Dreyfus

"We've been through hell together! We spent four years, FOUR YEARS fighting that virus, and another four fighting each other! It was chaos!... But do you all know what we're up against?! And I want you to know, it's not just about power! It's about giving us the hope to rebuild, to reclaim the world we lost!"

- Dreyfus during the trailer. "I'm saving the human race!"

- Dreyfus' last words before he explodes himself with a C4

Dreyfus is the secondary antagonist of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. He is the leader of the Human Resistance.

Biography
Dreyfus is a former police chief who is appointed as the leader of the human resistance. Having experienced personal loss, Dreyfus sees Caesar and his colony as a threat after discovering an ape encampment at a local power station. Seeing no other solution, Dreyfus has one goal: wipe them out. He is Malcolm's boss, who he works closely with, they have very different views on how the apes should be handled. He dies by taking a chance to murder the apes above (whilst Dreyfus was in an underground/abandoned train station) by blowing up a tower with C4 explosives, he willfully takes his own life in the process and dies in the explosion, saying that he is "saving the human race", which he failed, sort of (As he did not kill the apes, but most of the humans were alive, at least the ones in the film).

Trivia

 * Gary Oldman said in an interview: Oldman plays "the designated leader" of a community of humans "who were lucky enough to survive the flu, the disease and ensuing social uprising," following the apocalyptic credits sequence of "Rise of the Planet of the Apes." Oldman's character was a police officer before the fall of civilization, and has subsequently been elected to lead over his group of survivors. The human community, desperate to find power, ventures off to a nearby power station, to see if it's still operational. There, the humans "discover that there's a whole community of apes living there. We believed that they were all completely fire-bottomed and wiped out." They're not wiped out yet, but that might change when Oldman finds out about the apes. "There's only one answer for him: Wipe them out," he teased.
 * Dreyfus will have experienced a tragic loss. He will have lost his wife and two sons which drives him to his belief that Caesar and his colony need to be wiped out.
 * It is speculated that he may play a role similar to Governor Kolp, an antagonist in Battle for the Planet of the Apes. Both being the leader of the survivors and bent on the destruction of the apes.