Year Of Death (Hero Stories)

The Year Of Death is a time period that occurred in the Smurf Village in the HERO: The Guardian Smurf story series that lasted for 1 whole year. It began with Hero passing away at the age of 712, with Papa Smurf following a few weeks later and it soon started to spread to all the Smurfs of Hero's generation, except for the Smurfettes, who now had to do the work on their own, as well as looking after the children of the next generation. At the end of that year, only 4 Smurfs of Hero's generation remained which were Abloec, Fergus, Brainy and Smurfette.

After the death of Papa Smurf, Mother Smurfette became the official leader of the Smurf Village for the next next generation of Smurfs, with Nicola becoming her assistant leader and Athena becoming her lab assistant.

Trivia

 * This was inspired by the time period in the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series simply known as "The Plague".