Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) Timeline Explained – Every Event in Order

Noa desperately searched for a replacement egg after a human scavenger accidentally broke his original one. While tracking down the raiders to steal an egg, he was spotted and followed back to his village, inadvertently revealing his clan's location to the dangerous group.

Foreshadowing: Earlier, the scavenger's chaotic encounter with Noa during the egg collection sets this chain of events in motion.

• raiders
• village attack
• egg quest
• Noa

Sylva is a ruthless raider leader who attacks ape clans to capture slaves and supplies. When Noa tried to defend his clan, Sylva threw Noa aside and murdered Koro as part of his violent campaign to establish dominance and expand his forces.

Foreshadowing: Sylva's introduction shows him as a menacing figure armed with electric weapons, indicating his violent nature.

• Sylva
• Koro
• death
• village raid

Proximus Caesar is a power-hungry ape who has enslaved multiple clans. He believes he is continuing Caesar's legacy by becoming king, but misinterprets Caesar's teachings. He thinks the vault contains powerful human technology that will make him unstoppable, using enslaved apes to dig it out.

Foreshadowing: Raka's teachings about Caesar's true philosophy contrast with Proximus's distorted interpretation.

• Proximus Caesar
• vault
• Caesar teachings
• slavery

Nova, also called Mae, is not truly feral like most surviving humans. She possesses the ability to speak and has been living among the ruins. Her origins are mysterious, but she represents a remnant of humanity that has retained knowledge, unlike the majority who have devolved into a primitive state.

Foreshadowing: The discovery that Nova can speak early in their journey marks her as unusual.

• Nova
• speaking human
• feral humans

Mae killed Trevathan when he caught her, Noa, and the others planting explosives around the settlement. She did it to protect their escape mission and prevent Trevathan from alerting the raiders, showing her willingness to make brutal choices for survival.

Foreshadowing: Mae's pragmatic and secretive nature is established earlier when she hides her true plans from Noa.

• Mae
• Trevathan
• killing
• vault

Mae believed the vault contained a book that could restore speech to humanity. Instead, they found a satellite communication key, technology from the old world. The vault also held children's picture books showing humans once kept apes in cages, revealing the disturbing history of human domination over apes.

Foreshadowing: Mae's knowledge about the vault's existence suggests she has some understanding of human technology.

• satellite key
• book
• vault
• communication

Mae destroyed the bunker and the weapons inside because she believes powerful human technology should remain exclusive to humans. She acted on her own to ensure apes could not access weapons that humans had hoarded, even though this meant betraying Noa's trust and trapping apes in the vault.

Foreshadowing: Mae's secretive behavior and warnings about having 'ulterior motives' foreshadow her true intentions.

• Mae
• bunker
• destruction
• weapons

The children's picture books depicted a world where humans, not apes, were the dominant species, keeping apes confined to cages and zoos. This shocking discovery made the apes realize their history had been rewritten, and that Caesar's revolution was actually a reversal of the original power dynamic.

Foreshadowing: Raka's teachings about Caesar and the apes' origins gain new meaning with this revelation.

• picture books
• history
• cages
• Caesar

Raka, following Caesar's teachings of peace and compassion, believed in the possibility of coexistence between apes and humans. When Nova was drowning during the bridge ambush, Raka risked his life to save her, demonstrating the charitable philosophy that contrasts with Proximus's violent rule.

Foreshadowing: Raka's character is introduced as a wise teacher who follows Caesar's original peaceful principles.

• Raka
• Nova
• compassion
• Caesar teachings

The ending is bittersweet and ambiguous. While Noa achieves freedom for his clan, Mae's decision to keep advanced technology exclusive to humans and her destruction of the bunker show she believes coexistence requires unequal power. Noa questions whether peace is truly possible, leaving the future uncertain.

Foreshadowing: The tension between Raka's peaceful teachings and the reality of conflict throughout the film builds to this thematic question.

• ending
• coexistence
• peace
• Noa
• Mae