The Batman: 10 Perfect Roles Mahershala Ali Could Play

Even moreso than Hugo Strange, suggesting Calendar Man might feature is a long shot. With Chris Messina set to play Victor Zsasz in Birds Of Prey though, it’s clearly not just the major villains who are getting their chance to shine.

That said, the later, more likely entires here do hypothetically cast Ali as more household names. With nothing confirmed yet though, it’s worth having a little fun with the weirder picks.

Calendar Man, as his name suggests, is a serial killer who murders his victims on specific dates. Quite often he wears a costume corresponding to his murderous holiday as well, and when he debuted in the fifties was viewed as a bit of a joke villain. Since then though, various writers have made him much darker, more twisted and serious.

It would need a lot of gravitas and menace to pull this role off, but Mahershala Ali isn’t short of either.

The fact Calendar Man would only be active on certain dates might be difficult to fold into a longer running franchise, but not impossible. It raises the possibility of a recurring villainous character too, which if the six villains rumours is true will likely happen to at least one of them.