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The series ran from 1995-2001, and at one point was the most popular show in the world, surpassing ''[[Baywatch]]'' for the title.
The series also had several comic book spin-offs by Topps Comics and Dark Horse Comics (including two [[
Produced by Renaissance Pictures.
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Has a [[Xena: Warrior Princess/Characters|characters page]].
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* [[Action Dress Rip]]
** In "The Xena Scrolls" in Season 2, which has Xena's identical descendant and Gabrielle's identical descendant in the nineteen forties, the reincarnated Xena does this, signaling the moment that she's being possessed by her ancestor and is about to kick serious ass.
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* [[Badass Cape]]: Xena sported one when she was a warlord. Other characters, such as Hades, also sported capes from time to time.
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Xena and Gabrielle wear these in Season 5.
* [[Badass Normal]]: Xena, who has gone toe-to-toe with ''Ares'' at times (although, rampant speculation about her ancestry casts doubt on the 'normal' part of the title). Gabrielle becomes this [[Took a Level
* [[Bald of Evil]]: Averted mostly. Many, many bad guys with long, flowing hair in the Ancient Greek tradition.
* [[The Bard]]: For a while Gabrielle wants to be a traveling bard. She also meets [[Homer]], who it turns out is called "blind" because he closes his eyes when he recites.
* [[Barehanded Blade Block]]: Done by Xena on more than one
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]
** Gabrielle's green halter top and burgundy skirt; later, she switched to a red top that was barely more than a bra and a shorter matching skirt. [[Fan Service|Not that anyone complained.]]
** Callisto's outfit also shows a decent amount of midriff.
** Xena's [https://web.archive.org/web/20130603042621/http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/Lucy%20Lawless%20Xena%20samurai.jpg Japanese armor] in the finale.
** Also fairly standard for female guest stars and recurring characters. This show '''really''' liked its [[Fan Service]].
* [[Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me]]: "The Path Not Taken".
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* [[Bi the Way]]: Xena and Gabrielle start out having a few male romantic/sexual interests, but end up getting more and more subtext-y until it is openly [[Word of God]] that they are Common Law married. Not that [[Word of God]] didn't flip-flop on it.
* [[Black Sheep]]: Joxer is a [[Heroic Wannabe]] in a family where his father is a warlord and his brother Jett is an infamous assassin. On the other hand, due to Joxer and Jett's reluctance to talk about him, third brother Jace may qualify for this trope even more so.
* [[
** The fifth season episode "Married With Fishsticks", which mostly forgets about the story arc going on at the time to do a pointless filler episode where the feuding Aphrodite and Discord accidentally send Gabrielle into an alternate world where she's a mermaid, and is entirely populated with mer people. The whole thing is ''incredibly'' weird, and ends with it apparently being [[All Just a Dream]] as Gabrielle wakes up back with Xena.
** Arguably, the sixth season episode "You Are There" also counts (see [[Clip Show]] below).
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* [[California Doubling]]: The New Zealand variant standing in for ancient Greece and other parts of the world.
* [[Camp]]: Apparently you can have lesbian [[Camp]].
* [[Canon Discontinuity]]: Many fans do not officially consider the two-part "Friend in Need" arc to be the finale, and neither do the writers of the ''Xena''
* [[Catch Phrase]]
** "I have *many* skills."
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* [[Conservation of Ninjutsu]]: Lampshaded at the end of "One against an army" when after beating the Persian cavalry almost single-handed Xena says they must have had an off-day.
* [[Courtroom Episode]]: "The Execution".
* [[CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable]]: Reviving Gabrielle with hysterical screaming and
* [[Crap Saccharine World]]: "Paradise Found".
* [[Crapsack World]]: There is war ''everywhere''. Bandits prowl the roads and warlords battle for territory. Kind rulers are scarce and the gods don't care about the plight of mortals. When the gods do show up, they tend to make things worse.
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* [[Evil Sorcerer]]: Alti.
* [[Evil Twin]]: Hope for Gabrielle and Jett for Joxer.
* [[Express Delivery]]: Gabrielle carries and gives birth to [[Fetus Terrible|Hope]] within one day. This was likely intentional to highlight the supernatural
* [[Fan Boy]]: Hower and Minya.
* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: Pomira and the Amazons are Native Americans in Greece.
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* [[Feminist Fantasy]]
* [[Five-Man Band]]: When they were traveling together in the first 2 Season 5 episodes.
** [[The Hero]]
** [[The Lancer]]
** [[Smart Guy]]
** [[Big Guy]]
** [[The Chick]]
* [[Foot Focus]]: On Callisto when she escapes from prison in "The Return of Callisto".
* [[Forged by the Gods]]
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* [[Four Lines, All Waiting]]: "Animal Attraction" to allow Lucy Lawless more rest due to her pregnancy.
* [[Freaky Friday Flip]]
** In "Intimate Stranger" and "Ten Little Warlords", Xena and Callisto switched bodies (due to a [[Real Life Writes the Plot]] incident in which Lucy Lawless broke her pelvis in an equestrian
** Xena also shared bodies with at least two other characters over the course of the series: Autolycus, in a spirit possession (also cross-referenced with [[Not Quite Dead]] and [[Almost Kiss]]), and a young girl.
* [[Frying Pan of Doom]]: Used in "A Day in the Life". Unfortunately, it was the only one Gabrielle had.
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* [[Harping on About Harpies]]
* [[Has Two Mommies]]
** In the episode "Cradle of Hope", Gabrielle finds a baby abandoned in the bushes and takes care of him with Xena for a while. In the end, the local king adopts the child and asks if there's any way he can repay
** Eve has roughly three mommies. {{spoiler|Xena was basically impregnated by the dead Callisto, and started to raise the baby with Gabrielle as "father" [sic]. Then Xena and Gabrielle disappeared before Eve turned one, and Eve was raised by Augustus... and no mother whatsoever.}}
** During Xena's pregnancy, Ares demands to know who the father is. Xena cheekily responds that Gabrielle was. Ares' response? [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|"That I would have paid to see."]]
* [[
* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]
** Callisto worked with Xena almost as often as against her.
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* [[Hot Amazon]]: Any Amazon episode had several, and then there's Xena herself...
* [[Hot Chick with a Sword]]: Take your pick.
* [[Hot God
* [[Hot Springs Episode]]: "Animal Attraction", which is also a tribute to [[The Wild West]].
* [[Human Mom, Nonhuman Dad]]
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* [[Impossibly Cool Weapon]]: Combined with [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]], Xena's chakram, a handheld stand in for [[Captain America (comics)|Captain America's Shield]].
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Lampshaded in "A Day in the Life" when Xena says she likes getting creative during battle.
* [[Indy Hat Roll]]: "Xena Scrolls"
* [[Innocent Innuendo]]: At the beginning of "Altared States", we see Xena and Gabrielle's clothes are strewn on the bushes and we can hear comments such as, "How was that?" "Very nice!". {{spoiler|It turns out that Xena is showing Gabrielle how to catch fish by hand while wading.}}
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: Xena's plan in "A Tale of Two Muses".
{{quote|''"You want to teach the children to kill so they won't learn to dance?!"''}}
* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja]]: [[McNinja|In Ancient Greece]].
* [[Instant Drama, Just Add Tracheotomy]]
** This happens to a [[Red Shirt|bounty hunter]] after Xena gets a dagger through his neck, courtesy of another bounty hunter. Xena cuts him a new breathing hole out of mercy. He still dies, though (though because of [[Applied Phlebotinum]], not anything Xena did).
** Xena does this in the first season episode "Is There a Doctor in the House?". You never see the guy again, though, so we don't know how it ultimately turned out.
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* [[Knight of Cerebus]]: Callisto, Hope and [[Gaius Julius Caesar]].
* [[Large Ham]]: ''Many''. Xena herself ventures into this territory on some occasions.
* [[Last Kiss]]: Xena and
* [[Lava Pit]]
** "Sacrifice 2".
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* [[Off with His Head]]: Pompey and Discord.
* [[Once Killed a Man with A Noodle Implement]]: The assassin Sinteres is said to be deadly with any weapon. King of Thieves Autolycus, posing as Sinteres, has to demonstrate this by killing a man with a thrown toothpick {{spoiler|although Xena's use of a grappling hook helped}}.
* [[Only Mostly Dead]]: In "The Greater Good", Xena temporarily dies after {{spoiler|Callisto}} poisons
* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: Happens ''very'' often, particularly among the minor characters and extras, usually played by New Zealand and Australian actors called on to sport American accents with varying degrees of success. Lucy Lawless was known to do this a few times herself.
* [[Opening Narration]]:
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* [[Prince and Pauper]]: Both Xena and Joxer have several identical lookalikes. Xena has the princess Diana, the tramp-turned-cook Meg, and the priestess Leah. Joxer has two identical triplet brothers named Jett and Jayce.
* [[The Problem with Fighting Death]]
* [[Punny Name]]:
* [[Pure Is Not Good]]: Pao Hsu was able to harness her powers because of her purity, of hate.
* [[Rage Against the Heavens]]: Xena as the {{spoiler|Slayer of Gods, killed most of the Olympian gods, and a few non-Olympians}}.
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* [[Reality Writing Book]]: The magic scroll in "The Quill Is Mightier..."
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: Xena's pregnancy in Season Five.
* [[Reckless Sidekick]]: Gabrielle. Never
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Xena herself}}.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]
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* [[Title Drop]]: Not just the title of the show but also the title of the episodes.
* [[To Hell and Back]]: Hell. Heaven. Elysium. Tartarus. Valhalla. The Amazon Land of the Dead.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Training the Peaceful Villagers]]
* [[Trapped in Another World]]: The Amazon founder Cyane is actually from the 20th century. This explains why some of the Amazon's rituals are familiar (the Amazon purification ritual is a sauna, the Amazon royal challenge is pro wrestling).
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* [[Yellow Peril]]: Ming Tzu and Khan.
* [[You Look Familiar]]: Many examples, but Cupid and Julius Caesar, both played by Karl Urban, stand out.
* [[You Mean "Xmas"]]: [[Yet Another Christmas Carol|"A Solstice Carol"]]
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