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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 Inin Badass|as the series progresses.]]
* [[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.
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** 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."]]
* [[HeelDeadly Face Door SlamChange-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 -- 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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{{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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* [[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 Inin Badass]]: Gabrielle. Her earliest costume was a very modest dress while later episodes had her with a green midriff revealing top and a skirt with her fighting staff. And later a more revealing costume, shorter hair & a pair of Sai. Averted with Joxer, who is the son of a warlord and travels with Xena and Gabrielle for quite a lot of time, passes through many battles, and yet remains a very poor fighter.
* [[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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