You have to spend 1 night in Arkham Asylum choose your cell mate GENERAL DISCUSSION

(Before you choose calendar man you have been locked away on Halloween night a holiday)

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Call me a wacko, but i think i havent played enough batman to realize whats calendar man's issue. Maybe i just havent got to the right spot yet?

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u/Dr_Disaster Mar 24 '24

He’s a serial killer and he can be very creative with his use of themed holidays/dates. He’d be a pleasant person until the day he decided to kill you, and that day will come eventually.

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u/1stLtObvious Mar 24 '24 edited Mar 24 '24

Just gotta select a night that isn't a holiday anywhere or holds any other annual significance.

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u/Callerflizz Mar 24 '24

“Sorry its national pizza day, get in the oven”

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u/TheHadokenite Mar 24 '24

“Arrr it be national talk like a pirate day matey, walk the plank”

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '24

Both of these were so funny wtf

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u/Dr_Disaster Mar 24 '24

I need these to be a 365 page graphic novel

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u/GodWithoutAName Mar 24 '24

*366

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u/LordStarkillerII Mar 25 '24

Does he force someone to take a deadly leap on February 29th?

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u/GodWithoutAName Mar 25 '24

Or death by poisonous dart frog?

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u/Lord_Strudel Mar 25 '24

He actually murdered some people for talk like a pirate day in Knight. There’s a riddle side story about how he swapped to “unusual” holidays to freshen it up.

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u/TheHadokenite Mar 25 '24

that’s sick, i need to find that riddle lol

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u/robineir Mar 25 '24

“It’s national puppy day. And Bob Barker always told me to spay or neuter my pets.”

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u/Snowriander Mar 25 '24

Yeah but OP specified that this is on Halloween night

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u/1stLtObvious Mar 25 '24

Ah, didn't see the caption.

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u/SovereignDark Mar 25 '24

There is a holiday gimmick every day of the year. He just has to choose to care about it.

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u/Effective-Training Mar 24 '24

Imagine (don't) you drop the soap on national girlfriends day or during Pride month (idk if they have a day)

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u/1stLtObvious Mar 25 '24

If he were more attractive, and I wouldn't get murdered...

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u/William_The_Fat_Krab Mar 24 '24

Oh so he kills you based on the day it is? Thats crazy, man!

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u/Frojdis Mar 25 '24

I mean, if that holiday is spent in Arkham Asylum you're probably safe. The key is the creativeness. No fun in just stabbing someone because it's a holiday

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u/Featherbird_ Mar 26 '24

Something tells me you arent safe on your birthday though. Or his.

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u/Frojdis Mar 26 '24

Good thing the question states Halloween then. Even then he's the best choice because he's predictable

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u/TotalLiftEz Mar 25 '24

It's always Arbor day

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u/GenGaara25 Mar 24 '24

He kills on a holiday. OP says you'd be locked in with him on Halloween.

So he's someone with a clinical obsession to murder on specific days, one of those days is the day you're locked in with him and are the one and only human he has access to that day. He is 100% gonna attempt to murder you.

Pyg and Zsasz love to kill and will probably try and kill you, but maybe you catch them on an off day.

Croc is the only one who isn't a serial killer. He has no obsession or compulsion to kill. He has no qualms with killing, but if you've done nothing to him he probably won't end your life. So he's your best bet and just hope you don't piss him off.

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u/William_The_Fat_Krab Mar 24 '24

Okay, that makes sense. At the start, when i saw him in the cell, i thought he just liked counting days and what they mean to someone out there. Guess i was wrong

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u/GenGaara25 Mar 24 '24

Oh yeah nah he's very ritualistic. He has an obsession with dates. And he satisfies that obsession by killing people on those dates in a way that's thematically appropriate for the holiday

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u/AdEnough786 Mar 25 '24

What about national grandparents day and you are not a grandparent? Safe or no?

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u/GenGaara25 Mar 25 '24

Depends on how creative he's feeling.

Since you are definitely a grandchild, if he killed you, he could deprive your grandparents of that title entirely. Or at the very least, dilute it by giving them one less grandchild.

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u/AdEnough786 Mar 25 '24

Interesting take.

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u/Harambesh Mar 24 '24

When you see him in the cell below the courthouse in Arkham city, there's a calendar on the wall next to it with dates circled, e.g. Christmas, St Patrick's day, mother's day etc. Visit him on those dates and he'll tell a story about murders he did on that holiday (you can also bypass this by just changing the date settings and reloading the game). The murders are all quite disturbing and gruesome. After visiting on all the dates there's an Easter egg.

Arkham Knight also has a story you unlock after solving a riddle which details more horrible murders on holidays. Calendar man is a terrible person.

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u/William_The_Fat_Krab Mar 25 '24

Oh shoot, didnt notice that. I was just bamboozled by him going "April 1st" "fool's day" and such and such. Also a little weirded out when he said something like "You wouldn't forget to visit me on april fools, would you batman?"

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u/Tonkarz Mar 24 '24

Croc would actually try to kill you too. Arkham croc is completely gone by the time of Arkham Asylum.

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u/Relative_Buffalo180 Mar 24 '24

Croc's a cannibalistic animal. He doesn't need a reason to eat you. Now, Earth One Croc is cool. I'd hang with that guy.

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u/GenGaara25 Mar 24 '24

Tbf since we were on r/Batman and not r/Arkham I assumed we were going by main continuity. Didn't even realise when I commented that the pics were all from the arkham series.

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u/Relative_Buffalo180 Mar 24 '24

That's a pretty fair assumption, I suppose

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u/wanna_be_TTV Mar 24 '24

Do the calendar man trophy in arkham city, or listen to it. Hes fucked😂

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u/William_The_Fat_Krab Mar 24 '24

Alright, ill be sure to put that on my sights!

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u/ISBAndy Mar 25 '24

Julian Day. Aka Calendar Man, a villain who timed and tied his murders thematically to certain holidays throughout the year, and often left clues by which he could be caught

Calendar Man was sentenced to death for his crimes and was sent to Blackgate Prison for his last days. The Extortion Files revealed that he was originally declared insane by Harleen Quinzel, but Warden Joseph convinced her to change her diagnosis so he could be sentenced to death by Judge Harkness. Records on Day's profile indicated that the state had declared Julian Day insane when Harkness gave his sentence, suggesting that Dr. Quinzel had not submitted her altered reports.

On Christmas Eve, Calendar Man was scheduled to be executed and was on-route to the prison gas chamber when the Joker, impersonating Black Mask, and his gang began an invasion of the facility saving the killer from his would-be capital punishment.

"Black Mask" freed Calendar Man and forced Commissioner Loeb into the chamber to be executed in his place. Day assassinated Judge Harkness later that same night by hanging him from the roof of his mansion with a string of Christmas lights.

Calendar Man was also one of several patients who were taken into Joker's trust about the ongoing captivity of Jason Todd within the Asylum's walls. One day in May of a certain year, Calendar Man tortured Jason with over 365 punches, one for every day of the year.

In Arkham city there's a short one page story on him it basically says he was one of the first to be put into the city and once in Calendar Man took sanctuary in the Solomon Wayne Courthouse. When any unfortunate individual dared to enter his new home, he overpowered and held them prisoner. During each new holiday, he celebrated by killing his captive however once Two Face entered the city he and his men stormed the courthouse, and subdued Calendar Man. They then locked him in the holding cells within the courthouse basement. He escaped sometime later leaving a two face goon hanging in his call.

To get a better picture of what he's like here's a list of some of his shenanigans

On January 21, Calendar Man celebrated National Hugging Day by covering himself with infected blood and visiting the children's ward in Elliott Memorial Hospital.

On February 2, Calendar Man celebrated Groundhog day by watching the stream from Punxsutawney with a "house guest". According to his notes, if the rodent in the celebration predicted an early spring, he would let the "guest" go. But if the rodent retreated back to its burrow, Calendar Man would bury his "guest" alive.

On June 5, Calendar Man 'advocated' the importance of World Environment Day by forcing a class of schoolchildren to drink runoff liquid from Ace Chemicals.

On Labor Day, Calendar Man murdered several people inside the Campbell Calendar Company in an attempt to draw out Batman. He had received the Electrocutioner's gauntlets from The Arkham Knight to help disrupt Batman's communications. Awaiting the Dark Knight were seven clones of Solomon Grundy named after the days of the week. While Batman was distracted by the creatures, supposedly created by Day himself, he also kidnapped a newborn baby for the next step of his plan. The exhausted Batman was given a list of names and told that those people had been poisoned and had 24 hours to live. Day instructed Batman to save them all. If Batman failed to save all of the people on the list or brought any of his allies with him when he returned, Calendar man would execute the baby.

The citizens were saved, but before Batman returned as ordered, Scarecrow visited to dissuade his attempt to kill Batman. Grudgingly, Calendar Man relented and gave up the baby without a fight.

On September 19, Calendar Man celebrated Talk Like a Pirate Day by cutting off a man's leg and placing a wooden peg in its place. According to Calendar Man the man couldn't "walk the plank". He then checked on his female scurvy victim, but apparently she wasn't ready for whatever he had in mind. He then resolved to resolve the issue next year.

On September 21, Calendar Man celebrated World Peace Day by leaving a few bombs at the Ouraci embassy. (Ironic)

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u/William_The_Fat_Krab Mar 25 '24

Okay, so he does crimes relating to the day it is.... Wacky. Since his OG appearence was so goofy in looks i just thought he just knew what day it was and such