Empath's Rebellion (Empath stories)

Empath's Rebellion is an event that took place in the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story "Papa Smurf & Mama Smurfette", in the alternate timeline where Smurfette married Papa Smurf. It began sometime after the marriage when Empath, who was secretly disguised as a normal Smurf, started sending messages to various Smurfs to meet together in a secret location, warning them to wear a disguise so that nobody would find out their identities. While the rebellion started off small, it eventually grew to the point where every adult Smurf among Empath's fellow Smurfs were aligned with Empath at the time when Papa Smurf and Smurfette's daughter was born.

On the day when the daughter was born, Papa Smurf saw that most of the village was turned against him, Smurfette, Polaris Psyche, and his daughter when Empath removed Papa Smurf's red hat and replaced it with a white hat, symbolically dethroning Papa Smurf from being the leader of the village, while at the same time showing that Empath himself was the new leader when he replaced his own hat with Papa Smurf's red hat. The rebellion was successful in that Papa Smurf, Smurfette, Polaris Psyche, and the newly-born daughter were driven out of the village into exile without any violence. Unfortunately, it was also successful in making the Smurflings want to leave the village to join the exiles, with Puppy and Baby Smurf also leaving.