Ashley Kafka

Dr. Ashley Kafka is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is usually depicted in stories featuring the superhero Spider-Man. Introduced in The Spectacular Spider-Man #178 (July 1991), she was created by writer J. M. DeMatteis and artist Sal Buscema. The character was inspired by therapeutic hypnotist Frayda Kafka. In the comics, Kafka is a psychiatrist at the Ravencroft Institute for the Criminally Insane, and an occasional ally of Spider-Man. After being killed by Massacre, she was twice "reanimated" in a cloned body by Ben Reilly and Norman Osborn while keeping her soul intact. After dying in her first cloned body to the Carrion Virus, she went on to become the supervillain Queen Goblin in her second cloned body, being magically corrupted by Osborn's "sins" (the Green Goblin persona). The character has appeared in several forms of media outside of comics, including animated series and video games. A version of the character reimagined as a male German doctor appeared in the 2014 film The Amazing Spider-Man 2, portrayed by Marton Csokas.