History WMG / Pocahontas

[[WMG: Grandmother Willow is an ancestor of Pocahontas' family who decided to inhabit a tree after her physical death]]
* The fact that she offered support to both Pocahontas and her mother before her implies she doesn't usually converse with any people (let alone strangers from foreign lands) other than her descendants. er being a human in the distant paste makes even more sense that her wooden face mimics that of her original body on the day she passed away.

* The fact that she offered support to both Pocahontas and her mother before her implies she doesn't usually converse with any people (let alone strangers from foreign lands) other than her descendants.

[[WMG: Grandmother Willow is an ancestor of Pocahontas' family who decided to inhabit a tree after her death]]

** Leads to a little bit of fridge horror about what she would do after [[spoiler:John Smith's departure]]. Will she marry another native eventually, thus ultimately still choosing the smoothest course? Remain single forever? Spend the rest of her life waiting for John Smith to return? Try to head to England in her canoe? (The sequel does not exist in my book, so don't remind me of it.)
** No wonder her dad tried to marry her off.

** Also take into account her passive attitude when John Smith was captured. She didn't try to tell her fellow tribe members about how John Smith wasn't [[spoiler:Kocoum's murderer]] ''once'' - what reason would they have had not to believe her? She is the chief's daughter for Mufasa's sake. Any other modern Disney heroine would have stood up to her dad - like [[Disney/{{Aladdin}} Jasmine]], or [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid Ariel]], who outright told her father the others weren't monsters. So her passive, sorta depressed antics actually make her more of a TragicHero whose FatalFlaw is selflessness.

Disney didn't like the MisaimedFandom some of their previous villains got (especially [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]]), so they sought to make a villain nobody could like even in an EvilIsCool way, and they succeeded.

* Or, a lighter theory; Thomas and the funny English guys were attacked by Ratcliff's henchmen, but escaped, and are now in hiding. Given the sillier tone of the sequel, they're probably disguised as washer women, or something equally comical.
* Or, for something equally [=WMG=]-ish, they all decided to stay behind in Virgina, since they're all cool with the Native Americans now.
** Y'know, there were some ''Pocahontas'' comics released after the first movie that show them living in Virginia (at least, Ben and Lon).

* Note that Thomas is also the name of real life Pocahontas and Rolfe's only child. Given the Thomas in the movie was a good friend of Smith's, and therefore likely became one to Pocahontas herself, this may not be a coincidence.

{{WMG: Ratcliffe was [[IntendedAudienceReaction intentionally a pathetic villain]].]]

* Pocahontas was desperately searching for something to make her life worth something. To mean something, essentially. And while she definitely did not appear unhappy, she also wasn't merely as cheerful or witty as any of the other Disney heroines. Now take into account that she has a very strong disregard for life-threatening risks; in the movie she jumps of an amazingly tall cliff, goes over a waterfall in a canoe, isn't afraid of an unknown (and of a, to her, unknown race) man with a weapon, takes a bear cub into her hands right in front of it's mother, attacks Kocoum who was an infinitely stronger warrior than her, and finally, puts her life on the line by placing her head on John Smith's body while her father was moments away from bashing it in. [[SelfHarm Does this remind]] [[SugarWiki/{{Depression}} you of anything]]?

* Pocahontas was desperately searching for something to make her life worth something. To mean something, essentially. And while she definitely did not appear unhappy, she also wasn't merely as cheerful or witty as any of the other Disney heroines. Now take into account that she has a very strong disregard for life-threatening risks; in the movie she jumps of an amazingly tall cliff, goes over a waterfall in a canoe, isn't afraid of an unknown (and of a, to her, unknown race) man with a weapon, takes a bear cub into her hands right in front of it's mother, attacks Kocoum who was an infinitely stronger warrior than her, and finally, puts her life on the line by placing her head on John Smith's body while her father was moments away from bashing it in. [[SelfHarm Does this remind]] [[{{Depression}} you of anything]]?

* Pocahontas was desperately searching for something to make her life worth something. To mean something, essentially. And while she definitely did not appear unhappy, she also wasn't merely as cheerful or witty as any of the other Disney heroines. Now take into account that she has a very strong disregard for life-threatening risks; in the movie she jumps of an amazingly tall cliff, goes over a waterfall in a canoe, isn't afraid of an unknown (and of a, to her, unknown race) men with a weapon, takes a bear cub into her hands right in front of it's mother, attacks Kocoum who was an infinitely stronger warrior than her, and finally, puts her life on the line by placing her head on John Smith's body while her father was moments away from bashing it in. [[SelfHarm Does this remind]] [[{{Depression}} you of anything]]?

* Pocahontas was desperately searching for something to make her life worth something. To mean something, essentially. And while she definitely did not appear unhappy, she also wasn't merely as cheerful or witty as any of the other Disney heroines. Now take into account that she has a very strong disregard for life-threatening risks; in the movie she jumps of an amazingly tall cliff, goes over a waterfall in a canoe, approaches a white man with a gun (plus, she doesn't as much as tremble when he points it at her), takes a bear cub into her hands right in front of it's mother, attacks Kocoum who was an infinitely stronger warrior than her, and finally, puts her life on the line by placing her head on John Smith's body while her father was moments away from bashing it in. [[SelfHarm Does this remind]] [[{{Depression}} you of anything]]?

* Pocahontas was desperately searching for something to make her life worth something. To mean something, essentially. And while she definitely did not appear unhappy, she also wasn't merely as cheerful or witty as any of the other Disney heroines. Now take into account that she has a very strong disregard for life-threatening risks; in the movie she jumps of an amazingly tall cliff, goes over a waterfall in a canoo, approaches a white man with a gun (plus, she doesn't as much as tremble when he points it at her), takes a bear cub into her hands right in front of it's mother, attacks Kocoum who was an infinitely stronger warrior than her, and finally, puts her life on the line by placing her head on John Smith's body while her father was moments away from bashing it in. [[SelfHarm Does this remind]] [[{{Depression}} you of anything]]?

** Leads to a little bit of fridge horror about what she would do after [[spoiler:John Smith's departure]]. Will she marry another native eventually, thus ultimately still choosing the smoothest course? Remain single forever? Spend the rest of her life waiting for John Smith to return? Try to head to England in her canoo? (The sequel does not exist in my book, so don't remind me of it.)

Yes, Meeko represents the English, and Percy the natives. It would sure play nicely with the GreyandGrayMorality theme of the movie.

[[WMG: [[CanonDiscontinuity Ignoring the sequel]], ''Pocahontas'' as a whole takes place in a universe where the English settlers never did settle in Virginia.]]
* Think about it. The sole motivation for Ratcliffe's journey to the New World was the possible discovery of gold. As there was absolutely none there, the settlers decided to return (I mean really, were they going to stay behind under the fine leadership of [[RebelLeader ''Thomas'']], a 19-year old?) and report to the King of England that there was no reason for them to take the land of the indians.

** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smith_%28explorer%29#New_England In real life, though...]]

* They'd make an awesome BetaCouple. And with [[spoiler:Kocoum, Nakoma's only love interest, deceased]]. Also, they're both {{Adorkable}} and the best friend of the protagonists (in Thomas' case, the closest thing to a best friend to loner John Smith).