A recurring character is a character who appears more than once.
For the purposes of this list, an appearance is counted as:
- 1 episode from any of the series
- 1 film (direct-to-video movies or televised films)
- 1 comic story
- 1 novel, short story, or other prose appearance involving some activity (not a mere mention) [[Hoove
101 or more televised appearances
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| Image | Character | Appearance Count | Performer(s) | First Appearance | Last Appearance
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| Hercules
| 165
| Kevin Sorbo (114) Ryan Gosling (50) Ian Bohen (5) Jacques Dupeyroux (1) Peter Malloch (1)
| Hercules and the Amazon Women
| XWP: "God Fearing Child"
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Sorbo: Hercules and the Amazon Women; Hercules and the Lost Kingdom; Hercules and the Circle of Fire; Hercules in the Underworld; Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur; HTLJ: "The Wrong Path"; "Eye of the Beholder"; "The Road to Calydon"; "The Festival of Dionysus"; "Ares"; "As Darkness Falls" "Pride Comes Before a Brawl"; "The March to Freedom"; "The Warrior Princess"; "Gladiator"; "The Vanishing Dead"; "The Gauntlet"; "Unchained Heart"; "The King of Thieves"; "All That Glitters"; "What's in a Name?"; "Siege at Naxos"; "Outcast"; "Under the Broken Sky"; "The Mother of All Monsters"; "The Other Side"; "The Fire Down Below"; XWP: "Prometheus"; HTLJ: "Cast a Giant Shadow"; "Highway to Hades"; "The Sword of Veracity"; "The Enforcer"; "Once a Hero"; "Heedless Hearts"; "Let the Games Begin"; "The Apple"; "Promises"; "King For a Day"; "Protean Challenge"; "The Wedding of Alcmene"; "The Power"; "Centaur Mentor Journey"; "The Cave of Echoes"; "Mercenary"; "Doomsday"; "Mummy Dearest"; "Not Fade Away"; "Monster Child in the Promised Land"; "The Green-Eyed Monster"; "Prince Hercules"; "A Star to Guide Them"; "The Lady and the Dragon"; "Long Live the King"; "Surprise"; "Encounter"; "When a Man Loves a Woman"; "Judgment Day"; "Reign of Terror"; "The End of the Beginning"; "War Bride"; "A Rock and a Hard Place"; "Atlantis"; "Beanstalks and Bad Eggs"; "Hero's Heart"; "Regrets... I've Had a Few"; "Web of Desire"; "Stranger in a Strange World"; "Two Men and a Baby"; "Prodigal Sister"; "...And Fancy Free"; Hercules and Xena - The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus (voice); HTLJ: "If I Had a Hammer..."; "Hercules on Trial"; "Medea Culpa"; "Armageddon Now: Part 1"; "Armageddon Now: Part 2"; "Yes, Virginia, There is a Hercules"; "Porkules"; "One Fowl Day"; "My Fair Cupcake"; "War Wounds"; "Twilight"; "Top God"; "Reunions"; "Faith"; "Descent"; "Resurrection"; "Render Unto Caesar"; "Norse By Norsevest"; "Somewhere Over the Rainbow Bridge"; "Darkness Rising"; "For Those of You Just Joining Us"; "Let There Be Light"; "Redemption"; "Sky High"; "Stranger and Stranger"; "Just Passing Through"; "Greece is Burning"; "We'll Always Have Cyprus"; "The Academy"; "Love on the Rocks"; "Once Upon a Future King"; "Fade Out"; "My Best Girl's Wedding"; "Revelations"; "Be Deviled"; "Love, Amazon Style"; "Rebel With a Cause"; "Darkness Visible"; "Hercules, Tramps & Thieves"; "City of the Dead"; "A Wicked Good Time"; "Full Circle"; XWP: "God Fearing Child" Gosling: YH: "The Treasure of Zeus: Part 1"; "The Treasure of Zeus: Part 2: Between Friends"; "The Treasure of Zeus: Part 3: What a Crockery"; "Herc and Seek"; "Girl Trouble"; "Teacher's Pests"; "Inn Trouble"; "Keeping Up with the Jasons"; "Amazon Grace"; "Cyrano de Hercules"; "Battle Lines: Part 1"; "Battle Lines: Part 2"; "Forgery"; "No Way Out"; "Ares on Trial"; "Down and Out in Academy Hills"; "Winner Take All"; "A Serpent's Tooth"; "Lure of the Lyre"; "Fame"; "Lyre, Liar"; "A Lady in Hades"; "The Mysteries of Life"; "Dad Always Liked Me Best"; "Herc's Nemesis"; "Cold Feet"; "Mommy Dearest"; "In Your Dreams"; "Sisters"; "Golden Bow"; "Home for the Holidays"; "Cram-ped"; "Con Ares"; "Get Jason"; "My Fair Lilith"; "Hind Sight"; "The Head That Wears the Crown"; "Me, Myself and Eye"; "The Skeptic"; "Iolaus Goes Stag"; "Adventures in the Forbidden Zone"; "The Prize"; "The Beasts Beneath"; "Parents' Day"; "A Life for a Life"; "Under Siege"; "Mila"; "Apollo"; "Ill Wind"; "Valley of the Shadow" Bohen: HTLJ: "Regrets... I've Had a Few"; Young Hercules; HTLJ: "Medea Culpa"; "Twilight"; "Top God"
Dupeyroux: Hercules and the Amazon Women
Malloch: Hercules and the Amazon Women
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| Xena
| 139
| Lucy Lawless (139) Hudson Leick (2) Renee Schuda (1)
| HTLJ: "The Warrior Princess"
| XWP: "A Friend in Need: Part 2"
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Lawless: HTLJ: "The Warrior Princess"; "The Gauntlet"; "Unchained Heart"; XWP: "Sins of the Past"; "Chariots of War"; "Dreamworker"; "Cradle of Hope"; "The Path Not Taken"; "The Reckoning"; "The Titans"; "Prometheus"; "Death in Chains"; "Hooves and Harlots"; "The Black Wolf"; "Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts"; "Athens City Academy of the Performing Bards"; "A Fistful of Dinars"; "Warrior... Princess"; "Mortal Beloved"; "The Royal Couple of Thieves"; "The Prodigal"; "Altared States"; "Ties That Bind"; "The Greater Good"; "Callisto"; "Death Mask"; "Is There a Doctor in the House?"; "Orphan of War"; "Remember Nothing"; "The Giant Killer"; "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"; "Return of Callisto"; "Warrior... Princess... Tramp"; "Intimate Stranger"; "Ten Little Warlords"; "A Solstice Carol"; "The Xena Scrolls"; "Here She Comes... Miss Amphipolis"; "Destiny"; "The Quest"; "A Necessary Evil"; HTLJ: "Judgment Day"; XWP: "A Day in the Life"; "For Him the Bell Tolls"; "The Execution"; "Blind Faith"; "Ulysses"; "The Price"; "Lost Mariner"; "A Comedy of Eros"; "The Furies"; "Been There, Done That"; "The Dirty Half Dozen"; "The Deliverer"; "Gabrielle's Hope"; "The Debt: Part 1"; "The Debt: Part 2"; "The King of Assassins"; Hercules and Xena - The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus (voice); XWP: "Warrior... Priestess... Tramp"; "The Quill is Mightier..."; "Maternal Instincts"; "The Bitter Suite"; HTLJ: "Armageddon Now: Part 2"; XWP: "One Against an Army"; "Forgiven"; "King Con"; "When in Rome..."; "Forget Me Not"; "Fins, Femmes and Gems"; "Tsunami"; "Vanishing Act"; "Sacrifice: Part 1"; "Sacrifice: Part 2"; "Adventures in the Sin Trade: Part 1"; "Adventures in the Sin Trade: Part 2"; "A Family Affair"; "In Sickness and in Hell"; "A Good Day"; "A Tale of Two Muses"; "Locked Up and Tied Down"; "Crusader"; "Past Imperfect"; "The Key to the Kingdom"; "Daughter of Pomira"; "If the Shoe Fits..."; "Paradise Found"; "Devi"; "The Way"; "Between the Lines"; "The Play's the Thing"; "The Convert"; "Takes One to Know One"; "Endgame"; "The Ides of March"; "Fallen Angel"; "Chakram"; "Succession"; "Animal Attraction"; "Them Bones, Them Bones"; "Purity"; "Back in the Bottle"; "Little Problems"; "Seeds of Faith"; "Lyre, Lyre, Hearts on Fire"; "Punch Lines"; "God Fearing Child"; "Eternal Bonds"; "Amphipolis Under Siege"; "Married with Fishsticks"; "Lifeblood"; "Kindred Spirits"; "Antony and Cleopatra"; "Looking Death in the Eye"; "Livia"; "Eve"; "Motherhood"; "Coming Home"; "The Haunting of Amphipolis"; "Heart of Darkness"; "Who's Gurkhan?"; "Legacy"; "The Abyss"; "The Rheingold"; "The Ring"; "Return of the Valkyrie"; "Old Ares Had a Farm"; "Dangerous Prey"; "The God You Know"; "You Are There"; "Path of Vengeance"; "To Helicon and Back"; "Last of the Centaurs"; "When Fates Collide"; "Many Happy Returns"; "Soul Possession"; "A Friend in Need: Part 1"; "A Friend in Need: Part 2" Leick: XWP: "Intimate Stranger; "Ten Little Warlords"
Schuda: XWP: "Fins, Femmes and Gems"
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| Iolaus
| 120
| Michael Hurst (72) Dean O'Gorman (50) Daniel James (1)
| Hercules and the Amazon Women
| HTLJ: "Full Circle"
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Hurst: Hercules and the Amazon Women; Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur; HTLJ: "The Wrong Path"; "Pride Comes Before a Brawl"; "The March to Freedom"; "The Warrior Princess"; "Gladiator"; "The Vanishing Dead"; "Unchained Heart"; "The King of Thieves"; "What's in a Name?"; "Siege at Naxos"; "The Mother of All Monsters"; XWP: "Prometheus"; HTLJ: "Cast a Giant Shadow"; "Highway to Hades"; "The Sword of Veracity"; "The Enforcer"; "Once a Hero"; "Heedless Hearts"; "The Apple"; "Promises"; "King For a Day"; "Protean Challenge"; "The Wedding of Alcmene"; "The Cave of Echoes"; "Love Takes a Holiday"; "Not Fade Away"; "Monster Child in the Promised Land"; "Prince Hercules"; "A Star to Guide Them"; "The Lady and the Dragon"; "Long Live the King"; "Surprise"; "Encounter"; XWP: "The Quest"; HTLJ: "When a Man Loves a Woman"; "Judgment Day"; "The Lost City"; "War Bride"; "A Rock and a Hard Place"; "Hero's Heart"; "Web of Desire"; "Stranger in a Strange World"; "Two Men and a Baby"; Hercules and Xena - The Animated Movie: The Battle for Mount Olympus (voice); HTLJ: "Hercules on Trial"; "Medea Culpa"; "Armageddon Now: Part 1"; "Armageddon Now: Part 2"; "Porkules"; "One Fowl Day"; "My Fair Cupcake"; "War Wounds"; "Twilight"; "Top God"; "Reunions"; "Faith"; "Descent"; "Resurrection"; "Darkness Rising"; "For Those of You Just Joining Us"; "Let There Be Light"; "Redemption"; "Just Passing Through"; "Revelations"; "Be Deviled"; "Love, Amazon Style"; "Darkness Visible"; "City of the Dead"; "A Wicked Good Time"; "Full Circle" O'Gorman: HTLJ: "Regrets... I've Had a Few"; Young Hercules; HTLJ: "Medea Culpa"; "Twilight"; YH: "The Treasure of Zeus: Part 1"; "The Treasure of Zeus: Part 2: Between Friends"; "The Treasure of Zeus: Part 3: What a Crockery"; "Herc and Seek"; "Girl Trouble"; "Teacher's Pests"; "Inn Trouble"; "Keeping Up with the Jasons"; "Amazon Grace"; "Cyrano de Hercules"; "Battle Lines: Part 1"; "Battle Lines: Part 2"; "Forgery"; "No Way Out"; "Ares on Trial"; "Down and Out in Academy Hills"; "Winner Take All"; "A Serpent's Tooth"; "Lure of the Lyre"; "Fame"; "Lyre, Liar"; "The Mysteries of Life"; "Dad Always Liked Me Best"; "Herc's Nemesis"; "Mommy Dearest"; "In Your Dreams"; "Home for the Holidays"; "Cram-ped"; "Con Ares"; "Get Jason"; "My Fair Lilith"; "Hind Sight"; "The Head That Wears the Crown"; "Me, Myself and Eye"; "The Skeptic"; "Iolaus Goes Stag"; "Adventures in the Forbidden Zone"; "The Prize"; "The Beasts Beneath"; "Parents' Day"; "A Life for a Life"; "Under Siege"; "Mila"; "Apollo"; "Ill Wind"; "Valley of the Shadow"
James: Hercules and the Amazon Women
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51 to 100 televised appearances
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21 to 50 televised appearances
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11 to 20 televised appearances
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6 to 10 televised appearances
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2 to 5 televised appearances
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1 televised appearances, plus at least 1 appearance in other media
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No televised appearances
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