A confusing plot hole from Planet of the Apes
A confusing plot hole from Planet of the Apes


So… in the novel… it IS actually a different planet and obviously the Statue of Liberty is not there.
You likely already know this but the statue in the movie is a convenient symbol for change over time which is relevant to the book. No spoilers.
Anyway… read the novel! It’s great.
14 0 ReplyI haven't read the book, but that makes this even funnier to me. Lol
Will add that to my list.
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It's actually still earth and the protagonist time travelled.
They travelled to the past when only the upper half of the statue was built.
51 2 ReplyMonke
4 0 ReplyA wizard did it.
9 0 ReplyNo! They did it! They blew it up!
And then the apes blew up their society too. How could this happen?
And then the birds took over and ruined their society.
And then the cows. And then...I don't know, is that a slug, maybe?
Noooo!
36 0 ReplyIf you reach the bird people you're too far ahead.
2 0 ReplyWeird how the copper of the slug statue looks older than the other ones. I hope someone got fired for that blunder
2 2 ReplyIt's, like, even more futuristic copper so it colors differently.
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Did you even watch the movie? They explain it right away!
Someone "blew it up" and the resulting explosion launched it into space.
157 2 ReplyI've only watched the musical from the Simpsons.
82 0 ReplyI hate every ape I see, from chimpan-A to chimpanzee.
6 1 ReplyDoctor Zaius, Doctor Zaius...
42 0 Reply🎶 I was wrong. It was Earth all along. 🎶
18 0 ReplyDint family guy also did a musical
1 0 ReplyIt was based on a movie...?
3 0 ReplyI’ve only seen this picture. Still went “shit, yeah…”.
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thats dumb as fuck lol
1 0 ReplyI always thought that was silly. How did it stay so intact?
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It was a terrorist cell "Maniacs" who blew it up.
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Actually it was the French aliens that transported them on their spaceship
12 0 Reply"Hnng hnngyeeess, the Eeevil Council are French! Nyah hah! Nnggyah! Power me up, babyy! Nggyah hah!"
--Betty
4 0 Replygouald ha'tak vessels.
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🎵Oh my God, you're so wrong.
It was Earth, all along.🎵
30 0 ReplyI love you, doctor Zauis!
9 0 ReplyIts not the end of the journey but the simians you meet along the way.
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No, this is a misunderstanding. This is just an unusual rock formation. It has nothing to do with the actual statue, that still stands on Earth.
77 0 ReplyOh, kinda like Mt Rushmore. Nature truly is remarkable.
26 0 Reply*Count Rushmore
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GOD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!
I like how the only thing left of fucking New York City is made of iron and thin sheets of copper.
25 0 ReplyFor reasons not directly related to the movie, I just so happen to have this on hand.
12 0 ReplyIt could be that they’re not in the former area of NYC, but the statue made its way to where they are. She’s hollow, yeah? Could she float? Could she have been taken back by the French at some point and then sent to some island like Tahiti?
Or is this movie a distant sequel to Ghostbusters 2?
2 0 ReplyI think you're trying too hard to defend a shitty movie. :)
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Whatever, but I know the commander because he's my pal. Don't think you know something about the commander. Here's a picture.
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Wait, that’s not Mega Maid?
68 0 ReplySuck! Suck! Suck!
28 0 ReplyShe's gone from suck to blow
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Oh shit, there goes the planet.
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Fr*nch sent them one, duh
54 0 Reply🤮
jk i love the fren*h
William of Normandy was my granpappy
6 1 ReplyYou and everyone else's
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That’s the ocean after global warming. They're really in Las Vegas.
37 0 Reply2001’ sea level rise, climate change is worse than I thought.
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It was a different statue that looked the same. Just a coincidence. It's not that deep.
45 0 ReplyBuy why is it human? I'm just happy they fixed this oversight in the (vastly superior) 2001 remake with the Lincoln Memorial.
15 0 ReplyJust a coincidence, it was actually shaped by erosion
10 0 ReplyIt's not human, that's just pareidolia.
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I want to think this whole thread is just whimsical, but I have to know for sure - y'all get that it's future Earth, right?
6 1 ReplyInteresting theory.
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Ah, Gene Roddenberry must've written the movie then.
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They sold it, to pay for the debts after the stock market crash of 2025.
33 0 ReplyI mean copper is an expensive metal these days. Probably make mint selling Lady Liberty for scrap.
7 0 ReplyUnfortunately she’s hollow, like a shitty chocolate easter bunny.
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Everyone forgets that the planet of apes is actually las vegas, if the camera where to go a little more to the left we would see a eiffel tower as well
30 0 ReplyYeah, I think it's one of those artsy things they sometimes do to just confuse the viewer. In the book the eiffel tower is mentioned which makes everything more obvious.
2 0 ReplyThese themed hotels are getting out of hand
11 0 ReplyTrump had a bunch in Atlantic City themed as casinos!
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I thought planet of apes was in hollywood?
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It turns out, that on their planet, the apes have made an exact replica of the statue of liberty
10 0 ReplyThis is either satirical or the biggest WHOOSH I've seen so far this year.
13 2 ReplyCheck the community.
1 0 ReplyYeah it's memes. That doesn't clarify whether people are really thinking the status of liberty was a "confusing plot hole" or making fun of that.
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The bigger plot hole is that this is not consistent with any global warming or giant earthquake. Rising sea levels would not have a beach and rocky formation right next to statue of liberty. And a crazy violent earthquake that would move land and rock well above the statue of liberty and right next to it, would have knocked the statue over.
8 0 ReplySee the other comment about Las Vegas
3 0 ReplyNo no no. They explain that in one of the prequels. It wasn't global warming or an earthquake. It was caused by a virus. You can't knock a statue over with a virus.
1 0 ReplyHow does a virus extend coastline 500 feet, and raising it 200 feet?
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More confusing is how it ended up next to cliffs on a shore line when it lives in a marshland enviroment
14 0 ReplyShe may have just walked there, as seen in the documentary Ghostbusters 2.
7 0 ReplyClearly, the statue was carried by ocean currents south from New York, through the Panama canal, then back north where it washed ashore at the tip of the Baja peninsula in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
4 0 ReplyAre you suggesting statues of liberty migrate?
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Sold to aliens for scrap by a bankrupt country (for 10 hamburgers, which is approximately 10 hamburgers in todays hamburgers).
13 0 ReplyAre we talking real beef?
2 0 ReplyVegan™, made from Soylent green.
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What they don't explain is how everything else is gone, and even the entire coastline is different, but somehow the upper half of that particular copper statue has somehow survived
10 0 Reply*ding*
10 1 ReplyI enjoyed watching that channel but the amount of *dings* over some misunderstanding about a thing that was explained a second before got to me
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Got there via worm hole, not plot hole.
4 0 ReplyNo tracking
7 0 ReplyI hate.. Every ape I see, from chimpan-a to chimpanzee, you'll never make a monkey out of meee.
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The lord works in mysterious ways.
5 0 ReplyIs that statue in the room with us?
5 0 ReplyDon’t blink.
7 0 ReplyOr... Do blink? Because the staring is a trick to let them into your soul?
Moffat giveth and Moffat taketh away
2 0 ReplyDon’t blink
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Is this a meme or is this merely a statement of fact about a movie along with a photo from that movie
3 3 ReplyAre you serious?
4 5 ReplyAre YOU serious?
9 0 ReplyAre WE serious?
5 0 ReplyA quick googling is too much to ask?
https://planetoftheapes.fandom.com/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty
In 3978, human refugee George Taylor fled from Ape City with his newly acquired mate, Nova. During the course of several days, Taylor believed that he had been living on a strange, alien world. Following the shoreline, he came upon the Statue's ruins and realized that he was on Earth. Worse, he deduced that the humans of his own era must have waged a global war, which paved the way for a dystopian future where humans became subservient to evolved apes.
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