All Among Us Characters: Every Role, Color and Crewmate Explained

Among Us is Innersloth's social deduction game. A crew of bean-shaped astronauts keeps a ship running while hidden Impostors pick them off. Each match hands you a color and a role, and both shape how you play. This guide covers all Among Us characters, from the classic Crewmate to the newest ghost roles. You'll also meet all 18 colors and the voice cast behind the animated show.

Who Are the Among Us Characters?

Every Among Us character is the same little astronaut, complete with a visor and a backpack. What sets players apart is their color, their cosmetics, and the role they get each match.

Roles fall into two teams. Crewmates win by finishing every task or voting out all the Impostors. Impostors win by killing Crewmates until their numbers match, or by landing a deadly sabotage.

Beyond those two basics, Among Us has 11 special roles. The host picks which ones appear, and how often, in the lobby's Role Settings.

All Character Roles in Among Us

Role	Team	What It Does
Crewmate	Crewmate	Does tasks, reports bodies and votes in meetings
Engineer	Crewmate	Uses vents for quick trips across the map
Scientist	Crewmate	Checks Vitals from anywhere on a battery
Tracker	Crewmate	Tags a player and follows them on the minimap
Noisemaker	Crewmate	Sets off an alert that reveals their body
Detective	Crewmate	Keeps case notes and interrogates suspects
Judge	Crewmate	Ejects one player in a meeting, whatever the vote
Guardian Angel	Crewmate ghost	Shields a living Crewmate from a kill
Influencer	Crewmate ghost	Sends picture hints to a living Crewmate
Impostor	Impostor	Kills, sabotages and travels through vents
Shapeshifter	Impostor	Copies another player's look for a short time
Phantom	Impostor	Turns invisible to escape a crime scene
Viper	Impostor	Melts bodies with acid so nobody can report them

Crewmate Roles in Among Us

Crewmates make up most of every lobby. Your job is to finish tasks, watch who acts strange, and vote wisely in meetings. Each special Crewmate role adds one tool that makes that job easier.

Crewmate

The default role has no special power, yet it wins plenty of games. You can report bodies, call Emergency Meetings, and use the map's security systems. Your best weapon is memory. Keep track of who you saw, where and when.

Engineer

Engineers can use vents, a move normally reserved for Impostors. You can only stay inside for a limited time, and each trip has a cooldown. Vents help you reach sabotages fast. Just expect suspicion if someone spots you climbing out of one.

Scientist

The Scientist carries a portable Vitals monitor. It shows who is alive or dead from anywhere on the map. The battery drains while you watch, and finishing tasks recharges it. Spot a death that nobody reports? The killer may still be near the body.

Tracker

Trackers plant a tracking device on any player. That player then shows up on your minimap for a short time. Tag the person whose story sounds weakest. If their dot sits right beside a body, you have real evidence for the next meeting.

Noisemaker

When a Noisemaker dies, an alert goes out to everyone and points to the body. The role has no other powers. Your death becomes the clue, so stick to busy parts of the map.

Detective

The Detective is the first role with two abilities. Notes lets you log a victim's location, your suspects, and the type of Impostor you're chasing. Interrogate lets you question Crewmates about where they were during a kill. Ask too many questions, though, and you become the Impostor's next target.

Judge

The Judge brings a gavel to Emergency Meetings. Finish enough tasks to unlock Overrule, then eject any player you choose, no matter how the vote went. If your pick isn't an Impostor, though, you're the one who leaves. Overrule works only once per game, so save it for a sure thing.

Ghost Roles: How Dead Crewmates Still Help?

Dying doesn't end your game. Regular ghosts float through walls and keep doing tasks, and every finished task still counts toward a Crewmate win. Impostor ghosts can keep sabotaging the ship. Two ghost roles give dead Crewmates an even bigger say.

Guardian Angel

Depending on the host's settings, the first Crewmates to die can become Guardian Angels. A Guardian Angel places a short protective shield on a living Crewmate. An Impostor can't kill anyone under that shield. Shield whoever seems closest to solving the case.

Influencer

The Influencer joined Guardian Angel as the second Crewmate ghost role. Its Message ability sends up to three random images to a living Crewmate. Use them to point at the killer, warn of danger, or clear an innocent player. Refreshes are limited, and pictures are easy to misread. A careless message can get the wrong player ejected.

All Impostor Roles in Among Us

Impostors are shapeshifting alien parasites hiding among the crew. Each game has one to three of them, based on lobby settings. They can't do real tasks, so they fake them while planning the next kill.

Impostor

The base Impostor can kill, sabotage, and move through vents. Sabotages can cut the lights, lock doors, or trigger a reactor meltdown. A well-timed sabotage pulls Crewmates apart and opens a clean window to strike.

Shapeshifter

Shapeshifters can take on another player's appearance for a limited time. That makes framing someone far easier. Depending on settings, shifting can leave visible evidence for anyone nearby. Always shift where nobody is watching.

Phantoms

Phantoms can vanish and walk around unseen for a short time. They can't kill while invisible, so timing is everything. Strike first, vanish, then reappear somewhere that supports your alibi.

Viper

The Viper kills with acid. After a kill, the body dissolves in three stages until nothing remains. No body means no report. Pair each kill with a sabotage, and the crew may never learn who died where.

All 18 Among Us Character Colors

Colors are how players recognize each other, and no two players can share one in a lobby. They never change abilities and exist purely for looks.

Original Colors	Added Later
Red, Blue, Green, Pink, Orange, Yellow	Maroon, Rose, Banana
Black, White, Purple, Brown, Cyan, Lime	Gray, Tan, Coral

There's also a hidden 19th color called Fortegreen. You can't select it in the wardrobe. It only appears when the game fails to load a player's chosen color. That can happen when two people grab the same color at once.

Innersloth has shared that Red is the most picked color, while Tan sits at the bottom. So if Red feels sus in every lobby, that's partly just numbers.

Among Us Show Characters and Voice Cast

Among Us also has a 10-episode animated series for adults on Paramount+. It follows 11 crewmates aboard The Skeld, hauling a new fuel called Ore Plus for the MIRA corporation. The table below stays spoiler-free.

Character	Job Aboard The Skeld	Voiced By
Red	Captain who lives by the company handbook	Randall Park
Orange	Head of HR who enforces MIRA's rules	Yvette Nicole Brown
Green	Eager unpaid intern from a worm farm	Elijah Wood
Blue	Ship's doctor who runs the body scans	Dan Stevens
Purple	No-nonsense head of security	Ashley Johnson
Lime	Paranoid engineer who crawls through vents	Wayne Knight
Cyan	Crystal-loving gemologist	Kimiko Glenn
Black	Gloomy geologist and Cyan's research partner	Liv Hewson
Yellow	Fiery cook who also voices the ship's PA	Debra Wilson
Brown	Calm cook and Yellow's best friend	Phil LaMarr
White	Rich contest winner new to space travel	Patton Oswalt

Unlock and Customize Your Among Us Characters With Best Cosmetics Using StanShop Gift Cards!

Your role changes every match, but your look stays with you. Among Us offers hats, visors, skins, pets, and nameplates. You can unlock plenty of them for free with Beans and Pods earned by playing. Premium bundles and some Cosmicubes cost Stars, the game's paid currency.

Among Us is free on mobile and paid on PC and consoles. On Android, Stars come out of your Google Play balance. A Google Play gift card tops that balance up without linking a bank card. On PC, a Steam Wallet gift card covers the game and its cosmetic add-ons.

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. How many characters are in Among Us?

Among Us has 18 selectable colors and 13 roles. That's the basic Crewmate and Impostor plus 11 special roles.

2. What is the newest role in Among Us?

The Influencer, a Crewmate ghost role that sends picture hints to living players. The Judge arrived just before it.

3. How tall are Among Us characters?

The Submit Scan task lists every character at 3 feet 6 inches tall and 92 pounds.

4. Are the Impostors in Among Us aliens?

Yes. Innersloth describes Impostors as parasitic shapeshifters. The animated show also portrays them as aliens hiding among the crew.

5. Who voices Red in the Among Us show?

Randall Park voices Red, the ship's captain. Elijah Wood voices Green, and Yvette Nicole Brown voices Orange.

6. What is the rarest color in Among Us?

Fortegreen, a hidden color that players can't select in the wardrobe.

7. Is Among Us free to play?

Among Us is free on Android and iOS. On PC and consoles, you buy the game once. Premium cosmetics cost extra on every platform.