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- Fedor himself, as he has to be the one to put up with the antics of his 8 clones.
- Among the 8 clones, Kuromaku is the level-headed voice of reason, as he is usually the one to call out any sort of foolishness the other clones end up doing.
- The Amazing Digital Circus:
- Zooble, despite having problems of their own, is the most down-to-earth member of the main group. They're one of the only members of the cast to actually acknowledge their own problems (with the tentative exception of Shrinking Violet Mood-Swinger Gangle) and is notably the only one to actually just spell it out to Caine that his "adventures" are not as fun as he thinks they are.
- Gummigoo, an NPC from the "Candy Carrier Chaos" adventure in episode 2, acts as this for his crew of bandits. He's the only one to keep his mind on the task at hand, reprimands one of his partners for "mucking around" and is horrified when Jax tries to ram his truck.
- Joe in the the Arfenhouse series was portrayed as a more conventional RPG character with a normal appearance and manner of speaking. He gets a lot of abuse from the various random shenanigans around him, including from Housemaster.
- Big Bunny: In contrast to Lulu and Sam lacking common sense and gullibly believing everything Big Bunny tells them, Suzy is the only one of the three children who knows that Big Bunny isn't to be trusted due to being a carnivorous beast who clearly wants to eat the children and lies his ass of whenever Suzy confronts him on his intentions.
- The titular character in Charlie the Unicorn. It doesn't help that the other two unicorns, apart from their blissful acceptance (if not outright knowledge) of all the strange things that occur around them, are really only minor exaggerations.
- Among the hosts of DEATH BATTLE!, there's Jocelyn, the team's intern tasked with researching the more obscure information on combatants. Considering the rest of the team consist of a Mad Scientist, a Blood Knight redneck, a narcissistic Large-Ham Announcer, and a Butt-Monkey robot, she's pretty much the closest thing to an actual normal person among them.
- Epithet Erased:
- Molly fulfills this role in the Museum Break-In Arc, since she's just a normal (if surprisingly mature) kid locked in a building with an incompetent villain and his legion of minions, an irritable scheming woman with a dumb-as-rocks bodyguard, and a teenage psychiatrist of questionable sanity. But while her voice of reason does help out a lot, she's woefully unprepared for actual combat and needs the help of aforementioned incompetent villain Giovanni throughout much of the arc.
- Ramsey serves as this in the Western Arc. Compared to everyone else in Redwood Run, he generally has a clearer eye for reality, frequently pulling back or objecting to Percy and Giovanni's more out-there world views. The bar fight in episode 6 ends up pushing him to his limit though, as the sheer absurdity of the situation is too much for him to handle.Ramsey: Am I having an aneurysm, what is happening?!
- Etra chan saw it!: Azami
has to deal with her family (daughter in law included) trying to open a tin can box and is the only major character who's first instinct isn't to open it. - Helluva Boss: In the April Fools' Day episode "It's Chaz Funeral", Moxxie and Millie are the only ones who can see that "Chaz's previously unknown twin brother speaking at Chaz's funeral" is really Chaz himself, faking his own death. Even after Moxxie points out how obvious it is, they're treated as being disrespectful and thrown out. Besides of this, the funeral is full of sincere mourners, including characters ranging from pop stars to Demon Lords and Archdevils, who were all probably Chaz's former lovers in this bit; only Moxxie and Millie (who both actually dated him in canon) seem to have noticed that he's an obnoxious, dim-witted narcissist who only uses other people, even though this is a character who was written to be as annoying as possible. Even Blitzo, who knows what Chaz is like, acts oblivious and doesn't question anything.
- Homestar Runner:
- Pom Pom is essentially one of the smartest cast members, and often seems to be telling Homestar that everything he's saying is nonsense.
- Strong Bad, although he causes trouble, is at least smarter than most of his cohorts (and aware that nobody seems to wear pants).
- Strong Sad:Strong Sad: Look, you can tell me.
Homestar: I can't!
Strong Sad: Oh come on! What is it?
Homestar: I'm PWEGNANT!!!
Strong Sad: [pause] No... you're Homestar. Runner. The male.
Homestar: Oh, phew! Thought I was a pwegnant woman fow a second, thewe. - Marzipan also qualifies at times, although this trait is usually overshadowed by her eccentricity and strawman political zeal. Surprisingly, the Poopsmith is the only character who is always depicted as a rational voice of reason (not literally, of course, considering his vow of silence).
- If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device
- The whole shtick of the series is the Emperor being the only sane man in the whole Imperium and commenting on various aspects of its insanity. Of course, a large part of the series' humor is that the Emperor isn't exactly the shining pillar of sanity that he likes to think of himself as.
- Among one of the High Lords of Terra's daily talks about what they should ban next just to make everyone else's lives a little more miserable, the Lord General of the Imperial Guard is the only person who realizes that banning air might not be such a good idea. Additionally, the Ecclesiarch Descius is the only High Lord who's not a frothing idiot and generally useless. And the Captain-General of the Custodes "Kitten" — who is also a High Lord, if only by the law's letter rather than its spirit — is, for all of his own vices, the only one of the Custodes who still wears his armor, doesn't oil his abs, and doesn't go swimming in pools of liquid normally used for Kill It with Fire (though he still really wants to do all that, he's just better at controlling his urges than his "brothers").
- Among the Ultramarines, Chapter Master Marneus Calgar is the only person who seems to have realized that the entire Chapter has been transformed into incredibly bizarre lacking-in-personality Mary Sues who routinely commit Violations of Common Sense.
- In Episode 15, Magnus the Red is (briefly) the only person who doesn't go into Unstoppable Rage when learning that the Tau don't fight in melee and is the only one to bring forward logical arguments against outright exterminating them.
- When we get a peek at the gods' chatroom, Isha and Khaine are the only ones who don't come across as crazy jerks. Of course, the bar to be considered the sanest one when you're in the same room as the Chaos Gods and Gork & Mork is astronomically low.
- While she doesn't actually appear in the show proper, a Fourth-Wall Mail Slot special heavily implies that Inquisitor Amberley Vail was one of the only Inquisitors in the web series' canon to not return to Holy Terra on the orders of the Emperor when he tried to disband the organization, as she rationally assumed it to be a trick and didn't want to be lured into a trap. This actually follows her characterization in the Ciaphas Cain novels themselves, since they generally portray her as serving as the Only Sane Man for the entirety of the Inquisition.
- Guys Next Door: Les is the only person in the entire cast who understands how to function in the real world, whereas Wooze and Di have jobs that frankly only exist on the Internet and Richie, Trent, and Amber Rio are so deep in the Deep State that they've forgotten how normal people are supposed to behave.
- Journey to the Quest: Fittingly, the only human of the team, Jackson, is the one with his head most on the ground, perhaps best illustrated by his being the only one to question the fey dungeon. Unfortunately, that amounts to nothing sometimes...
- Paranormal High School: Often the role Hikaru ends up having to play to the rest of the cast and the world at large, with how much wacky antics are going on. Later on Busujima ends up also filling the role once she got promoted to part of the main characters as well, with the two either sharing the role or having to act as one to the other because they decided to join in on the fun.
- Spike in the PONY.MOV series considers himself this as revealed in PARTY.MOV where after a long conversation with an intoxicated Pinkie Pie he asks himself "Am I the only sane one in this crazy world of technicolor pony weirdos?".
- Red vs. Blue: The vast majority of the series' main cast of characters are dysfunctional psychos, idiots, and weirdoes. As such, any character with even a smidge of sanity acts as a Cloudcuckoolander's Minder to everyone else.
- Church isn't exactly level-headed, but considering the fact that most of the other regular soldiers in Blood Gulch display varying degrees of incompetence or insanity, he's easily the most down-to-earth character present (being quite possibly the most consistently rational member of the cast even going into the later seasons). While this makes him more proactive than much of the cast, it's also the cause of his endlessly irate disposition that tends to overshadow the other aspects of his personality. Though in a twisted sense of Irony, Church is actually the only one of the group that's actually gone insane - Twice, even!
- Tucker increasingly evolves into this role over the course of the series, usually taking up the role whenever Wash/Church and Tex/Carolina aren't present. Notably, he's the only one of the Reds and Blues to try and poke holes in Sarge's utterly crazy "time travel through lightning bolt-empowered explosion" theory during Season 3.
- Amusingly subverted with Tex. While she may seem pretty level-headed and rational on the surface, it soon becomes clear that her Hair-Trigger Temper and obsessive Greed means that she's ultimately just as crazy as the rest of the cast.
- Grif would qualify in the respect that he's at least as sane as Church... were he not so utterly apathetic to the crazy goings-on of Blood Gulch. Witness his logic in the Warthog argument in the series' second episode, which is of course completely shot down by Sarge as being insane and made up. How much of his resulting personality is Flanderization or him just realizing that he cannot make a difference is debatable.
- Simmons has also shown himself to be fairly rational when he's not being a sycophant. One could make the argument that the position of Sane Man among the members of Red Team rotates depending on whether or not Simmons is sucking up to Sarge.
- Lopez the Heavy acts as this to the Reds and the entirety of the Blood Gulch Crew in general. However, because his programming results in him only being able to speak in Spanish, his attempts to bring order and logic to his team are either ignored or misinterpreted.
- Agent Washington from The Recollection and onward ultimately fits into this trope the best out of the whole cast. It actually creates a weird dynamic where Church mocks the others for their stupidity and Washington then mocks him for the same thing. Again, however, it should be pointed out that in a show where pretty much every single member of the cast is either crazy, an imbecile or both, "Only Sane Man" is a pretty relative title. Wash is most assuredly not normal, but compared to everyone else, he's at least mostly all there. In any other fandom, he'd be likely considered a nutcase.Washington: I'm not crazy, OK? I'm completely, totally sane. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go blow up this dead body. [he proceeds to do so; multiple times; in his defense, he really, really wanted to be sure the person in question was truly dead, and once one realizes just who he's disposing the remains of, it's not hard to see why]
- Upon completing his Character Development in Season 10, Wash truly becomes the Only Sane Man, to the point he even calls Church out on his Jerkassery (which actually helps incite further development and introspection for the latter).
- After she learns to let go of her fervent desire for Revenge, Agent Carolina starts to fall into this territory among the Reds and Blues alongside Wash. While she does still have her own Not So Above It All moments (just like Wash), by Season 15 it's clear that she and Wash have essentially become the sensible Team Mom and Team Dad for the whole Blood Gulch Crew.
- Darkly subverted with Counselor Aiden Price of Project Freelancer. While he's probably the one person who most closely assists the Director with his nightmarish and unethical acts, he at least voices objections whenever the Director does something particularly dangerous, cruel, or just plain insane. The Director always overrules him, and he ultimately always goes along with it, though. It's also subverted in that he's clearly not all there upstairs either.
- Played straighter in Season 13. Notably, Price is the only one of Charon Industries' Space Pirates to see past the Blood Gulch Crew's seemingly goofy and incompetent appearance and realize that they are in fact very capable soldiers.
- There's an interesting case with Locus during The Chorus Trilogy, as while he's a Shell-Shocked Veteran who is clearly not all the way there, he's still the most level-headed and logical out of Charon Industries' mercenaries on Chorus and often has to drag both Sharkface and Felix back on track so as to keep them focused on their mission.
- Starman3 in Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers. While he does have his moments, he has the least amount of unsafe plans. Following his real life counterpart’s Role-Ending Misdemeanor and his character’s erasure from the show, X ended up filling this role for him in the Classic era. In later seasons, this role is typically for Meggy, who while still with her bizarre quirks like the rest of the crew (specifically her competitiveness), is by far the most normal and rational of them… which admittedly isn’t a low bar.
- Trick Moon: Prince is the the only one who takes protecting the Moonstone seriously while his younger siblings tend to be too focused on having fun to care unless it's actually in danger.
- Turnabout Storm: Much like in their home series, Phoenix Wright and Twilight Sparkle play this role in different ways: Phoenix comes from a mostly realistic setting full of quirky characters, and now has to cope with the weirdness of Equestria plus a new set of quirky characters, while Twilight is the most sensible pony in Ponyville and a constant voice of reason. Much inner snarking ensues with them.
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