History Characters / MrRobotMainCharacters

* BrokenAce: She can do just about anything she sets her mind to, be it breaking Terry Colby's shell, running PR for E Corp after 5/9, or learning to hack in a day (which Trenton and Mobley both say is impossible.) Unfortunately she has very little in the way of an internal compass--moral or otherwise--so she floats from good to bad, from Allsafe to E Corp to the Dark Army [[spoiler: who come to see her as a liability and kill her.]]

* BrokenAce: She can do just about anything she sets her mind to, be it breaking Terry Colby's shell, running PR for [=ECorp=] after 5/9, or learning to hack in a day (which Trenton and Mobley both say is impossible.) Unfortunately she has very little in the way of an internal compass--moral or otherwise--so she floats from good to bad, from Allsafe to [=ECorp=] to the Dark Army [[spoiler: who come to see her as a liability and kill her.]]

* PartingWordsRegret: [[{{Averted}}. Because the last thing she said to Elliot before her death is that she never wants to see him again and disowned him for something he wasn't even responsible for. But worse is that she doesn't even regret leaving Elliot heartbroken and Darlene guilty about her death.]]

* AlasPoorVillain: Despite everything she did to Elliot, it's hard not to feel bad for her over the fact that she herself was manipulated by Whiterose to see her mother again and was killed for it.

* ButtMonkey: In Seasons 3 and 4 when she ends up being the Dark Army's personal plaything, as she ends up receiving their abuse most of the times.

* {{Determinator}}: When she wants to do something, it ''will'' happen. It doesn't matter if you're her colleague, her significant other, her Dark Army contact, or her childhood friend. Darlene does not give up.

* DrivenByEnvy: Her motivation for turning against Elliot and treating him like crap in Season 3.

Elliot's childhood friend who lost her mother to leukemia from the Washington Township toxic waste scandal. Angela becomes a close confidant to Elliot, only for them to drift away as the 5/9 hack tears the world apart. As Elliot fights with Mr. Robot to undo the damage he has caused, he begins to question just whose side Angela is really on.

* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler: Happens to her midway through Season 3. After spending the first half as an arrogant, cold and borderline sociopathic person who psychologically and emotionally abused Elliot for Stage 2, she finds out that he was right when he said that people would die because of it, which finally happens. This causes her to have a mental breakdown where she delusionally tries to bring them back by rewinding the telecast.]]
* BullyingADragon: Most of the people who looked down on Angela and insulted her (except Elliot and Darlene), [[spoiler: wouldn't have predicted how she would end up being a danger to others and herself thanks to Whiterose.]]

* DespairEventHorizon: Approaches it a few times whenever it looks like her goals are going to be rendered pointless, but fully crosses it [[spoiler: after assisting the Dark Army in Stage 2, only for thousands of people to die because of it. In her despair, she latches onto [[InsaneTrollLogic the delusion that she can bring everyone back by rewinding the news reports]], and is clearly shown to be a shell of her former self. She never gets out of this and eventually accepts a death at the hands of the Dark Army]].

* {{Expy}}: She is basically a female Walter White from ''Series/BreakingBad''. Both are protagonists who start off as being mistreated and looked down upon by the people around them, but later they end up joining a criminal empire with the intention of doing it for their loved ones (Walter going into the drug business to provide for his family and Angela joining E Corp to get justice for the Washington Township victims, including her mother), [[spoiler: but later they begin to get DrunkWithPower and turn into villainous masterminds (Walter for the drug business and Angela for the Dark Army) to feed their own ego while [[LyingToYourself lying to themselves that they are still doing it for their loved ones]] all the while relishing in it's perks. They even abuse their significant others in the process (Skyler and Elliot) and when they get angry at them and call them out, Walter and Angela guilts them of being ungrateful and selfish, ignoring the fact that their own actions turned Skyler and Elliot against them. And when everything begins to go down, they begin to lose everything and are shown to become disheveled and unruly in appearance. At the end, both realise what they've become but they remain [[TheUnapologetic unapologetic]] about it and they get shot and killed and die alone as a result.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: Dips into a HazyFeelTurn when she joins E Corp, only to enter it full swing by the second season finale when Whiterose enlists her. [[spoiler: In the third season, she has discovered the nature of Elliot and Mr. Robot, and actively awakens and works with the latter to restart the Dark Army's plan.]]

* {{Foil}}: To Elliot. Both lost their families at the hands of the Washington Township leak and both wanted to get justice for their deaths. The only difference is that while Elliot had his limits and genuinely wanted to help others, Angela ended up letting herself get corrupted over time after she joined E Corp and as a result, grew distant from her family and friends and began mistreating them in the worst ways, especially Elliot.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: She drugs and kidnaps Elliot after he wakes up in the Dark Army safehouse and sees her working with Tyrell. After that point, she becomes intent on keeping Mr. Robot fronting for as long as possible to minimize any damage Elliot might cause.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: At the end of "Runtime Error", she realizes that she's just helped people who have no intention of preserving the lives of the people in the recovery building, and that her actions have enabled a real terrorist attack. Continues into "Kill Process" and the subsequent episodes, where she starts undergoing full-on SanitySlippage. She doesn't get out of it and eventually gets killed.]]

* OutOfCharacterMoment: An in-universe one. The stress of her day results in her briefly becoming a RichBitch in a shoe-store. This, despite her new E Corp job, being poor as hell and an otherwise NiceGirl. [[spoiler: It’s an ominous harbinger of her behavior later in the series.]]

* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: She totally snaps once she realizes the true nature of Stage 2 and her part in the deaths of thousands of people, spending an entire afternoon trying to rationalize that the people who died are okay [[InsaneTrollLogic by rewinding the TV recordings of the E Corp facilities blowing up.]]]].

* StrawFeminist: One of her biggest flaws is that she believes that all men are out to defeat her and won't let herself be intimidated by them. While at first it was understandable with Terry Colby kicking her out of the meeting for no reason and Ollie cheating on her, she ends up misusing her feminism when she ends up using her privileged views in which she sees herself as the struggling one and undermining the problems of everyone else who isn't in the same position as her. She even psychologically tortures Elliot and still sees this as her feminist move and sees Elliot trying to stop her from going forward with Stage 2 as another man trying to defeat her.

* TechnicianVsPerformer: Possibly this is what causes her and Elliot to butt-heads from Season 3 onwards. Angela is more of the perfectionist Technician, as she has studied and prepared herself to take on the corporate world, both to bring justice for her mother and climb up to the top as an executive. While Elliot's more of a humble Performer who is self-taught in hacking and other technical aspects, but being a leader and being respected for it doesn't matter to him as he cares more about wanting to do the right thing and help others. [[spoiler: This is also what drives Angela to gaslight and bully him, because he always got to get things, was given more perks than her and subsequently became TheChosenOne despite the fact that he didn't work or have the same experience as her and she didn't get any opportunities like him, which causes her to hate him for it.]]

* TheIngeune: Pretty much her FatalFlaw when it comes to hunting down the Dark Army. When she is face to face with them, she easily breaks down and begs for mercy when her family is threatened, unlike Elliot, who by now is used to how it works and remains stone cold.

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Despite the fact that he did so many horrible things and even injured Elliot once, [[at least he didn't stalk him, force himself on him when he got rejected, hurt the people he is close to or psychologically abused him like his even more EvilCounterpart Vera did.]]