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| “ | There is/are X Impostor/Impostors among us. | „ |
| ~ The game determinant on how many impostors in the match, and its most iconic line. |
The Impostors are the main antagonists of the Among Us franchise. They are a species of parasitic shapeshifters disguised as the friendly Crewmates found like monstrous among their group, players who are selected to be Impostors have the task of killing all players that are not them or another Impostor, either through direct murder, a dangerous sabotage that is unable to be stopped, or through incriminating their fellow players.
Appearance[]
They look just like their enemies, the Crewmates; they are visually indistinguishable from them. Impostors are monstrous and evil versions of the Crewmate species. They have a mouth in their chest that can open to reveal a spiked tongue and sharp teeth. In The Among Us Animated Series Title Trailer, the one shown looks to be a silhouette, but unlike the game counterparts, the one shown looks like to be the parasite form of the Imposter, as it's shown with multiple tentacles as arms and legs, and their size and shape can be changed at will.
Biography[]
Within every match in Among Us, there can be anywhere from one to three Impostors, with each sharing the same goal of killing everyone who is not one of them. Due to this, instead of having the ability to complete tasks, they have a variety of other abilities they can use in an attempt to end the lives of their foes. Of course, their main ability is to kill anyone near them, by either shooting out their barbed tongue from their mouth (located in their midsection), snapping their neck, or simply using a knife or pistol.
Alongside this, they have the ability to either cause certain objects to malfunction (with effects ranging from a critical sabotage causing the Crewmates to die instantly if not fixed, obscure tasks by messing with communications, causing the lights to break down to allow the player to have an easier time killing or escaping under the cover of darkness, or shutting doors), hide in or move across vents for easy movement options, and having the usual ability to report bodies and use objects to reduce suspicion around them.
Once a body has been discovered or the emergency button is pressed, the usual meeting begins, with players meant to use the time to discuss on their knowledge or suspicions regarding their suspects and vote those they deem to be likely an Impostor out. As an Impostor, a common tactic is to pin blame on a Crewmate or falsify a testimony in order to have an innocent be voted out. If an Impostor themselves is voted out yet another Impostor/other Impostors remain, the ghost of the Impostor is still able to sabotage machines from beyond the grave, although they lose the ability to kill. Impostors can also report bodies, although these "self-reports" are very risky.
The Impostors win if the number of surviving Crewmates ever equals their numbers or if a critical sabotage such as a reactor or O2 failure is not fixed, and they lose if all of them are voted out or if the Crewmates complete all of their tasks before the stated Impostor win conditions.
Both Imposters and Crewmates can be in one of eighteen colors: red, blue, green, yellow, pink, orange, black, white, purple, brown, cyan, lime, maroon, rose, banana, grey, tan, and coral. The players' accessory colors can also be customized.
Variants[]
The Shapeshifter[]
As the Shapeshifter, an Impostor is able to change their appearance into an exact mimicry of any player in a game, allowing them to better incriminate other players. However, this strategy isn't foolproof, as shapeshifting resulting on bits of tentacles falling to the floor where they transform (serving as a visual warning to other players on their existence), other players can see the transformation as it is going on if they can see the player transforming, and the transformation itself is temporary by default. The color of the egg-like shell surrounding the shapeshifter during any transformation is also always the same as their default color.
Seeker[]
In the "Hide 'n' Seek" game mode, the Impostor will be known to every player, and they have to hunt down every player to win. They will also be given an ability called "Seek" that allows the Impostor to find the other players easier. Once the timer is down, the Final Hide will start. The seeker will now be much faster than they were before, and red dots will appear that reveal the other players.
The Seeker is also considered to be the most dangerous variant of Impostors as they only have a 1-second kill cooldown.
Phantom[]
The Phantom is a variant of the Impostor that can turn invisible to sneak around, or to get away from kills. They can also use it to spy on there victims to wait for the right time to attack and escape.
Other Media[]
Among Us![]
- Main article: Egg (Among Us)
Fall Guys[]
In Fall Guys, all Among Us cosmetics (Eggscellent, Young Sprout, and Bein' Cheesy) have a chance to shift towards its Impostor-inspired variants when playing as them, showcasing its large teeth in its mid-section and a cracked visor.
Fraymakers[]
The Impostor (and Crewmate) assist in Fraymakers.
An Impostor appears as one of the various usable assists in the crossover platform fighting game Fraymakers, with them being announced the day the game began its early access period. Masquerading as the harmless Crewmate assist when summoned (to which it occupies the same assist slot), both the Crewmate and Impostor version of the assist share an identical animation of them seeming to fix a broken electrical wire. However, while the Crewmate (who is called upon merely tapping the assist button once) actually finishes their repair and walks off, the Impostor (who is called upon by tapping the assist button twice) will interrupt its animation with a glare, skewering all fighters in its radius with its spear-like tongue. There is no obvious way to tell the two assists apart from each other, with the two sharing a random coloring system and matching sprites.
Vampire Survivors[]
An Impostor during a survival wave.
The 2022 roguelike shoot-em-up video game Vampire Survivors has a cross-over DLC titled Emergency Meeting. The expansion allows the player to select characters and levels based on Among Us. The characters, as well as any power-ups or upgrades the DLC offers, can also be used in the original game.
Memes[]
Due to its rapid popularity in 2020, the Impostors and the game have become one of the biggest memes during that period of the internet. People have uploaded their memes of Among Us all over the internet. The memes are mainly aiming at the misspelling of the games name as "Amogus", and the word "Sus", for being suspicious of a player being the impostor. There have been also memes of real-life objects looking-like the Impostors, like a trash-bin which resembles the Impostor. The music of the game has also been used in numerous memes and has been remixed multiple times.
Battle for Dream Island[]
- Main article: Imposters (Battle for Dream Island)
Trevor Henderson[]
- Main article: The Imposter (Trevor Henderson)
The Yellow Imposter has also been remade by the Canadian artist Trevor Henderson, in his horror universe. It is just as a regular imposter, except it has red bloodish cryptid creature coming out from its head or back.
Audio[]
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| File | Description |
| The sound-effect is played at the beginning of the game, when it's revealed to the player if the player is a crewmate or an impostor. | |
| The sound-effect is played, if a crewmate gets killed by the impostors. | |
| The Impostors' theme is played if the impostors win the game. |
Trivia[]
- The Impostors' role, nature and to an extent setting was inspired by The Thing. Major differences exist, however, as the Impostors simply kill the crew while The Thing assimilates its victims, not just killing them.
- The chance of any player being an Impostor is dependent on the numbers of players that are at the beginning of a round (with examples including a twenty percent chance if five players exist at the start of the game and a ten percent chance if the maximum of ten players exist in the start of a game), and the number of Impostors allowed in a game.
- Seeing as Crewmates will have their hats on as ghosts, and the Mini-Crewmate hat is implied to be a real person, it can be presumed that the Impostors will murder children.
- Impostors will never kill pets/animals, which can be seen as Impostors not bothering with small creatures or leaving them alive on purpose so they can witness the deaths of their owners.
- Impostors sometimes are not collaborative, and are heartless to each other, which in some gameplay, some Impostors were shown to only care for themselves, and voted their own allies out of the airship when they were been accused as an Impostor, even if the one who accused them as an Impostor just one, certain, and single Crewmate, it shown that the Impostors have a big disadvantage in completing their goals, since some of them only cares for themselves, and they also have a chance to sometimes be an alignment with anti-villain, or an anti-hero/on & off monsters.
- There are two unused player colors within the game's code, those being fortegreen and olive.
- Impostors cannot perform the task Submit Scan, so the MedBay scanning can reveal the impostor's true identity to the crewmates.
- Most artwork depicts Impostors as Crewmates with a red sparkle coming from their visor.
- During development, the Impostors were once known as the Infected/Monsters.
- They are in The Henry Stickmin Collection, along Crewmates.
- They are one of monsters (alongside their enemies Crewmates) that were created by PuffballsUnited.
- innersloth has confirmed new roles this year meaning the impostors may get new ability's
- a tag mode for among us 3d has an infected impostor role
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