Pocahontas/Fridge

Fridge Horror

• Before the sequel came out, it went something like this. At the end of the film, Ratcliffe is taken back to England to await punishment for high treason. The punishment for high treason at the time in England was Hanging, drawing and quartering.
  • The sequel actually makes things worse, as it's revealed that the King believed Ratcliffe's version of events. John Smith is subsequently accused of treason, so presumably the other settlers were too. That's why we don't see any of them in the sequel - Ratcliffe had them all hanged, just like he said he would!
• It's not enough that the movie totally didn't not do the research on the real story in a LOT of areas, but the fact remains that Pocahontas died a rather miserable death by small pox at a rather young age, far away from home after the events of Pocahontas II, and also that the situation of the indigenous Americans didn't get any better.
  • It gets worse once you realize that life for the settlers in Jamestown was awful. Jamestown sat on an island that had been abandoned by the indigenous population because it was so bad. The hunting was bad, the soil marshy, and there was a shortage of clean drinking water. The settlers arrived too late in the year to plant anything. Many died quickly from disease and starvation; the winter of 1609-1610 was known as "Starving Time" that left only 60 of the original 500 settlers alive.
• Pocahontas tells John Smith every tree has a life, spirit and name and even proves the theory by introducing him to Grandmother Willow - after the settlers just cut down a huge chunk of the Powhatan forest and used the trees to build a fort.
• Earlier in the film when the settlers were boarding the Susan Constant, a rat sneaks aboard. Rats carry the plague which would have wiped some natives out.