Batman: Arkham Trilogy - 15 Insanely Cool Easter Eggs You Totally Missed
1. Calendar Man's Secret Message
Game: Arkham City
If the Warden’s secret office in Arkham Asylum was hard to uncover, then this Easter egg was nigh on impossible to find in Arkham City, as it involved changing the date of your console to a time before they had even been released (the Xbox 360 and PS3 launched in 2005 and 2006).
Calendar Man’s appearance in Arkham City was already an Easter egg in itself, as going to his location on 12 specific days of the year rewarded you with unique dialogue from him. After hearing all 12 monologues, the next time you approached his cell in the courthouse, he would have escaped. For three years, fans assumed this was all there was to the encounter. However, a YouTube account under the name ‘JG Jour’ posted a brief video showing seemingly brand new dialogue from Calendar Man.
After fans did some detective work, they managed to figure out that changing your console’s date to 13th December 2004 (the date Rocksteady itself was founded) would trigger this new speech from him. It was soon revealed that the account was a fake created by Rocksteady (‘JG Jour’ representing Julian Gregory Day – jour being the French word for day) to reveal this Easter egg, as once again they had made it too hard to find!
The dialogue itself, where Calendar Man talks about his ‘early work’ and how he ‘was there at your beginning, and I’ll be there at your end’ was a perfect set up for the Arkham Knight Easter egg, where he was literally there at the end of the game, watching Batman ‘end’ when Wayne Manor exploded.
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