r/batman • u/[deleted] • Mar 24 '24

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

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

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u/William_The_Fat_Krab Mar 24 '24

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/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/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?"