History YMMV / MrRobot

** "This show has become priceless." [[labelnote:Explanation]] [[spoiler: Price's death]] quickly became lampooned, making this an IncrediblyLamePun.[[/labelnote]]

* CompleteMonster: [[AxCrazy Fernando Vera]] is a vicious criminal who [[AmbitionIsEvil will do anything to become powerful]]. A petty drug dealer in season 1, Vera has his ex-girlfriend Shayla, who also works for him as a drug dealer, kidnapped when she refuses to go on a date with him; Vera then [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil drugs and rapes her]]. When [[Characters/MrRobotElliotAlderson Elliot Alderson]] sees this, he hacks Vera's computer and tips the police off about his activities, leading to Vera's arrest. But when Vera finds out that Elliot is behind the tip, he blackmails him into hacking the custody he is in so that he can get out, or else he'll murder Shayla. Elliot complies, but as it turns out Vera had already murdered Shayla and she was dead all along. He also orders his right-hand DJ to murder his brother Isaac for plotting to have him murdered once he's out. [[FromNobodyToNightmare Returning in Season 4]], Vera [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness shoots his right-hand DJ to death]] in front of a young child for not being "detail-oriented" enough. He plots to have Elliot become the architect of his crime empire by breaking him mentally and then taking control of him, using Elliot's psychologist Krista Gordon to [[spoiler:reveal that Elliot was molested by his father as a child in order to break him. While holding Krista hostage, he threatens to have her raped and murdered when Elliot grabs Vera's gun, only sparing her because he needs her to carry through his plans]].

** TheUnreveal about [[spoiler: Whiterose's machine]]. Some found it to be a smart narrative decision that allows for wider fan interpretation, while some saw it as simply a cheap and unsatisfying resolution.

* MagnificentBastard: Elliot Alderson/[[spoiler:The Mastermind. He is a prodigiuous hacker and cybervigilante who takes down corrupt assholes or outright psychopaths. He counts on their weaknesses, flaws and tics and plans out based on everything he observed and research to take them down. He proves himself to be an expert manipulator as well to reach his goals, when he begins to manipulate his enemies who try to attack him and play with them like a fiddle and proves himself to be way more smarter than the villains such as Tyrell, Whiterose and Vera, who end up destroying themselves as a result of their obsession with him. And despite all the hell he's been through, especially the horde of mental and physical damage he takes in, he still remains strong and focused, even moreso than Tyrell, Angela and Dom combined.]]

* IKnewIt: [[spoiler: Santiago]] is working for the Dark Army.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Ramy Youssef as Samar, Elliot's co-worker at E Corp.

** Evan Whitten plays a young version of Elliot (who's alter-ego is played by Christian Slater). [[film/{{chupa}} A few years later]], he'll be acting opposite Christian slater.

** Darlene in Season 4 becomes this.

** [[spoiler: Vera's]] presence in Season 4. Fans are torn on whether his return was all but inevitable and critical to the foundation of the series' final twist, or that he was shoehorned back in to amplify the immediate danger of the season.

* ShipSinking:
** Elliot & Darlene due to SurpriseIncest. Elliot misinterprets Darlene's advice and closeness as romantic, and kisses her. After an initial moment of disgust, she quickly realises that Elliot has completely forgotten who she is, and prompts him to remember that Darlene is his sister. Unsurprisingly the moment utterly destroyed whatever developing fanbase existed for the pairing.
** Angela and Elliot is completely destroyed after the former's abusive behaviour to the latter in Season 3, and then by [[spoiler: her death in the start of Season 4.]]
*** The Whiterose Machine [[spoiler: is hinted at involving alternate dimensions or time travel, so the pairing continued to have a hope that the machine would also fix the relationship as a byproduct of whatever it was designed to do when it was turned on. When the machine turned out to be an irrelevant red herring, this variant of the pairing finally died along with the end of the series.]]
** Tyrell and Elliot after 4X04 "Not Found" [[spoiler: due to Tyrell's abrupt death, and his bickering with Elliot throughout the episode.]]

* MagnificientBastard: [[spoiler: Elliot Alderson/The Mastermind. He is a prodigiuous hacker and cybervigilante who takes down corrupt assholes or outright psychopaths. He counts on their weaknesses, flaws and tics and plans out based on everything he observed and research to take them down. He proves himself to be an expert manipulator as well to reach his goals, when he begins to manipulate his enemies who try to attack him and play with them like a fiddle and proves himself to be way more smarter than the villains such as Tyrell, Whiterose and Vera, who end up destroying themselves as a result of their obsession with him. And despite all the hell he's been through, especially the horde of mental and physical damage he takes in, he still remains strong and focused, even moreso than Tyrell, Angela and Dom combined.]]

* RonTheDeathEater: [[spoiler: Elliot/The Mastermind. While he did make bad decisions most of the times when fighting against E CORP and then the Dark Army, most fans keep on villainising him way too much for it and blame him for most of the disasters and deaths, especially Angela, Tyrell, Shayla, Trenton and Mobley that occurred throughout the series, when in reality it was Whiterose and the Dark Army and Vera responsible for most of the damages that happened. And most of the disasters that happened were completely out of his control.]]

* RonTheDeathEater: [[spoiler: Elliot/The Mastermind. While he did make bad decisions most of the times when fighting against E CORP and then the Dark Army, most fans keep on villainising him way too much for it and blame him for most of the disasters and deaths, especially Angela, Tyrell, Shayla, Trenton and Mobley that occurred throughout the series, when in reality it was Whiterose and the Dark Army and Vera responsible for most of the damages that happened.]]

* RonTheDeathEater: Elliot/The Mastermind. While he did make bad decisions most of the times when fighting against E CORP and then the Dark Army, most fans keep on villainising him way too much for it and blame him for most of the disasters and deaths, especially Angela, Shayla, Trenton and Mobley that occurred throughout the series, when in reality it was Whiterose and the Dark Army and Vera responsible for most of the damages that happened.