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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 [[Crossover|crossoverscrossover]]s with ''[[Evil Dead]]''), which ended following the show's end. However, in 2007, Dynamite Entertainment acquired the rights to the comics and published two story arcs (''Contest of Pantheons'' and ''Dark Xena''), which essentially act as an [[Alternate Continuity]] and a [[Fix Fic]], [[Canon Discontinuity|ignoring many of Season Five's plot developments and discarding the series finale entirely]].
 
Produced by Renaissance Pictures.
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* [[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 occasion -- foroccasion—for example, in the episode "Cradle of Hope".
* [[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.]]
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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.
* [[BLAMNon Sequitur Episode]]
** 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'' comics -- thankcomics—thank you, Dynamite Publications! The "Dark Xena" arc is basically a [[Fix Fic]] -- constructing—constructing a story to undo the finale and other events (such as the deaths of {{spoiler|the Olympian gods).}}
* [[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 poundi--erpoundi—er, ancient Greek medical techniques.
* [[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 quality -- inquality—in the first season finale, Ephiny was in labor for at least an entire day.
* [[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]] -- Xena—Xena.
** [[The Lancer]] -- Gabrielle—Gabrielle.
** [[Smart Guy]] -- Eli—Eli.
** [[Big Guy]] -- Amarice—Amarice.
** [[The Chick]] -- Joxer—Joxer.
* [[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 stunt -- seestunt—see [[Written In Infirmary]] below).
** 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 Xena -- andXena—and she asks only that he name the baby Gabriel. The entire episode was probably the first example of blatant [[Les Yay]] in the series.
** 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."]]
* [[Deadly Change-of-Heart]]: In "The Path Not Taken", Xena, after encountering some of her former warriors back from her days as a warlord, convinces one of them, Marcus (who also happens to be her one true love) that her commitment to reform is genuine. Later on, Marcus {{spoiler|sacrifices his life by taking an arrow meant for [[Damsel in Distress]] Jana.}} Fast forward to "Mortal Beloved", where Xena is contacted by Marcus' ghost to go to the Underworld -- noUnderworld—no thanks to Atyminius usurping Hades' power, all the blessed people who used to play in the Elysium Fields have been sent to Tartarus, and all the evil folks condemned to Tartarus are partying it up in Elysium. When she gets there, she finds Marcus, and realizes that if he's in Elysium now, he must have been in Tartarus before. He confirms it - one good deed wasn't enough to make up for a lifetime of crime. Eventually however, he's allowed to stay in Elysium for good after helping Xena give Hades back his powers and thus putting things right in the Underworld.
* [[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 Gods]]s: "Indeed".
* [[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" -- Gabrielle—Gabrielle's umpteenth great grand-daughter is an [[Indiana Jones]] expy.
* [[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".
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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 Marcus -- twice -- inMarcus—twice—in "Mortal Beloved". The first time, Marcus' second chance at life is just about to end (Hades only gave him 48 hours), [[Kiss of Death|so Xena kisses him passionately before stabbing him in the heart]]. Later, when she meets the now-dead Marcus in the Elysian Fields, they kiss again before she has to leave the Underworld.
* [[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 her -- inher—in her words, she has to fully "go under" to fight the poison. Later, in "Is There a Doctor in the House?", Gabrielle is severely injured and stops breathing for several minutes before being revived. The end of that episode confirms that Gabrielle's soul did indeed make it to the Elysian Fields, so she was technically dead for those few minutes.
* [[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]]: Tons -- theTons—the most wince-worthy being, perhaps, two soldiers named Thelonius and Monk.
* [[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 Joxer -- wouldJoxer—would the latter lead to [[You Can Keep Her]]?
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Xena herself}}.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]
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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"]] -- subtle—subtle.
 
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