Minor characters in The Smurfs
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This is a list of characters in The Smurfs comics and animated series. For the major characters, see Major characters in The Smurfs.
[edit] Smurfs
[edit] Alchemist (aka Apprentice, Clumsy)
At first, the Alchemist Smurf was just a regular smurf. Yet, he often spied in Papa Smurf's laboratory when he was doing his chemical and magical experiments, and he really felt like doing the same, making great magical things too. To achieve his desire, he offered to work as an assistant to Papa Smurf in his experiments, but Papa gently declined, saying he was too young for this. Apprentice Smurf then tried to break inside several times, always failing.
He then decided to go break inside Gargamel's mansion, who was also a sorcerer holding magical and chemical secret books. Alchemist Smurf was in such a hurry that he only managed to get one page from a formula book and ran back to the village. The stolen page told the recipe of a magical potion, yet didn't tell of the effects as the rest was in the book left behind (the smurf wasn't strong enough to bring the whole thing). Not giving up his passion, the little smurf worked on the recipe.
He made a strange mixture, but being afraid of its consequences, he first tried to offer it to other smurfs, who declined. He ended up drinking it himself, which magically turned him into a repulsive reptilian scaled creature. He sought help from Papa Smurf, who tried his best to find an antidote, but failed. The Alchemist Smurf then went on his own back to Gargamel's but got captured. The other smurfs went to his rescue, found the antidote's recipe and changed Apprentice Smurf back to his old self. Returning, Alchemist Smurf learned his lesson. The use of magic and chemistry was just too far beyond him.
In the cartoon episode, The Smurfs' Apprentice, Apprentice Smurf is Clumsy.
[edit] Actor
Actor Smurf used to be Timid Smurf until he lost his shyness. Actor appeared once in the cartoon series.
[edit] Architect
Architect Smurf designs all the mushroom houses of the smurf village. In the cartoon, Architect, burned out on designing only mushroom houses, built a skyscraper to replace the village. After a fire burns the skyscraper down, the smurfs move back into the village.
[edit] Baker
Baker Smurf is the local baker of the village. He directs a bakery shop and provides fresh bread for the smurfs. He can be distinguished by his sloppy hat. Baker Smurf had the most spotlight (maybe his only appearance) in the album Le Schtroumpf Financier (Finance Smurf), where he is one of the Smurfs who have had the better luck with money.
[edit] Clockwork
Clockwork Smurf is a wooden automaton (robot) who was built by Handy Smurf. Despite the technology level the smurfs are at (it is the Middle Ages), he is capable of feelings and morality. Clockwork Smurf's favorite trick is eating smilax leaves and turning them into hot smilax soup and giving them to his fellow smurfs.
Gargamel eventually found Clockwork Smurf and replaced him with a double, replacing his smilax concoction with a mutating potion that turned most of the smurfs who drank it into misshapen monsters. The smurfs came to get an antidote and succeeded, while Clockwork Smurf defeated his doppelgänger in personal combat.
Handy endowed his creation with a literal heart of gold, which is responsible for making Clockwork the caring smurf he is. However, being composed of gold, the heart is sometimes the target of schemes by various greedy and villainous characters. When Clockwork's heart is replaced with a heart of stone in one episode, Clockwork becomes cold, antisocial, and dangerous toward his fellow smurfs.
In Clockwork's debut episode, The Clockwork Smurf, he helps Prince Gerard overcome the schemes of his aunt and become king. Clockwork stays on with Gerard but visits the smurfs (and vice versa) in later episodes.
[edit] Clumsy
A somewhat dimwitted but amiable smurf, he is distinguished by his baggy cap and his eponymous maladroitness. He is known for his hobby: collecting rocks. In one episode he was confined to his house for seven years after breaking Vanity's mirror, due to the bad-luck curse poisoning the village. He exiled himself to the forest. The same night a meteor demolished the house, and the other smurfs, thinking him killed, eulogized him passionately. Though not terribly bright, a klutz, and a terrible smurfball player, he is a good and caring friend. Brainy lost his glasses once, and being extremely nearsighted, depended on Clumsy to guide him along. Clumsy faithfully led his poor blind friend about for days while Papa Smurf went on a quest to get him new glasses. He is the best friend to Brainy Smurf.
[edit] Chef
Chef Smurf is the cook of the village. He knows dozens of recipes and cooks many dishes (usually cakes) that please the Smurfs. Smurfs are mainly vegetarian, so he never uses meat, but does use eggs. He always wears a chef hat.
In the cartoon series, Chef Smurf and Greedy Smurf are combined as the same Smurf: Greedy, who usually ends up eating his own creations (in one of the albums, Chef Smurf was once called "Greedy Smurf").
[edit] Dabbler
Dabbler is the most introverted and sentimental smurf. He is constantly tormented by an inherent sadness which stems from the inability of his friends and family to understand him. Dabbler's life is a never-ending quest for love and to be understood.
[edit] Doctor
Although Papa Smurf is the village's only acknowledged doctor, a Smurf was in the passion of taking a course of medicine. Therefore, when Papa Smurf had a breakdown after working stress, the Smurf took the doctor job into his hands, becoming Doctor Smurf. However, Doctor Smurf had a very superficial knowledge of medicine and health, using scattered sources of medical books to give prescriptions to his patients. Nevertheless, he took great pride in his self-established job, which was lackluster at best, harmful at worst. Some disappointed smurfs then decided to use their own ways of medicine, such as acupuncture or psychology.
It was only when an alchemist human friend of Papa Smurf arrived to heal him personally that the Doc Smurfs realized their mistake: health and medicine are too important to be taken so slightly and superficially, and it requires heavy studies.
Doc Smurf appeared in the album Docteur Schtroumpf.
[edit] Dopey
Dopey Smurf is portrayed as the least intelligent among the smurfs. Other smurfs often request him to get some object and then he returns a different one, having misunderstood. This is a running gag in the comics.
[edit] Enamored
Enamoured Smurf is in love with Smurfette ever since her arrival. He dreams about her, carves her name in trees and pulls the petals off daisies, reciting "She loves me, she loves me not...". When she loves him not, he cries all night.
A Smurf once played a trick against Enamored Smurf: he pulled some petals from all the daisies he used so that he would always end at "She loves me not".
[edit] Farmer
Farmer Smurf is a farmer who grows crops for the other smurfs. He is easy to distinguish from the other smurfs: he wears dark green overalls, wooden clogs, and a straw hat, with the usual (for smurfs) white Phrygian cap. In the original French version, he speaks in typical hillbilly lingo. In the animated series he spoke with a distinct Maine "potato farmer" patois (provided by Alan Young) (and looked like a normal smurf but usually carried a hoe).
[edit] Finance
Finance Smurf is notable in smurf comics for introducing the system of money among his peers. He appeared in one album, "The Finance Smurf". He used to be a regular smurf who was sent to a wizard, Master Omnibus, to get medicine for Papa Smurf who got sick after a failed experiment. As Omnibus' disciple Olivier went to buy ingredients for the medicine, the smurf discovered money, its use, and its importance in society.
When he returned to the village, he became Finance Smurf and introduced the money system (in the form of gold coins) among the smurfs, as he thought that this system could only benefit them.
The money use was a big problem: a lot of smurfs didn't have much competence to be able to get jobs for money, too many things had to be paid, there was too much stinginess, corruption, and an economic crisis. Gargamel even tried to steal the smurfs' golden coins for himself, only to be thwarted, of course.
The smurfs realized that money only divided them, made life too hard, and made several of them poor and unhappy. So they decided to reject its use and returned to their own free style. As Papa Smurf said to Finance Smurf: "Money was created by humans for the humans, and what is good for humans is not necessarily good for us smurfs!"
[edit] Fisher
Fisher Smurf is a smurf whose main hobby is fishing. Fisher Smurf, strangely, doesn't use hooks on his fishing lines, saying that they would "injure his fishes". Fisher Smurf also hunts (catches) butterflies sometimes.
[edit] Flying (aka Aviator)
Flying Smurf has a sole passion in life: flying. He tried several ways to fly in the air: sticking feathers on his arms, using a hot air balloon, even eating yeast mixture! His attempts were only short-lived, and he gave up for a while, until he sought assistance from Handy Smurf. The mechanic built for him a big wooden mechanical plane. As he flew with it, he impressed all the smurfs... except Smurfette, as he accidentally messed up her house. Still, she was less unhappy when he managed to save her from the clutches of Gargamel the sorcerer. He then became for a while Aviator Smurf.
[edit] Grandpa
Grandpa Smurf (doesn't appear in the original comics) is the oldest smurf, walks slightly bent over with a cane, has a long, tapering beard, and wears yellow overalls and glasses. His favorite expression seems to be "Smurfadoodle!". He was created for the Hanna-Barbera cartoon and does not appear in the original comics, except in the comic strip adaptations of the special smurf French magazine.
Grandpa Smurf comes back to village after a five hundred-year leave. He has not taken Papa's leading role but his energy and enthusiasm are impressive. Besides wearing a bright yellow cap and pants, Grandpa always wears pince-nez glasses. He's an avid storyteller and loves to show off some of the souvenirs he has collected during his travels.
[edit] Greedy
Greedy Smurf is, as his name says, greedy and is almost always shown eating cakes and other pastry (and less often, fruits).
In the cartoon, his character was combined with that of Chef Smurf, where he enjoys baking and cooking, but eventually ends up eating his own creations, hence the name. He wears a chef's hat and apron in the comics but a hankerchief, instead of an apron, in the cartoon.
In the cartoon series, Greedy gets hold of a magic crown which allows him to put the other smurfs under his control. Known then as Master Smurf, he becomes leader of the smurf village for a time. It was only after Papa Smurf, having found another crown and tricking Greedy into losing his crown, does peace and normality return again to the village.
[edit] Handy
Handy Smurf, wearing overalls and with a pencil above his ear, is the handyman of the smurfs, with many inventions under his belt: a weather-changing machine (that went haywire in comics issue, and cartoon episode, "The Weather-Smurfing Machine"), Clockwork Smurf, smurfberry pickers, firetruck, laundry machine, windmills (one of which was converted into a helicopter in the cartoon episode Never Smurf Off 'Til Tomorrow), watermill, cranes, smurferator (aerator), etc. His best friend is Hefty Smurf. In the cartoons Handy is unique among smurfs in that he has a steady girlfriend- Marina the mermaid.
[edit] Harmony (or Rocker)
Harmony Smurf is a misnomer, seeing as his musical ability shows a total lack of harmony (his original name in the French version is "Musician Smurf", and in early English translations of the books he was dubbed Rocker Smurf).
He is a music player, keeping lots of musical instruments in his house. He especially loves to play the trumpet. He has more passion than talent, though, and he persistently plays awfully and loudly, causing the other Smurfs to plug their ears in frustration. On one occasion they gave him a musical box which, they thought, would only play lovely music, but in his hands it somehow played bad music.
In the "King Smurf" album, King Smurf gave him a drum to make announcements (and to stop him playing the trumpet), but he still managed to make bad sounds come out of it. Even after the fall of King Smurf, he kept that "second job" and uses the drum to summon the smurfs to the village square and read announcements.
Like the other musician Cacofonix from the Asterix comics, Harmony plays so harshly and loudly that he sometimes causes rain to fall.
One time, Harmony Smurf played so badly that he was thrown out of a musical concert. Annoyed, he wandered around the forest voicing his frustrations, thinking that the others were jealous because he was actually better than they were (which he wasn't). Gargamel overheard him and decided to use him as an instrument of revenge against the Smurfs, so he disguised himself as a fairy, and gave him a magical instrument, a Shalakazoo ("turlusiphon" in the original version), claiming that it would only play beautiful music. When Harmony Smurf returned to the village to show his "new talent", he played the Shalakazoo and its evil music threw all the smurfs into a deep coma. Not being able to awaken them, a horrified Harmony Smurf discovered that Gargamel was behind all this and confronted him in a pursuit in the woods where he tried to use the Shalakazoo on Gargamel, who kept his ears blocked. He got the opportunity to destroy the sorcerer once and for all while he was desperately hanging above a cliff, but knew it would be wrong to strike an enemy who was down. Harmony Smurf then discovered to his horror that no known remedies existed against the Shalakazoo, and he angrily burned the evil instrument which exploded in devilish fire. Returning to the village, he prepared to give a funeral to the smurfs and, depressed, he played them a sonata on his trumpet, which woke them up from the curse. As a revived Hefty Smurf put it: "You play so badly you'd smurf the dead." To thank him for what he'd done, the other smurfs allowed him to be part of the concert, though they kept their ears blocked with cork stoppers. (Schtroumpfonie en ut (Smurphony In C), published in 1963.)
[edit] King
King Smurf used to be a regular smurf, but his passion was power as a leader. His story was first published in 1964 and a TV cartoon episode was made called The King Smurf (where Brainy Smurf is the one who becomes the King).
When Papa Smurf left the village for a few weeks in order to get some chemical ingredients, the smurfs were left with no leader. An argument ensued when they all claimed the post and was solved by the decision to have a vote. In order to win King-Smurf-to-be made promises to almost all the smurfs, who were convinced. He also put up posters and held a parade. After making a big political speech, he won 96% of the votes (the other two going to Brainy Smurf, who was supported by himself and Dim-Witty Smurf who had got the wrong idea).
Once elected to power he put on golden-coloured clothes, and asked the smurfs to refer to him as "Majesty". He later wore a royal cape, crown, and sceptre. He called himself the "Schtroumpfissime" (cf. generalissimo), or the King Smurf in English.
The smurfs laughed off his pretence, something he did not take with amusement. Instead he became authoritarian and the Smurfs began to despise him as he became corrupted by power: King Smurf imposed a repressive regime and installed an armed troop of guards, who punished all opposition. He forced the Smurfs into building him a palace and wore them out. This and other measures added to his unpopularity.
Some frustrated smurfs ran away into the forest, forming a resistance movement. They harassed King Smurf in various ways before launching an all-out attack on his fortress. King Smurf's troops fought back by pelting the rebels with tomatoes, but they got into the barricaded village and destroyed his castle with explosives.
King Smurf was helpless with only his guards to support him. He defiantly refused to stand down and, with the village already in ruins, the final fight was about to begin when Papa Smurf returned from his journey, demanding an explanation.
The sudden return of paternal authority brought an end to the battle and the embarrassed Smurfs had to explain themselves to Papa Smurf. He was very angry with them for "having behaved like humans" and mostly put the blame on King Smurf. Extremely remorseful, the ex-King Smurf said he would fix on his own all the damage that the village had suffered. The other Smurfs felt sorry for him, and offered their help, claiming it was also their fault, and that they still liked him after all. Ex-King Smurf was touched by this and so was Papa Smurf who forgave them all.
In this story, Peyo appears to make several comments about government, the lengths politicians will go to be elected (such as making promises that they fail to keep) and the corruption of power. The embarrassment the Smurfs feel when Papa Smurf returns makes the final battle seem like a schoolyard game which got out of hand.
[edit] Lazy (aka Sleepy)
Lazy Smurf is the laziest of all the smurfs. He spends almost all his time sleeping, either in his bed, a hammock, on grass or anywhere. When the smurfs have to go work on their local dam or gather food for winter, Papa Smurf very often has to push Lazy Smurf around, who hates to work, once saying that "I have never [worked] before in my life! It makes me tired! If I work, I'll become sick!".
In the comic issue "The Strange Awakening of Sleepy Smurf", the other smurfs decided to play a big prank on him. As he fell asleep, they all disguised themselves as very old smurfs and gave an old and dingy look to the village, so that they could trick him into thinking that he fell asleep way too long (probably inspired by the story of Rip van Smurf).
[edit] Miner
Miner Smurf is the local miner of the village. He runs a mine in the forest where most fossil material used among the smurfs comes from. He has great pride and passion in his work, and prefers to get building matter instead of gold, which he dislikes as being too soft (and that he happily gave away to Finance Smurf). Miner Smurf speaks with a Scottish accent and is dressed quite differently from the other smurfs: he wears an old dark blue jacket and trousers and a metal hard hat that is the same shape as any smurf's cap.
In the cartoon he looks like a normal smurf except he wears green-yellow gloves and has a small wax candle on the top of his dirty hat for illumination.
In one cartoon episode, Handy's Window-Vision, Miner played a crucial role in a parable about watching too much television. Miner dug up a cache of special crystals--one which acted as a transmitter (camera) and others which were receivers (TVs). Soon, thanks to Handy, every smurf had a crystal in his home. They made their own around-the-clock broadcasts. Chores were soon neglected. To make matters worse, Gargamel, after discovering the crystal mine, blundered into Smurf Village and happily began capturing smurfs left and right.
[edit] Nanny
An old flame of Grandpa Smurf's, Nanny enters the cartoon series after being trapped inside a cursed castle for centuries. Grandpa and the others rescue her, and she makes her home with them in the village.
[edit] Nat/Natural
Nat is one of the smurflings. He wears dark green overalls and a straw hat (such as Farmer Smurf) but goes barefoot. He loves animals and often hangs around with them, particularly with a caterpillar. His name is short for Natural Smurf since that's who he was before his age was reversed and he became a smurfling. He and the other smurflings have a dog named simply "Puppy" (whose name is literally the same in the original French version).
[edit] Nosy
Nosy Smurf is always curious, always wanting to know everything. In fact, he is so curious he peeks around through the other smurfs' businesses, causing problems for everybody.
In the cartoon episode, "The Lost City of Yore," Nosy Smurf plays a significant role.
[edit] Painter
Painter Smurf isn't just a painter; he is active in most visual arts. Often wearing a red jacket with a black tie, he is seen either doing a painting or a sculpture. In the cartoon, he speaks with a French accent, and his hat is flopped over to resemble a French beret. When he finishes one of his works of art, he declares it a "Master-peza!"
[edit] Poet
Poet Smurf is the local poet. Very sensitive and artistic, he spends most of his time wandering in nature to improvise poems about it and sometimes has trouble finding verses that rhyme. He usually manages to do it through some accident (such as slipping on a soap or having a pear fall on his head). Poet Smurf is one of the smurfs who more actively woos Smurfette.
[edit] Pushover
Pushover Smurf was a smurf that allowed everyone to step all over him. Whatever anyone asked of him, he would do, until he realized that sometimes he could say no.
[edit] Reflection (aka Hundredth)
Reflection Smurf (actually is unnamed) is the 100th smurf (as at first there were only 99 smurfs). He used to be Vanity Smurf's reflection, as the name implies but came to life after a lightning bolt struck a mirror Vanity Smurf made. The reflection did everything Vanity did, but in reverse, including his talking. Being rejected by Vanity Smurf for being a nuisance, he felt lonely and tried to get back in the mirror he came out, but as he crashed through it, he turned into a normal smurf not doing anything in reverse anymore. Reflection Smurf then came back to the village and was accepted as a regular smurf and Vanity Smurf acknowledged him as his "twin smurf". Papa Smurf was particularly glad as the village needed 100 Smurfs in order to do their traditional "Moon Dance".
[edit] Reporter
Reporter Smurf took a job as a reporter to write sensational articles for his own newspaper. His tendency to look for controversial news caused him problems.
[edit] Sassette
Sassette is a smurfling and the second of only three female smurfs to be depicted, appearing after Smurfette and before Nanny. She is a little freckled redhead girl with pigtails, and wears pink overalls.
Sassette actually has the same origins as Smurfette (with a minor difference, she wasn't made by Gargamel). The smurflings (Slouchy, Nat, and Snappy) were pitying Smurfette who felt lonely, being the only girl in the village, so they decided to help her. They learned from Papa Smurf that Smurfette was indeed created magically by Gargamel out of clay. They then went to steal Gargamel's formula and magical recipes for creating Smurfette. They successfully created Sassette, who this time didn't need plastic smurfery (though her rude behavior and attitude needed a bit of chemical tweaking). As they introduced Sassette to Smurfette, Smurfette was overjoyed at having a female friend, albeit a bit of a tomboy.
Of course, they didn't realize that Gargamel had cast a spell on the claybank that would have quite literally turned the little smurfling into a living bomb when the noon sun struck her. Papa's quick thinking and a fortuitous cloud over the sun saved both Sassette and the other smurfs. Gargamel, getting too close to the clay, ended up a victim of his own treachery.
Sassette is a jolly girl who is quite simple-minded. She loves playing smurfball (a game similar to soccer) and disliked reading (until she eventually learned how). Some episodes suggest that she has a crush on Hefty, as she is quick to compliment him on his strength and althleticism. She frequently calls Papa Smurf "Pappy", which he finds irksome, but tolerates. Sassette is unique among the smurfs in that she is fond of Gargamel and is convinced there is good in him calling him "Pappy Gargamel"(noting that it was his formula that led to her creation).
[edit] Scaredy (aka Brave)
Scaredy Smurf, as his name says, easily gets scared by anything, whether it is a small insect or the noise of storm. He is often teased by the smurfs because of this.
Yet, one time, he was able to chase Gargamel from the village on his own, by overcoming his own fear. He has then been for a while named "Brave Smurf", yet his scaredy nature came back, and he returned to his normal self, much to his disappointment and sadness.
Smurfette reasured him by saying she has special liking for him, since he is more sensitive than most of the smurfs. Scaredy Smurf then no longer took shame in his scaredy nature.
[edit] Sloppy
Sloppy Smurf is a filthy smurf with a passion for dirt, garbage, and rotten fruit. His face is perpetually grimy, his hat is grubby and dishevelled (too big), and one of his loose stockings is perpetually torn, revealing his toes. Sloppy owns a pet fly named "Fly" whom he sometimes walks on a leash and taught to do tricks like a dog.
[edit] Slouchy
Slouchy Smurf had the aging process reversed and was transformed into Slouchy Smurfling. Slouchy is not a very enthusiastic Smurf and often takes a relaxed pose, eyes half-closed. Slouchy has a yellow tee-shirt (red tee-shirt in the cartoon) and loose fitting white cap..
[edit] Snappy
Snappy Smurf had his age reversed and became Snappy Smurfling. Snappy wears a red tee-shirt (yellow tee-shirt with a storm cloud on it in the cartoon) - which is indicative of his disposition. Snappy can be quite snappy at times!
[edit] Sneezy
Sneezy Smurf is a smurf who is very cold-sensitive. Always shivering, he is always wrapped in a big scarf. Despite wearing several thick warm clothes, he still can't get over his permanent flu, making him sneeze often. It seems his body itself is cold-generating, as carrying soft drinks keeps them fresh, and when trying to blow soap bubbles, he blows ice cubes instead!
[edit] Stinky
Stinky Smurf hated to wash, which gave him an awful and unbearable body scent, making him attract flies and repel his fellow Smurfs, especially Smurfette. Although he once managed to thwart Gargamel using his stench, he was forcefully given a bath and became Nice-Smelling Smurf.
[edit] Sweepy
Sweepy Smurf is a chimney sweep with an Australian or British Cockney accent. He carries a chimney sweep broom, wears a black brimmed hat, red scarf around his neck, and black pants/shoes. He tends to have a dirt cloud around him, causing everything (and everyone) around him to get dirty.
[edit] Tailor
Tailor makes all the clothes in the village. He's often seen with a needle or two in his cap and a tape measure around his neck, and spoke in the animated version, as a New York City tailor of Ashkenazi ancenstry might be expected to.
[edit] Timid (aka Actor)
Timid is a very shy smurf. One time, he tried to make friends with a baby dragon he found in the woods. He called him "Grumpf" as this was the sound he made when he spat fire. Grumpf caused damage in the village as he was quite big, heavy and greedy. His parents returned to get him, but still Grumpf remains a friend to Timid Smurf.
In the animated series, during a festival, Timid impersonated various smurfs but was discovered only when the festival actually started and the other smurfs found out by the inferior craft, e.g. bad food, faulty stage construction. He was then renamed Actor smurf for being able to act as any other smurf so well.
[edit] Tracker
Tracker Smurf (original cartoon character) wears a small red feather in his cap and sometimes carries a walking stick. He has a talent for predicting snow simply by sniffing the air. In one episode he asked Tailor to sew him a coat of some fur scraps, claiming cold weather was coming. The other smurfs laughed--then, when the village was blanketed by a sudden blizzard, were sorry. Jealous of Tracker's spiffy coat, they schemed to steal it--and ended up destroying it. Except for Tracker and Papa, the whole smurf population was soon ill with pneumonia. Tracker, in his hastily-fixed coat, was the only one who could brave the storm (and Gargamel's machinations) to fetch a special root for a curative tea to help his friends.
Tracker is one of the smurfs who was phased out in later cartoon episodes, replaced by Nat (Natural Smurf), who has been both adult and child. Both share a passion for nature and a love for animals, often speaking to the beasts of the forest.
[edit] Vanity
Vanity is a stylish smurf, most of the time seen wearing a pink flower on his hat. He is the epitome of the modern trend metrosexual. He often holds a hand mirror which he stares into at his reflection (narcissism) and kisses often.
[edit] Weakling
Weakling Smurf is a smurf with very low self-esteem who thinks he's worthless. He first appeared in the album "The Olympic Smurfs" where the smurfs decided to compete in sport games. When Weakling decided to join, his peers thought of him as a joke since he wasn't very strong or clever. This depressed him, so Papa Smurf decided to boost his self-esteem by putting some strength cream on his nose, saying it would make him a winning champion. Weakling Smurf went through the Olympic Games on his own, in a one-man team, and won the championship, as he believed he really was strong. As he received the final prize, Weakling Smurf said that he actually doesn't deserve the honor, since he used the strength cream. Papa Smurf intervened, saying that the cream was just some jam, and that his deeds were psychological effects, results of his determination and courage. He therefore actually deserved it.
In the cartoon, the basis of this experience was kept: to boost his self-esteem, Papa came up with a strength salve (in reality, a jar of smurfberry jam) for Weakling to put on his nose. When wearing the salve, Weakling's physical strength and prowess ostensibly increased. He did feats of strength to rival Hefty Smurf's and was loved by all. After the smurfs' wooden bridge fell apart in a storm, he commandeered the effort to fix it...and had to dive into the rapids to save Handy after a strut knocked him out and into the raging river. The "salve" was washed away in the water, and Weakling found the strength had been in him all along; he just had to believe in himself to tap into it.
[edit] Wild
Wild Smurf was lost in the forest when he was a baby, and he grew as a Tarzan-like woodsman, raised by squirrels, dressed only in leaves. He is not understood by the other Smurfs, but can communicate with animals.
[edit] Wooley
Wooley Smurf shears sheep and wears a wool hat and shears on a belt. He helped the smurfs rescue the sleep-inducing counting sheep in the dream world after Gargamel herded them away from their hopping fence. Wooley often talks with a Texan accent.
[edit] Supporting (Non-Smurf) Characters
[edit] Balthazar
(Voiced by Keene Curtis) Cartoon original character, Balthazar was the rich but disdainful godfather of Gargamel. A powerful sorcerer, Balthazar was more evil than Gargamel as well.
[edit] Bigmouth
Bigmouth is a dimwitted ogre who frequently breaks into Gargamel's hovel and eats his food. He was a large smurf in one cartoon episode, Bigmouth Smurf. Bigmouth likes smurfberries and has often threatened the crops, able to eat months worth of food for the Smurfs in minutes. He is friends with whoever may be offering him something in exchange. He will help Gargamel, or help the Smurfs, depending on who is offering more in return (usually food). He has a love interest named Bignose. She is basically a female version of Bigmouth with a big nose. Another large character, Bigteeth, shows up in one episode showing interest in Bignose and making Bigmouth jealous.
[edit] Chlorhydris
Cartoon original character, she is a sorceress who was the wife of the deceased ruler of a small nearby kingdom, Chlorhydris remained the queen of this kingdom. Once a gentle, caring person, the grief over her husband's death left her hating emotions, especially love. Chlorhydris devoted her time to schemes to remove love from the world. Although her plans never directly involved the smurfs (she was mostly unaware of their existence), the smurfs would occasionally foil her plans.
On the cartoon series, it was eventually revealed that Chlorhydris became evil and bitter after her husband left her under the influence of an evil spell. She dedicates her entire being to destroying love in the world, and is one of the most threatening characters the Smurfs encounter during their adventures. Her name is probably an inversion of "hydrochloric acid," one of the most powerful acids known to science.
[edit] Father Time
Father Time, portrayed in the classic image of the wizened old man with the white robe and scythe, is in charge of time. He is a good friend of the Smurfs and Mother Nature.
[edit] Feathers
Feathers is a stork friend of Papa Smurf in the U.S. cartoon series. Feathers seems willing to transport Papa Smurf on travels that take him beyond the confines of Smurf Village and the surrounding forest.
In the original comic, Papa Smurf often calls a stork to ride it, but it doesn't have a name.
[edit] Hogatha
Cartoon original character, Hogatha is almost a female version of Gargamel. In the cartoon episode, The Fake Smurf, The smurfs gain her enmity when they accidentally find a magic locket that belongs to her and is the source of her power. She teams up with Gargamel to get it back but the smurfs destroy it and her with it. Surprisingly, Hogatha returns later revealing that the smurfs had only taken one of her nine lives. Vowing revenge against the smurfs, she casts a spell on herself that turns her into a smurf so she could infiltrate their village. She calls herself "Snorty" due to her characteristic snort in her speech. The smurfs eventually discovered her identity as the "snort" speech impediment was a regular characteristic of Hogatha.
[edit] Homnibus
Homnibus is an old human wizard and friend of Papa Smurf with whom he likes to play chess. He is served by a young man called Olivier.
[edit] Mother Nature
Mother Nature is a plump old woman with a kind disposition. She's in charge of the smooth running of nature's course. She is a good friend of the Smurfs, especially Papa Smurf. She also seems to know Father Time rather well.
[edit] Nemesis
Cartoon original character, Nemesis is a sinister, hiccupping creature shrouded in a purple robe. He is an evil wizard like Gargamel, only powerful. (Looks a bit like Charles Dickens' Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come.) Is constantly trying to steal the Long-Life Stone, which is the magical artifact that grants the smurfs their extremely long lifespans. Nemesis used to be handsome until a magic accident horribly deformed him.
[edit] Pixies
Characters in the cartoon series, the Pixies look like humans with wings, most of them being attractive females. They are afraid of the Wartmongers, who try to catch them to clip off their wings to make them servants (this has gone on for centuries). At first, they believe that the only thing worse than a Wartmonger is a Smurf. After being convinced that Smurfs do not actually turn into hairy red-eyed monsters as they had always believed, they befriend the Smurfs after being saved from the Wartmongers by them.
[edit] Prince Gerard
Cartoon original character, Prince Gerard is a friend of the smurfs--especially Clockwork Smurf--who eventually becomes a king. Clockwork and the smurfs help him defeat his evil aunt Lady Imperia, who tries to take the crown for herself.
[edit] Princess Sabina
Voiced by Jennifer Darling).
Cartoon original character, Princess Sabina is an inhabitant of a nearby kingdom, whose (unnamed) king--presumably her father or grandfather--is aware of the Smurfs' existence. (Other inhabitants of the kingdom are Johan, Peewit, and Dame Barbara). She is a red-headed young woman who is not always content to remain in the tutelage of Dame Barbara and learn how to sew and pour tea. She is an expert marksman and good friends with Johan (it appears that there may be some mutual attraction between these two). She is also a relative of Prince Gerard, who lives in another kingdom with Clockwork.
[edit] Puppy
Puppy was offered as a gift to Papa Smurf by Homnibus. It was Baby Smurf, however, who opened the enchanted locket around Puppy's neck and became the dog's true master. Puppy is a good friend to the Smurflings and protects the Smurfs from Gargamel's cat Azrael. It should be noted that Puppy is not a dog but a magical creature that simply looks like a dog.
[edit] Scruple
Scuple is Gargamel's apprentice. He gave the wizards at school the most trouble they'd had since Gargamel, and assigned him to Gargamel mainly to get him away from themselves. He is a very greedy and selfish young boy. He is often doing chores for Gargamel, but mainly to look good to him and because Gargamel is more powerful, but when a spell made Scruple more powerful he quickly turned on Gargamel. He often talks badly about Gargamel when he isn't around, and neither of them like the other much at all, but simply put up with each other.
[edit] Smoogle
Cartoon original character, Nanny's pet. It is a magenta colored rabbit. Nanny adores it and is known as a little overprotective of it. Voiced by Russi Taylor).
[edit] Wartmongers
Most likely created solely for the cartoon series, the wartmongers are troll-like creatures covered in warts that live in a swamp and often cause the smurfs problems. A wartmonger is judged by how many warts he has. There was a wartless wartmonger whom the smurfs helped by pretending to be caught so that he could look good to the others. The wartmongers sometimes hunt specifically for smurfs, but more often stumble upon them in the woods, or do something to upset nature causing the smurfs to seek them out themselves. Wartmongers also love to clip the wings off of pixies. This of course is never shown but is talked about as if it isn't a rare occurrence. Wartmongers are typically portrayed as clueless idiodic characters, though the leader is a ruthless tyrant (but still not very bright). Like the Pixies, the Wartmongers at first believe that the Smurfs turn into vicious monsters, but learn that this isn't true shortly after their first meeting.
