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* BladeOnAStick: Hefty Smurf and the other guards are armed with halberds.
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* StickySituation: King Smurf's forces douse the rebel Smurfs' ladder with glue, causing them to stick to the ladder.
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A Smurf is chosen to lead the village during Papa Smurf's absence, but becomes a tyrant.

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A Smurf is chosen to lead the village during During Papa Smurf's absence, but absence on a long trip to the mountains to get some more euphorbium, the Smurfs scramble to find who should be leading them. One nameless aspiring Smurf decides to compete against Brainy and makes promises to his fellow Smurfs in order to gain votes. After gaining a landslide victory in an election, he installs himself as the reigning monarch of the village and becomes a tyrant.
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* NoNameGiven: The Smurf who became King Smurf originally wasn't given any name except Smurf.
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* DressingAsTheEnemy: Hefty tries to disguise himself as a rebel Smurf by removing the medal he was wearing and hiding his halberd out of sight, only to be jumped on and ambushed by three medal-wearing Smurfs who thought they caught a rebel. Hefty tries to tell them who he is. One of the Smurfs dares him to prove it, and Hefty obliges by giving all three of them a serious beatdown before he walks away upset.
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* CivilWar: King Smurf's despotism drives some of the Smurfs into underground dissent and eventually open rebellion.
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* GoldMakesEverythingShiny: King Smurf's outfit is made of gold, which the other Smurfs can only see as being ''yellow''.
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* Blade on a Stick: Hefty Smurf and the other guards are armed with halberds.

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* Blade on a Stick: BladeOnAStick: Hefty Smurf and the other guards are armed with halberds.
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* AlasPoorVillain: King Smurf doesn't die, but when all the blame on the disaster that befallen the village falls on him, he just bows his head in shame and sets out to repair all the damage he did. The others join in and the village starts to recover from the civil war.


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* Blade on a Stick: Hefty Smurf and the other guards are armed with halberds.
* DemocracyIsFlawed: When Papa Smurf is away, the Smurfs argue who should be the new leader. In the first round of voting, everyone votes for himself. The second round ends with a Smurf elected (by making empty promises) who installs a monarchy with himself as the king.


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* GraffitiOfTheResistance: The rebel Smurfs paint graffiti all over Smurf houses that defame and denounce King Smurf, which irritates him to no end. It even goes so far as someone somehow putting a "[[KickMePrank Down with King Smurf]]" note on the back of his cape.


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* PrecisionFStrike: Parodied in the original English version of the story, where one Smurf tells Brainy Smurf to "go to smurf" with his orders.
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* ReversePsychology: When the King and his soldiers are looking for the rebel camp, they encounter a series of signs, saying "The camp is not in this way" "Smurf back before it's too late", "No. You're on the wrong smurf" and "Beware — do not look up!" Naturally, they go that way and look up, and they end up falling into a lake.
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* TyrantTakesTheHelm

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* WordSchmord: In the original English translation, Papa Smurf returns and sees his little Smurfs in the final battle with King Smurf ready to let him have it and stops the fight, asking what's going on. They turn and innocently ask if he's got the euphorbium that he left the village for, and he replies "euphorbium smurfphorbium"
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* TooDumbToFool: King Smurf tries to fool Dopey Smurf into voting for him, but because Dopey always does the wrong thing when asked for, King Smurf insistantly asks him to vote for Brainy Smurf. Dopey Smurf repeats to himself constantly to vote for Brainy Smurf and when election day comes, Dopey actually votes for Brainy Smurf, being the only one who voted for him apart from Brainy.
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* LandslideElection: the nameless Smurf wins the election by an overwhelming majority, with his opponent Brainy Smurf only getting two votes (one of them from ''himself'') to prove how unpopular he was with his constant nagging and moralizing.

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* LandslideElection: the The nameless Smurf who becomes King Smurf wins the election by an overwhelming majority, with his opponent Brainy Smurf only getting two votes (one of them from ''himself'') to prove how unpopular he was with his constant nagging and moralizing.
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* LandslideElection: the nameless Smurf wins the election by an overwhelming majority, with his opponent Brainy Smurf only getting two votes (one of them from ''himself'') to prove how unpopular he was with his constant nagging and moralizing.
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* EpicFlail: When the rebels led an assault against King Smurf, one Smurf was carrying a flail, although the metal ball had no spikes. No one was seen getting hit by it.
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* TheGoldenRule: Quoted by Brainy near the end of the story when he and his fellow Smurfs decide to help King Smurf clean and fix up the village.
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* LessEmbarrassingTerm: King Smurf's outfit isn't ''yellow'', but ''gold''. However, his outfit does sparkle when he first shows it off, so it may simply be factual.
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* KickMePrank: King Smurf gets "Down with King Smurf" pinned to the back of his cape after seeing the village being defaced with graffiti saying the same thing.
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* GettingTheBoot: Brainy when he tries to reason with King Smurf after Jokey becomes his prisoner.
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* InstitutionalApparel: Jokey Smurf goes from wearing a regular white hat and pants to a prison-striped hat and pants when he becomes King Smurf's prisoner.

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* InstitutionalApparel: Jokey Smurf goes from wearing a regular white hat and pants to a prison-striped hat and pants when he becomes King Smurf's prisoner. When Jokey escapes and Brainy is captured and put into prison, Brainy gets the prison-stripes treatment.
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A Smurf is chosen to lead the village during Papa Smurf's absence, but becomes a tyrant.
!!Tropes associated with this story include
* BalconySpeech: King Smurf gives one after entering his newly-completed castle. Only Brainy Smurf remains to give King Smurf praise for it.
* BattleInterruptingShout: Papa Smurf does this upon his return to the Smurf Village.
* EdibleAmmunition: King Smurf's forces retaliate against the rebels by hurling tomatoes at them.
* GoldColoredSuperiority: King Smurf wastes no time showing his "superiority" as the chosen leader of the village by wearing a gold-colored suit, later adorned with royal regalia.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: While no human characters actually appear, Papa Smurf is able to shame ''all'' of them by telling them they're acting like human beings. The moral was pretty clear.
* HypocriticalHumor: King Smurf admonishes his captain of the guard, Hefty Smurf, for failing to have a sense of humor when dealing with Jokey Smurf playing one of his usual "surprise" jokes on him. Then after King Smurf pardons Jokey Smurf, he becomes the victim of Jokey Smurf's prank and immediately has the prankster sent to prison.
* InstitutionalApparel: Jokey Smurf goes from wearing a regular white hat and pants to a prison-striped hat and pants when he becomes King Smurf's prisoner.
* LadderTipping: The rebel Smurfs attempt to break through King Smurf's defenses by climbing up a ladder, but King Smurf's forces douse the ladder with glue, causing the rebels to get their hands and feet stuck on the ladder long enough to get tipped over.
* LaResistance: A resistance group forms against King Smurf's tyranny. At first, they don capes and masks, but they just keep their normal Smurf costumes after making a secret base in the forest.
* RightfulKingReturns: Papa Smurf plays this role in the story.
* [[StormingTheCastle Storming The Village]]: The LaResistance group does this near the end of the story.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm

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