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* ''Film/{{Congo}}''. Peter and Richard are being grilled by local military thugs. Being primatologists rather than adventurers, they're not taking it well. Richard mutters "This is pure Kafka..." causing his the interrogator to get right in his face and shout, "WHO'S KAFKA?! TELL ME!"
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* In the series finale of ''Series/TheWire'', Walon gives Bubbles a quote from Kafka's ''Zurau Aphorisms'' ("You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid"), in order to convince Bubbles to let a profile about him be published in the ''Baltimore Sun''.
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* ''Webcomic/HarkAVagrant'': In [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=242 one of her "Books by their Edward Gorey Cover" strips]] Creator/KateBeaton included an edition of ''Amerika''. It takes its humor from the spelling of the title.
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* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'''s main villain is a MonsterClown named Kefka Palazzo, a corruption of Kafka, and his ascent to godhood is accompanied by a theme called "Metamorphosis." He's also a StrawNihilist who views all life as meaningless ("Why create when it will only be destroyed?") and derives his joy and purpose in life from destroying everything like a god game player setting off disasters. This attitude may have been inspired by Kafka's own BlackComedy.
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* In Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei, the main female character is named Kafuka Fuura, whose comedy stock plays with Kafka's usual cynical works; Kafuka has a very depressing family life, the usual staple of Kafka's stories, but Kafuka herself is absurdly optimistic. However, Kafuka's DarkAndTroubledPast makes her usual brand of optimism very twisted (she several times creates cults and wishes to be a god, for example). It turns out that "Kafuka Fuura" is a pen name; her real name is later revealed to be [[Literature/AnneOfGreenGables An Akagi]], [[spoiler:and her classmates gave her that pen name because ''Literature/TheMetamorphosis'' was her favorite book, clutched in her hand as she died from being hit by a car by her father. An donated her organs into several depressed teenagers, who would discover that she took over their bodies once in awhile in an attempt to search for closure and become her classmates to soothe her spirit. "One morning, when Kafuka Fuura woke up, she had become (classmate's name)," indeed]].
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* Israeli skit show ''The Jews Are Coming'', satirizing Jewish / Israeli history and lore, featured [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms8OlGw38A8 a skit]] in which the moribund Kafka asks Max Brod to burn all of his writings, but keeps asking him to spare more and more works, to the point he wants to keep the empty pizza box in his room. [[spoiler:Finally, Brod, who got so worked up about burning ''something'', randomly burns a piece of paper he finds... Which turns out to be [[DeathByIrony Kafka's medication prescription for his tuberculosis]]. [[CrossesTheLineTwice Kafka dies that day]].]]
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* Kafka was played by Creator/DanielDayLewis in Creator/AlanBennett's 1986 BBC TV drama ''The Insurance Man''.
* Israeli skit show ''The Jews Are Coming'', satirizing Jewish / Israeli history and lore, featured [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms8OlGw38A8 a skit]] in which the moribund Kafka asks Max Brod to burn all of his writings, but keeps asking him to spare more and more works, to the point he wants to keep the empty pizza box in his room. [[spoiler:Finally, Brod, who got so worked up about burning ''something'', randomly burns a piece of paper he finds... Which turns out to be [[DeathByIrony Kafka's medication prescription for his tuberculosis]]. [[CrossesTheLineTwice Kafka dies that day]].]]
* Kafka appears in a historical / flashback episode of ''Series/NorthernExposure'', played by the series' star Rob Morrow. Yes, the show set entirely in Alaska.
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* Quite a bit of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2'' takes cues from Kafka. The general plot of the game is about people trapped in an oppressive world where all the mean-spirited terrors are never explained while being watched over by an uncaring watcher. The main antagonist is a noted fan of Kafka and bases her plans off his works, each level is named after one of his works, and each level is proceeded by a quote from Kafka.
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* The works of Kafka are a major influence on ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' and its sequel, ''Tokyo Ghoul:Re''. Near the beginning of the series, Kaneki compares his transformation into a HalfHumanHybrid to ''Literature/TheMetamorphosis''. It is also mentioned that oft-mentioned novelist Sen Takatsuki titled her first work ''Dear Kafka'', hinting that she was influenced by his work. In the sequel, Kafka's short story ''A Crossbreed'' is discussed briefly and seems to be a metaphor for the relationship between HalfHumanHybrid Sasaki and his ParentalSubstitute, Arima.
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* Creator/RobertCrumb made an analytical comic book / book about Kafka's life.
* In ''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'', Johnny's cockroaches (although he believes them all to be one constantly regenerating cockroach) are named "Mr. Samsa," after the character from ''Literature/TheMetamorphosis''.
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* Kafka himself is the protagonist of Creator/StevenSoderbergh's 1991 film ''Kafka'', where he's played by Creator/JeremyIrons.
* In ''Film/TheProducers'', while looking for the worst play ever written, Max reads the first line from ''Literature/TheMetamorphosis'', and rejects it as being too good.
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* There's a ShoutOut to ''In the Penal Colony'' in ''[[Literature/BookOfTheNewSun The Shadow of the Torturer]]'' where the head torturer shows a prisoner an apparatus designed to carve slogans into someone's flesh and mentions that it isn't working properly. [[spoiler:In the original story, there is such an apparatus, which malfunctions and carves a slogan into the ''guard's'' flesh.]]
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* Kafka was played by Creator/DanielDayLewis in Creator/AlanBennett's 1986 BBC TV drama ''The Insurance Man''.
* Israeli skit show ''The Jews Are Coming'', satirizing Jewish / Israeli history and lore, featured [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms8OlGw38A8 a skit]] in which the moribund Kafka asks Max Brod to burn all of his writings, but keeps asking him to spare more and more works, to the point he wants to keep the empty pizza box in his room. [[spoiler:Finally, Brod, who got so worked up about burning ''something'', randomly burns a piece of paper he finds... Which turns out to be [[DeathByIrony Kafka's medication prescription for his tuberculosis]]. [[CrossesTheLineTwice Kafka dies that day]].]]
* Kafka appears in a historical / flashback episode of ''Series/NorthernExposure'', played by the series' star Rob Morrow. Yes, the show set entirely in Alaska.
* The young Indiana Jones meets Kafka in ''Series/YoungIndianaJones'', in an episode featuring a Kafka-esque struggle with bureaucracy.
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* The Scottish post-punk band Josef K were named after the main character of ''The Trial'', ''The Castle'', and ''A Dream''.
* Music/FrankZappa advises buyers of his album ''Music/WereOnlyInItForTheMoney'' to read Kafka's "In the Penal Colony" before listening to the last track.
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* ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' has samsas, semi-robotic insect bodies primarily used for combat. The default is cockroach-like.
* The Samsa from ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'', artificially-created giant shapeshifting cockroaches, are named for the main character of ''The Metamorphosis''.
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* Quite a bit of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilRevelations2'' takes cues from Kafka. The general plot of the game is about people trapped in an oppressive world where all the mean-spirited terrors are never explained while being watched over by an uncaring watcher. The main antagonist is a noted fan of Kafka and bases her plans off his works, each level is named after one of his works, and each level is proceeded by a quote from Kafka.
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* ''Website/TheOnion'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEyFH-a-XoQ ran a video]] about how Prague's Franz Kafka International airport is the most alienating, dehumanizing airport in the world.
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* The "Director's Cut" episode of ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'' features a plotline where teenage metalhead Duane attempts to persuade Brendon to film his RockOpera of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uaaF83eVig Kafka's ''Metamorphosis,'']] which Brendon is unwilling to do, preferring to direct a film called ''Louis, Louis'' depicting a fictional encounter between Louis Pasteur and Louis Braille.
-->"A, rock opera, based on Franz Kafka's ''Metamorphosis''... I don't think so."\\
[[PunctuatedForEmphasis "HE! IS! FRANZ! KAF! KA! FRANZ-KAF-KA!"]]
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