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* DracoInLeatherPants: Colonel [=McCullough=]. He's a KnightTemplar who wants to preserve humanity through extreme measures and has an understandable backstory for being a cold blooded killer but fans still tend to romanticize him as being a noble guy who deep down wants to preserve the human race. And even if we put aside how he murdered Caesar's wife and son, forces Caesar's apes into slave labor, and [[KickTheDog killed some of them in cold blood right in front of Caesar]], his treatment of his fellow ''human beings'' is very sketchy and questionable at best or murderous and psychotic at worst. From the way he kills any of his own men who exhibited signs of the disease to how he murdered Malcolm, a human who was trying to work towards peace between humans and apes, in supplementary materials to how he ''killed so many people and his own superiors'' that other human survivalists in the Northern Army (who were hardly ape-friendly people themselves) deemed him enough of an uncontrollable psychopath and extremist who needed to be brought down. Even if one was to totally ignore his treatment of the apes assuming [[RootingForTheEmpire one fully supported humanity over ape-kind]], the Colonel's actions in even a purely human conflict context can make him come across as less of a champion of the human race and more of a ruthless TotalitarianUtilitarian who will tolerate ''no'' dissent from anyone, ape or human, who might stand in his way.

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* DracoInLeatherPants: Colonel [=McCullough=]. He's a KnightTemplar who wants to preserve humanity through extreme measures and has an understandable backstory for being a cold blooded killer but fans still tend to romanticize him as being a noble guy who deep down wants to preserve the human race. And even if we put aside how he murdered Caesar's wife and son, forces Caesar's apes into slave labor, and [[KickTheDog killed some of them in cold blood right in front of Caesar]], his treatment of his fellow ''human beings'' is very sketchy and questionable at best or murderous and psychotic at worst. From the way he kills any of his own men who exhibited signs of the disease to how he murdered Malcolm, a human who was trying to work towards peace between humans and apes, in supplementary materials to how he ''killed killed so many people people, including all personnel of a primate research facility and his ''his own superiors'' superiors'', that other human survivalists in the Northern Army (who were hardly ape-friendly people themselves) deemed him enough of an uncontrollable psychopath and extremist who needed to be brought down. Even if one was to totally ignore his treatment of the apes assuming [[RootingForTheEmpire one fully supported humanity over ape-kind]], the Colonel's actions in even a purely human conflict context can make him come across as less of a champion of the human race and more of a ruthless TotalitarianUtilitarian who will tolerate ''no'' dissent from anyone, ape or human, who might stand in his way.



** Bad Ape! Heavily implied to be abused once he gained intelligence, he's been isolated so long that he has no idea that other apes can speak, and the poor dude has to wear human clothing since he's practically bald.

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** Bad Ape! Heavily implied to be Having been abused once by human survivors ever since he gained intelligence, he's been isolated afterwards so long that he has no idea that other apes can speak, and the poor dude has to wear human clothing since he's practically bald.

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