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* KickTheSonOfABitch: She calls out Terry Colby for his incompetence and his involvement in the Washington Township Leak.

* KickTheSonofABitch: [[spoiler: Has Angela, who psychologically abused Elliot throughout Season 3, executed after she finds out that she's planning to come after her.]]

* KickTheSonOfABitch: He frequently does this throughout the series. One such example is in the first episode, where he blackmails Krista's adulterous boyfriend and takes the dog [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals he was shown abusing earlier.]]

* BadassDecay: After the barn incident in "shutdown-r" she goes from a determined and assertive woman to [[spoiler:[[ExtremeDoormat a submissive, emotionally weak and fragile shell of her former self in Season 4.]] Despite that she manages to kill Janice and her men.]]

* ShadowArchetype: [[spoiler: In Season 4, she becomes this for Elliot if he did not have any heroic willpower. While Elliot was brave and assertive in taking down the Dark Army, Dom was weak and submissive and constantly scared of them.]]

See his folder in [[Characters/MrRobotElliotAlderson Elliot's character page]] here.
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[[folder:Darlene]]
!!Darlene Alderson
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I'm a menace to society!"'']]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/CarlyChaikin

->''"Even your stupid hoodie can't protect you, bitch!"''

Fsociety's lieutenant, and coder of the 5/9 hack. Darlene's flippant nature puts her and Elliot at odds, but soon, the two find common ground with each other as they fight to save the world from debt. Elliot soon learns however that he and Darlene share more than a common goal: she is his sister.

* AbusiveParents: Shared them with Elliot. [[spoiler:It’s unclear whether Edward sexually abused her like he did her brother, though.]]
* BatterUp: Takes a baseball bat to Cisco's face after looking through his computer and finding evidence of betrayal.
* BigBrotherWorship: Downplayed, but it's there. Darlene says that Elliot is the best person she knows, and gives him total credit for pulling off everything it takes to take down Steel Mountain and change the world.
** The finale reveals [[spoiler: that this is why she never said anything about the Mastermind, despite knowing he wasn’t exactly the same Elliot she grew up with — she finally felt like she was able to spend time with and grow closer to her big brother]].
* BosssUnfavoriteEmployee: [[spoiler: She is treated like a literal dartboard by the Dark Army and most of them vote to execute her.]]
* BadassDecay: Due to the machinations of the Dark Army and losing almost all the people close to her she suffers from this in Seasons 3 to 4. Up until "Conflict".
* BreakTheBadass: Happens to her over the course of the series thanks to the Dark Army's machinations, to the point Elliot has to take over the "badass" moniker.
* BrokenBird: [[spoiler: Especially after Cisco's death.]]
** In Season 4 [[spoiler: she gets way worse after Angela is executed by the Dark Army. She spends her days consuming copious amounts of cocaine, booze and pills she doesn't even care to know the name of. Elliot decides to withhold the photo of Angela’s corpse from her, fearing it would break her even more. This leads to Darlene futilely holding out hope that Angela is still alive in spite of it all, even claiming to have seen her.]]
* ButtMonkey: As the series progresses, rarely there is anything that goes right for her and she ends up getting in constant trouble with the villains.
* TheCasanova: GenderInverted. She is a [[GenderInvertedTrope Rare Female Example]] of this trope.
* CollateralAngst: Most of her arc is filled with this. [[spoiler: Usually when a tragic event is supposed to affect the person targeted, she ends up taking all the burden and grief for it. Best described in "401 Unauthorized" after Angela is executed by the Dark Army, while Elliot is dealing with his focus on his revenge against the group for killing her and his rightful anger towards Angela for letting herself die due to her recklessness and arrogance, Darlene ends up treating Angela as if she were her [[TheLostLenore lost lenore]] and goes into full on mental breakdown, possibly worse than what the latter had after the cyberbombings. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything This event would usually apply to a male hero who lost his true love and goes into despair.]]]]
* CommitmentIssues: Darlene is furious and put off when her boyfriend proposes to her, and decides to "disappear" for a few days afterwards.
* CoolShades: Has several pairs of these.
* CynicismCatalyst: [[spoiler: Cisco's death is what starts her descent into madness. Then finally, Angela's death is what finally causes her to snap and lose her bravery and dignity as a result.]]
* DamselInDistress: In her backstory. When she was a young child, she was kidnapped from a theme park by a strange woman and taken to the woman's home. In an interesting take on this, Darlene didn't actually mind being kidnapped; when recounting the story to Cisco, she claims that the woman was the first adult to treat her like she mattered, and admits to often wondering what her life would be like if the police hadn't rescued her the next day.
** [[spoiler: Later in Seasons 3-4, she fully ends up in this role at the hands of the Dark Army. She is constantly captured by them and set up to be [[BoomHeadshot shot in the head]] to the point Elliot or Dom have to save her.]]
* ADayInTheLimelight: "succ3ss0r.p12" has Darlene, Trenton and Mobley as its focus. Elliot doesn't show up at all.
** “410 Gone” also focuses primarily on her [[spoiler: and Dom, as they go on the run together following the successful hack]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Bitter sarcasm makes up a significant portion of her dialogue.
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Went through one in Season 4 after Angela's death.]]
* {{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. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, after the deaths of Cisco and Angela, she begins to lose her drive and gives up on fighting back and let the Dark Army pick on her as a result.]]
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Season 2 pushes her to the forefront along with Elliot and Angela, and gradually her role overshadows Angela’s in importance.
* FinalGirl: [[spoiler: The only female character in the core cast to survive all the way from the pilot until the end of the series, and the only main character overall other than Elliot and Dom to do this.]]
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: {{Downplayed}} but Darlene serves as the foolish to Elliot's responsible.
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: Goes through one for the majority of Season 3 after the diner shooting.]]
** [[spoiler: Gets even worse after Angela is killed by the Dark Army in Season 4, even going so far as to live in her abandoned apartment.]]
* HeartbrokenBadass: [[spoiler: Both times when she loses Cisco and Angela.]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: She starts to slip into this as Season 2 progresses, notably in "succ3ss0r.p12" where she murders Susan Jacobs and realizes she doesn't feel bad about it at all. [[spoiler: After Cisco gets killed, she tries to atone for her actions (and protect herself) by snitching for the FBI and helping her brother stop Stage 2.]]
* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler: To get into the FBI's Sentinel, she goes with Dom to the latter's apartment after getting her drunk and has sex with her. Unfortunately, Dom is wise to her trick and catches her trying to steal her ID.]]
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: [[spoiler: Her entire arc throughout the series can be served as this. She goes from a fearless leader to a DamselInDistress thanks to the Dark Army.]]
* HystericalWoman: She briefly becomes this after Angela's death, basically similar to how the latter was after the cyberbombings. But unlike Angela, she gets a hold of herself later.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: She confesses to Cisco that she never felt special or important in her life. Part of her reason for taking part in the 5/9 hack was to finally feel like she mattered.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Darlene is abrasive, aggressive, sarcastic, and [[HeWhoFightsMonsters increasingly ruthless]], but she's still a good person at heart.
* KarmaHoudini: She kills the AmoralAttorney who helped E Corp escape justice for causing her father’s death... and completely gets away with it. [[spoiler: She manages to keep it a secret from Elliot until Season 4, but no one cares enough to punish her by then.]]
* KnightInSourArmor: Darlene does want to seek justice, but she's certainly on the darker end of the moral scale.
* LadykillerInLove: Implied. Despite being shown to have had many previous sex partners, she was shown to be genuinely in love with Cisco and [[spoiler: possibly Dom]].
* LightFeminineDarkFeminine: The dark to Angela's light.
* TheLostLenore: Cisco and later, [[spoiler: Angela]] become this for her.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Darlene's initial appearances are filled with overtones of this, as we see her take a sudden sharp interest in Elliott, asking him questions then insulting him, showing up at his apartment unannounced, and so on. All of this is subverted when it all turns out to be just normal [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling bratty kid sister]] behavior.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: She becomes an informant for Dom and the FBI after Cisco's murder.]]
* MoralityPet: Both Elliot and Dom serve as this for her. [[spoiler: Her being this to The Mastermind ends up being one of the reasons the original Elliot is able to finally escape his utopian prison.]]
* MsFanservice: Quite a bit of her scenes involve her being naked, half-dressed, or otherwise showing skin. [[spoiler: She even uses this to her advantage when [[HoneyTrap seducing Dom]].]]
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: To Elliot. Darlene comes into his house unannounced, uses his shower, borrows his clothing, and gives him TooMuchInformation about her personal life. She sees no issue with this behavior. Ultimately explained, however, since Darlene is Elliot's sister and he's just forgotten her existence.
* RedOniBlueOni: Red Oni to Elliot's Blue Oni.
* ShowSomeLeg: She distracts police officers using this tactic.
* SurpriseIncest: Not to her, but to Elliot and the audience. He kisses her, having forgotten she's his sister.
* TargetedToHurtTheHero: [[spoiler: Most of the Dark Army constantly wants and prefers to shoot Darlene in the head merely to spite Elliot for disobeying and going against them.]]
* TenderTomboyishnessFoulFemininity: [[spoiler: Season 3 onwards, Darlene becomes much nicer while Angela becomes more darker and manipulative.]]
* TheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Despite her turbulent relationship with Cisco, her last scene with him has her showing genuine affection and laughing as they eat together. She later confesses to Dom that he was "probably the love of my life."
** Season 4 goes to great lengths to reinforce that no matter how much she and Elliot might grate on each other and how often they split apart, they really are the most important people in the world to each other. [[spoiler: Their bond is what leads the Mastermind to relinquish control of Elliot in the end, merging with the other personalities to restore his full being and reunite the two at last.]]
* ThickerThanWater: She breaks Fsociety's rules about no electronic contact to exchange numbers with Elliot for this reason.
* WhamLine: Delivers one to Elliot in the first season, when it's revealed that she's his sister.
-->"Did you forget again? Did you forget who I am?"
* YouAreInCommandNow: Following the 5/9 hack and Elliot's temporary imprisonment, she takes up leadership of Fsociety. [[spoiler: With the original group dissolved and Mr. Robot focusing on working with the Dark Army, she secretly abandons this position and becomes an FBI informant.]]

[[folder:Angela]]
!!Angela Moss
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I have an idea that will change the world. I know it sounds really stupid, but I know how to do it. I think it could actually work."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/PortiaDoubleday

->''“I have value, and even though you don't see it, they do.”''

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.

* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Her time at E Corp makes her more cold and prideful, to the point she gets angry when she finds out that Elliot and Darlene started fsociety, thinking they acted like they were smarter than her and undermined her. She gets even worse after Whiterose brainwashes her to the point she begins to hate Elliot.
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: 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.]]
* AmbiguouslyBi: Despite having dated men, she does enjoy a rather searing kiss with Shayla.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: At first it seemed like this was going to be the case between her and Elliot after their conversation in "Don't Delete Me", [[spoiler: but it gets horrifically {{subverted}} when they see Leon in Elliot's apartment, Angela cruelly cuts ties with Elliot and her hatred for him increases, blaming him for something he had nothing to do with. This showed that by the end, Angela was done with Elliot and had nothing left for him anymore but hatred in her heart.]]
* BadBoss: [[spoiler: Compared to Elliot who is more of a BenevolentBoss, Angela is this during her time at E Corp and the Dark Army where she becomes a full-blown tyrant in the latter.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler: Not only she wanted to get justice for her mother but also wanted to be a powerful leader who would make everyone bow down to her. Both these wishes causes her to be corrupted by Whiterose to become a power-hungry tyrant for Stage 2 and eventually go mad after it's a success and abandon her loved ones and later get killed as a result due to clinging onto that obsession, finally reuniting with her mom in ''heaven'' this time.]]
* BerserkButton: Getting disrespected and undermined.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: Especially in later seasons.
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: Shot in the head by Dark Army goons after Price gets her on a hidden wire admitting her desire to fight Whiterose.]]
* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler: To Elliot and Darlene in Season 3.]]
* 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 complete mental breakdown where she delusionally tries to bring them back by rewinding the telecast.]]
* 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. This is also what caused her to become jealous of Elliot, another BrokenAce himself, in the first place, feeling like that despite the fact she did all of those above things, Elliot was still seen as a leader and was given things to do. This drove her into betraying and psychologically abusing him for Stage 2 so that [[TallPoppySyndrome she could bring him down to her level]].]]
* CantTakeCriticism: [[spoiler: Ever since she started working at E Corp, she doesn't take it well ''at all'' whenever anyone calls her out for letting them corrupt her or screwing things up, especially since they were the ones who caused the death of her mother. Elliot didn't even criticise her for it and had faith in her, until she went ''too far'' with him by gaslighting him for Stage 2 to help the Dark Army and that's when he chews her out for it, Angela's response? [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Blame Elliot for the whole situation, act like he's the one who betrayed her, and cut ties with him for good, painting herself as the real victim]]. She even mocks Darlene for being the one begging to her and accusing her of being a CryingWolf when she calls her out for the same.]]
* TheChosenWannabe: Later in the series, after she finds out that Elliot and Darlene were behind the 5/9 hack, Angela begins to resent how Elliot is the one "destined" to save the world and take down E Corp. So much so that after Whiterose took her in and brainwashed her, in Season 3 she begins to believe that she herself is TheChosenOne.
* CynicIdealistDuo: At first it seemed like Elliot and Angela would be this duo, due to the fact Elliot had a huge distrust for people and Angela being positive about her goals. [[spoiler: But as the series progresses, this ends up being {{Deconstructed}} and the roles get switched between them, as Elliot slowly learns that there are good people out there despite how much he has been hurt and abused by others in the past and is a more wiser and kinder person who wants to take down E Corp, but isn't going to let any innocents get hurt because of this. While Angela slowly becomes more and more cynical and gets obsessed with revenge where she begins to see everyone around her (including Elliot and Darlene) as her enemy despite the fact her only trauma was losing her mom caused by E Corp's negligence and grows more and more reckless and sadistic in her approach, which then resulted in her downward spiral and eventually her dying alone.]]
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: [[spoiler: Of the HighPoweredCareerGirl combating sexism in the workplace and her rise to the top. While those aspects in Angela were shown to be a good thing, especially when fighting against outright misogynists such as Terry Colby and Ollie, it also caused a lot of unfortunate implications for herself and everyone else throughout the series. When she is offered a job at E Corp by Colby, she slowly lets the power get to her head and drops the lawsuit against them as a result. And even when some people close to her point out what her job over there is really like, she takes offense and claims that she is respected, valued and successful there, which are the things she was looking for in the first place, and even pushes away the people she cares about, including her childhood friends Elliot and Darlene, as she sees taking help from them as a mark of weakness for her. She even gets jealous of Elliot and Darlene when she finds out about their start of fsociety and 5/9, believing they also didn't value her enough to involve her. There are times when she ends up completely abusing her powers, especially after Whiterose's influence, when she gaslights Elliot and overthrows him for Stage 2. And it even gets worse at the end after Price tries to convince her to let it go for a while and redeem herself, Angela ends up going back to her old habits to take down Whiterose by herself and take her machine, which causes her to die alone.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: Whoo boy. 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 recieves a death at the hands of the Dark Army]].
* {{Deuteragonist}}: In Season 1, she's the only other character with a consistent story arc running parallel to Elliot's. Darlene usurps the position from the second season onward, but Angela is still a major focus.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: In Season 3, where she serves an antagonistic role in the first half. Elliot’s confrontation with her immediately precedes Stage 2 and her crossing of the DespairEventHorizon.]]
* DissonantSerenity: Invoked by a salesman as she's buying new shoes after getting blood on them from the [=EVP=]'s public suicide, who says that's "really cold". Her response? "I don't know who you think you're talking to, but I'll try the Pradas next."
* DomesticAbuse: [[spoiler: After her FaceHeelTurn, she began a constant gaslighting campaign against Elliot in order to bring out Mr. Robot so they could complete Stage 2. After he finds out about her plans and calls her out for it, [[NeverMyFault she calls him a hypocrite]] and guilts him by openly mocking the sorry state of his mental health.]]
* DrivenByEnvy: Her motivation for turning against Elliot and treating him like crap in Season 3. [[spoiler: [[WomanScorned She was horribly scorned]] by the fact that he didn't include her in fsociety in the first place and she retaliated against him by abusing and gaslighting him for Stage 2, to ''teach'' him a lesson about keeping secrets about fsociety in the first place.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: Implied. [[spoiler: When she realizes that she’s going to be executed by the Dark Army, she sits and lets herself get killed instead of begging for her life.]]
* DumbBlonde: Averted, much to the chagrin of Terry Colby.
* DyingAlone: [[spoiler: Her fate in the series.]]
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Her motivation for her actions was to see her deceased mother again. [[spoiler: This basically became her downfall as her obsession with getting justice for her mother by joining E Corp caused her to have an AcquiredSituationalNarcissism where she became a jerk to everyone around her, including her father and Darlene and even worse when Whiterose exploited that fact about her, brainwashing her into believing she could see her mother again, which caused Angela to become a horribly unhinged monster who tortured her loved ones, especially Elliot for Stage 2. At the end, she ''does'' see her mother again, but at the cost of her own life.]]
* {{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 its 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 guilt 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 dishevelled and unruly in appearance. In the end, both realize 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 its 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.]]
* FatalFlaw: Her desire for power, revenge and agency. Angela wanted to get justice for her mother's death and was constantly looked down on by everyone, but is unwilling to accept help and shuts her loved ones out instead. Whiterose plays on this to manipulate her, eventually leading to [[spoiler: her becoming a near-sociopath who gaslights Elliot out of desperation to achieve her goals. After finding out that the man she most wanted vengeance against is her father and that Whiterose has played them both, she is unable to cope and [[FaceDeathWithDignity allows some Dark Army soldiers to kill her]].]]
* FetishizedAbuser: [[spoiler: Becomes this towards Elliot in Season 3, psychologically undermining him to advance Whiterose’s cause.]]
* {{Foil}}: [[spoiler: Throughout the series, she has been set up as a foil to Elliot. Both lost their families at the hands of the Washington Township leak and both wanted to get justice for their deaths but made some mistakes as a result. However, the only difference is that while Elliot did make bad decisions because of that, he still had his limits and genuinely wanted to help others and even took full responsibility for anything that went wrong because of him. While Angela ended up letting herself get corrupted overtime after she joined E Corp and as a result, grew distant from her family and friends and began mistreating and betraying them in the worst ways, especially Elliot and refused to take responsibility and denied that she was doing anything wrong. Another thing is that while Elliot is desperate for normalcy and being genuinely loved by others, Angela was willing to give all those up and choose revenge and power, which proved to be her downfall.]]
* FreudianExcuse: Along with Elliot and Darlene's father, she lost her mother to a toxic leak at her workplace caused by E Corp when she was a child and in later years, ended up being completely disrespected and undermined by higher-ups around her, which made her insecure as a result.
* FullyEmbracedFiend: [[spoiler: Unlike both Elliot and Darlene who realise the weight of their actions because of 5/9, Angela embraces her dark and monstrous side thanks to Whiterose's corruption.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: [[spoiler: After finding out that Elliot and Darlene were behind the creation of fsociety, she ends up getting jealous of their intelligence and talents and feels like she is undermined by them. This was one of her contributing factors to cruelly betraying them out of spite.]]
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Elliot says she's "one of the good ones." At least she ''was''.
** [[spoiler: Increasingly subverted over Seasons 2 and 3, as her time at E Corp and working for the Dark Army makes her a ''lot'' more morally ambiguous and eventually turns her into a cold, borderline sociopath.]]
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler:During ''Stage 3'', Angela comes close to redeeming herself and burying the hatchet with Elliot. But once she sees Leon inside of his apartment. She [[KickTheDog rudely abandons Elliot again]], even though he wasn't at fault.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: She drugs and kidnaps Elliot after he wakes up in the Dark Army safe house 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.]]
* HiddenDisdainReveal: In Season 2 she hinted at this towards Darlene when she thought she and Elliot were undermining her and [[spoiler: later in Season 3, after Whiterose brainwashes her, she outright expresses her hatred and jealousy towards Elliot by taking advantage of him for Stage 2 and then verbally beating him down when he finds out.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler: In 'Stage 3', after seeing Leon in his apartment, she accuses Elliot of tricking her into telling him about Whiterose's plan when she herself was the one who was manipulating him for the majority of Season 3.]]
* InsecureProtagonistArrogantAntagonist: At first she was insecure about herself, [[spoiler: but come season 3 she ends up being the arrogant antagonist to Elliot's insecure protagonist.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler: Seasons 2 and 3 completely shows that Angela only cares about her issues and brushes off what Elliot and Darlene have been through their entire life. It's clear she believes she's had it worse than them because of the death of her mother and doesn't like it when Elliot or Darlene seem to take that spotlight away from her and later mocks them for their struggles as she gloats to them about how Stage 2 will be succesful.]]
* ItGetsEasier: [[spoiler: After she joins E Corp, she slowly gets used to being a CorruptCorporateExecutive and later when she joins the Dark Army after Whiterose brainwashes her, she has no qualms about hurting others, especially Elliot to get what she wants without remorse and now sees him as nothing but merely her rival she has to defeat.]]
* IHaveNoSon: [[spoiler: Of the best friends/lovers variety, but after Elliot gets upset at her and calls her out for what she did to him for Stage 2, Angela angrily cuts ties with him permanently and disowns him as her friend.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: [[spoiler: She exposed herself as this in "Stage 3" when it seemed like she'd make up to Elliot after he forgave her, but after seeing Leon in his apartment, Angela shows her true colours yet again and cruelly abandons Elliot for something he wasn't responsible for and rejects redeeming herself.]]
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: Her treatment of Elliot throughout season 3 is ''definitely'' this.]]
* KickTheSonOfABitch: She calls out Terry Colby for his incompetence and his involvement in the Washington Township Leak.
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: She spent the majority of Season 3 manipulating and gaslighting Elliot for Stage 2. But after Stage 2 becomes successful, she herself ends up having a mental breakdown as a result and goes through SanitySlippage in subsequent episodes. She's later killed by the Dark Army after they find out that she wants revenge on Whiterose.]]
* LonelyAtTheTop: She ends up alienating her friends after joining E Corp and later cuts them off after joining the Dark Army.
* MaskOfSanity: After being brainwashed by Whiterose, she puts this on whenever she is around Elliot or anyone else. But when she is with the Dark Army, [[spoiler: she takes it off to reveal a cold, sociopathic side.]]
* MeaningfulName: Her name echoes her angelic nature, or at least the angelic view Elliot has of her. As the series progresses, this angelic meaning becomes less and less true until it straight up becomes an IronicName.
* MirrorCharacter: To Whiterose. Both were women who were forever affected by the loss of their loved ones (Whiterose's boyfriend and Angela's mom). Those events let them be the main part of their lives to the point they ended up getting obsessed with bringing them back and reunite with them. However, this desire led to them becoming dangerous and manipulative villains who were willing to betray people close to them and lead them to their dooms in order to achieve their goals and during the events of Stage 2, they both destroy the important things their male rivals had just to spite them (Whiterose destroyed the 71 buildings to punish Price for not stopping Angela's lawsuit, while Angela psychologically abused Elliot and destroyed her friendship with him just to spite him for being "The Chosen One"). [[spoiler: By the end of their arcs, both women have lost everything due to their greed and power, including their sanity and by the time of their deaths, they still cling onto the belief of the machine bringing everyone, including themselves back.]]
** And to her [[spoiler: birth father]], Phillip Price as well. [[spoiler: Both the father and daughter]] were people who were implied to be in love with their co-workers at E-Corp (Emily and Elliot) but decided to never act on their feelings for them. They pushed aside their feelings for their loved ones and began to become cruel to them and torture them because of their desire for power and as a result, Emily and Elliot got angry at them and saw them as soulless monsters.
* MisplacedRetribution: Though she tries to get revenge on E Corp, [[spoiler: she ends up taking out her anger on Elliot and Darlene simply because she wasn't included in their plan and treats Elliot horribly out of spite.]]
* MoreThanMindControl: What Whiterose puts her through in “eps2.9pyth0n-pt1.p7z“ is all but confirmed to be this.
* MotiveRant: [[spoiler: Delivers a chilling one regarding her FaceHeelTurn at the end of the third season premiere.]]
* MuggingTheMonster: Most of the people who looked down on Angela and insulted her (except Elliot and Darlene), [[spoiler: wouldn't have predicted that they let out her inner monster that's been simmering for a while.]]
* 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.]]
* NeverMyFault: [[spoiler: This becomes her coping mechanism in Season 3. She continues to dig herself deeper and deeper and blames Elliot and Darlene for her betraying them for Stage 2. When Darlene told her she would turn her to the F.B.I., Angela threatened her that if she did that, she would possibly rat her and Elliot out as the real masterminds behind it to save her own skin. It's clear that instead of taking responsibility for what she did which caused her to snap, she blames them for Stage 2 and her subsequent downfall. Even if she does show remorse for her actions, she represses it.]]
* OnlyFriend: Seems to have been this to Elliot, up until their goals diverged.
* OnlySaneMan: Subverted. Even after getting brainwashed by Whiterose, she still perceives herself as this, believing that everyone else around her, including Elliot and Darlene, is acting crazy and she is the only one still sane.
* 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 behaviour later in the series.]]
* PartingWordsRegret: [[spoiler: {{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.]]
* PlayingTheVictimCard: [[spoiler: As the series progressed, she does this whenever she is doing any horrible actions towards her loved ones to achieve her agenda.]]
* ProtagonistJourneytoVillain: [[spoiler: Her arc throughout the series can be boiled down to this, climaxing with her helping carry out the Stage 2 terrorist attacks. She ultimately realizes what she has become, but it’s too late to make things right or save herself.]]
* PsychologicalProjection: [[spoiler: When Elliot finds out about Angela betraying him and rightfully being upset at her, Angela then proceeds to blame Elliot for the betrayal and claims he is the one who wanted Stage 2 to happen, which was never the case in the first place, painting him as the one who betrayed her in her mind.]]
* RedemptionRejection: [[spoiler: When Elliot visits her and tells her about the time they wished they ran away and decides to give her a second chance, Angela immediately rejects the chance and breaks ties with Elliot, declaring she never wants to see him again when she believes he is the one betraying her after seeing Leon in his apartment and then when it looks like she will decide to redeem herself after Price reveals himself to be the real father and dissuade her from pursuing Whiterose and her machine, she again rejects to redeem herself and decides to go back to her old tricks to take her down all by ''herself'', which then results in her DyingAlone.]]
* 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.]]]]. It was at that moment that whatever sanity she had left was utterly demolished.
* SecretlySelfish: [[spoiler: PlayedForDrama as she kept on justifying her actions at E Corp and later the Dark Army where she psychologically tortures Elliot, to get justice for her mother's death. But in reality, she only wanted to feel like a powerful leader and be in control of things and dominate people around her, including Elliot.]]
* ShadowArchetype: Gradually becomes one for Elliot. Both of them had lost their parents due to E Corp's negligence and wanted to bring them to justice. But while Elliot realised his mistakes and tried to improve himself, Angela became even more corrupt and worked with the Dark Army to complete Stage 2, [[spoiler: even going as far as betraying Elliot and hurting others. Ultimately, she forces everyone away in her despair and gets killed for trying to seek revenge on Whiterose, while Elliot reaches both revenge and inner peace through accepting the love of others.]]
** She is also this for Darlene as well. [[spoiler: Both are women who felt like they were in Elliot's shadow and have self esteem issues. But while Darlene is loyal to Elliot and still loves and cares for him, Angela ends up letting her jealousy and resentment towards him get the better of her after she joins the Dark Army and starts abusing him psychologically for Stage 2 and eventually admits her contempt towards him after he finds out and eventually disowns him, not caring about how hurt he is by her actions.]]
* SmugSnake: [[spoiler: She turns into this after joining the Dark Army where her arrogance and pride gets even worse where she believes she is the real mastermind and sees herself to be way better than Elliot.]]
* TallPoppySyndrome: [[spoiler: The combination of Whiterose brainwashing her and her jealousy and resentment towards Elliot for being "the chosen one" to take down E CORP, this causes her to snap and finally psychologically abuse Elliot to summon Mr. Robot for Stage 2, just so she could bring him down to her level out of envious spite.]]
* TautologicalTemplar: [[spoiler: After Whiterose brainwashed her, Angela believed that her actions, including abusing and gaslighting Elliot, was right and heroic in her part.]]
* TechnicianVsPerformer: Possibly this is what causes her and Elliot to butt-heads from Season 3 onwards. Angela is more of a 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.]]
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: [[spoiler: After Whiterose manipulates her, Angela decides to fully embrace her evil and sadistic side in order to achieve her agenda and become a villain if being good and kind didn't work for her her whole life.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: In Season 2, when she gets used to working in E Corp and grows more and more distant and cold towards others, especially her [[spoiler: adoptive]] father Donald and when she finds out about Elliot and Darlene's involvement in fsociety and 5/9, her jealousy and envy towards them ends up slowly simmering up. [[spoiler:It continues to Season 3. After Whiterose takes her in, Angela becomes outright cruel and manipulative to the point where she remorselessly abuses Elliot and works with Mr. Robot and Tyrell to complete Stage 2. When she gets caught, she [[NeverMyFault blames Elliot and Darlene for her betrayal]], [[PlayingTheVictim plays the victim]] and remains unapologetic about it. She even outright begins to hate Elliot as she ends up brutally accusing him of being the one to betray her when she sees Leon in his apartment and cuts off all ties with him for good and even worse, she died still hating him.]]
* TragicVillain: In the end, Angela was a woman who dealt with the loss of her mother and bullying from people above her (except Gideon, who was the only boss kind to her and Elliot). All of this eventually culminated in her snapping and joining E Corp and later the Dark Army, becoming as evil as the people she was trying to take down. [[spoiler: But due to her contributing to Stage 2, she ends up having a mental breakdown which causes her to break things off with Elliot and Darlene and it leaves her to die alone when she gets executed by the same group she helped.]]
* TroubledAbuser: [[spoiler: After spending years trying to get justice for her mother's death, she critically mistreats Elliot in Season 3 because of a belief Whiterose instilled in her that she would get her mom back.]]
* TheUnapologetic: After she was exposed for her betrayal, Angela remained remorseless and unapologetic about it and told Elliot and Darlene that they brought this on themselves. [[spoiler: Even when she is about to be executed by the Dark Army, she doesn't regret damaging her relationships with them. The only regret she had is not being able to show her power one last time.]]
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: [[spoiler: After Whiterose brainwashes her, she ends up becoming the leader for Stage 2 and based on her treatment and bullying towards Elliot, is shown to be a very unpleasant, callous and mean leader who doesn't care about the wellbeing of her subjects.]]
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between her & Elliot. [[spoiler: It never gets resolved, and his fantasy of marrying her shows that he never got over it.]]
* UnwantedAssistance: When Elliot tries to bail her out in front of Colby, she chastises him and begs him to let her lose on her own next time. [[spoiler: This proves to be her FatalFlaw later in the series.]]
* UngratefulBastard: As the series progresses, she slowly grows into this, especially towards Elliot and Darlene. [[spoiler: After everything they did for her and even tried to protect her from this mess, Angela ended up disregarding them and saw them as nothing, especially after Whiterose brainwashed her. It even got worse when Elliot decided to give her a second chance at redeeming herself, but then she broke ties with him believing he was manipulating her to stop Whiterose's plan. What's even ''more'' worse, she died still hating Elliot.]]
* VillainProtagonist: [[spoiler: Goes down this path in Season 3, as she works with Mr. Robot and the Dark Army for the sake of revenge. She undergoes a VillainousBreakdown once she realizes her actions killed thousands, and is reduced to a virtually powerless paranoiac by the time martial law is imposed.]]
* WeUsedToBeFriends: After joining [[spoiler:the Dark Army]], she grows more and more estranged from Elliot and Darlene and later has a falling out with both of them over her betrayal and by the end before she died, Elliot was ''dead to her'' and kicked him out of her life for good.
* WhatTheHellHero: Elliot and Darlene give her this when they find out that [[spoiler: she was responsible for facilitating the success of Stage 2 and exploiting the former's mental illnesses.]] Sadly, Angela was having none of it and it backfired. [[spoiler: For a while at least.]]
* WildCard: Season 2 is rather coy about showing whose side she is on, and it only gets worse come Season 3. Here, [[spoiler: she actively works against Elliot and manipulates him.]] Even by the finale, it is still unclear whether she [[spoiler: "wants retribution" against the Dark Army just for herself or for everyone Whiterose has harmed. It's later shown at the start of Season 4 that she indeed wanted retribution against the Dark Army presumably for herself, only for them to kill her after they found out about it.]]

[[folder:Tyrell]]
!!Tyrell Wellick
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Unfortunately, we're all human. [[AGodAmI Except me, of course.]]"'']]
->'''Played by:''' Martin Wallström

->''"Power belongs to the people that take it. Nothing to do with their hard work, strong ambitions, or rightful qualifications. No... the'' actual will ''to take is often the only things that's necessary."''

One of E Corp's top employees. Boasting nefarious career ambitions and a cumbersome ego, Tyrell Wellick seeks power through his promotion to Chief Technology Officer of the conglomerate, by any means necessary. However, when fsociety begins their campaign against E Corp, Tyrell becomes wrapped up in the hacker conspiracy, and eventually sees a new opportunity for glory in their revolution. Believing Elliot to be a "god", Tyrell becomes obsessed with him, and volunteers to help further the cause, unaware of Mr. Robot's machinations and the Dark Army's agenda.

* ADayInTheLimelight: "Legacy" focuses entirely on him, finally revealing his activities from "Zero Day" up until "Python".
* AGodAmI: He believes the 5/9 hack essentially made him and Mr. Robot into this. [[spoiler: The news of his wife's murder and the unimportance of the CTO position he's strived for knocks this delusion out of him.]]
-->'''Tyrell:''' I think about you a lot, Elliot. I think about that night when we became gods.
* AgonizingStomachWound: [[spoiler: How he dies.]]
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: After taking a bullet for Elliot, Tyrell dies repentant and alone in the middle of the woods, with only a picture of his lost family to comfort him as he bleeds out.]]
* AllForNothing: [[spoiler: After three seasons of [[TraumaCongaLine endless humiliation and failed schemes]], he finally gets cleared of all previous charges and is promoted to CTO like he always wanted -- only to find out that the position is ''utterly worthless'' from an embittered Price, meaning he started getting involved in the conflict that would ultimately ruin his life for the sake of a symbolic title. In Season 4, Tyrell is still CTO and is seen as a hero as he is regarded as a driving factor in the economic situation getting better. But despite having so much power and appreciation thrown at him, he's only left more bored than ever]]. [[spoiler: And even ''that's'' short-lived when he gets shot in the stomach and decides to die in the woods alone]].
* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Despite the fact that he did so many horrible things and even injured Elliot once, [[spoiler: 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.]]
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: The reason Tyrell was passed up for the (official) decision of CTO.
* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler: As he succumbs to his gunshot wound, he stumbles upon something glowing blue and emitting a shrill noise, which has been haunting him and Elliot throughout the episode. This is the last we ever see of him, so what it was and what happened next remains unclear.]]
* AmbiguouslyBi: He has a wife and child, but has sex with a man in episode 3 so he can hack his phone. It's never made clear if Tyrell actually feels sexual attraction towards other men, or if this was a case of PragmaticPansexuality. Though, he does fire his assistants later for making homophobic comments, so it could very well be possible that he is in fact bisexual.
* ApologeticAttacker: [[spoiler: Tyrell was genuinely remorseful when he shot Elliot.]]
* AxCrazy: Tyrell is very impulsive and emotional: he pays a homeless man to let him use him as a punching bag, and kills his business rival's wife during spontaneous sex. His SanitySlippage only gets worse from there.
* BigBadWannabe: While at first he's made out to be the main threat, it grows ever clearer that Tyrell is in over his head and undergoing [[SanitySlippage a steady mental breakdown]]. Once his plan to become CTO fails miserably and he gets fired from his job altogether, the real threats begin to expose themselves while he's stuck floundering for something to do. Even when he starts working for Mr. Robot and the Dark Army, he's not that much of a problem. [[spoiler: By the time of Season 4, he's not very antagonistic anymore, and merely a depressed man in a powerful position.]]
* BigotWithACrush: Despite having low opinion of the working class people and those who are below him, he ended up developing a crush on Elliot and desired to be "gods" with him.
* BreakTheHaughty: Thanks to a villainous example of a TraumaCongaLine throughout the first season. As if being [[PassedOverPromotion passed for the promotion he'd been working on]] wasn't bad enough, he [[AccidentalMurder kills his rival's wife on an impulse by accident]], bringing stress and suspicion to him and his wife enough to have her tell him flat out she wants to leave him now that the baby has arrived, ''then'' he gets fired from his job as SVP at E Corp. Those weren’t a good few weeks to be Mr. Wellick
* ButtMonkey: No matter which side he's playing for, it rarely goes well for Tyrell for very long.
* DefectorFromDecadence: He turned against E Corp on the night of the hack and joined the Dark Army with Mr. Robot. [[spoiler: Season 3 reveals that this was not quite of his own volition.]]
* TheDragon: [[spoiler: He's become Mr. Robot's right-hand man come Season 3, serving directly under him in the Dark Army. He goes through a brief DragonAscendant phase after Robot becomes a BrokenPedestal to him, but his wife's death, the shattering of his faith in the Dark Army, and Price's BreakingSpeech push him back to Robot's side by season's end.]]
* TheDyingWalk: [[spoiler:In "404 Not Found", after he [[TakingTheBullet takes a bullet meant for Elliot]] while the two of them are searching for their stolen Dark Army van in the woods. He can't go to a hospital, as the Dark Army will be looking for him and it will put his son in danger. Elliot tells Tyrell that he can't just leave him to die, to which Tyrell responds that he's "just going for a walk", and staggers off into the woods to die alone.]]
* EnemyMine: Joins up with fsociety, who were previously antagonists to him, to achieve his goals.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's a ruthless PsychopathicManchild, sure, but Tyrell genuinely adores his wife and their son, and looks [[BreakTheHaughty absolutely broken]] when Joanna says she wants to leave him. He also shows a lot of affection for Mr. Robot/Elliot in Season 2, and is extremely distressed when he has to shoot him. He starts crying on the phone when he talks to Angela and tells her that he loves him. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for him, Elliot becomes a BrokenPedestal for him and he finds out his wife is dead, reducing him to [[InelegantBlubbering a sobbing, screaming fit]].]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Fires three of his subordinates for their casual homophobia in his presence. Admittedly this is because of his own sleeping with men, but also because he won't stand for people deriding [=MSMs=] around him.
* {{Expy}}: He's basically a tech savvy [[Literature/AmericanPsycho Patrick Bateman]].
* FauxAffablyEvil: Acts like a friendly and personable executive who cares about the lower employees and never forgets his roots. This is all a ruse to hide the AxCrazy psychopath that lurks beneath his MaskOfSanity. By the end of Season 2 though, he's lost the Faux part and has become genuinely AffablyEvil, at least toward Elliot.
* TheGhost: Throughout the second season, when he's missing and implicitly pulling strings from the shadows. This finally ends in "Python," and what he was doing during that time is depicted in "Legacy."
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler: Once he and Elliot make peace and team up to take down the Dark Army, Tyrell is shot in the stomach by a DA soldier when he saves Elliot, causing him to succumb to his wound.]]
* HollywoodHacking: Averted with enthusiasm. Tyrell's hacking of server 30 is pretty dead on, and any hacks he's shown pulling off later are as accurate as the rest on the show.
* HoneyTrap: Tyrell's preferred method of manipulation, showing himself being both willing to seduce a man so he can hack his cellphone and his rival's wife with the intention of sabotaging his rival's career.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: He dies in a similar manner that he gravely injured Elliot back in Season 2: getting shot in the gut.]]
* LovesMyAlterEgo: Tyrell worships Mr. Robot, not realizing that Elliot suffers from dissociative identity disorder and that Mr. Robot and Elliot are two distinct alters. After learning this, Tyrell's exalted opinion of him sours greatly.
* ManipulativeBastard: Ultimately subverted. He sees himself as a master of manipulation and he does pull off a few victories, but his obsession with being in control leads to numerous mistakes and, eventually, causes him to accidentally murder the woman he was manipulating. When he manages to get involved in much bigger schemes, he's little more than a pawn, easily swayed from one side to another by people more powerful and competent than himself.
* NoYou: All he can manage to respond with to Mr. Robot's claims he's become a puppet for the Dark Army is "No puppet, no puppet! You're the puppet!"
* PsychopathicManchild: In addition to being AxCrazy, Tyrell throws tantrums when he doesn't get something he wants. [[spoiler: When his UndyingLoyalty to Mr. Robot shatters, he childishly trashes the safehouse in front of Angela and demands that Elliot be immediately removed from the project. Robot even calls him out on this after deserting the Dark Army.]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: A variant. While not explicitly clueless, most businessmen in E Corp are presented as technologically illiterate and otherwise unaware. Tyrell knows more than he lets on (even for the interim CTO), and uses this public persona to his advantage.
* PragmaticPansexuality: It is unknown if he is genuinely bisexual, but regardless, he shows no issue with sleeping with both men and women to climb his way to the top and get information.
* {{Sadist}}: He tells Elliot that he doesn't feel guilty for strangling Knowles's wife because it gave him a thrill of power over his victim.
* SanitySlippage: As crazy as he already was, he got even worse by the Season 2 finale, talking about how the new strike against E Corp would make Mr. Robot and himself [[AGodAmI gods]], and crying as he stops Elliot's interference with a shot to the stomach. [[spoiler: A flashback in Season 3 reveals that this was due to Irving's manipulation causing Mr. Robot's gun to jam when he tried to shoot him, convincing him that they had become gods, followed by [[GoMadFromTheIsolation months of near isolation]] while he was in hiding.]]
* TheScapegoat: The 5/9 hack and all ensuing carnage since was pinned on him, and everyone in power was happy with this. [[spoiler: When he's set up to be caught in the aftermath of Stage 2, though, Irving has it arranged so that his hideout looks like the prison cell of a tortured, unwilling hostage. He's then able to point the finger at Trenton and Mobley, framing them for his crimes, and becomes a national celebrity.]]
* SleepingTheirWayToTheTop: Tyrell Wellick manipulates and seduces both men and women to try to become CTO of E Corp, such as when he slept with a male secretary to steal information about his rivals.
* SmugSnake: Believes himself to be the BigBad of E Corp and a MagnificentBastard who is able to outsmart everyone around him. He's actually [[SuicidalOverconfidence excessively overconfident]] and [[{{Pride}} arrogant]] and is obviously losing control of both himself and his plan.
* TheSociopath: Superficial and fake charm, LackOfEmpathy for most people, manipulative behavior and general tendency to view humans as objects, violent and erratic personality and appears to have no moral standards whatsoever.
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:In "404 Not Found", Tyrell takes a bullet fired by a Dark Army goon that was meant for Elliot, getting mortally wounded in the process.]]
* TragicVillain: Downplayed for sure. While he's a sociopathic murderer, you gotta feel bad for the guy seeing how miserable his life is despite being extremely wealthy and elitistic. He is constantly being chased by the FBI, so much that he can barely go out. His wife is abusive and arrogant, even more so than himself. He will never see his child again. He is being manipulated by the Dark Army and one of his better friends, [[spoiler: Irving,]] who only sees him as a pawn. Once he becomes the CTO of E Corp, as he always wanted, he realizes that it is utterly useless. Santiago [[spoiler: reveals to him extremely coldly that his wife is dead]]. [[spoiler: And then just when he finally decides to fight back against the Dark Army, he's shot in the stomach before solemnly deciding to die alone]]. Yeah, it's safe to say that his life went downhill and into a total freefall... bigtime.
* TheUnfettered: There are no lengths he won't go to get what he wants.
* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: Zig-zagged, his accent in English is generally American neutral but when he gets emotional it goes to a strange Creator/HumphreyBogart-esque place.
* WouldHitAGirl: He murders Sharon Knowles.

[[folder:Joanna]]
!!Joanna Wellick
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Do you really want to say no to me?"'']]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/StephanieCorneliussen

->''"Hvis du har gjort ham noget, så slår jeg dig ihjel."'' [[labelnote:Translation]]''If you've done something to him, I'll kill you.''[[/labelnote]]

Tyrell's wife, who repeatedly proves herself the more competent of the pair.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:While it's horrible to see, it's hard to feel sorry for her when Knowles brutally beats her since she insulted his dead wife and child beforehand. And while her death was shocking and unexpected, it's hard to feel sorry for her when she's killed by the one of the many men she manipulated.]]
* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler: Dies in her second scene of the third season, right after enjoying the fruits of her manipulation against Scott Knowles.]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Her moral code, what little she has of one, is utterly alien. When she has the parking attendant killed, she specifically has him paralyzed and set down before he's shot, as she believes murder is only okay if the victim has time to realize why they're being killed.
* BodyHorror: Pops her own amniotic sac with a small fork just so the authorities will pass up on interrogating her husband.
* BondageIsBad: Evil and deeply into extreme [=BDSM=], where she's near-choked by restraints or a knife is run across her skin and she intentionally flinches so that it cuts her a little.
* DissonantSerenity: Doesn't really seem too bothered when her husband goes missing. However, the Danish phrase that she says to Elliot shows her true feelings: "If you've done something to him, I'll kill you."
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Despite being a horrible person who will resort to murder if she has to, Joanna does have some love for her and Tyrell's baby.
* FanDisservice: Make no mistake, she IS MsFanservice, but she is also so toxic that she pretty much destroys everything around her. Not even Tyrell was immune to this. Seeing her partially undressed is closer to seeing the light on an anglerfish than anything you’d actually want to tangle with.
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Speaks Danish at home.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: After two seasons spent manipulating men to suit her own ends and playing a critical role in Tyrell's SanitySlippage, her car gets intercepted by the false lover she tricked into implicating Scott Knowles and getting Tyrell off. When she has her bodyguard brush him off in her usual style, [[TheDogBitesBack he shoots the car up]], killing her.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: She shows absolutely no sympathy for Scott Knowles, whose wife and unborn child her husband recently murdered.
* LadyMacbeth: Joanna is well aware of the steps Tyrell is taking to become [=CTO=] of E Corp - in fact, she helps him plan it out.
* ManBehindTheMan: It's strongly hinted that she is the brains of Tyrell's operation, and that her influence is what causes Tyrell to become so unstable.
* ManipulativeBitch: Has an uncanny talent for reading people to determine their motives and manipulate them to further her goals. Tyrell is no exception. This trait is best seen in the Season 2 finale: she intentionally [[BaitTheDog incites Scott Knowles into violence]] by insulting his dead wife, knowing that he will beat her but not kill her. He calls 911, so that the police know he was the one who hurt her. Joanna then returns home to her boyfriend, who was bartending on the night of Sharon's murder, and convinces him to get revenge on the man who hurt her by lying to the police that he saw Scott come down the stairs after killing Sharon. She implicates the man she hates for giving her false hope and clears her husband of blame in one fell swoop. [[spoiler: However, someone she manipulates eventually lashes back and kills her.]]
* MsFanservice: A lot of her scenes have her in various states of undress.
* TheOmniscient: Certainly gives off this impression. After Elliot talks to her for just a couple minutes, he already grows paranoid that she is somehow aware of his "imaginary friend".
* TheSociopath: She has little to no empathy, and is more than willing to screw over other people to further her own goals. Even Scott Knowles ranting at her about how she and her ex-husband destroyed his life and killed his baby gets no other reaction from her than cold insults.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler: Just because you're good at manipulating others doesn’t mean you’ll always escape consequences. All it takes is one jilted lover with a gun to do her in.]]
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler: She gets shot rather anticlimactically in the second episode of season 3]].
* TeenPregnancy: Had a child at 15 whom she gave up for adoption. She never told anyone who "didn't need to know." Even Tyrell was in the dark until after their son was born.
* TheUnfettered: Like husband, like wife.

[[folder:Price]]
!!Phillip Price
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"We all know, a con doesn't work without the confidence."'']]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/MichaelCristofer

-->''"You see, I'm a mercenary. I don't play fair. I play what I want. You deal with a mercenary, then all decorum gets tossed out the window. So you go ahead with your cute threats and your watch beeps. Order will not protect you anymore, my friend. I will rain chaos, even if it hurts me. Because I would rather see you lose than win myself. Oh. That's all the time I have."''

The CEO of E Corp.

* AffablyEvil: Price has a genuinely casual attitude, a calm nature and a quick smile. It's easy to forget he's an immoral CorruptCorporateExecutive. In the second episode of the second season, he even gives Angela incriminating evidence against two of the E Corp employees who wronged her. [[spoiler: Though this could be merely parental affection.]]
* AGodAmI: He wants to effectively be seen as one.
-->"I intend to leave a legacy, the standard of which was set by God when he created the Earth and man after his own image. Anything less is not worth mentioning."
* BigBadEnsemble: One of the main villains of the series, and the only one separate from the BigBadDuumvirate of Mr. Robot and Whiterose. [[spoiler: [[DecoyAntagonist Or so it seems.]]]]
* BigBadWannabe: Despite being introduced as a potential BigBad for the series as the head of E Corp, he doesn't do a lot that's as actively malicious as Mr. Robot or Whiterose, and in fact doesn't directly meet Elliot during Season 2 like the others frequently do. [[spoiler: After Stage 2 ruins him and he's revealed to be Whiterose's pawn, he's confirmed to be a full-on DecoyAntagonist and starts working with Elliot to take Whiterose down.]]
* BigGood: [[spoiler: In Season 4, he’s Elliot and Darlene’s most powerful ally and their [[TheMole mole]] in the Deus Group, and is instrumental to their final victory.]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Once again, CEO of E Corp. He's the head of the snake. [[spoiler: Although it's the Dark Army that is really the true head.]]
* TheCorrupter: He slowly becomes one for Angela, luring her onto a dark path. [[spoiler: He truly does love his daughter, though, and Whiterose is Angela’s true source of corruption.]]
* DecoyAntagonist: [[spoiler: Far from the BigBad he was made out to be, he's revealed in the aftermath of Stage 2 to be nothing more than another pawn of Whiterose -- one in a continuous line of [[PuppetKing puppet CEOs]], who gets deposed and will be replaced for failing to do her bidding perfectly. He soon undergoes a HeelFaceTurn and works with Elliot to take their mutual enemy down.]]
* DiesWideShut: [[spoiler: After Whiterose shoots him to death.]]
* DissonantSerenity: Angela notices he's completely unfazed by his corporation losing 400 billion dollars, a loss that should ruin E Corp and may collapse the world economy altogether. [[spoiler: Season 3 reveals that this is because [[BigBadDuumvirate he was in on the plan]] and knew who the architects were. When E Corp suffers another series of monumental losses ending with Stage 2, he's clearly much more shaken up and angry.]]
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His first interaction with another character in the end of the first season has him offering Angela money and time off after an E Corp staffer shoots himself in front of her, while completely callous and unconcerned for the actual suicide victim.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Despite being a CorruptBureaucrat with quite a god complex, and for all the manipulations he's pulled, he does care immensely for [[spoiler: Angela, his daughter. So much so that her death drives him to give up everything in order to destroy Whiterose.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Calls Whiterose a "sadistic fuck" to her face when she says that [[spoiler: the Stage Two bombings were "an opportunity to teach a lesson."]] And this is coming from a man that allowed a global financial crisis to occur, which also ruined millions of lives.
** He also lets her have it after she [[spoiler: ordered the death of his daughter]].
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: In the final season, he works with Elliot and Darlene to destroy the Dark Army in retaliation for Angela’s death.]]
* HiddenDepths: As time goes on, he's slowly revealed to be less of a [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] asshole than previously thought, and demonstrates real feelings and things he cares about. He also seems genuinely hurt when [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Angela denies his invitation to celebrate his secret birthday party]], and has to awkwardly excuse himself.
* HitlerCam: He has one of these when addressing E Corp's executives.
* LackOfEmpathy: Zig-zagged. In the first season finale, he offers Angela money and time off after she witnesses a gruesome suicide, but shows no concern for and actively speaks ill of the actual suicide victim.
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: He has a few brief scenes scattered throughout the first season, each revealing a bit more about his personality and importance, but it isn't until the season finale that he becomes a prominent character and starts interacting with the cast.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:In the finale of Season 3, he reveals to Angela that he is her biological father]].
* NonActionBigBad: Most of his only villainous actions were undertaken in boardrooms and other offices, where he exerted his charisma and will to get his way. Elliot and Mr. Robot rarely even got to see him in person. [[spoiler: And he gets deposed by Whiterose just before his first onscreen meeting with Robot.]]
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler: He wins out against White Rose in the end, but it costs everything he ever had, including the lives of his daughter and himself.]]

[[folder:Dom]]
!!Agent Dominique "Dom" [=DiPierro=]
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[[caption-width-right:300: ''"I think I'm gonna need more caffeine to survive the day."'']]

->'''Played by:''' Grace Gummer

->''"Swear to God, the only reason why I think I've gotten this far... Is because I have no life."''

An FBI agent who starts hunting down fsociety members following the 5/9 hack.

* ActionGirl: She’s very good with her gun, and more than willing to use it. [[spoiler: Her last big action sequence has her tearing a knife out of her own collapsing chest cavity, slashing a Dark Army soldier in the leg, stealing his gun, and shooting several others around the room from the ground as she hovers near death.]]
* ActionSurvivor: More on the above, Dominique survives multiple encounters with the Dark Army's foot soldiers, even taking some out in the process. To give some perspective, every attack by Dark Army's soldiers is basically a cake walk for them unless Dom is there. [[spoiler: She is also one of the few main characters who actually make it to the end of the series.]]
* BadassDecay: After the barn incident in "shutdown-r" she goes from a determined and assertive woman to [[spoiler:[[ExtremeDoormat a submissive, emotionally weak and fragile shell of her former self in Season 4.]] Despite that she manages to kill Janice and her men.]]
* {{Bifauxnen}}: Whenever she wears suits.
* CassandraTruth: Dominique is the only person who (correctly) posits that the Dark Army were involved in the 5/9 hack, but her fellow agents write her off as just being overly paranoid. [[spoiler: She is ultimately proven right after Elliot and Darlene expose them and the Deus Group, but it's too little and too late by then.]]
* CommitmentIssues: Seems to have these. When her old girlfriend proposed marriage to her, she excused herself to the bathroom and escaped out of the building.
* CowardlyLion: [[spoiler: Despite being fearful of the Dark Army, she still manages to kill her handler Janice.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: After getting kidnapped by Santiago, watching Irving brutally murder him, and then getting threatened into tearfully agreeing that she'll be the Dark Army's new [[TheMole mole]] in the FBI, she goes cold and says that her life is ruined. She spends the majority of the next season in a near-suicidal haze.]]
* TheDeterminator: She is determined to solve the 5/9 case, even after her boss and colleagues, ([[spoiler: the former of whom is Whiterose's [[TheMole mole]],]]) refuse to believe her, her requests are ignored, fsociety hack the FBI and heavily disrupt their investigation, and she barely survives two shootouts. Later on, she [[spoiler: manages to take down three Dark Army agents holding her and Darlene hostage ''while lying on the floor with a punctured lung and bleeding out from a knife stuck in her chest.'']]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: The last we see Dom, she’s fallen asleep on a flight to Budapest, finally allowing herself to rest after all the horrors she’s been through.]]
* {{Expy}}: Possibly of Dale Cooper from ''Series/TwinPeaks''.
* FairCop: A very attractive FBI agent.
* FBIAgent: The main representative of the FBI from the second season onward.
* FeminineMotherTomboyishDaughter: Dom is a tomboy while her mother Trudie is more feminine.
* ForcedIntoEvil: [[spoiler: She gets blackmailed into replacing Santiago as the Dark Army's mole in the FBI, and is very, very unhappy about it.]]
* HeroAntagonist: Dom is a kind woman who seems to have only noble goals at heart, and she explicitly states that she hates corruption and evil people. However, she leads the hunt for Elliot and fsociety from the second season on, and thus becomes a problem for them to deal with. [[spoiler: With Elliot's moral shift in the third season and Angela turning into one of the main antagonists of the season, she goes from this to an outright {{Deuteragonist}}.]]
* TheIngenue: 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.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: She's desperately lonely, but bad with people. It's why she focuses so much on her career. She even asks her electronic personal assistant if she loves her and if they are friends. [[spoiler: When Darlene pulls a HoneyTrap on her in "Stage 3", she's overjoyed just to be with someone, even though she acts on her suspicion shortly after.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: Not normally, but she slips into this when confronting the people she's hunting. In the second season finale, she coldly reveals to Darlene that they know everything about fsociety and describes the deaths of people like Romero and Cisco in an even tone of voice, despite Darlene's clear discomfort.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: She serves as the DefectiveDetective masculine girl to Elliot's BrokenBird feminine boy.
* MadeOfIron: Survives multiple attempts on her life, and even manages to [[spoiler: dispatch three Dark Army assassins in season 4 despite having lain on the floor with a punctured lung for many minutes.]]
* MisplacedRetribution: [[spoiler: She tries to do this on Darlene in Season 4, blaming her for putting in the Dark Army just to spite her. Blatantly ignoring the fact that she herself was deep down in investigating them and Santiago was responsible for her situation. It's possible that since she was a DeathSeeker, she was hoping that if she kills Darlene, then she would be able to have herself killed by Elliot.]]
* NervousWreck: She spends the majority of Season 4 as this.
* NiceToTheWaiter: Very kind to the owner of the sandwich shop she frequents.
* OvershadowedbyAwesome: [[spoiler: Had the series focused on her, she would've been TheHero, but since the series is about Elliot, not only is a supporting character but unlike Elliot, who grows more and more badass and brave overtime against the Dark Army, Dominique suffers a BadassDecay because of them and subsequently becomes his ShadowArchetype.]]
* NoSocialSkills: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] for a more realistic take on social anxiety. She can navigate social and business situations well enough, but she sometimes visibly panics and slips up, or says something at the wrong time that causes her embarrassment.
* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler: Briefly with Darlene, though ultimately they’re unable to stay together.]]
* OralFixation: She's rarely seen without a lollipop in her mouth.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler: Gives one to Darlene after the events of "Shutdown", calling her out on being a terrible person and being key to ruining her life and getting her involved in the Dark Army.]]
* ShadowArchetype: [[spoiler: In Season 4, she becomes this for Elliot if he did not have any heroic willpower. While Elliot was brave and assertive in taking down the Dark Army, Dom was weak and submissive and constantly scared of them.]]
* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: Dominque's role as an FBI agent pits her against Elliot and Darlene, but she is only interested in doing the right thing.
* {{Workaholic}}: Her job is her whole life.

[[folder:Whiterose]]
!! Whiterose / Zhi Zhang
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Every hacker has her fixation. You hack people. I hack time."'']]

->'''Played by:''' Creator/BDWong

->''"The concept of waiting bewilders me. There are always deadlines. There are always ticking clocks."''

A time-obsessed transgender woman, Whiterose operates primarily through her public persona, Zhi Zhang, the Chinese Minister of State Security. In the shadows, however, she commands her own legion of hackers and terrorists known as the Dark Army to pull the strings of governments and industries across the globe. Backed by the immeasurable wealth and power from her surreptitious investment group known as Deus, she is also the benefactor of a mysterious project hidden beneath the Washington Township Nuclear Power Plant; one that she sees as the gateway to a better world.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Like her underlings, Whiterose uses a gun to martyr herself in a desperate bid to obtain Elliot's "belief". It doesn't work.]]
* BadBoss: She is utterly ruthless with her minions. The slightest mistake is met with a quick, calculated death, if you’re lucky.
* BerserkButton: Obstructing her "timeline". Stoic as she may be, she loses her temper ''fast'' when she feels her time is being wasted. [[spoiler: This ultimately becomes her undoing when Elliot exposes her and the Deus Group, [[MisplacedRetribution and she murders Phillip Price in public as retaliation]].]]
* BigBad: ''The'' villain of the series. While she hides behind smoke and mirrors for most of it, her role as the main antagonist becomes clear by Season 3 once 5/9 is in the rearview mirror.
* BigBadEnsemble: Shares the spotlight with Phillip Price and Mr. Robot for the first two seasons before taking full control (or rather, revealing that she has always had full control) by the end of Season 3.
* TheChessmaster: Whiterose plays four-dimensional chess. [[spoiler: She founded the Deus Group following the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the fall of the Soviet Union, collaborated with oil magnates to profit off of the Gulf War, envisioned the Internet, and by 2015, had her fingers in every possible industry pie with E Corp as the face of her so-called "new world order". With the Dark Army, [[PuppetKing she co-opted the 5/9 hack to intentionally bankrupt E Corp, and blackmail its CEO Phillip Price into influencing a vote for the annexation of the Congo.]] [[HiddenAgendaVillain All of this to build a machine that would create a parallel world,]] motivated by the suicide of her translator (and secret lover) in 1982.]]
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Plays both sides against each other for pretty much the entire series. She and the Dark Army assist fsociety in executing the 5/9 hack, while also using her influence as China's Minister of State Security to mend E Corp's financial wounds in the aftermath. This "favor" is in turn another manipulation by her to force the United Nations to vote for the allowance of China to annex the Congo so her secret project beneath Washington Township's Nuclear Power Plant can be transported there, and outside of the United States' federal jursidiction, which was soon about to unravel the whole thing. Meanwhile, Whiterose greenlights a devastating terrorist attack on seventy-one of E Corp's paper records facilities throughout the United States, killing thousands of innocents; all to prove a point to Phillip Price about the gravity of her influence on him as well as his failure to properly handle Angela, his so-called "pet project". Having now successfully utilized Elliot's technical prowess to engineer the terrorist attack while effectively castrating Price's professional esteem, Whiterose elects to have Elliot taken out of circulation. In a surprising turn of events, however, Elliot convinces her that he can still be useful to her plan to transport her project to the Congo, and she obliges. Unsurprisingly, she quickly decides that [[spoiler: once Elliot has completed his end of the bargain, he will again be marked for death.]] By Season 4, the trope undergoes a thorough deconstruction, [[spoiler: showing that Whiterose's addiction to puppeteering everyone around her is having a negative effect on her ability to think tactically, and it ends up blowing up in her face despite the many warnings from her assistant, who actually ''quits'' ands runs for the hills once the jig is up.]]
* [[ClockKing Clock Queen]]: In her own words, she "hacks time," keeping everything to a very strict timetable and requiring LudicrousPrecision or [[XanatosSpeedChess extreme improvisational abilities]] of all her underlings. [[spoiler: The transfer of the Washington Township plant to the Congo taking slightly longer than the projected month is enough to send her into a fit.]]
* CorruptBureaucrat: Of a sort, since she's actually China's Minister of Security.
* TheCorrupter: To Angela and many, many others.
* TheDreaded: Everyone in the hacking world fears her, and not without reason.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Despite being the overarching antagonist of the first two seasons and ascending to be ''the'' BigBad of the series, [[spoiler:she commits suicide in "[=eXit=]", 2 episodes before the SeriesFinale.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: She shoots herself next to her machine, intent on proving her powers over time to Elliot. Since he destroys the machine before it can go off, she stays dead regardless of whether it would have worked.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: Chen, her boyfriend who committed suicide when she was young.]].
* EvilAllAlong: She was already considered less than moral as the head of the Dark Army, but the first season finale reveals that she's close allies with the CEO of Evil Corp and is PlayingBothSides. The second season properly elevates her onto the BigBadEnsemble, [[spoiler: and the third season reveals her to be the ultimate BigBad]].
* ExcrementStatement: Urinates on the grave of an E Corp CEO that she had killed in a [[InsistentTerminology plane]] [[EvilGloating crash]].
* FauxAffablyEvil: In her own words.
-->"Do not mistake my generosity ''for'' generosity."
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: It's heavily implied that she is responsible for a lot of real-world events. [[spoiler: "Legacy", at least, officially confirms that she backed the election of Creator/DonaldTrump.]] She also has several monologues about parallel universes that question whether she knows she's not in the real world.
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: As a young woman, Whiterose's boyfriend Chen committed suicide due to being forced into marriage with someone he didn't love. Whiterose saw him slowly die, which most likely is what made her insane and is the motive behind her project]].
* GreaterScopeVillain: As soulless and immoral as Price seems at first, it becomes clear that Whiterose is both more powerful and more dangerous than he, and more than willing to remind him of the fact.
* HiddenAgendaVillain: We know she's planning something, it has something to do with the Washington Township plant and the annexation of the Congo, and that she's willing to kill to keep it on schedule, but what her plans actually are is a complete mystery. [[spoiler: The plant contains a device resembling the Large Hadron Collider, and Angela implies that Whiterose’s plan might involve time itself. As it turns out, her endgame was to open the door to a parallel universe, and according to her, a "better world" where they could live unburdened by their past. It’s left unclear whether this would have actually worked, or whether she was just an insane cult leader.]]
* HiddenDepths: During a conversation with Dom about the concept of parallel realities (during which she is presenting as a man), she starts cracking and tearing up when she hits upon the subject of people being born into different identities. It's one of the few moments where she is shown in a remotely sympathetic light.
** In ‘Forbidden,’[[spoiler: we find out what exactly made Whiterose so full of hate. In 1982, Whiterose wanted to be the Chinese ambassador for the USA, where she could live authentically as a transgender woman with the love of her live, Chen-- a kind, sweet man who loved and accepted who she was. When Chen was forced into a marriage with a woman he didn’t love, and Whiterose didn’t get the job as Ambassador, (but got the job as Minister of State Development instead), he committed suicide in front of her, unable to bear not being able to be with the woman he loved and the world’s intolerance for their love. In that moment, Whiterose was born. It gives you an idea of why she is so desperate to finish her plan, which involves making a path to a world where they could be together. She plans on wearing the dress she wore when revealing her true self to Chen on the day her plan is shipped to the Congo.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler: She commits suicide in a similar way she disposed her subjects: shooting herself in the head.]]
* KickTheSonofABitch: [[spoiler: Has Angela, who psychologically abused Elliot throughout Season 3, executed after she finds out that she's planning to come after her.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Her presence and actions give off a lot of strange, surreal energy that make it hard to tell whether she’s just a con artist or a truly otherworldly figure. [[spoiler: Since Elliot destroys her machine before it activates and only believes it worked as part of a mental prison, it’s never determined whether she actually had the means to manipulate reality, though she and everyone else under her thrall certainly believed she did.]]
** [[spoiler: For all we know the machine could have worked. However, it likely didn’t. Price himself says it stems from ‘an obsessive psychotic denial of reality’, and the Dark Army bears a lot of similarity to real life cults. The simplest explanation is that for all of Whiterose’s mystique, underneath it all is a hysterical woman who uses this idea of a magic machine as a bad coping mechanism for her trauma, killing anyone who gets in her way.]]
* MeaningfulName: Whiterose is an anagram for "otherwise". Fitting for a person who weighs every option AND has a way of getting people to do what she wants via threats. In Chinese culture, it's also used for funerals... or... outside of that context, wishing death upon the recipient. Link that with the ‘Deus’ group, which contains four letters. The number four ‘si’ is also associated with death. ‘Deus’ is ‘god’ in latin. Pull all those together, and that essentially makes her “The avatar of the death god.”
** In ‘Forbidden,’ [[spoiler: we find out the true meaning behind Whiterose - on the day Chen, her boyfriend, was placed into an arranged marriage, Zhang sent him white roses as an inside joke, as they are funeral flowers in China. Unable to bear being away from the love of his life, Chen slits his throat in front of Whiterose, with the blood splattering onto the roses - it is in this moment that Whiterose, the vengeful, hateful manipulative woman who is obsessed with controlling everything so she can eventually get Chen back, is born.]]
* NotSoStoic: [[spoiler: In "stage3.torrent", news that one of her plans will take longer than expected sends her into a momentary VillainousBreakdown, shattering glasses against the wall and appearing to suffer a panic attack.]]
** In Season 4 Episode 9, [[spoiler:she becomes progressively less stoic and more desperate as her plans unravel, culminating with gunning Philip Price down in public after she learns Elliot has stolen all her money.]]
** By Season 4 Episode 11, she has become a hysterical wreck, laughing and crying to herself in front of Elliot and rambling about how her project will make everything better before [[spoiler: shooting herself in the head]].
* OnlySaneWoman: She's much shrewder and more wary of fsociety's capabilities than her E Corp allies like Price.
** [[spoiler: Deconstructed as the show goes on. By Season 4, in her desperation to move her project to the Congo, and with her strange fixation with Elliot Alderson, she makes sloppy mistakes and essentially lets Elliot go unchecked. She gets so sloppy that her assistant outright resigns on the spot before the Deus Group goes down. And when she’s exposed, she guns down Price in cold blood in the public, before setting off her ‘project’ and nearly killing everyone in New York.]]
* OtherworldlyAndSexuallyAmbiguous: She gives this impression as an alternative interpretation of her existential role within the series. Her ability to manage both gender personas effortlessly, plus the general mystique surrounding her that only seems to grow as the series progresses, kind of gives the impression she is ‘beyond gender.’ This is one of the rarer cases where it’s clear the character defines her gender, rather than her gender defining her.
* PlayingBothSides: She's the leader of the Dark Army, a benefactor of E Corp, China's Minister of Security, and generally toying with every other faction and person, [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder most of whom she plans to backstab]]. Whiterose is playing ''every side in existence''. [[spoiler: This comes back to bite her in the ass when she kills Angela, leading to Price working with Elliot, eventually causing the sudden downfall of her empire.]]
* SamusIsAGirl: Elliot's narration refers to Whiterose as "he" until they meet in person.
* ShoutOut: If it wasn't already very obvious from the top, Whiterose is blatantly inspired by BD Wong's character in Theatre/MButterfly.
* VillainousBreakdown:[[spoiler: Shoots Price to death in a rage when she discovers that the Deus Group has lost all its money, due to fsociety and Price's machinations. When she next appears, she’s decided to cut the manipulations and risk nuking Washington Township just to activate her machine, and launches into a tearful rant toward Elliot before [[DrivenToSuicide shooting herself]].]]

[[folder:"You"]]

->'''Elliot:''' ''Maybe I should give you a name. But that's a slippery slope. You're only in my head. We have to remember that.''

You. Me. Us. The audience. "We" are Elliot's ImaginaryFriend, either collectively or individually, that Elliot talks to, providing narration for the show.

│ └ [[Characters/MrRobotElliotAlderson elli0t.bio]]\\

See [[Characters/MrRobotElliotAlderson his character page]] here.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mr. Robot]]
See his folder in [[Characters/MrRobotElliotAlderson Elliot's character page]] here.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Darlene]]
!!Darlene Alderson
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I'm a menace to society!"'']]
->'''Played by:''' Creator/CarlyChaikin

->''"Even your stupid hoodie can't protect you, bitch!"''

Fsociety's lieutenant, and coder of the 5/9 hack. Darlene's flippant nature puts her and Elliot at odds, but soon, the two find common ground with each other as they fight to save the world from debt. Elliot soon learns however that he and Darlene share more than a common goal: she is his sister.

* AbusiveParents: Shared them with Elliot. [[spoiler: It’s unclear whether Edward sexually abused her like he did her brother, though.]]

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Masturbates to explicit IRC chats quite regularly. [[spoiler: She is later shown getting off to a recording of Darlene's FBI interrogation.]]

* AxCrazy: Tyrell is very impulsive and emotional: he pays a homeless man to let him use him as a punching bag, and kills his business rival's wife during [[CoitusEnsues spontaneous sex]]. His SanitySlippage only gets worse from there.

* AssholeVictim: For those of you who don't see [[spoiler:her death as an AlasPoorVillain moment, she definitely qualifies as this.]]

* TookALevelInJerkass: In Season 2, when she gets used to working in E Corp and grows more and more distant and cold towards others, especially her [[spoiler: adoptive]] father Donald and when she finds out about Elliot and Darlene's involvement in fsociety and 5/9, her jealousy and envy towards them ends up slowly simmering up. [[spoiler:It continues to Season 3. After Whiterose takes her in, Angela becomes outright cruel and manipulative to the point where she remorselessly abuses Elliot and works with Mr. Robot and Tyrell to complete Stage 2. When she gets caught, she [[NeverMyFault blames Elliot and Darlene for her betrayal]], [[PlayingTheVictim plays the victim]] and remains unapologetic about it.]]

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: [[spoiler: Of the HighPoweredCareerGirl combating sexism in the workplace and her rise to the top. While those aspects in Angela were shown to be a good thing, especially when fighting against outright misogynists such as Terry Colby and Ollie, it also caused a lot of unfortunate implications for herself and everyone else throughout the series. When she is offered a job at E Corp by Colby, she slowly lets the power get to her head and drops the lawsuit against them as a result. And even when some people close to her point out what her job over there is really like, she takes offense and claims that she is respected, valued and successful there, which are the things she was looking for in the first place, and even pushes away the people she cares about, including her childhood friends Elliot and Darlene, as she sees taking help from them as a mark of weakness for her. There are times when she ends up completely abusing her powers, especially after Whiterose's influence, when she gaslights Elliot and overthrows him for Stage 2. And it even gets worse at the end after Price tries to convince her to let it go for a while and redeem herself, Angela ends up going back to her old habits to take down Whiterose by herself and take her machine, which causes her to die alone.]]

* {{Foil}}: [[spoiler: Throughout the series, she has been set up as a foil to Elliot. Both lost their families at the hands of the Washington Township leak and both wanted to get justice for their deaths but made some mistakes as a result. However, the only difference is that while Elliot did make bad decisions because of that, he still had his limits and genuinely wanted to help others and even took full responsibility for anything that went wrong because of him. While Angela ended up letting herself get corrupted overtime after she joined E Corp and as a result, grew distant from her family and friends and began mistreating and betraying them in the worst ways, especially Elliot and refused to take responsibility and denied that she was doing anything wrong.]]

* StrawFeminist: [[spoiler: 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.]]

* UnwantedAssistance: When Elliot tries to bail her out in front of Colby, she chastises him and begs him to let her lose on her own next time.

* {{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 overtime 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.

** And to her [[spoiler: birth father]], Phillip Price as well. Both the father and daughter were people who were implied to be in love with their co-workers at E-Corp (Emily and Elliot) but decided to never act on their feelings for them. They pushed aside their feelings for their loved ones and began to become cruel to them and torture them because of their desire for power and as a result, Emily and Elliot got angry at them and saw them as soulless monsters.

* PlayingTheVictimCard: In Season 3, she does this whenever she is doing any horrible actions towards her loved ones, especially Elliot and Darlene.

* TookALevelInJerkass:
** In Season 2, when she gets used to working in E Corp and grows more confident and tough towards others and grows distant from most of her friends.
** [[spoiler:In Season 3, Whiterose's brainwashing makes her outright cruel to the point where she remorselessly abuses Elliot and works with Mr. Robot and Tyrell to complete Stage 2. When she gets caught, she [[NeverMyFault blames Elliot and Darlene for her betrayal]] and remains unapologetic about it.]]

* Sadist: He tells Elliot that he doesn't feel guilty for strangling Knowles's wife because it gave him a thrill of power over his victim.

* HeelRealization: He tells Elliot that he doesn't feel guilty for strangling Knowles's wife because it gave him a thrill of power over his victim.

** {{Downplayed}} in Season 2, when she gets used to working in E Corp and grows more confident and tough towards others and grows distant from most of her friends.

* DissonantSerenity: Angela notices he's completely unfazed by his corporation losing 400 billion dollars, a loss that should ruin E Corp and may collapse the world economy altogether. [[spoiler: Season 3 reveals that this is because [[BigBadDuumvirate he was in on the plan]] and knew who the architects were. When E Corp suffers another series of monumental losses ending with [[KillEmAll Stage 2]], he's clearly much more shaken up and angry.]]

* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: Much shrewder and more wary of fsociety's capabilities than her E Corp allies like Price.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Dominique admits to having no life outside of the FBI, and is shown to be very reclusive and prone to fantasies about having genuine social connections. On top of her generally subdued behavior, she would definitely qualify for a diagnosis of social anxiety disorder.