Batman: Shadow Paths

 is a Canadian action-thriller superhero webcomic series based on  by DC Comics, being written by Batfan677 and published on DeviantArt since May 16th, 2018.

Synopsis
When Bruce learns that a new threat has gained influence throughout most of Gotham and aims to make the city a living nightmare, he assembles a crew to fight this new threat.

Main

 * Bruce Wayne/Batman - the protective and mysterious CEO of Wayne Enterprises who became a caped crusader in order to bring justice to Gotham and avenge his parents' death in the hands of Joe Chill.
 * Dick Grayson/Robin - a skilled orphan acrobat whose parents were killed by Tony Zucco as he was adopted by Bruce and trained to become a crime-fighting vigilante, helping him with his promise.
 * Barbara Gordon/Batgirl - Com. Gordon's intelligent daughter who decided to help Bruce by adopting her own vigilante persona and provides aid to him, being also dating Dick for the last four months.
 * Julia Pennyworth/Oracle - Alfred Pennyworth's resourceful and very intelligent daughter who now works as a hacker and provides Batman with information about Gotham's underworld's TBD.
 * Cassandra Cain/Orphan - the mysterious and TBD daughter of Lady Shiva and David Cain who rarely speaks as she betrayed the League and is taken under Julia's wing as she's trained to become a hero on her own.

Supporting

 * Alfred Pennyworth - Bruce's loyal and tough butler/adoptive father who is one of the few people who knows he's Batman as he provides him with weapons and tools to his battle against Gotham's underworld.
 * Com. James Gordon - the serious captain of the GCPD and Barbara's father who is a close ally to the Batman.
 * Det. Harvey Bullock - TBD
 * Det. Renée Montoya - TBD
 * Barbara Kean-Gordon - Gordon's TBD ex-wife who, despite having a troubled relationship with him, is very protective of their daughter, occasionally TBD.
 * Lucius Fox - TBD
 * Selina Kyle/Catwoman - Bruce's calm childhood best friend who doubles as a mysterious vigilante known as Catwoman who targets the corrupt.
 * Thomas Wayne - Bruce's deceased father who, despite his good relationship with his son, was a crooked figure and dealt with TBD.
 * Thomas Wayne - Bruce's deceased father who, despite his good relationship with his son, was a crooked figure and dealt with TBD.

Antagonists

 * Jeremiah Arkham/Black Mask - the corrupt owner of Arkham Asylum who is now out to cause a TBD, forcing other villains to work for him.
 * Dr. Hugo Strange - a mad psychiatrist who develops an obsession with Batman and wants to TBD.
 * Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow - TBD
 * Jane Doe - TBD
 * Dr. Pamela Isley/Poison Ivy - a TBD former botanist who became a plant-controlling ecoterrorist who made a deal with the Black Mask as she helps him if she gives him part of Gotham to make an urban jungle.
 * Thomas Elliot/Hush - TBD
 * Waylon Jones/Killer Croc - TBD
 * Lester Bunchisky/Electrocutioner - TBD
 * Peyton Riley/Ventriloquist - TBD
 * Warren White/Great White Shark - TBD
 * Dr. Kirk Langstrom/Man-Bat - TBD
 * Basil Karlo/Clayface - TBD
 * Victor Zsasz - TBD
 * Astrid Arkham/Arkham Knight - Jeremiah Arkham's daughter who he secretly raised during his tenure as Black Mask who now leads a military operation in Gotham TBD.
 * The Joker - a mysterious clown-like criminal who has a major obsession with the Batman and wants to make him break.
 * Dr. Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn - a TBD former therapist who falls madly in love with the Joker and becomes his assistant, even if she can be easily frustrated at his constant TBD of her and their plans failing, considering him "her most ambitious project".
 * Bob the Goon - TBD
 * Bruno - a ruthless Neo-Nazi gang leader who follows the Joker TBD as her presence makes Harley uncomfortable since she is Jewish.
 * Marian Drews - TBD
 * Woof - TBD
 * Thomas Schiff - TBD
 * Harvey Dent/Two-Face - Bruce's former best friend and a former close ally to Batman who after being assaulted by Black Mask, becomes an insane vigilante obsessed with making everything equal.
 * Oswald Cobblepot/Penguin - TBD
 * Edward Nygma/Riddler - TBD
 * Eduardo Dorrance/Bane - TBD
 * Zombie - TBD
 * Bird - TBD
 * Sandra Wu-San/Lady Shiva - TBD
 * David Cain - TBD
 * Lew Moxon - TBD
 * Mallory Moxon - TBD
 * Philo Zeiss - TBD
 * Lazlo Valentin/Professor Pyg - TBD
 * David Endocrine - the host of the talk show Gotham Late Tonight Live who is extremely narcissistic and is famed for making people laugh.
 * David Endocrine - the host of the talk show Gotham Late Tonight Live who is extremely narcissistic and is famed for making people laugh.

Issues

 * 1) The Dark Knight Strikes Back - Bruce Wayne returns as he and his sidekicks head to stop the Joker before he causes a nuclear attack on Gotham.
 * 2) Who is Julie Pennyworth? - Alfred invites Bruce to see his daughter, Julie who offers herself to become Batman's hacker as he decides to have her prove herself.
 * 3) The Blackest Mask - Bruce's best friend, Harvey Dent, has just been brutally injured by a mysterious new criminal named the Black Mask who has claimed Gotham for himself and that he is going to place their greatest protectors out of commission.
 * 4) Welcome to Arkham - Robin gets an offer from Jeremiah Arkham to test Gotham's security, as soon the security shuts down and Robin is face to face with multiple villains.
 * 5) Electric! - The Black Mask hires the mercenary known as the Electrocutioner to kill James Gordon as Batman and Batgirl decide to stop him.
 * 6) Face Your Fears - Scarecrow has launched a massive bomb, engulfing Gotham into fear as Batman has to face his fears.
 * 7) Nature's Wrath - Dick has been acting strangely lately as both Batman and Barbara learn that he is under the spell of Poison Ivy.
 * 8) Two Faced - Bruce learns that Harvey Dent went missing from the hospital as he learns that he is now obsessed with finding and killing the Black Mask.
 * 9) A New Friend - Joker escapes Arkham again with the help of his new sidekick known as Harley Quinn as Batman and Batgirl head to stop them.
 * 10) Duel of the Mind - The Riddler has trapped Batman in an elaborate labyrinth filled with riddles and death traps as the only one who can save Batman is Julia.
 * 11) Hush - Someone is pretending to be Bruce Wayne as Batgirl and Robin have to clear his name.
 * 12) The Strange Girl - Julia finds a strange mostly silent girl named Cassandra Cain as soon she and the rest of the Batfamily learn of her connection to the infamous league of assassins.
 * 13) Cain - Batman decides to make Cassandra his next protégée as the rest have to deal with her father, David.
 * 14) Man or Bat - Doctor Kirk Langstrom is blackmailed by the Black Mask to steal drugs for him in exchange of curing him of a bat-like state as Batman heads to stop this Man Bat.
 * 15) Perfect - Batgirl discovers various bodies severely disfigured as she goes by herself to investigate, discovering a man calling himself Pyg.
 * 16) Tallied - Bodies of enemies of Black Mask are piling up as Batman and the newly christened Orphan must stop this killer.
 * 17) The Wayne Conspiracy - Bruce learns that someone is connected to the death of Thomas and Martha Wayne, aging mobster Lew Moxon.
 * 18) Thomas the Monster - A flashback issue about how Thomas Wayne was connected to the crime scene of Gotham and that he wasn’t the best people around.
 * 19) Take It Down - Batman and his sidekicks arrive to finally arrest Moxon and make sure that the Wayne’s deaths don't go in vain.
 * TBD
 * TBD

Spin-off
See Age of the Justice League.

Trivia

 * The author has searched for inspiration in several Batman media, ranging from fan-favorites like The Dark Knight Returns, the Tim Burton duology, the DC Animated Universe, The Dark Knight trilogy, the Arkham games, Gotham and Joker into more divisive ones like The Killing Joke, the Joel Schumacher duology, the Catwoman movie, the DC Extended Universe, TBD.
 * The author is aware that both Joel Schumacher and Zach Snyder aren't bad filmmakers, joking that their divisive works were victim of a corporate raid for greed named Warner Bros.
 * When asked about making Dick and Barbara a couple before the events of the series, she replied that despite Dick having other love interests over the years (like Starfire), she always liked his chemistry with Barbara and she considers them her favorite DC couple.
 * Also, when asked about Bruce and Selina being childhood friends, she replied that Gotham inspired her to do that move since she thought they were cute as teenagers and she wanted to replicate that TBD in the webcomic.
 * The series combines elements from several Batman media. For example:
 * Bruce's outfit is inspired by the Arkham series while himself is based on Christian Bale.
 * Dick's outfit is a mix between the Batman and Robin and Young Justice ones while himself is based on Chris O'Donnell as a teenager with a hairstyle closer to his comic book counterpart.
 * Barbara's outfit is inspired by the DC Animated Universe while herself is based on voice actress Tara Strong as a teenager with ginger hair.
 * Cassandra's outfit is inspired by the comics while herself is based on Ella Jay Basco, although a little older, even if that was planned before the Birds of Prey movie came out.
 * Alfred is based on Michael Caine.
 * Com. Gordon is based on J.K. Simmons.
 * Barbara Kean is based on Erin Richards, although a little older.
 * Selina's outfit is inspired by the Catwoman movie while herself is based on voice actress Cristina Pucelli as a brunette.
 * Joker's outfit is inspired by The Dark Knight while himself is based on Cameron Monaghan.
 * Harley's outfit is inspired by the Arkham series while herself is based on Margot Robbie.
 * Bane's outfit is based on Gotham while himself is based on Tom Hardy.
 * These are the designs of people not based on entirely DC movies or shows:
 * Julia is designed after Daisy Ridley.
 * Lucius is based after actor James Earl Jones.
 * Thomas Wayne is based after the most famous voice of Batman, Kevin Conroy.
 * Jeremiah Arkham is designed after Ewan McGregor's performance in Moulin Rouge while as Black Mask he wears a fancy tuxedo and a black Oni mask.
 * [Strange being Hamill]
 * Thomas Elliot is designed after Ben Affleck's performance in The Accountant while as Hush he has a bunch of medical wraps around his face and wears a black trench coat.
 * David Cain is based on Dante Basco's portrayal of Rufio in Hook but older, with full hair rather than a Mohawk and with a beard.
 * David Endocrine is based on Stephen Colbert since the original version was based on David Letterman as Colbert succeeded him as the host of CBS' The Late Show.
 * The comic exists in the universe Earth-2678.
 * The author confirmed that Dick will become Nightwing later on, although he didn't decide yet when that's gonna happen.
 * Some villains Batman have faced before as others he have not.
 * The author confirmed that Dick will become Nightwing later on, although he didn't decide yet when that's gonna happen.
 * Some villains Batman have faced before as others he have not.

Easter eggs

 * Real-life channels like ABC, CBS, NBC (including sister channel MSNBC), Fox (including sister channel Fox News) and CNN are often used for television news reports.
 * Bruce mentioned "a group of people who challenge the unknown".
 * Barbara once talked about a family vacation to Happy Harbor.
 * Julie owns a keychain.
 * One of Arkham's inmates resembles Toyman.
 * Dick once mentioned Superman.
 * Big Belly Burger is a common restaurant in Gotham.
 * Dick owns a PlayStation 4 with The Last of Us, Metal Gear Solid Five and God of War as the major games that he owns there.
 * 2. Marvel Comics is an actual comic company that has several cameos.
 * Julia owns a Mickey Mouse plush.