Characters / Mr. Robot: E Corp

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In General

E Corp

• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Every one of its prominent members displays qualities like this, whether they're actively malicious or just irresponsibly careless and lazy.
• Evil Corp: Is named this by Elliot as a reference to this site, who has conditioned himself to hear their name as this. Zigzagged in that the corporation is clearly not out to commit evil acts, but earns the title by exemplifying some of the worst business practices in the world. Eventually, Elliot realizes this, and his goal for them becomes reforming them from the inside rather than simply collapsing them.
• Lack of Empathy: All of its executives seem to have this quality.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Zig-zagged. After two and a half seasons of their corruption and sociopathy on full display, their headquarters gets torn to pieces by a Powder Keg Crowd and 71 of their other facilities blow up shortly after. However, by this point they've stopped being primary antagonists and Elliot has been fighting to stop this from happening, and the attacks result in thousands of innocent workers dead.
• MegaCorp: Is the world's largest corporation and has interests in banking, housing, technology, and chemicals among others.
• Necessary Evil: Elliot eventually comes to see the corporation as a whole as this, focusing his efforts on making them slightly better from inside rather than letting the Dark Army kill them.
• Powder Keg Crowd: Their headquarters is besieged by one on the day of Stage 2 in "Runtime Error".

Price

See Mr. Robot: Main Characters

Tyrell

See Mr. Robot: Main Characters

Colby

Terry Colby

Played by: Bruce Altman

"There he is, Terry Colby, the CTO. Even though he's the head technology guy at one of the biggest companies in the world, he owns a Blackberry."

— Elliot Alderson

A high-ranking E Corp executive responsible in part for the toxic leak that killed Elliot's father and Angela's mother.

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• Arch-Enemy: Angela's, at least for a time.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: He tries to pull this on Angela in regards to the incident that killed her mother, but it backfires and makes him feel worse.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: Though he's a lot better than Price or Tyrell.
• Dirty Old Man: Gives off shades of this when talking to Angela, but it's just an intimidation tactic.
• Even Evil Has Standards: He may be corrupt and ruthless, but he draws the line at deliberately threatening people's lives. He's also genuinely horrified and remorseful when Angela tells him that her mother died because of a decision he made.
• Evil Is Petty: Browbeats Angela for a minor description mistake during a conference.
• Frame-Up: He's framed by Elliot and fsociety for their own cyber crimes.
• Heel–Face Turn: Of a sort. After Angela confronts him over his role in her mother's death, he becomes remorseful and admits that E Corp has problems. To that end, he offers Angela a position at the company, implying that she can do what she can to fix it from the inside out.
• Jerkass: Even after getting fired from E Corp and gaining a few sympathetic traits, he's still quite petty, crude, and vindictive.
• My God, What Have I Done?: When confronted with the daughter of someone who was killed because of a business decision he made on what he remembers as a perfectly normal day, remorse hits him hard.
• Starter Villain: He's framed and fired from E Corp in the first episode, before Tyrell takes center stage as a threat, and it's his absence that opens up the position of CTO — the driving focus of Tyrell's arc. Recurring appearances drop some of his villainous qualities.
• Straw Misogynist: He strongly gives off the vibe of a corporate executive used to regarding female employees as secretaries and not much else. The first thing he does upon meeting Angela, in canon, is bruskly ask her to top off his drink without inquiring who she is. That said, as Angela also demonstrates, he isn't so bad that he can't be impressed by a woman when she really demonstrates intelligence and spirit.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: By allowing Angela to take a job in E Corp to right her wrongs personally, he started a chain of events that led to Angela's corruption at the hands of Whiterose, thousands of deaths across the country due to Stage 2, as well as the deaths of many main and side characters, including Angela and Price.

Jacobs

Susan Jacobs

Played by: Sandrine Holt

E Corp's General Counsel, known as "Madame Executioner".

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• Asshole Victim: Zig-Zagged. She's definitely not the most likable character around, and Darlene has no qualms about killing her in cold blood. However, her death is greeted with horror by the other fsociety members, and a clear sign they are heading towards He Who Fights Monsters territory.
• Chekhov's Gunman: She was actually affiliated with the Deus Group, and the fact that Darlene killed her becomes important to her and Elliot’s struggles against them in the final season.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: She had a hand in many cases where the company was falsely cleared of wrongdoing. She laughed when E Corp escaped justice for killing Elliot and Darlene's father. She was also in charge of the Deus Group's finances through the Cyprus National Bank
• The Dragon: To Phillip Price early in Season 2.
• The Dreaded: She isn't called "Madame Executioner" for nothing.
• High-Voltage Death: She dies when Darlene electrocutes her with a taser, short circuiting her pacemaker.
• Lack of Empathy: Far colder and more ruthless than Colby, Knowles, or even Price.
• Never Found the Body: Her body is secretly cremated in an animal crematorium.
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Assumes that, because Trenton is a Muslim, she must be a member of ISIS.
• Red Baron: She is known as "Madame Executioner". It's even part of her email address.

Knowles

Scott Knowles

Played by: Brian Stokes Mitchell

The CTO of E Corp following Colby's arrest.

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• Always Someone Better: The higher-ups see him as a better candidate for CTO than Tyrell.
• Arch-Enemy: To the Wellicks.
• Babies Make Everything Better: He seems to believe this. He tells Joanna about how he and his wife reconnected over her surprise pregnancy, and how he knew the birth of his child would be the best day of his life after seeing the sonogram. Unfortunately, Sharon and the unborn baby were murdered before that could happen.
• Break the Haughty: Tyrell murders his wife, and then Fsociety forces him to burn $5.9 million of his own company's money, embarrassing him in front of the nation. He's a little less smug after all of this.
• Broken Tears: He breaks down into tears when talking to Joanna about his deceased wife and baby, and tearfully apologises for giving her false hope. Joanna, of course, has little sympathy.
• Chekhov's Gunman: After making a major appearance in the first episode of the second season, he disappears until the season finale. There, it's revealed that he is the one leaving gifts for Joanna and calling her phone as part of a campaign to make Joanna feel his pain.
• Drowning His Sorrows: He's constantly seen drinking after his wife's murder.
• Foil: To Tyrell, being the polar opposite to him in terms of personality, mental stability, and competence.
• Mess of Woe: His previously pristine house is shown to be in a mess after Sharon's death, with empty wine bottles and food wrappers scattered throughout the place.
• Money to Burn: In the second season premiere, Darlene blackmails him into wearing an Fsociety mask and setting $5.9 million on fire in the middle of Battery Park.
• Stalker without a Crush: Toward Joanna throughout the second season. Somewhat understandable since her husband murdered his wife.
• Trauma Conga Line: Tyrell murders his wife and unborn child, he gets humiliated by fsociety and eventually loses his job, he falls into alcholism and starts stalking and harassing Joana only to be tricked into assaulting her, and as one last kick in the balls, Joanna gets him implicated for his own wife's murder, and he's arrested while Tyrell is cleared of all charges.
• Unknown Rival: He knows Tyrell hates him for gaining the position he wanted and prepares for his backlash, but he doesn't suspect just how deep the hate runs until his wife is murdered.
• Walking Spoiler: His role in Season 2 makes him this.
• What Have I Done: He is extremely distressed after beating up Joanna and says this word-for-word before calling for an ambulance.
• Would Hit a Girl: He repeatedly punches Joanna in the face after she insults his deceased wife and unborn child, though he immediately panics and calls 911 after doing so.

Plouffe

James Plouffe

Played by: Richard Bekins

E Corp's EVP of Technology.

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• Ate His Gun: Commits suicide before live TV after announcing the 5/9 hack can't be undone.
• Dissonant Serenity: He remains calm and collected throughout his speech. After he pulls out a gun out of his briefcase, he quietly tells the E Corp employees present to remain calm.
• Driven to Suicide: Having lost any access and record of his bank accounts, savings and retirement money, he commits suicide while talking to the press.