AltheaBlind Al

The courageous Blind Al fights in World War II, survives an assassination attempt, and keeps her quit wit into her golden years, despite being imprisoned for years.

Rising to the Challenge

As a child, Althea is often too scared to sleep and becomes more courageous and eventually learns how to make grown men cry. She grows up to fight alongside Steve Rogers, AKA Captain America, in WWII, becoming one of his closest associates in Europe; she reminds him what it means to be a hero. Before they part in Moscow, Rogers gives her a medal to thank her. Blinded under unrevealed circumstances, Al eventually joins the mysterious Union and later causes trouble worldwide, even for the Vatican.

Quick Witted Combatant

An elderly, blind woman, Al maintains her quick wit despite imprisonment. It is assumed she undergoes combat training at some point in her life.

Stupid Schmoes

Blind AL has a strange relationship with the Merc with the Mouth, Wade Wilson, AKA Deadpool. They’re sometimes against one another, like when he’s hired to assassinate her and imprisons her, and other times allies. She often encourages him to get the job done.

In and Out of the Box

Eventually Wade Wilson, AKA Deadpool, was hired by a Middle Eastern agency to assassinate her, but he spared her life in Zaire and instead killed everyone else at the British Shadows Ops installation where she was stationed. At some point, Al took secret retribution on him in a way that made her feel guilty for many years. Though unaware of what she did, Deadpool later kidnapped her, imprisoning her at his San Francisco home—the Deadhut. Deadpool built the Box, a chamber filled with moving and/or sharp objects, and forced Al inside it each time she misbehaved. Al initially tried to escape and nearly got away two years into her imprisonment when Deadpool was working in Guadalajara. She traveled to meet her old Union colleague Tommy Mulroom in Maine, but Deadpool was already waiting there. With Tommy viciously beaten, Al accepted her situation and stopped trying to escape; upon realizing this, Deadpool stopped locking the doors. Al eventually developed a strange friendship with Deadpool and played along with his cruel games.

Al mocked Deadpool when he started seeing Siryn, though she secretly hoped the girl would bring out the best in Deadpool and often tricked him into meeting her. When Landau, Luckman & Lake offered Deadpool the chance to become a hero, Al encouraged him to comply. Getting her first real visitor in years when Deadpool’s arms supplier Jack Hammer, AKA Weasel, teleported to the Deadhut to warn Deadpool about T-Ray, Al was scared of the consequences and tried to hide his arrival. A short time later, Al got Deuce, Matt Murdock, AKA Daredevil’s former dog, from Deadpool after Weasel had won the dog from Franklin Nelson, AKA Foggy Nelson, in a poker game. Not happy about having a dog, Al saw it as further torture. Leaving the house for five minutes with Deuce, she met Weasel again and they became friends, after which Weasel often visited Al to discuss Deadpool.

On a road trip to the Aquarium, Deadpool offered Al freedom. Al tried to get away with Deuce’s help at first, but when the dog abandoned her she gave up. Picking her up during a fight against the Great Lakes Avengers, Deadpool tried to teleport back to the Deadhut, but his teleportation belt interacted with DeMarr Davis, AKA Doorman’s teleportation ability, sending Al and Deadpool back in time, diverging Reality-9712 when they dropped on an unsuspecting May Parker. Posing as May and her nephew Peter, Al had to deal with an annoyingly helpful Anna Watson and her niece Mary Jane, while Deadpool met Weasel’s younger self to repair his teleportation belt; Al and Deadpool returned to their era and the Deadhut.

When Deadpool learned Weasel had been visiting Al, Deadpool tossed them both into the Box, after which Al punished Deadpool by not playing his games anymore. This worked, and after closing the Box, Wade released Al. Still feeling guilty over what she did in the past, Al stayed and convinced Deadpool to finish his job with LL&L even though they asked him to kill once again. She even planned to tell Deadpool what she had done to him years ago, but after nearly being blown up by LL&L’s Overboss Dixon and being tricked by Gerry LeQuare into encouraging Deadpool to kill the Messiah, Al finally left Deadpool despite him needing her help to deal with his guilt over killing the Messiah. Al and Weasel attended Deadpool’s funeral after he had been seemingly killed by Weapon X. 

Later, Deadpool proved that he could find Al at any time when he met with her to get validation for a crazy scheme to improve his reputation by beating Taskmaster.