Sure it’s literally betraying a person’s trust but so are backstabbing friends and everything that most stories include, we don’t need to shelter people from the reality of betrayal. I don’t see it ever being romanized or glorified. The cliche itself isn’t the problem, it’s how the individual author chooses portray them, bad boys or gangs themselves aren’t a problem in stories, it’s how the author chooses to either glorify or show the reality of it.
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