
Sometimes, the reader may have the impression that he's the village's punching bag even when he doesn't do anything wrong. He gets literally beaten up pretty much every time he talks, even though the Smurfs are supposed to be kindhearted and forgiving, especially with each other. While he's insufferable and considered The Scrappy both in-universe and out, the other Smurfs never give him a chance or at least try to tolerate him. That just broke her heart all over again, and she's back to being her old bitter self again, desiring to ruin everybody's happiness. Unfortunately, she had to choose the Smurfs as the target for her making the world as miserable as she was, but when they found out that her witch rival had turned her husband-to-be into stone and kept him in that state for twenty years, they did everything they can to help bring that happiness back into her life and at least give her the hope of a happy ending.until her husband-to-be accidentally sat on Chlorhydris' black heart arrows which she carelessly left on a seat that he sat on and caused his heart to be filled with nothing but hate.

Perhaps Gargamel could have kept the job even then, but the Smurfs that were delivering the message to the king just had to stop and intrude on Gargamel's lab, without permission which ANY mage or alchemist would have good reason to be angry about.
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Unfortunately, his first task, finding out why the chickens were not laying eggs was solved by Papa Smurf outside his knowledge.

The most prominent of these is when Gargamel actually won at an audition to become the royal court mage, honestly (his spell ingredients were a bit jumbled by transport to the castle, and his spell malfunctioned, but the fact that he summoned a tornado indoors, rode the tornado without injury, and nobody else in attendance was hurt convinced the judges that his power and control were more than sufficient for the job). In addition to the entry in Hard Work Hardly Works, there's been other episodes where Gargamel did try his hand at honest work only to be thwarted either directly or indirectly by the Smurfs. Second, to near Cosmic Plaything levels, every time he tries to do anything it cosmically backfires on him due to some bit of information or event he had no way of knowing, even if his labors are good, honest work. First, it is strongly implied that he had a seriously abusive childhood from every time we meet one of his relatives on-screen, said relative is either trying to mooch off Gargamel, browbeat and berate him, or both, even the wealthy ones like Balthazar. Gargamel is all too happy to call himself "evil," but he's got plenty of reason to be unhappy.Hollywood Homely: Smurfette started off as this before Papa gave her a makeover.Similar to Germany, the Smurfs are also popular in Greece, with Smurfette being the lead singer in various Greek Smurf albums.
