Subtitle Beneath The Planet Of The Apes -

The film ends with a stark narration stating that the planet Earth is now dead.

The story culminates in a three-way conflict between the invading ape army, the psychic mutants, and the astronauts. subtitle Beneath the Planet of the Apes

: Deep underground, they find a society of telepathic human mutants who survived the nuclear holocaust generations earlier. These mutants are horribly scarred and hide their disfigured faces under lifelike masks. They worship a massive, cobalt-cased nuclear weapon they call the "Divine Bomb". The Climax The film ends with a stark narration stating

: As he dies, a despairing Taylor curses humanity and the apes for their mutual destructiveness. With his final strength, he reaches out and detonates the "Alpha-Omega" doomsday bomb. These mutants are horribly scarred and hide their

In the 1970 sequel , the story picks up immediately after the original film's shocking discovery that the "alien" world is actually a post-apocalyptic Earth. The narrative follows two converging paths:

: In Ape City, the gorilla General Ursus calls for a holy war to invade the Forbidden Zone and seize it as a food source, despite the warnings of the orangutan Dr. Zaius.