History OnlySaneMan / WesternAnimation

-->'''Number 1''': Abby, we both know you're the only one on this team with any real common sense. While I'm screaming that we're being invaded by tiny, kid-eating leeches falling from the sky, you're the one telling me it's only snowing.

* ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse''. He has to deal with a CowardlySidekick (Penfold) and an addled, near-senile superior (Colonel K). DM will either take the initiative and stop their banter or just throw up his arms in defeat.
** In the reboot, Danger Mouse and Professor Squawkencluck tend to come off as the only two at HQ with a brink of sanity, which is unfortunate since [[WithFriendsLikeThese they don't tend to get along with each other]].

* Lee, the protagonist of ''WesternAnimation/{{Detentionaire}}'', is this on his show. When he's not available, Tina tends to step into the role.

* On ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', Wanda is usually the only one aware of how insane everything is, or knowing of how bad everything is going to end up. This fact is often pointed out by Timmy and Cosmo, but they still continue with their antics despite that.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': [[Characters/FamilyGuyBrianGriffin Brian Griffin]] is often portrayed as the Only Sane Man (especially in the older seasons), although everyone who isn't [[TheDitz Peter]] ends up playing the Only Sane Man once or twice.

** Later seasons show [[Characters/FamilyGuyStewieGriffin Stewie Griffin]] in this role as he was the only character that hadn't [[TookALevelInJerkass become more unpleasant.]]

---->'''Professor Farnsworth''': We must fly to Rome and exhume the body of Saint James! To the ship!\\
'''Hermes''': Didn't we used to be a delivery company?\\
'''Professor Farnsworth''': TO THE SHIP!

* Shep from ''WesternAnimation/{{Horseland}}'' compared to most of the cast.
* Mickey and Minnie are this in ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse''.

* When he isn't being the IdiotHero, ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' plays this role in Season 1 episodes, usually when it comes to either [[TheCaligula Lucius' tyranny]] or [[FriendVersusLover Beezy and Heloise]] tearing at each others' throats. "Monster Mutt", "The Competition", and "Best Bud Battle" are all good examples.
** In Season 2, this role is given to Heloise and Lucius (usually depending on the joke) instead as Jimmy [[TookALevelInDumbass takes some serious levels in dumbass]].
* Dukey from ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest''. He's the only one aware of the bad side effects of Susan and Mary's experiments (besides Hugh) and he knows when a fun time can get dangerous.

--->'''Dale''': Yeah, man, I tell you what, that dang ol' detector, man, talk 'bout government take away freedom of smoke, man. Talkin' 'bout yo, man.\\
'''Hank''': Yeah, man, I tell you what, man, dang ol' boy ain't right, man, talkin' 'bout kicking 'dem dang 'ol ass, man.\\

* Bugs Bunny, of all people, spends time in this role in episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow''. Mind you, when you spend most of your time with a) Daffy and b) [[CloudCuckooLander Lola]], it's hard to avoid this characterisation.
** Porky Pig sometimes falls into this role though his ExtremeDoormat personality often gets in the way, especially when he's with Daffy. "The Float" is a great example of this.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheMask '': Stanley Ipkiss is this as most people there are either jerks, idiots or both.

* Adam Lyon from ''WesternAnimation/MyGymPartnersAMonkey'' - being the token human in a school full of animals (anthropomorphic ones at that, but still stupid, jerkish ones) - is the sane one by default, and serves as the voice of reason for his entire school.

-->'''Squidina''': ''(exasperated) It's a tablecloth!''

** Lisa Simpson also often finds herself thrust into the role of only sane...girl. Quite often, when her family (or occasionally, the entire town) is caught up in some insane course of action, she's the one who points out how absurd things have become. Her comments are usually ignored.
** If Lisa ends up caught in the craziness, for example with the Movementarians, expect Marge Simpson to take over instead. In fact, [[SanityBall the straight man role is usually traded between Lisa and Marge,]] with the latter holding it more frequently in early episodes and almost always when it comes to anything Homer does. However, there are times Marge's WideEyedIdealist and {{Moral Guardian|s}} qualities make her just as hopelessly crazy as the rest of Springfield.

** Carl Carlson is this, at least in comparison with his friends.
** Other characters to have this role on a semi-regular basis include the more conventionally competent characters such as Apu (and his brother Sanjay is this to him when he has gone a bit too far with his work), Dr. Hibbert, Superintendent Chalmers, Sarah Wiggum (within the Wiggum family - "Clancy, use the remote") and Waylon Smithers.
** WordOfGod states that Chalmers and Grimes were written as the only people who could function outside of Springfield. Chalmers just takes a different track from it to Grimes, choosing [[JustIgnoreIt to not be bothered]] [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight by all the insanity around him]]. This is perhaps most famously shown in the "steamed hams" scene, where Chalmers accepts Skinner's BlatantLies at face value: he knows that Skinner is lying, but he's pretty sure actually pressing those lies would just lead to him getting wrapped up in something stupid. At worst, Chalmers is a little ''too'' obsessed with making Skinner's life hell and being incapable of making Springfield Elementary halfway decent, but even then it's all framed as him knowing the school is beyond redemption due to Springfield's wackiness and thus continues to refuse asking too many questions while having a bit of fun when he can.

* ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'': Sofia was this in "The Enchanted Feast", as she was the only one who did not open up to Sascha the Sorceress, knowing she seemed "familiar" and became ProperlyParanoid about her behavior. She turns out to be all too right, as Sascha was Miss Nettle in disguise, who is out to steal her Amulet.

--->'''Craig''': "You guys took my birthday money, got me arrested and sent to Miami with no way home except to take down the country of Peru, and I'm being a dick?"\\
'''Cartman''': "There's no talking to this guy."

*** Sharon has become the closest to fulfilling this in Chef's absence.
** President Bush, ironically enough, especially when compared to his cabinet and the press. "[[Recap/SouthParkS6E12ALadderToHeaven A Ladder to Heaven]]" contains a particularly infamous example. That same episode briefly showed Mr. Garrison in this role. When finding out the boys are literally making a ladder to Heaven, he says, "That's fucking stupid!".

** Apparently, Father Maxi is the ''only'' catholic priest who doesn't rape boys.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Spliced}}'', Patricia the platypus is not only the only creature on Keepaway Island who possesses any kind of common sense, but also the only non-mutant. It's kinda saying something about the show when a platypus - one of nature's freakiest animals - is the most normal character.

** Plankton often shifts into this when dealing with Spongebob.
** Despite being a pet, Gary also fills this role the vast majority of the time.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''
** [[Characters/StevenUniverseStevenQuartzUniverse The titular character]] eventually grows into this role, having to serve as a mediator or advice giver when things get too emotional among the Crystal Gems. This gets {{lampshaded}} in the season four episode "The New Crystal Gems", where his best friend Connie is pushed into the role during his absence and remarks in a short TheReasonYouSuckSpeech how ridiculous it is that a child like her is more emotionally mature than aliens that are [[ImmortalImmaturity thousands of years old]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'': Jared usually fits this trope.

* [[PerkyGoth Gwen]] from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' is one of the most normal contestants, and qualifies as this for most of ''Total Drama Island''. Lampshaded in "The Very Last Episode, Really!", where she complains in a confessional about how she was one of only a handful of sane people on the show.

** [[FriendlessBackground Zoey]] is definitely the most normal of the ''Revenge of the Island'' contestants (although she does snap for a brief period towards the end of the season).
** In the ''Pahkitew Island'' season, [[NeatFreak Dave]] (who is even labelled as "The Normal Guy") and [[PassionateSportsGirl Sky]] share this role for their team, and to a lesser extent the whole season. Their approaches are quite different though; whereas Dave is annoyed by the others' eccentricities and constantly gripes about them, Sky tries to be optimistic and understanding towards the others. [[spoiler:As a result, Dave ends up going off the deep end as the season progresses, while Sky retains her sanity.]]
** [[AwesomeAussie Jasmine]] plays this role for her team in the same season. She's the only one who isn't evil or incompetent, and unlike the others, she actually recognizes how horrible [[BigSisterBully Amy]] is to [[ExtremeDoormat Sammy]] and tries to do something about it.

--->'''Dr. Venture:''' ''(As a party being thrown by his brother sits on the brink of collapsing into madness)'' Huh. When you're not the one in the middle of it all, it's actually pretty obvious.\\

* Frylock on ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce''. In relative terms, anyway.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
** Going in line with her status as the TeamMom of the group, [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderKatara Katara]] is usually the most mature and sensible member of Team Avatar. Aang spends a lot of the series learning how to be a responsible Avatar, and on top of letting his occasional childish tendencies get the better of him, he starts off being rather naive to the situation of the world around him due to having spent a whole century frozen in an iceberg. Although Sokka can be rational and grounded when the situation calls for it, and is pretty competent at devising battle plans, he has a very [[LargeHam hammy and over-the-top sense of humour]], slips into {{Cloudcuckoolander}} territory on more than one occasion, and starts off as a PoliticallyIncorrectHero with a bit of a [[SmallNameBigEgo superiority complex]]. And to top it all off, we also have Toph, a rude, violent and boisterous smart-alec, and [[spoiler:Zuko, who before his HeelFaceTurn is constantly losing his temper and complaining about whatever problem comes up against him, on top of constantly trying to hunt down the group]]. Katara isn't without flaws herself; sometimes she can be hot-tempered and let her ChronicHeroSyndrome get the better of her. Despite this, she consistently does her best to be level-headed and reasonable and keep her friends on the right track. She fulfills this role to great effect in episodes such as ''The Desert'', where Aang is being grumpy and confrontational over Appa's disappearance, Sokka is stoned on cactus juice and Toph is unable to navigate, and she has to go through the mentally exhausting effort of trying to diffuse such a huge conflict in the team, and ''The Runaway'', in which she is the only one who realizes that excessive scamming of scammers will come back to bite them eventually. Toph started the whole thing, and Sokka being involved is not horribly surprising, but Aang should have known better.
** Even more so is Suki, when she is with the group. She's the only of the main ''and'' recurring characters who could be considered to be normal, having had a fairly standard life that wasn't disrupted too much by the war, and a tough and assertive, but kind and down-to-earth personality. Given the latter, she takes her normality among the others very gracefully.
** Even [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderSokka Sokka]], despite being the series' main source of comic relief, fulfills this role from time to time, most notably in the episodes, ''The Fortuneteller'', where after Aunt Wu predicts the village will not be destroyed, he tries in vain to convince the villagers that the volcano could still erupt in spite of this, ''The Cave of Two Lovers'', in which he acts as the only smart person among a group of [[NewAgeRetroHippie new-age retro hippies]] who are convinced that ThePowerOfLove is the only thing that can get them out of the cave, and ''The Chase'', where he is the only person on Team Avatar not hold the ConflictBall and engage in any of the fights engaged in by Aang, Katara and Toph.
** On the villains' side, Mai is this to her companions, Azula and Ty Lee. While Azula is an overachieving, homicidal maniac and Ty Lee is an [[GenkiGirl incessantly]] [[PerkyFemaleMinion bubbly]] {{Cloudcuckoolander}} (despite being the overall TokenGoodTeammate of the group), Mai is a [[EmotionlessGirl calm]], [[TheQuietOne quiet]], [[TheStoic level-headed]] and [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] EmoTeen who always makes her disapproval of anything too outlandish for her to handle ''very'' clear. She lampshades how she's the only sane person on Azula's Team in ''The Beach'', apologizing for not being "high-sprung and crazy" like them.
** In SequelSeries ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', Tenzin is this to the council as a whole. They don't seem to realize their decisions and actions are further proving the point the BigBad is making, and he is even outright {{ignored|Expert}}. To further it, he also plays the role to Korra and (in a comedic sense) to his family.
** [[Characters/TheLegendOfKorraMako Mako]] (and to an extent President Raiko) is becoming this in the second season. Midway through, he's the only one interested in figuring out who's behind a string of bombings in Republic City beyond making the presumption that it's all Northern Water Tribe, as everyone else is acting according to [[spoiler:Varrick's manipulations]]. Korra's hell bent on getting revenge against the North for both Unalaq's machinations and the above misattributed offenses, Bolin's become wrapped up in new celebrity status, Asami's struggling to keep her company afloat and losing hope because of it, and even Lin Beifong is pulling rank on Mako in favor of two mustache-twirling detectives who don't seem to be doing their jobs. And of course [[spoiler:Varrick is pulling everyone's strings in the name of WarForFunAndProfit]].
** Between Eska being an abusive psycho and Unalaq shaping up to be some sort of WellIntentionedExtremist regarding the Water Tribe's spiritual issues, Desna's developing habit of asking questions is putting him on the road to this trope within his family.
** In Book 4, Tenzin's kids Jinora, Ikki, and Meelo are sent to find Korra. Despite the fact that Jinora is both [[BadassBookworm extremely knowledgeable]] and [[TheAce the youngest master airbender]], and Meelo is the more [[BloodKnight natural warrior]], it is [[MiddleChildSyndrome Ikki]] who takes on this role. Jinora is self absorbed with her spiritual powers and so doesn't bother investigating through any other means, even when her powers don't give her any leads. Meelo [[MachoDisasterExpedition wants to turn this into a grand adventure]], throwing away the food and declaring that he will hunt(until Ikki points out that they are vegetarians). He then goes foraging and only finds some bad berries that make him and his lemur ill. Ikki meanwhile manages to actually find Korra's general location. Even though she is captured, she still manages to get more information out of her captors than they get out of her before talking her way into being released. Jinora and Meelo's "rescue" [[RedundantRescue turns out to be pointless]].

** [[Characters/TheSimpsonsLisaSimpson Lisa Simpson]] also often finds herself thrust into the role of only sane...girl. Quite often, when her family (or occasionally, the entire town) is caught up in some insane course of action, she's the one who points out how absurd things have become. Her comments are usually ignored.
** If Lisa ends up caught in the craziness, for example with the Movementarians, expect [[Characters/TheSimpsonsMargeSimpson Marge Simpson]] to take over instead. In fact, [[SanityBall the straight man role is usually traded between Lisa and Marge,]] with the latter holding it more frequently in early episodes and almost always when it comes to anything Homer does. However, there are times Marge's WideEyedIdealist and {{Moral Guardian|s}} qualities make her just as hopelessly crazy as the rest of Springfield.

** [[Characters/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballGumballWatterson The titular character]] is usually an IdiotHero, but DependingOnTheWriter some episodes have him fill this role, and it became his most seen side starting with the third season.

** [[Characters/FamilyGuyLoisGriffin Lois Griffin]] sometimes plays this role in the earlier episodes as well, particularly in episodes revolving around Peter and/or his friends.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': [[Characters/FamilyGuyBrianGriffin Brian Griffin]] is often portrayed as the Only Sane Man, although everyone who isn't [[TheDitz Peter]] ends up playing the Only Sane Man once or twice.

* [[Characters/GravityFallsDipperPines Dipper Pines]] from ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' is one of the few people in the titular town to actually acknowledge the supernatural occurrences and the citizen's wacky antics.

** Leela is easily the most level-headed person, compared to Fry, Bender and the others. Though she has her moments, particularly when she is insulted. She holds very strong grudges.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' has Doctor Venture, who often ''tries'' to be the Only Sane Man, but the intense neuorses and truama of being a boy adventurer keep him from suceeding, resulting in a very broken man. Usually, the role ends up being filled by [[VillainOfTheWeek one-shot bad guys]] that question the Venture Team's logic. You know you have problems when a flamboyant super-villain is judging you.

** In Book 4, Tenzin's kids Jinora, Ikki, and Meelo are sent to find Korra. Despite the fact that Jinora is both [[BadassBookworm extremely knowledgeable]] and[[TheAce the youngest master airbender]], and Meelo is the more [[BloodKnight natural warrior]], it is [[MiddleChildSyndrome Ikki]] who takes on this role. Jinora is self absorbed with her spiritual powers and so doesn't bother investigating through any other means, even when her powers don't give her any leads. Meelo [[MachoDisasterExpedition wants to turn this into a grand adventure]], throwing away the food and declaring that he will hunt(until Ikki points out that they are vegetarians). He then goes foraging and only finds some bad berries that make him and his lemur ill. Ikki meanwhile manages to actually find Korra's general location. Even though she is captured, she still manages to get more information out of her captors than they get out of her before talking her way into being released. Jinora and Meelo's "rescue" [[RedundantRescue turns out to be pointless]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' can basically be summed as two of these characters ([[TheSnarkKnight Daria]] herself, and her best friend [[CoolLoser Jane]]) trying to endure a satirical version of a [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece 1990s]] HighSchool {{Dramedy}}. Other characters, particularly [[ExtracurricularEnthusiast Jodie]] and [[TallDarkAndSnarky Tom]], can also exemplify this trope on occasion.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball''

** The titular character is usually an IdiotHero, but DependingOnTheWriter some episodes have him fill this role, and it became his most seen side starting with the third season.

** Going in line with her status as the TeamMom of the group, Katara is usually the most mature and sensible member of Team Avatar. Aang spends a lot of the series learning how to be a responsible Avatar, and on top of letting his occasional childish tendencies get the better of him, he starts off being rather naive to the situation of the world around him due to having spent a whole century frozen in an iceberg. Although Sokka can be rational and grounded when the situation calls for it, and is pretty competent at devising battle plans, he has a very [[LargeHam hammy and over-the-top sense of humour]], slips into {{Cloudcuckoolander}} territory on more than one occasion, and starts off as a PoliticallyIncorrectHero with a bit of a [[SmallNameBigEgo superiority complex]]. And to top it all off, we also have Toph, a rude, violent and boisterous smart-alec, and [[spoiler:Zuko, who before his HeelFaceTurn is constantly losing his temper and complaining about whatever problem comes up against him, on top of constantly trying to hunt down the group]]. Katara isn't without flaws herself; sometimes she can be hot-tempered and let her ChronicHeroSyndrome get the better of her. Despite this, she consistently does her best to be level-headed and reasonable and keep her friends on the right track. She fulfills this role to great effect in episodes such as ''The Desert'', where Aang is being grumpy and confrontational over Appa's disappearance, Sokka is stoned on cactus juice and Toph is unable to navigate, and she has to go through the mentally exhausting effort of trying to diffuse such a huge conflict in the team, and ''The Runaway'', in which she is the only one who realizes that excessive scamming of scammers will come back to bite them eventually. Toph started the whole thing, and Sokka being involved is not horribly surprising, but Aang should have known better.

** Even Sokka, despite being the series' main source of comic relief, fulfills this role from time to time, most notably in the episodes, ''The Fortuneteller'', where after Aunt Wu predicts the village will not be destroyed, he tries in vain to convince the villagers that the volcano could still erupt in spite of this, ''The Cave of Two Lovers'', in which he acts as the only smart person among a group of [[NewAgeRetroHippie new-age retro hippies]] who are convinced that ThePowerOfLove is the only thing that can get them out of the cave, and ''The Chase'', where he is the only person on Team Avatar not hold the ConflictBall and engage in any of the fights engaged in by Aang, Katara and Toph.

** Mako (and to an extent President Raiko) is becoming this in the second season. Midway through, he's the only one interested in figuring out who's behind a string of bombings in Republic City beyond making the presumption that it's all Northern Water Tribe, as everyone else is acting according to [[spoiler:Varrick's manipulations]]. Korra's hell bent on getting revenge against the North for both Unalaq's machinations and the above misattributed offenses, Bolin's become wrapped up in new celebrity status, Asami's struggling to keep her company afloat and losing hope because of it, and even Lin Beifong is pulling rank on Mako in favor of two mustache-twirling detectives who don't seem to be doing their jobs. And of course [[spoiler:Varrick is pulling everyone's strings in the name of WarForFunAndProfit]].

* Bob of ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' is ([[NotSoAboveItAll usually]]) the most mature and sensible member of the Belcher family, objecting to whatever craziness Linda and the kids have planned.
* ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'': Bojack Horseman can often find himself in this position. He's seemingly the ''only'' person in Hollywoo who realises that Princess Carolyn's boyfriend Vincent Adultman is [[TotemPoleTrench "very obviously three kids stacked on top of each other under a trench coat"]], and will frequently be the one pointing out the critical flaws in Todd and Mr. Peanutbutter's latest ZanyScheme.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Brian Griffin is often portrayed as the Only Sane Man, although everyone who isn't [[TheDitz Peter]] ends up playing the Only Sane Man once or twice.
** Later seasons show Stewie in this role as he was the only character that hadn't [[TookALevelInJerkass become more unpleasant.]]

* Dipper Pines from ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' is one of the few people in the titular town to actually acknowledge the supernatural occurrences and the citizen's wacky antics.

** Lincoln is this on a regular basis; as the show's voice of reason, he seems to be the character with the most common sense, aside from [[CoolBigSis Lori]] and [[TheSmartGuy Lisa]] (well, usually). This is especially noticeable in "Project Loud House" and "Heavy Meddle."

** Of the Mane Six, Twilight Sparkle usually plays this role, often being bewildered by her friends' antics, and patiently offering impartial observations and sound advice (that is only sometimes followed). But that doesn't make her [[NotSoAboveItAll immune]] to occasionally being tossed the IdiotBall or suffering SanitySlippage; at which point, [[ServileSnarker Spike]] or [[TeamMom Applejack]] will take the role. That said, circumstances occasionally allow any of the Mane Six (even [[CloudCuckooLander Pinkie Pie]]) to hold this position.
** Of the Cutie Mark Crusaders, Sweetie Belle is often quick to criticize the more dangerous and ridiculous plans the group comes up with, and also suggests to "tell an adult" as a course of action when a problem gets too difficult for the CMC to solve.

** Conversely, Doofenshmirtz fits this to Rodney due to the latter's plot of creating eternal winter.

** Lisa Simpson also often finds herself thrust into the role of only sane...girl. Quite often, when her family (or occasionally, the entire town) is caught up in some insane course of action, she's the one who points out how absurd things have become. Her comments are usually ignored.
** If Lisa ends up caught in the craziness, for example with the Movementarians, expect Marge to take over instead. In fact, [[SanityBall the straight man role is usually traded between Lisa and Marge,]] with the latter holding it more frequently in early episodes and almost always when it comes to anything Homer does. However, there are times Marge's WideEyedIdealist and {{Moral Guardian|s}} qualities make her just as hopelessly crazy as the rest of Springfield.

** Stan. Kyle has the appearance of being sane as well, but unlike Stan, is unable to understand just how moronic the actions of all the insane people around are. Among the adults is/was Chef and, on occasion, Jesus.

** [[GoodIsNotNice Kyle's]] tendency to [[FieryRedhead have quite a temper]] to the extent of being damn near bipolar excludes him from this on a regular basis, but there are instances where he plays this straight. The episode concerning the economy and the absurdity of aestheticism is a crowning example. Even "You're Getting Old" has him playing this to Stan of all people.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', [[PerpetualFrowner Squidward Tentacles]] and [[GadgeteerGenius Sandy Cheeks]] are more or less the only creatures in Bikini Bottom with sense. [[CloudCuckooLander SpongeBob]] also tends to be this whenever [[TheDitz Patrick Star]] is the stupid one.

** The titular character eventually grows into this role, having to serve as a mediator or advice giver when things get too emotional among the Crystal Gems. This gets {{lampshaded}} in the season four episode "The New Crystal Gems", where his best friend Connie is pushed into the role during his absence and remarks in a short TheReasonYouSuckSpeech how ridiculous it is that a child like her is more emotionally mature than aliens that are [[ImmortalImmaturity thousands of years old]].
** Garnet, being the most [[{{Pun}} together]] and level-headed Gem, she often has to rein in the others.
** Garnet normally takes this role when they're all together as a team, as Pearl is usually NotSoAboveItAll, but when only with Amethyst and Steven, she tends to come off as one.

* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': This could be Bow's job description. If he wasn't the friendliest man alive, he'd probably go nuts trying to ensure some degree of sanity prevails despite the eccentricities of Adora and Glimmer. Most obvious in "The Beacon", where he's the only one who points out that blindly trusting that Adora is going to figure out how to use her sword to heal at this exact moment is probably ''not a good plan''.

-->'''Number 1''': Abby, we both know you're the only one on this team with any real common sense. When I'm screaming that we're being invaded by tiny, kid-eating leeches falling from the sky, you're the one telling me it's only snowing.

** Mr. [[Standard50sFather Garrison]] [[HiddenBackupPrince Senior]], who is the only person in the show to ''repeatedly'' refuse Garrison Junior's advances. Granted, they're father and son, but the moral dilemma in question that comes from the latter just being [[DepravedHomosexual his usual self]] is ''wanting his father to molest him''. Since the rest of his family is angry with him for this perceived "abuse", he eventually just formulates a plan for Kenny G to keep his son distracted; which, to his credit, ''actually works'', so he seems to have an unusual amount of tact for a South Park resident as well.

** Leaning into the "[[TheReliableOne most reliable]]" part of the trope, Kenny is generally portrayed as the only one of the fourth-graders that has showcased routine self-respect ([[DirtyKid ironically]]) and an ''actual'' lack of hypocrisy throughout the series. This is arguably lampshaded by Butters (of all people) in "Going Native" where, after chewing out most of the others kids for their quirks, claims that Kenny is the only one with "any sense of dignity."

** By this point, it appears that Kenny is the only one that has showcased routine common sense throughout the series. This is arguably lampshaded by Butters (of all people) in "Going Native" where, after chewing out most of the others kids for their quirks, claims that Kenny is the only one with "any sense of dignity."

* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'': Unusually, for a [[BumblingDad cartoon dad]], Bill is actually the one who fills this role. When Cricket is a mischievous troublemaker, Tilly is a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, and Alice is a GrumpyOldWoman, Bill is usually the one to keep the family grounded into reality.