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* TimeDilation: Discussed where it's wondered if human astronauts from before the apocalypse could travel through time in faster than light ships. A scenario is presented where a musician could do a broadcast in London, [=FTL=] travel to New York and listen to it live and then go back in time to cancel the performance if he didn't like it.
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This sequel follows the ape leader Caesar (Creator/RoddyMcDowall) 12 years after a global nuclear war has destroyed civilization. Living with his mate Lisa and their son Cornelius, Caesar creates a new society while trying to cultivate peace between the apes and remaining humans. Caesar is opposed by gorilla Aldo (Claude Akins), who wants to imprison the humans that freely roam Ape City while doing menial labor. To make matters worse, a tribute of human atomic bomb mutations are out to make life miserable for the peaceful ape tribe. The story is told primarily in flashback with the opening and closing taking place in the year 2670.
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This sequel follows the ape leader Caesar (Creator/RoddyMcDowall) 12 years after a global nuclear war has destroyed civilization. Living with his mate Lisa and their son Cornelius, Caesar creates a new society while trying to cultivate peace between the apes and remaining humans. Caesar is opposed by gorilla Aldo (Claude Akins), who wants to imprison the humans that freely roam Ape City while doing menial labor. To make matters worse, a tribute group of human atomic bomb mutations are out to make life miserable for the peaceful ape tribe. The story is told primarily in flashback with the opening and closing taking place in the year 2670.
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* NukeEm: Kolp's contingency plan. Which, considering that the weapon he orders his assistant to use happens to be the [[DoomsdayDevice Alpha-Omega Bomb]], would have had catastrophic results if it went through.
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* NukeEm: Kolp's contingency plan. Which, considering that the weapon he orders his assistant to use happens to be the [[DoomsdayDevice Alpha-Omega Bomb]], would have had catastrophic results if it went through.carried out.
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* CycleOfRevenge: Discussed by Mendez.
-->'''Mendez:''' Governor, somewhere along the line of history, this bloody chain reaction has got to stop! A destroys B. B destroys C. C destroys A and is destroyed by D who destroys E. Before anyone knows where they are, there won't be anyone left to know anything, anywhere!
-->'''Mendez:''' Governor, somewhere along the line of history, this bloody chain reaction has got to stop! A destroys B. B destroys C. C destroys A and is destroyed by D who destroys E. Before anyone knows where they are, there won't be anyone left to know anything, anywhere!
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* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Discussed about Caesar visiting the forbidden city.
->'''Aldo''': Why were you there? To visit the city is forbidden.\\
'''Caesar''': I know. '''I''' forbade it.\\
'''Aldo''': Then why--?\\
'''Virgil''': Aldo, if a King forbids his subjects to wear a crown, that doesn't mean he can't wear one himself.
->'''Aldo''': Why were you there? To visit the city is forbidden.\\
'''Caesar''': I know. '''I''' forbade it.\\
'''Aldo''': Then why--?\\
'''Virgil''': Aldo, if a King forbids his subjects to wear a crown, that doesn't mean he can't wear one himself.
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* BittersweetEnding: The apes and the non-mutant humans seem to be reconciled, but Caesar [[spoiler:was forced to kill Aldo, violating the most important of his society's laws, because Aldo murdered Caesar's son]]. The future of ape-human relations is also left quite ambiguously.
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* BittersweetEnding: The apes and the non-mutant humans seem to be reconciled, but Caesar [[spoiler:was forced to kill Aldo, violating the most important of his society's laws, because Aldo murdered Caesar's son]]. The future of ape-human relations is also left quite ambiguously.ambiguous.
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** Aldo's followers.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: General Aldo's army of gorillas is very enthusiastic about locking up the humans like animals, and even cheer at Aldo's announcement that they will seize control and ''kill'' all the humans. But when Aldo continues to declare that after they kill the humans, they'll kill ''Caesar'', all his soldiers abruptly fall silent and gape at him in horror: they might disagree with the other apes, but no ape has ever killed another, and it is their most sacred law.
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** Caesar himself, at the end, once he realizes that his enslavement of the humans, benevolent though it may be, makes him no better than the same humans he led a revolution against in the previous [[Film/COnquestOfThePlanetOfTheApes film.]]
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* DeweyDefeatsTruman: The movie was released in 1973, the same year Earth was supposed to be visited by two talking apes from the future according to [[Film/EscapeFromThePlanetOfTheApes the third movie]].
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** Caesar himself, at the end, once he realizes that his enslavement of the humans, benevolent though it may be, makes him no better than the same humans he led a revolution against in the previous [[Film/COnquestOfThePlanetOfTheApes film.]]
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The sequel to ''Film/ConquestOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' and the last film in the original ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' film series, released in 1973. It is set in the early 21st century, after a nuclear holocaust in 1991.
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The sequel to ''Film/ConquestOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' and the last film in the original ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' film series, released in 1973. It is set after a nuclear holocaust in 1993.
This sequel follows the ape leader Caesar (Creator/RoddyMcDowall) years after a global nuclear war has destroyed civilization. Living with his mate Lisa and their son Cornelius, Caesar creates a new society while trying to cultivate peace between the apes and remaining humans. Caesar is opposed by gorilla Aldo (Claude Akins), who wants to imprison the humans that freely roam Ape City while doing menial labor. To make matters worse, a tribute of human atomic bomb mutations are out to make life miserable for the peaceful ape tribe. The story is told primarily in flashback with the opening and closing taking place in the year 2670.
This sequel follows the ape leader Caesar (Creator/RoddyMcDowall) years after a global nuclear war has destroyed civilization. Living with his mate Lisa and their son Cornelius, Caesar creates a new society while trying to cultivate peace between the apes and remaining humans. Caesar is opposed by gorilla Aldo (Claude Akins), who wants to imprison the humans that freely roam Ape City while doing menial labor. To make matters worse, a tribute of human atomic bomb mutations are out to make life miserable for the peaceful ape tribe. The story is told primarily in flashback with the opening and closing taking place in the year 2670.
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The sequel to ''Film/ConquestOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' and the last film in the original ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' film series, released in 1973. It is set after a nuclear holocaust in 1993.
1991.
This sequel follows the ape leader Caesar (Creator/RoddyMcDowall) 12 years after a global nuclear war has destroyed civilization. Living with his mate Lisa and their son Cornelius, Caesar creates a new society while trying to cultivate peace between the apes and remaining humans. Caesar is opposed by gorilla Aldo (Claude Akins), who wants to imprison the humans that freely roam Ape City while doing menial labor. To make matters worse, a tribute of human atomic bomb mutations are out to make life miserable for the peaceful ape tribe. The story is told primarily in flashback with the opening and closing taking place in the year 2670.
This sequel follows the ape leader Caesar (Creator/RoddyMcDowall) 12 years after a global nuclear war has destroyed civilization. Living with his mate Lisa and their son Cornelius, Caesar creates a new society while trying to cultivate peace between the apes and remaining humans. Caesar is opposed by gorilla Aldo (Claude Akins), who wants to imprison the humans that freely roam Ape City while doing menial labor. To make matters worse, a tribute of human atomic bomb mutations are out to make life miserable for the peaceful ape tribe. The story is told primarily in flashback with the opening and closing taking place in the year 2670.
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* MeaningfulName: Mandemus, possibly. His names sounds like the legal term ''mandamus'', which involves a writ commanding somebody to perform a certain action. Appropriate, since his job in the film is acting as Caesar's conscience and guarding the Ape City armory.
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** Much like Creator/DanteAlighieri, Caesar is lead on a journey into the underworld by a guy named Virgil.
** Mandemus, possibly. His names sounds like the legal term ''mandamus'', which involves a writ commanding somebody to perform a certain action. Appropriate, since his job in the film is acting as Caesar's conscience and guarding the Ape City
** Much like Creator/DanteAlighieri, Caesar is lead on a journey into the underworld by a guy named Virgil.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Caesar's attempts to eschew the [[FantasticRacism anti-human sentiment]] that is common among apes mostly come across as condescending and paternalistic. See WhatTheHellHero below.
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* WhatTheHellHero: [=MacDonald=] and Abe call out Caesar at the end for not protecting humans as well as he should have.
-->If we appear to be lacking in gratitude, Caesar, what have we to be grateful for?
-->If we appear to be lacking in gratitude, Caesar, what have we to be grateful for?
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This sequel follows the ape leader Caesar (Creator/RoddyMcDowall) years after a global nuclear war has destroyed civilization. Living with his mate Lisa and their son Cornelius, Caesar creates a new society while trying to cultivate peace between the apes and remaining humans. Caesar is opposed by gorilla Aldo, Aldo (Claude Akins), who wants to imprison the humans that freely roam Ape City while doing menial labor. To make matters worse, a tribute of human atomic bomb mutations are out to make life miserable for the peaceful ape tribe. The story is told primarily in flashback with the opening and closing taking place in the year 2670.
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* SuspiciouslySimimiliarSubstitute: [=MacDonald's=] brother, [=MacDonald=]. It's clear that the franchise was trying to avert TheOtherDarrin when the original actor didn't want to come back.
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* SuspiciouslySimimiliarSubstitute: SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: [=MacDonald's=] brother, [=MacDonald=]. It's clear that the franchise was trying to avert TheOtherDarrin when the original actor didn't want to come back.
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* BeneathTheEarth: The lair of the mutants, previously seen in the aptly-named ''Film/BeneathThePlanetOfTheApes''.
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* MeaningfulName: Mandemus, possibly. His names sounds like the legal term ''mandamus'', which involves a writ commanding somebody to perform a certain action. Possibly appropriate, Appropriate, since his job in the film is acting as Caesar's conscience and guarding the Ape City armory.
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* TokenGoodTeammate: Mendez to Kolp, again.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Mendez to Kolp, again.
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* HeelRealization: Aldo's followers.
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-->'''Gorilla soldier:''' Aldo, you kill.
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The sequel to ''Film/ConquestOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' and the last film in the original ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' film series. series, released in 1973. It is set after a nuclear holocaust in 1993.
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This sequel follows the ape leader Caesar years after a global nuclear war has destroyed civilization. Living with his mate Lisa and their son Cornelius, Caesar creates a new society while trying to cultivate peace between the apes and remaining humans. Caesar is opposed by gorilla Aldo, who wants to imprison the humans that freely roam Ape City while doing menial labor. To make matters worse, a tribute of human atomic bomb mutations are out to make life miserable for the peaceful ape tribe. The story is told primarily in flashback with the opening and closing taking place in the year 2670.
This film is likely the inspiration for the two films in the reboot franchise, ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' and ''Film/WarForThePlanetOfTheApes''.
This sequel follows the ape leader Caesar years after a global nuclear war has destroyed civilization. Living with his mate Lisa and their son Cornelius, Caesar creates a new society while trying to cultivate peace between the apes and remaining humans. Caesar is opposed by gorilla Aldo, who wants to imprison the humans that freely roam Ape City while doing menial labor. To make matters worse, a tribute of human atomic bomb mutations are out to make life miserable for the peaceful ape tribe. The story is told primarily in flashback with the opening and closing taking place in the year 2670.
This film is likely the inspiration for the two films in the reboot franchise, ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'' and ''Film/WarForThePlanetOfTheApes''.
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* AscendedExtra: Kolp, who was one of Governor Breck's functionaries in the previous film, is promoted to being the BigBad of this film.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Everything involving Mendez.
* GeneralRipper: Kolp and Aldo.
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Mendez sets up what will eventually happen in ''Film/BeneathThePlanetOfTheApes'' with regard to the mutants and doomsday weapon.
* GeneralRipper: Kolp andAldo.Aldo, the former of whom orders a nuclear strike on Ape City if all else fails, and the latter of whom slaughters the retreating attackers and tries to stage a rebellion against Caesar's rule.
* GeneralRipper: Kolp and
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* SourSupporter: Mendez is this to Kolp.
Kolp, and eventually manages to turn his supporters against him in his absence. Not that Kolp lives to see the results...
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Governor Breck and the previous film's [=MacDonald=] aren't seen, with the former not being mentioned at all and the latter only getting very briefly referenced and replaced by his brother, presumably meaning they didn't survive TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Governor Breck and the previous film's [=MacDonald=] aren't seen, with the former not being mentioned at all and the latter only getting very briefly referenced and replaced by his brother, presumably meaning they didn't survive TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
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* LeaveNoSurvivors: What happens to a small group of mutants that escaped Ape City after being ambushed by Aldo and his soldiers.
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* DeweyDefeatsTruman: The movie was released in 1973, the same year Earth was supposed to be visited by two talking apes from the future according to [[Film/EscapeFromThePlanetOfTheApes the third movie]].
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* {{Novelization}}: Like the films before it, the film got a novelization via Marvel Comic.
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* AsYouKnow: The film has a lot of {{Info Dump}}s delivered in this manner, in particular when Caesar discusses the death of his parents early in the film.
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* BittersweetEnding: The apes and the non-mutant humans seem to be reconciled, but Caesar [[spoiler:was forced to kill Aldo, violating the most important of his society's laws, because Aldo murdered Caesar's son]].
** The scene of the Lawgiver teaching to both ape and human children suggest that history has changed. [[spoiler:But Caesar's statue starts crying, implying that the future of Earth is still doomed.]]
*** [[spoiler:Though the tears could mean Caesar's tears of joy because not only apes and humans will live peacefully, but the world might be saved.]]
**** Ape and human children are seen learning together, but at the back a human and an ape child are fighting. The writers threw this in as a deliberate bit of ambiguity about future ape-human relations.
** The scene of the Lawgiver teaching to both ape and human children suggest that history has changed. [[spoiler:But Caesar's statue starts crying, implying that the future of Earth is still doomed.]]
*** [[spoiler:Though the tears could mean Caesar's tears of joy because not only apes and humans will live peacefully, but the world might be saved.]]
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**son]]. The scene of the Lawgiver teaching to both ape and human children suggest that history has changed. [[spoiler:But Caesar's statue starts crying, implying that the future of Earth is still doomed.]]
*** [[spoiler:Though the tears could mean Caesar's tears of joy because not only apes and humans will live peacefully, but the world might be saved.]]
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*** [[spoiler:Though the tears could mean Caesar's tears of joy because not only apes and humans will live peacefully, but the world might be saved.]]
**** Ape and human children are seen learning together, but at the back a human and an ape child are fighting. The writers threw this in as a deliberate bit of ambiguity about future
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!!This movie contains examples of:
* AfterTheEnd: The apes are in charge because humanity somehow managed to nuke themselves after the events of ''Conquest''.
* ApeShallNeverKillApe: TropeNamer. [[spoiler:Cruelly subverted in the film by Aldo]].
* BigBad: Aldo
* BittersweetEnding: The apes and the non-mutant humans seem to be reconciled, but Caesar [[spoiler:was forced to kill Aldo, violating the most important of his society's laws, because Aldo murdered Caesar's son]].
** The scene of the Lawgiver teaching to both ape and human children suggest that history has changed. [[spoiler:But Caesar's statue starts crying, implying that the future of Earth is still doomed.]]
*** [[spoiler:Though the tears could mean Caesar's tears of joy because not only apes and humans will live peacefully, but the world might be saved.]]
**** Ape and human children are seen learning together, but at the back a human and an ape child are fighting. The writers threw this in as a deliberate bit of ambiguity about future ape-human relations.
* {{Bookends}}: Begins and ends with the Lawgiver telling the story to ape and human children.
* TheCameo: John Huston as The Lawgiver.
* DirectorsCut: The extended version included in the Legacy Collection improves the film considerably.
* FantasticRacism: Humans are treated as second class citizens ''at best'' by the apes for most of the film.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Everything involving Mendez.
* GeneralRipper: Kolp and Aldo.
* MeaningfulName: Mandemus, possibly. His names sounds like the legal term ''mandamus'', which involves a writ commanding somebody to perform a certain action. Possibly appropriate, since his job in the film is acting as Caesar's conscience and guarding the Ape City armory.
* NukeEm: Kolp's contingency plan.
* NWordPrivileges: An ape can say "no" to another ape, but a human may never say "no" to an ape.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Virgil.
* PapaWolf: Caesar. [[spoiler:Too late for anything but revenge, however]].
* SourSupporter: Mendez is this to Kolp.
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!!This movie contains examples of:
* AfterTheEnd: The apes are in charge because humanity somehow managed to nuke themselves after the events of ''Conquest''.
* ApeShallNeverKillApe: TropeNamer. [[spoiler:Cruelly subverted in the film by Aldo]].
* BigBad: Aldo
* BittersweetEnding: The apes and the non-mutant humans seem to be reconciled, but Caesar [[spoiler:was forced to kill Aldo, violating the most important of his society's laws, because Aldo murdered Caesar's son]].
** The scene of the Lawgiver teaching to both ape and human children suggest that history has changed. [[spoiler:But Caesar's statue starts crying, implying that the future of Earth is still doomed.]]
*** [[spoiler:Though the tears could mean Caesar's tears of joy because not only apes and humans will live peacefully, but the world might be saved.]]
**** Ape and human children are seen learning together, but at the back a human and an ape child are fighting. The writers threw this in as a deliberate bit of ambiguity about future ape-human relations.
* {{Bookends}}: Begins and ends with the Lawgiver telling the story to ape and human children.
* TheCameo: John Huston as The Lawgiver.
* DirectorsCut: The extended version included in the Legacy Collection improves the film considerably.
* FantasticRacism: Humans are treated as second class citizens ''at best'' by the apes for most of the film.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Everything involving Mendez.
* GeneralRipper: Kolp and Aldo.
* MeaningfulName: Mandemus, possibly. His names sounds like the legal term ''mandamus'', which involves a writ commanding somebody to perform a certain action. Possibly appropriate, since his job in the film is acting as Caesar's conscience and guarding the Ape City armory.
* NukeEm: Kolp's contingency plan.
* NWordPrivileges: An ape can say "no" to another ape, but a human may never say "no" to an ape.
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist: Virgil.
* PapaWolf: Caesar. [[spoiler:Too late for anything but revenge, however]].
* SourSupporter: Mendez is this to Kolp.
