Xena kicked ass and asked questions later.
Or she would have asked questions later, except she was too busy still kicking ass.
When the Warrior Princess, played by Lucy Lawless, wasn’t kicking ass, she was hanging out with her best pal Gabrielle (Renee O’Connor), although they spent most of their time hanging out by kicking ass.
Okay, so Xena was a kickass heroine (two years before that charlatan Buffy came along, Whedon worshippers), we get that.
But when she wasn’t kicking ass… what was she doing again? Oh yeah, hanging out with Gabrielle.
Xena and Gabrielle’s relationships wasn’t so much a ‘Will they or won’t they?’ as a ‘They already have done, haven’t they?’
But whatever way you interpret their pairing, whether it’s BFFs with swords or lesbian lovers, they made one of TV’s cutest couples after Xena: Warrior Princess was broadcast in 1995.
Twenty years after the show first aired, here are the reasons why.
1. They are soulmates. Literally
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