IM GARGAMEL IRL

yes i am UNIRONICALLY gargamel irl. yes this is me

i cant be bothered to waste a claim on /gargamel bwuh if any opps want it to spite me go ahead n take it ❤️

Character

Gargamel is a conniving, evil human wizard, driven by a desire for riches and power as well as a bottomless thirst to capture Smurfs. This fixation started long ago when he dreamed of putting a Smurf into his cauldron to make a philosopher's stone, which turns lead into gold. After being repeatedly frustrated and humiliated by the Smurfs, his preoccupation has hardened into an obsession. In fact, he couldn't even tell you exactly why he hates them anymore, just that they make his blood boil], and that he wakes up in the morning scheming about how to locate their hidden village and obliterate them all.
He is the greatest threat to the Smurfs' existence. They know that he is extremely dangerous and try to avoid him at all costs, fleeing or hiding whenever he appears. The Smurfs are also lucky in that Gargamel is sloppy and tends to overreach in his ambition, creating super-complicated traps and outrageous strategies for catching them. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

Personality

Gargamel is a loathsome individual who is prepared to commit many sinister and cruel acts to achieve his goals. Despite this, often, he is bumbling and fails his schemes for petty reasons that can be avoided. However, he can be downright ruthless on occasion, such as enjoying the time to torment the Smurfs, threatening to burn Puppy alive, and even attempt to harm the defenseless Baby Smurf. He has even gone out of his way to simply make sure to ruin the happiness of others. However, despite his dark and evil heart, there have been a few occasions where Gargamel has shown a small amount of genuine emotion, most notably with Azrael, who Gargamel has shown real care for on rare occasions despite abusing him and even goes against Lord Balthazar to guard his cat, claiming that Azrael is all he really has and is quite possibly his only real friend. Also, when he was once forced by Balthazar to behead Puppy with a guillotine, he pleaded with his godfather to find a different way before submitting to Balthazar's intimidation. He primarily likes to be evil due to many complicated reasons.
Gargamel's unkindness and wicked nature seem to stem from a harsh life and upbringing. One example being that Gargamel hates having his birthday on Halloween because every year nobody wishes him a Happy Birthday or gives him a present, and all Gargamel really wants is for somebody to remember his Birthday. His mother often mistreats him and tries to make him eviler, while also resenting him for flunking Wizard's School. Deep down, Gargamel is aloof and insecure due to being ugly and even admits that no one has ever genuinely said they loved him. In the 1980s cartoon show episode "They're Smurfing Our Song", Gargamel is revealed to possess a small amount of goodness somewhere in his heart, as shown when he was moved to tears by Sassette's kind and loving words as even the force of evil within him could not withstand Sassette's love as she was the first person to ever say they loved him indeed. When affected by Woody's magic pan flute, Gargamel's inner goodness was brought out due to finally feeling happiness after so long and he revealed to Papa Smurf that he had not been his true self in a long time due to his many years of hate and even owed him an apology, and Papa Smurf accepted his apology, knowing full well that everyone had good in their hearts somewhere. The spell of happiness that brought out his goodness was only temporary, but according to Papa Smurf, the memory of the event would remain with Gargamel forever.

Mother

Gargamel's mother has appeared in several episodes. Gargamel and Azrael are afraid of her and her cooking because it's so disgusting. She wants her son to be a very great wizard but has shown to be very disappointed in him at times.
Mummy is Gargamel's mother. However, they do not share a positive relationship, as Mummy often berates him and gets mad at him regularly. Mummy is also not afraid of expressing her annoyance on Gargamel's obsession on capturing the Smurfs, shown in various episodes such as "Cover Story" and "Mirror, Mirror On The Armoire", where she consistently comments on his bumbling.
At very rare times, she is shown to have care for Gargamel. In "The Smurfs Show", she tries to warn Gargamel about the trap that the Smurfs have made for him, and in "Mommy's Masterpiece", before she and Gargamel are defeated, she was planning to let Gargamel capture Painter, Papa Smurf, and Smurfette after Painter finished painting her portrait, seeing how badly Gargamel wanted the Smurfs.
In "Gargamel's Time Trip", Gargamel goes back in time to see a younger and gentler version of his mother holding her infant son in his castle (hers at the time), hoping that he will someday be a successful wizard and that he would care for her in her old age. As the adult Gargamel sadly admits to Azrael, his mother never forgave him for doing badly at Wizard's School, implying that's why she would move out of the castle in later life.
1981 TV series Version:
Mummy is quite abusive in this universe. She not only voices her disapproval on her son owning a cat by not only throwing Azrael out of his home, but brutally chews him out when his plans on catching the Smurfs fails, reducing him to tears. The episode "Gargamel's Time Trip" even shows adult Gargamel getting saddened at seeing his mother hoping he becomes a successful wizard. In the episode "Wedding Bells For Gargamel", Gargamel's mother decided it was high time he married and arranged him to marry Andria through the matchmaker Madame Lavinia, only to see the wedding get cancelled thanks to her son and the Smurfs.

Trivia

Gargamel has arachnophobia. This is shown in "Cover Story".
Gargamel has a counterpart named Caramel in an alternate universe, which is seen in "The Pluffs!". Caramel is kind-hearted and helps Brainy and Blossom from the normal universe to return to their own world.
His name derives from Gargamelle, who is the mother of Gargantua, in the Gargantuan and Pantagruel novels from the 16th century.
The only thing Gargamel hates more than the Smurfs are seagulls. The only thing he hates more than seagulls is snakes.
In Season 9 of the 1980s cartoon show, ancestral relatives of Gargamel have been encountered by the Smurfs in different time periods, ranging from a pharaoh's servant (with an ancestor of Scruple named Scrupses), a Roman chef, to even a Dutch wizard. However, he is mentioned in "Hefty Sees A Serpent" and "Hearts 'N' Smurfs".
In the second part of "Smurfy Secrets", it is revealed by Gargamel's mother that it's been a hundred years that he has called her "mother", implying that Gargamel may be at least a hundred years old. However, this could be an exaggeration.
In "Family Time", it was mentioned that Gargamel has a sister, while in "Dragon Pet" it is heavily implied that he has a father.

Extra: Doll Manipulation

Denisa's doll was an ordinary toy doll owned by Denisa that was transformed into a type of voodoo doll in the cartoon show episode "Denisa's Greedy Doll". Gargamel cast a spell on it so that by manipulating the doll, he would manipulate the owner of whatever piece of clothing the doll is currently wearing. The first victim of that doll was Greedy Smurf, whose apron was put on the doll so that he would be under the control of Gargamel with the doll. When Denisa visited Gargamel's hovel to get her doll, the wizard was distracted so that the Smurfs removed Greedy's apron from the doll and replaced it with a garment made from Gargamel's robe, thus making Gargamel the new victim of the doll.

Extra: Castle

Gargamel’s castle is a large, dilapidated stone fortress situated on a remote cliffside far from any neighboring village. Perpetually shrouded in fog and shadow, the structure emits an ominous presence that reflects its owner’s dark ambitions. The castle’s deteriorating condition is marked by cracked walls, missing roof tiles, and crooked towers that lean precariously over the cliff’s edge. Its isolated location makes it difficult to access, with only winding forest paths and unstable bridges leading to the entrance.
Inside, the castle is dimly lit and cluttered with magical ingredients, alchemical equipment, and unfinished experiments. The atmosphere is heavy with a lingering sense of foreboding, as the interior is filled with echoing chambers, damp stone corridors, and a pervasive chill. Despite its foreboding nature, the castle functions as Gargamel’s primary base of operations, housing his workshop, library of spellbooks, and living quarters. Its looming silhouette and eerie aura have made it a notorious landmark in the region, feared by travelers and well-known as the source of many dark schemes aimed toward the Smurfs.

if youre reading this and thinking "haha this bunny is so odd for being gargamel irl lets make fun of this loser!!" let me just state a few counter arguments here before you can say them:

"hes ugly" ive always identified with characters that are canonically ugly. being unattractive and repulsing have always been my tropes. if you never made fun of me for being ugly mita, kirara fusano, tomoko kuroki, and basically all of my irls, then you only accept "canonically ugly" characters when you can sexualize them and call them waifus. being ugly is a HUGE part of gargamels character, and if you make fun of me for being him it just makes me more accurate to his canon. quoting the wiki: "Gargamel is aloof and insecure due to being ugly and even admits that no one has ever genuinely said they loved him." make fun of me = validate me further LOL
"its a kids show" so many people identify with cartoon characters. no one bats an eye when people kin fluttershy, my melody, and even smurfette whos from the literal same franchise as gargamel. so now that we established that gargamel being ugly isnt a valid reason to make fun of me, we also established that him being a cartoon character isnt. unless only identifying with cutsie and aesthetic cartoon characters is okay? aaaanyway i am also squidward and eeyore and you shouldnt be judging that if youre okay with people kinning hello kitty or pinkie pie.
"hes the villain" yeah everyone n their mama kin bad guys. some people even kin characters who are truly pure evil. gargamel has a backstory that forced him to become evil ANDDDD he still has a bit of goodness very very deep within his cold heart.
"its such an old show" alice in wonderland is 30 years older but yall never cared when people identify with alice. not to mention the smurfs is an ONGOING franchise, shows movies and video games are literally still being released to this day. the recent film came out in 2025 and the smurfs village party video game came out in 2024. yall kin older stuff than that
"hes old" who says i have to only identify with characters that are my age? yes a huge precentage of the characters i identify with are highschoolers like me, but people kin characters who are like 3 year old or smth like anya and klee and whatnot. aaaand if you kin characters who are actually old but look like children or young adults i dont wanna hear NONE from you, its more embarassing if you can only kin old people when you can, again, sexualize them and call them waifus. the only difference between kinning characters like faruzan or citlali to other old characters is that the latter isnt made to be gooner bait!