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==Characters==

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|+ Main cast of ''Xena: Warrior Princess''
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! rowspan="2" width="8%" scope="col" | Character
! rowspan="2" width="8%" scope="col" | Actor
! colspan="6" | Seasons
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| [[Xena]]
| [[Lucy Lawless]]
| colspan="6" {{cMain}}
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| [[Gabrielle (Xena: Warrior Princess)|Gabrielle]]
| [[Renee O'Connor]]
| colspan="6" {{cMain|Main}}
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| [[List of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess characters#Mortals|Joxer]]
| [[Ted Raimi]]
| {{cGuest}}
| colspan="4" {{cRecurring}}
| {{cGuest|Guest}}
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| [[Ares (Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess)|Ares]]
| [[Kevin Tod Smith|Kevin Smith]]
| colspan="3" {{cRecurring|Recurring}}
| {{cGuest|Guest}}
| colspan="2" {{cRecurring|Recurring}}
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| [[List of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess characters#Other Gods|Callisto]]
| [[Hudson Leick]]
| {{cGuest|Guest}}
| colspan="2" {{cRecurring|Recurring}}
| colspan="2" {{cGuest|Guest}}
| {{cEmpty}}
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| [[List of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess characters#Mortals|Julius Caesar]]
| [[Karl Urban]]
| {{cEmpty}}
| {{cGuest|Guest}}
| colspan="2" {{cRecurring|Recurring}}
| {{cEmpty}} 
| colspan="2" {{cGuest|Guest}}
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| [[Eve (Xena: Warrior Princess)|Eve]]
| [[Adrienne Wilkinson]]
| colspan="4" {{cEmpty}}
| colspan="2" {{cRecurring|Recurring}}

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| [[Aphrodite (Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess)|Aphrodite]]
| [[Alexandra Tydings]]
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| {{cGuest|Guest}}
| {{cRecurring|Recurring}}
| {{cGuest|Guest}}
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| [[List of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess characters#Mortals|Borias]]
| [[Marton Csokas]]
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| colspan="2" {{cRecurring|Recurring}}
| {{cEmpty}}
| {{cGuest|Guest}}
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| [[List of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess characters#The Amazons|Ephiny]]
| [[Danielle Cormack]]
| colspan="3" {{cRecurring|Recurring}}
| {{cGuest|Guest}}
| {{cEmpty}}
| {{cGuest|Guest}}
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| [[List of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess characters#Mortals|Autolycus]]
| [[Bruce Campbell]]
| {{cGuest|Guest}}
| colspan="3" {{cRecurring|Recurring}}
| colspan="2" {{cEmpty}}
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| [[Eli (Xena: Warrior Princess)|Eli]]
| [[Timothy Omundson]]
| colspan="3" {{cEmpty}}
| colspan="2" {{cRecurring|Recurring}}
| {{cEmpty}}
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| [[List of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess characters#Mortals|Alti]]
| [[Claire Stansfield]]
| colspan="3" {{cEmpty}}
| colspan="3" {{cRecurring|Recurring}}
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| [[List of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess characters#The Amazons|Amarice]]
| [[Jennifer Sky]]
| colspan="3" {{cEmpty}}
| colspan="2" {{cRecurring|Recurring}}
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| [[List of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess characters#Mortals|Virgil]]
| [[William Gregory Lee]]
| colspan="4" {{cEmpty}}
| colspan="2" {{cRecurring|Recurring}}
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| [[List of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess characters#The Amazons|Varia]]
| [[Tsianina Joelson]]
| colspan="5" {{cEmpty}}
| {{cRecurring|Recurring}}
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| [[List of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess characters#Olympians|Athena]]
| Paris Jefferson
| colspan="4" {{cEmpty}}
| {{cRecurring|Recurring}}
| {{cEmpty}}
|}

===Main===
{{Main|List of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess characters}}
The series follows Xena and her traveling companion Gabrielle. Xena is on a quest to redeem herself for her dark past by using her formidable fighting skills to help people. In ''Hercules'', during her two first episodes, Xena was a villain and a powerful warlord, but in her third appearance she joins [[Hercules]] to defeat the warlord Darphus, who had taken her army. During her own series, Xena spends almost every episode on a different mission, always trying to do the right thing, fighting for what she refers to as the "greater good".<ref name="legacy">{{cite episode |title=Legacy |series=Xena: Warrior Princess |airdate=October 30, 2000}}</ref> Xena's trademark weapon is a [[chakram]], and she also uses a [[sword]].<ref name="need">{{cite episode |title=A Friend in Need |series=Xena: Warrior Princess |airdate=June 18, 2001}}</ref> Xena also has to fight her own past; she has never forgiven herself for her crimes, and often has to resist the temptation to return to her evil ways, but she always resists with the help of Gabrielle. Gabrielle is Xena's best friend, soulmate and greatest ally. She is introduced in the first episode, first as a big fan of Xena and her history,<ref name="sins" /> but soon becomes a notable character in her own right. As the show progresses she undergoes significant changes in costume and style, evolving from a simple farm girl to a talented [[bard]], and eventually to a formidable warrior. She is initiated into a tribe of [[Amazons]],<ref name="hooves">{{cite episode |title=Hooves and Harlots |series=Xena: Warrior Princess |airdate=November 20, 1995}}</ref> learns to fight with a [[Quarterstaff|staff]], and is trained by Xena. In the first season, Xena and Gabrielle meet [[Joxer]],<ref name="callisto"/> a comic man who styles himself "Joxer the Magnificent", and later "Joxer the Mighty."<ref name="bells">{{cite episode |title=For Him the Bell Tolls |series=Xena: Warrior Princess |airdate=February 24, 1997}}</ref> Joxer's goal is to fight for justice, but unfortunately with no physical know-how of his own, he remains the show's main [[comic relief]]. Eventually he becomes a close friend to Xena and Gabrielle.

===Others===
{{Main|List of minor characters in Xena: Warrior Princess}}
In the first season, Xena and Gabrielle meet two of their greatest enemies: [[Callisto (Xena)|Callisto]] ([[Hudson Leick]]),<ref name="callisto" /> a vengeful warrior woman, and [[Ares (Hercules and Xena)|Ares]] (Kevin Tod Smith), the Greek God of War.<ref name="reckoning">{{cite episode |title=The Reckoning |series=Xena: Warrior Princess |airdate=October 16, 1995}}</ref> Callisto is Xena's arch-enemy and a major antagonist over the course of the series. When Callisto was a child, her home village of Cirra was burned nearly to the ground by Xena, killing her family.<ref name="callisto" /> She was left [[Psychological trauma|traumatized]] by the attack and eventually went [[insane]], becoming obsessed with exacting [[revenge]] on Xena. She displays a bizarre brand of [[Sadism and Masochism|sadistic]], gleeful, shrieking cruelty towards Xena and her associates. Hercules himself reappears alongside Iolaus - who becomes interested in Gabrielle - when Xena seeks to free [[Prometheus]] from [[Hera]].

Ares - suave, charming, witty, yet ruthless and amoral - often represents, especially in the early seasons, the seductive power of war and the dark side. He repeatedly attempts to lure [[Xena]] away from her quest for redemption, and tries to win her over as his Warrior Queen.<ref name="reckoning" /> He offers her huge armies and historic victories, great wealth and great power, and in later seasons his love,<ref name="Soul">{{cite episode |title=Soul Possession |series=Xena: Warrior Princess |airdate=June 4, 2001}}</ref> offers which she consistently rejects despite sometimes being tempted. Much of his relationship with Xena remains [[Wikt:ambiguous|ambiguous]], including whether he is at least partly redeemed by his love for Xena, and to what extent Xena reciprocates his feelings. He says several times that he "has a thing" for Xena, and he pursues her sexually and romantically. This seems to prevent him killing her, even when pitted against her in deadly combat.<ref name="furies">{{cite episode |title=The Furies |series=Xena: Warrior Princess |airdate=September 29, 1997}}</ref><ref name="ties">{{cite episode |title=Ties That Bind |series=Xena: Warrior Princess |airdate=April 29, 1996}}</ref> Likewise, it is suggested that Xena has strong feelings for Ares, but throughout the series she is never seen to act on them.

Other major antagonists of the show include [[Caesar (Xena)|Caesar]] and [[Alti]], a Roman official and shamaness respectively. Caesar's first appearance was in the second-season episode "Destiny." He is introduced as a young Roman [[Patrician (ancient Rome)|patrician]]<ref name="book">{{cite book |last=Stoddard Hayes |first=K. |title=Xena: Warrior Princess: The Complete Illustrated Companion |date=March 2003 |type=Paperback |publisher=Titan Books |isbn=1-84023-622-1 |pages=180–183 |chapter=Characters – Caesar}}</ref> brimming with arrogance - so much so, that when he is captured by [[Xena]] and her pirates he is not afraid. When threatened by Xena he tells her ''"''I know what I'm fated to do with my life.''"''<ref name="destiny">{{cite episode |title=Destiny |series=Xena: Warrior Princess |airdate=January 27, 1997}}</ref> He pretends to let Xena seduce him, when in reality she is the one being seduced. This ultimately leads to her capture and [[crucifixion]] at his hands,<ref name="destiny"/> and he orders his men to break her legs - an extremely painful memory that is often revisited during the series. Caesar's betrayal fills her with rage, and is the catalyst for her transition from pirate to warlord.

Alti is an evil [[shaman]]ess from the Northern [[Amazons|Amazon]] tribes of [[Siberia]], who had been driven out of her tribe because of her hunger for power. She is one of the most influential people encountered by Xena in her dark days, and possesses a wealth of spiritual powers, including travelling to the spiritual realm. Alti is probably best known for her trademark ''stare'', which brings up pain and suffering from the target's life and unleashes the torment once again (in the form of both pain and physical symptoms). When she ''stares'' at Xena, Xena often feels the pain of her legs being broken,<ref name="destiny" /> her back being snapped,<ref name="Ides of March">{{cite episode |title=The Ides of March |series=Xena: Warrior Princess |airdate=May 10, 1999}}</ref> and a crippling barrage of attacks from her worst enemies. As Alti grows in power during the series, she can also conjure up pain and suffering from a person's future, and from their future lives. This power backfires early in Season 4, when she shows Xena a vision from her future, of her and Gabrielle being [[Crucifixion|crucified]] on Mount Amarro.<ref name="trade 2">{{cite episode |title=Adventures in the Sin Trade |series=Xena: Warrior Princess |airdate=May 10, 1998}}</ref> Xena realizes that Gabrielle must still be alive, and this gives her the strength to defeat Alti.

Over the course of the series, viewers were also introduced to family members of both Xena and Gabrielle, but most notably featured their children. Xena gave her first child, a son named Solan, to a group of [[centaur]]s after the death of his father, [[Borias]], who was killed in combat against a warrior in Xena's employ. Solan never knew that Xena was his mother, despite knowing Xena for a long time. While aiding Xena and [[Boudica]] to defend [[Britannia]] against [[Caesar (Xena)|Caesar]], [[Gabrielle (Xena: Warrior Princess)|Gabrielle]] comes into contact with an evil [[cult]] that tricks her into killing one of its priestesses, Meridian.<ref name="deliverer">{{cite episode |title=The Deliverer |series=Xena: Warrior Princess |airdate=October 20, 1997}}</ref> Using her, the dark god [[List of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess characters#Other Gods|Dahak]] impregnates Gabrielle just as [[Xena]] rescues her.<ref name="deliverer"/> Over the next few days the child grows inside Gabrielle, and she eventually (and quite dramatically) gives birth to a girl, naming her Hope.<ref name="hope">{{cite episode |title=Gabrielle's Hope |series=Xena: Warrior Princess |airdate=October 27, 1997}}</ref> Even though she is the seed of an evil deity, Gabrielle tells Xena that she is also a part of her and that there must be some good in her as well. Being the daughter of Dahak, she quickly developed supernatural powers, and kills within hours of being born, proving to Xena that there was no chance of saving her. Hope aged amazingly fast, and, mere months after being drifted down a river by her mother, she appeared to be about 9 years old. Despite Gabrielle's hopes that she would "be good", Hope killed Xena's son Solan before being poisoned by Gabrielle herself.<ref name="Maternal">{{cite episode |title=Maternal Instincts |series=Xena: Warrior Princess |airdate=January 26, 1998}}</ref>

During the episode "[[Xena: Warrior Princess (season 4)#Episodes|The Ides of March]]", at the end of season 4, Xena and Gabrielle were crucified by the [[Ancient Rome|Romans]], as Caesar is betrayed and killed by [[Brutus]]. They are later revived by a mystic named [[Eli (Xena)|Eli]] with the spiritual aid of Callisto, who by that time had become an angel;<ref name="fallen angel">{{cite episode |title=Fallen Angel |series=Xena: Warrior Princess |airdate=September 27, 1999}}</ref> Callisto also engineers a plan to have Xena conceive a daughter after the resurrection, and this child is prophesied to bring about the Twilight of the Olympian gods; this girl was named [[Eve (Xena)|Eve]].<ref name="god fearing">{{cite episode |title=God Fearing Child |series=Xena: Warrior Princess |airdate=January 31, 2000}}</ref> To escape the gods' persecution, Xena and Gabrielle fake their deaths, but their plan goes awry when Ares buries them in an ice cave where they sleep for 25 years;<ref name="death in the eye">{{cite episode |title=Looking Death in the Eye |series=Xena: Warrior Princess |airdate=April 24, 2000}}</ref> during that time, Eve is adopted by the Roman nobleman [[Augustus|Octavius]] and grows up to become Livia, the Champion of Rome, and a ruthless persecutor of Eli's followers.<ref name="Livia">{{cite episode |title=Livia |series=Xena: Warrior Princess |airdate=May 1, 2000}}</ref> After her return, Xena is able to turn Livia to repentance, and Livia takes back the name Eve and becomes the Messenger of Eli. After Eve's cleansing by [[baptism]], Xena is granted the power to kill gods as long as her daughter lives. In a final confrontation, the Twilight comes to pass when Xena kills most of the gods on Olympus to save her daughter, and is herself saved by Ares when he gives up his immortality to heal the badly injured and dying Eve and Gabrielle.<ref name="Motherhood">{{cite episode |title=Motherhood |series=Xena: Warrior Princess |airdate=May 15, 2000}}</ref>