diff --git a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/builditem/nativeimage/ReflectiveHierarchyBuildItem.java b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/builditem/nativeimage/ReflectiveHierarchyBuildItem.java
index c75ec59494ed8..e57ab2bad2c0e 100644
--- a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/builditem/nativeimage/ReflectiveHierarchyBuildItem.java
+++ b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/builditem/nativeimage/ReflectiveHierarchyBuildItem.java
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ public static class DefaultIgnoreTypePredicate implements Predicate<DotName> {
 
         private static final List<String> DEFAULT_IGNORED_PACKAGES = Arrays.asList("java.", "io.reactivex.",
                 "org.reactivestreams.", "org.slf4j.", "jakarta.json.", "jakarta.json.",
-                "com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.", "io.vertx.core.json.");
+                "com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.", "io.vertx.core.json.", "kotlin.");
         // if this gets more complicated we will need to move to some tree like structure
         static final Set<String> ALLOWED_FROM_IGNORED_PACKAGES = new HashSet<>(
                 Arrays.asList("java.math.BigDecimal", "java.math.BigInteger"));