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Xena Fact of the Month:
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Melinda Clarke and Roma Downey were originally offered the role of Xena before it went to actress Vanessa Angel. Vanessa Angel got sick before shooting began on "The Warrior Princess" and had to back out. Lucy Lawless was a last minute replacement.
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1. Ides Of March
2. Fallen Angel
3. Sacrifice Part II
4. One Against An Army
5. Sin Trade I
1. Fallen Angel
2. Ides of March
3. One Against an Army
4. Debt I
5. Sin Trade I
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So many Xenites have written me asking me certain historical questions about the show. Where is Xena from? When did she have Solon? Who are her parents? I intend to answer all your questions here...with as much accuracy as humanly possible (if not actual historical accuracy). Hold on to your hats folks, we are enter the dark side and about to see how it all got started.
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Have you ever had a guy so emotionaly scar you feel like you will never be the same person again? Well, I'm pretty sure the guy never cruxified you after breaking your heart. No wonder it took Xena ten years to get a grip on her life. Capturing a Roman nobleman one fateful day on the high seas, Xena's life, destiny and identity is forever changed. Julius Caesar seduced Xena with his brash defiance, confidence, intelligence and powerful...ah, charisma. Thinking she had conquered him with her abilities...ah, charisma, Xena believes she will be able to ride with Caesar and together they will conquer the rest of the world. But Caesar has other plans. He believes in his destiny to rule the world, but he plans on doing it alone and stopping at nothing to achieve this ultimate goal. So after betraying her, robbing her, humiliating her, cruxifying her and then breaking her legs (Men can be such pigs sometimes), he walks out of Xena's life not before sending M' Lila to her death. As a result, Xena becomes the heartless murderess who would become legend. It would be over ten years before they would met up again in Brittiana, where Xena turned Caesar's divide and conquer philosophy against him, and Rome, where Xena forced him to kill his comrade, Crassus. Xena lead the to destruction of Caesar and Pompey's entire army when they entired Greek soil. |
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During her time in the kingdom of Ch'in, Xena has a somewhat antagonistic relationship with the kingdom's ruler. Not used to having a woman speak her mind, Ming Tzu was offended by his intital encounter with the Warrior Princess. But Xena didn't exactly make it easy for him. With his "statement of fact" attitude, Xena decided to for go the whole alliance with Ming Tzu and instead kidnap Ming's young son, Ming Tien, and hold him for randsom. The plan would have been great and glorious if not for Borias' betrayal. Now, Xena was set loose in the forest and hunted like a dog by Ming and his son. In the end, Xena killed Ming in a rage and scarred his son forever. A fact that would later come back to haunt her.
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In the Steppes of Asia, Xena encounted the power of the dark side embodied in a powerful shamnenss named Alti. A former Amazon, Alti wanted to "tap into the heart of darkness" and become "the face of death itself." No wonder the Amazons expelled her. Interested in the dark side of life, the will and desire that drives us all, she seduced the relatively young and power-hungry Xena with promises of greatness and the ability to make her "Destroyer of Nations." In touch with the spirit world, Alti's power came from the land of the dead where she held the souls of the dead Amazons whom Xena herself helped her to kill, including their spiritual powerful queen, Cyane. Once Cyane and the Amazon leaders where taken care of, Alti took control over the region with her men and a fierce warrior named the Besrketer who could make his opponents relive the painful moments of their past. Alti, herself, had reign over the future and was the first to realize Xena's pregnacy, which resulted in cursing the unborn Solon to never know the love of either of his parents, and let her glimpse the moment of her at the hands of Roman soliders with Gabrielle right beside her. Xena knew that she had to correct the situtation she helped cause by killing Alti and releasing the souls of the dead Amazons from her grasp so they could enter eternity.
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During her days of mercilessly killing everything sight, she served Ares, god of war, making him proud soaking the ground with blood and ruling over the people with fear, but once Xena realized the emptiness of this life, she stopped serving Ares and his purposes. And for this day, Ares has been trying to win Xena back into this fold by masterfully manipulating every situation he could put her into. He framed Xena for the murders of two men whom Ares himself killed (The Reckoning), pretended to be her father Atrius and dying so that her rage would led her back to the dark side (Ties that Bind). He helped Callisto inhabit Xena's body for a while(Intimate Strangers) and forget about her when she aided him in getting his godhood back (Ten Little Warlords). He almost forced Xena to kill her mother, Cyrene, thereby condemming her to madness (The Furies). He gave the metal of Hephetus to a warrior who wanted to take over the world (The Dirty Half Dozen), he aided Gabrielle in getting to Ch'in ahead of Xena (The Debt I and II) and almost sentencing her to death. And finally, he switched sides and helped Dahak fight Xena, impregnanting Hope in the process (Sacrifice I and II). Wow, talk about evil.
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Callisto was a young girl who lived with her mother and sister in a small town called Cirra. One night, Xena's army raided the village and either intentionally or accidently caused a fire to break out. The flames consumed everything in sight and caused the death of women and children (expressly against Xena's code) including the deaths of Callisto's mother and sister. Over the years, Callisto grew to hate the warrior woman she saw only once, and ultimately, she became her obssession. She do not just want to kill her, but destroy her soul just like Xena killed hers. Callisto tried to asassinate Xena using a poison dart (The Greater Good) and assumed her identity beginning to tarnish the reputation Xena was just beginning to make good again (Callisto). In the end, defeated and jailed, Callisto vowed to get out and when she did, she made sure to continue right where she left off, killing without remorse. By her own admission, she no longer had a heart. After killing Gabrielle's husband, Peridcus, Xena let Callisto die in quicksand (Return of Callisto), but it only put her out of commission for a little while as she returned from the grave to haunt Xena through her dreams, ultimately, switching bodies with her (Intimate Strangers). Callisto became immortal after eating fruit from the tree of life, and soon Xena recruited her to help aid in a fight with a psycho-god named Velasca (A Necessary Evil), but in the end Callisto became a god as well. Being released from a lava pit that trapped her by Gabrielle's evil bad seed child Hope, Callisto continued on her mission to destroy Xena's soul and found her opportunity when she learned Xena had a son, Solon. Helping Hope kill Solon and at last seeming to avenge her family's deaths, she felt empty. Her soul had not been restored as she hoped (Maternal Instincts). Now, just wanting to die, Callisto now helped to protect Hope against Xena (Sacrifice I). But soon she switches sides after Hope teams with Ares. After seeing Gabrielle sacrifice herself, Callistor rejoices in Xena's pain and Xena finally ends Callisto's life by killing her with a Hinsblood dagger (Sacrifice II). Alas, the death of the greatest villian known to man!
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The young son of Ming Tzu and Lao Ma grew up to rule the kingdom of Ch'in putting the heartless and fear he learned from Xena to good use. After the experience of seeing his father killed before his eyes, Ming Tien, became ruthless tyrant, a monster, who ruled his people through fear. A lesson he was taught by Xena during his period of captivity. Evidently, Xena knew how much these experience must have affect the young boy because it did not take her too long to realize that he must be stopped, even if it meant killing him in cold blood while he slept. But instead, Xena was sentenced to death for the attempted asassination after Gabrielle arrived ahead of time to warn him. So cold and heartless was the man that he sentenced his own mother to death and carried out the execution himself because he knew "she wouldn't use her powers to hurt her little boy." Even after Xena promised Gabrielle she wouldn't kill him, she could not stand as she glowed over his own mercilessness. And he ended his life the way Lao Ma taught her to, with a hairpin. Although whether Lao Ma actually wanted Xena to kill him or if it was a test are entirely up for debate.
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After being impregnated by Dahak's flame, Gabrielle gave birth to a little girl whom she named Hope because in this child she had faith in the goodness of the world. After growing up rapidly and killing a man within hours of being born, Xena was convinced the child was evil, but Gabrielle believed in the goodness of her child. Wanting to spare its life, she faked Hope's death and send her down a river (Gabrielle's Hope). Months later, during a visit to the Centaur village where Kalepius and Solon resided, Gabrielle encounted a girl who held the wooden lamb she gave her child when she sent it down the river. Happy to be reunited with her daughter, it was only a matter of time before Xena found out and wanted her dead, but it was too late. Hope had already killed Kalepius and Solon leaving Xena and Gabrielle at a violent impass in their friendship. Finally, Gabrielle realized her child had to be stopped and killed her using poison (Maternal Instincts). Hope was resurrected by her father, but was sheltered by a coccon. Once born again, she would be more powerful, but with Callisto as a protector, Xena could not kill her in the weakened state. Hope broke from her coccon and when reborn, she looked exactly like Gabrielle (Sacrifice I). Soon after that, with a little help from Ares, Hope was pregnant with a being called the Destroyer. Knowing that all of it had to stop, Gabrielle sacrificed herself by throwing herself in a lava pit with Hope in tow (Sacrifice II). It was learned later that Hope and Gabrielle survived the fall and that Hope gave birth to the Destroyer, a large monster who only wanted love from its mother. Hope, never knowing the love of her mother, could not give it to him. In the end, Hope was killed by her own child, the Destroyer, and they died in each other's arms.
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History || The Mentors
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Quick Xena Quiz
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In the Hercules episode, "The Warrior Princess," how does Hercules know the man send to kill him is Xena's assassin?
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