@thor every property of an inductor has a dual property in a capactor.

Inductors do not allow current to change abruptly, therefore if you have a current running through them and turn it off, the current will continue to flow at its old rate, but now it needs to cross a high-resistance airgap, so the voltage spikes to thousands or millions of volts to keep the current where it was, at least momentarily.

Capacitors have a dual of this, for capacitors it wont let voltage change abruptly. So if a capacitor is charged and you short it out then it wants to keep the voltage the same, the only way it can do this is to provide a massive current flow (because the short has a small non-zero resistance)...

So yea you get the equivelant in both, in one case it will create huge voltages to maintain its state, the other will create huge currents to maintain its state.