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[[Image:Smurfette then and now.jpg|right|thumb|Smurfette ('''L''' to '''R''') As she originally appeared and after Papa Smurf remade her]]

'''Smurfette''' is a female [[fictional character]] from the [[Smurfs]].

Smurfette was the only female Smurf until the creation of [[Sassette]]. She has more delicate features than the other Smurfs, with long blonde wavy hair, longer eyelashes, and wears a white dress and white high heels. She is the love interest of almost every Smurf including [[Papa Smurf]].

The adventure of the Smurfette first started in ''[[Spirou magazine]]'' in 1966. At the end of this story she left the Smurf village, thus restoring the [[status quo]] of an all-male community. She later returned in a one-off short story, but again left in the end. When the animated TV series of the Smurfs was made in the 1980s, Smurfette was a permanent character, even in stories in which she had not appeared in the original source comics. Thus the comics also started to feature her as a permanent character.

==Biographical Summary==

====As Taken from the [[2001]] film, ''[[Donnie Darko]]''====

"First of all, Papa Smurf didn't create Smurfette. Gargamel did. She was sent in as Gargamel's evil spy with the intention of destroying the Smurf village. But the overwhelming goodness of the Smurf way of life transformed her."

==Full Fictional biography==

She was magically created from [[clay]] by the Smurfs' enemy, [[Gargamel]], so that she would use her charms to cause [[jealousy]] and [[competition]] among the Smurfs in order to cause their [[Pandora|fall]]. He left her in the forest and a passing Smurf took her to the Smurf village, where she was kept out of kindness.

Gargamel's plans didn't work well at first, as her appearance was flawed. He had designed her in such a way that she might be attractive to a sad and dispicable person like himself, but to the Smurfs she looked like just a male Smurf but with long spikey black hair and a dress. She tried to be feminine and considerate, but was unattractive and proved to be more annoying than seductive.

Papa Smurf took pity on her when she became depressed because the other Smurfs teased her about being fat, so he practised [[plastic surgery|plastic Smurfery]] on her for several days and nights in order to make her the beautiful and appealing Smurfette the other Smurfs know today. This time, she caused almost every Smurf of the village to fall in love with her.

Alas for them, it did cause violence and jealousy as schemed by Gargamel, causing chaos among the Smurfs who competed, fighting against each other to win Smurfette's heart. She herself later convinced Poet Smurf to open the water dam just to see the spurting water, but the dam got stuck and the village was flooded. After struggling to close the dam on his own, Papa Smurf showed his frustration towards the trouble-making nature of Smurfette, who, offended, announced that she would "return to the great sorcerer Gargamel's". The Smurfs were shocked about this revelation, and Smurfette was put on [[trial (law)|trial]].

Proceedings were marred by the Smurfs' [[passion (emotion)|passion]] towards her. [[Brainy Smurf]], as the [[prosecutor]], was booed and pelted with tomatoes, just as much because of the audience's love for Smurfette as their dislike for him. He himself took his job of prosecution seriously but was unable to find any witnesses to testify against her. On the other hand, the whole audience volunteered to testify in her defence. [[Jokey Smurf]], her attorney in the trial, also claimed that Judge Papa Smurf was to blame, since it was he who had turned her from an ugly to an attractive appearance.

The jury found her not guilty, but Smurfette felt sorry for the [[trouble]] she had caused and ran away into the forest.

The Smurfs got their revenge on Gargamel by using the same process that he had used to make the Smurfette, but in this case they built a man-sized, [[wart]]-covered, ugly old hag who talked [[The Smurfs#Smurf language|Smurf language]] and chased the horrified sorcerer all over the forest.

Smurfette returned occasionally to the village though she found that her presence still aroused conflict. When the Smurfs argued about which one should marry her, she herself chose [[Grouchy Smurf]] who had customarily stated "I hate marriage", thus making her point that the subject was closed.

The Smurfs then moderated their passion for her, worshipping from a distance, and she settled permanently in the village. She even learned to talk in Smurf language when previously she had talked in straight human speech in accordance with Gargamel's magic.

==See also==

*[[Characters in The Smurfs]]

{{The Smurfs Series}}

[[Category:Comics characters]]

[[Category:Smurfs]]

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