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* In the official comic based on ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'', Patrice acts as the straight girl to Nate's wise guy. [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness Except in the first issue, where it was the other way around]].
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Add Civil Protection, an Accursed Farms machinima by Scott Ross.
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* ''WebAnimation/CivilProtection'': The only two main characters of Ross Scott's Accursed Farms machinima are the Civil Protection cops Mike and Dave. The former is level headed and just wants a stable life, and the latter is an oddball daredevil who constantly stirs up trouble.
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* ''Series/Wipeout2008'' has the hosts John Anderson and John Henson. There will usually be a few scenes in between rounds or commercials where Anderson is trying to seriously discuss the game, and Henson goes off in the weeds.
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* ''WebAnimation/EpithetErased'': Played with in the Western arc, where personality-wise Ramsey is the wise guy and Percy the straight man (despite being an ace woman), but Ramsey is also the OnlySaneMan and responds with bewilderment to the constant bizarre things that happen in ''Epithet Erased'' while Percy is a deeply absurd character who takes the most ridiculous things dead seriously.
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* ''WebAnimation/EpithetErased'': Played with in the Western arc, where personality-wise Ramsey is the wise guy and Percy the straight man (despite being an ace woman), but Ramsey is also the OnlySaneMan and responds with bewilderment to the constant bizarre things that happen in ''Epithet Erased'' while Percy is a deeply absurd character who takes the most ridiculous things keeps presenting, dead seriously.seriously, a wildly unhinged perspective on the world.
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* ''WebAnimation/EpithetErased'': Played with in the Western arc, where personality-wise Ramsey is the wise guy and Percy the straight man (despite being an ace woman), but Ramsey is also the OnlySaneMan and responds with bewilderment to the constant bizarre things that happen in ''Epithet Erased'' while Percy is a deeply absurd character who takes the most ridiculous things dead seriously.
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* ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': Vera Miligan's tournament match in volume 10 pits a very conventional dueling team led by Gwenaël Deschamps against 1) our friendly neighborhood MadScientist Miligan who deliberately [[LiteralDisarming gets her own hand cut off again]] to smuggle Milihand into the arena, 2) Lynette Cornwallis, who prefers spells to swordplay and conjures what amounts to a magical AttackDrone to split the other team's attention, and 3) Zoe Colonna, a girl on the verge of being [[MagicMisfire consumed by the spell]] who fights by submerging herself in the ground like a LandShark. Between Miligan and Lynette playing a ShellGame with Milihand and its basilisk eye so the other team can't keep track of it [[spoiler:and [[KansasCityShuffle doesn't realize that Miligan had Katie move her OTHER basilisk eye to her back]]]], DeathFromAbove from Lynette's drone, and Zoe literally breaking chunks off the arena floor to reduce the maneuvering room and cause a RingOut, the whole match ends up resembling a screwball physical comedy routine with Deschamps's team as the StraightMan.
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* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate2'': This dynamic often develops between more silly and more serious party members whenever they banter or respond to each other in conversation. Of particular note is Valygar, whose straight-laced and sour personality means he's pretty much always the Straight Man (to the point that even [[ThePaladin Mazzy Fentan and Keldorn]] can play Wise Guys to him), and Jan Jansen, whose entire party role is to be the Wise Guy to everyone: His banters mostly involve telling long and probably fake stories about his incredible life and his improbably quirky family, much to the consternation of more serious characters.
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* ''Literature/ThaliasMusings'': Apollo often ends up playing the Straight Man to Thalia's Wise Guy. Though, strictly speaking, he's not a straight [[IncrediblyLamePun man]].
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* Creator/MelBrooks and Carl Reiner: Especially in their legendary "2,000-year-old man" routine, which involved a news reporter (Reiner, the straight man) interviewing a Jewish fellow who happened to be 2,000 years old (Brooks, the wise guy.) This routine was actually created on the fly; the two spontaneously came up with it at a party.
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* Creator/MelBrooks and Carl Reiner: Especially in their legendary "2,000-year-old man" routine, which involved a news reporter (Reiner, the straight man) interviewing a Jewish fellow who happened to be 2,000 years old (Brooks, the wise guy.) guy). This routine was actually created on the fly; the two spontaneously came up with it at a party.
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See also BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine, where a foolish character sets up the jokes for a straight man to correct, often violently, and {{Bathos}}, where mundane and wacky elements, and not just characters, are contrasted with each other for comedic effect. Compare SmartJerkAndNiceMoron, a similar comic contrast pair where no one character is the straight man. Often paired with FatAndSkinny; usually, the skinny one's the straight man but not always. Sister trope to HamAndDeadpanDuo and GleefulAndGrumpyPairing.
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See also BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine, where a foolish character sets up the jokes for a straight man to correct, often violently, and {{Bathos}}, where mundane and wacky elements, and not just characters, are contrasted with each other for comedic effect. Compare SmartJerkAndNiceMoron, a similar comic contrast pair where no one character is the straight man.man, and HammyVillainSeriousHero, where such a pair is between a hero and villain. Often paired with FatAndSkinny; usually, the skinny one's the straight man but not always. Sister trope to HamAndDeadpanDuo and GleefulAndGrumpyPairing.
