Smurfette

Smurfette (original name Schtroumpfette) is one of the main characters of the The Smurfs franchise.

Official Website description
Smurfette is smart, curious, brave, and enterprising, always ready to take part in new adventures. Originally, Smurfette was crafted by Gargamel as a plan to destroy the Smurfs just by being a girl. Then Papa Smurf worked his magic and turned Smurfette into a lovely, loving Smurf and an important member of the clan.

Fictional character biography
In the comic book story, "The Smurfette". She was created by Gargamel with as a clay statue and is applied to a series of ingredients for his formula, creating her. She is sent to the Smurf Village to unintentionally cause the Smurfs to fight among themselves due to her presence, in which the other 100 Smurfs befriend her, though her appearance wasn't the attractive temptress that Gargamel tried to create -- as she is shown to initally have the appearance of a male Smurf with scraggly black hair, a large nose, rather surly eyes, and a pair of plain shoes and dress.   Eventually, the Smurfs found her unappealing and were quite frankly annoyed with her behavior, so they decided to play a bad joke: they make her think she is overweight (by rigging a scale, setting in a misshaping mirror, making her listen to some nasty talk...). Feeling upset by this prank, she insists to Papa Smurf that her looks are unappealing, so Papa Smurf agreed to help her: he operates plastic smurfery on her for days and nights.   When she returned, she was introduced as the Smurfette everyone knows; sporting blonde hair, heels, and a frilly dress - causing the Smurfs to fall in love with her as they try to seduce her through different means, though Papa Smurf did not realize that he was making Gargamel's plans successful on making the Smurfs' lives miserable.   This is made worse when Smurfette forces Poet to open the dam which nearly flooded the village that she was put on trial for being a creation of Gargamel's. At this point, most of the Smurfs supported Smurfette's innocence. Jokey Smurf (who is Smurfette's attorney) reminds them that she has been able to seduce the Smurfs because of Papa Smurf, who made her attractive. Smurfette is eventually declared not guilty.   Eventually, however, she grew tired of the Smurfs fighting each other for her anymore, so she leaves the village indefinitely in order for the fighting to cease, leaving a message saying that she will be back one day (which she eventually did in a one-page gag featured in the "Smurf Soup" album).

Character
As her name implies, Smurfette is a feminist Smurf - she desires to be respected equally as the male Smurfs by doing the same activities as they do (as demonstrated in the comic book story "Smurfette In Charge"), and the need for independence such as being capable of defending herself with the martial arts and great capabilities of Smurf-Fu. She is shown to have a romantic crush on Hefty Smurf.

Additionally, as the writers describe in an interview for the 2021 TV series, Smurfette's mind tends to be 'all over the place. She has good ideas and sometimes not great ideas. She’s a bit impulsive.'   Between her debut appearance and past events before the comic book story "Smurfette In Charge". Smurfette's personality differs a lot from her other iterations. Smurfette started off as a Smurf interested in fashion and beauty in a similar vein to Vanity Smurf, and had little interest with boys' activities as she was originally envisioned by Peyo to be portrayed as sweet, feminine and cute -- a traditional European feminine ideal. However, it is argued that Smurfette originally had any specific personality traits at all other than being a girl.   Smurfette was also originally less capable than the other Smurfs in which she is considered a "damsel in distress" and there was rarely any moment where Smurfette does not need someone else to rescue her. She was noticeably shown to be more prone to crying or depressed when something goes wrong. Another aspect is that she was the main love interest for most male Smurfs before this aspect of her character was toned down in later entries of the franchise.   Before her "plastic-smurfery" was processed by Papa Smurf in her debut appearance, in the comics, Smurfette was shown to be an annoyance albeit good-meaning towards the other Smurfs. She was talkative, slightly bossy, overly friendly and hysterical. In the 1981 television series; Sony Pictures' live-action movies; and Smurfs: The Lost Village - she was provocative, and deliberately causing problems within the village as these misdeeds were orchestrated by Gargamel under his orders.

Physical appearance
Smurfette is identified by her white Smurf hat, a white frilly dress, heels, and sporting blonde hair.   Prior to her "plastic-Smurfery", she is shown to initially have the appearance of a male Smurf with scraggly black hair, a large nose, rather surly eyes, and a pair of plain shoes and dress.