<Tr> <Th> Origin </Th> <Td> San Francisco, California, United States </Td> </Tr> <P> Caesar is a fictional character in the Planet of the Apes franchise . He is the leader and later ruler of the apes in both the original and the 2011 reboot series . He does not appear in the 2001 film . </P> <P> Born Milo, named after his parents' friend Dr. Milo, Caesar first appeared in Escape from the Planet of the Apes as the son of talking chimpanzees Cornelius and Zira after they travelled back in time the Earth of Taylor's era . As the infant was feared to be the cause of the future where his parents originated, Milo was raised by circus owner Armando after Zira switched him with a young chimpanzee recently born to Armando's primitive chimpanzee, Heloise, prior to his parents' death by the action of the human Dr. Otto Hasslein . As Hasslein killed the infant with Zira deposing of the body, Milo was assumed dead and was raised by Armando as a mute acrobat while renamed "Caesar". </P> <P> Two decades later, during the events of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, led by Armando on a chain to maintain the charade while being educated on the events that learn to the apes' state of slavery, Caesar is taken to a large city for the first time and learns and tries to take what he sees (groups of apes being dispersed, chimps and orangutans being scolded or punished for honest mistakes or for exhibiting apelike behavior) in stride . But upon seeing the barbaric treatments of his fellow apes, he impulsively cries out "Lousy human bastards!" Armando attempts to convince the police that he was the one who spoke, but Caesar panics and runs away in the commotion with Armando deciding to have him join an arrival shipment of apes while he attempts to bluff his way out of trouble . </P>

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