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* Integra ''[[Hellsing]]'' comes to mind. Despite a relatively [[Dark and Troubled Past]] involving her [[Evil Uncle]], she's the ''only'' character in the series who's not a [[Heroic Sociopath]], [[Blood Knight]], or [[Ax Crazy]]. She also appears to be the most balanced and stable out of all the characters, which is probably why she's so good at dealing with [[Dracula|A]][[Heroic Sociopath|l]][[Blood Knight|u]][[Ax Crazy|c]][[Villain Protagonist|a]][[Complete Monster|r]][[Interplay of Sex and Violence|d]][[Belligerent Sexual Tension|.]]

** Some would say that Seras Victoria is one of these as well.

* ''[[Mazinger Z]]'': Professor Yumi, Shiro and sometimes Boss alternated in filling the role. The first one was the director of a research lab where [[Mad Scientist|Mad Scientists]] (the funny version) and [[Hot-Blooded]], hardheaded teenagers ran around. The second one was [[Hot-Blooded|Kouji]] [[Idiot Hero|Kabuto]] little brother, and often showed more brains than his rash, loudmouthed, tactless older brother. And Boss... well, even though he was [[Comic Relief]], often he was the one had to talk Kouji or Sayaka into reason.

** A serious example happened in episode 7: while Sayaka was going through a [[Heroic BSOD]] and losing her will to fight, and Kouji was playing [[Achilles in His Tent]], Boss was trying to remember them over and again there WAS one Mechanical Beast coming, and all of them would die if they didn't fight back! Later Kouji and Sayaka were apologizing at each other and Shiro noted boss was the only was right in that situation.

* ''[[One Piece]]''. When the antics get too crazy, Nami or Zoro will yell at the crew about the absurdity of whatever is happening.

** Robin to a somewhat lighter degree. She usually just smiles and admires their free spirits, but she once outright refused to go with a stupid battle formation because it looked too silly, much to the crew's surprise.

* Poor you, [[Slayers|Zelgadis...]]

* [[Dark Action Girl|Re-l]] from ''[[Ergo Proxy]]'' to the point of being [[The Comically Serious]]. This is, however, mostly due to her lack of social interaction with regular people, and she eventually comes to realise that everybody has flaws, and sometimes it's best to just accept it and go with the flow.

* [[Hen Zemi]]: Nanako is often the butt of everyone's odd fetishes, although she does have her own, hers are just overshadowed by the others.

* Ikuto of ''[[Nagasarete Airantou]]'' is convinced (for a while, at least) that he is the [[Only Sane Man]] on the Airantou. He is certainly [[Adam and Eve Plot|the only man.]] After a while, he decides that there's little point in taking issue with all the crazy, and just rolls with it. Still doesn't believe in ghosts (despite meeting one or two) and insists on calling the local kappa a turtle.

* Sanpeita from ''[[Kemeko DX]]'' is apparently the only sane man left on the planet. While his classmates have a problem with their short, [[Gonk]]-ish, supernaturally powerful and totally insane teacher insisting she's married to him, their problem is generally jealousy. His childhood friend, who is aware that the teacher is a cyborg suit containing a hot girl, tends to ignore this in favour of protesting to the impropriety of the relationship. His sister is in raptures over her cool "onee-sama". His mother is totally oblivious. Meanwhile Sanpeita cries about how his normal life is being totally destroyed...

* Shuichi, Kirie's boyfriend in Junji Ito's horror manga ''[[Uzumaki]]'', is often the only person who sees the spiral phenomena happening all over town as bizarre, and who realizes the danger the town's in. He sometimes slips into spouting [[Cassandra Truth|Cassandra Truths]] in a [[You Have to Believe Me|"You Have to Believe Me!"]] voice, though by the manga's start, he's largely given up on trying to convince the public and focuses instead on just protecting Kirie.

* Battler in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'' never actually moved away from the second stage of this syndrome and, from the second arc on, makes the purpose of his existence proving that magic had nothing to do with [[Ten Little Murder Victims|his and everyone else's murders]].

* ''[[Baccano!]]'''s Firo Prochainezo acts like this quite a bit in the [[Light Novels]], as sometimes he just can't help but realize that his friends are really, ''really'' weird. The saner ones include a 200-year-old man with [[Dead Little Sister]]/[[Big Brother Instinct]] the size of the continental US and the [[Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter|Mad Scientist's]] [[Oblivious to Love|Love-Oblivious]] [[Artificial Human|Lab-Grown Servant]] [[The Atoner|With A Troubled Conscience]]. The loony side of the spectrum includes Claire Stanfield, who is...well, ''[[Ax Crazy|Cla]][[Cloudcuckoolander|ire]] [[Heroic Sociopath|Frig]][[Crazy Awesome|gin]] [[A God Am I|Stan]][[Psycho for Hire|field]]''

* [[Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai]]'s Kodaka Hasegawa serves as this to the Neighbors Club, a school club ostensibly aiming to help its members make friends -- and he shares the clubroom with an [[Jerkass|abrasive]] [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo|brunette]], a [[Ms. Fanservice|ridiculously sexy]] [[Rich Bitch|high-class brat]], an [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|effeminate]] [[Wholesome Crossdresser|crossdresser]], a [[Lovable Sex Maniac|perverted]] [[Teen Genius|teenage prodigy]], his little sister [[Elegant Gothic Lolita|under a constant self-delusion of being a vampire-loli]], and a [[Hollywood Nuns|ten-year-old nun]] with [[Cloudcuckoolander|serious reality-checking issues]]. The only reason he's even with the Club is because his [[Face of a Thug|facial structure]] and [[Hair of Gold|naturally-blond hair]] makes him pass up for some [[Delinquent]].

* In ''[[Daily Lives of High School Boys]]'', there's Tadakuni towards Hidenori and Yoshitake, Tadakuni's [[Distaff Counterpart]] Habara towards Yanagin and Ikushima, and, on top of all, Karasawa.

* In ''[[Tsuritama]]'' Natsuki is this when you look at the other main characters: a [[Shrinking Violet]] who accidentally pulls a [[Face of a Thug]] whenever anxious (which is often), a [[Men in Black|M.I.B.]] obsessed with his pet duck, and a [[Keet]] [[Human Alien]] trying to save the world. Natsuki's quirks, [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|acting kinda aloof]] and being ''really'' into fishing, pale in comparison.