The Film: Die Another Day (2002)
The Traitor: Miranda Frost (Rosamund Pike)
Who Do They Betray? James Bond (Pierce Brosnan)
The name alone should spell trouble - particularly when villain Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens) is revealed to have an ice palace as set up for his big laser weapon demonstration - but Bond is fooled into thinking she's a loyal fellow MI6 agent.
He's taken in enough to shag her (well, it is Bond, let's not forget), but soon realises his error when she shows up to support Graves.
Comeuppance? Frost ends up in a cat fight with Halle Berry's NSA Agent Jinx, and is soon bested with a knife to the chest.
Girl power!
The Film: Matchstick Men (2003)
The Traitor: Frank Mercer (Sam Rockwell)
Who Do They Betray? Roy Walter (Nicolas Cage)
In a movie where identities shift and the art of the con is exposed, it's perhaps not surprising that someone in the film would turn out to be cheating someone else.
Frank ends up pulling a major switcheroo on Roy by using Angela (Alison Lohman) to pretend to be his long-lost daughter and swindling him out of all his money in a complex plot.
Comeuppance? Actually, he gets away with it - Angela later returns to talk to Roy and admits Frank even cut her out of the deal.
So cheats sometimes prosper? Where do we sign up? Oh, wait... bad moral message...
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imaginarium
Sep 10th 2009, 11:26
It was more Lily & James Potter that Peter Pettigrew betrayed.. he was the Secret Keeper & told Voldemort where to find them
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