However, no matter how elaborate Gargamel's plans are, they invariably end in failure, causing him to spout his catchphrase: "I hate Smurfs!". He has a seemingly endless library of spellbooks (grimoires), potions, and gimmicks for his life's passion. Some of his schemes to catch Smurfs border on the bizarre (such as a "blue magnet" that attracts solely blue items). Though he often catches Smurfs who wander by his home or whom he happens across in the forest, he does not know the location of the hidden Smurf village, a fact that continually frustrates him.
Sometimes, he wants to eat the Smurfs, while other times, he wants to use them to make gold, and still other times, he has even more bizarre uses for them (in one instance, he is so enraged by his loss that he yells, "I don't want to eat them, I don't want to turn them into gold, all I want now is to DESTROY THEM!"). The sorcerer was defeated and humiliated, swearing revenge: from now on, the conflict would be personal. The other Smurfs rallied against him, and freed the kidnapped Smurf. When Gargamel first appeared in Le Voleur de schtroumpf ("The Smurfnapper"), published in 1959, he captured a Smurf, which he needed as an ingredient for a potion to make gold in accordance with the famed alchemic legend of the Philosopher's Stone.
In another episode, Balthazar wants to kill a wildcat that Azrael befriended for his fur, and Gargamel begs him not to. In one episode of The Smurfs, Gargamel is depressed when Azrael runs away, and wishes he would come back. Gargamel frequently denigrates, insults, and abuses Azrael (who typically returns Gargamel's abuse and displays amusement when Gargamel is humiliated), but Gargamel does in fact love him. Gargamel lives in a run-down but solidly built hovel with his mangy cat, Azrael. He is a misanthrope who hates the Smurfs, though he will feign friendship if there is something in it for him. In the Smurfs, Gargamel wears a worn and patched robe, and his teeth are rotten. Gargamel is a character who is perpetually stooped.
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