The True Smurf

The True Smurf is a piece of in-universe Smurf literature that is supposedly written by a member of Hefty and Handy Smurf's family line in the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series. It is considered a pro-masculine propaganda piece that declares from the writer's viewpoint what he believes to be the behaviors of "a true Smurf" (as in a male Smurf) and denounces certain other behaviors to be "very unsmurfy" and worthy of being brutally punished. Empath discovered this book in the Smurf House Of Archives and was appalled by the fact that such hateful literature even exists among the Smurfs. Papa Smurf said that the book was written in a very shameful time in Smurf history and while it only serves the highlight the bigotry that existed in that time period, it should also serve as a lesson of behaviors not to be repeated.