Creator / Haryadhi Gee

"The amount of f***d up things in this country is too damn high! KOSTUM must rise again!" one of his famous quote.

Haryadhi Gee is an Indonesian cartoonist who lives in Tangerang, and is known for his ability to get many sponsors in relatively short time, and of course, his absurdly hilarious yet critically rich of moral message works.

His studies at Budi Luhur university enriched him with both political and common sense knowledge, which is crucially useful for his works, not to mention that he also knows a lot about Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Indian, American and Mandarin pop culture. With all his academic and non-academic knowledge combined, he made a terrific amount of astonishingly hilarious moral satires.

His satirical style was insipired from another Indonesian Cartoonist: Benny Rachmadi and Muhammad Misrad. His works can be found here, and here.

No relation to Timothy Mcgee or Assy Mcgee - though speaking of asses, Haryadhi's works have noticeable amount of raunchy humors.

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Best known for:

• KOSTUM
• Binekon
• Aspira Komik Jalanan
• Serial Cantik
• Cinta Cintaan
• Keluarga Muda

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Common tropes about him and his works:

• Absurdly Youthful Mother: Tokai's mom. This indeed parodies the moe anime trope where nearly every single girl existed will look youthful no matter how old they are.
• Acrofatic: One of his satire depicting the fat Haryadhi as flexible enough as to mimic the Spider Pig◊.
• Action Girl: Who fights train rapists and does parkour exercise at unfinished bridge constructions◊.
• All Love Is Unrequited: Applied here◊.
• All Men Are Perverts/All Women Are Lustful: Haryadhi never justify any gender in term of sexually, he literally believes in equality rather than justify one gender in the name of equality.
• An Ass-Kicking Christmas: This one◊, except the Christmas is replaced with Ramadan, which is technically equivalent since both are a religious holiday.
• An Offer You Can't Refuse: Mr. Andi◊ is a victim of this.
• Applied Mathematics: When a Mad Mathematician meets selfie◊.
• Art Evolution: From this◊ to this◊.
• Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: "Megatrash"◊.
• Attention Whore: This girl◊.
• Bad Future: If Indonesians can't learn to control themselves from doing pointless violence, their future will be like this◊.
• Balloon Belly: Sometimes he makes fun of his body size as this.
• Big Beautiful Man: Some of his fans find him to be quite handsome.
• Big "SHUT UP!": These kids◊ do this to their constantly fighting parents.
• Black Comedy: He dared to parody things that other satirist don't dare to made fun with, including a local extremist group named FPI.
• Boom, Headshot!!: Graphic warning◊
• Brains and Brawn: An interesting political example◊: Jakarta's governor Joko Widodo walks straightly into the fields to gather aspiration from the people which make him the brawn, while the vice governor Basuki Tjahaja (Ahok) handles the political debates which make him the brain.
• Brainwashed: An alternate reality where the democratic party constantly brainwashes Indonesian citizen to maintain Susilo's throne◊.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Haryadhi does this so many times. Justified since his works are based on reality. Some of his satire even has No Fourth Wall. One of the most noticeable example◊, involving FPI.
• The Brute: Applied here◊, and he seeks for redemption.
• Butt-Monkey: Most of his satire has at least one of this.
• The Cameo: Serial Cantik has Jerry Yan from the Mandarin adaptation of Boys over Flowers, Meteor Garden, Brian McFadden from westlife, Hanson and The Moffats on its eighth chapter◊.
• "Cavemen vs. Astronauts" Debate: Partially applied here◊.
• Censored for Comedy: The "CUM" magazine◊.
• The Collector: He collects Monsters, Inc. figures◊.
• Comical Overreacting: His characters tend to do this.
• Conspiracy Theorist: The main character of this◊ satire, and he's nuts. Which also qualifies him for an example of The Schizophrenia Conspiracy.
• Cool Horse: The moral of this◊ story is, there's some situation that your car and motorbike can't handle while your horse can.
• Death as Comedy: Nearly every single death happened at Haryadhi's works is this. Justified since his works are satire.
• Does This Make Me Look Fat?: Why yes, Rorschach◊, it does.
• Doomed Hometown: Applied here◊.
• Double Standard: Most of his satires are a critique against this.
  • This one◊ is a noticable example: about how indonesian people put a double standard between foreigner and local man's taste.
  • Another noticable example
• Dude, Not Funny!: Since Indonesia is a conservative country, some Indonesian labeled his jokes as "way too offensive" and "full of sexual undertones", good thing he got a loyal fanbase that big enough to make those "Righteous" obsessive guys shutting their mouth up.
• Easily Forgiven: Muslim tradition Idul Fitri command Muslims to forgive everyone at that day, where in one of the satire satire they forgive enslavers and manslaughterers◊ easily. And of course, Forgiven, but Not Forgotten.
• Enemy Mine: The comedian◊'s way of uniting the "flower group" and the "bee group" is by mocking them both so they got a new enemy.
• Epiphany Therapy: Inverted here◊, where the man suddenly got an epiphany to go to sex addiction theraphy, so the epiphany first, then the therapy.
• Eye Scream: Happened here◊.
• Fangirl: Of Taylor Lautner◊. Plus she's a part of an Estrogen Brigade.
• Fanservice: For the girls, applied here◊
• Fanservice Extra: Included here◊.
• Fantastic Racism: Between fruit-worshipping midgets◊.
• Fat and Proud: Much like Pandji Pragiwaksono, he's fat yet got a noticeable amount of fans.
• Fat and Skinny: As a duo, Haryadhi Gee is fat while Muhammad Misrad is skinny.
• The Food Poisoning Incident: This is what you get for letting the bad guy go◊.
• Gamer Chick: A.K.A Farmville addict◊.
• Genius Slob: Haryadhi usually portrays himself as a fat guy with lack of hygiene, and doesn't change the fact that he write intellectual satires.
• Gorn: This one◊, graphic warning, obviously.
• Gotta Catch 'Em All: Parodied here◊, the pokemons were replaced by the handicaps.
• Gratuitous English: In a Rap Battle◊
• The Great Flood: Zigzagged here◊, were the great flood wasn't caused by political corruption (Which is obviously one of Indonesia's fatal flaw), but the car free night, which is...not wrong at all.
• Gym Bunny: Mens who appeared at this satire◊ portrayed as this.
• Haiku: He write a haiku on the bottom of his satires to express the moral message in a beautiful way.
• Heel–Face Turn: The rats◊ chooses to tell everything the corrupt police does after he paid them ungenerously.
• High-Dive Hijinks: Here◊, also a shout out to Pitfall!.
• Hypocrite: Hypocrisy is the theme he use to made This character◊, a guy who criticize a motorcycle driver who use the sidewalk and disturb him, while himself also using the sidewalk in a wrong way.
• Instant Awesome: Just Add Mecha!: Applied here◊, here◊. here◊ and here◊.
• Jerkass: How Haryadhi Gee portrays corrupt politicians and religious bigots - they were exactly like that in reality, though.
• Just Following Orders: "Sorry we stomped your head, we 'ere just following the law government has made for us to follow."◊
• Kungfu Jesus: Haryadhi is probably the first person who mix a self-proclaimed Islamic holymen with a Saiyan - must be seen to be believed◊.
• Lady Drunk: That stock character is used here◊. Drinking is the reason she got arrested.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Perhaps commenting other people's life crisis is a fun thing for you - but when your turn came◊, you will realize how bad it is.
• Lazy Bum: Nothing is lazier than selling rotten tomatoes◊.
  • Literal rotten tomatoes, has no relation with that website.
• Light Is Not Good: Dear Attention whores, Just because you wear bright white◊ religious attires doesn't hide the fact that you suffer a chronic narcissistic disorder.
• Lured into a Trap:
  • This◊ satire told the reader that turning on the motorcycle light on the night is a crucial thing to avoid entering the "Trap Zone".
  • This one also counts.◊
• Lust Object: The husband in this◊ satire treating his wife as this.
• Manly Tears: Constantly included as a part of Comical Overreacting.
• Man On F Ire: They're burned by Solar Storm◊
• Mascot: The Binekon is this to Haryadhi's works.
• Meaningful Name: Haryadhi means "Nice and Noble".
• Meatgrinder Surgery: Which comically ends in failure◊.
• Men Are the Expendable Gender: Averted up to eleven. Women aren't immune to Haryadhi's...
  • Slapstick◊.
  • Fat◊ Joke.
  • Shopping◊ Joke.
  • Narcissism◊ Joke.
• Mind Control: This◊ satire tells about how Indonesian political party try to manipulate people into being on their side by commercials, songs and dances.
• Money to Throw Away: Implying that every Rupiah spent by Indonesians to pay tax are wasted for this◊. The celebrities and the circus is indeed a joke, but the tax throwaway part is a true story: Indonesians' taxes were used by the goverment to buy new cars, holiday in another nation and of course, political campaigns.
• Never Heard That One Before: This girl◊ loses the quiz since she never heard the word "Hipster" before.
• Nothing Is the Same Anymore: This◊ is about how politic change the course of music industry, Indonesian music then, Indonesian music now, it's a 2 very different thing...
• "Not So Different" Remark: Haryadhi used his trope on his 3-panel short comic "Ants"◊, both the Red and Black Ant group is just as bad as each other, a metaphor to Indonesian political and religious wars, where every political party/religious group claims that they're are the most righteous among all but turns out they're just pretending to be different.
• Odd Friendship: The corrupt cop with his rats◊.
• Once Upon a Time: There's a fisherman and an adventurer◊...
• Police Are Useless: The moral of the story where Lady Drunk gets arrested.
• Political Overcorrectness: Applied here◊
• Posthumous Character: Budi bin Tono◊.
• Powers Do the Fighting: These guys◊.
• Product Placement: Can't help it, he must promote his sponsors, and he does this on NEARLY EVERY SINGLE work he made - in a good way though, since most of it were Played for Laughs. His most "Loyal" sponsor is Antam Gold.
• Promoted Fanboy: Muhammad Misrad, his inspiration, acknowledged his satirical skill and often discussing critical stuffs together.
• Public Execution:
  • This◊ is what happen if Anas Urbaningrum take his own word of being executed at the top of Monas tower - he didn't though, since he's a cowardly politician
  • This one◊ - plus it's combined with Off with His Head!.
• Punny Name:
  • Haryadhi Gee = Haryadhi Geek.
  • Serial Cantik's main character is named Tokai, which means "poop" in Indonesia.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: Absolutely inverted. The Indonesian president is portrayed as a total pussy here◊. Partially based on a true story.
• Reverse Psychology Marketing: Heavily criticized by Haryadhi on this◊
• Roaring Rampageof Revenge: This◊ story is about a genius kid who master robotics,but his brilliance get rejected by Indonesian government, then he goes to japan, and came back 20 years later to destroy Jakarta with his giant robot, this story is a meaningful critic to Indonesia's bad management in technological funding.
• Romantic Comedy: His webseries Cinta Cintaan is this. "Cinta" itself means "love" in Indonesian language.
• Saving the World: These astronauts◊ building a giant force field to prevent the solar storm from burning down the earth.
• School Bullying Is Harmless: This obviously wrong concept were heavily Criticized here◊.

• Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: How Haryadhi portrays Indonesian Politicians on his works - and it's mostly true.

• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Religious bigots like the Creator/FPI who think they're the most "righteous" group on earth.
• Screw the Rules, It's the Apocalypse!: Another reason for Bigots like Creator/FPI to screw up with everything is "The end is near".
• Self-Made Man: In term of muscle - The worker in this◊ story got his six pack simply by hardworking, a polar opposite to the other man who got it by spending millions of rupiah to hire trainers. The Funniest part is: while the other men spent money for it, the worker got paid for it.
• Shockingly Expensive Bill: "500 thousand rupiah for a shitty raft?!"◊
• Situation Comedy: His genre.
• Smoking Is Glamorous: This◊ is one of the rare example where smoking is justified - just because you doesn't smoke doesn't mean you will life longer than those who smoke, there's a lot of other factor, and it's true.
• Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb: "we're living in an era where kids can't simply enjoy their childhood..."◊.
• Spam Attack: Rhoma Irama comically spammed Haryadhi's satire with his election poster◊ (Which is actually the entire satire itself).
• Stalker without a Crush: In this satire◊, the stalker is an ex-boyfriend who wanted a revenge.
• Surprisingly Sudden Death: This (Literal) playboy bunny◊ suddenly got fried by the humans before he could get a redemption from his sins of playing with female bunny - methaporical indeed.
• Switched at Birth: Subverted here◊, more like switched at genes.
• Taking Youwith Me: Parodied here◊. Also counts as Together in Death.
• Tiger Versus Dragon: Here◊, the dragon is replaced by Garuda, but the philosophy is quite the same. Tiger wins.
• Title Drop: Some of KOSTUM satires invoke this.

• The Virus: Satire says that the pig flu virus koreans spread from their airline and turn people into zombie-like creatures who act like pigs.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Which ended in an unexpected involuntary result◊.
• Walk and Talk: Applied here◊.
• You Look Familiar: For some reason, everyone on this satire◊ has a same face.

• Dracoin Leather Pants: "Turn's out, Voldermont si nothing but a mere bully◊
• Narm: some of the satire try to look serious but ended up as cheesy.

See also: Rony Dozer