A great writer can make the silliest character interesting. Calendar man is goofy, until you realise he's actually pretty much become a distilled raw embodiment of how many of the worst serial killers think and act.
Idea for Calander Man.... Calander Man does his usual gimmicks over holidays, CM tires of the routine and hires zoom to do him a favor... its now June 26th and zoom returns... batman is responding to a crime overheard on the police radio... its Calander Man, batman is faced with the murderer of his parents but from a week before the murders take place... its a "no killing rule" take on the "whether or not you should kill baby hitler" What would Batman do? How much of Bruce's past clouds his judgment as Batman?
Fun fact he actually DOES show up in Origins briefly, he was the one who was in the gas chamber before "Black Mask" freed him and put the Commissioner Loeb inside to die. He was so cruel he was about the be executed and that tells you a LOT in that universe where none of the villains every receive death penalties.
Maybe no judge dared to have any of Batman rogues on death row after Calendar Man, after being freed from the gas chamber before execution, immediately went after Judge Harkness (the judge that sentenced him to death, despite being declared insane by the state), hanged him with his christmas lights and making a christmas light display with the body on the roof of the victim... It does kinda sent a message not to try to execute the criminally insane in this city...
Calendar man A character who was an incompetent goofy villain in an old comic, only to be turned into an interesting villain thanks to Long Halloween I'm not saying he's actually a great villain, cause he still isn't, even with him being reimagined in Long Halloween parts 1 and 2
I feel like it would be cool if calender man had all his crimes repeat themselves every month and he essentially kept the same routine of breaking out and doing the exact same things and in a sort of super natural way it just happens like fate every time and maybe batman would eventually get tired of it to a point where he might even finish off calender man for good to end the cycle but calender man somehow even comes back on these dates after death
Snowflame would be awesome rewritten as a psychotic drug addict/dealer. His powers laid dormant and could only be activated when he got the feeling he does from cocaine
I read some of the older Calendar Man comics (Pre-Long Halloween). I was surprised to see he was actually treated like a legit threat, and could pose a challenge to Batman in combat. He wasn't depicted as a joke character until "The Misfits" storyline with Killer Moth.
I feel like a good addition to the newer more psychotic Calendar man would be if he actually recreated horrible events from previous dates. Like big disastrous events, possibly events caused by other villains, and tricking people into thinking the event is happening for the first time as though they were sent to the past and could stop it.
Hey James Gunn, for the next suicide squad can we get White Flame as a main character who dies in a heavy combat scene where there’s a huge enemy and He steps forward, does a massive rail to fight the massive monster, and then quickly dies from the overdose, leaving the rest of the team to actually fight the villain. He can awaken in the post credit scene and then quickly do another line to properly wake up.
Calendar man, great white shark, ratcatcher, killer moth and Prometheus are the most underrated villains ever they need love and attention in the future
Batman's worst adversaries, a psychopathic clown, a dwarf mob boss, an intellectual equal, but the absolute worst monster, someone who is worse than a pedophilic Stalin? The man who counts dates.
I think his appearance in Arkham City shows how dangerous he is. The whole plot of the game involves a city prison for criminals to run free, yet Calendar Man is still kept in a cell. He’s so dangerous that he has to be kept away from other dangerous criminals!
He is the nicest guy at arkham and for his own saferty should be moved somewhere eles. Guess a cool backstory for him would be he was an assasion that specialed in killing via food allergies after Hugo strange cured him with electro shock therapy he became what he is a harmless nut that can't think right
Most people overlook his full name. Julian dates are representative are the number of days since 1/1/4713 B.C. and Gregory representing the Gregorian calendar which we use today. Day should be obvious.
Honestly Calendar Girl's introduction in TAS was genuinely intimidating. I remember being a kid and being freaked out by her mask and how half the shots just looked like a creepy mask in a person shaped void.
I feel like I prefer him as a silly villain rather than what he is in The Long Halloween as I also believe there is some untapped potential for what he originally was, a goof obsessed with dates,he could be a fun character.
Well all this time I thought that calendar man was a joke villain, some one not even worth of arkham, I mean it seems to me like the writers just looked at the wall for inspiration
To be honest only based on theyr costumes from the pannel shown (with the green Killer Moth suit) I want to see The Misfits be in a gritty sci-fi space advanture as a crew of bounty hunters or something. Killer Moth is the securety guard and wappons specialist Calender-Man is the Mapper/Planer and pilot Cat Man the Leader and scouter or survivalist that is good at taming animals so he has an exentric pet cat (wich can turn into a monster) that's part of the crew And Chancer the new Commer protagonist of the group maby filling a role of tech and hacker Idk.....just seemed intresting to me.
Do you mean dialogue from the comic panels? They're purposely made blank to avoid copyright strikes. Because basically RU-vid has a system that scans videos when you upload them. Then flags them for having images that could be considered plagerism, harmful, and/or explicit. Removing the text seems to be a loophole around that for comic panels.
