History OnlySaneMan / VideoGames

* In the ''Vault-Tec Workshop'' DLC of ''Videogame/Fallout4'', it's shown that Vault-Tec corporate culture actively breeds amoral psychopaths with an obsession with torturous experimentation of dubious value. There are however those who stand out, such as the original Overseer of Vault 81, who notes that her sense of basic morality makes her an anomaly and quickly shut down her vault's experiments as well as Ted, a pre-war employee who created products that worked as intended (IE, soda machines that don't drug the users) which made him hated by his co-workers.

** Alistair in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' is definitely the most well-adjusted of the group in a traditional human sense. Wynne is pretty close, but does have a secret which keeps her from taking the Only Sane Man role (specifically, [[spoiler:that she's actually a HumanoidAbomination living on borrowed time[[/spoiler]]). Leliana and Zevran are both assassins who tend to use sex to get to their targets and both were betrayed by people they trusted implicitly with all of the issues that implies; Oghren is an exaggeration of the stereotypical drunk dwarf who was kicked out of polite dwarven society for a large number of reasons; Sten is from a very alien culture and has a tendency to solve many problems with violence; Shale is a golem with decades worth of misanthropy built up whose stated favorite activity is smashing something's head and watching the blood gush; and Morrigan is a brutally pragmatic survivalist with severe empathy issues. Alistair, by comparison, is easily the sanest, being a NiceGuy whose major problem is that he has PTSD from losing almost all of his friends in a recent bloodbath.

* Huey Emmerich in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' considers himself this. [[spoiler:In true ''Franchise/MetalGear'' fashion, this turns out to be a horrible, ''horrible'' subversion. It's revealed that after the events of ''Peace Walker'', he became a megalomaniacal MadScientist who deluded himself into thinking that he was the voice of reason, believing he could do no wrong. So he ends up becoming TheMole for Cipher, who send their XOF team to destroy Mother Base (for leniency and a position of power), attempts to use his own infant son Hal (Otacon) as a test subject for a Metal Gear (not caring if an accident killed him), kills his own wife Strangelove by locking her inside a pod with no air or sustenance (because she defied his will and took Hal somewhere safe), repairs Sahelanthropus for Eli and the child soldiers, who eventually steal it and run off (because his ego couldn't handle the fact that Skull Face managed to get it working without him), and created a mutated form of the vocal cord parasites to use on Diamond Dogs staff as test subjects (because he wanted more money and power from Cipher to continue his inhumane research and experiments). And what does he say when called out for all of this? "[[ImplausibleDeniability I'm innocent!]]" "[[BlatantLies Strangelove's death was suicide!]]" "[[NeverMyFault You're all psychopaths!]]" Ocelot even tells him straight to his face that he's TheSociopath, but he refuses to believe it.]]

* Kazuma Kiryu of ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' gets a lot of mileage out of being the only character in the franchise who ''isn't'' warped in some bizarre fashion. (Well, Haruka's pretty normal. Then again, guess who raised her?) Half the subquests wouldn't be as funny if it weren't for Kiryu's quiet air of "What the ''fuck'' is wrong with this world?"

* Will/Ed during the War Room segments of ''VideoGame/AdvanceWars: Day of Ruin'' due to being the only one who doesn't readily accept that the room ignores the world outside (thus allowing your current enemy to turn up to give tactical advise, or the War Room to show up in a mission on the wing of a giant plane).

* In ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Imperishable Night'', Reisen is the Only Sane Woman in Eientei among silly rabbits, lunatic princesses and {{Mad Scientist}}s. Even more confusing because she is the Master of {{Lunacy}} and can drive people insane with her eyes. Life for her is quite '''literally''' ThroughTheEyesOfMadness, yet she's sane, at least as sane as anyone can be in [[CloudcuckooLand Gensokyo.]]

** Alistair in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' is definitely the most well-adjusted of the group in a traditional human sense (though Wynne is pretty close as well); Leliana and Zevran are both assassins who tend to use sex to get to their targets and both were betrayed by people they trusted implicitly with all of the issues that implies, Oghren is an exaggeration of the stereotypical drunk dwarf who was kicked out of polite dwarven society for a large number of reasons, Sten is from a very alien culture and has a tendency to solve many problems with violence, Shale is a golem with decades worth of misanthropy built up whose stated favorite activity is smashing something's head and watching the blood gush, and Morrigan is a brutally pragmatic survivalist with severe empathy issues.

** By the end of the game, Bethany ends being the only mage in the whole Kirkwall who is confirmed to have never even once used BloodMagic or been possessed.
** Varric remains arguably the most sane in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' as well, though Cassandra and Dorian are also pretty reasonable. Blackwall seems like this, until [[spoiler:he's revealed to be a murderer faking his identity]]. The rest of the companions are made up of a foreign spy, a CloudCuckooLander rebel, a ruthless aristocrat, a spirit who's been [[HumanityIsInfectious human-infected]], and an elf who spends most of his time in the Fade[[spoiler: and is essentially Elf Loki]].

* Yuri Hyuga in ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'' laments the fact that he only ever seems to attract the strangest weirdos around in both allies and enemies. He overlooks the fact that, being a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Harmonixer]], he isn't so normal himself.
** Johnny Garland, the protagonist in the third game, has the same problem. Even pointed out in one instance where he meets Mao, the talking cat that runs Al Capone's mob and specializes in drunken fist as he realizes that he is the only one out of the party who thinks that a talking cat is strange. This then makes Jonny wonder if ''he's'' the strange one.