Talk:The First Female Smurf (Hero Stories)/Part 5/@comment-1323688-20130511010838

That's why Smurfette in the EMPATH story series doesn't meet Empath until five years after she was created. If he had shown up at that point, none of his fellow Smurfs would have had a chance at trying to win Smurfette's heart and having her turn down their requests to marry them. This feels like you put a cheat code in the original story, and I'm not sure that Hero was used to great effect near the end. Of course, that still makes me curious about seeing Hero's own backstory being fleshed out -- how he comes home from years of studying how to control his powers and coming to the rescue of his fellow Smurfs.