| “ | Hello, I'm Dr. Kafka and I'm here to study you, to help you! Very impressive, Electro. | „ |
| ~ Ashley Kafka to Electro. |
Dr. Ashley Kafka is a minor yet pivotal antagonist of the 2014 superhero film The Amazing Spider-Man 2, the second and last installment of Marc Webb's short-lived Amazing Spider-Man franchise.
He was the founder and head of Ravencroft Institute for the Criminally Insane who experimented on Electro and most likely on other prisoners. Kafka was also in alliance with Donald Menken.
He was portrayed by Marton Csokas.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- Implied to have tortured many of his patients at the Ravencroft Institute for the Criminally Insane under the guise of "healing" them, using his profession as a façade to study them. It's even possible that with his methods, he may have killed or permanently traumatized some of them.
- According to The Daily Bugle Tumblr account, he insisted that the judge who was in charge of Curt Connors/The Lizard's trial send Connors to Ravencroft instead of Ryker's because his facility was better served to study a patient like him, when in reality, he was likely interested in torturing and studying Connors and the later effects of his Lizard Serum.
- Made Electro's stay at Ravencroft anything but pleasant by:
- Placing Electro in an electrical harness that put him underwater all the time unless he visited him for a "session".
- Torturing Electro once the latter realized that Kafka didn't really intend to heal him, but study him, leading Kafka to painfully discharge him three times, even provoking Electro into displaying his full power until he cracked Kafka's glasses.
- Trying to make Electro's imprisonment more miserable by requesting his guards incubate Electro with 400 milligrams of sodium thiopental and phenobarbital.
- Tried to flee from Electro and Harry Osborn after the latter freed the former, leaving his incapacitated guards behind despite their loyalty to him, proving that he doesn't care for anyone but himself.
- His torture made Electro much more villainous than he was before, pushing him to his breaking point, from which he didn't recover until Spider-Man was able to cure him on Earth-199999 (MCU).
- Despite just being a normal human without powers or mutations, Kafka does meet the Heinous Standards given how the franchise only had two films and most of its villains were sympathetic, had ambiguous goals or redeeming qualities, yet Kafka doesn't have any excuse for his actions except plain sadism.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- His torture to other patients, in addition to Electro, is merely implied by him just saying that he "always gets his results" and counts as offscreen villainy.
Trivia[]
- His video game version from The Amazing Spider-Man 2 doesn't count as Near Pure Evil, as that version just appears in two scenes and doesn't do anything too heinous to qualify, as him speaking to Cletus Kasady in a sadistic tone is downplayed by Kasady's heinousness as a serial killer.
- To drive the point home of Ashley Kafka being Near Pure Evil, therapeutic hypnotist Frayda Kafka, who inspired the original character, expressed her hatred towards the film version of Kafka for being so evil and sadistic, particularly disliking how he tortured Electro.
- Ashley Kafka is the only villain of Marc Webb's Amazing Spider-Man duology to be Near Pure Evil.
External Links[]
- Ashley Kafka on the Villains Wiki
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