Is Elliot's dad real?

Towards the end of Season 1, we discovered that Mr. Robot wasn't real; he was a personality Elliot constructed based on his own father, Edward Alderson. Elliot had (and has) Dissociative Identity Disorder, meaning that like Elliot, it was tough for us to trust what we were seeing in the show at any point.
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Who is Elliot's father?

Edward Alderson was Elliot Alderson's father.
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Is Elliots father alive?

Elliot's mind fractured after he fell from the window and Mr. Robot came into existence the moment after Elliot's real father died before a screening of Back to the Future. Mr. Robot took on the appearance of Elliot's father, the man who was supposed to protect him but abused him and traumatized him instead.
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Did Elliot's dad push him out the window?

When Elliot heard his father approach, he told Darlene to hide in a closet. Then, when Edward entered the room, Elliot began screaming and waving a baseball bat around. He eventually jumped out the window.
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Who abused Elliot Mr. Robot?

Elliot was sexually abused by his father Edward Alderson (also Christian Slater). We come to this horrifying realization in one of the darkest ways possible. Vera spends all of “Proxy” trying to force either Elliot or Mr. Robot to explain the latter's existence.
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Was Tyrell the real Elliot?

“Tyrell doesn't have to be someone for Elliot. Elliot turns out to be almost an idol, someone Tyrell wishes he was, that he didn't have to care about what other people think of him, to fit into this frame that he created for himself and his wife, all of it. Elliot stands for all the freedom that Tyrell really wants.”
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Is Mr. Robot all in Elliot's head?

In the first season, the show revealed that Mr. Robot, the leader of a powerful hacker group called Fsociety, was actually part of Elliot's psyche. A mysterious force that could talk with the hero privately or, more alarmingly, send him into a memory-blocking stupor and take control of his body.
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Was Elliot raped Mr. Robot?

Robot and finds out a crucial information that breaks Elliot: that his father, whom he was close with had constantly raped him as a child. Later Elliot gets saved by Krista when she kills Vera with the same knife that killed Shayla.
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Is Elliot delusional Mr. Robot?

Mr. Robot is a delusion Elliot created, bringing his father back to life. The complete nature of Mr.
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Is Mr. Robot a figment of Elliotts imagination?

Robot was a figment of Elliot's imagination, Elliot clashed with his ghost dad and threw him out of the window of his childhood home. It was an OMG moment that became even OMGer when we later realized that Elliot threw himself out the window while wrestling with his alter ego.
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What was Elliot's monster?

It is a 'selficide' and his hand starts shaking as he stares at the corpse on the floor that looks just like him. The horror music playing seems appropriate and, for the first time, the "pipsqueak in the hoodie", looks truly monstrous. Mr. Robot's two-part finale aired December 22 at 9/8c.
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Is Elliot's dad in Mr. Robot?

Along the way, Elliot was helped, and occasionally impeded, by a mysterious figure named Mr. Robot (Christian Slater). Towards the end of Season 1, we discovered that Mr. Robot wasn't real; he was a personality Elliot constructed based on his own father, Edward Alderson.
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Is Mr. Robot based on a true story?

Robot was inspired by real-life socio-political revolutions. While Elliot's journey and motivations were a reflection of the show's creator Sam Esmail's personal life experiences, those were not the only inspirations behind the show's creation.
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Is Tyrell and Elliot the same person?

Last season culminated with Tyrell reluctantly shooting Elliot—proving once and for all that he was real and not another split personality of Elliot's—and unexpectedly confessing: "I love him." In tonight's episode, the "Tyrelliot" of it all was undeniable: Tyrell tries to tell Elliot that he loves him, only to be cut ...
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How did Elliot's father died?

His father died of leukemia which he developed after working at E-Corp, leaving him in the care of his mother.
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Is Mr. Robot A ghost?

Robot. As revealed at the end of season one, Mr. Robot (Christian Slater), who was the perceived leader of fsociety, is actually the ghost of Elliot's father. The plot twist revealed that one of the show's major characters was just a figment of his imagination.
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Who is Elliot's 3rd personality?

While Mr. Robot has gone meta in the past (see: Season 4 premiere credits fakeout), some fans believe the show is saving its biggest twist for the end, and will reveal that Elliot's third personality is Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail.
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What is Elliot's mental illness?

And it started there, and then from there, the story of "Mr. Robot" kind of spun out. GROSS: Elliot is mentally ill. He has dissociative identity disorder, which used to be known as multiple personality disorder.
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Is Krista real Mr. Robot?

A more recent theory from a different Reddit user agrees that Krista is real, but her intentions aren't genuine, as they wrote: "Krista isn't treating Elliot. She knows he almost definitely has dissociative identity disorder as she knows about Mr. Robot and yet she's done very little.
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What did Vera do to Elliot?

After he leaves, Elliot discovers Shayla, bruised and unconscious in the bathtub. He determines that Vera has drugged and raped her, but she doesn't want to cut ties because she makes good money with him. Within a few weeks, Vera deduces that it was Elliot who turned him in.
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Why was Mr. Robot Cancelled?

Mr. Robot creator, showrunner, and director Sam Esmail has long said that this show was only intended to run for a set amount of seasons, and in planning the fourth season, he realized that the time was right to bring the stories to a natural conclusion.
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When did Elliot become the mastermind?

Season 1, Episode 4, "eps1.

Angela's words had been cut off before, but in the finale she stated, "Isn't it obvious? He tried to tell you. You're not Elliot. You're the mastermind" — indicating from almost the get-go that the mastermind was Elliot's newly created identity, fixated on saving the world from E Corp.
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Did the real Elliot wake up?

And now it's time for you to give that control back to the host: the real Elliot.” Following the confrontation, Elliot wakes up in a hospital bed, miraculously alive despite the Whiterose (BD Wong) project's explosive meltdown.
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