10 Best Disney Villain Songs

4. "Savages (Part 1)" - Pocahontas

"Savages (Part 1)" is where everything in Pocahontas begins to fall apart for the characters. Following the death of Kokoum and John Smith's subsequent (and erroneous) capture for the murder, panic begins to spread among both the Englishmen and the Native Americans. Each believing themselves the wronged party and each seeing the other as the villain of the matter, the prejudices that were initially troubling but mostly nonviolent turn into a thirst for war. In a way, neither of the two groups are entirely to blame for the looming bloodshed. They are both behaving off of what knowledge they possess.

The Englishmen are spurred on by the manipulative speechifying of the nefarious Governor Ratcliffe as he secretly plotted to eliminate the Native Americans (and John Smith) from the area so that the Virginia Company could continue their fruitless search for gold unimpeded. For their part, the Powhatan tribe is both seeking revenge for Kokoum and responding to the invasion and unprovoked attacks upon them by the Englishmen.

Most villainous lines: "What can you expect from filthy little heathens? Here's what you get when your races are diverse!..They're not like you and me, which means they must be evil. We must sound the drums of war!"

 
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