Characters / Planet of the Apes (2011)

Character page for the Planet of the Apes (2011) series. See here for the character page for the franchise as a whole

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Humans

Sully

The de facto leader of "Skintown", referred to as "the mayor". Like her sister, Alaya, she was adopted and raised by the Lawgiver as a child after their parents were killed. As adults, the two now find themselves divided as leaders of their respective species in Mak.

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• Gender-Blender Name: Sully, or her full name "Sullivan", is usually a male name.
• Interspecies Adoption: The Lawgiver adopted her, and Ayala, after their parents where killed when they were children.
• The Leader: She's the "mayor" of "Skintown", the human enclave in the southern parts of Mak. And later becomes a Rebel Leader of a human La Résistance after the apes conquer Skintown and drive out the humans.
• Tomboyand Girly Girl: The tomboy to Alaya's girly girl. She has what's usually a male name, wears pants, and even shaves her hair to be more masculine in the second half of the series.

Bako

Sully's second-in-charge and a survivor of massacre of New Delphi. He lives in Skintown raising his daughter, Chaika.

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Brother Kale

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Chaika

The mute daughter of Bako.

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Julian

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Apes

Alaya

The leader of Mak following the assassination of the Lawgiver and sister of Sully.

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• Interspecies Adoption; Well a loose version of "adoption" in that she takes the newly-born Julian from Sully while the latter is her prisoner. Despite this, and her feelings towards humans, she treats the boy with genuine love as if he were her own biological son.
• Noble Bigot: She believes the only way humans and apes can co-exist is with humans as an underclass, thinking humans are otherwise incapable of living in peace.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The more proper "girly girl" to Sully's tomboy, almost always wearing Victorian-style outfits in comparison to Sully. She even jokes about it when she switches to wearing a pair of pants near the end of the series.

Nix

An Albino gorilla general with a fearsome reputation. At the start of the series, he's reinstated in command to quell the unrest in Mak after the Lawgiver's assassination.

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• The Dragon: He's this to Alaya.
• Gentle Gorilla: Is a side of him not often seen. He genuinely cared, and was worried, for Julian (a human) and seemed to act as a surrogate father figure to the boy.
  • In his younger days, he also risked his life running into a burning building to rescue Sully and Alaya.
• Killer Gorilla: He lead a punitive response to destroy the city of New Delphi after Delphia had massacred the ape/human city of Redcreek. He's called the "Butcher of the East" by many survivors as a result.
  • He's introduced being released from jail for having a committed a murder sometime in the past. He beat a human to death who had thrown rocks at Sully when she was a child.
• Noble Bigot: Believes humans and apes can live in peace but thinks humanity's pride will never allow themselves to consider apes their equal. As a result the only way he thinks there can be peace is with humans as a subservient underclass.

Hulss

Jommu

Narise

The Golden Khan

A shaved gorilla pirate-king who leads a vast army of humans and apes.

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• Beard of Evil: The only hair on him is a Fu Manchu style moustache.
• Evil Counterpart: Noted by Sully to be one to the Lawgiver himself. Like the Lawgiver, he loves humans and thinks they're equals to apes where he differs however is that he thinks all apes and humans should be his subjects.
• King Kong Copy: Invoked in-universe. The (likely fictional) backstory of his lineage told by his court was that the first Khan was a gorilla who loved a human woman and was attacked atop a building by airplanes for it.
• A Villain Named Khan: His name along with his general motif. His soldiers even fight in armor modeled after Mongol soldiers.