Smurfs Comic Book Universe

The Smurfs Comic Book Universe is the universe where the Smurfs comic book series takes place, with all its events from "The Black Smurfs" to the present (including the Girls' Village Collection featuring the Smurf Girls, the Grandir avec les Schtroumpfs book collection, and the 2014 Smurf Stories book collection) being its canon. Whether this also includes the stories that they appeared in in the Johan And Peewit comic book series remains rather fuzzy at best, although Homnibus does appear from time to time as a character in their stories. This continuity is considered active for as long as there are new stories being produced for it.

Notable Elements

• Average age of the young adult male Smurfs is 100 years of age, while Papa Smurf is 542.
  • Between the events of "The Hundredth Smurf" and "Smurphony in C" (in chronological order), there were originally 100 male Smurfs in the village. And to include the additional Smurfs - Smurfette, Baby Smurf, the 100 Smurf Girls, Wild Smurf, Sassette, Grandpa Smurf, Nanny Smurf, Mermaid Smurfette, and the Cousin Smurfs, there are presumably over 300 Smurfs in total.
  • The Smurfs in the comic book universe are generally portrayed to be mischievous - they tend to stir it up without necessarily needing to, while Jokey is shown to be the only exception as he is always looking to stir up trouble. They also have the tendency on being extremely prone to breaking out into brawls between each other.
  • Originally, all of the Smurfs (except for Papa Smurf) were indistinguishable and started as unnamed throwaway gag characters before evolving into running gag/character features with established names and personalities starting from "The Hundredth Smurf", while some Smurfs received distinguishable designs overtime.
• This universe includes some characters and elements originating from both the 1981 TV series and Smurfs: The Lost Village, albeit with some alterations made to them.
• Chef and Baker are the village chefs of this universe. Greedy just simply likes to get his hands on food. Chef and Baker originally wore the same chef outfits until "The Finance Smurf" introduced them wearing different outfits to distinguish from each other.
• Brainy is usually hit in the head with a mallet whenever he goes off on his long speeches. In the comic book adaptation of "The Smurflings", Brainy gets tossed on his head like he did in the 1981 cartoon show.
  • Brainy doesn't serve as an apprentice and lab assistant to Papa Smurf in the comic book universe.
• Clumsy and Dimwitty/Dopey exist as separate characters.
  • Clumsy originally had no droop seen in his hat. It was added since "Smurfs: The Village Behind The Wall".
  • Similar to Clumsy, Dopey originally had no droop seen in his hat. It was added since "The Smurfs And The Dragon Of The Lake", while Dopey is additionally given a lazy-eye expression to distinguish himself from Clumsy.
• Actor and Timid exist as separate characters, but they are never seen together.
• Handy originally wore a regular Smurf hat and pants, and then later wore blue overalls and a hat with no visor.
• Hefty originally had no tattoo on his arm. It was added since "The Jewel Smurfer", the first post-Peyo Smurf comic book, was published. He also gains a noticeable upper toned body in the "Grandir avec les Schtroumpfs" comics that was featured in Smurfs: The Lost Village.
• Vanity originally wore a Smurf hat with no flower on it.
• Grouchy became grouchy because he was stung by the Bzz Fly.
• Farmer eventually wore a straw Smurf hat and green overalls with wooden shoes.
• Clumsy and Brainy are not portrayed as best friends in this universe.
• Smurfberries do not appear, this goes for the same in the 2021 universe.
• blue moons are times when a baby Smurf is about to be delivered to the Smurf Village.
• The Smurf language division is North and South -- based on the real-life language division of the French and Dutch-speaking people in Peyo's native country of Belgium.
• Smurfette never started off as evil when she was initially created by Gargamel; her goal was to unintentionally cause the Smurfs to fight among themselves due to her mere presence, and Papa Smurf simply gave her the plastic surgery to stop the Smurfs from mocking her. She also left the village for a time before becoming a permanent member.
  • Smurfette started off as a helpless damsel-in-distress with an interest in beauty and fashion (similar to Vanity Smurf) in the Peyo-era and earlier post-Peyo comics. After the film release of Smurfs: The Lost Village, her portrayal is updated to be portrayed as a feminist with an interest in independence and doing the equal activities and jobs as the male Smurfs as shown in various merchandising and promotional material related to the comic book canonicity (specifically the 2021 TV series and the Grandir avec les Schtroumpfs book collection), and her old characterization of being interested in fashion and beauty that was present in the older comic stories is dropped altogether from the franchise.
• Sassette was created by the Smurflings using the same formula for creating Smurfette, but otherwise didn't require any plastic surgery nor further potions or magic to change her appearance. She also doesn't consider Gargamel her father.
• Swoofs were orange (which were later changed to green).
• A nameless Smurf was King Smurf.
• The Smurf that would become Alchemist Smurf becomes Apprentice Smurf.
• Tuberose cured the Black Smurf disease (which was changed to purple when "The Black Smurfs" was first published in English as "The Purple Smurfs").
• Gargamel wanted the Smurfs for his Philosopher's Stone. His first canonical encounter with them was in the story The Smurfnapper. Although, the only implications that Gargamel wanted to eat the Smurfs for a food recipe was mentioned in the story Smurf Soup and the Grandir avec les Schtroumpfs story Le Schtroumpf qui n'aimait que les desserts.
• Gargamel's mother (Mummy) exists in this universe, although she only appeared in one panel in a flashback scene, and while only the back of her is seen, she was different in appearance from her 1981 television cartoon counterpart.
• Gargamel has at least one brother, an identical twin named Gourmelin, and three lookalike nephews.
• Gargamel's cousins are Barbapapa and Sagratamabarb.
• Gargamel had a one-time admirer, a bratty kid named Jeanty in "A Child Among The Smurfs" who wanted to become his apprentice, but later changed his mind when he realized that he didn't want to go down the same road as Gargamel.
• Azrael was originally a female cat, and then was changed to a male cat, who consistently has orange fur.
• In addition to Azrael, Gargamel in this universe also had a rarely seen pet crow named Corbelius, who primarily served the wizard in delivering letters (usually threats and/or ransom notes to the Smurfs).
• Bigmouth is identified as a giant instead of an ogre.
• The Smurflings, Puppy, Baby, Wild, Grandpa Smurf, and Nanny exist in this universe, although they do not make many appearances since the focus of the stories is mostly on the remaining 97 adult male Smurfs, Smurfette, and the 100 Smurf Girls, and they usually appear in the Schtroumpf magazine stories and occasionally other promotional material, while Baby Smurf generally made minor appearances in the mainline albums.
• Although Hogatha initially was created for the 1981 cartoon series, she has appeared in at least one of the Schtroumpf magazine stories, namely an adaptation of the episode "Bewitched, Bothered, And Be-Smurfed".
  • Similarly, the Snowbeast and Flowerbell appeared in at least one of the Scthroumpf magazine stories, namely an adaptation of the episode "The Abominable Snowbeast" and "Papa's Wedding Day".
• Wild learned how to talk in Smurf, though in the manner of "Tarzan speak".
• In "Romeo And Smurfette", one-page gags in "Smurf Soup" and "Smurfette Is A Smurf Like Any Other", Papa Smurf's former love interest was Smurfette, in which she expressed unreciprocated feelings at the lattermost.
• Papa and Grandpa Smurf are the only Smurfs that are seen wearing beards. Grandpa Smurf is also the only male Smurf character shown to have head hair.
• Clockwork Smurf was the substitute of an anthropomorphic jar of Benco chocolate drink powder in an adaptation story that originally featured the character. He was able to fully talk in Smurf and had a hat that dispensed liquid from its spout.
• Baby Smurf still crawls around like in the 1981 TV series, but he's able to say words like "Dolly broken!".
• A group of Smurfs known as the Smurf Girls exist in a hidden village, but their original village have since been destroyed with the group now having been relocated to a new village as of "A New Beginning" onwards.
• The direction of the stories in the series' universe is taken on both having a quirky, slightly off-kilter, edgy and irreverent tone, and sense of humor.

Exclusive Characters In This Universe

Smurfs

• Alchemist Smurf
• Archeologist Smurf
• Camper Smurf
• Carpenter Smurf
• Coalminer Smurf
• Smurfdew
• Disabled Smurf
• Enamored Smurf
• Equilibrist Smurf
• Explorer Smurf
• Fakir Smurf
• Finance Smurf
• Fireman Smurf
• Fisher Smurf
• Liar Smurf
• Lucky Smurf
• Mason Smurf
• Mermaid Smurfette
• Miller Smurf
• Smurfmouse
• Smurfmint
• Nurse Smurf
• Owner Smurf
• Paleontologist Smurf
• Smurfpearl
• Postman Smurf
• Potter Smurf
• Showoff Smurf
• Sporty Smurf
• Traveling Smurf
• Smurftulip
• Weather Smurf

Humans

• Adalbert Lebon
• Barbapapa
• Jeanty
• Gourmelin
• Ludovic
• Sagratamabarb
• Gargamel's nephews

Animals

• Corbelius

Presentations That Are Part Of This Universe

• Smurfs (comics) (see the List of Smurf comic books for more information.)