Gurglemeel

Gurglemeel as he appears in Evilsmurfs 6

*This article refers to the main timeline version of Gurglemeel. For alternate versions, refer to Gurglemeel (Disambiguation).*

**Gurglemeel Gargenburg** (born **Gurglemeal Gargenburg**) is the main protagonist of the Evilsmurfs series.

A large-nosed human loosely resembling Gargamel, he was the sworn enemy of the Evilsmurfs before finally being able to reason with them after 37 years of fighting. He was known to put up quite a fight against whatever enemy faced him, rarely ever losing a battle.

After obtaining an experimental Evilsmurf-Tech Selectable-Fire Machine Gun, Gurglemeel would slowly become a weapons expert. He notably wielded this gun, a pistol, and even Gerald Poisson's pistol briefly.

## Biography

### Early Years

Gurglemeel, then known as "Gurglemeal," was born to Gareth Gargenburg and Jolameel Gargenburg prior to Tha Men's takeover of Gorgeview. Due to both being good friends of Reginald Smurfblum, who Tha Men had just overthrown, they sent him to Poopah Evilsmurf to keep him out of harm's way. Gurglemeal was raised as Poopah's son. The two would bond, even as Poopah developed his own army.

### The First Battle

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20 years after his birth, Gurglemeal was watching TV in the living room with Poopah. This escalated into a fight over which show to watch, and Poopah eventually lost control. Having developed his army to a considerable point, he decided to deploy it on his own adoptive son in a fit of uncontrolled rage.

Gurglemeal, acting out of desperation to stay alive, destroyed most of his army. He also ran into Smurfblum, who Poopah had reunited with recently, under the impression Gurglemeal was a threat against Poopah and his army. He was easily mowed down before his submarine was destroyed, allowing Gurglemeal to confront and seemingly kill Poopah.

Gurglemeal spied what was seemingly an illusion of a red and blue-clad man, who asked him what he had just done. He simply brushed it off.

### Name Change

A month after the first incident, two agents of Tha Men, agents "Deep Throat" and "Arnold" were sent to investigate Gurglemeal. After asking him a series of questions, followed by asking for his name, he quickly changed it to "Gurglemeel," dropping the surname of "Gargenburg" as well, and chalked up any similarities to the man they suspected him to be as a coincidence.

### The Rematch

Gurglemeel became aware that Poopah was alive once again. He took on his army once again, easily dispatching them. He witnessed some of Poopah's advancements, such as Anti-Smurf, a substance created to target only Poopah's army in the case of an uprising, before he came upon Poopah himself. Defeating him once again, he was once again shown a vision of the same figure, who called him a "monster." With Poopah destroyed, Gurglemeel went back to a normal life.

### Thirty-Year Break

Gurglemeel took the opportunity to focus on bigger and better things. Five years after, he met a woman, who he would date for five years before marrying. Five years later, they had a child, and another two years later. Gurglemeel referred to the best aspects of Poopah while he adjusted to being a father, taking the best out of what he was taught and leaving out the bad.

### Poopah's Revenge

Not long after, Gurglemeel caught Poopah spying on his family after he had seemingly been killed years ago. In reality, he had rebuilt his army from the point of near destruction. He began to attack the army once again while Poopah observed him from afar. Poopah seemed to imply that the army was dwindling in numbers, partly due to Gurglemeel's actions years prior.

In a room, he found a gun laid upon the floor surrounded by dead evilsmurfs, likely victims of his rampage as he returned to witness the carnage he unleashed. After obtaining the weapon, he continued onward to find Poopah himself. He bounced around, sending out more of his army, though it was not enough to stop Gurglemeel. Poopah was defeated once again, apparently dying. This was a trick, as he returned with a rocket launcher of similar design and shot at Gurglemeel, seemingly killing him.

Gurglemeel came to in the Scary Hell Place, where he regained his senses and made his way back to Poopah. Passing through the same area where it all began, he approached Poopah in a laboratory, where he was given one last choice; either join Poopah or simply kill him there. Gurglemeel chose to kill Poopah, ending the villain's efforts to eliminate him. To remember him, Gurglemeel took his hat and placed it into his house under a display case. He does this to memorialize the good in him that once was during his youth.

### A Call To Action

Three years after he killed him, Gurglemeel noticed Poopah's hat was now missing from it's display. Suspecting Poopah is still alive after taking his previous attacks into account, he left to try and find him, bringing his gun with him once again. He later found him along with an expanded army. After obtaining grenades fighting through the hordes of evilsmurfs and utilizing their Smurf-Traps against them, he witnessed Poopah talking with a smurf clad in a chef hat, revealed to be Gredy. Fighting through many traps and explosive barrels, he eventually encountered Gredy and fought him. Dodging his explosive pies, he was able to take down the deranged chef, vowing to find Poopah and end him.

Days later, Gurglemeel was once again searching for Poopah during a thunderstorm. A few evilsmurfs in hiding started to lose faith in Poopah, weakening their morale and efforts to prevent Gurglemeel from carrying on forward. He stumbled upon a green-clad wanderer by a bonfire who recognized Gurglemeel. He told him about an Evilsmurf fort that had been causing him trouble, asking him to take it out. Equipping his gun, he used it to destroy the fort and returned to the man. He gave Gurglemeel some rockets (no launcher required!) to help him on his way. He mentioned an old target above the fort, telling him that he might want to check it out. After using the rockets to hit the target, it revealed a secret passage to Poopah's Fortress.

Making his way through the fortress, Gurglemeel eliminated the threat once again and made his way to the roof. There he found Poopah on an airship alongside Clamsy, who accidentally drops a healing potion instead of a harming one. Gurglemeel destroys the airship with his rockets, causing Clamsy to fall and Poopah to escape.

After leaving the fortress and meeting with his new friend again down below, the two witnessed Poopah's getaway on a second airship off in the distance. The two talked for a while as Gurglemeel intended to follow the airship. However, he would eventually run into Redsmurf's militia and drop his gun. He fought his way out, encountering several other groups along the way before returning home.

### The Endgame

Gurglemeel, hearing gunfire in the distance, headed off to the location only to find a group of Tha Men decimated. A survivor told him that it was the work of Poopah's army, leading Gurglemeel to begin a search. He eventually found Poopah after some exploring, which lead to Poopah's plans to destroy the entire land if he has to. He followed him to the same airship he made his escape years prior, where several target-based puzzles blocked his path. Making his way into the ship's lower levels, he encountered a giant mutated evilsmurf, enhanced by experiments Poopah had run. Making his way into an anvil factory, he attacked him with several henchman. Gurglemeel shot the anvils down onto Poopah, hitting him until he was killed. He then left the airship before it could crash as nobody was left to man it.

Witnessing the ship's explosion, Gurglemeel began to make his way back home. Entering a cave, he witnessed none other than Poopah being revived. He told his saviours that this would be the last time Gurglemeel took him down before noticing Gurglemeel himself. However, the guards were taken out after Gurglemeel made his way out and encountered nozzles of Anti-Smurf all over the region. Noticing something was wrong, he followed other evilsmurfs until he encountered Poopah again. He learned a nuke was about to be launched to eliminate the entire land, but pleaded with Poopah to try to convince him that he never meant to harm him those years ago by angering him. This lead Poopah to understand where he went wrong, being hungry for power and feeling the need to exercise it. The two made up for their differences, though the nuke was launched regardless. As Poopah, Gredy, Clamsy, and a number of other evilsmurfs ran from the blast, Gurglemeel cleared the area of any remaining Anti-Smurf emitters allowing them to reach a safe zone.

Inside the zone, he met the man he encountered years ago, who seemed talkative before realizing he was blocking the way. Gurglemeel followed the others to the other side of the gorge, finding that Poopah's army had made a bridge across the gorge to lead them directly into the town of Gorgeview. After crossing the bridge and reminiscing about all the fighting he and Poopah had during the years, he encountered his parents. Their greeting was short, as Smurfblum interrupted.

### The Final Battle

Still not remembering who they were, Smurfblum and his goons chased the different members off. Poopah, Gredy, and Clamsy were seperated from Gurglemeel, Gargenburg, and Jolameel.

The trio entered an abandoned building that showed signs of activity, believing it may lead to them discovering someone who may be able to help them defeat Smurfblum. The two parents stay behind while Gurglemeel searches for the individual. The person of interest was revelaed to be the agent of Tha Men codenamed "Deep Throat," who recognized Gurglemeel from the encounter at his house decades ago. Finally realizing Gurglemeel and Gurglemeal were the same, he ran off into the darkness as Gurglemeel attempted to catch him.

Deep Throat was captured by Gurglemeel's parents, who were able to obtain some info from him before letting him go. Gargenburg told his son that the agent informed him that his old hometown was safe and out of the bomb's radius, which lead Gurglemeel off to reunite with his family. While there, he encountered "Slick", a member of Tha Men who had studied Gurglemeel's first battle with Poopah closely. Managing to recover the exact location and add some twists of his own, he eventually set up a final fight between himself and Gurglemeel in the same way Poopah did. After being trampled, he got up and attacked from a hovering platform as he kicked bombs to Gurglemeel. These were returned back to him before he was defeated by his own weaponry.

Gurglemeel, following another lead thanks to Slick, eventually learned of the whereabouts of Smurfblum's underwater base. Acquiring a Low-Depth Bombing Suit and slipping past some guards, he was able to trick several evilsmurf submarines to fire rockets right at the base's wall, destroying it and leading him inside. There, he slipped past the same guards he encountered and entered Smurfblum's lair. Briefly boasting about a previous encounter with someone who crossed his path, Smurfblum was able to recruit the aide of Tha Men agent "Arnold" to attempt to bomb Gurglemeel. Using these bombs against them as he did with Slick, Gurglemeel was able to redirect them to a loading spring and hit them into the ceiling, compromising the room's integrity. The ceiling eventually gave out, flooding the room and causing Smurfblum to escape.

A few days later, Poopah contacted Gurglemeel to inform him of a plan. Reuniting with him at the ruins of an old base of his, Poopah planned to send a signal out to grab Smurfblum's attention, where the two would incapacitate him. Making their way back inside and clearing out any blockages, they encountered "Bernie," an agent of Tha Men armed with a flamethrowing lighter. Utilizing barrels of gunpowder to clear out more blockages, Gurglemeel and Poopah both sent icicles down onto Bernie, killing him. Before he died, he gave Gurglemeel his lighter so that it would still go to some use. After learning what "Destrau The Melt" meant yaers later, Gurglemeel encountered a portal to another world, distracting him. Deciding to enter it, Poopah stayed behind as he awaited his return.

When he returned, Gurglemeel found Poopah missing. Smurfblum emerged as the two had a verbal standoff. A hole was suddenly blown in the wall behind them, knocking them both out. Gerald Poisson emerged from the hole, telling some of the members of Tha Men to bring down the portal and prepare it for another demonstration as they also carried the two away.

Gurglemeel awoke to seeing Poisson, along with Deep Throat, Slick, Arnold, as well as Poopah and Smurfblum. After revealing his identity and affiliation with Tha Men, Poisson told Gurglemeel of his intent to travel across the multiverse to amass an interdimensional empire. Preparing the portal for a demonstration, the device malfunctioned and sent them both to a variety of different locations. The two fought in Eekeek World, with Gurglemeel taking the position of a legendary bowman. They were then sent to another land where Gurglemeel rode what appeared to be a mouse pointer, while Poisson rode a "boss orb." They were then sent to a gameshow, surprisingly in the future, as Gurglemeel was given a quiz by a host regarding Poisson's nose shape. After telling him it looked like a star-nosed mole, the host told him to take "a prize" from the nearest trapdoor. Before he could do so, they were sent back to present day on a breathable version of the moon. After Poisson raved about wanting success, he launched an all-out attack against Gurglemeel, who picked up his gun and used it to defeat him.

Sent back to the lab, Gurglemeel prepared to further battle Poisson. However, Smurfblum decided to intervene and sent both Poisson and his teleport technology back to his own reality. Smurfblum explained that he remembered everything after the explosion took him out, leading to his change of heart. With Tha Men stunned, they had them arrested. Poopah, Smurfblum, Gurglemeel, and his parents all reunited at the Gargenburg household as they looked forward to a peaceful future ahead.

### An Old Friend

Five years later, Gurglemeel was awoken from his sleep at his parent's house during a visit. The mysterious figure he had encountered revealed himself to be Oiram, and had in fact looked through time to observe his actions. He explained that he had a plan to get his people back, and that Gurglemeel would be a suitable candidate for his idea.

## Personality

Gurglemeel is a persistent fighter, relentless at his craft. He is able to endure a great amount of hardship and pain to do what he feels is right. When he finds it appropriate, he may reason with his adversaries, as he does with Poopah years after they start fighting.

## Abilities

Gurglemeel is shown to be capable of many superhuman traits, such as the ability to walk on air and below water. He also appears to be able to breathe underwater for an indefinite amount of time. These abilities are inconsistent, as he has been playable with proper physics as well.

He is durable, having been shown tanking a direct blast from a rocket propelled grenade as well as several explosives towards the end of his battles with Tha Men. This is also inconsistent, as he is also shown being killed by exploding oil drums and crowbar-wielding smurfs with ease.

Gurglemeel is a weapons expert by the time he fights Poopah for the final time, having wielded an arsenal of weaponry on his travels. Though he is primarily seen wielding his classic SFMG, he is also seen carrying a pistol, grenades, and rockets, as well as other devices during his time battling Tha Men and Smurfblum.

## Appearance

Gurglemeel is a fully bald man with a large nose. He is often seen wearing a gray t-shirt with black pants, or what appears to be a gray tank top without any pants in his first outing.

The gray shirt is substituted for a black one during the events of Evilsmurfs 6's third chapter. The suit is meant to be a more insulated jacket for his time in the frozen wasteland of Poopah's base.

## Trivia

* His name was inspired by a misconception Definitive Doggo had when first seeing advertisements for *The Smurfs* on Teletoon Retro, mishearing "Gargamel" as "Gargle Melt." Though he eventually learned the true spelling, his brother PinkMedic took the opportunity to poke fun at this misconception during evilsmurfs, mangling it even further to "Gurglemeal."
* His name was originally spelled "Gurglemeal" by PinkMedic. This inexplicably changed from Evilsmurfs 2 onwards to become "Gurglemeel."
* Unlike his inspiration, he is a good-natured protagonist. He is not capable of wielding magic, though Poopah and the evilsmurfs are, further reversing the abilities of their inspirations.
* A continuation of Evilsmurfs 3's bad ending was planned at one point as a comic that would showcase Gurglemeel as a "zombie," becoming Poopah's assistant in his laboratory.
* The protagonist of Fortran was originally intended to be a seperate character, and was only made to be Gurglemeel after noting the similarity between their designs. The tie-in scene in Evilsmurfs 6 was intended to explain how he got there.