MOVIE NEWS – Ben Affleck’s latest action-thriller is just out, and many people (including critics and moviegoers) compared his performance to the one in Batman Vs. Superman. The roles have evident similarities: both characters are lone, sociopath characters, living a double life, and having very strong “superpowers”. (Although The Accountant is of course more grounded in reality and also Christian Wolff is clearly autistic, while Bruce Wayne is “just” very lonely.) Both characters also have a tragic childhood.

Other similarities don’t stop here, and we just found a very strong Easter Egg in the movie, which is an allusion to one of the strongest and most fearsome antagonists of Batman in both DC Comics and Batman: Arkham City. What are we talking about? Well, when in the movie both the child and later the adult Christian Wolff is reciting a mantra it’s actually the chilling 19th century nursery rhyme Solomon Grundy:

Solomon Grundy,
Born on a Monday,
Christened on Tuesday,
Married on Wednesday,
Took ill on Thursday,
Grew worse on Friday,
Died on Saturday,
Buried on Sunday,
That was the end,
Of Solomon Grundy.

If you are not a stranger to DC/Batman lore, and played Batman: Arkham City, you already know, that Solomon Grundy is one of the most fearsome villains and also an enemy of Batman. In Batman: Arkham City it’s actually one the toughest boss fights and during the fight, Solomon Grundy recites the the 19^th century child rhyme. You can see the boss fight below.

According the DC Lore, Solomon Grundy was originally a wealthy merchant living in the late 19th century, named Cyrus Gold is murdered and his body is disposed of in Slaughter Swamp, near Gotham City. Fifty years later, the corpse is reanimated as a huge shambling figure (composed partly of the swamp matter that has accumulated around the body over the decades) with almost no memory of its past life. Gold murders two escaped criminals who are hiding out in the marsh and steals their clothes. He shows up in a hobo camp and, when asked about his name, one of the few things he can recall is that he was “born on a Monday”. One of the men at the camp mentions the nursery rhyme character Solomon Grundy (who was born on a Monday), and Gold adopts the moniker. He becomes a strong, vicious, and nearly mindless criminal and killer later.