Alas no. Now it would be mega cool for Captain Jack to land in the middle of a Xena fight (Dr Who story maybe?) but this reference was brought up by the site AfterElton - I simply LOVE Torchwood and Captain Jack is just such a great character. A crossover between Xena and Torchwood...one can dream.

Here's the AfterElton article:

Death By "Torchwood": Captain Jack, Ianto Jones, And The Rise Of The Queer Superhero
by Polina Skibinskaya
October 27, 2009

Going back a few years, Xena: Warrior Princess provides a perfect - and often frustrating - illustration of the stop-and-go process of queer empowerment in popular culture. The show's lesbian theme started out buried in subtext, but by the 3rd season, the two lead characters were professing their love for each other and even enjoying an occasional same-sex lip lock.

Still, the show remained as vague on the subject as possible: the closest it came to openly discussing the lead characters' lesbian relationship was when a secondary character confessed she wanted to be a "thespian" just like Xena and Gabrielle.

Nonetheless, Xena may have been the most empowering queer character of the '90s: this fierce warrior chopping up battalions of thugs with a joyful smirk was anything but a victim. And yet, when the show ended, it was not with a battle cry, but with a whimper. Even this undefeated killing machine had to pay for her sexuality with her life, and in the end, she died for love.

Her death might have been somewhat more heroic than the death of, say, Alan in Torch Song Trilogy or Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry, but to this queer viewer, it was hardly less frustrating or disempowering. If a warrior princess forged in the heat of battle can't manage to live as a happy dyke, what chance do we mere mortals have?

Like Xena, Torchwood's Captain Jack Harkness is a complex character often haunted by his past misdeeds. And like Xena, he is a gay basher's worst nightmare: a queer weapon-wielding, ass-kicking superhero gleefully chewing his way through awesome fight scenes.

But Torchwood is a 21st century show (and a British one at that), so it sheds the last vestiges of subtext that had dragged down Xena: Warrior Princess. Where Xena's sexuality was never discussed, Captain Jack's sexuality is brought up deliberately, then casually dismissed as irrelevant to who he is and what he does.

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