History of CALENDAR MAN's Name! || NerdSync

Lots of Batman villains have names that reflect their personalities and alter egos. Today, we're taking a look at one of the lesser-known comic book villains, Calendar Man, whose real name is Julian Gregory Day. So, how does Calendar Man's identity relate to his thematic crimes revolving around days, months, years, and holidays? Well, as you might expect, it goes back to the history of the calendar!

Alter Ego takes a look at language and etymology to uncover the hidden meanings and mind-blowing secrets behind the names of your favorite comic book characters!

—————————————————————

RELATED VIDEOS:

The HIDDEN MEANING Behind SINESTRO's name!

Who Killed BATMAN's Parents?

—————————————————————

SOURCES:
Calendarium
The History of Rome, Book I - Theodor Mommsen
The Calendar of the Roman Republic - A K Michels
Pontifex Maximus
Introduction to Calendars
Inter Gravissimas - translated into english (it’s the document that changed the date)

—————————————————————

LISTEN to the NerdSync Podcast!

BECOME a NerdSync Patron!

[ScottyNiswander]

Who's this guy?! Have I been fired from my own channel?

[brunofranco]

The first green lantern, Alan Scott, was going to be named Alan Ladd, as a nod to Aladdin. Fun fact: Though the story of Aladdin is of arabian origin, the characters in the narrative were actually chinese. This builds into the origin of the Golden Age ring, wich was found by a chinese man.

[ndangster]

Did Scott change his name and got plastic surgery recently?

[liamgant]

I'm loving nerd syncs content atm keep it up

[redjirachi]

"Julian Gregory Day?" I know villains sound like their title, but were his parents TRYING to give him some OCD calendar complex?

[rickycarrillo]

I knew everything in the video... except I've never heard of calendar man

[puceplanet]

DK I've gotta say I like you're presence. You've got a voice I think is nice to listen to and you're face matches it so I'm not thrown off when you're on screen. All of that just to say I like you making videos on NerdSync lol

[DarioMalandra]

You should definately talk about The Riddler ! I'll explain why !
In french The riddler as 2 names that are often used. The first is "L'homme mystère" which can (litterally) be translated as " The mistery man". Now the interesting part : his second name is "Le Sphinx" which is an awesome name as it refers to greek mythology. Because in Oedipus the King, there is a sphinx and it tells riddles ! Isn't it great ? Yes it is ! 8D

[sklton]

Alright ready for some of Scott to tell me more about comics and oh....never mind

[naveification]

I love that this guy is doing his best Scott impression

[ThaMobstarr]

Thanks for the short history course! :) New host is a cool dude.

[kaiwilliams]

Tackle a character like Cletus Cassidy. My favorite spider-man villiain.

[EmperorMAD]

How about an episode about the names of the Inhumans? (Black Bolt, Medusa, Crystal, Maximus, Gorgon, Triton, Karnak, Lockjaw, etc.)

[ChuckBible]

Good stuff guys! You make learning fun!!! lol

[metroynome]

Although it is weird for me seeing someone else on NerdSync, I like the difference. Change is good, and it's working out for ya. And that joke about Halloween definitely sounded like a Scott joke. :P

[JonJacobJingleheimer]

Well, I do find it interesting that while Batman is the Dark Knight, Superman is essentially White Cleric. By which I mean his name (Clark Kent) means either White Cleric or White Clerk. As Superman he is often seen as an Jesus-allegory (especially in the latest movies) so religious overtones of Cleric make sense and in his civilian identity as a journalist he could be seen as something of a clerk since the term is derived from medievel courts when clerks did all the writing and were usually clerics since they were the ones most likely to be able to read.

But I ultimately just like the juxtaposition of Dark Knight and White Cleric.

[Cowgirlcadet]

Way to go Scott, for sharing the camera with your friends!👍👍

[Volvagiaslayer]

I don't want to tie you guys to Batman villain names, but if there's more to Ra's al Ghul's name than it just being Arabic for "the demon's head", I'd be really interested to hear about it.

[AVITIPON]

Hey, good video man.
Is it your brother in the video ? just curious.

[simplyemely]

Gosh I miss this! I’d love to see DK back sometime. I always get excited when I hear him on Super Carlin Bros