Jiggawatt owes much to a character from the Wes Craven film Shocker, about a convicted serial killer named Horace Pinker who dies in the electric chair and returns as a vengeful ghost. However, in the film it's mentioned Pinker dabbled in black magic before his death, which allowed him to cross over; Jiggs is never mentioned to have occult ties, and his return from death is passed over as a fluke. An episode of
The X-Files used a similar storyline for one episode; interestingly,
Mitch Peleggi, the star of
Shocker, was a recurring guest star as FBI Asst. Director Walter Skinner. He also bears some resemblance to Electro, from the Spider-Man comics--both of which being men who, by some million-to-one-mishap, have bodies made of living electricity and must wear some sort of special containment suit. Jiggawatt, when in his robotic form, also looks similar to both Superman foe
Metallo and a Terminator droid. Both have humanlike metal bodies and facial damage incurred in roughly the same place--the left side of the mouth.
