Xena: Warrior Princess: Difference between revisions

** She also does it in "Warrior... Princess", when she is posing as Diana at the latter's wedding.

* [[Adrenaline Makeover]]: Gabrielle's haircut in Season 4.

* [[Aliens Speaking English|Aliens Speaking Greek]]: Xena travels the world, but never has any problems communicating with people. While one might initially assume that she's merely multilingual (she has many skills, after all), the fact that Gabrielle and even Joxer don't have language problems imply that everyone is actually speaking Greek.

:Semi-averted in that during classical period throughout much of the Mediterranean world, Greek was the common tongue. So much so that one variant, ''Koine'', is the Greek word for common. Of course once Xena and Gabrielle travel to Asia all bets are off.

* [[All Amazons Want Hercules]]: Averted? Parodied? Amazons have crushes on Joxer in ''Lyre Lyre Hearts on Fire'' and ''Kindred Spirits'', and Joxer ain't Hercules. In fact, even when Hercules is around, so is his friend Iolaus who gets more female attention than Herc does.

* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Or at least, according to Ares, every time he tries to seduce Xena.

* [[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.

* [[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.]]

** Xena's [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"

* [[Battle Ballgown]]: Xena wears one of these in "Soul Possession". To her {{spoiler|wedding}}. It's actually [http://media.photobucket.com/image/Xena%20wedding%20dress%20soul%20possession/Gabbyfan/Xena/soulpossession-wedding.jpg pretty nice.] Also, the dress [http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/13/xena81re0.jpg/ that she wears] in "Return of The Valkyrie" could be taken as this.

** Or how Callisto's soul managed to {{spoiler|impregnate Xena}}.

** Or how Xena {{spoiler|caused Lucifer's fall from grace}}.

* [[Big Bad]]: Callisto. Ares. Caesar. Alti. Dahak. Hope. Athena.

* [[Bigger Bad]]: Dahak, who is once referred to as "The blind force behind every evil deed."

** Ephiny inverts this, by being unfriendly toward Xena and Gabrielle originally, before becoming one of their best and most trusted friends.

** Callisto for the first ten minutes of "Surprise", on ''Hercules''.

* [[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.

* [[BLAM Episode]]

{{quote|'''Amarice:''' You wanna know where my sense of humor is? I'll tell you, you mother--!}}

* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Callisto, Xena herself prior to the show's beginning.

* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]

** As mentioned on the ''HTLJ'' page, Hades. He rules the Underworld and tends to dress in all-black, but is a fairly pleasant guy.

** Not to mention Xena's revelation that without her dark past, she wouldn't be the hero she became, and that, in the end, it was all worth it.

* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: Alluded to in "Warrior... Priestess... Tramp":

{{quote|'''Leah:''' Life as a priestess to the virgin goddess Hestia isn't all that hard, the most important rule is to know who you are.

** Gabrielle is an Amazon princess.

* [[Everything's Better with Spinning]]. Almost everybody's style of handling any weapon, but primarily Xena's mighty physics-defying Chakram and Gabrielle's Sais.

* [[Evil Costume Switch]]: Pao Ssu switched from her chipao to the regalia of an empress.

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Draco, Callisto and Najara and Ilainus all to Xena.

* [[Evil Parents Want Good Kids]]: What Borias and eventually Xena wanted for Solan.

* [[Evil Sorcerer]]: Alti

* [[Heroic Fantasy]]

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]

* [[Hide Your Lesbians]]: The show features one of the best known and longest running examples of this trope in the implied relationship between Xena and Gabrielle. Though the subtext becomes more and more explicit throughout the series, particularly during the final season, they're never officially confirmed to be anything more than [[Heterosexual Life Partners]], and both characters are seen engaged in serious relationships (in one case, even a short-lived marriage) with male characters at various points throughout the series. It should be noted, though, that in later seasons, they stopped having Temporary Love Interests.

:One episode set in the modern day, with the Xena TV show existing had Xena reincarnated in one of Joxer's identical descendants, marrying Gabrielle reincarnated in one of Gabrielle's identical descendants. Their friend was Joxer reincarnated in one of Xena's identical descendants. Then, a later episode showed Ares appearing to switch them back into the bodies that look like they used to look, with the result being that Gabrielle and Xena were alive in the modern era and were about to get married as wife and wife. And they were cloned, with heavy implications that their modern day clones were a couple. And they met up as a completely separate reincarnation in the 1940's which ended up with the pretty explicit implication that Xena, reincarnated in her identical ancestor, and Gabrielle, reincarnated in her identical ancestor, would become life partners, though at the time same sex marriage was illegal. So really, Gabrielle and Xena's relationship is confirmed, it just doesn't appear to happen until their various reincarnations.