History YMMV / MrRobot

* HilariousInHindsight: Dom turning out to be a lesbian is wryly amusing considering that Grace Gummer's best-known role before this show was playing a straight woman initially horrified to discover that her sister was a lesbian in the movie ''Jenny's Wedding''.
** [[spoiler: Elliot's sitcom dream in Season 2 would end up being this when in late 2021, Rami Malek ended up being the guest host for ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''.]]

** Irving, also a Dark Army fixer, for being [[LaughablyEvil such a big psychopath]] in his final scene of Season 3 that the scene [[NarmCharm nearly becomes hilarious rather than horrifying]].

* FanNickname: People who have dissociative identity disorder in real life often have a name for the personalities as a collective, or 'system'. [[spoiler: Elliot's system is never named in the show, so fans came up with 'the Aldersystem'.]]

* AngelDevilShipping: Elliot is shipped constantly with morally ambiguous men like Tyrell and Leon. Taken UpToEleven when he was also shipped with [[AxCrazy Vera]] at some point, brushing off the fact that he was a rapist who only wanted to use Elliot as his object.

*** Granted, this is mitigated somewhat by TheGrandFinale when [[spoiler:Darlene reveals she knew about Elliot's Dissociative Identity Disorder the entire time. Meaning him berating her as Mr. Robot is a lot less likely to be taken personally as she knew Elliot wasn't himself at the time.]]

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

** Speaking of which, Angela herself is this. [[spoiler: While it's bad what she did later in the series (psychologically abusing and bullying Elliot for Stage 2, letting All-Safe go down the drain after the CD hack and disregarding Gideon, abandoning her non-biological dad simply because he didn't agree with her methods at E Corp and snidely brushing off others for wounding her ego due to being DrunkWithPower and never taking responsibility for her mistakes), she has a FreudianExcuse of everything that happened to her, namely losing her mother because of E Corp's actions, being cheated on by Ollie, being blackmailed with her and her dad's bank accounts locked and being walked over by others and finally being corrupted by Whiterose with a lie that she will see her mother again. While it doesn't justify her actions, it surely ''explains'' them.]]

** [[spoiler: Elliot's father turning out to be a pedophile who sexually abused him.]] It is either a heartbreaking but logical twist or an over-the-top ShockingSwerve that was unnecessarily dark, and had no relevance to the super-charged plot of season four.

* ShockingSwerve: [[spoiler: Joanna Wellick's]] death.

** A lot of people guessed the big final twist regarding Elliot and his father was that [[spoiler:Elliot was abused by his pedophile father, simply because there weren't that many other forms of twist that would have such a huge impact on Elliot.]]

** Vera. His deeds are monstrous, but at one point he was a helpless kid who [[spoiler: was powerless to defend himself against multiple instances of sexual abuse.]] Part of his creepy obsession with Elliot is because he sees someone who's been through the same pain he has and wants someone to share it with. It's even hinted that this is one of the reasons he's become the cruel murderer he is; particularly in his [[spoiler: final monologue]], it's heavily hinted that his experiences made him determined never to be a victim again, even if it meant going out of his way to victimize others.

* DracoInLeatherPants: Tyrell, full stop. Despite being a psychopath who is willing to murder people (and does), he reigns supreme as the other half of OTPs with Elliot.

* DesignatedHero: Angela considering she exploited Elliot's mental disorder and psychologically and mentally abused him (which drew parallel's to domestic abuse) to further Whiterose's agenda despite the fact that she knew that Elliot loved her and cared about her. Worse was that she was his best friend since they were kids and that she knew his family history as well as that he was mentally ill and that she was hurting him but did nothing to stop herself anyway. And even after her father Price begs her to stop getting revenge on Whiterose after everything she did for her was all for naught, she refuses to listen despite the fact that she knows that Price is affiliated with Whiterose which leads to her death.

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Season 2's episode 6 [[spoiler: has Mr. Robot name drop the trope in the bizarre sitcom opening, in regards to Elliot and Angela. By Season 4 it becomes clear that they won't.]]

** Elliot's rant on God and religion in "eps2.1_k3rnel-pan1c.ksd" comes off as melodramatic and super pretentious, but it is a monologue from a young man battling insomnia and withdrawal from amphetamines, after all.
** "I'm hacking the FBI." Coming from anyone other than Elliot, this statement would be laughed to scorn.

** Speaking of which, Angela herself is this. [[spoiler: While it's bad what she did later in the series (psychologically abusing and bullying Elliot for Stage 2, letting All-Safe go down the drain after the CD hack and disregarding Gideon, abandoning her non-biological dad simply because he didn't agree with her methods at E Corp and snidely brushing off others for wounding her ego due to being DrunkWithPower and never taking responsibility for her mistakes), she has a FreudianExcuse of everything that happened to her, namely losing her mother because of E Corp's actions, being cheated on by Ollie, being blackmailed with her and her dad's bank accounts locked and being walked over by others. While it doesn't justify her actions, it surely ''explains'' them.]]

** [[spoiler: Vera]]'s death as well.

** Leon was an instant hit among fans, mainly for his charming personality and intellectual discussions of popular television shows. Even after coming out as a Dark Army operative, his reputation continues to grow, and even the DA link is undercut when he reveals he is only a mercenary and not actually in the Dark Army.
** Irving, also a Dark Army fixer, for being such a big psychopath in his final scene of Season 3 that the scene nearly becomes hilarious rather than horrifying.

* OneSceneWonder: Due to plot reasons and it understandably being [[TheOner very hard]] to pull of his usual appearances, Mr. Robot only appears in one scene in "Runtime Error", but damn if it isn't cool.

** Both Magda and Edward Alderson crossed it long ago with their constant and ''horrific'' abuse of their children.

* TrappedByMountainLions: Angela trying to obtain evidence of E Corp's crimes in order to continue the lawsuit in Season 2. For the most part, it has its own ebb and flow and doesn't really affect the long game, at least until the finale, when it becomes a spark for Angela's HazyFeelTurn in Season 3. However her HazyFeelTurn is all for naught as she demands revenge to Price against Whiterose and refuses to listen to him trying to talk her out of it and is eventually killed.

** The real Elliot Alderson.

** "409 Conflict" is an entire episode made of this. [[spoiler: The way things escalate as the Deus Group -- the top 1% of the 1% -- is exposed, manipulated and robbed by fsociety is a thing of beauty. And the fact that Whiterose is progressively losing her shit during all of this while Price drunkenly makes light of the whole situation. It's an episode where the real bad guys unambiguously lose for the first time in the series, and it is executed masterfully.]]

* [[spoiler: Elliot's incredibly poignant ShutUpHannibal speech to Whiterose, not only rejecting her immense cynicism but the cynicism that once drove all of his revolutionary actions as well. To hear Elliot speak with such hope and optimism about life, people and his own place in the world is a brilliant display of his CharacterDevelopment.]]

** Darlene as well for being a hypocrite due to chastising Elliot for mourning their mom even though she's mourning Angela despite knowing all of the horrible abuse she did to her brother Elliot (mentioned above). And yet we're suppose to feel bad for her when Elliot rightfully and understandably called her out on it.