A historical fantasy set in ancient Greece, the series told the adventures of former Hercules villain Xena (Lucy Lawless), a reformed warlord on a quest to redeem her past sins. Xena was accompanied on her travels by Gabrielle (Renee O'Connor), a young woman who became her best friend and most trusted ally. The series was filmed in New Zealand.
Gabrielle.
The show freely borrowed names and themes from various mythologies around the world, primarily Greek mythology, adapting them to suit the demands of the storyline. Historical figures and events made numerous appearances, and the main characters are often credited with resolving important historical situations. These included an encounter with Homer (before he was famous), in which Gabrielle encouraged his storytelling aspirations; the fall of Troy; and the capture of Caesar by pirates, with Xena cast as the pirate leader. This quirky mix of timelines and the amalgamation of historical and mythological elements fueled the rise of the show to cult status during the 1990s.
Joxer.
The show was a mixture of styles, ranging from high melodrama in one episode to slapstick comedy in another. Although ostensibly set in ancient times, the themes of the show were essentially modern: taking responsibility for past misdeeds, the value of human life, personal liberty and sacrifice, and friendship. The flexible fantasy framework of the show accommodated a considerable range of styles, including an original musical episode, The Bitter Suite. Although the show often addressed ethical dilemmas such as the morality of pacifism, the storylines rarely sought to provide unequivocal solutions.
Through the early seasons the show's episodes were stand-alones where the conflict of the week was usually resolved by the end of the episode. Season 2 marked a change in atmosphere when the show started adopting multi-part episodes and broader story arcs that could span a season or more.
The Season 2 episode Destiny was the first in a series of episodes filled with flashbacks to Xena's past. Although her earliest history was established in the introductory Xena Trilogy on Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, there was a gap of about a decade between the time that Xena initially leaves her village to form an army and the crucial moment when she crosses paths with Hercules and becomes good. The flashback episodes reveal various journeys or milestones in Xena's past that define the woman that she becomes. (See Xena.)
With her independent lifestyle and fighting skills, Xena bears a striking resemblance to many of the Amazon tribes scattered throughout the world. But she is careful to emphasize that she is not an Amazon, nor has she any wish to become one. She has turned down offers to join the tribes. The series reveals that certain Amazons do not trust Xena from atrocities she committed against them in her past, although most respect her abilities as a warrior.
Gabrielle, on the other hand, during her first encounter with an Amazon tribe (1.10 Hooves and Harlots) threw herself over an Amazon named Terreis to protect her from falling arrows. Although Terreis was already dying, she was impressed by Gabrielle's bravery and gave her the Right of Caste. Terreis was the next in line to rule over her tribe, and by giving Gabrielle the Right of Caste, Gabrielle was effectively an Amazon Princess.
This chance encounter leads to Gabrielle's acceptance into the Amazons, along with all the complications that come with it. Although Gabrielle decides to continue to follow Xena on her adventures, she is occasionally called by her Amazon sisters in times of need or to fulfill her duties as princess. The tribes also value Xena as an experienced ally, and often request her assistance whenever their paths cross.
The first lengthy story arc in the show involved the evil god Dahak, a villain based loosely on the mythological Zahhak. In the Season 3 episode The Deliverer, Gabrielle meets a group of religious disciples that worship "The One True God". Attracted by their apparent piety, Gabrielle follows them to their temple, but her curiosity leads to tragedy when she discovers that this god is Dahak and his religion is built on death and destruction. Gabrielle was lured there because of her innocence, and when she is tricked into murdering another, she completes a dark ritual that leads to her supernatural impregnation with the child of Dahak.
Gabrielle's ensuing pregnancy (3.05 Gabrielle's Hope) progresses with unnatural speed. She gives birth within a matter of days. Xena recognises the child for what it is and insists that it be killed as soon as it is born. Gabrielle, however, is overcome with motherly instincts and names the child Hope because she believes that is what her child represents. After giving birth, Gabrielle tricks Xena into believing that she dropped Hope off a cliff, when in fact she has placed Hope in a basket and set her down a river. This betrayal of trust starts what many fans call The Rift, a crucial period in Xena and Gabrielle's relationship where an emotional chasm starts to form between them.
Eventually Xena and Gabrielle cross paths again with Hope (3.11 Maternal Instincts), though due to her supernatural genealogy, she's already grown into a pre-teen. Hope's manipulations cause Xena and Gabrielle to turn against each other, culminating in the death of Xena's only son, Solan. Gabrielle eventually realizes Hope's true intentions and poisons her, but the damage has been done.
The Rift is resolved in the surreal musical episode 3.12 The Bitter Suite that features a number of main characters bursting into song and dance in a dream-like world. The Dahak arc, however, continues over the Season 3 finale (Sacrifice I and II) and the early Season 4 episode A Family Affair where Hope finally meets her demise.
Although it is Xena and Gabrielle that cause the start of the Dahak arc, the problem is only completely resolved in the show's brother series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, where the main characters of that show have to face and defeat Dahak himself.
An ongoing plot throughout the fifth season dealt with Xena's pregnancy (coinciding with Lucy Lawless's pregnancy). After Xena and Gabrielle's return from the dead in the Season 5 opener Fallen Angel, the subsequent episodes revealed that Xena was mysteriously pregnant with a child who did not have a father. In episode 5.09 Seeds of Faith it was revealed that the pregnancy was a gift from the redeemed Callisto, who was due to be reborn in the world and chose Xena to be her mother.
In was later decreed that Xena's child would herald the end of the Olympian Gods. Subsequent episodes showed various members of the divine pantheon forming pre-emptive strikes against the pregnant Xena, and though each failed they continued even after the child was born. Episode 5.19 Looking Death in the Eye marked a significant change in the series when Xena and Gabrielle faked their deaths and the series timeline jumped to 25 years later when Xena's daughter, Eve, has grown up into a powerful warrior. The later episodes of the season dealt with Xena and Gabrielle coping with the 25-year-gap, Eve accepting her purpose and the death of various major gods of the series.
Xena: Warrior Princess has been credited by many, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon, with blazing the trail for a new generation of female action heroes such as Buffy, Max of Dark Angel, Sydney Bristow of Alias, and the Bride in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill. Tarantino is an enthusiastic Xena fan[1].
"Xena" has become a synonym for "tough, warrior-like woman" and is commonly used in magazine articles and film reviews. For instance, Guinevere in the 2004 film King Arthur was compared to Xena in a number of reviews.[2][3][4] Also in 2005, a Chicago Daily Herald review of a production of Shakespeare's Henry IV in which most of the male roles were played by women was titled "Shakespeare Meets Xena". The reviewer noted that today's audiences can easily accept the feminization of the play's power struggles and battle scenes because of "familiarity with battling babes like Xena[1]. Negatively, after the release of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, many Tolkien fans showed their disapproval of the expanded warrior role Jackson gave Arwen, a background figure in the books, by calling her film version "XenArwen."
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been nicknamed "Warrior Princess" by her staff[5].
Rachel, a beautiful adolescent girl character from the science fiction book series Animorphs, was also nicknamed "Xena, Warrior Princess," because of her sometimes reckless bravery and "Take no prisoners" attitude[6].
Xena has enjoyed a particular cult status in the lesbian community. Some of the lesbian fan base sees Xena and Gabrielle as a couple and has embraced them as role models and lesbian icons[7]. A group called The Marching Xenas has participated in many gay and lesbian pride parades[8].
In the episode Leapin' Lizards of CSI, the case centers around a group of people who believe in UFOs. They believe that the reptilian Athena is going to come and end the human race. One female character believes she is the protector of humans and dresses up in a costumes very similiar (in fact, almost identical to) Xena's and uses a sword to chop off the head off the woman she believes to be the reptilian Athena. She also sketch images of herself in full Xena regalia and the reptilian princess. Brass mentions Xena when he sees the sketch and the sword Catherine recovers from on top of the cabinets.
The finale of Seinfeld (1998) featured a conversation between Jerry Seinfeld and his father in which the father says that the only program he watched was Xena: Warrior Princess and remarked that Xena must be 6'6" tall. Mr. Seinfeld asks Jerry if he watches the show as well, and Jerry says "Yeah, it's pretty good."
In an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer ("Halloween", 2x06), Willow says about Buffy's costume: "She couldn't have dressed up like Xena?"
On Roseanne ("Pampered to a Pulp," October 22, 1996), past-life regression therapy caused Roseanne Barr to have a dream in which she was a Xena-like figure.
The Simpsons references Xena in three episodes: "Mayored to the Mob" (10 x 09) in which a woman in a Xena costume is seen at a sci-fi convention; "Tree House of Horror" (11 x 04), in which one of the storylines features Lucy Lawless; and "Children of a Lesser God" (12 x 20), in which a Xena poster is seen on a wall.
The Canadian sketch comedy series This Hour Has 22 Minutes featured a recurring segment in which character Marg Delahunty (Mary Walsh) accosted real-life Canadian politicians while dressed in a Xena-like outfit as "Marg: Princess Warrior".
On March 13, 2006, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno featured a Xena-related skit using a clip of President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush. In the news clip, Mrs. Bush talks about how proud she is that President supports strong women and has strong women in his cabinet. In the skit, a bubble showing Bush's thoughts appears on the screen with clips of Xena fighting bad guys along with a voiceover of Bush saying that he wished he could get "that Xena woman" in his cabinet because she's the strongest woman he knows, and watching her kick the butt of "evil-doers" makes him tingly.
In an episode of Entourage ("I Love You Too"), Vanessa Angel makes an appearance as a Xena parody, whose show overshadowed the program it spun-off of, Johnny Chase's Viking Quest. This is a reference to Xena becoming a bigger cultural icon than Hercules: the Legendary Journeys. The use of Angel in this role is also a reference to the fact that Angel was originally slated to play Xena. She fell ill and was unable to make the trip to New Zealand for filming, and the role went to Lucy Lawless.
In the Dexter's Laboratory episode Momdark Dexter's mom leaps through a window doing Xena's battlecry.
Through seasons 2 and 3 of the WB drama series 7th Heaven, Ruthie (played by Mackenzie Rosman) often plays make believe that she is Xena.
In Will & Grace, Will breaks up a brawl between Grace and another woman, referring to them as, while he pulls them apart, "Xena and Gabrielle."
The animated series The Oblongs featured a popular television show called "Velva The Warrior". This parody took Xena's ambiguous sexuality a step further with many characters and objects in the show named similarly to parts of the female anatomy.
In MTV's animated series Downtown, one of the recurring characters "Goat" is a fan of Xena: Warrior Princess. In the first episode he asks the main character for his Xena life-sized cardboard cutout, and at a later episode he makes several different Xena references.
In the first episode of Cyberchase The kids first see Motherboard the Ruler of Cyberspace. After she introduces herself, Inez jokes:Right, and I'm Xena:warrior princess.
In the Dark Angel series (2000-2002), Max played by Jessica Alba, has a lesbian friend, Original Cindy, played by Valarie Rae Miller. When Max and Original Cindy move in together, Original Cindy attaches a large Xena: Warrior Princess poster to the wall over her bed.
In the fifth season two part finale episode "Oh My Goddess (Part 2)", Phoebe asks Paige "Are you going to miss being Warrior Princess?".
In the season six two part premiere episode "Valhalley of the Dolls (Part 2)", while Piper is with the Valkyries in the city, a biker comes out of an alley and sees the way they are dressed and asks "What is this, a Xena convention?"
In the Everybody Loves Raymond 3rd season episode titled "The Visit", Raymond in standing in the kitchen and saying "Mom, Mom, Mom", and his mother walks through the door. Then he says "Wow, that was amazing" and then started saying "Xena Warrior Princess, Xena Warrior Princess" and then turned around in hopes that she would appear.
In 2005, the team that discovered the dwarf planet2003 UB313 nicknamed it "Xena" in honor of the TV character. On October 1, 2005, the team announced that 2003 UB313 had a moon, which they had nicknamed "Gabrielle". The objects were officially named Eris and Dysnomia by the International Astronomical Union on September 13, 2006. Although the official names have legitimate roots in Greek mythology, Dysnomia is also Greek for "lawlessness", perpetuating the link with Lucy Lawless.
A subject of much interest and debate among viewers was the question of whether Xena and Gabrielle were lovers.[9][10] This issue was left deliberately ambiguous by the show's writers. Jokes, innuendo, and other subtle evidence of a romantic relationship between Xena and Gabrielle was referred to as "lesbian subtext" or simply "subtext" by fans.[9] The issue of the true nature of the Xena/Gabrielle relationship caused intense shipping debates in the fandom, which turned especially impassioned due to spillover from real-life debates about same-sex sexuality and gay rights.[11]
Some fans felt that the sexual nature of Xena and Gabrielle's relationship was cemented by an interview given by Lucy Lawless to Lesbian News magazine in 2003. Lawless stated that after the series finale (in which Gabrielle revived Xena with a mouth-to-mouth water transfer filmed to look like a full kiss), she had come to believe that Xena and Gabrielle's relationship was "definitely gay... there was always a 'well, she might be or she might not be' but when there was that drip of water passing between their lips in the very final scene, that cemented it for me. Now it wasn't just that Xena was bisexual and kinda liked her gal pal and they kind of fooled around sometimes, it was 'Nope, they're married, man[12]." However, in the interviews and commentaries on the DVD sets released in 2003-2005, the actors, writers and producers continued to stress the ambiguity of the relationship, and Ares was also considered at least as a potential love interest for Xena.[10]
The Xena fandom also popularized the term Altfic (from "alternative fiction") to refer to same-sex romantic fan fiction[citation needed]. Many fans felt the term slash fiction carried the connotation of being about male/male couples only and was not a good description for romantic fan fiction about Xena and Gabrielle.
Another special fandom term is "Uber", in 1997 by Kym Taborn of fan website Whoosh.org, sometimes used with a character's name ("UberXena") and sometimes used as a name for a fan fiction subgenre ("Uberfic"). In Xena Uberfic, Xena, Gabrielle, and other characters are appear in different cultures at different times, from the prehistoric to the far future, through reincarnation or supernatural means. Stories of this kind were first inspired by the episode "The Xena Scrolls", which featured look-alike descendants of Xena and Gabrielle living in the 1940s. Later episodes of the show also showed different future incarnations of Xena and Gabrielle in both India and the United States.
In the United Kingdom, the series was first shown by Sky, and was also shown on terrestrial television by Channel 5, although they abruptly stopped running it mid-way through the fourth season, leaving the remaining episodes - to date - unbroadcast, despite it being one of their most popular programmes. It is currently shown by Satellite / Cable channel Bravo.
Anchor Bay Entertainment has released all 6 Seasons as well as the 10th Anniversary Collection of Xena: Warrior Princess on DVD in Region 1 for the very first time. The series has also been released on DVD in Region 2 & Region 4.
Note: Only Region 1 DVD's contain special features, Regions 2/3/4 do not have any bonus material on them.
Note: The Region 2 releases of Season 1 contain the episodes out of order, creating a number of continuity problems when watching them in the order in which they are presented. The order on these DVD's is episode 1, then episodes 10 through 19, then episode 2, then episodes 21 through 24, and finally episodes 3 through 9.
In August 1997 Hercules and Xena: The Battle For Mount Olympus an DTV animated movie was released, featuring the voices of a number of actors from both Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess. The movie plot involves Hercules' mother being kidnapped by Zeus and the release of the titans. Xena and Gabrielle have supporting roles in the movie, and at one point Xena even bursts into song.
Since the end of the series rumors circulated that a feature length movie was in the works. In 2003 Screenwriter Katherine Fugate was approached for the project, and was quoted saying that she expects the start of production to be three to five years away, which suggests a release sometime between 2006 and 2009[13]. Actress Lucy Lawless has been quoted in several interviews as saying she would be interested in participating in a Xena film as well[14].
Unknown to most, a book was released in 1998, titled: "XENA: All I Need to Know I Learned From the Warrior Princess", [16] and was allegedly by Gabrielle, Bard of Poteidaia, and was "translated" by Josepha Sherman. It contained Gabrielle's viewpoint on many of the adventures she and Xena embarked on, and also included eight pages of black-and-white photographs from the show. The book was basically Gabrielle talking about her view of the world on many different subjects. For example, in one of the chapters, "Anything can be a weapon- Anything!", she instructs the reader on fighting without traditional weapons, such as a sword or a staff, and in another, "Nobody likes a winer", she laments on the perils of alcohol.
Electronic Arts published Xena: Warrior Princess for the PSone in 1999. Played from a third-person perspective, the game play involves slashing, jumping, and kicking through a variety of primitive 3D environments. Xena can also find and use power-ups and her trademark chakram. Once thrown, the chakram becomes a first-person weapon to guide toward enemies.
Saffire published Xena: Talisman of Fate for the Nintendo 64 console in 1999.
Xena Warrior Princess: Talisman of Fate for Nintendo 64
Talisman of Fate focuses on straight one-on-one weapons-based fighting along the lines of the Soul Blade series.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Death In Chains; a multi-path video game for the PC adapted from and expanding upon the television episode of the same name (although none of the original actors provide their voices).
Xena: Warrior Princess: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, another multi-path video game for the PC, again adapted from and expanding upon the television episode of the same name (again without the original voice actors).
Xena: Warrior Princess for the PS2 only released in Europe
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 1 -
Sins of the Past
Xena battles an evil warlord, a vengeful Cyclops and harsh weather during her journey home to Amphipolis, where she's joined by a young woman named Gabrielle, who's a resourceful young protege.
When Gabrielle is kidnapped by a mystic, Xena enters an altered state of consciousness and must face ghosts from her past in order to rescue her friend.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 4 -
Cradle of Hope
Xena employs stealthy maneuvers to protect an infant who an oracle claims will one day usurp the King's throne. Meanwhile, Xena must also make sure that Pandora, the granddaughter of the legendary original, is able to reset the lock on her...
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 5 -
The Path Not Taken
Xena helps a prince rescue his fiancee who has been kidnapped by a greedy arms dealer opposed to their marriage. Along the way, Xena runs into her old lover Marcus, and is confused by her feelings for him.
Xena is mistaken for the killer who attacked and murdered a gropu of townspeople and is put on trial, causing Ares, the god of war to be delighted at the success of his plan.
When the gods capture Prometheus, mankind begins to lose the gifts he gave them: fire and the ability to heal themselves. It's up to Xena, Gabrielle, Hercules and Iolaus to try to free Prometheus from his chains but whoever is the one who frees...
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 13 -
Athens City Academy of the Performing Bards
Gabrielle competes in a storytelling competition where the winner is accepted to a prestigous bard school. Meanwhile, Gabrielle helps another aspiring bard discover his true storytelling talent.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 14 -
A Fistful of Dinars
Xena and Gabrielle hunt for treasure in search of the Titans's Key, which would lead them to Ambrosia, the food of the gods, which makes mortals into immortals.
King Lias summons Xena to help protect his daughter Diana, who is the target of assassins. Fortunately, Xena looks identical to the princess and can go undercover to force the assassins out of hiding and capture them.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 17 -
The Royal Couple of Thieves
Xena enlists the help of Autolycus, the King of Thieves, in order to steal a treasure chest from a warlord and return it to its rightful owners - unless Autolycus has something to say about that.
After freezing in the face of danger, a confused Gabrielle returns home to Potidaea, where she receives a not-so-warm welcome from the people, who have hired a so-called warrior to save them from a warlord.
The female warrior Callisto, tries to turn the world against Xena by committing acts of terrorism in her name, while Xena struggles to reclaim her true identity and discover why this angry young woman is doing this.
When Xena defends the Fates's temple, they give her the gift of changing the past: her brother Lyceus never died and she never became the warrior princess...but that also means she never met Gabrielle.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 3 -
The Giant Killer
When Gabrielle defends a young Isrealite named David, her life is threatended until Xena proposes to fight her old friend, the giant Goliath in return for freedom for the Philistines.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 5 -
Return of Callisto
Gabrielle plans to marry Perdicus, her hometown sweetheart, and must leave Xena and their travels, at the same time that Callisto has escaped from prison and is headed straight for them with vengeance in mind.
Callisto makes a bargain with Ares, from Tarturus, to switch bodies with Xena, sending Xena into Tarturus and freeing Callisto. Xena, in Callisto's form, makes her own bargain with Hades, to make things right but the only problem is...she has one...
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 8 -
Ten Little Warlords
Trapped in the body of Callisto, Xena must help a mortal Ares recover his sword and restore him as the god of war. If she doesn't mortals will not be able to control their anger and she'll never recover her own body.
After being gravely injured, Xena's life flashes before her, including the time when she learned the art of pressure points from a slavegirl and when she met Julius Caesar for the very first time.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 13 -
The Quest (2)
After Xena's death, Gabrielle becomes Queen of the Amazons, while Autolycus finds himself possessed by the warrior princess, Xena who needs ambrosia to bring herself back to life. But Xena's rebirth and Gabrielle's life are both threatened by an...
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 14 -
A Necessary Evil
Xena, Gabrielle and the Amazons must battle an evil Amazon, who ate ambrosia and is now a god. She wants Gabrielle dead and in order to stop her, Xena and Gabrielle resort to asking for the help of the now immortal Callisto.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 15 -
A Day in the Life
Xena and Gabrielle spend a day trying to save two villages, one from a band of thugs, the other from a giant, while getting on each other's nerves and trying to not kill on another.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 16 -
For Him The Bell Tolls
With Xena away on a mission, Gabrielle must contend with Aphrodite, who's interfering in one of Cupid's lovespells that will unite two kingdoms and who's put a spell on Joxer, who behaves like a real hero whenver a bell rings.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 17 -
The Execution
Xena and Gabrielle have only one day to determine what really happened when Gabrielle's friend, Meleagor, is sentenced to death for a murder he didn't commit.
After getting oil in her eys during a fight, Xena goes blind and must deal with a man determined to kill her and rescue Gabrielle before she is forced to marry a king, who has died, or Gabrielle will soon join him.
Xena and Gabrielle must help Ulysses, King of Ithica, who is trying to return to his island homeland after ten years away, but the god of the sea, Poseidon, doesn't make it easy.
After becoming the hunted prey of the vicious Horde, Xena must lead the local army against them, while Gabrielle tends to the wounded and worries that Xena is returning to her dark and dangerous ways by stooping to the Horde's level.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 21 -
The Lost Mariner
After a shipwreck, Xena must rescue Gabrielle from the cursed ship of Cecrops, the lost mariner, where anyone who steps aboard is there until they die.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 22 -
A Comedy of Eros
When Cupid's infant son, Bliss, runs amok putting love spells on unsuspecting people, Xena falls in love with the warlord, Draco, Draco falls for Gabrielle and Gabrielle gets the hots for Joxer.
At Ares's request, Xena is judged by the Furies for not avenging the murder of her father and is punished by persecution and madness, leaving Gabrielle to try and solve the problem and reverse Xena's insanity.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 2 -
Been There, Done That
The day goes from bad to worse when Joxer is killed, but when the day begins again...and again...Xena realizes she's the only one who knows what's happening and remembers the previous days, she has a second chance to change things.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 3 -
The Dirty Half Dozen
Xena, Gabrielle and four warriors go up against Ares and his new army who possess armor and weapons forged by the god, Hephaestus, which cannot be harmed by any mortal weapons.
When Xena travels to Brittania to help stop Caesar's invasion, Gabrielle is tricked into losing her blood innocence, by taking the life of an innocent, which binds her to the evil "one god" Dahuk.
In Brittania, Gabrielle becomes pregnant and rapidly gives birth to a baby girl she names Hope. Xena is unsure of what to do because the child is the offspring of the evil god Dahuk and she cannot decide between killing the child or protecting her.
When Xena is summoned to the distant kingdom of Chin to kill the Green Dragon, a task she left undone years before, she tells Gabrielle about her past in Chin in an attempt to justify why she must commit murder.
After Gabrielle's betrayal of Xena's murderous intentions, Xena is imprisoned by the Green Dragon and sentenced to die, and she reminisces about Lao Mao's teachings and the debt owed to her.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 8 -
The King of Assassins
It's double trouble when Gabrielle, Autolycus and Joxer plot to stop Joxer's lookalike brother, Jett, a deadly assassin, from killing his next target - Queen Cleopatra.
When Xena and Gabrielle meet yet another Xena-lookalike, a virgin priestess named Leah, they have to figure out who's plotting against Leah and keep Meg and Joxer safe at the same time.
Maternial instincts are in the air when Gabrielle encounters her evil daughter Hope, who has freed Callisto in order to kill Xena's son, Solan and plans on severing the friendship of Xena and Gabrielle forever.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 12 -
The Bitter Suite
After trying to kill one another, grief-stricken Xena and Gabrielle awake in a strange land called Illusia, filled with familiar faces, where they must face the pain and anger caused by the deaths of their children and forgive one another in order...
When Joxer is beaten to near-death, Xena teams up with two con artists to avenge Joxer, with a major con scam against a ruthless gaming house owner and his son.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 16 -
When In Rome...
It's all about power, when Xena must deal with Caesar and the politics of Rome by trading a Roman aristocrat for the leader of the Gauls, whom Xena wants freed but first she must try not to kill the hated Caesar.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 17 -
Forget Me Not
Tortured by her memories of Hope and past misdeeds, Gabrielle visits the temple of Mnemosyne, goddess of memory, and must travel through her past in an effort to live with her memories or erase them forever. Meanwhile, Joxer must protect...
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 18 -
Fins, Femmes and Gems
While trying to recover the North Star that Aphrodite has stolen, Xena becomes obsessed with fish, Gabrielle with her own reflection and Joxer with being an apeman, all thanks to Aphrodite's distracting obsession spells.
Xena must board a ship carrying prisoners when Gabrielle, in the belief she's freeing a captured Autolycus, does the same, but they're all wet when a tsunami strikes.
Xena and Gabrielle team up with Autolycus to recover a statue that is a symbol of peace between two villages, but they must steal it back Autolycus's way in order for him to maintain his reputation.
Xena and Gabrielle must stop Gabrielle's friend, Seraphin, from sacrificing herself to bring back a goddess, but they also have to contend with Ares and Callisto, who are helping Hope be reborn.
When Gabrielle's evil daughter, Hope, takes the form of her mother and joins forces with Ares to create a race of superbeings, Xena and Gabrielle must stop her reign of terror.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 1 -
Adventures in the Sin Trade (1)
After Gabrielle sacrificed herself to stop Hope, a grief-stricken Xena must travel to the Amazon Land of the Dead to find Gabrielle, and Xena revisits her past with the shamoness Alti, along the way.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 2 -
Adventures in the Sin Trade (2)
At the Amazon Place of Rest, Xena must battle the evil shamoness Alti and free the spirits of the dead Amazons from her past, before she can continue on to find Gabrielle.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 3 -
A Family Affair
When Xena and Joxer travel to Potidaea, they find Hope posing as Gabrielle and they must stop her and her monstrous offspring from destroying the world, and along the way Xena recovers the real Gabrielle.
Teaming with Greek Soldiers, Xena plots against Caesar and Pompey, whose war between one another has spilled over from Rome to Greece, and Xena plans to send them both back to where they came from.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 6 -
A Tale of Two Muses
Xena and Gabrielle help their friend Tara, to change an oppressed town where dancing is outlawed, and they include Autolycus in their plans to cut footloose and fancy free.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 7 -
Locked Up and Tied Down
When Xena allows herself to be tried and convicted of the murder of an innocent woman, who she left to die in the past, Gabrielle struggles to uncover the truth and free Xena from Shark Island Prison.
Xena meets a woman who preaches "the way of the light", but her practices leave something to be desired, when Xena learns of Najara's reform or die policy for prisoners.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 9 -
Past Imperfect
While trapped in a village at the mercy of an army led by someone with knowledge of Xena's previous tactics, Xena recalls the time she used the same battle strategy, which is also the time when she gave birth to son, Solan.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 10 -
The Key To The Kingdom
Joxer, Meg and Autolycus team up to steal the infamous "key" that's prophecized to lead to the crown of Athena, the joke's on Autolycus when he learns the key is really a baby and Meg wants to be his mother.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 11 -
Daughter of Pomira
Xena and Gabrielle set out to recover a young girl who was kidnapped six years ago by the Horde, but they don't count on the fact that the child has been raised as one of the Horde and doesn't want to leave the only family she knows.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 12 -
If The Shoe Fits...
While journeying to reunite little princess Alecia with her father and the stepmother she dislikes, Xena, Gabrielle, Joxer and Aphrodite take turns regaling the child with fairy tales with familiar faces.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 13 -
Paradise Found
In India, Xena and Gabrielle wake up in a seeming land of paradise where a mystical man named Aidan, teaches Gabrielle the art of meditation, but Xena discovers he's just feeding off Gabrielle's goodness and must let go of all the good in her, in...
While travelling in India, Xena and Gabrielle meet Eli, a magician, and Gabrielle suddenly acquires the power to heal and is deemed a Devi, a healing deity but Xena is suspicious of the power's source.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 17 -
The Play's The Thing
The Queen of Cons, Zera, convinces Gabrielle to base a play on her adventures with Xena, with the hidden motive of running off with the production's investment money.
Najara returns claiming a newfound mantra for nonviolence, while Xena becomes suspicious of her new outlook. Meanwhile, Joxer wrestles with the guilt of his first kill, and stuggles with admitting his guilt to the son of the man he killed.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 19 -
Takes One To Know One
Family and friends gather for Gabrielle's surprise birthday party only to become suspects in a murder investigation instead when a bounty hunter looking to take Xena in, is murdered. Now Discord, the newly appointed goddess of retribution, has...
Gabrielle becomes Queen of the Amazons after Ephiny dies at the hand of Brutus, and Xena must fave Caesar and Pompey and their armies while keeping an eye on a rebellious Amazon.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 21 -
The Ides of March
Callisto returns from Hell with a double mission: corrupt Xena and make Julius Caesar emperor, but plans change when Caesar's allies turn on him and when Roman soldiers capture and crucify Xena and Gabrielle.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 22 -
Deja Vu All Over Again
A present-day woman believes she's the reincarnation of Xena, the warrior princess, while her disbelieving boyfriend thinks she's crazy, and seeks help from a past life expert, with some familiar faces along the way.
While Joxer, Amarice and Eli try to recover Xena and Gabrielle's bodies, a war over their souls is waged with Heaven's angels and Hell's demons, which includes Callisto in their ranks.
After Eli resurrects Xena and Gabrielle, Xena loses her memory of all the violence in her life, and in order to recover her self, she and her friends must join her broken chakram with it's counterpart, but Ares wants them both and will stop at...
Ares sends Xena, Gabrielle and a female warrior named Mavican, into another realm where they must battle to the death to be Ares's top warrior but there are certain rules, such as Xena and Gabrielle share one body, with one during the day, the...
While getting a little rest and relaxation in Spamona, Gabrielle tries to train her new horse, Amarice makes a love connection with Joxer's friend, Arman, Joxer pines for Gabrielle, and Xena helps an old frien with a warlord problem, while...
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 5 -
Them Bones, Them Bones
Xena and Gabrielle cross over to the spirit realm to stop Alti from draining Xena's baby's lifeforce, so she can enter the physical world in the child's body.
Xena, Gabrielle and Joxer journey to Chin, when Lao Mao's daughter summons Xena to help protect her mother's book of wisdom from falling into the hands of her evil sister.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 7 -
Back in the Bottle
After a vision Xena, Gabrielle, and Joxer return to Chin, where they are reunited with Kao Syn. Where they must defeat the warlord Khan, who has joined forces with the evil spirits of Pao Tsu and Ming Ten, aka The Green Dragon, and knows the...
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 8 -
Little Problems
Thanks to Aphrodite, Xena is trapped in the body of a little girl and must help the child deal with the grief over her mother's death, while Gabrielle and Aphrodite separate the two before sunset as well as keep Xena's body safe from the bad guys.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 9 -
Seeds of Faith
When Eli preaches of the death of the Olympian gods, Xena and Gabrielle attempt to protect him from Ares but to no avail, while guidance is dished out by the angel Callisto and the secret of Xena's child's conception is revealed.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 10 -
Lyre, Lyre, Hearts on Fire
Xena holds a battle of the bands contest in a quest for peace between Amazons and a lovesick-for-Gabrielle Draco, in the musical capital of Greec. Meanwhile Joxer runs into his other brother, the flamboyant Jace and Xena tries to evade her...
Suffering from writers's block, Gabrielle tells Aphrodite about her day in which a depressed god shrunk her and Argo and how she attempted to correct the situation before a very moody Xena catches on. Meanwhile, Xena tries to control her...
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 12 -
God Fearing Child
Xena and Gabrielle team up with Hercules, when Zeus declares that Xena's unborn child must die so that the prophecy will not be fulfilled. Meanwhile, Xena decides to travel to the underworld to retrieve Hade's helmet of invisiblity to allow her...
After the birth of baby Eve, Xena and Gabrielle must protect the infant from the Olympian gods who want to destroy her, while Xena tries to rid herself of a doting Ares and Gabrielle tries to retrieve the antidote for the poison that is slowly...
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 14 -
Amphipolis Under Siege
On a visit home to see her mother, Xena, Gabrielle and baby Eve are trapped in Amphipolis when Athena and her army surround the village and plan to kill Xena's child.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 15 -
Married with Fishsticks
When Gabrielle hits her head and falls into the ocean, she gets amnesia and a merman tries to convince her that she's his wife and mother to his fishy offspring.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 19 -
Looking Death in the Eye
In the future, an old Joxer obtains a scroll that tells how Xena and Gabrielle tricked the Fates into setting in motion the twilight of the gods and how Gabrielle and Xena were presumed dead for 25 years and baby Eve went missing.
Twenty-five years have passed when Xena and Gabrielle finally awake from their icy sleep, and they set out to find Xena's daughter, Eve, only to discover the world is not the same and neither is Eve. She's now known as Livia, the Bitch of Rome, a...
Xena, Gabrielle, Joxer and Virgil try to track down Livia/Eve and have no trouble when they find ravaged villages. After finding her, Xena faces Livia/Eve in battle once again.
Xena faces the gods of Olympus in a battle to the death when she acquires some new powers. Meanwhile, Gabrielle and Eve, are fighting battles of their own.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 3 -
Heart of Darkness
Xena must devise a plan to avoid inheriting the kingdom of Hell, and it won't be easy with her heart turning cold and an angel named Lucifer ambitiously trying to force her to descend to her throne.
Gabrielle sets out on a rescue mission to North Africa with the gang in tow, when she discovers her neice has been kidnapped by an elusive warlord named Gurkhan.
Xena and Gabrielle try to help two warring African tribes unite against their Roman enemies and Gabrielle must live with herself when she accidently takes the life of an unarmed young man.
When searching for Virgil, Xena and Gabrielle are confronted by cannibals and they must stay alive in order to rescue Virgil before he becomes their next meal.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 7 -
The Rheingold (1)
When Xena journeys to Norse to stop a vicious beast she created, Gabrielle soon follows and learns of Xena's past as a valkeryie and the crimes she committed after she made the Rheingold into a powerful ring.
After Xena tells the tale of how Grendel was created, when the valkeryie Grunhilda put on the Rheingold ring, she, Gabrielle, and two Northern warriors kill the creature, only to learn it wasn't the one they though but her child instead. It's...
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 12 -
The God You Know
Michael, the Arch-Angel, orders Xena to hunt down the Roman emperor, Caligula, who has stolen Aphrodite's godhood and kill him before he can do anymore harm.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 15 -
To Helicon and Back
Gabrielle leads the Amazons on a rescue mission to Helicon to save Queen Varia from the vengeful half-god son of Artemis, who's bent on destroying every Amazon.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 16 -
Send in the Clones
In modern times, a mysterious woman and three fans of Xena, use hair samples to create clones of Xena and Gabrielle, who face a familiar enemy from their past.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 17 -
The Last of the Centaurs
Ephany's son, Xenon, is wanted by Lord Belach for kidnapping his daughter, Nika. However, Nika and Xenon are married and expecting a child. Ephany's spirit visits Gabrielle and asks for her help. Lord Belach hunts down the Centaurs and kills them...
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 18 -
When Fates Collide
After escaping from Hades and capturing the Fates, Caesar changes the Threads of Fate in order to change his destiny. He makes Xena his empress and rules the world by her side. Gabrielle is a talented playwright and Alti is the High Priestess of...
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 19 -
Many Happy Returns
While travelling to return the Helmet of Hermes to the King of Thebes, Xena and Gabrielle rescue Genia, a virgin who is about to be sacrificed willingly by religious zealots in exchange for protection from a warlord. Xena and Gabrielle think that...
Ares wants Xena's soul for eternity, and he will do just about anything to get it. He bargains with Xena over Gabrielle's soul using a contract, and almost gets Xena to marry him. Of course Xena is aware of Ares' tricky nature and backs out of the...
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 21 -
Friend in Need (1)
Xena and Gabrielle must travel to Japan to save the city of Higuchi. There is a group of samurai that stands in the way. Xena is determined to battle an evil ghost named Yodoshi, but he can only be harmed by the dead.
Xena: Warrior Princess: Episode 22 -
Friend in Need (2)
Since Xena must be dead to fight Yodoshi, she allows a samurai and his warriors to kill her. Gabrielle learns that she can bring Xena back to life by burning her body and putting the ashes in a magic spring before sunset on the second day....
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Xena: Warrior Princess (1995) 
Xena: Warrior Princess (1995) [TV series]
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"Xena die Kriegerprinzessen" (1996) 
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