Gargamel

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Gargamel
Gargamel holding a Smurf, on the left his cat Azrael
Publication information
Publisher	Dupuis
First appearance	Spirou (Comic Strip; 1959)
Created by	Peyo
Voiced by	French: Jacques Courtois (1960s TV Series) Philippe Dumat (80s films) Emmanuel Curtil (2021 series) English: Paul Winchell (80s series) Hank Azaria (2010s films and specials and 2020s series) Tom Zehnder (The Smurfs Dance Party) Andre Sogliuzzo (The Smurfs 2 video game) Rainn Wilson (Smurfs: The Lost Village) Lenny Mark Irons (2021 series)
In-story information
Partnerships	Azrael Scruple
Abilities	Command of magic

Gargamel is the main antagonist of the Smurfs show and comic books. He is a wizard and the sworn enemy of the Smurfs.

The character was originally meant to appear only once in a short story of the Smurfs. Since he was an established adversary for the Smurfs, Peyo incorporated him into later stories, and he became the main antagonist of the Smurfs.

In the 2011 motion picture The Smurfs he is portrayed as wanting the Smurfs “mystical essence” in order to power his magical wand.^[1]