Exploitation

Exploitation is the act of using a person or a living person in a harmful way for the sake of profit, such as human trafficking and animal testing.

Mainstream Smurfs Media
In mainstream Smurfs media, Gargamel seeks to capture the Smurfs for the sake of either food or completing the creation of the Philosopher's Stone, or in the Sony Pictures films, to extract Smurf essence from them to become a very powerful wizard. There are also some other characters in the Smurfs franchise that seek to use the Smurfs for their own personal ends.