Mr. Robot ending explained: Everything we know about Elliot's true identity from the series finale

Mr. Robot, starring Rami Malek finally concluded its four-season run in December 2019, and its two-part finale will always be one of the most shocking finales ever.

The show follows a cyber-security engineer, Elliot, who becomes part of an online group of hackers led by Mr. Robot. It was earlier revealed that Mr. Robot is not real but a personality created by Elliot modeled after his abusive father.

It is revealed that Elliot has dissociative identity disorder because of the s*xual abuse he suffered from his father in childhood and as a result, he creates various personalities as a coping mechanism for him to feel safe.

The Season 4 finale revealed that Elliot was an unreliable narrator throughout the show, and the version we saw throughout the four seasons was not the real Elliot, but another personality created by him, called The Mastermind.

More on Elliot's true identity in Mr.Robot in our story.

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Elliot sees his alternate happy version in the Mr. Robot finale Part 1

The finale is divided into two parts since there is a lot to unpack about who Elliot is. In Part 1 of this finale, Elliot wakes up in Coney Island and senses a change in his surroundings. He sees that his parents are still alive, and not only alive, but they are normal and not abusive towards him.

Darlene does not exist in this reality, and soon, Elliot finds out that he is about to marry Angela, his best friend, tomorrow. Things soon start to get weird, and Elliot meets another version of himself, the Elliot who lives here. When he sees that this Elliot is living his perfect life and he will never have it, he kills him and packs his body in a box.

He takes his place and readies himself to marry Angela. But he is visited by Mr. Robot, who tells him that he could never have this perfect life because it is not real. It is another fragment of Elliot's imagination, like the one standing in front of Mr. Robot right now, a “recursive loop that you constructed to keep him occupied.”

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Mr. Robot's protagonist was not the real Elliot, but The Mastermind all along

After the revelation made by Mr. Robot that he is also not real, Elliot wakes up in his therapist Krista's office and reveals to her (and the audience) that the Elliot that exists in the show's four seasons was not the real Elliot, but another alternate personality called The Mastermind.

The real Elliot (who we have never met) created this personality of a hacker in a hoodie who can do anything to make himself feel safe after the trauma he suffered in his childhood. The Mastermind's aim to take down Ecorp makes sense because, in a way, he was trying to create a world for the real Elliot where he would not have to work.

After this realization that he is not real, The Mastermind joins the other personalities created by the real Elliot in a movie theatre where they all watch the real Elliot.

In the final scene, Darlene visits the real Elliot in the hospital as he is awakening and says, 'Hello, Elliot', finishing the show after a complete circle (the show started with 'Hello, Friend')

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