Gargamel

Gargamel is a wizard obessed with capturing the Smurfs. He's accompanied by a cat, Azriel, who though having little concern for Gargame, still has an equal interest in acquiring the Smurfs. Gargamel's motives have been many, though his most common is greed, as Smurfs are the ingrediant he needs to turn base metal to gold, or so his obession began. Overtime it grew to simply wanting the Smurfs destroyed out of frustration at the inability to capture them for long. Gargamel is a very insecure individual due to his appearance, and his birthday being on Halloween. The latter making him extremely lonely as no one remembers his birthday.

Comic Book
Gargamel first appears in The Smurfnapper segement of the Black Smurfs Comic Album. He hatches a plan to create disunion among the Smurfs by introduction of a female to the population, and thus, he creates Smurfette, however his plan goes ary. The Smurfs do not find her attractive, but pitty her for her appearance, and her attempts at charm are offset by that apperance. Eventually the Smurfetter tries to destroy the village only to fail, and thus, broken by the pitty she's been shown, requests that Papa Smurf make her a smurf, which he does with Plastic Surgery, and teaching her the ways of a Smurf.

With his creation now turned against him Gargamel resorts to ulterior approaches; like a simple net.

Cartoon Series
Gargamel is expanded in the cartoon series as his background, and motives, are explored indepth.

Films
In the films Gargamel is interested in capturing the Smurfs to harvest their magical essence for use in powerful spells that will enable him to rule to the world.

Voice, and Screen Actors
Paul Winchell (Cartoon)

Hank Albert Azaria (Film, and Shorts from the 2010s)

Andre Sogliuzzo (The Smurfs 2: The Video Game)

Controversy
French Sociologist Antoine Bueno proposed that Gargamel is suggestive of a Jewish Steriotype; having a big nose, magic powers, a love for gold, and balding looks.