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* In the ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' game "Strong Badia the Free", Strong Bad gets everybody to secede from the King of Town's domain. He thinks everybody is going to join the now-autonomous Strong Badia, but instead they all go off and create their own countries. The rest of the game is him trying to convince everyone to band together to overthrow the King.
** ''[http://www.homestarrunner.com/ccdo7.html Kitchen Commandos, a really bad idea! It closed down after three months!]''
* Also, [[The Wiki Rule|Wikis]]. Many are started because they have focused subject matter, but many others are founded because [[Wikipedia]]'s standards of notability and citation somehow exclude them, or they think there's something biased about it. For instance, [[Conservapedia]] was created by a group who decried Wikipedia's "evidence" and "objectivity", and made their own online encyclopedia with their ''own'' bias. [[TV Tropes
** Since Wikia allows anyone that wants to start a Wiki to do so, this happens quite often with those who don't like the guidelines, procedures, etc., etc. of a particular wiki. It often doesn't end well, since most of these people are neither suited to be admins nor have the ability to gather followers to their new wiki.
*** One of the most prominent examples (and far more successful than most) is the ''[[Star Wars]]'' fandom's [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Wookieepedia]], which came about when Wikipedia purged a great many ''Star Wars'' articles as "non-notable". Copies of the purged articles were part of the core of Wookieepedia in its early days. Now Wookieepedia is the 5th-largest Wiki in existence.
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== Video Games ==
* In ''Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3'', an ex-member of the racing team Unlimited forms a spinoff called Neo Limited.
* Laharl in ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'': "I don't even wanna be a part of this stupid world. I wouldn't stay if you begged me! I’ll go find a better world, with heaps of food! And cookies!"
* In ''[[Terranigma]]'', Marily from Loire works at an expensive boutique at low wages, but after Loire expands, you can help her start her own business that sells affordable clothing to average consumers.
* In ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'', one of the options for the White Glove Society sidequest is to expose Mortimer as a cannibal. When he realizes that he won't be able to turn the rest of the society (who are reformed cannibals) back to the old ways, he declares that he'll build an even better society before running off.
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** Ditto for Petroglyph Studios, formed by former Westwood employees after EA shut down Westwood.
** After expressing more than a little disappointment with the lackluster Nintendo [[Game Cube]] release [[WWE]] [[Wrestlemania]] X-8, Dave Wishnowski and a dedicated group began work on the PC-based wrestling title ''Pro Wrestling X''. Despite getting off to a strong start with an article in [[Game Informer]] magazine, then [[Development Hell|lengthy delays in development]] that threatened to send it to the ''[[Duke Nukem Forever]]'' pile of [[Vaporware]], his company [[Wish Bone X]] managed to start bearing tangible fruit with the concept in 2009, and the [[Prequel]] to the game, ''Pro Wrestling X: Uprising'' is finally slated for release between 4Q 2010 and 1Q 2011. Its success will apparently determine the viability of the original (expandable) concept game he'd originally intended back in 2001.
** The [[Sony]] [[
*** Similar to the above, [[Atari]] passed up an opportunity to distribute the [[Nintendo Entertainment System]] in the US, leaving Nintendo to market and distribute the NES on its own. You know what happened next...
**** Many video game fans think that was for the best; while the NES would have come to North America a couple of years earlier, it's likely that Atari's mismanagement would've simply [[The Great Video Game Crash of 1983|dragged Nintendo down with them]], dooming the entire video game industry to a Japan-only niche.
*** Nintendo and Sony were so worried about large companies trying to co-opt their new consoles that they immediately rejected Microsoft's attempts to integrate online gaming into their console, so Microsoft [[
** Treasure Co., Ltd. is a developer founded by the former employees of [[Konami]]. They are known for their action games with innovative design. They partner with large game developers and working with licensed titles.
** To say nothing of [[Valve Software]], which was originally just some former Microsoft employees... until they released [[Half Life]].
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