History YMMV / MrRobot

* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: Season 1 received minor criticism for borrowing much of the plot elements from Fight Club and The Matrix, although this sentiment has ceased since the airing of Season 2.

* {{Anvilicious}}: The series is quite careful, subtle and complex when dealing with variety of themes and issues, and that only makes it more jarring to see all that subtlety thrown away when it comes to politics. All of a sudden, a viewer is subjected to one-sided filibuster monologues by variety of characters stating that capitalism is evil incarnate, rich are only rich because they are scumbags, religion is stupid, society is intolerant and so on. When such a lecture occurs, counter-arguments are never brought up. What makes it really preachy is that usually brilliantly-written dialogue loses all sophistication and characters begin to speak in a very plain and direct manner, as if explaining a textbook axiom to a child. These statements are further reinforced by the plot of the show where not a single sympathetic right-leaning character is to be found.
** The series gets a little better at this in the third season as [[spoiler: Elliot begins to realize that Ecorp is not the epitome of evil he believed it to be and that his methods of fighting it were in many worse than what it does.]] However, in the same season, author of the series, Sam Ismail, begins to throw direct jabs at newly elected President Donald Trump, attacking his efficiency as well as a sub-plot involving Trump being a shoe-in orchestrated by Whiterose as a method of political control.
** In Season 4, Ismail's dislike (to put it mildly) of Trump, openly declared on his social media accounts, gets even more frenzy as Trump, along with a number of other real life politicians and corporate leaders (presumably not liked by Ismail as well) is shown to be [[spoiler: a member of villainous Illuminati-like organization called the Deus group. By the end of Season 4, a character looking as Trump is shown attending their conference.]]

*** With the Whiterose Machine being hinted at involving alternate dimensions or time travel that would fix death or other mistakes, an odd type of community existed that continued shipping Elliot & Angela through hope that the machine would also fix the relationship as a byproduct of whatever it was designed to do. When the machine turned out to be a complete waste of time and irrelevant, this variant of the pairing finally died along with the end of the series.

* ShipSinking: 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.

* {{Squick}}: Elliot frantically grabbing half-digested Adderrall pills out of his own vomit and swallowing them again. He ends up with his own puke all over his face and clothes.

** The ending of "Request Timeout" where Elliot breaks down crying due to his trauma after realising Mr. Robot was the father he needed, who protected him from his trauma and saved him multiple times, would be even more heart-wrenching when in Rami's next project ''Film/NoTimeToDie'', [[spoiler: His character [[BigBad Safin]] causes the death of [[TheHeroDies James Bond]] by poisoning him, which results in Bond sacrificing himself to protect Madeleine and their daughter Mathilde. Meaning Elliot's final lines in this episode, "I can't do it, I am sorry." is almost like Rami genuinely crying out of grief and remorse that he caused the death of a good and kind father in the movie, the father that Mathilde needed.]]

** The final conversation between Elliot and Whiterose would end up being this, because in Rami's next project ''Film/NoTimeToDie'' where his character Safin shares similarities with Whiterose. [[spoiler: It also ends with him dying and his base being destroyed, but unlike Elliot who survived the damage, [[DroppedABridgeOnHim James Bond]] actually died at the end.]]

* EvilIsCool: Fernando Vera, with his tantalising poetry and beautiful monologues, almost makes you forget that he's a sociopathic rapist.

* EvilIsCool: Fernando Vera, with his tantalising poetry and beautiful monologues, almost makes you for that he's a sociopathic rapist.

* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Elliot is constantly shipped with almost every character in the series, whether they are genuinely good people, jerks or outright psychos. Be it Angela, Tyrell, Leon, Shayla, Olivia and Vera.

* AngelDevilShipping: Elliot is shipped constantly with morally ambiguous men like Tyrell and Leon.

* HoYay: Tyrell's fixation on Eliot is hinted at being homoerotic for some time before it's essentially confirmed in Season 2 and continued into Season 3. Lots of overtones of this with [[{{Yandere}} Vera]] towards Elliot as well, particularly in Season 4, though his is much worse than Tyrell's.

* DesignatedVictim: Darlene becomes this in late Season 3 finale and the entirety of Season 4, where every Dark Army member is seemingly obsessed with giving her a BoomHeadshot treatment.

* DesignatedVictim: Darlene becomes this in late Season 3 finale and the entirety of Season 4, where every Dark Army are seemingly obsessed with giving her a BoomHeadshot treatment.

* CatharsisFactor: Let's be honest, [[spoiler: we were all so overjoyed when Vera was literally stabbed in the back by Krista, bonus points for it being the same knife he had Shayla executed with.]]

* {{Wangst}}: Dominique's break down at the end of Season 3 all the way to Season 4. Most of the fans were annoyed that the woman who was determined in taking down the Dark Army easily broke down and became a wimp when she was face-to-face with them.