Were these questions ever raised on the show?
Obviously he's a projected ego of his father, the way Elliot saw him? Not the way he really was right? So Elliot thought that his father was a spy working for Chinese gov but in reality he was just an average shopkeeper guy.
I think he's a version of Elliot's father, if let's pretend and excuse the pun, Evil Corp killed him, but his consciousness and knowledge was dumped into a robot after. So now he's a being that is pissed at evil corp, and society in general, and wants to take down evil corp and 'reset' the world. But instead of being a robot he's a consciousness residing in Elliot.
shareMr robot has to be elliot's repressed hurt/pain personified as his genius father. The newborn entity has an enormous presence. But still, why did it materialize as is father?
Did Elliot "decided" that ecorp has betrayed his father and he has/had all the right to come back to have his revenge. But it is unknown whether his father was a vengeful type of person.
We see people the way we want to see them and not the way they really are. I for example want to see people as one single individual (for simplicity sake) but in reality people have more than one personality in them, some are rare to pop out, some are still developing.
I, personally, wouldn't say Eliott's father/Mr Robot is his hurt/pain personified. It's his anger and hate at a system that ruined his father and took his life away, so you get Mr. Robot, and what does Mr Robot want? To ruin E-corp and bring the world to it's knees.
But then again....we don't know what, if anything, in this show is 'real' ;-)
Hate is the action but anger and then hate are the products of pain/fear. My belief is that mr robot is justified in his world as an agent of change, like a forest fire or an earthquake, whereas elliots rebellion against mr robot justified in his own where he wants to give the afflicted ones a chance to reflect and not just perish, but I;m not sure if elliot understands his actions fully. Both worlds are part of a bigger reality so they have to come to terms, both cannot win nor lose. If they just sit down and reflect, instead of attacking each other, why would elliot not try to figure out mr robot, who he really is, I mean figure out the darkest corner of his mind.
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