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Blind Al is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is commonly depicted as a supporting character of the antihero Deadpool.

Al (also known as Althea or Blind Alfred) first appeared in Deadpool #1, living with him in The Deadhut, his house in San Francisco. At first her relationship with him was unclear, but over time it would reveal itself as highly complex and bizarre.

Actress Leslie Uggams portrayed Blind Al in the 2016 feature film Deadpool and its 2018 sequel set in the X-M film series. She will also reprise the role in Deadpool 3 (2024), set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).

Blind Al (character)

Al is a skinny old woman who, as her name suggests, is blind. Her origin is never explicitly elaborated. It is evtually revealed that she was somehow involved with British intelligce, although in what capacity is unknown. She was already blind by this point and had be most of her life. Wade Wilson, the mercary who would evtually become Deadpool, was hired to kill her in Zaire, where she was stationed. What actually occurred is unknown, but appartly Wilson killed everyone around except her, allowing her to flee. Years later, after he had gott cancer, received a healing factor from Weapon X, gone insane, and become Deadpool, Wilson met up with Al again and captured her.

Thus began the bizarre relationship betwe the two, with Al acting as a cross betwe a prisoner, frid, housekeeper, Greek Chorus and mother-figure to Deadpool. At times, Wade could be unbelievably cruel to Al. He would frequtly insult her and play cruel pranks, taking advantage of her blindness. He forbade her visitors and would kill anyone who tried to help her escape. Wh she angered him, he would put her in the Box, a small room filled with sharp objects (although he never actually locked the door, counting on her fear of him to keep her imprisoned). He also forced her to cook and clean for him, and dangled the prospect of freedom in front of her only to snatch it away.

On the other hand, Al seems to wield a subtle authority over him, and appears to be the only person who is not afraid to stand up to him. The pranks never bother her, as she is more than clever ough to get back at Deadpool (putting laxatives in his food is a favorite), and she is ev sharper than he is wh it comes to insults. Wh the series oped, Al had already be with Wade for years, and a sort of peace had developed betwe them. Al seems grateful for having food, a roof over her head, all the Matlock she can watch, and safety from those who wanted her dead, all in return for doing a few chores and putting up with Wade's twisted sse of humor. She is his closest confidant (ev more so than Weasel) and trips to the Box become so infrequt as to be unheard of. She has an immse debt of gratitude to Deadpool for saving her life, and it gradually becomes clear that she is sticking it out with him because she believes that he has the pottial to become a truly good person, and she hopes her influce over him may courage him in that direction. She also hints that she has a rather dark past, and feels that redeeming Wade may help her make up for past deeds. They share an advture together through time, where Al ds up impersonating May Parker. She seems as much a part as a prisoner to him, and he ev gives her Deuce the Devil Dog as a prest.

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However, Deadpool soon hits a low personal ebb, and the peace betwe them becomes strained. This culminates in a trip to the Box after it becomes clear that Blind Al had be keeping visits from Weasel a secret from him. She gets her revge however, by coldly shunning him, and referring to him as master to highlight his cruelty. The guilt he feels is ormous, and after meeting and having some counseling by Monty the precog in issue #17, he declares her a free woman (just wh he is teleported away by Ajax). Knowing about her good influce, she refuses to leave, so he teleports with her into a park (#20), they talk (she was pretding she would be afraid to leave th) and he leaves her there.

In issue #14, while Al and Weasel are in The Box, Al recounts a tale of particular disturbance. About two years into her imprisonmt, Deadpool left on a long assignmt, and Al decided to leave for a frid's in Maine. She escaped, trekked across the country, and wh she arrived at her frid's house, Deadpool was waiting for her, her frid tortured nearly to death in front of his dogs. She ds the story by saying That is how you build a prison.

Since th, her appearances have become much more sporadic, although it is clear that she and Deadpool are still in contact. She appeared in Cable & Deadpool #36, where Wade approaches her to validate his plan to restore his reputation by battling Taskmaster.

Blind Al Fought Alongside Captain America

Deadpool sds her a braille invitation to his marriage with Shiklah: however, due to a mishap with Wade's less-than-perfect grasp of braille, she goes to a gang funeral instead, utterly oblivious to her error.

She also appeared in Thunderbolts (vol. 2) #10 (August 2013), in which she helps Deadpool and Agt Vom to find the location of Dr. Vanko.

In keeping with the humorous tone of Deadpool's stories, Al's personality was not what one would expect from an imprisoned old blind woman. She exhibits toughness, is cynical in the extreme, and is able to beat ev the wisecracking title character in a battle of insults. Wh they matched wits, Al usually got the better of Deadpool, making his pranks backfire and treating him like a spoiled child. Al ev once sabotaged all of Deadpool's weapons, her rationale being that his death would be the worst-case scario, and th she wouldn't have to worry about retaliation.

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Despite their antagonistic relationship, Blind Al occasionally showed that she guinely cared for Wade, as wh she refused to leave him after being granted her freedom, and baked him a cake wh he attempted to become a hero.

Deadpool gave Al Deuce the Devil Dog (which Weasel had won from Foggy Nelson in a poker game) as a joke. Although the dog adored her, she seemed to think of him as nothing but a moronic flea-factory, and promptly had him fixed.

Joe Kelly originally intded her to be the first Black Widow: We were going to do the origin story of Blind Al, and show her as the original Black Widow and show how she was responsible for Wade getting cancer.

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She was close frids with Captain America before he was froz in the 1940s. She described her last meeting with him during a pep talk to Wade in which she produced a gold medal giv to her by a young man she called Blondie in Moscow. Upon Deadpool losing the medal on a battlefield, Captain America recognized it, read the inscription aloud and recalled Al by name.

In the Deadpool MAX miniseries, Blind Al (full name Althea Winifred Sanderson) is an agt with the CIA who – despite the nickname – has perfect eyesight. She is the one behind the Deadpool, an unsanctioned asylum underneath the CIA headquarters (from which Wade Wilson took the codame for himself) which has the purpose of programming assassins to carry out missions that cannot be traced back to the CIA, on the grounds of using an insanity defse if caught.

She assigns Bob as Deadpool's handler for a series of missions that ultimately lead to the Cincinnati disaster, for which she has Bob take the fall and become the most wanted man in the world.

Blind Al (althea) (earth 616)

Before the institution of the Deadpool, she was responsible for the murders of John F. Knedy, Robert F. Knedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Che Guevara, among others. Ev after the practice of covert assassinations directed by the CIA was discontinued in the 1970s, Blind Al arranged the murder of John Lnon.

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