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== A REALLY dark theory - you've been warned.. ==
* 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. [[Self
** 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 [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Jasmine]], or [[The Little Mermaid|Ariel]], who outright told her father the others weren't monsters. So her passive, sorta depressed antics actually make her more of a [[Tragic Hero]] whose [[Fatal Flaw]] is selflessness.
** 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.)
** No wonder her dad tried to marry her off.
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* ..was that it alluded to severe depression! "[[Does This Remind You of Anything?|And if I never knew you / I'd have lived my whole live through / Empty as the sky / Never knowing why / Lost forever if I never knew you.]]"
== [[Canon
* 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 [[Rebel Leader|''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.
** Since this is a Disney film, it would make sense - [[Heel Face Turn|the settlers would become so inspired by the Colours of the Wind and Pocahontas' romance with John]], that they'd lose their interest in kicking the indians off their land and taking it for their own.
** John Smith suggests somewhere during the course of the film that the English could learn from the Indians, by which he is referring to their crops of corn. So perhaps the English could take that back to their own country and be done with the New World?
** Although Ratcliffe mentions the French and Spanish' successes in the other parts of the New World. He even mentions Cortez by name. But since this film is rooted in fantasy anyway, one could assume [[That Liar Lies|Ratcliffe was just making shit up.]]
== John Smith returned to Virginia after the first film and eventually became Pocahontas' husband. ==
* [[Pandering to
== Thomas and Nakoma are meant for each other. ==
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