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Elliot's Personal Life
Krista
Krista Gordon
Played by: Gloria Reuben
Communication is key, Elliot. Real human interaction. That's what's important for you right now.
Elliot's psychiatrist and therapist, whom he's forced to see by a court for anger management.
- Action Survivor: One of the few characters directly tied to Elliot who make it to the end of the series.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Elliot believes this in regards to Krista's boyfriend, Lenny Shannon. Averted in season four with her new beau, who appears to be a decent guy.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: After saving Elliot from Vera, Krista is grateful of Elliot being protective towards her and in return offers words of encouragement to him and mends their friendship.
- The Confidant: Zig-zagged. As Elliot's therapist, she is one of the few individuals in his life who knows the most about his internal struggles. While Elliot tries to keep his hacking exploits from her, it all comes spilling out when he admits that he hacks other people out of a need to connect with others, including Krista. Naturally, she is rather disturbed by this revelation, and initially stops seeing him as a client. However, Elliot's imprisonment for blackmailing Lenny Shannon makes her have a change of heart under the condition that he be fully honest with her going forward. Eventually, Elliot allows her to "meet" Mr. Robot, who ultimately spills the beans to Krista about his engineering of the Five/Nine hack. This ends up frightening Krista once more, and she tries to report the confession, but to no avail. In season four, she is so afraid of Elliot that she threatens legal action against him if he tries to approach her again. This dynamic ends up changing one last time when she helps Elliot remember the sexual abuse he endured as a child, and she finally comes to realize that she legitimately cares for him.
- Covert Pervert: One thing Elliot mentions he learned from hacking her is that she watches a lot of anal porn.
- Hates Being Alone: Her dating profile makes her abandonment issues quite clear. She doesn't care how a prospective partner treats her, only that they don't leave:
- Minor Major Character: Krista isn't as well-developed as other supporting characters, receiving very little screen time outside of her sessions with Elliot. Despite this, she has proven to be one of only several supporting characters who actually, well, support him and know the most about what is going on in his life.
- Mr. Exposition: Of a sort. Most of her sessions with Elliot serve as small intermissions where we learn about his current mental state and outlook on the plot progression.
- Nerves of Steel: Downplayed, but when she manages to draw out Mr. Robot — a Split Personality whom she knows is unstable and potentially dangerous — and he starts trying to intimidate her, she remains calm until the situation ends, even when he gets within mere inches of her face. With Vera however, this completely vanishes, till the time Vera is distracted with Elliot.
- Parental Abandonment: Her father abandoned her when she was a teenager.
- The Shrink: She's Elliot's therapist. However, her advice isn't particularly helpful to him.
- Took a Level in Badass: Went from a terrified hostage to killing her hostage taker by stabbing him in the back.
"Michael"
"Michael Hansen"/Lenny Shannon
Played by: Armand Schultz
Krista's boyfriend.
- Asshole Victim: He's made to be unlikable so that nobody will feel bad for him when Elliot blackmails him into telling Krista the truth and giving away Flipper.
- Chekhov's Gunman: He's the reason Elliot is in prison for the first half of season 2.
- Hate Sink: He's cheating on his wife with seven different women and abuses Flipper in his first appearance. He later lies to Krista and tells her he's dying so he could tell her about Elliot.
- Never My Fault: He blames Elliot for his life falling apart, rather than himself for being an adulterous asshole.
Shayla
Shayla Nico
Played by: Frankie Shaw
Keep the fish, ya filthy animal!
Elliot's next door neighbour and drug dealer. Her drugs are supplied by Fernando Vera.
- Ambiguously Bi: Dates Vera and Elliot but also initiates a searing kiss with Angela, something that is never addresses again.
- Betty and Veronica: Plays Veronica to Angela's Betty. She wins out. Briefly.
- Death By Man Scorned: She got killed by Vera when he found out that Elliot was the one who put him behind bars.
- Decoy Protagonist: She's built up to be a main character and Elliot's love interest throughout season 1... only for her to be killed by Vera halfway through.
- Hope Spot: Shayla's escaped from her abusive relationship with Vera, stopped dealing drugs, managed to get a job as a waitress, and seems to have a budding relationship with Elliot right before she ends up getting kidnapped and killed.
- Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Shows shades of this in flashbacks. She makes it clear that she aims to be "extraordinary" in Elliot's eyes, gives him his pet fish, offers to get him the drugs he asks for, and invites herself over to his apartment to socialize.
- Nice Girl: While sometimes short with Elliot, she is genuinely sweet and friendly. This is best demonstrated when she takes him to Coney Island for their first date, knowing he had childhood memories there, and her encouraging talk with Angela while the two were tripping.
- Rape as Drama: Vera has been drugging and raping her. This is what leads to Elliot tipping off the cops about him.
- Sacrificial Lamb: She's developed as Elliot's love interest and a main character for over half of the first season prior to her death, and Vera's murder of her sends Elliot's mental health spiraling downward and signals the start of the season's final act, as well as being the first major character to die in the series.
- Slashed Throat: How she's killed.
Olivia Cortez
Olivia Cortez
Played by: Dominik Garcia
"So, there it is. The moment I tell you I'm crazy too."
An account manager working for the Deus Group at Cyprus National Bank. She is a single mother and former opiate addict whom Elliot becomes romantically involved with.
- Birds of a Feather: Bordering on Distaff Counterpart. She and Elliot immediately identify with each other because of their shared history of family trauma, drug addiction, self-hatred and loneliness. And like Elliot in the beginning, she works for a business that shields a shadowy evil organization.
- Brainy Brunette: She has gained a very important position at Cyprus National Bank through hard work and determination.
- Heel Realization: When Elliot makes her realize that she's working for the people responsible for her mother's death (as well as her subsequent descent into drug addiction).
- Kick the Dog: In order to manipulate her into helping him hack her employers, Elliot uses her history as an addict to threaten her fight for custody of her son.
- Love Interest: Is teased as one for Elliot. Sadly, it does not last.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: It's never known what happened to her after the incident nor is it ever brought up again by any of the characters.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: Initially, Elliot plans to use her personal demons as leverage to force her to aid his agenda, but Mr. Robot suggests a more delicate approach. Elliot and Olivia end up sleeping with each other, and it seems he was able to get what he needed without hurting her. However, circumstances force him to proceed with his original plan not long after. She is as devastated by his betrayal as she is the violation.
Elliot's parents
Edward
Edward Alderson
Played by: Christian Slater
You're still a good kid.
Darlene and Elliot's late father, and the man Elliot based Mr. Robot on. He use to work for E Corp, then was fired, then started his own computer repair business called "Mr. Robot", then died of leukemia thanks to a project he worked on at E Corp.
- Ambiguous Situation: At the start of Season 3, Whiterose heavily implies that Edward worked for her in some capacity and that Elliot is just continuing on his work. It is later revealed Edward had worked at the Washington Township plant, where Whiterose's machine was located.
- Abusive Parents: In earlier seasons, was implied to have pushed Elliot out of a window. He actually molested Elliot, and possibly Darlene (and maybe even Angela) as a child. Mr Robot was created to protect Elliot from this truth. In reality, the window incident was Mr Robot taking over, hiding Darlene in a closet, swinging a bat to protect Elliot from Edward and finally Elliot jumping from the window to try to escape from his sexually abusive father the only way he knew how.
- Asshole Victim: What he actually is. As a pedophilic monster, he hardly deserved to be mourned for dying of cancer.
- Henpecked Husband: It is strongly implied that he was very submissive to Magda, since he did not intervene while she regularly abused Elliot and Darlene, likely overwhelmed by her violent, manic tendencies. From what little we see of their relationship in flashbacks, Magda held her husband in open contempt. Which might make a bit more sense after we learn that he was molesting Elliot.
- Mr. Fixit: Used to be a computer repairman.
- My God, What Have I Done?: In the movie theater flashback in 'don't delete me', young Elliot is unresponsive to his father's attempts to bond with him shortly after the window incident. Desperate and dying, Edward apologizes to Elliot and asks for his forgiveness, but Elliot didn't forgive him. With the Season 4 reveal in mind, it becomes clear that he was really begging forgiveness from the son he sexually abused. He realized that his actions irreparably damaged his son and destroyed their relationship.
- Parents as People: Until Season 4, most of the information we had about Edward was unreliable. He might have been a good parent to Elliot and Darlene, but he might have pushed Elliot out a window when Elliot told his wife he had leukemia, but he might not have, or he might have because he was that afraid of his wife. Until Darlene clarifies in "Shutdown" that he didn't — Elliot smashed the window and jumped during a psychotic break, and simply blamed his father for it for the rest of his life. In Season 4, however, we learn the disturbing truth - the window incident was Mr Robot taking over to protect Elliot, while he desperately tried to protect himself from his sexually abusive father.
- Posthumous Character: Died twenty years before the series started.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He's a Posthumous Character only seen in a few flashbacks, but his death is the reason for Elliot's passionate hatred of E Corp and marked the turning point for his mental instability. Elliot also based the Mr. Robot persona on him, which becomes more apparent when Mr. Robot takes on fatherly aspects in the second season - Takes on a darker meaning when we find out that the reason Elliot based Mr Robot on his father was because he wanted him to be what his father should have been - instead of a depraved man who sexually abused his own children. This is what led to a great deal of Elliot’s mental instability..
Magda
Magda Alderson
Played by: Vaishnavi Sharma
God says there are no accidents!
Darlene and Elliot's mother. She lost her husband to cancer twenty years ago.
- Abusive Parents: Shown being physically and emotionally abusive to Elliot, and it's implied that she was no different to Darlene. The book reveals that she once gave Darlene a face full of bruises and a bloody lip for running away.
- Asshole Victim: Kinda fits into this considering she abused both of her children after her husband's death and most likely did nothing to prevent her husband from sexually abusing Elliot (and possibly Darlene).
- Cigarette Burns: Puts a cigarette out on Darlene's arm in Elliot's dream.
- Hates Being Touched: In the opening flashback in season two, she reacts venomously when Edward puts his hand on her shoulder as a comforting gesture, swatting it away and telling him not to touch her.
- Kick the Dog: Or drown the cat, as it may be. In the book, Elliot recounts that his mother staunchly refused to let her children have any pets, much to Darlene's chagrin. When their neighbour's cat had kittens, Darlene secretly took one home and kept it as an outdoor cat, naming it Moon Pie. One day, their mother drove them out to a lake and handed Darlene a sack with Moon Pie in it. She then told Darlene to tie the bag up and throw it in the lake. Darlene refused and ran away for three days, only returning once she had safely given the cat to an elderly neighbour. Her mother reacted by beating her badly enough to make her bleed. It's implied this event made Darlene hate their mother worse than Elliot.
- Oral Fixation: In flashbacks she's constantly seen smoking, even at the dinner table.
- Pet the Dog: After her death, Elliot and Darlene find a recording she kept that her children and Angela made for Angela's mother's birthday where young Elliot and Darlene say they love Angela's mother, indicating she wished it was about her and regretted her relationship with her children was so terrible.
Prison Characters
Heyworth
Ray Heyworth
Played by: Craig Robinson
Life isn't about falling and getting back up. The whole thing is a fall. A perpetual state of grasping in the dark. It's not about getting up, it's about stumbling, stumbling in the right direction.
A charming, but enigmatic man who meets Elliot at a basketball game early in the second season. He asks Elliot to help him with cyber security troubles related to his online business, but Elliot knows he isn't telling all of the story. He's actually the warden of Elliot's prison, and is using his head guard and a few abused prisoners to run an illegal trafficking site for him.
- Affably Evil: Constantly pleasant and friendly, even when he's talking to someone who pisses him off, but he is in charge of a Silk Road-style trafficking website that he's willing to have his enforcers beat and kill people to protect.
- Arc Villain: The main villain of Elliot's prison arc.
- Big Fun: A larger man, but very friendly and charming. At least on the surface.
- Dead Person Conversation: To deal with his wife's passing, he holds imaginary conversations with her at the dinner table.
- Expy: Of Ross Ulbricht, the man who founded the Silk Road online black market. Aside from their business similarities, they have similar logos and site layouts, and both go / went by the username Dread Pirate Roberts. In fact, there are strong hints that Ray is meant to be the still-unidentified second "Dread Pirate Roberts" who restarted Silk Road after Ulbricht's arrest.
- The reveal of his identity also makes him one for Warden Norton in The Shawshank Redemption, a seemingly trusted prison warden who's really using his chief guard and abusing prisoners to help him run an illegal operation. Ray is significantly more Affably Evil than Norton, however, and willingly goes with the police when Elliot brings them down on him.
- Friendly Enemy: While technically an antagonist, Heyworth is nothing but friendly to Elliot. This is never a façade either.
- Heel–Face Turn: Lets himself get caught for his crimes and allows Elliot to go free.
- Heel Realisation: He only looks into what his website is hosting after coming into contact with Elliot. The guilt of this drives him into letting Elliot get him busted.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: When he realizes Elliot has informed the police of his crimes, he calmly lets Elliot leave and surrenders to the authorities, implicitly overcome with guilt over what happened on his website.
- Meaningful Name: R. Heyworth, as in Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption.
- Mysterious Stranger: He first appears without warning in Elliot's life and displays qualities that make Elliot both drawn to and wary of him. We learn nothing about his past or his enigmatic Bitcoin-based business for several episodes, leaving him a total enigma. He's ultimately revealed to be the mastermind behind a profitable black market website dealing in human and child trafficking, drugs, arms dealing, and hitmen, as well as the warden of the prison Elliot resides in.
- Pragmatic Villainy: After his former IT guy (whom Ray has already had beaten up) tells him he can't do the site migration Ray wants, Ray's enforcer offers to beat him up again, but Ray tells him there's no point if the man just doesn't know how to do it.
- Walking Spoiler: Once his business is revealed in "Logic Bomb", discussing him becomes much more difficult without spoiling things. Even more so when he's revealed to be the warden of the prison.
- Wardens Are Evil: He's the warden of the prison Elliot gets sent to, and has been running an illegal site and violently beating prisoners for not helping him.
Lone Star
"Lone Star"
Played by: Michael Maize
Yes sir, Warden.
Ray's chief enforcer and the primary muscle to protect his schemes, later revealed to be one of the head prison guards.
- The Brute: Effectively serves as Ray's "muscle" in the prison.
- The Dragon: For Ray.
- Jerkass: Elliot identifies him as "a real dick" when he's introduced in the book, and his actions more than back it up.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: His real name is unknown.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Subverted. He's not shown onscreen getting his comeuppance, but the book clarifies that he was arrested alongside Ray.
Rat Tail
"RT"/"Rat Tail"
Played by: Luke Robertson
A prisoner who originally set up Ray's TOR website.
- The Stool Pigeon: He reveals to Elliot the nature of Ray's website.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: His fate is unknown, other than Lone Star showing his bloody "rat tail" to Elliot, implying Ray had him killed.
Carla
"Hot" Carla
Played by: Eve Lindley
It's surprisingly easy to mentally press pause and ignore the stuff you don't want to deal with.
The local pyromaniac, whom Elliot strikes up a somewhat shaky friendship with during their time in jail.
- Ascended Extra: Gets no lines and plays a very small role in the show, but her annotations make up a sizable amount of the book on top of the more intimate focus on her backstory.
- Bookworm: As she says, "books are kinda my thing."
- Deuteragonist: Of the book. She's one of the first people Elliot meets in prison, and both Elliot's entries and her own annotations give her a pretty significant role in the story.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: After going through numerous abuses that Elliot only sees a fraction of, she's released from the prison while her prime tormentor lands himself a longer sentence. Her final annotation implies that she's heading somewhere nicer and that Elliot is free to come find her if he ever wants to.
- The Idealist: Downplayed, but this shows in her annotations. Despite her poor treatment, she tends to look for the goodness in people and has a quote that directly references, but opposes, a quote of Elliot's: "My secret? I look for the best in people."
- Meaningful Rename: When she transitioned, she chose the name 'Carla' after her mother's old hairdresser, who was the first person to treat her like a woman and took her in when she was kicked out of her home.
- Pyromaniac: She tends to burn books when she finishes reading them. This is also the reason she went to prison in the first place: she set fire to the car of a man who was harassing her in a club, and accidentally started a chain reaction that destroyed twelve cars. She was too transfixed by the flames to make a run for it, and was arrested when the harasser pointed her out to the police.
- Replacement Goldfish: It’s implied that Elliot sees her as one for Shayla. Mr. Robot even calls him out on getting too involved with her and her issues the same way he did with Shayla.
- Rape as Drama: Subjected to this repeatedly in prison.
- Trans Tribulations: She's a transgender woman. Her parents kicked out her out of the house when they found out.
- What the Hell, Hero?: She calls Elliot out after he spreads the rumour that she has an STD around the prison. He did it to prevent the other inmates from harassing and sexually assaulting her (as they had done in the past), but he didn't consider the humiliation and alienation she would feel as a result.
Don Sparks
Don Sparks
Played by: Don Moss
Chaplain
Chaplain
Played by: Bernadette Quigley
A minister who chairs the prayer/encounter group Elliot attends.
- Entertainingly Wrong: Sees Elliot conversing with Mr. Robot and concludes that he's having a come to Jesus with, well, Jesus.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Only known by her job title. Heyworth claims that she's a friend of his but only refers to her as "the chaplain."
- Token Good Teammate: Her pastoral care isn't the greatest but she seems well-intentioned and she's the only non-criminal including the warden that Elliot meets in prison.
The Neonazis
Kevin
Kevin
Played by: Sean Allan Krill
The leader of the prison neonazi gang
- Beware the Quiet Ones: He's part of the church group at the prison. It doesn't mean he's any less dangerous or cruel
- Slashed Throat: How Leon kills him.
Hammerhead
Hammerhead
Played by: Sean Patrick Folster
A member of Kevin's gang
- The Brute: He's the most physically imposing member of Kevin's gang.
- Only Known By His Nickname: His real name is unrevealed.
FBI and Law Enforcement
Santiago
Special Agent in Charge Ernesto Santiago
Played by: Omar Metwally
Senior agent in charge of the investigation into the 5/9 hack.
- Asshole Victim: Two entire seasons of blackmailing, lying, murdering; there are not many sympathetic things about this man. His one Pet the Dog moment is trying to protect Dom from Irving when he thinks she is about to be executed, only to end up being killed himself due to no longer being useful to the dark army. The audience won't necessarily cry over his death, but there is some (slight) sympathy. Overall however, his death is arguably one of the more satisfying.
- Bad Liar: He can hold up his facade easily, but as soon as anyone starts persistently questioning him, he visibly panics and poorly deflects to another issue or action. This tips Dom off that he's not what he seems, and ends up leading to her and Norm busting the Red Wheelbarrow restaurant against his orders.
- Da Chief: The head of the FBI task force investigating the 5/9 hack and Dom's boss.
- Dirty Cop: He's been working with the Dark Army all along, tipping them off whenever they're about to get caught and allowing them to kill innocent people uninhibited. He is also shown to be fully capable of murdering another law enforcement officer, even if he does end up feeling distressed over it.
- Dirty Coward: tipped off the Dark Army about his colleagues location while in China and hid in his hotel room while they were being shot up just a few floors below. Dom promptly chews him out for this once she discovers he’s The Mole.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He’s shown phoning his mother several times, and risks angering the Dark Army by warning her not to leave her house on the day of the attacks. He also implies that the reason he became The Mole in the first place is because the Dark Army threatened to hurt his family if he didn’t.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Despite his anger at Dom for discovering his secret, he still begs Irving not to kill her and before that, he thoroughly expresses disgust at having to kill a cop.
- Jerkass: Doesn't really appreciate Dom's investigation, and frequently holds her back from legally pursuing leads that turn out to be true. Being a Dark Army member, this makes sense.
- Karmic Death: Santiago tries his damnedest to keep the FBI from investigating the Dark Army, but he ends up being chopped to death on behalf of Whiterose for his repeated failures.
- The Mole: The Dark Army's mole in the FBI.
- Mole in Charge: He's in charge of the 5/9 hack investigation and keeps steering it toward the members of fsociety and away from the Dark Army.
- Nervous Wreck: What he ultimately is. The root of all of the condescension, the poor lying, the authoritarianism, and stonewalling, lies in being burnt out from the Dark Army’s antagonistic watch over him. The more Dom and Darlene edge to the Dark Army’s vulnerabilities, the less composure he has.
- Walking Spoiler: Obviously.
- Would Hit a Girl: Punches Dom in the face hard enough to knock her out for hours before kidnapping her along with Darlene
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Irving's reason for killing him.
Norm
Norm
Played by: Rizwan Manji
Dom's new partner working with her to investigate the 5/9 hack.
- Advertised Extra: Despite a significant role in Dom's early scenes, he isn't ultimately that important and she continues investigating solo later.
- Foil: To Dom. He's less serious, less believing, and far less willing to throw himself into danger than she is.
- The Prankster: Loves a good Rickroll.
Tyrell and Joanna's Personal Life
Sutherland
Mr. Sutherland/Donald Hoffman
Played by: Jeremy Holm
The Wellick family's loyal bodyguard, driver and fixer.
- Affably Evil: For the most part.
- The Dragon: Handles Tyrell's and later Joanna's dirty work.
- Taking the Bullet: Tries to when Joanna's spurned lover fires on their car, but he survives getting shot while Joanna doesn't.
- Too Dumb to Live: When a disturbed man is stalking your boss, it might be good to frisk him down for weapons.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Put into hospital after the shoot-out. He disappears from the series without a mention despite being a large part of the Tyrells' life.
Sharon
Sharon Knowles
Played By: Michele Hicks
The wife of Scott Knowles.
- Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: Non-verbally accepts Tyrell's sexual looming over her in the bathroom, and is disappointed when he simply thanks for a lovely evening.
- Asshole Victim: Kinda falls into this since she did cheat on her husband with Tyrell before he murdered her.
- Imperiled in Pregnancy: She was pregnant when she was murdered, though Tyrell didn't know that.
- Out with a Bang: She's murdered in the middle of sex with Tyrell.
- Small Role, Big Impact: She doesn't have a major active role, but her murder at Tyrell's hands adds complications to his arc and his rivalry with Scott Knowles.
- Surprise Pregnancy: Her pregnancy was unplanned, though both she and Scott were happy about it.
Derek
Derek
Played by: Chris Conroy
A bartender and aspiring DJ that becomes Joanna's lover.
- Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: Averted. Derek wants Joanna to become an official couple but she doesn't.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: Becomes one after Joanna cuts all contact following his testimony against Scott Knowles.
Vera's gang
Vera
Fernando Vera/The Brave Traveller
Played by: Elliot Villar
People walk around, act like they know what 'hate' means. Nah, no one does, until you hate yourself. I mean, truly hate yourself. That's power.
A repugnant gangster with a penchant for philosophy who specializes in drug trafficking and murder.
- Ambiguously Bi: Played extremely for Horror when he was introduced, he was obsessed with Shayla, but after he got bored of her and had her killed, he moved on his creepy obsession to Elliot, which completely depicts him as a murderous Yandere for him.
- Allegorical Character: Of Toxic Masculinity, Stalking Behaviour, Domestic Abuse, Incels and Rape Culture.
- Arch-Enemy: While Elliot has made quite a few enemies both within and without the Dark Army, Vera is the one individual who has dealt the most emotional damage to Elliot in the long run by having Shayla murdered, outsmarting him in the process, and getting away with it all. In season 4, Vera is back but wants Elliot to start working for him.
- A Real Man Is a Killer: Unlike Tyrell, who panicked after accidentally killing Sharon and felt guilty for giving Elliot a gutshot, Vera is willing to murder anyone who gets in his way without hesitation. Be it his ex Shayla, his brother Isaac and his henchman D.J..
- Asshole Victim: Considering all he's done, it's hard to feel sympathy for him when he's killed by Krista of all people.
- Ax-Crazy: Vera has zero qualms about murder, nor murder by proxy. He even orders the assassination of his own brother and reacts with what can only be described as vague disappointment:Vera: "DJ, shoot the cocksucker."(DJ complies with a Boom, Headshot!)((Beat)Vera: Huh. My own brother.''
- Big Bad Ensemble: With Whiterose and the Dark Army in season 4.
- Big Bad Wannabe: His poorly thought out plot to take over New York and become "king."
- The Caligula: Him taking over his home country Dominican Republic and planning to "take over" New York next makes him this trope.
- Commonality Connection: A much darker example of this trope. Vera tries to invoke this and use it as a reason as to why he and Elliot are meant to be partners, due to their shared history of depression and child sexual abuse.
- Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the Likable Sociopathic Protagonist trope and the Troubled Abuser. While other villains like Tyrell, Joanna, Irving and Leon were beloved despite their actions, Vera was shown to be extremely despicable and a sadistic rapist. His "charms" and philosophical knowledge weren't going to change the fact that he was nothing but a sociopathic monster who was willing to hurt anyone in his way. And then there is the fact that the reason why he is a constant abuser and rapist is because he himself was sexually abused as a child like Elliot, but it's not portrayed as sympathetic and it's left ambiguous whether or not it was true. That's why it was scary when some of the fans took a liking to him and supported him at the end of "Proxy Authentication Required" and were willing to brush off the fact that he raped and killed Shayla, molested Krista and psychologically abused Elliot.
- Entitled to Have You: In the most creepy and unsettling manner. But just because he and Elliot are "connected", that means that they are meant to be partners, no matter what.
- Establishing Character Moment: While he is unnamed at the time, our first look at Vera is him rather obnoxiously trying to proposition Shayla for a "date," establishing him as a lecher with no respect for boundaries. His second appearance more explicitly shows us that Vera is a scumbag beyond reproach when it is implied that he sexually assaulted Shayla.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Subverted, while he seems to sympathize with Elliot after forcing Krista to reveal that Elliot's father molested him. Vera had previously stated his intentions to break Elliot so he could be subservient to him, meaning this was all an act to gaslight Elliot into thinking Vera is his savior. It's also left ambiguous if Vera's lying or not about being raped himself.
- Evil Counterpart: Vera likes to think that he is the yin to Elliot's yang, despite his inferior technological abilities. He later recognizes this discrepancy and tries to force Elliot into a criminal partnership, intent on making use of Elliot's hacking prowess.
- Expy: Probably for Kilgrave from Jessica Jones (2015). Both are sadistic villains who are obsessed with the psychologically damaged vigilante heroes, are abusive to women and use manipulation to break and control the heroes.
- Even for David McCall from Fear (1996). Both are Ax-Crazy "bad boy" villains who become obsessed with the good guy/girl heroes and even try to kill or molest the people closest to them (Margo and Krista), and the climaxes in both media involve them and their gang breaking into their houses with the intention of killing the said loved ones and taking the protagonist with them. And both the villains get stabbed In the Back with a Chekhov's Gun.
- There's also Drexl Spivey from True Romance (coincidentally or not another Christian Slater vehicle). Like him, Vera is a self-regarding dealer/pimp fascinated by the hero, who casually murders his own associates. Also like Drexl, Vera has the hero's love interest under his thumb. Shayla isn't as lucky as Alabama was.
- Foil: Of Tyrell, albeit more deadly and successful than him. Both are powerful individuals who become obsessed with Elliot. But while Tyrell only wants adoration and permission from Elliot, Vera doesn't take no for an answer and marks his territory on him whether he likes it or not. Notice how Tyrell takes Elliot's rejection of working at E Corp gracefully, whilst Vera doesn't take the rejection well and forces Elliot to be his partner, whether by hurting Krista or exploiting his childhood trauma.
- And surprisingly, for Whiterose as well. Both are powerful individuals who serve as The Chessmaster in manipulating everyone around them, even the people in the highest positions to get up to the top and they have their minions killed for outliving their usefulness. But while Whiterose has a sympathetic reason as to why she does all this, which is to bring back her dead boyfriend and wanting LGBTQ+ people like her accepted, Vera has no reason as to why he is doing all of this other than the fact he does it because he enjoys inflicting pain and suffering on others.
- To Elliot. Both characters suffered through the same trauma - both were sexually abused as children. However, whereas Elliot internalised his pain and sought to take down all the evil that surrounded him so no-one else had to suffer through that kind of pain, Vera externalised his pain and caused others to suffer through the same kind of pain - notably, the first time we meet Vera, he’s sexually abusing Shayla, whereas Elliot swears to take him down because of this. The connection he feels with Elliot is the similar trauma of CSA.
- Faux Affably Evil: Tries to come off as spiritually enlightened and willing to share camaraderie with Elliot based on their mutual struggles with self-hatred, but in his final appearance, Vera has Shayla murdered and leaves Elliot the keys to a car trunk, wherein her bloody corpse lies.
- Freudian Excuse: Apparently, Vera was depressed as a child and had multiple suicidal thoughts, until finally trying to hang himself. In season 4 it turns out that he was sexually abused as a child, much like Elliot. This also makes him a Hypocrite, considering it was his sexual abuse of Shayla that brought him into conflict with Elliot in the first place.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: He was already evil even before he met Elliot but was just a low-life thug that time. But come the end of season 3 and in season 4 he is implied to have benefited from the Dark Army attacks and is shown to be more powerful and dangerous than before.
- Gaslighting: His goal was to drive Elliot insane and force him to submit to him by making him relive his childhood trauma. He planned on using whatever his trauma was so that he could swoop in as Elliot's saviour and abuse and control him.
- Hate Sink: He is nothing but a delusional creepy obsessive stalker who will stop at nothing to get Elliot all to himself. Whether it's killing his former obsession Shayla or kidnapping and threatening to rape Krista.
- Hidden Depths: Some of his philosophical ramblings are quite educated and profound. He also seems to have a small interest in etymology.
- Hypocrite: As mentioned above, he is revealed to have been sexually abused by his own mother's friends as a child, yet earlier in the same episode he felt Krista up while holding her hostage and even threatened to let one of his associates rape her. Also, as mentioned above, his repeated drugging and raping of Shayla is what ultimately kicked off his conflict with Elliot in the first place.
- Idiot Ball: Grasps it firmly when he follows Elliot out of Krista’s office after forcing him to confront his father’s sexual abuse. He gets too distracted by Elliot's beauty and fragility that he stupidly forgets to tie Krista up again before doing so, which gives her just enough time to get her hands on his knife and stab him in the back.
- I Love You Because I Can't Control You: Part of why he ended up moving on to his obsession with Elliot, because he is very aloof, strong-willed and talented in hacking. Later Averted, when he feels a little emasculated by not being able to control Elliot, as implied in his "little bitch" story to Krista. This is what drives to psychologically abuse him into becoming his slave.
- In the Back: Krista stabs him from behind.
- Karmic Death: Killed by his own hostage using the knife that his brother, who he also had killed, used to kill Shayla in Season 1. It’s not a quick death, either — he’s audibly choking on his own blood for a few moments.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: As stated above, after getting away with ruining the lives of Shayla and Elliot for almost a year, he is finally stabbed in the back by Krista with the same knife used to kill Shayla.
- Like Bonnie And Clyde: He wanted this to happen with Elliot by making him his partner in crime.
- Love Makes You Evil: While he was already pure evil from the start, his obsession with Elliot made him even worse and went as far as hurting his therapist Krista just to get him on his side.
- Manipulative Bastard: His plan in season 4 is to mentally break Elliot so that he can put him under his control. He succeeds, but is killed before he can do anything with it.
- Playing the Victim Card: His whole "little bitch and bully" story in a nutshell. It's clear that he sees Elliot as some "bully" he has to take down and break, when in reality Elliot is the victim.
- The Power of Hate: In his own words, his "power". He tells Elliot that a person can't understand themselves until they truly hate themselves.
- Practically Joker: He shows shades of this. He is psychotic and manipulative, he is obsessed with the Broken Bird hero who only wears black, wants to cause chaos For the Evulz and he treats women as nothing but objects.
- Psycho Ex-Boyfriend: Is this for Shayla as he keeps on drugging and raping her.
- Psychological Projection: Vera believes that he and Elliot are connected and after he breaks him into remembering his sexual abuse at the hands of his father, he uses the "Storm" speech to further this evidence that he and Elliot are meant to be partners.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: He's been drugging and raping Shayla. This is the straw that breaks the camel's back and is what pushes Elliot to betray him.
- Sadist: The worst case of it. He has no remorse in killing people to get what he wants, including his brother and Shayla and feels wonder in traumatizing Elliot. He even seems to be the most happy with the results of the Dark Army's attacks.
- Satanic Archetype: He serves as this in contrast to Elliot's Messianic Archetype. His whole motivation to become powerful is For the Evulz, manipulates everyone around him and abuses Shayla, Elliot and Krista. His build even slightly resembles the Satan himself.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Vera appears in only two episodes during season one, and in those episodes, he manages to irrevocably traumatize Elliot by having Shayla kidnapped and murdered, leaving her dead body in the trunk of a car for Elliot to find. This ends up causing Elliot to spiral into a Heroic BSoD that kicks off the third act of the season as well as the eventual Tomato in the Mirror reveal. And then he does it again in Season 4, forcing Elliot to unlock his memories of his sexually abusive father, which is key to the endgame of the series.
- The Sociopath: Fits every criteria. Calm, likes to be falsely polite with people, manipulates people for his own gain, and sees humans as objects for him to destroy. In his first appearance in season 4, he shoots a henchman to death right in front of a young child.
- Stalker with a Crush: Toward his ex-girlfriend Shayla. After he kills her, he moves on to Elliot.
- The Stinger: He finally reappears in the post-credits scene of "Shutdown", driving up to Elliot's apartment building with some fellow gangsters and introducing himself to Darlene as "a brave traveler coming home."
- Stupid Evil: His plan to take over New York City is filled with this to the point where Mr. Robot makes fun of his short sightedness. Vera never considers owning every major building would put him in massive debt and his plan wouldn't get him any power or even leverage over the city. When Elliot brings up his planned hack of the Deus Group and offers Vera the money, he's quick to abandon it after Elliot pulls a gun on him. Even though it was established that he still needs the money for his plan to work.
- Take Over the City: His Evil Plan is to take over The Big Apple.
- Talkative Loon: Talks so much during his first meeting with Elliot that all Elliot hears is a ringing.
- Thinks Like a Romance Novel: Implied in a really disturbing way. But his talk about the universe and cosmos bringing him to Shayla and later Elliot and believing that fate has brought him together with them (he later killed Shayla and brushed her off) and the fact that he sees himself as some sort of a bastard boyfriend who can be redeemed by love. In reality he is a delusional stalker who was obsessed with Shayla and then Elliot.
- The Unfettered: He has no moral code, and is willing to take whatever he wants and murder anyone who gets in his way. He is, in his own words, "free."
- Villainous Crush: His obsession with Elliot serves as this.
- Unsexy Sadist: Unlike Tyrell, who gained a huge fanbase despite his questionable actions, Vera is anything but. He is basically a deconstruction of the Romanticized Abuser, showing that no matter the horrible things he does to Shayla and Elliot, they are still horrible.
- We Can Rule Together: In Season 4, he intends to have Elliot help him to grow his crime empire, no matter what.
- Who's Laughing Now?: The story he tells of his own childhood is of a "little bitch" who one day takes an aluminum baseball bat and savagely beats the bully who'd been tormenting him, also converting that bully to his side.
- Yandere: His utter fixation on Elliot can come off this way, especially in Season 4, when he is stalking Elliot and obsessed with winning him over to his side.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness/You Have Failed Me: In Season 4, he coldly shoots one his most loyal lieutenants to death for not being "detailed oriented" enough.
Isaac
Isaac vera
Played by: Rick Gonzalez
Vera's "aspirational little brother".
- Sibling Murder: Plans to kill his older brother as soon as Vera is sprung from jail because he knows that big brother Fernando will be looking to kill him at the first opportunity. He's too slow on the draw and DJ shoots him in the head on Vera's orders.
- Stupid Crooks: It's his bright idea to advertise the Vera gang's services on social media, which at some point probably would have gotten them caught even if Elliot hadn't tipped the cops on Vera.
Peanuts
Peanuts
Played by: Young M.A
One of Vera's two lieutenants.
- Co-Dragons: With Javi.
- Tattooed Crook: She's a gangbanger with some distinctive facial tattooes
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After they find Vera's corpse, they take his wallet and flee.
Javi
Javi
Played by: Jahneer E. Williams
One of Vera's two lieutenants.
- Co-Dragons: With Peanuts.
- Scary Black Man: He's an African-American criminal and rapist.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Vera all but implies to Krista Javi is a rapist.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After they find Vera's corpse, they take his wallet and flee.
DJ
DJ
Played by: Jas Anderson
One of Vera's henchmen.
- Undying Loyalty: DJ is blindly loyal to Vera.
- You Have Failed Me: Vera kills him because he's not as observant as Vera expected.
Other criminals
"Ron"
"Ron"/Rohit Mehta
Played by: Samrat Chakrabarti
A coffee shop owner and runner of a child sexual exploitation website.
- Asshole Victim: He gets hacked by Elliot, who turns over the child porn evidence to the police to get him arrested.
- Beard of Evil: A bearded peddler of child pornography.
- Pet the Dog: A very minor one, but Ron appears genuinely sympathetic when Elliot brings up his dead father, offering him his condolences and hesitantly asking about how he died.
Deegan
Deegan McGuire
Played by: Alex Morf
An Irish mobster that specializes in making people disappear.
- Big Damn Heroes: He and his men save Dom's family from being tortured and executed by the Dark Army to punish Dominique.
- The Irish Mob: He's a mobster of Irish origin.
- Neighborhood-Friendly Gangsters: He cuts a deal with Dom to save her family from the Dark Army and keep them safe, thus making him a version of the trope.
- Shut Up, Hannibal!: He basically tells Janice to fuck off.
- Tattooed Crook: He has a large facial tattoo of a celtic cross.
- The Unintelligible: Due to his heavy Irish accent, Janice can barely understand him.
