Hefty

Role In The Village

Hefty mainly carries the heavy load that other Smurfs can't. He is also one of the few Smurfs who will accept any kind of dangerous journey, making him one of the top choices to send out of the Village to retrieve something.

Personality

Hefty is known for being heroic, brave, earnest, trustworthy, confident, friendly, protective, and strong-willed. Despite his friendliness, Hefty is also prone to getting aggressive, as he is the main Smurf to give Brainy a clobbering in the comics and a toss out of the village in both cartoons. If he feels provoked or intimidated by anyone (or anything), Hefty often feels the need to either prove his strength or deliver a pounding. Hefty's aggressiveness tends to bring out the worst in him. In "A Smurfy Christmas", he considers and later tries to beat up Jokey for deliberately mixing up the Christmas letters. At the beginning of "Hefty's Heart", Hefty has a noticeably nicer attitude than most episodes, as he is shown helping Lazy and Brainy without any irritability and sings about how he loves helping his friends while out chopping firewood in the forest. After breaking his leg in "Hefty And The Wheelsmurfer", Hefty is left temporarily bed bound. While at home, Hefty refuses to let his fellow Smurfs (except Smurfette and Baby Smurf) visit at first, embarrassed to be seen in such a vulnerable state, feeling miserable and lost without being able to walk around and exercise as usual.

Personality

A more negative trait for Hefty is that he sometimes thinks with his muscles rather than with his brain. In "Mirror, Mirror On The Armoire", when trying to save Brainy and Blossom from Gargamel's magical armoire that will lock up anyone who looks at it, he shows off his muscles, but he is captured when he winks to the mirror. He can also be very persistent, shown in "Ogre Love", where he repeatedly tries to stop Bigmouth from taking Smurfette and even after he is consistently hurt, he tries to go with Papa Smurf, Handy, and Brainy to Bigmouth's house to save Smurfette. Hefty also has a slight ego, though not as bad as Brainy. This ego often makes him accidentally forget his fellow Smurfs' feelings. In "Curing Private Timid", he takes Timid under his wing to teach him some self-confidence. Despite Timid's easy-to-notice reluctance and Smurfette's warnings, Hefty doesn't listen, causing Timid to run into the forest and gets caught by the ogres. When the two ogres are driven away, Hefty apologizes to Timid. Hefty is usually fearless, causing him to feel equally lost when he has fears of his own, such as the fear of heights he develops in "A Circus For Baby" when he accidentally gets launched onto a high tree branch while trying to practice his tightrope walking act. Oddly, he is first shown to have this fear in "The Secret Of The Village Well", as he's very nervous about being lowered into the well to find a penny. Hefty's fear of heights makes a return in "Smurfquest", in which Grandpa Smurf gives him some encouragement and a blindfold.

Character

Hefty is naturally extra strong, and he believes that with great power comes great responsibility. His bulging muscles make him feel protective of and responsible for his fellow band of Smurfs, even if they don’t believe they need protecting. This also means he can lose patience with his tribe’s disorderly behavior and constant flirtation with chaos. And though they all respect him, sometimes the others act particularly naughty or extra sloppy, just to test his sense of humor. so he claims that Hefty's job is lifting weights to stay active.He is easily identified by the heart tattoo on his right upper arm, although it sometimes appears on the left upper arm or both upper arms. In the 1981 series, his heart tattoo had an arrow shot through it. In "Grandir avec les Schtroumpfs" and the 2021 series, he has a noticeable toned upper body. Prior to "The Jewel Smurfer", the only thing that visually separates Hefty from the other Smurfs was his tendency to carry around a halberd. However, in "Smurfy Secrets", it is revealed that Hefty greases his chest to look strong.