Only Sane Man / Web Videos

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• The 15 Experience: Pierre is the only one of the intruding teenagers that acts at all rationally, justified as him being the only one who's sober and there only to act as a designated driver. Throughout the night, he tries to convince the others to leave the house with him, to no avail.
• Dan O'Brien from Agents of Cracked is the only sane main character but is completely unbalanced compared to the periphery characters that are actually normal.
• In Among Us Logic, Player is the only one of the players to actually have a sense of logic and isn't a total idiot. Whenever he's an Impostor, Engineer usually takes the role.
• The guest hosts on Analog Control tend to be a lot more calm and down to earth than the hosts themselves.
• Board James has two friends: a shameless cheater and an utterly-inept buffoon. Or he just might be the ONLY man — and not sane in the slightest.
• Channel Awesome: While the words 'sanity' and 'The Nostalgia Critic' don't often go together, he was this in the April Fool's Day prank, where he got completely freaked out by the questions Ask That Guy gets:
  Narrator: How do I know if the KGB is watching me?
  The Nostalgia Critic: Are these really the type of questions he gets? I mean, why do you need to know this? If the KGB is watching you, there's something wrong with you! Why is the KGB watching you? I don't know! Answer that!
• The Chronicles Of Vocaloid Randomness: Meiko stand out among the Vocaloids for being most level-headed and has common sense, compared to Miku, the Kagamines, Kaito, and Luka. The fact she's also a Hard-Drinking Party Girl says a lot.
• The CollegeHumor page "Facebook History of the World" has two characters playing this role, one called "Common Sense" and the other called "Hindsight", who are the only ones to realize how idiotic the various historical figures are.
• Cream Heroes has TT fulfill this role in Cats vs Giant Tree. The rest of the cats run up and attack the tree wherever they can. TT simply sits, knowing it's harmless.
• The Cry of Mann: In a very dysfunctional house filled with very quirky people, Berry stands out as the most level-headed and sane person around, forced to try and keep everyone else in line while also protecting her father's company. This is deconstructed, when her struggle to keep things in order lead to her undergoing a Sanity Slippage, to the point where she starts drinking and making death-threats against everyone else.
• In Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, Red Guy is the only one who isn't going insane during the "creative episode." Additionally, he's much more questioning of the weirdness than the others and is the first to try to leave one of their terrible lessons.
• In Dragon Ball Z Abridged, Trunks quickly becomes this, even moreso than The Comically Serious Piccolo. He calls out the other Z-Fighters for their Honor Before Reason in fighting fair against Cell who wanted to blow up the planet, and he's the only one who holds Krillin (who was Locked Out of the Loop) and Vegeta accountable for letting things get to that point in the first place. His younger Prime Timeline self was on his way to becoming this as well, as shown in the Buu Bits when he questions why they bother Calling Your Attacks.
• Gordon Freeman as depicted in Freeman's Mind is not a sane individual by any standard, but everyone around him is so much more insane/stupid/violent that it's really hard not to see him as sane in comparison. He even says flat out at the beginning of episode 13 "Everyone is crazy but me!".
• While the real-life Hitler would be an inversion of this trope, the Downfall parodies' Hitler plays this straight, on some occasions. His life in the bunker revolves around being surrounded by his incompetent generals with useless skills such as drinking, providing trivial information, objecting to plans, pointing at maps, and ranting. They're often the cause of Hitler's schemes backfiring.
• Dana from Echo Chamber. Tom is a Jerkass, Zack is a Cloud Cuckoo Lander, Shannon is a Yandere, Porn Girl is... Porn Girl, and Mr. Administrator is a Bad Boss.
• The Shaman is this for Filthy Frank. To date, he's the only one to call Frank out.
• Cyd/Codex in The Guild appears to be the only member of the guild in tune with reality. Averted when she arguably goes crazier than any of them, sublimating her real life in the game to the point of talking to her avatar and possibly being taken over by it.
• In Hat Films, Ross and Trott take turns in this role. While Not So Above It All on occasion, they're much more grounded than Smiffy and manage to keep the team focused on their operations.
• Jeremy The Dud:
  • Heidi is the only person who doesn't talk down to Jeremy.
  • Jeremy himself, by virtue of being the only non-disabled person (or "without specialty")^note save for one of the workers at the café where he tries to get a job.
• "The Last Days Of Dr. Wily": From Wily's perspective, he's the only person who cares that his project's main goal is to kill Mega Man. He's not interested in the McDonald's sponsorship opportunity from his project manager, he's confused why Greg is designing robots that drop power-ups for Mega Man or why Mega Man is allowed to get new weapons from beating bosses, and he doesn't understand why the construction union protests against the level design being made "too difficult for the kids."
• Left POOR Dead: Toby seems to be the only one who knows about the zombies.
• Matt Santoro, The Leader of his own web series. Eugene is a nerd and is socially inept, Hugo is insane and does numerous dangerous activities, Lorrenzo focuses on nothing but having sex with women, and Big Shine believes that the Easter Bunny is real despite being an adult, but Matt acts completely normally.
• Uncle Larry from McJuggerNuggets, judging by the Sanity Slippage and the state of the house.
• Done in the Mann Shorts "Dungeons & Dragons" (some word here) edition" series. In almost all the videos, the players are a bunch of straw characters of some sort, and the DM is portrayed as the only reasonable one, even when one of the players happens to actually have a decent point. It certainly doesn't help that, in addition to the DM talking down to the players, in many videos he looks right at the camera and lectures the audience on how they should feel/act.
• In Noob:
  • In the Noob guild, Arthéon is this as long as you don't mention anything linked to Game Masters or his banned high-level avatar, while the quirks of the other guild members tend to affect their behaviour on an hour-to-hour basis. Ivy, due to her laid-back attitude about things when she's not being hit by a narcolepsy attack, can be seen as that among the female members of the guild then the whole group after Arthéon lets out all that he's been bottling up over the years.
  • In Relic Hunter guild, Elyx seems better adjusted than her teammates (the series king of Hair-Trigger Temper, someone hit with Stockholm Syndrome towards him and a Casanova Wannabe) despite a backstory including time in a psych ward.
• The Shark Pool trailer features one guy whose suggestion for stopping the shark from killing people is to not go into the pool it's trapped in. Everyone else either thinks he's talking crazy, or thinks it's too hot today to not go in.
• SuperMarioLogan:
  • Mario is just about one of the only normal people on the show.
  • Chef Pee Pee also qualifies, in comparison to Bowser and Junior.
  • The Brooklyn Guy is one of the few puppets who's actually not a moron.
  • Joseph is the only kid who isn't a total moron like Junior or a pervert like Toad and Cody. However, Cody is the wisest and most level-headed compared to Junior and Joseph.
  • Female example: Emily Coleman (Patrick's sister) is one of the few of Bowser Junior's classmates in the Bowser Junior's 1st Grade! series who has some common sense and maturity.
• In Third Rate Gamer, Billy is quick to point out the Third Rate Gamer's idiocy.
• Due to the constant gags that render his historical knowledge (which is accurate in terms of our reality) meaningless, Timmy from The Time... Guys could be considered the only sane being in the entire universe.
• Derek the Bard from Warning! Readers Advisory! is surrounded by a crazy Lethal Chef, a truly pathetic vampire, a mad scientist supervillain, and Cthulhu. No wonder he hits the crystal skull vodka so much...
• During the early days of the Yogscast, Lewis Brindley came across this way, in no small part because he was more grounded than Simon Lane and the sometimes moronic NPCs they played with. This was also the case in the Magicka playthrough that he and Simon did with TotalBiscuit, since TB and Simon kept bickering while Lewis tried to keep them from arguing. From 2013 onwards, however, Lewis has shown that he's Not So Above It All and to call him this trope would be... inaccurate.

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