History ComicBook / TheSmurfs

* {{Prequel}}: The limited-edition 50th anniversary story "The Flute Smurfers" is a prequel to the ''ComicBook/JohanAndPeewit'' story "The Smurfs And The Magic Flute", telling what the magic flute was originally made for.

* FriendOrIdolDecision: Near the end of "The Smurfs And The Book That Tells Everything", Brainy is trapped on a rock with Baby Smurf and the titular book and he is forced to choose either to save Baby or the book in order to swim across to safety. The book tells Brainy since that it's more important, he should sacrifice Baby. Brainy thinks that the book is a monster and so throws the book into the water and swims to safety with Baby.

* ChewOutFakeOut: In "The Smurf Menace", Papa Smurf chews out Hefty for picking a fight with the Grey Smurfs after specifically telling him not to use violence against them in any of their dealings. Afterward, though, Papa Smurf smiles, as Hefty's willingness to go against Papa Smurf's orders for the sake of sticking up for his fellow Smurfs has produced the result of the Smurfs being united together again.

* ChewOutFakeOut: Papa Smurf chews out Hefty for picking a fight with the Grey Smurfs after specifically telling him not to use violence against them in any of their dealings. Afterward, though, Papa Smurf smiles, as Hefty's willingness to go against Papa Smurf's orders for the sake of sticking up for his fellow Smurfs has produced the result of the Smurfs being united together again.

* TheDarkChick: Grey Smurfette in "The Smurf Menace", though she only makes one appearance in the story and that's mostly to antagonize Smurfette into [[CatFight having a fight with her]].

* TheDarkChick: Grey Smurfette in "The Smurf Menace", though she only makes one appearance in the story and that's mostly to antagonize Smurfette into having a fight with her.

* TheGreatEscape: In "The Smurf Menace", one of the Smurfs in the Grey Smurf prison camp makes his escape by digging a tunnel from the camp to freedom. He reaches the Smurf Village by the time the story ends and the Grey Smurfs have disappeared.

* EmptySwimmingPoolDive: Hefty in the comic book story "The Smurf Menace" makes a masterful dive into an empty river bed.

* LiteralAssKicking: In "Baby Smurf", Handy Smurf creates problems with a new handheld power driller by drilling through everything he can get his hands on. The Smurfs retaliate by turning his power drill into an ass-kicking machine. With himself being ass-kicked.

* LiteralAssKicking: In a comic book story where Handy Smurf creates problems with a new handheld power driller by drilling through everything he can get his hands on, the Smurfs retaliate by turning his power drill into an ass-kicking machine.

** Played straight however, when Gargamel dressed up as a fairy and managed to completely Harmony Smurf by giving him a cursed magical instrument.

** In "The Egg And The Smurfs", a Smurf gets so fed up with another Smurf being so indecisive about what to wish for with the magic egg that he tells the other Smurf "to the devil with you" while accidentally striking the egg...and that Smurf ends up meeting the devil. By the end of the story, however, when Papa Smurf wishes everything to return to normal, that Smurf returns with a pitchfork in hand.

* SillyReasonForWar: In "Smurf Versus Smurf", a civil war erupts in the Smurf village over whether the word "smurf" should be used as an adjective (south end) or a verb (north end). This gets funnier in languages that allow for many composite words (e.g. Dutch and German) because now the war is about whether the proper term is "corksmurf" or "smurfscrew".

* YourSizeMayVary: The artists forget sometimes that the Smurfs are NOT human-sized; they would draw plants and animals small enough to be in proportion with the Smurfs. This is quite {{egregious}} in cases like the Smurf Fire Brigade episode, where a ''warthog'' is depicted as smaller than a Smurf.

* {{Arrowgram}}: The Grey Smurfs sent arrowgrams to the Smurfs prior to attacking them, hoping that they would surrender, in the comic book story "The Smurf Threat". Unfortunately, Papa Smurf's response leads to [[ThisMeansWar a war with the Grey Smurfs]].

* BedsheetLadder: In the comic book story "The Smurf Threat", Papa Smurf, Hefty, and Jokey escape their imprisonment inside the Grey Smurf prison camp by making a ladder using torn pieces of Smurf pants...leaving the hapless victims with a CensorShadow.

* BookBurning: The Grey Smurfs in the comic book story "The Smurf Threat" burn all of Papa Smurf's spell books in order to keep him from finding the spell to make the Grey Smurfs vanish.

* CensorShadow: Used in the comic book story "The Smurf Threat" depicting the Smurfs who gave up their...uh, pants to create a BedsheetLadder for Papa Smurf, Jokey, and Hefty to escape the Grey Smurfs prison camp.

* TheDarkChick: Grey Smurfette in "The Smurf Threat", though she only makes one appearance in the story and that's mostly to antagonize Smurfette into having a fight with her.

* EmptySwimmingPoolDive: Hefty in the comic book story "The Smurf Threat" makes a masterful dive into an empty river bed.

* EvilTwin: The Smurfs deal with evil duplicates of themselves in "The Smurf Threat" that were created by Papa Smurf to get the Smurfs to stop fighting with each other.

** In "The Smurf Threat", Papa Smurf had to create a group of evil duplicates of himself and his little Smurfs so that they could see in the duplicates what they were becoming with all their fighting among themselves. It succeeds all too well in bringing the Smurfs together when the duplicates become such a threat that they nearly destroy the village and take the original Smurfs captives. Near the end of the story, Papa Smurf spends it working on a way to make the duplicates disappear.

* POWCamp: The Grey Smurfs set up one for the captured Smurfs in the story "The Smurf Threat".

* ShotInTheAss: In the comic book story "The Smurf Threat", Farmer receives an {{Arrowgram}} for Papa Smurf from the Grey Smurfs right in the behind.

** It is worth noting that "The Black Smurfs" is one of the oldest examples of a ZombieApocalypse story, being published in 1963, five years before the premiere of the TropeCodifier, ''NightOfTheLivingDead''.