| “ | I wasn't real close to my dad, and after my first internment at Arkham, we never spoke at all. Seems he wrote me off as a wacko, a loser. So after I was released, I wanted to clear the air between us. The next Father's Day I dropped by his place and suggested we go fishing. You ever go fishing with your pop? Well, it's some fun, let me tell you. The two of us, out on the water, pulling in one whopper after another. Of course, I was doing the actual pulling. Dad was baiting the hooks. You know, with a finger, a foot, an eye...whatever I had left of him. Even today, whenever I eat a nice piece of fish, I feel closer to my dear old dad. | „ |
| ~ Calendar Man when Batman visits him on Father's Day. |
| “ | March 17th, the day set aside for St. Patrick, the holy man who drove the snakes from Ireland. Interesting thing about snake venom, Batman: Some are green, just like the dye used to make green beer. That made it all the easier when I hosted that St. Paddy's Day party for my old gang. As you remember, one of my henchmen tried to tip you off. I wasn't sure which one had done it, so I decided to punish them all. One dose of green mamba venom into the beer keg and they were soon rotting under the shamrocks. So I guess that makes you responsible for their deaths too. I'll drink to that. | „ |
| ~ Calendar Man when Batman visits him on St. Patrick's Day. |
Julian Gregory Day, best known as Calendar Man, is a minor recurring antagonist in the Batman: Arkham series, making cameos in the main games while having a more prominent role in the tie-in comics.
He is a serial killer who, as his name implies, is fixated on the calendar, timing his murders thematically to certain holidays throughout the year.
He was voiced by Maurice LaMarche.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- For every monthly holiday in Arkham City, he will tell Batman a story about how he committed some heinous crime in vivid details as a means of celebration. While they are not shown onscreen, they are described in such vivid detail that it isn't offscreen villainy anymore, and some of them were even on his to-do list before they happened, as seen in Arkham Origins or newspaper articles. To be completely specific:
- Violated a restraining order by attacking a girl's party with a flamethrower on New Year's Day.
- Smothered a girl to death in her apartment on Valentine's Day.
- Killed all of his own henchmen by putting snake venom in their beer because one of them tried to tip Batman off on St. Patrick's Day.
- Recorded himself surprise-killing a girl whom he had been stalking for several days after cutting her car's brake lines on April Fool's Day.
- Murdered his mother on Mother's Day.
- Murdered his father and used his body parts as fishing lures afterwards on Father's Day.
- Used fireworks to conflagrate Arkham's intensive care ward, most likely burning it to the ground and killing multiple patients on Independence Day.
- Unleashed packs of mad dogs upon the streets with help from Scarecrow's fear toxin on the Feast Day of St. Roch.
- Drove a bulldozer through the Gold Exchange, unleashed wild circus animals upon Gotham, and laid siege to a hospital maternity ward on Labor Day.
- Participated in a terrifying unmasking prank led by Joker at a public party on Halloween.
- Murdered an innocent family who welcomed him to their home on Thanksgiving.
- Strangled a street-corner Santa Claus to death and stole his suit to use as a disguise to sneak into Judge Harkness' Christmas party. He killed Harkness by hanging him with a string of Christmas lights and decorating the crime scene on Christmas.
- After completing all the dates, if Batman returns to the courthouse, it is shown that Calendar Man escaped, killed one of Two Face's thugs, and strung up said thug's corpse on display in his cell.
- When Catwoman goes beneath the courthouse to talk to him, he says that this year or the next he will see and possibly kill her, as well as presumably threatening her father.
- He was one of the villains that the Joker invited over to help torture the unfortunate Jason Todd in an abandoned wing of Arkham Asylum for over a year. He helped by beating him with his fists, which made Calendar Man play a part in Jason's descent into villainy as the Arkham Knight.
- In the canon tie-in prequel comic to Arkham Knight, he forces Batman to fight several clones of Solomon Grundy to tire him out before revealing he poisoned 365 people across Gotham, several of whom were children.
- He also held a baby hostage so Batman would comply with his twisted game, later throwing the baby off a ledge to distract Batman so he could escape again.
- In the Arkham Knight city story 'Resolutions', it's revealed he wrote in his diary more of his holiday-themed crimes:
- Visited the children's ward at Elliot Memorial Hospital while covered in infected blood on National Hugging Day.
- Kidnapped a man and planned to bury him alive if the groundhog didn't predict an early Spring on Groundhog Day.
- Killed a class of schoolchildren by forcing them to drink ACE Chemicals runoff on World Environment Day.
- Cut off a man's leg and nailed a wooden peg in its place on International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
- Left bombs at the Quraci Embassy, possibly endangering and killing countless lives on World Peace Day.
- During the Knightfall Protocol in Arkham Knight, he secretly watched the apparent deaths of Bruce Wayne and Alfred Pennyworth, most likely glad that his enemy was finally dead. He faces zero comeuppance for his actions afterwards, indicating that he'll go on to kill more innocent people in the future unless Robin, Oracle, Nightwing, Catwoman, Red Hood, or "The Ghost," Gotham City's new vigilante, find and stop him.
Trivia[]
- This is the only Pure Evil version of Calendar Man.
- He is also the only Pure Evil incarnation of a long-standing "joke" Batman villain.
External Links[]
- Calendar Man on the Villains Wiki.
- Calendar Man on the Arkham Wiki.
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 Arkhamverse Pure Evils
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