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Xena: Warrior Princess: Season 2

22 episodes Premiered Sep 30, 1996 Updated Sep 25, 2026

Xena: Warrior Princess season two continues the overarching saga of the titular character across a total of twenty-two episodes. The series follows Xena, a mighty warrior princess who possesses a dark past. Throughout this season, she remains committed to her ongoing journey of redemption. As she travels, Xena continues to demonstrate the courage that is destined to change the world. She is accompanied by her compani

Previously on Xena: Warrior Princess

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Xena is a warrior princess who is actively seeking redemption for her dark and infamous past.
  • ⚡ The series is categorized as a drama, action, adventure, and sci-fi fantasy production.
  • ⚡ The protagonist is portrayed by Lucy Lawless, with Renée O'Connor appearing as her companion.
  • ⚡ The narrative follows Xena's ongoing journey to change the world through her courage.
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Season overview

Xena: Warrior Princess season two continues the overarching saga of the titular character across a total of twenty-two episodes. The series follows Xena, a mighty warrior princess who possesses a dark past. Throughout this season, she remains committed to her ongoing journey of redemption. As she travels, Xena continues to demonstrate the courage that is destined to change the world. She is accompanied by her companion, Gabrielle, as they navigate various challenges and adventures. The narrative arc focuses on Xena's efforts to atone for her previous actions while utilizing her formidable combat skills to assist those in need. The season maintains the established tone of the drama, action, adventure, and fantasy series, further exploring the dynamics between the central characters and the various figures they encounter during their travels. As an infamous warrior seeking to leave her history behind, Xena faces trials that test her resolve and her dedication to her new path. The season serves as a continuation of the established premise, building upon the foundation laid in the series' debut, and remains centered on the pursuit of justice and the complex evolution of a warrior striving to become a force for good in a dangerous world.

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Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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S2·E1 Mytharc

Orphan of War

Sep 30, 1996 · 44 min

When Xena tries to help the centaurs protect a sacred stone that contains their evil, she encounters someone from her past...her son.

S2·E2 Core

Remember Nothing

Oct 7, 1996 · 44 min

When Xena defends the Fates's temple, they give her the gift of changing the past: her brother Lyceus never died and she never became the warrior princess...but that also means she

S2·E3 Core

The Giant Killer

Oct 14, 1996 · 44 min

When Gabrielle defends a young Isrealite named David, her life is threatended until Xena proposes to fight her old friend, the giant Goliath in return for freedom for the Philistin

S2·E4 Core

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Oct 28, 1996 · 44 min

When Orpheus loses the power to subdue the god Bacchus with his music, Xena and Gabrielle risk their lives to end Bacchus's reign of terror.

S2·E5 Core

Return of Callisto

Nov 4, 1996 · 44 min

Gabrielle plans to marry Perdicus, her hometown sweetheart, and must leave Xena and their travels, at the same time that Callisto has escaped from prison and is headed straight for

S2·E6 Core

Warrior... Princess... Tramp

Nov 11, 1996 · 44 min

When Diana's father takes ill, Xena is summoned and runs into yet another lookalike, a barmaid named Meg, who seems quite taken with Joxer.

S2·E7 Core

Intimate Stranger

Nov 18, 1996 · 44 min

Callisto makes a bargain with Ares, from Tarturus, to switch bodies with Xena, sending Xena into Tarturus and freeing Callisto. Xena, in Callisto's form, makes her own bargain with

S2·E8 Core

Ten Little Warlords

Nov 25, 1996 · 44 min

Trapped in the body of Callisto, Xena must help a mortal Ares recover his sword and restore him as the god of war. If she doesn't mortals will not be able to control their anger an

S2·E9 Core

A Solstice Carol

Dec 9, 1996 · 44 min

During Winter Solstice, Xena and Gabrielle visit a town where it's Scrooge-like King has deemed that celebrating the holiday is a crime.

S2·E10 Core

The Xena Scrolls

Jan 13, 1997 · 44 min

In the year 1940, two female archaeologists searching for the Xena scrolls end up in an ancient tomb confronting legendary figures from the past.

S2·E11 Core

Here She Comes... Miss Amphipolis

Jan 20, 1997 · 44 min

Xena masquerades as a beauty pageant contestant, to stop a sabateur, bent on destroying a peace treaty between two warlords.

S2·E12 Core

Destiny

Jan 27, 1997 · 44 min

After being gravely injured, Xena's life flashes before her, including the time when she learned the art of pressure points from a slavegirl and when she met Julius Caesar for the

S2·E13 Core

The Quest

Feb 3, 1997 · 44 min

After Xena's death, Gabrielle becomes Queen of the Amazons, while Autolycus finds himself possessed by the warrior princess, Xena who needs ambrosia to bring herself back to life.

S2·E14 Core

A Necessary Evil

Feb 10, 1997 · 44 min

Xena, Gabrielle and the Amazons must battle an evil Amazon, who ate ambrosia and is now a god. She wants Gabrielle dead and in order to stop her, Xena and Gabrielle resort to askin

S2·E15 Core

A Day in the Life

Feb 17, 1997 · 44 min

Xena and Gabrielle spend a day trying to save two villages, one from a band of thugs, the other from a giant, while getting on each other's nerves and trying to not kill on another

S2·E16 Core

For Him the Bell Tolls

Feb 24, 1997 · 44 min

With Xena away on a mission, Gabrielle must contend with Aphrodite, who's interfering in one of Cupid's lovespells that will unite two kingdoms and who's put a spell on Joxer, who

S2·E17 Core

The Execution

Apr 7, 1997 · 44 min

Xena and Gabrielle have only one day to determine what really happened when Gabrielle's friend, Meleagor, is sentenced to death for a murder he didn't commit.

S2·E18 Core

Blind Faith

Apr 14, 1997 · 44 min

After getting oil in her eys during a fight, Xena goes blind and must deal with a man determined to kill her and rescue Gabrielle before she is forced to marry a king, who has died

S2·E19 Core

Ulysses

Apr 28, 1997 · 44 min

Xena and Gabrielle must help Ulysses, King of Ithica, who is trying to return to his island homeland after ten years away, but the god of the sea, Poseidon, doesn't make it easy.

S2·E20 Core

The Price

May 5, 1997 · 44 min

After becoming the hunted prey of the vicious Horde, Xena must lead the local army against them, while Gabrielle tends to the wounded and worries that Xena is returning to her dark

S2·E21 Mytharc

Lost Mariner

May 12, 1997 · 44 min

After a shipwreck, Xena must rescue Gabrielle from the cursed ship of Cecrops, the lost mariner, where anyone who steps aboard is there until they die.

S2·E22 Mytharc

A Comedy of Eros

May 19, 1997 · 44 min

When Cupid's infant son, Bliss, runs amok putting love spells on unsuspecting people, Xena falls in love with the warlord, Draco, Draco falls for Gabrielle and Gabrielle gets the h

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