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* [[Hey, ItsIt's That Voice!]]: [[Christian Bale|The Goddamned Batman]] as Thomas.
** David Ogden Stiers (aka [[Beauty and The Beast|Cogsworth]], [[Lilo and Stitch|Dr. Jumba Jookiba]], and [[MASHM*A*S*H (television)|Charles Emerson Winchester III]]) as Governor Ratcliffe.
** [[Mel Gibson (Creator)|Mel Gibson]] as John Smith.
** John Kassir ([[Tales Fromfrom the Crypt|The Cryptkeeper]]) is Meeko.
** Billy Connolly as Ben, one of the settlers.
** [[Les Misérables (Theatretheatre)|Judy Kuhn]] as Pocahontas (well, the singing voice).
* [[What Could Have Been]]: The animal characters were meant to talk but were made [[The Speechless|mute]] in order to give the film a more "serious" tone.
** Prior to his death in 1994, comedian [[Uncle Buck|John]] [[Planes, Trains and Automobiles|Candy]] recorded a good deal of dialogue for a talking turkey character named Redfeather. Alas, the character was cut, not only after Candy's death, but also after the aforementioned decision to keep the animals mute was made.
** Lyricist Howard Ashman, who had worked on previous Disney animated classics such as ''[[The Little Mermaid (Disney)|The Little Mermaid]]'' and ''[[Beauty and The Beast (Disney)|Beauty and Thethe Beast]]'', was supposed to write the songs for this film as well but died of AIDS prior to completing work on ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', and thus [[Stephen Schwartz]] had to fill in for him.
** In the July 1995 issue of Disney Adventures magazine which promoted the movie, there's a behind-the-scenes section of pages that includes an early title card from pre-production. It features an early version of Disney's Pocahontas who looks much like Disney's Tiger Lily, with her eyes closed, head held up high, arms folded and surrounded by a few forest animals. This gives the implication that Tiger Lily might have been in consideration to be brought back, but under a different name and to fill in the eponymous role at one point.
** Governor Ratcliffe was originally going to be voiced by Richard White (who previously voiced [[Beauty and Thethe Beast (Disney)|Gaston]]), but he was replaced by David Ogden Stiers (who had played Cogsworth in [[Beauty and Thethe Beast (Disney)|the same film]]) because the filmmakers felt that audiences would only think of Gaston whenever Ratcliffe spoke if White did the voice.
* [[Non -Singing Voice]]: Pocahontas is voiced by Irene Bedard, but they brought in Broadway powerhouse Judy Kuhn to do her singing. Oddly averted with Mel Gibson, who was a much bigger star, and did his own singing, contrary to what you might expect.
** Chief Powhatan and Keketa, whose speaking voices are done by Russell Means and Gordon Tootoosis, respectively, BOTH have their singing done by [[Jim Cummings]]!