History YMMV / XenaWarriorPrincess

* AlasPoorScrappy: The death of [[spoiler: Joxer.]]
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: ''Lyre Lyre Hearts On Fire'' is more of a Big Lipped Alligator Episode. Not that this show was big on historical accuracy but the episode opens with Xena, Gabrielle and Joxer breaking into a rendition of Edwin Starr's ''War'' and spends the rest of the episode having two warring parties fight it out in a battle of the bands rather than with swords. This episode followed up right after several very serious episodes too.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The intro.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvdMynYtk6M How about the intro on electric lyre]]?

* DracoInLeatherPants: This trope's even funnier when you realize there really IS a guy named Draco in Xena, and that he DOES wear leather pants. The show even plays the trope straight after [[spoiler:everyone was suddenly made to love each other by Cupid's playful son, who somehow got a hold of daddy's arrows. The effect was later reversed, except for Draco. Xena suggested Cupid not undo this one to make the warlord a better, less dangerous-to-society person.]] This comes back to haunt them in a later episode.
* EvilIsSexy: Ares. Well, just about ''everyone'' is sexy in this series, but the villains tend to be sexier than the average peasant.
* FanYay: Xena and Gabrielle, which later became officially reciprocated.
* FranchiseOriginalSin: The show probably would have been better off in the long run if they hadn't had Xena and Gabrielle run into a family of monotheists in an episode clearly inspired by the Abraham and Isaac story. It was an isolated episode and could have been ignored. So was the later 'Giant Killer' episode where Xena helps David kill Goliath. But then comes the opener of the fifth season, where Xena and Gabrielle find themselves meeting angels in a war between Heaven and Hell (as opposed to just journeying through the previously established Greek mythology afterlife featuring the Elysian Fields and Tartarus). And then comes the whole 'Twilight of the Gods' arc in which Xena is basically manipulated by 'the one God' to kill every Greek God who appears on-screen, except for Ares and Aphrodite. The fact that the Gods, previously shown to be very competent and powerful, end up carrying the IdiotBall and literally can't kill a BadAssNormal like Xena if their lives depended on it, didn't help. And neither did the whole 'Xena and Gabrielle awake 25 years later' thing. In this case, the original sin would be the Abraham and Isaac episode, done back in the series' otherwise better days.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In the early season one episode "Cradle of Hope", Gabrielle scorns the idea of someone sending a baby down a river. Then came the season three episode, "Gabrielle's Hope", in which Gabrielle sends her ([[FetusTerrible evil]]) newborn baby down a river rather than kill her - an act that comes back to haunt Xena and Gabrielle in a big way.

** This troper just watched season 5 on DVD and it was actually handled well. Now if only that was last season...
* MorePopularSpinoff: Of ''HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys''.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: Joxer.
* 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.
* SeasonalRot: Arguably the sixth season.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Callisto.
** Hope. Several people try to kill her before she's even born and continue even afterward. Even her mother, Gabby, abandons and then attempts to kill her. Despite this, Hope is willing to forgive her mother and wants to be close with her. Gabby's not interested.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Callisto.

* DracoInLeatherPants: This trope's even funnier when you realize there really IS a guy named Draco in Xena, and that he DOES wear leather pants. The show even plays the trope straight after [[spoiler:everyone was suddenly made to love each other by Cupid. The effect was later reversed, except they forgot to fix Draco as well.]] This comes back to haunt them in later episodes.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: ''Lyre Lyre Hearts On Fire'' is more of a Big Lipped Alligator Episode. Not that this show was big on historical accuracy but the episode opens with Xena, Gabrielle and Joxer breaking into a rendition of Edwin Starr's ''War''.

** Ares falling out of the sky after Gabrielle accidentally depowered him. Sadly, Kevin Smith in kind of the same way.

* JumpTheShark: As detailed above, it's generally agreed that the show did this with the "Twilight of the Gods" arc and dumping Greek mythology for the Judeo-Christian variety. In spite of this, though, the episode "Motherhood" was pretty well-recieved.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: Some of the CG and blue-screen effects used in the earlier episodes haven't aged well.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Julius Caesar became [[Film/StarTrek the new Dr. McCoy]]!
** While Brutus later loyally served as [[{{Farscape}} Scorpius']] favorite MauveShirt, Braca.

* TheWoobie: Joxer. Usually his ButtMonkey ways are played for laughs, but episodes like "For Him The Bell Tolls" and "A Comedy Of Eros" play his misfortunes in a far more sympathetic light.

* JumpTheShark: As detailed above, it's generally agreed that the show did this with the "Twilight of the Gods" arc and dumping Greek mythology for the Judeo-Christian variety.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: The CG and blue-screen effects used in the earlier episodes haven't aged well.

* DracoInLeatherPants: Literally! Seriously, no one's put this up yet? Even to poke fun at him? That trope's even funnier when you realize there really IS a guy named Draco in Xena, and that he DOES wear leather pants. The show even plays the trope straight after [[spoiler:everyone was suddenly made to love each other by Cupid. The effect was later reversed, except they forgot to fix Draco as well.]] This comes back to haunt them in later episodes.

* FranchiseOriginalSin: The show probably would have been better off in the long run if they hadn't had Xena and Gabrielle run into a family of monotheists in an episode clearly inspired by the Abraham and Isaac story. It was an isolated episode and could have been ignored. So was the later 'Giant Killer' episode where Xena helps David kill Goliath. But then comes the opener of the fifth season, where Xena and Gabrielle find themselves meeting angels in a war between Heaven and Hell (as opposed to just journeying through the previously established Greek mythology afterlife featuring the Elysian Fields and Tartarus). And then comes the whole 'Twilight of the Gods' arc in which Xena is basically manipulated by 'the one God' to kill every Greek God who appears on-screen, except for Ares and Aphrodite. The fact that the Gods, previously shown to be very competent and powerful, end up carrying the IdiotBall and literally can't kill a BadAssNormal like Xena if their lives depended on it, didn't help. And neither did the whole 'Xena and Gabrielle awake 25 years later' thing. In this case, the original sin would be the Abraham and Isaac episode, done back in the series' otherwise better days.

* {{Narm}}: Generally averted due to the {{camp}}, but just ''try'' to watch ''The Haunting of Amphipolis'' with a straight face.

* DracoInLeatherPants: Literally! Seriously, no one's put this up yet? Even to poke fun at him?
** That trope's even funnier when you realize there really IS a guy named Draco in Xena, and that he DOES wear leather pants. The show even plays the trope straight after [[spoiler:everyone was suddenly made to love each other by Cupid. The effect was later reversed, except they forgot to fix Draco as well.]] This comes back to haunt them in later episodes.

** I had a very angry face. Eli and the OneTrueGod worshippers burnt Xena's mother to death, so she forgave them.

* {{Narm}}: Geerally averted due to the {{camp}}, but just ''try'' to watch ''The Haunting of Amphipolous'' with a straight face.