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* ''WebVideo/TheChroniclesOfVocaloidRandomness'': Meiko stand out among the Vocaloids for being most level-headed and has common sense, compared to [[BitchInSheepsClothing Miku]], [[MadScientist the Kagamines]], [[TheDitz Kaito]], and [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Luka]]. The fact she's also a HardDrinkingPartyGirl says ''a lot''.
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* In ''WebAnimation/AmongUsLogic'', 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 Imposter, [[TheSmartGuy Engineer]] usually takes the role.

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* In ''WebAnimation/AmongUsLogic'', 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 Imposter, Impostor, [[TheSmartGuy Engineer]] usually takes the role.



* WebVideo/BoardJames has two friends: a shameless cheater and an utterly-inept buffoon. [[spoiler:Or he just might be [[ImaginaryFriend the ''only'' man]]--[[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness and not sane in the slightest]].]]

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* WebVideo/BoardJames has two friends: a shameless cheater and an utterly-inept buffoon. [[spoiler:Or he just might be [[ImaginaryFriend the ''only'' man]]--[[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness ONLY man]] -- [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness and not sane in the slightest]].]]



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* Cyd/Codex in ''WebVideo/TheGuild'' appears to be the only member of the guild in tune with reality. [[spoiler: 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 [[SplitPersonality taken over by it]].]]

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* Cyd/Codex in ''WebVideo/TheGuild'' appears to be the only member of the guild in tune with reality. [[spoiler: Averted [[spoiler: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 [[SplitPersonality taken over by it]].]]

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* ''Website/ChannelAwesome:''
** While the words "sanity" and "WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic" don't often go together, he was this in the [[http://channelawesome.com/ask-thatguy-episode-34/ April Fool's Day prank]], where he got completely freaked out by the questions [[WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses Ask That Guy]] gets:

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''Website/ChannelAwesome'': While the words "sanity" 'sanity' and "WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic" 'WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic' don't often go together, he was this in the [[http://channelawesome.com/ask-thatguy-episode-34/ April Fool's Day prank]], where he got completely freaked out by the questions [[WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses Ask That Guy]] gets:



** WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick ''was'' the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sensible Woman]] before [[CharacterizationMarchesOn Characterization Marched On]] and had a bad effect on her sanity.
** Tamara in "WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic" videos is some times being this.

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** %%** WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick ''was'' the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sensible Woman]] before [[CharacterizationMarchesOn Characterization Marched On]] and had a bad effect on her sanity.
** %%** Tamara in "WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic" videos is some times being sometimes this.



* ''WebVideo/CreamHeroes'' 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.



* ''WebVideo/CreamHeroes'' has TT fulfil 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.

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* ''WebVideo/CreamHeroes'' has TT fulfil 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.
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* The ''Website/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.

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* The ''Website/CollegeHumor'' ''[[Creator/{{Dropout}} 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.
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* In ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', Trunks quickly becomes this, even moreso than TheComicallySerious Piccolo. He calls out the other Z-Fighters for their HonorBeforeReason in fighting fair against [[UltimateLifeForm Cell]] who wanted to ''blow up the planet'', and he's the only one who holds Krillin (who was LockedOutOfTheLoop) and Vegeta accountable for letting things get to that point in the first place. His younger PrimeTimeline self was on his way to becoming this as well, as shown in the ''Buu Bits'' when he questions why they bother CallingYourAttacks.
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%%* Coltaine from ''LetsPlay/DungeonsAndDrogans'' often laments this.

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%%* Coltaine from ''LetsPlay/DungeonsAndDrogans'' ''WebVideo/DungeonsAndDrogans'' often laments this.
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* ''WebVideo/TheFifteenExperience'': 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.

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* ''WebVideo/TheFifteenExperience'': ''WebVideo/The15Experience'': 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.
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* "WebVideo/TheLastDaysOfDrWily": From Wily's perspective, he's the only person who cares that his project's main goal is to kill VideoGame/{{Mega Man|Classic}}. He's not interested in the UsefulNotes/McDonalds 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 [[PowerCopying 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."
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* In ''WebAnimation/AmongUsLogic'', 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 Inpostor, [[TheSmartGuy Engineer]] usually takes the role.

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* In ''WebAnimation/AmongUsLogic'', 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 Inpostor, Imposter, [[TheSmartGuy Engineer]] usually takes the role.
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* Matt Santoro, TheLeader of [[WebVideo/MatthewSantoro his own web series]]. Eugene is a {{nerd}} and is socially inept, [[TheDitz Hugo]] is insane and does numerous dangerous activities, [[TheCasanova Lorrenzo]] focuses on nothing but having sex with women, and [[TheBigGuy Big Shine]] believes that the Easter Bunny is real despite being an adult, but [[TheLeader Matt]] acts completely normally.

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* Matt Santoro, TheLeader of [[WebVideo/MatthewSantoro his own web series]]. Eugene is a {{nerd}} nerd and is socially inept, [[TheDitz Hugo]] is insane and does numerous dangerous activities, [[TheCasanova Lorrenzo]] focuses on nothing but having sex with women, and [[TheBigGuy Big Shine]] believes that the Easter Bunny is real despite being an adult, but [[TheLeader Matt]] acts completely normally.
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* [[VideoGame/HalfLife Gordon Freeman]] as depicted in ''WebVideo/FreemansMind'' 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!".
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* During the early days of the ''LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}}'', LetsPlay/LewisBrindley came across this way, in no small part because he was more grounded than LetsPlay/SimonLane and the [[Machinima/YogscastMinecraftSeries sometimes moronic NPCs]] they played with. This was also the case in the ''Magicka'' playthrough that he and Simon did with [[Creator/TheCynicalBrit 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 NotSoAboveItAll and to call him this trope would be... inaccurate.

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* During the early days of the ''LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}}'', LetsPlay/LewisBrindley came across this way, in no small part because he was more grounded than LetsPlay/SimonLane and the [[Machinima/YogscastMinecraftSeries [[WebVideo/YogscastMinecraftSeries sometimes moronic NPCs]] they played with. This was also the case in the ''Magicka'' playthrough that he and Simon did with [[Creator/TheCynicalBrit 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 NotSoAboveItAll and to call him this trope would be... inaccurate.
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**Tamara in "WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic" videos is some times being this.
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* In ''WebVideo/AmongUsLogic'', 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 Inpostor, [[TheSmartGuy Engineer]] usually takes the role.

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* In ''WebVideo/AmongUsLogic'', ''WebAnimation/AmongUsLogic'', 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 Inpostor, [[TheSmartGuy Engineer]] usually takes the role.
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* ''WebVideo/CreamHeroes'' has TT fulfil 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.
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* In ''WebVideo/AmongUsLogic'', 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 Inpostor, [[TheSmartGuy Engineer]] usually takes the role.
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%%* Nathan from ''WebVideo/ShinyObjectsVideos'' tends to fill this role.
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* ''WebVideo/JeremyTheDud'':
** 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[[/note]].
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* ''WebVideo/TheFifteenExperience'': 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 ''WebVideo/AgentsOfCracked'' is the only sane main character but is completely unbalanced compared to the periphery characters that are actually normal.
* The guest hosts on ''LetsPlay/AnalogControl'' tend to be a lot more calm and down to earth than the hosts themselves.
%%* [[AuthorAvatar Max]] in ''WebVideo/AssistMe''.
* WebVideo/BoardJames has two friends: a shameless cheater and an utterly-inept buffoon. [[spoiler:Or he just might be [[ImaginaryFriend the ''only'' man]]—[[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness and not sane in the slightest]].]]
* ''Website/ChannelAwesome:''
** While the words "sanity" and "WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic" don't often go together, he was this in the [[http://channelawesome.com/ask-thatguy-episode-34/ April Fool's Day prank]], where he got completely freaked out by the questions [[WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses 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!
** WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick ''was'' the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sensible Woman]] before [[CharacterizationMarchesOn Characterization Marched On]] and had a bad effect on her sanity.
* The ''Website/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.
* ''Series/TheCryOfMann'': 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 SanitySlippage, to the point where she starts drinking and making death-threats against everyone else.
* In ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared'', 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.
* While the real-life Hitler would be an inversion of this trope, the ''Film/{{Downfall}}'' [[WebVideo/HitlerRants parodies']] Hitler plays this straight, [[DependingOnTheWriter on some occasions]]. His life in the bunker revolves around being [[SurroundedByIdiots 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.
%%* Coltaine from ''LetsPlay/DungeonsAndDrogans'' often laments this.
* Dana from ''WebVideo/EchoChamber''. Tom is a {{Jerkass}}, Zack is a CloudCuckooLander, Shannon is a {{Yandere}}, Porn Girl is... Porn Girl, and Mr. Administrator is a BadBoss.
* The Shaman is this for ''WebVideo/FilthyFrank''. To date, he's the only one to call Frank out.
* Cyd/Codex in ''WebVideo/TheGuild'' appears to be the only member of the guild in tune with reality. [[spoiler: 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 [[SplitPersonality taken over by it]].]]
* In ''LetsPlay/HatFilms'', Ross and Trott take turns in this role. While NotSoAboveItAll on occasion, they're much more grounded than [[TokenEvilTeammate Smiffy]] and manage to keep the team focused on their operations.
* ''WebVideo/LeftPOORDead'': Toby seems to be the only one who knows about the zombies.
* Matt Santoro, TheLeader of [[WebVideo/MatthewSantoro his own web series]]. Eugene is a {{nerd}} and is socially inept, [[TheDitz Hugo]] is insane and does numerous dangerous activities, [[TheCasanova Lorrenzo]] focuses on nothing but having sex with women, and [[TheBigGuy Big Shine]] believes that the Easter Bunny is real despite being an adult, but [[TheLeader Matt]] acts completely normally.
* Uncle Larry from ''WebVideo/McJuggerNuggets'', judging by the SanitySlippage and the [[DysfunctionJunction state of the house]].
* In ''Series/{{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 [[SleepyHead narcolepsy]] attack, can be seen as that among the female members of the guild [[spoiler: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 ([[spoiler:the series king of Hair-Trigger Temper, someone hit with Stockholm Syndrome towards him]] and a CasanovaWannabe) despite a backstory including [[spoiler:time in a psych ward]].
* The ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CY_HGl6W2U Shark Pool]]'' [[RealTrailerFakeMovie 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 [[SkewedPriorities thinks it's too hot today to not go in]].
%%* Nathan from ''WebVideo/ShinyObjectsVideos'' tends to fill this role.
* ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'':
** Mario is just about one of the only normal people on the show.
** Chef Pee Pee also qualifies, in comparison to [[BadBoss Bowser]] and [[TooDumbToLive 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 ''WebVideo/ThirdRateGamer'', 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 ''WebVideo/TheTimeGuys'' could be considered the only sane being ''in the entire universe''.
%%* Yasaki in ''WebVideo/TransolarGalactica''.
* Derek the Bard from ''WebVideo/WarningReadersAdvisory'' is surrounded by a crazy LethalChef, a truly pathetic vampire, a mad scientist supervillain, and ''Cthulhu.'' No wonder he [[INeedaFreakingDrink hits the crystal skull vodka]] so much...
%%* Tom fills this role in most episodes of ''WebVideo/WeNeedGirlfriends''.
* During the early days of the ''LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}}'', LetsPlay/LewisBrindley came across this way, in no small part because he was more grounded than LetsPlay/SimonLane and the [[Machinima/YogscastMinecraftSeries sometimes moronic NPCs]] they played with. This was also the case in the ''Magicka'' playthrough that he and Simon did with [[Creator/TheCynicalBrit 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 NotSoAboveItAll and to call him this trope would be... inaccurate.
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