"Caesar is home."
- Caesar is Happily Adopted by Will, and this bond with a good hearted human will forge Caesar's mindset for the remainder of the films.
- Any interaction between Caesar and Will's father. Especially when the latter begins regressing into senility when Will's Alzheimer's cure begins to fail.
- Indeed, Caesar does seem to bring about some form of lucidity in Charles even when the cure fails.
- As Caesar, Will, Caroline, and Will's father exit the Muir Redwood National Forest, Caesar has a brief, but thankfully nonviolent, confrontation with a German Shepard that, like him, is on a leash. Afterward Caesar, emotionally wounded by the experience and having noticed the collar around the dog's neck similar to his own, starts to question his role as a member in Will's family, asking nonverbally if he was a pet or not. Will, sensing the doubt within Caesar, faces him, and tells him that he is not a pet, but his son.
- Caesar meeting and befriending Maurice.
- To affirm his authority over Rocket, Caesar hits him just once, then shows him and the other apes that he's got Buck free and on his side. He could have easily found many other means to do that, especially though violence (and leaving Rocket seriously injured), but he didn't. No wonder Rocket becomes so loyal to him afterwards.
- In general, the very fact that Caesar doesn't look for revenge or authority, he seeks freedom for himself and all the other apes. And that's before giving them the AZL 113, he sees them as equals and cares for them even without the heightened intelligence (that's why he chooses a gentle option with Rocket: making him submit is a necessity, not something that Caesar wants or enjoys). It's particularly noticeable in his talks with Maurice.
- Speaking of loyalty, Buck. Caesar freed him, and that's all it took, in the end giving his life with no hesitation to protect him.
- After Caesar exposes the other apes to the 113, you see the next morning all of them slowly rising, seeing the world in a new light thanks to their gifted intelligence.
- The way the apes adopt Caesar's window as an Arc Symbol. To him, spending most of his time in the attic, looking out the window was the closest he had to freedom. To the apes as a whole, the iconic window shape became a symbol of freedom.
- An overlooked moment, Caesar puts the unconscious Dodge in a locked cage before releasing the other apes. Despite his cruel and sadistic behaviour to the primates, Caesar did this rather than killing him or leaving him at the mercy of the other apes. He also does this to Rodney but in a gentler way as he stops the apes from beating him to death and gently moves him into the cage rather than rendering him unconscious, and Rodney clearly recognises this and is grateful for Caesar's mercy.
- Caesar's last meeting with Will in the movie in the redwood forest, where he tells Will, by speaking, that he is home. Bittersweet in that due to the Downer Ending, this would likely be their last meeting in their lifetimes.
