Papa Smurf

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Papa Smurf

Papa Smurf is a male fictional character from the Smurfs. He is the 3rd-oldest of the Smurfs (after Grandpa and Nanny), and their leader. He is 542 years old, and can be easily distinguished from the other Smurfs by his red clothes and his bushy white beard.

1 Character
2 Duty
3 Alchemy
4 Trivia
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Character

Papa Smurf is gentle, wise, and knowledgeable. Not only does he serve as leader, he also has diplomatic skills in case they meet humans or other creatures, and manages to speak without using the "smurf" word.

[edit] Duty

Papa Smurf's duty is to ensure all the Smurfs of the village get along well, are nice to each other, and don't fight. When real chaos rises among them, Papa Smurf takes very drastic measures, often using magic, like switching bodies with Gargamel in order to pretend to attack the village ("Smurf Versus Smurf" issue) or even creating a whole other village of evil doubles of the original Smurfs ("The Smurf Menace" issue).

[edit] Alchemy

When he is not doing his leader or "father-knows-best" job, Papa Smurf indulges in his favorite hobby: magical chemistry, or Alchemy. He often makes elixirs to help out Smurfs who get themselves into peril. His house is a huge lab with several chemical devices, and he tries to create potions for the good of the Smurfs, yet sometimes fails, like the time he accidentally created a substance that turned any living thing into a huge monster (see the album: "The Smurfs and the Cracoucass").

[edit] Trivia

Some people have likened him to Karl Marx (see: The Smurfs and communism), or to a generic communist leader.

Making a parody of NBC's constant creation of bizarre miniseries, Saturday Night Live used the Smurfs as an example. In this example, Sean Connery (parodied and portrayed by Darrell Hammond) portrayed the live-action Papa Smurf.