Mermaid Smurfette was created by Gargamel, in an attempt to repeat his original plan of Smurfette's creation, but a ray reaches her during the spell, and she gets a fish tail from the waist down. She first appears in the comic story "La Petite Sirène des Schtroumpfs" written and designed by Marc Wasterlain, and finished by Ludo Borecki, and she reappears in the story "L'île de la Sirène" published in 1998, written and designed again by Wasterlain, but finished by Phippe Delzenne.