor Adam Hicks.

## Profile

Diesel had a hard home life, resulting in anger issues and severe claustrophobia. The only person he was close to was his best friend Lyle, whom he had known since age seven. The summer previous the two of them had worked for a moving company together.

Lyle and Diesel were given Saturday detention which was the only reason they had been at the school the day of the alien invasion. Lyle ran out of the school to get away from the attack, but he was fatally injured by the explosions. He managed to return to the school where he told junior Grover Jones that all of the adult were vacated off planet earth and evil child and teenager left behind were on their own before succumbing to his injuries.

## Notes

* Diesel, along with Natalie and Jennifer are the only three Rebel Knights to have a tough home life.
	+ Diesel lived in a trailer with a mother and her abusive boyfriend, whom Diesel clashed with.
	+ Natalie has a bad relationship with her parents.
	+ Jennifer clashed with her father and was sexually molested by her grandfather.
* Diesel became sort of the adoptive/surrogate father to Natalie's baby, Molly.
	+ He supported her choice to send her to L.A. when it became it was to dangerous her to raise her daughter in an alien invaded environment.
* He and Natalie broke up when Natalie felt they were growing apart, plus she didn't tell him about her growing attraction towards Grover Jones.
* In the fourth season, Diesel goes missing after leaving the group to follow a lead to defeating their new enemy, Queen Treachera. By the fifth and final season, Diesel is found dead and is buried by his fellow knights.
* He became more of a big brother figure to Cleo Costello, after her sister, Molly was killed in battle.
* He is severely claustrophobic.
* His weapon of choice is a baseball bat with nails hammered into it
* Lyle and Diesel had been best friends since they were seven and Diesel was angered when Lyle died from his injuries from the first.
* He bullied Grover in the beginning, but slowly became friends there after.
	+ He and Jennifer Malone were the ones who removed a bullet from a wounded Grover. Diesel was the one who gave his blood to him after Grover lost a lot of blood.
* He was the one who discovered Natalie's pregnancy in *Secrets*.
* Grover Jones identified Diesel's body and confirmed it in Season 5.