History Trivia / XenaWarriorPrincess

* 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]].

* AscendedFan: 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.]]

* AscendedFan: 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 fifth 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.]]

* AscendedFan: 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 uberfic ''Tropical Storm'' and its sequels, among others). She wrote the fifth 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.]]

** Michael Hurst, who starred on ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' and made several guest appearances On Xena directed quite a few of the better done episodes. In fact, he was such a recurrent director, that the cast and crew, (all the way up to the executive producers) started to call him "Cup-Of-Blood-Michael" due to his love of using fake blood, and penchant to want more and more. You can thank him for the episode "To Helicon and Back"; One of the most gruesome and violent episodes in both the shows history, and that of television.

* RunningTheAsylum: Several episodes of the 6th season of were actually written by a (critically acclaimed) FanFic writer who was approached by the creators of the show and asked to write a bunch of episodes.

* 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 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.

** When Lucy Lawless was thrown from a horse during a stunt on ''TheTonightShow'', it triggered a story arc where Xena was in a death-like trance and her soul had to be carried in the bodies of other characters on the show. Thus, "Xena" could still appear on the show while Lucy Lawless was recuperating. Two of the soul-carriers were Xena's enemy Callisto and Autolycus, the King of Thieves.

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

* ProductionPosse: Both Hercules and Xena were Executive Produced by Creator/SamRaimi and both feature RecurringCharacter, Autolycus the King of Thieves (Played by Creator/BruceCampbell) and Joxer the Mighty (played by younger brother, Theodore Raimi).

** Not to mention one episode that featured identical reincarnations of all three... but with Xena and Joxer switched (to enable Xena and Gabrielle to ''finally'' get a HappilyEverAfter).
*** A later episode also [[spoiler: switches Xena and Joxer back so Xena and Gabrielle are in love in their own bodies.]]

* RunningTheAsylum: Several episodes of the 6th season of were actually written by a (critically acclaimed) FanFic writer who was approached by the creators of the show and asked to write a bunch of episodes.

* RetroactiveRecognition
** Julius Caesar became [[Film/StarTrek the new Dr. McCoy]]!
** While Brutus later loyally served as [[{{Series/Farscape}} Scorpius']] favorite MauveShirt, Braca.
** The chick from ''Series/ColdCase'' is Najara.
** [[Creator/GinaTorres Queen Cleopatra]] seems to have since traded her crown for a gun and joined ''Series/{{Firefly}}''.
** Draco is [[Film/AttackOfTheClones Captain Typho]]!

** [[GinaTorres Queen Cleopatra]] seems to have since traded her crown for a gun and joined ''Series/{{Firefly}}''.
** Draco is [[AttackOfTheClones Captain Typho]]!

** "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 [[DustinHoffman Dustinus]] [[PunnyName Hoofmanus]].)

* RelationshipVoiceActor: (Hungary) Roughly a decade later, Gabrielle and Xena came back on TV as [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Linda]] and [[WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland Gwen]].

* HeyItsThatVoice: Pandora is played by MaryElizabethMcGlynn, known for her many voiceover roles in video game and anime dubbing, and for providing vocals for many ''Franchise/SilentHill'' songs.
** (Hungary) Roughly a decade later, Gabrielle and Xena came back on TV as [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Linda]] and [[WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland Gwen]].

** (Hungary) Roughly a decade later, Gabrielle and Xena came back on TV as [[PhineasAndFerb Linda]] and [[TotalDramaIsland Gwen]].

* BoyishShortHair
* DeadlyDisc

* ProductionPosse: Both Hercules and Xena were Executive Produced by SamRaimi and both feature RecurringCharacter, Autolycus the King of Thieves (Played by Creator/BruceCampbell) and Joxer the Mighty (played by younger brother, Theodore Raimi).

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A version of the script for "The Furies" would have revealed that Ares was indeed Xena's father (this was changed due to 1) not wanting Xena to be a half-god like Hercules, and 2) the {{Squick}} factor that would result from Ares' physical attraction to Xena and even sleeping with her when Callisto was using her body). The final version is ambiguous enough that some people assume this to be the case anyway.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A version of the script for "The Furies" would have revealed that Ares was indeed Xena's father (this was changed due to 1) not wanting Xena to be a half-god like Hercules, and 2) the {{Squick}} factor that would result from Ares' constant interest in Xena). The final version is ambiguous enough that some people assume this to be the case anyway.

* DisownedAdaptation: Rob Tapert openly hates the Dynamite Comics arcs, which act as a FixFic to developments that Tapert supported and continually defends to this day. [[http://talkingxena.yuku.com/topic/754/t/20-ANSWERS-FROM-ROB-TAPERT.html One interview]] also suggests he's annoyed that Dynamite simply procured the licensing rights and didn't request any consultation (as he makes a point of criticizing them for doing that with their ''[[Franchise/EvilDead Army of Darkness]]'' comics).

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