Among Us Logic is GameToons's first ever animation to become a series, being based on Among Us, which entered mainstream attention in September 2020. It was their first flagship series and ran throughout the rest of 2020 and from early to mid-2021 until it was replaced by Friday Night Funkin' Logic for the rest of 2021 and Poppy Playtime Logic for 2022.
It follows a player named… well, Player, who desperately wants to win a game on Among Us, and each video follows a different session. Other notable characters include Veteran (his friend), The Gentleman (his nemesis), Mr Cheese (Gentleman's associate), Mr Egg (Gentleman's temporary replacement associate), and Captain (Player's unwanted follower). There's also Among Us Adventures, a Machia mini-series on GameToons's other channel, GameToons Gaming.
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Among Us Logic provides examples of:
- Aborted Arc: At the end of "Hacking Cams", it's suggested Player's finally been driven to a mental breakdown, with the implication the next episode will pick up on it. Instead, Player's completely sane, though he's definitely more cynical and may or may not have started talking to hallucinations.
- Actually Pretty Funny: After killing Poopyfarts, Player is amused by him letting out one final fart.
- Ambiguous Situation: A few episodes and the music videos suggest that the show takes place in a universe where Among Us is based off of reality, where Mira HQ, Crewmates, and the Impostors are actually a real thing, but nothing concrete is ever established.
- Anachronic Order: The No-Visor episodes are implied to take place after the more comedic episodes released in-between.
- Asshole Victim: In Episode 2, Mr Cheese snaps and kills The Gentleman after repeatedly being abused by him.
- Better to Die than Be Killed: Veteran ejects himself from the ship in "Return of No-Visor", preferring death to being turned into a No-Visor.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Player is usually a friendly guy, and is highly ruthless and calculating whenever he becomes the Impostor, usually only failing due to his incompetent partners. He even murders Greaser for annoying him.
- Big "NO!":
- Mr, Egg's reaction to Ria's death by No Visor.
- Player's reaction to realizing he's been sent to the cheater's lobby.
- Also The Gentleman's reaction when Player and Veteran disconnect, costing them a win.
- Beware the Silly Ones: As the Impostor, Mr Cheese kills The Gentleman. He also kills another crew mate in front of everyone else after said crew mate kept insulting him.
- Butt-Monkey:
- The first 4 videos end with Player getting ejected from the spaceship.
- Mr Cheese counts as one too.
- Baggy gets this treatment in the Gametoons Gaming videos.
- The Cameo: Many of the characters from the Among Us Logic episodes make cameos in Among Us animated music videos from Gametunes, a companion channel to Gametoons. Notably Mr. Cheese, who has appeared in every music video so far, was featured in "Impostor", and even got his own villain song, "No One Suspects Mr. Cheese".
- Canon Immigrant: Both Player and Veteran came from the first 2 videos Gametoons made, known as Fall GuysLogic.
- Cerebus Syndrome: The No-Visor episodes still include the series' trademark humor, but are much more arc-based, have actual dramatic stakes, and resemble a horror movie more than anything else.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Pretty much everyone has shades of this, but the Gentleman takes the cake. Wearing two top hats is just the tip of the iceberg.
- Darker and Edgier: Recent episodes are much more mean-spirited and a few have even tried their hand at a more serious tone, the most notable being "The Legend of No-Visor", an almost completely serious horror story with very little jokes and some genuinely creepy imagery.
- Deadpan Snarker: Player tends to react to the stupidity of everyone around him with sarcastic remarks.
- Death Glare: Mother and Bro give one to Player, after Mr. Cheese outs him as an impostor.
- Denser and Wackier: Initially, the series rarely veered from what could actually happen in Among Us, which was occasionally deviated from because of the Rule of Funny. Later episodes have a much more surreal sense of humor, and frequently feature things that could never happen in the game, as well as moving on to spoofing Creepypastas, pop culture, and mods of the game.
- The Ditz: Captain, Mr. Cheese, Veteran, and pretty much everyone else except for Player, Engineer, Blue, and the Gentleman (who is just flat-out crazy).
- A Dog Named "Dog": All of the characters have simple names, with accessories matching said names. Player takes this to the logical extreme.
- Flanderization:
- Veteran goes from mildly dim and new to the game to a complete idiot prone to utterly bizarre ideas.
- Captain goes from well-meaning yet narcissistic, to basing his entire personality and life around Player and their "friendship".
- Formula-Breaking Episode:
- Episode 17 is one long Shout-Out to Joker focusing on Mr. Cheese's past, and only features two main characters aside from him, Player and Captain.
- "The Legend of No-Visor" is a horror story with only a few jokes, and only features Player and Veteran in the Framing Device.
- In “Among Us Logic, But The Imposter Changes Colors...” Player finally wins for real.
- Halloween Episode: Among Us Logic 6.
- Insane Troll Logic:
- In Episode 2, Ninja sees Mr. Cheese and Player near The Gentleman's corpse and reports. The captain does not understand what he is saying, and assumes that Ninja is complimenting his leadership skills.
- In episode 6, Mr. Pumpkin claims to be able to understand Poopyfarts, saying that he confessed to being the imposter. Player points out that he could be lying. This convinces The Gentleman and Bro that Player was the imposter.
- Veteran attempts this in "Fat Imposter" twice:
- The first time is on Poopyfarts, when the latter catches him stuck in a vent after killing Player. He reasons that he cannot be the imposter due to this, but Poopyfarts doesn't buy it. He is killed before he can report it.
- The second time is when he accuses Captain of being the impostor, as he is allowing crewmates to die under his watch. Surprisingly (or not), it actually works, and Captain votes himself out.
- Jerkass to One: Player is generally a Nice Guy, but can behave like an utter jackass to Captain, even harboring the desire to murder him. Justified, since he has no real reason to be nice to Captain, who claims to be Player's best friend and actively, if ineffectually tries to push him away from his actual best friend Veteran, and is generally possessive and clingy. When Captain does something genuinely nice, Player will do his level best to reciprocate the gesture.
- Kafka Comedy: A lot of the series' humor comes from the completely undeserved suffering of Player.
- Kansas City Shuffle:
- Episode 1: The Gentleman is not an imposter. The apparent bystander and tiebreaker vote Stoner is, and was stringing Player along the entire time.
- Episode 5: Mr. Cheese has been impersonating Player for the entire episode to take revenge on Mr. Egg.
- Knight of Cerebus: No-Visor has no comedic quirks whatsoever, and is genuinely terrifying, sucking the comedy out of the room whenever he shows up.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Stoner has no problem imitating Captain and Gentleman, while Player is able to do a Sheriff and Veteran impression. This is because they are voiced by the same actors. Stoner even proclaims that they should be voice actors.
- Mood Whiplash: Stoner's possession and Veteran's (offscreen) death at the hands of No Visor is immediately followed by Captain singing in the shower with nary a clue about what is gong on.
- Nice Guy: Player is friendly and affable with everyone save a select few (namely Captain, Bro, and Greaser).
- Not Me This Time: In The Revenge of No Visor, Player sees that Veteran, Stoner, and Captain are dead and claims that No Visor killed them. However, only Veteran was a direct casualty — Stoner was accidentally gunned down by Veteran and possessed by No Visor, while Captain was killed by the impostor and ignored by No Visor.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: A recurring theme in the series is that each player, no matter how goofy, friendly, or stupid they may be, become absolutely ruthless whenever they become the Impostor.
- Obfuscating Stupidity:
- In Among Us Logic 1, Stoner was the true impostor, and tricked Player into accusing The Gentleman.
- In Episode 5, the normally ditzy Mr Cheese reveals that he has been been successfully pretending to be Player the whole time. After this, Cheese is portrayed as far more intelligent and calculating than he lets on, until eventually he becomes the best player in the game and the others recognise him as an eccentric Bunny-Ears Lawyer and extremely dangerous. The power dynamic between himself and Gentleman changes as well, as Cheese goes from being the abused weaker partner to the more dominant and controlling of the two.
- Offending the Fool:
- In early episodes, Captain is completely clueless that Player does not like him. He only realizes this after Player fails to remember Captain's real name, leading him to vote Player out of spite.
- In one episode, Mr. Cheese kills another player for calling him dumb.
- Official Couple:
- Gnome and Engineer
- Rose and BDay
- Captain and Dum
- Mr Cheese and The Gentleman
- Only Known by Their Nickname: The only "real" characters (i.e., Timmy and Franklin don't count) with known names are Dum (Jessica), The Gentleman (Ebenezer, though that might have been a joke), Aiden, Duncan, and possibly Dr. Doctor, as by the time he appears, the lines between game and reality are too blurred to tell. Player's father is also named Alan, though he only shows up in a dream and a photograph.
- Only Sane Man: Player is usually the sole voice of reason among the players, and is thus often ignored. Whenever he’s the Impostor, Engineer or Blue usually takes the role.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The normally cheery Mr. Cheese is downright terrified after No-Visor whisks away Mr. Egg and sabotages the lights.
- Out-of-Character Alert: Stoner's Gentleman disguise is blown when he says "dudes"
- Sadist Show: The cast consists of Nice Guys or well-meaning idiots who have utterly terrible luck and always fail due to their own flaws or things beyond their control and Jerkasses who make things miserable for everything else and either get their comeuppance or get away with it. Not to mention various sympathetic characters Taking a Level in Jerkass.
- Shout-Out:
- The Halloween episode makes references to Frankenstein (It's Alive!!!), It (The Paper Boat scene), When A Stranger Calls (The Calls are coming from inside the house), and The Shining (All work and no play makes Jack a Dull Boy)
- Mr. Cheese's backstory is reminiscent to that of the titular character in Joker (2019).
- The Christmas episode is a Shout Out to A Christmas Carol.
- "The King Imposter" has 2 such moments:
- When Player is holding The Gentleman at gunpoint, he says the iconic "Do I feel lucky?" speech from Dirty Harry.
- Qwerty and Player's dialogue as the former ejects the latter from The Skeld is similar to the "Open the pod bay doors" scene from Space Odyssey.
- No-Visor is a reference to creepypastas. In "The Return of No-Visor", The Gentleman's death is similar to Katie's death from The Ring (2002), while Mr. Cheese's death reminds one of Heather's last moments in The Blair Witch Project.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Captain. Even The Gentleman calls his leadership skills questionable.Captain: I didn't make it 16 years in flight school for nothing!
Mr. Egg: But isn't flight school a 6-month program?
Captain: Not for me. - Steamrolled Smart Guy: Engineer is a logical, intelligent player who usually tries to use deductive reasoning to root out the Impostor. However, since almost all of the other players are idiots, he's usually ignored, and at one point is voted out for using too many fancy words.
- They Killed Kenny Again: Given the game this web series is based on, this trope is only natural.
- Think of the Children!: In Among Us Logic 2, Mother has this reaction when she sees a dead body
- Those Two Guys: Veteran and Player, Gentleman and Mr Cheese (later Mr Egg).
- Toilet Humour: Poopyfarts "speaks" only in farts, and has a toilet paper roll on his head as his hat.
- Too Dumb to Live: In the cold open for "Among Us Logic 4", The Impostor kills Player in front of Greaser. Instead of running away or reporting the body, Greaser freaks out and starts crying about how he doesn't want to die. Even the Impostor is dumbfounded.
- Took a Level in Kindness:
- The Gentleman in Episode 3, as he treats Mr. Egg better than Mr. Cheese. Confirmed to be genuine in episode 6 — when Mr. Cheese (Pumpkin) talks, The Gentleman nearly snaps, but then calmly tells Mr. Cheese that he finds his catchphrase annoying.
- Similarly, Captain becomes friendly with Player again in "Spying on Mr. Cheese", and becomes less possessive towards him.
- Took a Level in Jerkass:
- Player does this gradually over the course of the series as his constant failures slowly drive him further into desperation. It eventually culminates in him cheating to finally win a game, going along with Not-Orange's essentially threatening to kill Mother unless she goes along with it, and taking perverse pride in it, gleefully contemplating rubbing his undeserved victory in everyone's face. He gets better after escaping the Cheater's Lobby and having a Heel Realization, though he can still be a massive jerk to Captain.
- Mr. Cheese gets arrogant and rude from winning all the time, to the point that Veteran even lampshades it, and at one point tries to cheat to win. Like Player, he gets better after escaping the Cheater's Lobby.
- Blue randomly turns from an Audience Surrogate baffled by the main characters' lobby to a remorseless cheater and an sleazy asshole in general.
- Captain gets this to the point of a Face–Heel Turn when he infects Mr. Cheese's dog with a zombie virus he created and allows it to infect a good portion of the lobby just so he can spite Player for not appreciating their one-sided "friendship".
- The Unintelligible: Ninja and Poopyfarts.
- Wham Line:
- At the end of episode 5, Player, who has been expressing a totally random hatred for Mr. Egg, corners him.Mr. Egg: I don’t understand, Player! What did I do to you?
Player: Oh, you didn't do anything to Player... but my name's not Player...
Mr. Egg: What?
Captain: No! It. Can't. Be!
Player: MY NAME...
[removes his disguise, revealing himself to be none other than Mr. Cheese]
Mr. Cheese: MR. CHEEEEEESE! - At the end of episode 13, after cheating to win, Player finds himself in an unfamiliar lobby.Player: Wait, where am I? What is this place?
Sir Clogsworth: You got caught kid. You're in the Cheater's Lobby. And now you're going to be stuck here forever, like the rest of us!
Player: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! - In Episode 15, where the culprit behind the Zombie Apocalypse is revealed. Note that the Wham comes from who says it rather than what's being said.
- In Episode 17, when after telling the story of how he got his dog Cheddar and Player shouts at him for wasting their time with said story rather than reveal who the Impostor is (as at the time it was just them and Captain), Mr. Cheese decides to tell Player WHY he told that story.Mr. Cheese: You see, I didn't tell you that little story to reveal the Impostor, no no no. I did it to waste time for my sabotage cooldown!
- At the end of "Daycare", after getting the crewmates get restored to their normal ages following shenanigans caused by a new invention of Engineer's, Gentleman questions who the Impostors are, as the subject hadn't been brought up until then. The Wham comes from who answers his question.Franklin: We are.
- At the end of episode 5, Player, who has been expressing a totally random hatred for Mr. Egg, corners him.
- Player: So, neither of you are Impostors?Captain: Nuh-uh.Player: So, why isn’t the game over?Wizard: Cuz we are.
- Yank the Dog's Chain:
- In "Among Us Logic 2", it looks like as if Player might win the round... then Mr Cheese, who had been ejected prior, shows up out of nowhere and asks Player if he has won as the impostor yet.
- In episode 15, Player is finally about to get his first legitimate win only to be killed by zombies while he celebrates.
