Referenced By / Xena: Warrior Princess

Comic Books

• Lawak Kampus, a Malaysian 4-panel comic, has a gonkish girl named Xena as one of the characters.
• The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis: At one point, Lisa tells Leela that the latter is like Xena and Madeleine Albright all rolled into one.

Films — Live-Action

• Producer Sam Raimi would later put a giant statue of Xena in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
• Thor: The S.H.I.E.L.D Agent's reaction to seeing Sif and other Asgardians walking down the street is to call in to his boss, "Yeah, we've got Xena, Jackie Chan, and Robin Hood..."

Literature

• In Haze, Guzzle complains that learning about ancient history in school is pointless because he already learned everything from Xena: Warrior Princess.
• In Love Over Gold, Katrien and Diane watch an episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, a show Katrien likes because of the lesbian subtext. Diane complains about the inaccuracy of having Hercules, Julius Caesar, and Boudica all alive at the same time, and about the impracticality of Xena's armor having breasts.

Live-Action TV

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In the second season episode "Halloween", the gang get turned into their costumes - Willow becomes a ghost, Xander becomes a soldier, and Buffy turns into a 18th century noblewoman. In this incarnation, Buffy babbles about how she can't be expected to fight and is only there to please a man, leading Willow to grouse, "She couldn't have dressed up like Xena?"
• Homicide: Life on the Street: In the seventh season episode "Brotherly Love", Lewis and Sheppard are investigating a murder of a man who lived with his twin brother, and when Sheppard notices the house has two TV sets, Lewis jokes maybe one brother liked to watch Hercules and the other liked to watch Xena.
• Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: In "Honey, Let's Trick or Treat", Diane dresses as Xena for Halloween.
  Wayne: [dressed as a mime] C'mon, Diane, not everyone can be as normal we are.
• Just Shoot Me!: In the fourth season episode "Hello Goodbye", Dennis' friends mention how they'd like to see Adrienne take on Xena in a wrestling match.
• Will & Grace: In the first season episode "Grace, Replaced", Will finds Grace and Val (a neighbor who's become friends with Will while Grace has been swamped with work) fighting with each other on the floor, and he yells, "Hey! Gabrielle, Xena, break it up!"

Western Animation

• The Simpsons: In "Desperately Xeeking Xena", the second segment of "Treehouse of Horror X", Bart and Lisa are superheroes who try to rescue Lucy Lawless from the Collector AKA Comic Book Guy. Lawless spends the entirety of the segment wearing her Xena outfit and keeps reminding everyone that she's not Xena, but Lucy Lawless.

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