In the comics, when Handy invented a handheld powered drill, he began testing it on almost everything in the village, and in the process he ruined the bucket of the central well, ruined the barbells of Hefty although Hefty then saw that the iron globes with the added holes could be used as bowling balls, so he didn't mind it that much , sunk Marco Smurf 's boat when he drilled through the hull, and finally ruined the cake mold that Smurfette was planning to use to make the cake for Papa Smurf 's birthday.

After the dough was poured in and went right through the mold, the Smurfs were looking very angrily at Jokey, who defended himself with "It wasn't me, you guys, honest! Realizing that Handy was the one behind all the mayhem that had been going on in the village, the others chased after him, and at the party they had attached two wooden beams with shoes attached to the drill bit, turning it into a Handy Smurf butt-kicking machine. Although he is friendly and open-minded, there are times when he would end up saying harsh things to his friends and then regretting it later.

For example, in one episode after he kept getting in trouble because of his new creation, Clockwork Smurfette, he told her, "I wish I never made you!

Quickly, he regrets it and says he didn't mean his harsh words. Also in " One Good Smurf Deserves Another ", when Clumsy kept helping Handy, only to make things worse, he told Clumsy harshly to stop helping him, hurting Clumsy's feelings.

This causes glares from the other Smurfs at Handy. He then relents and asks Clumsy for some help. Because Handy invents things that are highly unusual for the Middle Ages , the other Smurfs occasionally think of him as strange. For example, in " Foul Weather Smurf ", when he said he's making a machine to change the weather, most of the Smurfs even Hefty and Smurfette laughed at him. Though, they were surprised to see that his invention worked. They do know he is a big help and is needed in building and fixing things.

Handy's closest friend is Hefty Smurf. The two are always seen helping each other or hanging out around the village. They watch each other's backs, but sometimes get into fights that just cause trouble. In " Romeo And Smurfette ", their friendship is almost ruined when a hypnotized Smurfette manipulates them into fighting, but they reconcile later on. Big evidence of their friendship are seen in episodes like " Smurf The Other Cheek ", where they both helped each other out of a small jam, and in the Smurf Special " The Smurfic Games ", where Hefty and Handy competed against each other but in the end their friendship saved their lives.

In the cartoon, Handy has a father-son relationship with his invention, Clockwork Smurf. He considers Clockwork to be one of his most brilliant creations and sees himself like a father to him, as revealed in " The Clockwork Smurf ". He often comes to his defense when others such as Brainy treat him as nothing more than a machine.

Whenever Clockwork suffers any damage or stops functioning as a result, Handy becomes devastated and works hard to fix him. In " Return Of The Clockwork Smurf ", Handy is seen sadly cradling his creation in his arms for a moment after he was brought to Smurf Village in critical condition.

In " Clockwork Smurfette ", Handy builds a robot partner for Clockwork after witnessing how lonely he was without King Gerard who is now in a relationship nor a girlfriend. With this intention in mind, Handy and Clockwork Smurfette do not have a father-daughter relationship. Unfortunately, this leads to her falling in love with her creator instead much to Handy's frustration , causing a complicated mess for him and Clockwork before the latter saves her life.

For the first two seasons, Handy had a shy crush on Smurfette. In " Smurf-Colored Glasses ", he made glasses for Smurfette that were supposed to make anything she sees beautiful, including him. His invention almost got her in trouble with Gargamel , but in the end she gave him a kiss as thanks for how he saved her. His love for her died though, as his affections shifted toward a mermaid named Marina , whom he saved from dying. Marina and Handy only had three encounters, but it is clear that he loves her greatly, as shown when he vowed to leave the Smurfs and to live a life with her forever.

He made two inventions so that he could live underwater with her, but they both ended with him nearly drowning. Handy and Marina soon decided that even though they love each other, they will have to wait until they could find a much easier way to be together. He still might have some feelings for Smurfette, since he entered the Mr.

Another Smurf he's seen frequently with is Greedy. In " The Smurfwalk Cafe ", they both accidentally invent smurf cream ice cream with Handy's air conditioner and set up their own cafe. But then they ended up in an argument about who actually came up with the idea and parted. They tried to do their own versions of the dessert, but were unsuccessful. When they went to the mountain to get more snow, they got mixed up in a snowball with Greedy buried in the snow. Handy Smurf prior to Empath's final return.

Handy Smurf around the time of Empath's wedding. His personalized symbol. What does bother me is that Hefty has to smurf a big deal about being the firstborn.

To me, being born the first doesn't make you the best. He can smurf bigger muscles, I can smurf better machines. Handy was the son of Muscles Smurf , born as the twin brother of Hefty Smurf. While Hefty was named right after he was born for being a big and strong baby, Handy's name was simply from a careless comment about having a twin child being "handy" that got picked up by Tailor's father who sewed matching name sleepers for the children.

Their official birth names are Harold for Hefty and Henry for Handy. Like most of his fellow Smurfs his age, he was raised by his parents until an unknown disease had claimed their lives, leaving him and his brothers Hefty and Grouchy in the care of Culliford Smurf, who eventually became known as Papa Smurf. The rest of his personal history at least in the present point of the story series is similar to that of his cartoon show counterpart up until around Seasons 5 and 6.

About five years after Empath and Smurfette had married, Handy met his counterpart Gadget from Smurfette Island and married her, producing two sons. The couple formed Handy-Gadget Innovations, which specialized in developing new technologies for their fellow Smurfs. Handy lived for a total of years, as did his brother Hefty, after which they were both laid to rest with their fellow Smurfs. While sharing some similarities with his cartoon show counterpart, Handy finds himself constantly competing with his twin brother Hefty Smurf , proving that brains is better than muscle, not to mention that Hefty being born the first of the two doesn't make him the best.

Although Handy is jealous of Empath and his abilities, he finds himself rather inspired by what Empath can do and builds machines that would allow his fellow Smurfs to do things similar to what Empath can do.

Handy at one time fell in love with a mermaid named Marina when she lost consciousness swimming up the River Smurf in order to reach the Pool of Avalon to get lilyroot for her ailing father King Aquarius.

However, because Handy could only live on land and Marina could only live in the sea, their relationship was difficult to maintain. Eventually, during an incident where she was captured by an undersea menace called the Leviathan, she fell in love with a Snorkelian named Dylan and thus her relationship with Handy ended at that point, though they still remained friends.

Like all the other Smurfs in the village, Handy is heterosexual and strongly believes that only males and females should be united together in marriage , although he holds no hostility towards those of other sexual orientations unless they pose a problem toward him or others. Sometime after his return from the Smurfs' time-traveling adventures in The Lost Year , Handy was disgusted to hear from Empath that his Mirror Universe counterpart actually has a dating relationship with its Hefty.

Handy does not like smoking or taking any kind of mood-altering substance other than drinking coffee and sarsaparilla ale , the latter of which his brother Hefty has a low tolerance for except for the non-alcoholic type. At one time Handy was addicted to the powerful magic of the Orb Of Euphoria that was given to Poet by Allura the witch, but after Empath helped break his addiction, Handy foreswore the use of any sort of magic for inspiration or helping him to work better or faster.

In " Where The Wind Carries You ", Handy was notably put off by Lazy 's addiction to smoking herbs such as damiana , not wanting Lazy to come near him because he might get him high just by breathing on him.

He is the village mechanic and inventor who is always on call to fix or build things, and he often tries to invent new things that can make the Smurf way of living easier, though most of those inventions either get abused or get out of control, requiring Handy to shut them down or to destroy them, which results in the village returning to their normal tried-and-true ways. Sometimes Handy gets carried away with his own inventions, such as the time that he developed a power driller and started drilling everything he got his hands on, including a cake mold that Smurfette intended to use for making a cake for Papa Smurf.