Há um psiquiatra chamado Dr. Ashley Kafka no Instituto Ravencroft nos quadrinhos:
Acho que essa é a explicação mais simples para o nome do personagem do filme (embora eu não tenha lido nenhum Franz Kafka, então talvez tenhamos algumas referências que eu não vi).
E @Keen encontrou p>
So at one point along the way the legendary comic-book writer J.M. DeMatteis walks in your door. Yes...he said he wanted to go to a hypnotist, for creative purposes to help with his writing and research. But he wanted a hypnotist who was a Baba lover. Somebody gave him my card. He doesn’t remember who. But he carried my card for years. Then one day we met at a meeting and he recognized my name and pulled the card out of his pocket. So you are absolutely the inspiration of Spider-Man’s Dr. Kafka, right? He told you beforehand? Yes, he said he was thinking of doing it, and I was thrilled. You know, why not?