


Good Parents: Despite the circumstances, Will is a genuinely loving and devoted father to Caesar, who never stops loving him in return.For Science!: Partly his reason for developing the drugs, although his primary motivation is his father.Will's surname could also be seen as a partial anagram to Armando's name. Both characters raised their own Caesar incarnation from birth, keeping them on leashes while in public, and died before getting a chance to see their Caesars starting their respective ape communities. Expy: Of Armando of Conquest of the Planet of the Apes.Deuteragonist: Despite being the Decoy Protagonist, he is still the secondary focus of the story after Caesar.Decoy Protagonist: His name comes first in the credits, but Caesar is the real protagonist.The Caretaker: For his father, who has Alzheimer's.Bus Crash: According to Word Of God, Will and Caroline die (likely from the Simian Flu) in the interlude between Rise and Dawn.Like Robert Franklin, Will was one of the rare employees at Gen-Sys Laboratories who actually did care for animal test subjects, such as Bright Eyes, and did not simply see them as experiments. He was the scientist who was responsible for the creation of ALZ-112, the so-called cure for Alzheimer's Disease. Through his connection to Caesar, Will unknowingly became the adoptive human grandfather of Caesar's two young sons, Blue Eyes and his infant brother.

The son of Charles Rodman, the adoptive human father of Caesar, and the boyfriend of Caroline Aranha. This isn't the way, you know what they're capable of.
