As well as Obi-Wan and the Jedi's with their mind tricks, there's also a rights-busting reference to another comic book character with the power to make any character do what he says. When Kilgrave jokingly mentions that he "once told a man to go screw himself he's replaying a gag made famous in Vertigo's Preacher comics, when Jesse Custer uses his Word Of God power to make a man go f*ck himself with hilariously awful results.
