Sewer Al is the only recurring character in the Rescue Rangers universe who has never appeared on television. He only appears in books and Disney Adventures comics, an eerily appropriate fate for the sometime villain who values his literacy above anything else. Al was too competent to pit against the Rangers in cartoons; Tad Stones mentions his great strength and intelligence. He lacked an exploitable flaw, and Sewernose de Bergerac was eventually developed from the remnants of Al's character.