Game Theory: Among Us Lore, You Will ALWAYS Lose!

oh two was out again i've got it be careful out there we'll watch out for you [Music] do you receive me we've got you blue hey uh i don't feel good about this move blue move someone's coming for you get out of there blue blue blue he's gone he's gone hello internet welcome to game theory the show that's hold on [Music] sorry i've been having a lot of issues around the theorist station lately anyway after doing our first among us video i received the following comment on my second bra stop milking this yeah me doing two videos about the biggest trending game right now is really milk in the title so anyway today i'm doing a third video about among us and yeah today is about the lore of this game because there is a greater story being told here and let me warn you it's not a pretty one this is a game where canonically you lose your best interrogation skills your mastery of 900 iq strats you're sussing out of the most sus suspects all for nothing you will die your friends will die your loved ones will all die there is no winning in among us don't believe me stay tuned as we're told by the official developers website among us is a game where you're an astronaut crew member that must quote attempt to hold your spaceship together and return back to civilization with the stipulation that one crewmate has been replaced by a parasitic shapeshifter so apologies to all the posters over in the game their subreddit proposing ideas like what if there was no imposter but instead was a paranoid crew member going on a killing spree while i like that head cannon i underscore exist underscore yay a lot of upvotes does not necessarily a confirmed theory make the official website saying that one of the people on board as a parasitic shapeshifter is kinda hard to argue your way out of also if the word of the devs isn't enough to go on well i'm not sure what other explanation we have for the fact that one of the kill animations involves the imposter's chest opening up to reveal an alien mouth with a spiked tongue that impales its victims no amount of psychopathy is making that one happen also also the parasitic alien explanation takes care of why the impostors are able to fit into the vents while the normal crewmates aren't and speaking of vents feel that cool air i love a good working ac system anyway before we continue it's also worth pointing out that these crewmates are most likely human maybe that's something that you just assumed but it's actually not as clear cut of a conclusion as you might think you see we can presume that their biology is somewhat similar to ours given that they require oxygen to breathe they have heart rates that we see on the monitors they have blood types just like we do and maybe most significantly they have vending machines full of soft drinks like mountain dew and electronics made by samsung sorry copyright neutral drinks like dondu and electronics made by simsong oh and that vending machine also includes an easter egg reference to the developer's other game henry stickman the energy drink he caught that one right took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out that both games were made by the same team hey imposter see something say something that's so interesting i wonder how weird is that there's gotta be something going on anyway the reason we need to address the questionable humanity of the crew is the fact that apparently they're three foot six inches or 1.06 meters tall and they weigh only 92 pounds or 41.7 kilograms each based on the info that we're getting from the med base scanners i mean that is awfully short and awfully light for a typical human being what this tells me is that among us is taking place far into the future where astronauts have been specifically bred for deep space travel or are just being selectively weeded out by size you see the average male height of a human being is 5 foot 6 inches tall 1.67 meters the average female is 5'2 or 1.57 meters our crewmates in among us are only 70 that size and yet seem to both function as humans and be surrounded by human products so why would our crewmates be so short well the fact is quite simply that certain body types just work better for certain careers consider horse racing jockeys a racing jockey can technically be anyone but the most successful ones are going to weigh in at about 100 pounds or 45.3 kilograms and also have most of that weight concentrated in strong upper bodies for astronauts traveling on long interstellar voyages to foreign planets it's very likely that sometime in the far far future we're gonna have decided that smaller astronauts are gonna yield longer more successful trips why well consider this when you're traveling in deep space not only is it gonna be a long trip it's gonna be a very cramped trip meaning that every bit of space is gonna be important and the more that you're gonna be able to get out of the food and other resources that you pack the better it's gonna be for everyone on board larger people require more food caloric requirements are directly proportional to mass and taller people just are more massive than shorter people so in the case of astronauts size really does matter so the way i see it these are earthlings from the far future at a time when we've either selected or bred our astronauts as a means of stretching the resources available in a deep space trip smaller astronauts just wind up being the more efficient option for deep space travel so okay we're humans on a deep space mission it's not breaking any real ground here what else do we know about the story of these games well the idea that one of the people you know has been replaced with an alien imposter is one of the oldest premises in all of science fiction i think classics like invasion of the body snatchers from 1956 or it came from outer space in 1953 or the thing from another world in 1951 geez there seemed to be a lot of movies from the 50s about how your neighbors are actually aliens out to get you couldn't have anything to do with all that cold war paranoia could it nah but out of all the sci-fi classics there's one that this game seems to pay direct homage to the 1980s science fiction movie the thing it's actually one of my all-time favorite horror movies which makes it a perfect time to talk about now that it's october i'll give you a quick summary since the movie is older than most people watching this video let's be honest it's older than most of the people working on this video the thing is set in antarctica where a group of american scientists are interrupted at their base by a helicopter shooting at a sled dog the team rescues the dog only to learn that the man piloting the helicopter was the sole surviving member of a norwegian space team they uncovered an alien spacecraft buried deep in the ice for over a thousand centuries i'd say the isis buried in is a hundred thousand years old at least when the spacecraft thought it unleashed a deadly alien parasite that was capable of consuming any biological entity and copying its dna to become a perfect replica sounding familiar friends the norwegian crew is wiped out leaving only one survivor the helicopter pilot now a crazed madman desperately trying to kill the dog believing it to be the alien and he's not wrong the dog is the alien oh who's a cute little guy who's my cute little killer alien you are yes you are good boy good boy go fetch what ensues is well basically the plot of among us the people on the science station have various tasks that they have to perform requiring them to split up which has the paranoia ratcheting up as they all begin to suspect each other in the quest to try and ferret out the alien imposters sometimes even killing innocents i mean even the debates that they have in this movie sound a lot like the team meetings that are held in among us that's pretty he's one of them when do you think it got to him in any time anywhere hey look childs come on the lights went out that would have been the perfect time right you said guys were missing and witness where were you the prayers just about as calm and collected as a discussion among us too so it's among us with the added wrinkle that the killer can now pose as the victim he just killed which is actually a really cool wrinkle that they should try adding into the game oh yeah and if the parallels between this specific movie and the game weren't clear enough to ya the alien's favorite form of attack is its long sharp piercing tongue that it uses to both grab and puncture its victims one by one pretty reminiscent of that one kill animation from the game isn't it also the alien in the movie isn't just something that you can kill by stabbing or shooting it it has to be burned to a crisp or destroyed in an explosion to actually get rid of the thing which again is why we see the game requiring more permanent solutions like the airlock or lava pit in the movie the remaining human characters eventually decide to do the heroic thing they accept that they're all going to die in the antarctic science station so the mission shifts from escape to destroy the alien imposter at all costs so it can't infect anybody else but that's not the case in the game unlike in the movie in the game we know that the alien wins and the worst comes to pass look at this reading the store page description for the game's dlc maps mira hq and paulus we learned the following mirror hq quote after a long journey on the scaled crewmates should spend some time back at the mira headquarters surely there aren't as many impostors there so obviously the long journey on the scaled is referring to the events that took place in the game's first map which presumably is when the crew first encounters the alien after surviving an encounter with the alien parasite the crew seems relieved to return to home sweet headquarters thinking that they're safe but it seems the alien menace has traveled with them back to the hq and things don't get any better with a third map of paulus again from the description of the paulus dlc store page quote man the expedition to the research base on paulus a planet far away from any would be imposter and by the way paulus is a direct connection back to the henry stickman lore in episode 4 of henry stickman fleeing the complex one of the guards is named paulus petrovic same name but how do i know they're connected grab a hold of his bio and you get this quote paulus petrovic he won a sweepstakes and got to name a planet after himself so pretty solid confirmation that these two universes are connected so according to this game's lore paulus should be a safe space but of course once you load up the map people are bound to start dying as the alien parasite is once again running amok the conclusion here is obvious if this was indeed a safe place before the crew arrived then obviously the alien parasite traveled with them we are bringing the alien parasite wherever we go we are spreading it canonically speaking we failed in killing the imposters on the scale which allowed them to infect the headquarters now because of all of our research missions to other planets the impostors are able to reach places that they never could have otherwise ever think it's strange that a wind condition in the game is simply completing all of your science tasks i certainly did because it means that you get home but the imposters are still alive they're still in your crew but that's the canonical ending my friends you may have thought that you won but as the game title says the alien imposters are still among us it's only a win because you're continuing the grisly tragic story of the game as like in all the recent fnaf games congratulations your skeleton got scooped out of your body you got the official canon ending congratulations your body was possessed by an evil ai and now your conscience is trapped inside of a digital prison you got the good ending a winner is you congratulations you just doomed the entire galaxy to a gruesome death at the hands of a series of brightly colored jelly beans in fact by this point the crew members seem to have accepted frequent murder by alien imposter as a basic fact of life it's gotten to the point where they're making snowman recreations of murder scenes geez these astronauts must have themselves a really grim sense of humor and apparently no sense of urgency when it comes to doing their tasks if this is what they're doing in their free time because they know it's impossible they've lost and so will you you don't need to be a 200 iq crew member to see where this story is going it's the tale of a bunch of astronauts who through their actions are allowing the alien parasite to spread a fate that was narrowly avoided by the crew and the thing every step they take that brings them closer to home is one step closer to the demise of their home planet with every person on it eventually becoming infected oh wait uh gotta deal with this get ready for whatever new dlc map they have in the works it's gonna be a bloodbath but hey that's just a theory a game theory thanks for watching by the way if you'd like a henry stickman theory let me know down in the comments below we just finished playing the complete collection of henry stickman over on gt live and i really enjoyed it and i think that there's a couple theory angles that i have there so if you want me to dig deeper into it let me know just drop me a line in the comments just do it drop me a line in the comments drop it drop that line

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Id: 1zZZBB9-Nm8

Length: 13min 28sec (808 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 17 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/Frabbize]

Hey, I noticed something. While watching the Among Us lore video, I thought of something. Wouldn't it make more sense if Polus was the origin place for the parasitic being we call impostor? On Polus, specifically in the Lab area, There are pieces of a broken lab instruments. If you walk down to the restrooms, you'll see a broken mirror, and a broken bathroom stall, with a hole in it. So, here's my theory:

What if the crewmate assigned to Laboratory got infected by a parasite. Then the crewmate, still conscious, ran to the bathroom to check themselves, when, all of a sudden, the parasite took over the crewmate's body and used the bathroom stall to start all the carnage?

Anyways, I hope you liked my theory.

Thanks for reading and I wish you survive to CrewMatt.

[u/Thelastknight0541]

Hey matpat here is something that is interesting in Henry stickmin Collection there is someone in the STEAL THE DIAMOND level that share the same last name as Ellie which is ROSE sound weird but I leave that to you matpat also have a good day.

[u/AC03115]

I have one problem with this theory. The impostor being a parasite theory doesn’t cover the other kill animations in the game. The other death animations involve you getting your neck snapped, shot with a gun, and stabbed in the back. If the parasite can kill people with its tongue, then why would it use knives and guns when it doesn’t need to? That doesn’t make sense to me

[u/59ekim]

Pasting here the comment I made on youtube:

No matpat, you can't conclude they are humans. They most likely aren't given the evidence. The fact that a family photo in your wallet contains people wearing the supposed space suit, the fact that when you're killed by an impostor the flesh on your corpse is the same color as your supposed suit, the fact that your ghost is wearing the suit still, and the fact that if those were suits they would probably allow you to breathe oxygen independently and therefore sabotaging O2 would be inconsequential all suggest this is actually what their bodies look like. That blue thing on their faces isn't a visor, it's an eye. And let's not forget the fact you can make your character wear a costume. Why would they be wearing clothes over their space suits? That wouldn't be very comfortable. The only explanation is that this species is very accepting of nudity, even on duty in space missions, but are allowed to wear clothes and even funny hats if they so desire. It's very sus you didn't address any of this, ngl.

I forgot to mention in it that their spine is an inverted femur, definitely not human.

[u/Plebbosaurid]

Careful now, all this milking's going to give you lactose intolerance.