The Xena Trilogy From Hercules

The Warrior Princess

Xena is trying to kill Hercules so she can conquer the rest of the "world" without interference from anyone. She finds Iolaus and preys on his loniness by using sex and lies. She knows that Hercules will follow Iolaus and tries to use them against each other; by telling Iolaus many terrible things about Hercules so Iolaus will begin to hate him. Iolaus and Hercules fight, they are about to kill each other when they understand that their friendship is greater than what Xena thought she could destroy. They end up friends again, Xena, angered that neither one was killed, rides off to go to her army.

The Gauntlet

In this episode, Xena is ravaging the countryside gaining territory. Hercules' cousin comes to find Herc so he will stop Xena before she reaches his aunt's village. Back at Xena's camp, one of Xena's officers(Darphus) is arguing with Xena about which village to take. Xena then decides to scout ahead telling Darphus:"Don't move till you have my signal". Darphus, eager to take the village storms in on the village burning and killing everything and everyone, including women and children. Once Xena arrives on the scene, there is not a living thing. She yells at Darphus calling him a butcher, then finds a baby. She takes the baby and refuses to let Darphus kill it. Darphus sees this as an act of compassion and has Xena run the gauntlet. She barely makes it alive, she then tries to kill Hercules once more, but doesn't succeed. Darphus then goes to another town, but Hercules is waiting for him there. At the end of the battle, Xena kills Darphus, then continues with Hercules to become good. Then, a servant of Ares brings Darphus back from the dead, and gives him the power to kill Hercules.

Unchained Heart

In this episode, Hercules, and Xena go after Darphus. Along the way, they catch up with Iolaus again who doesn't trust Xena becasue of what happened before. As Herc and Xena are chasing after Darphus, they reveal thier passion for one another. Darphus also builds up another army, and feeds people to the thing Ares gave him which can kill Hercules. As Hercules and Xena get closer to Darphus, they witness the destruction he is bringing to the land. Once they are in Darphus' camp, he throws gets them in the place where he keeps the beast Ares gave him. Darphus, Xena, and Hercules battle one another trying not to get eaten by the beast. Finally, Xena pushes Darphus into the beast's open mouth, thus ending the reign of Darphus and Ares' pet. Hercules, Xena, and Iolaus go their separate ways.


Armageddon Now II

In this Hercules epsiode, we see Xena and Gabrielle as they would have been had Hercules never been born. Someone gives Xena the Kronos stone so she won't destroy Cirrca(Callisto's village). She has him beheaded. Iolaus then meets Xena. He begs her not to take the village, but she does. Callisto(the adult Callisto) by accident kills her father, she then kills her mother and leaves her younger self in the burning cabin to die. Iolaus finds her, and rescues her just before the cabin collapses. Iolaus is then transported to Corinth, where he finds a coin with a picture of Xena on it and a caption reading "Xena, the Conqueror". He then walks to the "main" square, and there he finds Gabrielle taken prisoner for speaking against Xena's rules and living in fear. Xena orders her to be crucified and have her legs broken. It happens. Iolaus then notices that the Kronos Stone is on Xena's septer. During a match between two warriors, Iolaus takes his chance and captures the stone, going back in time to help Alcmene out of the cabin before Callisto burned it. He then travels back to the present where Callisto is about to kill him. He asks her if she remebers that he was the one who got her out of the cabin. She tells him that because he saved Alcmene, she couldn't go back to Cirra. Callisto then burns the Kronos stone.


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