Kuato appears in the 1990 sci-fi film Total Recall, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Douglas Quaid, who travels to Mars and meets the mutant resistance. Kuato, voiced as the small mutant leader growing from George's torso, urges Quaid to open his mind to recover suppressed memories. The scene became one of the film's most quoted moments, and the short line spread through meme edits, remixes and soundboards as a shorthand for awakening, mind-reading and dramatic reveals in sci-fi contexts.