Years later, after he had gotten cancer, received a healing factor from Weapon X, gone insane, and become Deadpool, Wilson met up with Al again and captured her.

[volume & issue needed] Thus began the bizarre relationship between the two, with Al acting as a cross between a prisoner, friend, housekeeper, Greek Chorus and mother-figure to Deadpool.

When 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).

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 sense of humor.

She has an immense 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 potential to become a truly good person, and she hopes her influence over him may encourage him in that direction.

The guilt he feels is enormous, and after meeting and having some counseling by Monty the precog in issue #17, he declares her a free woman (just when he is teleported away by Ajax).

[9] Despite their antagonistic relationship, Blind Al occasionally showed that she genuinely cared for Wade, as when she refused to leave him after being granted her freedom, and baked him a cake when 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.

She described her last meeting with him during a pep talk to Wade in which she produced a golden medal given 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.

[13] In the Deadpool MAX miniseries, Blind Al (full name Althea Winifred Sanderson) is an agent with the CIA who – despite the nickname – has perfect eyesight.

Even after the practice of covert assassinations directed by the CIA was discontinued in the 1970s, Blind Al arranged the murder of John Lennon.

[14] Blind Al / Althea appears in the 21st Century Fox's X-Men film series, portrayed by Leslie Uggams.