Contents Appearances and development Origins on HerculesXena originally appears as an in the Hercules episode '; about ten years into her career of pillaging and marauding, Xena meets Hercules. Initially, she sets out to kill him. In ', her army turns against her, believing Xena has become weak after she stops her lieutenant Darphus from killing a child in a sacked. She, and survives, becoming the only person ever to survive the gauntlet.
She then fights Hercules, in the hope that she will regain her army if she can bring back his head. Xena seems to be getting the upper hand until Hercules' cousin intervenes, making no real difference himself but inadvertently giving Hercules his sword, allowing him to fight Xena on equal ground and defeat her. However, Hercules refuses to kill Xena, telling her, 'Killing isn't the only way of proving you're a warrior.' Touched and inspired by Hercules' integrity, and by the fact that he too suffered the loss of blood kin as she did and yet chooses to fight in honor of them, she decides to join him and defeat her old army. In ', Hercules tells Xena that there is goodness in her heart, and the two of them share a brief romantic relationship, before Xena decides to leave and start making amends for her past. On her self-titled showDuring the series pilot, 'Sins of the Past', Xena finds the way to redemption to be more painful than she thought, haunted by her past transgressions, she is about to give up on her life as a warrior completely.
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As she strips off her and weaponry and buries them in the dirt, she sees a group of village girls being attacked by a band of warriors. In the group is. Xena saves the young woman and Gabrielle is left in awe of the Warrior Princess' abilities. Gabrielle persuades Xena to let her be her traveling companion, and over time, Gabrielle becomes Xena's dearest friend.
Xena also reconciles with her mother, Cyrene. Xena with.Soon after the start of her journeys with Gabrielle, Xena runs into, who has evidently known her since her warlord days and tries to seduce her into joining him as his Warrior Queen, efforts that she repeatedly thwarts. She also encounters a formidable warrior woman named, whose family was killed by Xena years ago. Xena's subsequent life is marred by many tragedies. Her son Solan, who never came to know her as his mother, is killed, with the help of Callisto, by, Gabrielle's demoniac childand she nearly loses Gabrielle more than once.
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Marcus, a warrior, close friend and lover from her warlord days, whom she persuades to follow her in choosing good, is killed while doing his first good deed. Later, he is allowed to briefly return to the world of the living to help thwart a vicious killer who has escaped from the underworld. He and Xena spend a night together before Marcus has to return to the other side. She is too late to save her mentor and friend from being tortured to death by her own son, the emperor. Finally, she and Gabrielle are crucified by the Romans on the, as, previously an ally, is betrayed and killed by Brutus. They are later revived by a mystic named with the spiritual aid of Callisto, who by that time had become an angel after being killed by Xena.
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On season 5, the miracle child Xena conceives after her resurrection (again through the efforts of the redeemed Callisto)is prophesied to bring about the Twilight of the Olympian gods and the birth of the; to escape the gods' persecution, Xena and Gabrielle fake their deathsbut their plan goes awry when Ares buries them in an ice cave where they sleep for 25 years. During that time, Eve is adopted by the Roman nobleman and grows up to become Livia, the Champion of Rome, and a ruthless persecutor of Eli's followers.
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, 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 to save her daughter, with the help of and, and is herself saved by Ares when he gives up his immortality to heal the badly injured and dying Eve and Gabriellewith Xena later helping him regain his godhood. Xena's quest for redemption ends when she sacrifices herself to kill the Japanese demon Yodoshi, and decides to stay dead so the souls of the 40,000 she killed years ago could be released into a state of peace. However, her spirit is seen with Gabrielle in a ship shortly afterwards. According to the darsham, Naimathis is only one of many lives Xena will live throughout the ages. In many of those lives, she will walk a path together with her Gabrielle furthering the cause of good against evil.
In other mediaXena has appeared in all of the series spin-offs, usually as the lead character. The animated movie marks the first appearance of Xena outside of the television series. She also appears in the comics series, originally released by and, and in 2007 acquired the rights to the book upon discovering the show still had many fans. Xena is a in the video game, and a selectable character in. In 1999, Lucy Lawless also appeared in the animated television show dressed as her Xena character, during the.