History Trivia / XenaWarriorPrincess

* TheOtherMarty: Vanessa Angel was the first choice for Xena, but she fell ill right before shooting the pilot. Lucy Lawless was given the part and the rest was history. Sunny Deoch was also the first choice for Gabrielle, but didn't want to leave America for filming.

!!This series has [[TropeNamers named the following tropes]]:

* {{Xenafication}}: But is not itself an example.
* AWizardDidIt: [[ItMakesSenseInContext Sorta.]]

* ReferencedBy:
** Producer Creator/SamRaimi would later put [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FWnuzRjWQAEzzJX?format=jpg&name=900x900 a giant statue of Xena in]] ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness''.
** In ''Literature/{{Haze}}'', Guzzle complains that learning about ancient history in school is pointless because he already learned everything from ''Xena: Warrior Princess''.

* ReferencedBy: Producer Creator/SamRaimi would later put [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FWnuzRjWQAEzzJX?format=jpg&name=900x900 a giant statue of Xena in]] ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness''.

* CreatorBacklash: Rob Tapert has admitted the fifth season wasn't all it could have been.

* ImageSource:
** BareYourMidriff (top right)

!!This series [[ImageSource provides the page image]] for:

* AnnoyingArrows
* FeministFantasy
* HollywoodMedievalJapan

* WrittenInInfirmity Multiple times:

** Renee O'Connor did "Déjà Vu All Over Again" and "Dangerous Prey".

** Cleopatra was originally played by [[Series/{{Firefly}} Gina Torres]]. The other Cleopatra was played by Josephine Davidson (who also played Athena) in the episode "Antony and Cleopatra".

** While not technically an infirmity, the entire fifth season was written to accommodate Lucy Lawless's pregnancy, sidelining her and giving most of the action to Gabrielle and various supporting characters.
* YouLookFamiliar: Many examples, but Mael, Cupid and Julius Caesar, all played by Karl Urban, stand out. Lucy Lawless & Renee O'Connor both played different characters in the ''Hercules: The Legendary Journeys'' preseries {{Made For TV Movie}}s.

** Vanessa Angel was the first choice for Xena, but she fell ill right before shooting the pilot. Lucy Lawless was given the part and the rest was history. Sunny Deoch was also the first choice for Gabrielle, but didn't want to leave America for filming.

* DyeHard: Lawless and O'Connor are both natural blondes; Lawless dyed her hair black (on ''Hercules'') then brown, while O'Connor dyed hers red for most of the show's first two seasons.

* PromotedFangirl: In a move unprecedented in television history, popular Xena fan fiction writer Melissa Good was hired specifically ''because'' she was a popular fan fic writer (of the [[TransplantedCharacterFic uberfic]] ''Tropical Storm'' and its sequels, among others). She wrote the sixth season episodes "Coming Home" and "Legacy", as well as a third musical episode that was supposed to involve Sappho as a Gabrielle lookalike, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen which never went past the outline stage]].

* ActorAllusion
** "The Play's The Thing" features a Centaur actor played by Peter Muller, who played Deric the Centaur on ''[[Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys Hercules]]''. (And his name is [[Creator/DustinHoffman Dustinus]] [[PunnyName Hoofmanus]].)
** "Here She Comes, Miss Amphipolis" sees Xena go undercover at a beauty pageant. Lucy Lawless is no stranger to beauty pageants, having been crowned Mrs. New Zealand in 1989.
** Autolycus being made to punch himself in the face by Xena while she's inhabiting his body brings to mind a certain [[Franchise/EvilDead other role]] that Bruce Campbell has had.
** Done pretty often with Ted Raimi (Joxer the Mighty), usually to poke fun at him for being the [[Creator/SamRaimi Executive Producer's brother]].
** With Creator/BruceCampbell (Autolycus) this is usually done alongside Ted Raimi, referencing his (Campell's) work on the ''Franchise/EvilDead'' movies, and his longstanding friendship with Raimi's [[Creator/SamRaimi older brother]].

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The writers really wanted to bring back Velasca, but Melinda Clarke's schedule was consistently too busy.

* TakeThat: Charon's entire rant in ''You Are There'' where he bashes Hercules for never paying his tolls while comparing Xena more favorably against Herc was more than likely a giant TakeThat directed against Kevin Sorbo. By the time this episode had aired, Hercules had already ended and Kevin Sorbo himself had ended his Hercules stint on a very sour note with Rob Tapert. Tapert had wanted to continue Hercules for three more seasons while Sorbo himself was tired of playing Hercules and wanted to move on to ''{{Series/Andromeda}}'', in addition to already disliking Tapert, claiming that Rob had taken away money, production value, and his favorite writers away from Hercules to benefit Xena. Sorbo himself admitted that things didn't end well with Rob Tapert in his autobiography and all the things Charon said about Hercules was more than likely a case of WriterOnBoard where Rob Tapert was venting and expressing his exact thoughts on how ungrateful he considered Kevin Sorbo to be.

** Three Xena look-alikes -- Princess Diana, barmaid Meg, and Virgin Priestess Leah -- show up through out the series.

** "Here She Comes, Miss Amphipolis" sees Xena go undercover at a beauty pageant. Lucy Lawless is no stranger to beauty pageants.