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A comic collection of five short stories tying into the 2017 movie Smurfs: The Lost Village:

  • Brainy Smurf's Walk: Shortly after their unexpected visitors arrive, Smurfblossom and her friends decide to invite Brainy on a tour around their village. This proves more exhausting than he anticipated, as he gets a crash course in both how similar their respective cultures are, and how they differ.

  • Challenges for Hefty Smurf: When Hefty spins a yarn for the grove girls about saving Smurfette from the clutches of the wicked Gargamel, Smurfstorm calls him a liar, goading him into accepting a challenge to prove himself just as skilled. But his inexperience with their ways puts him at a natural disadvantage, and things get out of hand when he tries challenging a Gobble-All.

  • Clumsy Smurf's Dragonfly: Wowed by Stormy's impressive control of her dragonfly mount Spitfire, Clumsy convinces Blossom to show him their nests, despite how Smurfwillow forbids them from going there. Curiosity spurs him to make a dangerous mistake, which he must work hard to correct.

  • The Squash Smurfs: While Smurfwillow is showing their guests around the squash fields, she receives word that the mysterious 'squash smurfer' has struck again. They set a trap, only to find themselves faced with something that not even Willow has seen before...

  • Smurflily's Strange World: Willow calls Smurflily to account for how her cap ended up on the other side of the wall in the first place.


Brainy Smurf's Walk contains examples of:


Challenges for Hefty Smurf contains examples of:

  • Distressed Dude: Brainy winds up this way when he treads too close to the Gobble-All.
  • Failed a Spot Check: Brainy is so caught up in lecturing Hefty and his companions about how Papa Smurf wouldn't approve of their 'challenge' that he doesn't notice one of the Gobble-All's vines creeping towards his ankle until he's already been snared.
  • Loophole Abuse: Because Storm sets the rules for Hefty's challenges, she's able to rig things in her favor. With the first test, she tells him only that the first one to retrieve a flower growing on a mossy rock in the middle of a waterfall will win, offering no suggestions as to how to cross. After giving him a head start jumping from rock to rock, she creates an improvised zipline from a vine and arrow. She also offers him no tools whatsoever for either challenge, then mocks him for not figuring out an alternative route or hesitating at the thought of fighting the Gobble-All bare-handed.
  • Miles Gloriosus: Storm suspects Hefty of being one, accusing him of completely making up all his tales of bravery. She thinks she's been vindicated when he balks at fighting the Gobble-All, but changes her mind upon seeing him race in to save Brainy.
  • Smurf-Eating Plant: The Gobble-All is a massive flower bulb that Hefty initially mistakes for an onion, filled with writhing tentacle-vines that it uses to snare its prey and draw it closer to the gaping maw hidden inside.
  • The So-Called Coward: Smurfstorm is ready to write Hefty off as nothing but a liar, but is sincerely impressed when he races to help Brainy the moment his friend is caught by the Gobble-All.
  • Unsportsmanlike Gloating: Storm engages in this after winning the first challenge, sneering at Hefty for getting annoyed at her leaving so much out of her explanation of what it entailed.


Clumsy Smurf's Dragonfly contains examples of:

  • Everything Trying to Kill You: Slight variation in that all of the predators Clumsy runs across are more interested in the egg he's carrying than in Clumsy himself.
  • Skewed Priorities: Downplayed and Played for Laughs. When she takes Clumsy to see the nesting grounds, she warns him that they can't get caught, or else Smurfwillow will take their cream smurfs away. After his accident, she immediately goes to get help, commenting to herself that she can 'kiss those cream smurfs goodbye!'
  • A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: Clumsy's eagerness to get a good look at the dragonflies and their eggs causes him to tumble into one of their nests, much to the mother's ire.


The Squash Smurfs contains examples of:

  • Outside-Context Problem: The Growlers are unlike anything the residents of the Grove have seen before. Even Willow doesn't know what they're dealing with.
  • Sequel Hook: While the Growlers are driven off, Storm and Willow note that this is unlikely to be the last they see of the strange blue beasts.
  • Unusually Uninteresting Sight: One of the girls reacts to a Growler — a creature she's never seen before — poking its head through her window by angrily accusing it of being a 'peeping smurf'.


Smurflily Strange World contains examples of:

  • All Just a Dream: Lily convinced herself that she must have been hallucinating the mysterious blonde-haired, white-clad smurf she'd seen during her brief foray past the wall, given how she was nothing like what she was used to.
  • A Day in the Limelight: Focuses entirely upon Smurflily explaining how she encountered Smurfette in the first place.
  • Framing Device: Willow calls Lily in to explain what she was doing on the other side in the wall in the first place.
  • How We Got Here: Explains what led up to Smurflily's fateful encounter with Smurfette at the start of Smurfs: The Lost Village.
  • Scylla and Charybdis: Lily is forced to defy Willow's orders when a serpent-plant chases her through a narrow passage under the wall, leaving her seemingly stranded on the other side with no way of getting back home except dealing with the smurf-eating flower.
  • Smurf-Eating Plant: Lily deals with several, with the most persistent problem being the serpent-plant.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The young dragonfly Lily was trying to train proves more erratic than she'd anticipated, knocking her off its back when it flies through some foliage and abandoning her near the wall.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: Willow is not pleased by the fact that Lily not only wound up crossing the wall, but that she didn't tell anyone what happened afterwards.


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