History WesternAnimation / PocahontasIIJourneyToANewWorld

* AscendedFridgeHorror: The first film ends with a truce between the settlers and the natives, which anyone with a knowledge of history knows isn't going to last. The sequel indeed shows that there are plenty of tensions in Jamestown, and Pocahontas struggles to keep the peace.

* ButNotTooBlack: Pocahontas has to wear powder on her face for the ball. It reflects standard fashion of the time, but has the added effect of making her skin look noticeably lighter than it actually is. She later washes it off before appearing to the king as her true self.

* AwardBaitSong: “Where Do I Go From Here”. It has a similar melody to “Somewhere” from Theatre/WestSideStory, but that is forgivable as “Somewhere” borrowed from two classical pieces for its own melody.

** This is later invoked by Ratcliffe in a much more serious scenario. He has a bear baiting staged at the hunt ball, knowing Pocahontas will be horrified and speak out against it. The modern audience watching the film will find just as horrified and disgusted as Pocahontas is, seeing the bear being chained up and tortured while the other partygoers laugh.

* {{Expy}}: A young boy in Jamestown has a brief speaking role where he returns John Rolfe’s horse to him. This boy closely resembles the Ghost of Christmas Past from [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/AChristmasCarol1997 the previous year’s animated Christmas Carol movie]], and their voices are virtually identical. While not confirmed, it’s likely an ActorAllusion for Kath Soucie, since she voiced the Ghost in the previous film and has an “additional vocal talent” credit in this one.

* HeroicVow: En route to England, Pocahontas is cornered by the crew, who mistake her for a stowaway, but Rolfe intervenes. He explains to Pocahontas that, as she is a political ambassador to the King, he is bound by honour to protect her.
* HiddenDepths: When they first meet, Pocahontas is unimpressed by John Rolfe’s upper-class naïveté and his tendency to be InnocentlyInsensitive. She soon realises that, for all his flaws, Rolfe still takes his position as a diplomat seriously, and is sincerely committed to ensuring her protection and her people’s freedom.

* IRejectYourReality: Ratcliffe dismisses Pocahontas' fact that there is no gold in America as a “barbarian lie”. He ends up on the receiving end of this when the king tells him “No more lies.”

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: The movie resolves its love triangle in this way, with John Smith maturely choosing to let Pocahontas go when he realises she now loves Rolfe, sincerely expressing his happiness for them.
* KarmaHoudini: Despite nearly starting an all-out genocidal war, ''and'' failing to bring back resources and riches back to England, Ratcliffe is seen with no loss of power or wealth after the previous film’s events, and even spun the situation to make John Smith out to be the traitor. ([[spoiler:[[KarmaHoudiniWarranty Though he ultimately gets his comeuppance in this film]]]]).

* NewsTravelsFast: The news of John Smith’s apparent death somehow reaches Jamestown long before John Rolfe arrives there, despite him apparently leaving England ''before'' it happened [[note]]Though the King does state in the prologue that he will await Rolfe’s return, it is not made clear whether or not Rolfe has actually left yet at that point[[/note]].

* RuleOfSymbolism: Ratcliffe repeatedly claims that he plans to destroy the Powhatan tribe to preserve Britain’s greatness in the name of its King. In the climax, he casually slices a British flag to tatters when it gets in his way, enforcing that his patriotism was never anything more than a cover for his own greed and desire for vengeance.

* CanonDiscontinuity: Like most of Disney's direct-to-video sequels, this sequel is not considered canon by the company. For example: John Smith & Pocahontas remain an official couple, ignoring John Rolfe completely, in spite of the fact that Pocahontas married John Rolfe in real life.

* IRejectYourReality: Ratcliffe dismisses Pocahontas' fact that there is no gold in America as a “barbarian lie”. He ends up on the receiving end of this when the king tells him “No more lies.”

* {{Tsundere}}: Pocahontas towards John Rolfe (at first).
* TheUnpronounceable: Uttamatomakkin (it was John Rolfe who started calling him "Uti").

* Expy: A young boy in Jamestown has a brief speaking role where he returns John Rolfe’s horse to him. This boy closely resembles the Ghost of Christmas Past from [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/AChristmasCarol1997 the previous year’s animated Christmas Carol movie]], and their voices are virtually identical. While not confirmed, it’s likely an ActorAllusion for Kath Soucie, since she voiced the Ghost in the previous film and has an “additional vocal talent” credit in this one.

* YouExclaimation: Pocahontas has this furious reaction when she first encounters Ratcliffe in London (given treacherous actions of nearly starting war on her people and shot Smith with a bullet meant for her father).

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* CanonDiscontinuity: Like most of Disney's direct-to-video sequels, this sequel is not considered canon by the company. For example: John Smith & Pocahontas remain an official couple, ignoring John Rolfe completely.

* SpotOfTea: In typical English fashion, Mrs. Jenkins puts on a cup of tea for every occasion. This is an anachronism, by the way. Tea wasn't introduced to England until about 1660.

* IRejectYourReality: Radcliffe dismisses Pocahontas’ fact that there is no gold in America as a “barbarian lie”. He ends up on the receiving end of this when the king tells him “No more lies.”

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: The movie resolves it's love triangle in this way, with John Smith maturely choosing to let Pocahontas go when he realises she now loves Rolfe, sincerely expressing his happiness for them.

* HeroicVow: John Rolfe says he made one to protect Pocahontas - as she is an envoy for her father.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: The King in regards to Ratcliffe. At the end, however, [[spoiler:King James has Ratcliffe arrested and possibly even hanged]].

* NewsTravelsFast: News of John Smith's apparent death somehow beats John Rolfe across the Atlantic, despite it happening ''after'' he left.

* AlmostKiss: Pocahontas and John Rolfe.

* BackToBackBadasses: John Smith and John Rolfe.

* ButNotTooBlack: Pocahontas has to wear powder on her face for the ball. It's part of the fashion but it has the added effect of lightening her skin.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Thomas and Wiggins are nowhere to be seen in the sequel.

* ContinuityNod: The design for King James in this film is the same one used for his brief appearance in the "Mine Mine Mine" number in the first.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Invoked by Ratcliffe, who has a bear baiting staged at the hunt ball - knowing Pocahontas will be horrified and speak out of turn. Of course the modern audience watching the film is just as horrified as Pocahontas is by the fact that the hunt ball tortured an animal in the name of entertainment.
** PlayedForLaughs in an earlier scene were Pocahontas was trying on dresses and appears to john Rolf in her undergarments much to John Rolf's embarrassment. To Pocahontas and the audience, the garments are very modest looking. To John Rolf and Mrs Jenkins however, it's the equivalent of a woman wearing nothing but her knickers and bra.
* DemotedToExtra: Chief Powhattan, Nakoma, and Grandmother Willow all have extremely minor roles compared to the original, only appeared in the beginning before Pocahontas left for England. In fact, Grandmother Willow only appears in one scene in the entire movie for about a minute.
* {{Foil}}: John Rolfe to John Smith: one is refined and sophisticated, while the other is [[TookALevelInBadass way more badass]] (not that John Rolfe isn't a badass--[[CulturedBadass he is]]). Pocahontas' first impressions of both are complete opposites; Smith's was being nice to Meeko, while Rolfe's was interfering in Pocahontas's attempts to stop a fight from breaking out.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: How the movie decides to resolve the John Smith/John Rolfe rivalry.

* MoodWhiplash: A playful scene of Pocahontas and Nakoma having a snowball fight turns sombre when she discovers her TragicKeepsake from John Smith.
* NeverFoundTheBody: Which is why John Smith is able to pull off FakingTheDead.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Unlike real life, Pocahontas doesn't die at the end.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Invoked by Ratcliffe, who has a bear baiting staged at the hunt ball - knowing Pocahontas will be horrified and speak out of turn.

* BackFromTheDead: John Smith, once to Pocahontas and once to [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments the soldiers attempting to invade the New World]].

** In the musical number when Pocahontas arrives in London, Creator/WilliamShakespeare is seen writing the script for ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''... except that in the movie's timeline, Hamlet was already written and performed at least half a decade by then.

* KarmaHoudini: Despite nearly starting an all-out genocidal war, ''and'' failing to bring back resources and riches back to England, Ratcliffe is seen with no loss of power or wealth, and even spun the situation to make John Smith out to be the traitor ([[spoiler:[[KarmaHoudiniWarranty but he gets his comeuppance in the end, though]]]]).

* RealityEnsues: Despite the fact he was tied up and seemed destined for jail at the end of the original film, Ratcliffe got out of it without a scratch because, being an aristocrat and in higher status than Smith's crew, the king believed him over their accounts.

* OneSteveLimit: Averted with the two Johns.

* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: The ships in Ratcliffe's armada during the final battle scene.

* KarmaHoudini: Despite nearly starting an all-out genocidal war, ''and'' failing to bring back resources and riches back to England, Ratcliffe is seen with no loss of power or wealth, and even spun the situation to make John Smith out to be the traitor ([[spoiler:but he gets his comeuppance in the end, though]]).

''Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World'' is a 1998 DirectToVideo sequel to Disney's ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}''.