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• Adaptation Displacement: the original book by Pierre Boulle.
• Anvilicious: The television show. Each episode has a moral of the week, although Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped.
• Complete Monster: In the 2001 remake, General Thade.
• Contested Sequel: The remake. The original sequels too, to an extent.
• Crowning Moment of Awesome: "Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!"
• Crowning Music of Awesome: Jerry Goldsmith's great score, especially the track "The Hunt".
• Fanon Discontinuity: Many deny that the sequels and/or remake exist.
• Fridge Logic: Nothing explains how the horses came to the planet in the 2001 remake.
  • Or, for that matter, how the ape population grew as large as it did when there are relatively few apes on Leo's ship.
    • It's implied from the ship's log that the surviving scientists used genetic manipulation to make the apes what they became in the film. It's possible they increased the breeding process as well.
• Funny Aneurysm Moment: Roddy McDowall (Cornelius) was reluctant to take the part, because he was worried that no-one would recognize him under all that make-up. Instead, he became the only actor to appear in all the sequels and TV series, and (unfortunately) is all most people remember him for.
• Hell Is That Noise: In the TV series, hoofbeats, as that can only mean that gorilla soldiers are approaching.
• High Octane Nightmare Fuel: The scene where Landon is shown to have been lobotomized.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In spite of Heston's request...
• Moral Event Horizon: For the apes, Aldo killing Cornelius is seen as this. Only Caesar seems particularly upset after Aldo dies.
• Memetic Mutation: YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP!!!
• Narm: "You MANIACS! You BLEW IT UP!" (widely disputed)
  • Narm Charm / Mostly Narmless: Could be seen as this.
• Sequelitis: The previous three had redeeming features, but Battle For the Planet of the Apes...
• Straw Man Has a Point: Dr. Zaius's anti-scientific, technophobic and anti-human worldview doesn't seem so crazy when Taylor uses a human-built bomb to blow up the entire planet at the end.
  • It can be argued that Taylor blew up the entire planet because of Zaius' hypocritical viewpoint that humans are violent... just as an army of apes shoot Brent.
• Tear Jerker: Cornelius and Zira's deaths. The most likeable, human characters in the entire series.
• They Just Didn't Care: The TV series was determined to exemplify this trope. We see ape surgeons wearing surgical masks, which indicates that they understand modern germ theory...except that, in "The Cure," they suddenly don't. Again, we see an ape wearing spectacles, so they must have some basic knowledge about glass-making, optics and lens grinding. Well, until Galen has suddenly never seen glass or heard of a magnifier. They've got advanced metal-working skills, but have never heard of fish nets. The list goes on.
• Too Good to Last: Return to the Planet of the Apes. Fourteen episodes were made, and only thirteen were aired.
• Values Dissonance: In-universe example in the TV series. In "The Gladiators," Burke refuses to kill Tolar after he defeats him in the ring. Tolar is furious.