User blog:Numbuh 404/Nanny Smurf Theory

I've always wondered how Nanny Smurf's existence could be logically explained with due consideration to the creation of Smurfettes. Unless someone had the Smurfette spell (and it was later passed down to Gargamel) over 500 years prior to the current time the Smurfs existed in throughout the cartoon series, Nanny cannot logically exist as a natural Smurfette.

Right now, the mystery around her existence cannot be justified by a specific creator, nor can she be called a "natural born Smurf" because females (again) are magically created while males are brought to the village by the stork. Also, the Smurfettes are representative of their gender based on their name including "Smurfette" and males are labelled with "Smurf" in their names.

Examples include Handy Smurf, Papa Smurf, Brainy Smurf, etc. (Canonically speaking, Smurfette is sort of obvious, and Sassette is techincally called Sassette Smurfling because of her age, but when fully grown, she would become Sassette Smurfette.)

Why, then, is Nanny Smurf not called Nanny Smurfette if she is female? With all this given evidence from the series, I have theorized that she is not a Smurfette at all. As far as I understand, Nanny is actually a male Smurf who is either transgender or a crossdesser (AKA "drag queen"). She could have decided long ago to undergo this transformation for personal fulfillment, as a means of taking a motherly role for the Smurflings (considering how Grandpa was the Village Leader when Papa Smurf was young, and Nanny is roughly the same age as Grandpa), or for a more intimate partnership with another Smurf - possibly Grandpa.

In other words, it's entirely possible that Nanny Smurf is actually male and "Nanny" may not be her real name.