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** The Disney version of Pocahontas has cameos in ''WesternAnimation/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves'', ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf'', and ''Disney/RalphBreaksTheInternet''.

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** The Disney version of Pocahontas has cameos in ''WesternAnimation/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves'', ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf'', and ''Disney/RalphBreaksTheInternet''.''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet''.
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** The Disney version of Pocahontas has cameos in ''Disney/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves'', ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf'', and ''Disney/RalphBreaksTheInternet''.

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** The Disney version of Pocahontas has cameos in ''Disney/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves'', ''WesternAnimation/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves'', ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf'', and ''Disney/RalphBreaksTheInternet''.
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** The Disney version of Pocahontas has cameos in ''Disney/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves'', ''Disney/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf'', and ''Disney/RalphBreaksTheInternet''.

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** The Disney version of Pocahontas has cameos in ''Disney/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves'', ''Disney/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf'', ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf'', and ''Disney/RalphBreaksTheInternet''.
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* In ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues'', Wednesday is forced to play Pocahontas in a very inaccurate Thanksgiving pageant. Yes, Thanksgiving, despite Pocahontas dying three years before the ''Mayflower'' sailed and never going anywhere near New England. Of course, the fictional play's inaccuracies are a deliberate parody on the part of the filmmakers.

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* In ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues'', Wednesday is forced to play Pocahontas in a very inaccurate Thanksgiving pageant. Yes, Thanksgiving, despite Pocahontas dying three years before the ''Mayflower'' sailed and never going anywhere near New England. Of course, the fictional play's inaccuracies are a deliberate parody on the part of the filmmakers.
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* In the 1937 ScrewballComedy ''Film/NothingSacred'', a fancy stage show includes Pocahontas as one of the "heroines of history," alongside UsefulNotes/CatherineTheGreat, [[GodivaHair Lady Godiva]], and "the Dutch [[GenderFlip girl]] who [[Literature/HansBrinkerOrTheSilverSkates stuck her finger in the dike]]."


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* In ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues'', Wednesday is forced to play Pocahontas in a very inaccurate Thanksgiving pageant. Yes, Thanksgiving, despite Pocahontas dying three years before the ''Mayflower'' sailed and never going anywhere near New England. Of course, the fictional play's inaccuracies are a deliberate parody on the part of the filmmakers.
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* Creator/GoldenFilms created [[WesternAnimation/PocahontasGoldenFilms an animated film]] loosely based on her life, released in 1995, [[TheMockbuster the same year as Disney's version]]. Other animated mockbusters inspired by the Disney film include ''The Adventures of Pocahontas: Indian Princess'', ''Young Pocahontas'', and two more titled simply ''Pocahontas''. There was also ''Pocahontas: The Girl Who Lived in Two Worlds'', animated with StopMotion rather than drawings.

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* Creator/GoldenFilms created [[WesternAnimation/PocahontasGoldenFilms an animated film]] loosely based on her life, released in 1995, [[TheMockbuster the same year as Disney's version]]. Other animated mockbusters inspired by the Disney film include ''The Adventures of Pocahontas: Indian Princess'', ''Young Pocahontas'', ''WesternAnimation/YoungPocahontas'', and two more titled simply ''Pocahontas''. There was also ''Pocahontas: The Girl Who Lived in Two Worlds'', animated with StopMotion rather than drawings.
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* ''Pocahontas: Princess of the American Indians'' is an Italian animated TV series, created in the wake of the Disney film. It involves Pocahontas traveling around North America to meet other Native American tribes and learn their ways.

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* ''Pocahontas: Princess of the American Indians'' is an Italian animated TV series, created in the wake of the Disney film. It involves Pocahontas traveling around North America to meet other Native American tribes and learn their ways. Although produced by Creator/MondoTV, the animation was outsourced to UsefulNotes/NorthKorea of all places, where it was done by Creator/StudioSEK, the same people who save us ''Animation/SquirrelAndHedgehog''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB9rfBSexTc Here is a review of the series.]]

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* ''Baptism of Pocahontas'', an 1840 oil painting by John Gadsby Chapman, depicts ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. The painting hangs in the United States Capitol rotunda, alongside the paintings of John Trumbull.
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* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: While there's no reason to think the historical Pocahontas wasn't a nice person, the story about her saving John Smith is probably not true, and fiction tends to invent even more heroism for her than that.
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* BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins: In most visual media, her attire will be some variation of this. The Disney version somewhat tones this down, but it still gives her a buckskin dress, which is not accurate for her people. Of course, as noted above, having her be "dressed" the way she was in real life is a difficult proposition.

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* BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins: In most visual media, her attire will be some variation of on this. The Disney version somewhat tones this down, but it still gives her a buckskin dress, which is not accurate for her people. Of course, as noted above, having her be "dressed" the way she was in real life is a difficult proposition.
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* BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins: In most visual media, her attire will be some variation of this. The Disney version somewhat tones this down, but it still gives her a buckskin dress, which is not accurate for her people. Of course, as noted above, having her be "dressed" the way she was in real life is a difficult proposition.


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* ''Pocahontas: Princess of the American Indians'' is an Italian animated TV series, created shortly after the Disney film. It involves Pocahontas traveling around North America to meet other Native American tribes and learn their ways.

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* ''Pocahontas: Princess of the American Indians'' is an Italian animated TV series, created shortly after in the wake of the Disney film. It involves Pocahontas traveling around North America to meet other Native American tribes and learn their ways.
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* This "Pocahontas" genre was [[GenreKiller killed off]] (for a while) by John Brougham's 1855 burlesque ''Po-ca-hon-tas, or The Gentle Savage'', which parodied earlier fictional depictions of Pocahontas and the NobleSavage trope in general. It also featured humorous anachronisms and [[NoFourthWall the characters pointing out historical inaccuracies]].

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* This "Pocahontas" genre craze was [[GenreKiller killed off]] (for a while) by John Brougham's 1855 burlesque ''Po-ca-hon-tas, or The Gentle Savage'', which parodied earlier fictional depictions of Pocahontas and the NobleSavage trope in general. It also featured humorous anachronisms and [[NoFourthWall the characters pointing out historical inaccuracies]].
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* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade: Since painters of the times often made their client more attractive in art than real life, it is impossible to know what Pocahontas ''really'' looked like, especially since some early portraits of Pocahontas were less flattering than the page image. She probably wasn't the stunning beauty of the Disney adaptation, though.

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* HistoricalBeautyUpgrade: Since painters of the times often made their client more attractive in art than real life, it is impossible Granted, it's hard to know for sure what Pocahontas ''really'' she actually looked like, like. For the record, [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Pocahontas_by_Simon_van_de_Passe_1616.jpg this]] is the only portrait that was ever made of her during her lifetime. Paintings made after her death, especially since some early portraits of Pocahontas were less flattering than from the page image. She probably wasn't the stunning beauty of the Disney adaptation, though.nineteenth century on, are very likely to depict her as a NubileSavage. [[http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/trial/pocahontas/images/Williams_1885_182a.jpg This picture is from 1885]].
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* TheChiefsDaughter: The TropeMaker, quite possibly. At the very least, many early example of this trope are identifiable as [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of Pocahontas.

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* TheChiefsDaughter: The TropeMaker, quite possibly. At the very least, many early example examples of this trope are identifiable as [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of Pocahontas.
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* TheChiefsDaughter: The TropeMaker, quite possibly. The Europeans accepted her as a princess within her lifetime, and most fiction about her plays the trope completely straight.

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* TheChiefsDaughter: The TropeMaker, quite possibly. The Europeans accepted her as a princess within her lifetime, and most fiction about her plays At the very least, many early example of this trope completely straight.are identifiable as [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of Pocahontas.
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* PromotedToLoveInterest: In fiction, John Smith is pretty much always her love interest. Even if history is followed enough for her to end up with John Rolfe in the end, she'll at least get to have a romance with John Smith first.

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* PromotedToLoveInterest: In fiction, John Smith is pretty much always her love interest. Even if history is followed enough for her to end up with John Rolfe in the end, she'll at least get to have a romance with John Smith first.
first. Their fictional romance was the invention of nineteenth-century [[{{Romanticism}} Romantic]] writers.
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* AdaptationalModesty: Prior to becoming Rebecca Rolfe, the real Pocahontas went around [[NationalGeographicNudity virtually naked]]. In almost all visual media, she's covered up enough to meet Western standards of modesty.

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* AdaptationalModesty: Prior to becoming Rebecca Rolfe, the real Pocahontas went around [[NationalGeographicNudity virtually naked]].naked or close to it]]. In almost all visual media, she's covered up enough to meet Western standards of modesty.
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* AdaptationalModesty: In real life, Pocahontas was [[NationalGeographicNudity virtually naked]]. In almost all visual media, she's covered up enough to meet Western standards of modesty.

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* AdaptationalModesty: In Prior to becoming Rebecca Rolfe, the real life, Pocahontas was went around [[NationalGeographicNudity virtually naked]]. In almost all visual media, she's covered up enough to meet Western standards of modesty.
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* Barker's ''Indian Princess'' [[FollowTheLeader spawned a series of imitators]]. The genre was [[GenreKiller killed off]] (for a while) by John Brougham's 1855 burlesque ''Po-ca-hon-tas, or The Gentle Savage'', which parodied earlier fictional depictions of Pocahontas and the NobleSavage trope in general. Notably, it featured Pocahontas ending up with John Smith, while [[NoFourthWall John Rolfe protests the historical inaccuracy]].

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* Barker's ''Indian Princess'' [[FollowTheLeader spawned a series of imitators]]. imitators]], including George Washington Parke Custis's ''Pocahontas, or The Settlers of Virginia'' (1830), Robert Dale Owen's ''Pocahontas'' (1838), and Charlotte Mary Sanford Barnes's ''The Forest Princess, or Two Centuries Ago'' (1844).
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genre was [[GenreKiller killed off]] (for a while) by John Brougham's 1855 burlesque ''Po-ca-hon-tas, or The Gentle Savage'', which parodied earlier fictional depictions of Pocahontas and the NobleSavage trope in general. Notably, it It also featured Pocahontas ending up with John Smith, while humorous anachronisms and [[NoFourthWall John Rolfe protests the characters pointing out historical inaccuracy]].inaccuracies]].
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* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: In older works, Pocahontas is "good" because she sides with the "civilized" Europeans over her own "barbarous" people. Newer works try to tone this down, and portray her more as a peacemaker.
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* The earliest stage dramatization of her was ''The Indian Princess; [[EitherOrTitle or]], La Belle Sauvage'', by James Nelson Barker, in 1808, and was based on Captain John Smith's ''The Generall Historie of Virginia''. The play is often credited (or blamed, if you prefer) for inventing the Pocahontas myth.

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* The earliest stage dramatization of her was ''The Indian Princess; [[EitherOrTitle or]], La Belle Sauvage'', by James Nelson Barker, in 1808, and was based on Captain John Smith's ''The Generall Historie of Virginia''. This being soon after UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution, Barker's intention was to carve out an American identity separate from the British identity, and he seized upon the Pocahontas story as a kind of national founding myth. In this, he succeeded. The play is indeed often credited (or blamed, if you prefer) for inventing the Pocahontas myth.
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* The earliest stage dramatization of her was ''The Indian Princess; [[EitherOrTitle or]], La Belle Sauvage'', by James Nelson Barker, in 1808, and was based on Captain John Smith's ''The Generall Historie of Virginia''.

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* The earliest stage dramatization of her was ''The Indian Princess; [[EitherOrTitle or]], La Belle Sauvage'', by James Nelson Barker, in 1808, and was based on Captain John Smith's ''The Generall Historie of Virginia''. The play is often credited (or blamed, if you prefer) for inventing the Pocahontas myth.
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* Creator/GoldenFilms created [[WesternAnimation/PocahontasGoldenFilms an animated film]] loosely based on her life, released in 1995, [[TheMockbuster the same year as Disney's version]]. Other animated mockbusters inspired by the Disney film include ''The Adventures of Pocahontas: Indian Princess'', ''Young Pocahontas'', and two more titled simply ''Pocahontas''.

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* Creator/GoldenFilms created [[WesternAnimation/PocahontasGoldenFilms an animated film]] loosely based on her life, released in 1995, [[TheMockbuster the same year as Disney's version]]. Other animated mockbusters inspired by the Disney film include ''The Adventures of Pocahontas: Indian Princess'', ''Young Pocahontas'', and two more titled simply ''Pocahontas''.
''Pocahontas''. There was also ''Pocahontas: The Girl Who Lived in Two Worlds'', animated with StopMotion rather than drawings.
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** The Disney version of Pocahontas has cameos in ''Disney/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves'', ''Disney/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf'', and ''Disney/RalphBreaksTheInternet''.
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* The Creator/TexAvery short ''Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas'' tells the traditional story with humorous anachronisms and, as you can guess from the title, ParodyNames. In the tradition of FlintstoneTheming, it features the Native Americans living in a stereotypically Indian version of modern-day American society.

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* The Creator/TexAvery short ''Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas'' tells the traditional story with humorous anachronisms and, as you can guess from the title, ParodyNames. In the tradition of FlintstoneTheming, it features the Native Americans living in a stereotypically Indian version of modern-day American society.society.
* ''Pocahontas: Princess of the American Indians'' is an Italian animated TV series, created shortly after the Disney film. It involves Pocahontas traveling around North America to meet other Native American tribes and learn their ways.
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* Creator/GoldenFilms created [[WesternAnimation/PocahontasGoldenFilms an animated film]] loosely based on her life, released in 1995, [[TheMockbuster the same year as Disney's version]].

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* Creator/GoldenFilms created [[WesternAnimation/PocahontasGoldenFilms an animated film]] loosely based on her life, released in 1995, [[TheMockbuster the same year as Disney's version]].
version]]. Other animated mockbusters inspired by the Disney film include ''The Adventures of Pocahontas: Indian Princess'', ''Young Pocahontas'', and two more titled simply ''Pocahontas''.
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** The DirectToVideo sequel, ''[[Disney/PocahontasIIJourneyToANewWorld Journey to a New World]]'' follows her as she travels to England, meets [[UsefulNotes/JamesTheFirst King James I]], and falls in love with John Rolfe. Although it gets away from the fictional romance with John Smith, the sequel introduces plenty of historical inaccuracies of its own. Rather than being kidnapped by the English, Pocahontas volunteers herself as a diplomat as part of an entirely fictional storyline about persuading the King not to start a war with the Powhatans. She has a romance with John Rolfe, but it never gets as far as marriage. She is Westernized a little, but fails to convert to Christianity or adopt the name Rebecca. In fact, she actually ''rejects'' Westernization by the end of the movie. The movie ends with her and Rolfe heading off on a voyage back to America, [[HappilyEverBefore the voyage on which she died in real life]].

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** The DirectToVideo sequel, ''[[Disney/PocahontasIIJourneyToANewWorld Journey to a New World]]'' World]]'', follows her as she travels to England, meets [[UsefulNotes/JamesTheFirst King James I]], and falls in love with John Rolfe. Although it gets away from the fictional romance with John Smith, the sequel introduces plenty of historical inaccuracies of its own. Rather than being kidnapped by the English, Pocahontas volunteers herself as a diplomat as part of an entirely fictional storyline about persuading the King not to start a war with the Powhatans. She has a romance with John Rolfe, but it never gets as far as marriage. She is Westernized a little, but fails to convert to Christianity or adopt the name Rebecca. In fact, she actually ''rejects'' Westernization by the end of the movie. The movie ends with her and Rolfe heading off on a voyage back to America, [[HappilyEverBefore the voyage on which she died in real life]].
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** The DirectToVideo sequel, ''[[Disney/PocahontasIIJourneyToANewWorld Journey to a New World]]'' gets slightly more historically accurate, with her going to England, meeting the king, and falling in love with John Rolfe. One significant inaccuracy in this film is that Creator/WilliamShakespeare got inspired to writing ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' after seeing her, which in real life, the play was already written decades prior..

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** The DirectToVideo sequel, ''[[Disney/PocahontasIIJourneyToANewWorld Journey to a New World]]'' gets slightly more historically accurate, with follows her going as she travels to England, meeting the king, meets [[UsefulNotes/JamesTheFirst King James I]], and falling falls in love with John Rolfe. One significant inaccuracy in this film Although it gets away from the fictional romance with John Smith, the sequel introduces plenty of historical inaccuracies of its own. Rather than being kidnapped by the English, Pocahontas volunteers herself as a diplomat as part of an entirely fictional storyline about persuading the King not to start a war with the Powhatans. She has a romance with John Rolfe, but it never gets as far as marriage. She is that Creator/WilliamShakespeare got inspired Westernized a little, but fails to writing ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' after seeing her, convert to Christianity or adopt the name Rebecca. In fact, she actually ''rejects'' Westernization by the end of the movie. The movie ends with her and Rolfe heading off on a voyage back to America, [[HappilyEverBefore the voyage on which she died in real life, the play was already written decades prior..life]].

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