Papa Smurf

Papa Smurf (original French name Le Grand Schtroumpf) is one of the four main characters of the The Smurfs franchise. He is the leader of the Smurf Village and the father figure of 103 Smurfs.

Official Website description
Papa Smurf is the wisest, oldest, and bravest Smurf of all, the big cheese, the one the others all look up to. He is 542 years old, and he can change tacks and find a solution to every situation, even as the Smurfs are continually challenging and testing the rules. Papa Smurf can do magic, and he keeps a laboratory where he creates potions for a variety of uses.

He keeps the other Smurfs in line, solving their arguments, reprimanding them when necessary, and sometimes losing his temper in the process. In turn, the Smurfs run directly to him whenever there’s a crisis, major or minor. His genius is that he’s able to change tacks and find a solution to every situation, even as the Smurfs are continually challenging and testing the rules.

Character
Papa Smurf is wise, understanding, and fatherly to any good-natured creature he meets. He also understands other people's or Smurf's feelings. He rarely uses intimidation or expresses malice toward any of the Smurfs, but still gives punishments and stern talks when needed.

He always wants everyone to do the right thing, going as far as helping Gargamel and Azrael out of trouble when no one else can (much to the annoyance and confusion of the others).

Despite this, Papa Smurf is shown to have outbursts of anger and tendency to blatantly insult or yell at the other Smurfs whenever they do not listen to him or misbehave. He also expresses anger in more ways than one, such as booting Dopey Smurf from his laboratory due to the latter's failure to understand that he has not found the Bzz Fly in The Black Smurfs. Despite the differences, he had many moments of kindness and cares very much about others from the start of the series.

This easily irritated personality is seen in various episodes in the 2021 TV series such as "Doctor Brainy & Mister Dumb" (where he is annoyed with Brainy's (who used a brain-boosting machine that accidentally made him stupid), Dimwitty's, and Clumsy's antics), "Smurfette Overdoes It!" (where he yells at all of the Smurfs for neglecting their chores), and "Manners Matter" (where he consistently gets mad at the Smurfs for having the wrong types of manners).

In the 2021 animated Smurfs show, Papa Smurf shows a rather rare mischievous side of himself toward his little Smurfs, though it is usually to teach the Smurfs a lesson. In "Where's Papa Smurf?" when Papa Smurf was accidentally turned invisible and the Smurfs all thought he was gone and they decided to take a vacation from their work, and when Papa Smurf finds out about this. In "Smurfette Overdoes It!", he teams up with Brainy to trick the other Smurfs into believing the ogres Bigmouth and Egghead have arrived in the village when the Smurfs become lazy under Smurfette's influence.

Physical appearance
Papa Smurf is identified by his red Smurf hat, pants, a shortly-trimmed white beard and moustache, and white eyebrows.