If you’re a fan of The Boys, you must know the type of quirky and odd characters that have been presented in the TV series and comic books. The series introduced a character named Love Sausage in Season 2, Episode 6, titled “The Bloody Doors Off.”
Love Sausage, as viewers discovered along with Mother’s Milk, Frenchie, Kimiko, and Lamplighter, has a very unusual ability from his Compound V injection: he possesses a phallus that will strangle his enemies to death. You might have heard of strange superpowers before, but I bet this one takes the cake for being the strangest one yet.
Love Sausage, born Vasilii Vorishikin, gets his moniker from the always NSFW comics by writer Garth Ennis and illustrator Darick Robertson. He’s a very popular character among fans. Love Sausage is a Russian communist ex-cop who possesses superhuman abilities. With his blatant name, his superpower becomes quite apparent to everyone who hears it.
A brief history of Love Sausage
In the comics, Love Sausage, whose real name is Vasilii “Vas” Vorishikin, is a Russian ex-cop, ex-tank commander, ex-superhero, communist, and current proprietor of a Moscow pub who enjoys sipping a beverage created from brake fluid that he passes off as Vodka. His moniker is derived from his foot-long, super-strong, and long-lasting phallus, yet he cannot run straight while aroused. The figure was inspired by Grandpa Maxim, a Russian folklore hero, and a famous guitar ballad about his demise.
This man wielded a massive phallus that he used to fight soldiers with. During the era of the Soviet Union, he was a member of the Glorious Five Year Plan, a team of five superheroes that included his teammates, The Tractor, Purge, Red Banner, and Collectivo, all of whom are now probably retired. He gets along well with the Boys, especially Hughie, and is the only likable supe other than Starlight.
Vas’ “vodka” protects him and Hughie from poisoned borscht while the rest of the team is rendered immobile by the meal while on a mission with the Boys. Vas is subsequently summoned to assist in the war against Stormfront and shows disdain for corporate-backed superheroes. Butcher eventually chases Vas down and gravely wounds him with a modified RPG. Soon later, it is announced that Vas has been discovered dead. Prior to his death, he was able to send a text message to Hughie that contained a code for an email address.
The account then emailed Hughie an out-of-office statement, indicating Vas’ concerns about his destiny as well as a link to data detailing his concerns about Butcher’s actual motives. Love Sausage was first seen in the October 2007 Issue The Boys #11 – “Glorious Five Year Plan, Part One” and last seen in The Boys #66 – “The Bloody Doors Off, Part One,” released in May 2012. Vas was on friendly terms with the Boys, connecting notably with Hughie, and is thus far the only pleasant superhero that the Boys are aware of. He pined for the Soviet Union’s ideas and beliefs, as well as his work in the Glorious Five-Year Plan.
In the Amazon Prime TV series, Love Sausage is a Russian guy who was imprisoned in Sage Grove Center. Like many of the patients at the clinic, he was a test subject in Vought’s quest to stabilize Compound V enough that it could be administered safely on adults without causing deadly adverse effects. Compound V empowered him to totally manipulate his extraordinarily giant phallus as if it were a tentacle. When Mother’s Milk, Frenchie, and Kimiko penetrate Sage Grove Center’s security surveillance room, he is first seen locked up in his cell. Mother’s Milk remarks on the man’s “love sausage.”
After a fellow inmate, Cindy, escapes, she liberates Love Sausage and several other patients, who begin to run wild around the facility. When a supposedly lengthy “tentacle” tries to strangle Mother’s Milk through the door, Kimiko jumps out and smacks Love Sausage in the face with her brass knuckles, knocking Love Sausage out and allowing Mother’s Milk to free himself. As the “tentacle” retracts back into the supe’s body, Frenchie and Mother’s Milk realize the “tentacle” was actually Love Sausage’s phallus. This character is played by Andrew Jackson.
The most Memorable scenes featuring him
Love Sausage has one very notable role in the TV series so far. When the gang had invaded the Sage Grove Center and learned that Compound V was being tested, they had assumed it was being used to manufacture Supe Terrorists, but Lamplighter informed them that it was actually being tested. The goal is to stabilize Compound V such that everybody who takes it becomes a flawless, clean Supe, rather than the subjects failing tests, exploding, or becoming ill.
We get flashes of many superheroes on closed circuit television, but one sticks out: a guy with extraordinarily, shall we say, filled out sweatpants. “God damn.” Mother’s Milk says, inadvertently naming the character, “Brother’s got a love sausage.” After the Sage Grove Center is wholly destroyed, the group is trapped in a room, which doesn’t help them much.
They hear something approaching and prepare themselves, Lamplighter has his lighter ready, but a skin-colored, snake-like, stretchy monstrous thing rushes through the window, wrapping itself around Marvin’s neck. He grabs it and screams at it to get it off of him. Frenchie grabs it with both hands and pulls violently. Lamplighter is poised to fire but pulls back since he does not want to murder everyone with fire. The thing eventually flees, and the men track it down to its source, right up a giant bearded man’s pants. It is then that they realize that what attacked them was actually the man’s phallus.
This scene clearly shows Love Sausage’s prominent appendage becoming long enough to wrap around Mother’s Milk’s neck and suffocate him anaconda-style. Star Laz Alonzo joked that co-star Karl Urban set him up for that horrific scene, while Tomer “Frenchie” Capon revealed one scene that didn’t make the final cut but would have made for a stingingly appropriate finale. Laz Alonzo, who plays Mother’s Milk, is constantly coming up with fresh ideas for his companion Frenchie.
When Capon and Karl Urban read Episode 6, they asked Laz whether he had also read Episode 6 and if he knew about the battle scene with the enormous phallus, and Laz mistook it for a joke. He assumed they were playing a joke on him. He simply read his lines, then went back and read them again before returning to the trailer, and he was choking from knowing what he was about to do, already in the makeup trailer before the moment he had to do it. At the time, Tomer was emotional on set, and Laz took advantage of it.
He explained to the director that if he was battling the phallus around his neck, he needed someone to assist him, and he suggested that Frenchie bite it off. And Capon was so moved by his scene that he swore he’d do anything for his friend and just did it. The issue was that he ripped it up, so they couldn’t use the film. In this way, Frenchie nearly spared Mother’s Milk from being strangled by biting off Love Sausage’s titular limb.
The concept alone is enough to give us a frightening set of goosebumps. At the very least, Shawn Ashmore’s Lamplighter didn’t set it on fire. Unfortunately for us, Tomer Capon’s teeth tore through the actual prosthesis being utilized as Love Sausage’s manhood due to Frenchie’s emotional condition. Frenchie’s ostensibly helpful moment wound up getting cut out of the episode since there was only one version of the phallic puppet.
What makes him so powerful?
Love Sausage has complete control of his extraordinarily giant phallus, which he uses to strangle his victims as if it were a tentacle. His phallus could even hold Mother’s Milk and break glass. Kimiko, another super strong supe, was the only one who could knock him unconscious. The phallus could even pierce glass without being cut. Love Sausage’s considerable talents, despite his super hero title, are superhuman strength, stamina, and durability, with his name derived from his enormous penis. In the Amazon series, the moniker refers to his phallus’ capacity to extend in length and be utilized as a tentacle.
How did the show vary from the comic books for this character?
As comic book readers will have observed, Amazon’s depiction of Love Sausage differs significantly from Vas in the comic books, yet the two versions are practically the same physically. M.M. is watching the Sage Grove jail video feeds and perusing the many super-powered convicts when he notices a chubby, long-haired man with a wild beard and a stomach roll protruding from the bottom of his shirt.
The shape of a colossal phallus is plainly evident through the prisoner’s pants. This, along with Mother’s Milk’s dialogue about the man’s “love sausage,” hints to viewers that this figure is Amazon’s version of Love Sausage, and the cell shot roughly resembles Vas in his superhero garb in the comic books. But that’s more or less where the similarities end.
The live-action Love Sausage is discovered imprisoned at a facility where Vought is experimenting with Compound V on fully mature individuals in order to establish a recipe for quickly transforming humans into superheroes. This implies that Love Sausage in The Boys season 2 is not an ex-superhero and is unlikely to know Billy Butcher. The episode does not provide Love Sausage with a new backstory, but it does render his comic past outdated.
The character is still Russian, and he may have been a cop or the owner of a questionable bar, but he has no links to Butcher or the superhero system. The second key difference with Love Sausage is, of course, his powers. While “The Bloody Doors Off” does not provide a comprehensive description of Love Sausage’s skills, it does offer a nasty, thorough, close-up examination of one of them.
A flailing tentacle can be seen lashing staff and spreading havoc during the scuffle of escaped test subjects at Sage Grove. At first glance, viewers might think this is some sort of animal-based superpower. But, after all, this is The Boys, and when the strange tentacle snatches Mother’s Milk, The appendage is clearly visible as Love Sausage’s phallus, gently retreating up its owner’s trouser leg after being violently taken from M.M.’s face. The phallus of Amazon’s very own version of Love Sausage is extensible and prehensile.
The change to Love Sausage’s history fits better into the setting of Amazon’s The Boys. Butcher was battling Vought-American in the comics, and the tale involved other rival groups from across the world engaging in the superhero industry, which is how Love Sausage ended up combating crime in Russia during the Soviet Union. However, in The Boys TV series, Vought is the only owner and controller of Compound V.
There has never been any mention of other international organizations developing their own superheroes, and Mr. Edgar has been clear about Vought’s wish to keep the Compound V formula safe from foreign governments. As a result, in Amazon’s The Boys, it makes more sense for Vas to be given abilities by Vought as an adult. The modification to Love Sausage’s powers works better in the context of The Boys as a whole.
While the inclusion of a tentacle phallus in The Boys season 2 was almost probably done for the crass, mature fun that is typical of The Boys, there is a more profound element to this X-rated take on this superhero. The entire Sage Grove facility situation demonstrates Vought’s depravity – forcefully modifying the bodies of mentally ill inmates and burning those who refuse to obey alive. Sage Grove is a gloomy depiction of superpowers.
Everyone fears prisoner Cindy, the young man who nearly kills Hughie, can’t control his powers, and another acid-puking convict is plainly having a bad time. Love Sausage continues the concept of this not being a Justice League collection of superheroes. Rather than bestowing superhuman power and endurance on the character, his genitals have been irreversibly changed into something horrible. The Boys’ season 2’s Love Sausage body horror emphasizes the heinousness of Vought’s research.
Conclusion
Love Sausage may return in the third season, according to Eric Kripke. While the supe doesn’t have to do much in his Season 2 Episode 6 debut other than grumble on a security camera in Russian and lie face down on the ground. He didn’t die, though; thus, the possibility of a comeback exists. However, a one-time cameo by one of the more bizarre characters wouldn’t seem out of the question for this Tses, though. It would be a great tangent if Love Sausage reappeared as an ally to The Boys, like in the comic. Maybe having another Supe on their side who would assist with the upcoming war with Homelander? Let’s hope so.