Whenever you play a game of Among Us, the Impostor's identity is completely random. Red could just as easily be the culprit as Blue, and there is no narrative reason why any character in particular gets chosen. But when Among Us made its jump from video game to TV show, the choice of Impostor had to be intentional and character-driven. So, how did series creator Owen Dennis decide that the show's Impostors would be (spoiler!) eager unpaid intern Green (voiced by Elijah Wood) and overly peppy HR rep Orange (voiced by Yvette Nicole Brown)?The answer was rooted in murder mystery tropes.
"If you think about the various tropes that come with murder mysteries, you end up with the classic: The butler did it," Dennis told Mashable in a video interview. "Why did the butler do it? Why is that the idea? It's because the butler is the person that's always there. At the time period that these sort of mysteries were written, they're basically the lowest on the totem pole."Who, then, is the lowest person on the totem pole on Among Us' spaceship, The Skeld? None other than the unpaid intern.While Green gets taken over by the Impostor alien parasite, Dennis views the harm as also coming from MIRA, the mining corporation behind the Crewmates' mission. After all, their nefarious pursuit of Ore+ — otherwise known as the alien eggs — is what caused this mess in the first place.
