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{{quote|''"Yeah, well, I'm gonna go build my '''own''' theme park! With blackjack! And hookers! In fact, forget the park!"''|'''Bender''', ''[[
A character or characters are disgruntled with the way a certain organization or group is run, and (usually after getting kicked out) decide that they will not just start their own, but it'll be ''better'' than the original. Generally either ends with the new organization actually being better or, alternately, failing miserably as [[An Aesop]] about how some things are harder than they look. Sucessful attempts should take care [[He Who Fights Monsters|don't fall into the same problems they left the original over]].
Starting your own will often result in an example of [[We ARE Struggling Together!]].
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<s>Whoever wrote this page was an idiot. Geez. Who thought of that crap? In fact, I'm going to make my ''own'' page, one that's a billion times better what we had before!</s>
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▲=== I'll add my own examples! With blackjack! And hookers! ===
== Anime and Manga ==
* This is Haruhi's motivation for starting the SOS Brigade in ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'' after she joins ''every single club'' at the school and quits after she gets bored.
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* Lelouch, the [[Magnificent Bastard]] main character of ''[[Code Geass]]'', starts the Order of the Black Knights after the existing [[La Résistance]] proves its incompetence by getting decimated in a single episode. He later upgrades that into declaring his intent to start a new ''country''. Though in the end he gives up on the idea and switches to taking over the existing one.
* After having helped save the world at the end of the second ''[[Pokémon]]'' movie, the Team Rocket trio have this discussion amongst themselves:
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'''James:''' That's good!
'''Meowth:''' But what if the boss finds out?
'''James:''' That's bad.
'''Jessie:''' We'll start our own team!
'''James:''' That's good!
'''Meowth:''' But we got no money!
'''James:''' That's bad.
'''Jessie:''' Then we'll just steal some!
'''James:''' That's good! Or is that bad? }}
* This is the premise of the manga ''Gothic Sports'', where, motivated by the fact that they simply would never see any play in their school's normal soccer team, a few girls (with two guys...) get together and start their own team for the school.
* Ryuusuke and Eiji of ''[[Beck|Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad]]'' initially play in the same band, Serial Mama, until personal differences and a missed opportunity with a record producer drive them apart. Both find success with their respective bands: Eiji's Belle Ame is commercially-successful, backed by influential producer Ran; while Ryuusuke with Beck have a much longer arc of struggles before gaining world-wide recognition.
== Comic Books ==
* In Ann Nocenti's final issue of her ''[[Daredevil]]'' run, the Kingpin decides that if he can't force newspapers to run or not run the stories he wants, he will start his own media empire.
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'''Underling:''' Crime... Tragedy... Violence...
'''Kingpin:''' Well then, we'll just have to start a war. }}
* Presumably, this is the reason why [[Image Comics]] exists. Others have claimed that Image was founded not for creative freedoms, but for [[Money, Dear Boy|bigger paychecks.]]
* In Rucka's 2011 run, [[The Punisher]] takes on The Exchange, a bunch of former members of other various criminal organizations in the Marvel universe who decided to start their own organization.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The
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'''Dartz:''' We'll have our own evil council, and ours will be much better. And we'll have pizza! Pizza is better than tacos. }}▼
== Film ==
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* In the movie ''[[Little Giants]]'', the kids not chosen to join Coach Kevin O'Shea's pee wee football team started their own team.
* ''[[Jerry Maguire]]'' starts off with Jerry becoming disillusioned with the way the sports agency operates and he is subsequently fired. He decides to start his own agency and the rest of the movie follows his struggle to keep the business afloat while still maintaining his new principles.
* One of the jokes in ''[[
== Literature ==
* In ''[[Paradise Lost]]'', when all the demons are debating what to do next, Belial suggests that they could [[We Could Have Avoided All This|just apologize]]. Mammon, being the [[Jerkass]] that he is, shoots that down, and then suggests that they make their ''own'' heaven, although blackjack and hookers aren't mentioned (but you know it would have them).
* We have the trope to thank for both ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' and ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]''. [[
* In the realm of mystery fiction, similar stories underlie the creation of both Chesterton's [[Father Brown]] and [[Isaac Asimov]]'s Black Widowers.
* When ''[[The
* ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]'': Captain Nemo’s [[Backstory]] is not full revealed in this novel, but [[Butt Monkey|He declares he has lost all his family because of]] [[The Empire]], [[Angst|and the world continued like every other day]]. A lesser man would be just [[Madden Into Misanthropy]] and cut all ties with society, Captain Nemo starts his own society recruiting [[Madden Into Misanthropy]] men who hate [[The Empire]], training them to build and tripulate [[Cool Ship|the Nautilus]], [[Con Lang|creating their own language]], [[From My Own Personal Garden|obtaining all his resources from the sea and none from shore]], [[Egopolis|reclaiming the South Pole]], [[Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters|financing the Cretan rebellion and converting themselves]] into a [[NGO Superpower]].
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* Happens a couple times in ''[[Warrior Cats]]'':
** Some remnants of BloodClan decide to make their own Clan... in Ravenpaw and Barley's barn.
** Sol, {{spoiler|1=some time after parting ways with SkyClan}}, attempts to form his own group in an abandoned Twoleg nest.
== Live Action TV ==
* An episode of ''[[Are You Being Served?
** They weren't determined to do a better job, they had claimed that they could and the owner of the department store told them that they had to since the cafeteria staff all resigned and it was their fault.
* A [[Story Arc]] of ''[[The Office]]'' focused on Michael Scott quitting Dunder-Mifflin to start the Michael Scott Paper Company. By the second episode of the arc he was at it again: "I should leave them and start my own paper company. That'll show them." Either he's in some sort of feedback loop or it's a writer's [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade]].
* Pretty much the overarching plot of the short-lived Wall Street drama ''[[Bull]]'': A group of young turks break away from the stockbroking firm they work for and make their own. It's not always smooth sailing, of course, which provides the drama of the series.
* ''[[Smallville]]'' episode "Pandora" has {{spoiler|Future}} Chloe take Lois to Watchtower. She responds with this line:
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** Also, at the end of Season 1, when Lionel Luthor decided to shut down Luthorcorp's fertilizer plant in Smallville, [[Lex Luthor|Lex]] started Lexcorp in retaliation. Then it was revealed [[Magnificent Bastard|Lionel]] had planned all along to give Lex a little taste of independence before taking everything from him.
* This is what happens at the end of season three of ''[[Mad Men]]'' when Sterling Cooper becomes Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce.. It starts in [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|an extremely awesome fashion]] too.
* An episode of ''[[Smart Guy (TV series)|Smart Guy]]'' had these sentiments. When the cost of a type of soda went up to over a dollar, [[The Smart Guy|T.J.]] began to create and sell his own soda for 30 cents.
* ''[[The Practice]]'': After Lindsay Dole's murder conviction had been overturned, she decided to start her own legal practice instead of resume her work at Donnell, Young, Dole and Frutt. Later on, Bobby Donnell left the firm to start another practice and the firm was renamed Young, Frutt and Berlutti. Later on, when Alan Shore and Sally Heep were fired from Young, Frutt and Berlutti, Sally suggested to Alan the idea of starting their own practice but he rejected the idea. After Alan's successful lawsuit for wrongful termination of employment, Jimmy left the firm to start a new practice.
* ''[[Boston Legal]]'': Jerry Espenson, a former associate of Crane, Poole and Schmidt, started his own practice after being fired for his reaction about not being named a partner. Despite having a good success, he decided to return to his former employers and was eventually named a partner.
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* ''[[Princess Princess D]]'': This live-action version of the manga ''[[Princess Princess]]'' featured a group of boys that, not satisfied with their all-boys school's [[Wholesome Crossdresser|"Princesses"]], started their own group of "Princesses" known as "Dark princesses".
* At the end of season 4 of ''[[Chuck]]'' Chuck gets fired from the CIA and decides to start his own spy agency.
* At the beginning of ''[[Outsourced (TV series)]]'', Todd Dempsy considered starting his own novelties company rather than being transferred to India. All his boss did to make him accept going to India was remind him of a debt.
* In one episode of ''[[Boy Meets World]]'', Eric decides to start his own fraternity after getting fed up with the hazing of the official fraternities. Unfortunately for him, [[Dean Bitterman|the dean]] catches on.
* Nikos Karabastos, from Brazilian soap opera ''Uga-Uga'', used to work at a toy factory until he decided to start his own and eventually became [[Self-Made Man|wealthier]] than his former employers.
* In ''[[Glee]]'', Sugar Motta has her rich father fund a second Glee Club within the same school after New Directions refuses to let her join. It doesn't change the fact that she can't sing to save her life.
* A common trope for the gang in ''[[
* On ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' Barney and Ted always wanted to start their own bar called Puzzles. On New Year's Eve 2011 they are outraged by the high cover charge at their usual bar and jokingly suggest that they should just start their own bar in Ted's apartment. The idea takes off and news of the bar goes viral. {{spoiler|However, as more and more people show up, the party turns rowdy. As their costs due to damages and other expenses rise, they have to keep raising their prices until they are almost the same as the real bar and everyone leaves. }} Also they don't actually have a liquor license.
* The basis for several episodes of ''[[
* Bob Vila was originally host of ''This Old House'' on [[PBS]], a home-improvement show. WGBH-TV underwriters Home Depot and Weyerhauser [[Think of the Advertisers!|withdrew their support]] as Vila had appeared in an ad for a competing regional hardware chain in New Jersey (which is now defunct). Vila was sacked, and went on to appear in his own shows elsewhere.
== Music ==
* After being fired from [[Metallica]] prior to the release of ''Kill 'Em All'', Dave Mustaine formed [[
* [[
* Although Kim Deal formed [[The Breeders]] while she was still in [[The Pixies]], a major reason the band was started was that she didn't get to sing and/or write enough songs in her main band.
* Original [[
== Newspaper Comics ==
* In ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', Hobbes departed (or was booted out of) [[Fun
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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* Behind the scenes (mostly) example: Jeff Jarrett and [[Vince McMahon]] came to foster a mutual loathing for each other during Jeff's last [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] run, to the point that, when [[WCW]] went under, neither Jeff nor Vince were at all interested in working with the other—Vince even announced, live and simulcast on ''[[WWF]] Monday Night Raw'' and ''[[WCW]] Monday Nitro'', that Jeff was "G-double-O-double-N-double-E... GOONNEE!" So Jeff (with the help of his father, long-time promoter Jerry Jarrett) started his own [[Professional Wrestling]] promotion, [[TNA]], which continues to thrive and grow to this day.
** On a side note, it should be noted that Jerry Jarrett is a long-time friend of the McMahon family; he personally delivered the wrestler who would become Vladimir Kozlov to the WWE.
* After David Otunga schemed to get [[Wade Barrett]] kicked out of [[The Nexus]] and [[CM Punk]] installed as leader in his place, Barrett went to [[Smack Down]] and formed The Corre instead. And two other founding members of The Corre, Justin Gabriel and Heath Slater, walked out of [[The Nexus]] shortly after Barrett was deposed, unhappy with the way Punk was running things. Barrett is quick to point out that, unlike with [[The Nexus]], he is not the leader of The Corre, as it's a gathering of equals; then again, he said that about [[The Nexus]] at first too. It took a a few months, but Barrett's [[All About Me]] Attitude took over, and Gabriel and Slater promptly disbanded the group because of it.
* Sometimes, this happens with title belts, most notably [[Ted
== Sports ==▼
* Texas oil tycoon Clint Murchison, Jr. wanted to buy the then-flagging Washington Redskins in 1958, but he backed out of the deal after Redskins owner George Preston Marshall changed the terms that were unfavorable to him. As a result, Murchison formed the Dallas Cowboys in 1960, and the most-well known rivalry in NFL history was born.▼
* This is the state of boxing with four "main" sanctioning bodies(five if you count the IBO) they are:the W.B.O, I.B.F, W.B.C, and the W.B.A. This means that at any time there are four champions in any given weight class at any time. Becoming "the" champ is damn near impossible because of a set of convoluted rules that pretty much disqualifies boxers from holding all the belts at the same time. This, compounded with all of them being notoriously corrupt and numerous other organizations springing up almost daily, effectively make belts worthless.▼
* In March 1995, Tony George, head of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (home of the Indy 500), announced the formation of the Indy Racing League (IRL), ostensibly to make open-wheel racing in America less Euro-centric and give more direct control of the sport to track owners. Oh, and the Indianapolis 500 would only be open to IRL drivers. The existing sanctioning body, C.A.R.T, responded with a blanked boycott of all IRL races and scheduling the new US 500 to run at the same time as Indy. The split remained for thirteen years before the sport was reunified under the IRL banner. [[Hoist
* The American Basketball Association formed in 1967 to compete against the NBA, but was actually a long-term plan to merge its teams with the NBA, which happened (for some of them) in 1976.▼
* The founder and first president of the ABA went on to form the World Hockey Association in 1972, and was the most successful challenge to the NHL's dominance in North American hockey and helped bring down the NHL's reserve clause. The WHA administration refused to incorporate the reserve clause (which allowed a club to extend a player's contract by a year when it expired and do so indefinitely, effectively binding a player to one club for his entire career) and set a then-landmark $2.7 million salary for Bobby Hull. Though the league didn't survive the Seventies, several teams merged with the NHL.▼
== Tabletop Games ==
* The third party ''[[Dungeons
** ''[[Pathfinder]]'' was created by D&D fans upset with the way that D&D's 4th edition turned out.
== 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.▼
== Web Comics ==
* Trawn from ''[[
* [http://xkcd.com/927/ This] ''[[Xkcd]]'' strip tells it like it is.
== Web Original ==
▲* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series (Web Video)|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'' uses this as an homage to both the ''Futurama'' joke and the ''Fosters'' joke.
▲{{quote| '''Kaiba:''' C'mon, Mokuba. We're going to have our own tournament. With blackjack. And hookers. In fact, forget the tournament.<br />
▲'''Dartz:''' We'll have our own evil council, and ours will be much better. And we'll have pizza! Pizza is better than tacos. }}
* 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.
** ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131030192402/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
** Start My Own has also been necessary where an existing host has killed a project – for instance, the various incarnations of [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]] after its original host tried to close it and launch a new site (OhInternet!) in its place.
*** 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.▼
* In some cases, [[Wikipedia]] will decide they don't want certain types of content (for instance, an entire encyclopaedia in the [[Star Trek|Klingon Language]]). Inevitably, as anyone can download the MediaWiki software for free and deploy it, a smaller and more specialised project will eventually be founded to serve that audience.
* TV Tropes actually has some examples of its own of Start My Own:▼
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** Several users who were upset with the way that TV Tropes was run started [http://tropesmirrorwiki.org/index.php?title=Main_Page their own version] with more concentration on the actual elements of storytelling, analysis of how they are used in works, and less concentration on Japanese media. Unlike most Start Your Owns, this one doesn't seem to be shutting down any time soon.▼
* ''Wikivoyage'', a travel guide, was founded by disgruntled German and Italian travel authors after the founders of ''Wikitravel'' sold out to Internet Brands in a backroom deal for a [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/business/media/once-a-profit-dream-wikitravel-now-bedevils-owner.html then-undisclosed $1.7 million] in 2006. IB then destroyed WT with intrusive advertising and a series of unresolved technical problems, causing more language communities to split and join Wikivoyage in 2012. IB even tried a [https://www.theverge.com/2013/2/16/3995358/wikimedia-internet-brands-lawsuit-settled strategic lawsuit against public participation] against its own contributors, in a futile attempt to stop them from leaving. Wikivoyage is now part of Wikimedia, the not-for-profit behind [[Wikipedia]], but it still took seven years for Wikivoyage's Alexa.com rank to surpass Wikitravel's due to duplicate content penalties imposed by search engines.
▲* [[TV Tropes]] actually has some examples of its own of Start My Own:
▲** Several users who were upset with the way that TV Tropes was run started [https://web.archive.org/web/20130708122647/http://tropesmirrorwiki.org/index.php?title=Main_Page their own version] with more concentration on the actual elements of storytelling, analysis of how they are used in works, and less concentration on Japanese media.
*** And now The Tropes Wiki has [http://editthis.info/tv_tropes/Main_Page its own example of] Start My Own. A user, disgruntled that the Admins at the Tropes Mirror wouldn't let him import pages upon pages of S&M porn to the wiki went and started his own... but unlike the Tropes Wiki, this one (which appears to be a one-man operation) makes no pretense about being anything but a copy-paste of TV Tropes.
*** In addition to the first Start My Own Trope Mirror, there is now the ''[http://tvtropesmirror.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Unofficial TV Tropes Mirror]'', which is being run by contributors to the original Tropes Wiki who are upset about the fact that the creators of the Tropes Wiki really meant it when they said that [[Anime]] would not be considered a [[Special Snowflake Syndrome|Unique and Special Snowflake]]
** [[All The Tropes|This very wiki]] was also a Start My Own created by several veteran tropers (including one who'd been a member of the site since its early days) who disagreed with the [[Think of the Advertisers!|major changes made to TV Tropes' policies in 2012]].
*** And there has been at least one fork from ATT, as well.
* Happens online all the time, due to the relative ease of creating a website. If we listed all the examples we'd be here all day. However, two famous victims are [[Live Journal]], which has a half-zillion clones at this point (all of them near-''perfect'' clones in fact, due to the site's open-source codebase), and [[Deviant ART]], whose restrictive policies led to the creation of SheezyArt and later [[Furry Fandom|FurAffinity]]. In most such cases, the result is similar to the comedic examples in fiction, with so many people starting their own site that none of them have many users.▼
** Indeed, the whole point of [[Copyleft]] (for both open-source software and web content) is that the authors own the content and make it available under a free licence, so that they are free to take the work, fork off and go elsewhere with it.
▲* Happens online all the time, due to the relative ease of creating a website. If we listed all the examples we'd be here all day. However, two famous victims are [[
* At one point in its history, the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' had a new referee who decided, without any consultation on the owners of the property, or with the other referees, that he was going to rewrite the history of the game world, and move the game to a new site out of the owner's control. When he was (justifiably) booted with extreme prejudice, he declared the old group lame and started up his own. It lasted about four months before folding.
* Happened with ''[[Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl]]''. Issa Rae, the creator, started the show because she was tired of the depiction of people like her as a [[Sassy Black Woman]], a [[Magical Negro]], or a sexy vixen.
* [[YouTube]] clones, because some people don't want to upload to Youtube. Think Zippcast.
* ''[[SCP Foundation]]'' has an example of this. In 2018, there was a huge controversy when they temporarily changed their logo for Pride Month, and a user created a new site called RPC Authority. Several writers also moved their works there and ''deleted them from the original wiki''.
* In the wake of [[tumblr]]'s December 2018 [[Think of the Advertisers!|self-castration in a vain attempt to monetize its userbase]], several alternatives sprung up, created by former tumblr users -- most notably newTumbl, which attempts to be what tumblr was before its kiddification, but also including several sites explicitly designed as refuges for the adult content tumblr most eagerly shoved out the door.
== Western Animation ==
* The above quote is from the ''[[
* In an episode of ''[[
** In another episode, Bloo started his own foster home for imaginary friends, which was nothing more than a cardboard box.
* In an episode of ''[[The Simpsons (
** In another episode, Bart is kicked out of Mr. Burns' casino for being underage. The Squeaky-Voiced Teen taunts him, saying "What are you going to do? Start your own casino? In your tree house? And get all your little friends to come? [[Tempting Fate|I'd like to see that!]]" [[Gilligan Cut|Cut to the next scene]], where Bart is welcoming his friends into his tree house casino. "Well, he certainly showed me."
** Yet again on ''[[The Simpsons]]'', when Moe's Tavern gets a hip makeover and the old customers are no longer welcome, Homer starts a "hunting lodge" in his garage ([[Loophole Abuse|he couldn't have a tavern there]]) where he and the old regulars hang out until Moe comes to his senses. They even went as far as taking part on regular hunting trips as all hunting lodges are required by law.
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** And yet again, when Homer is offended that Ned didn't invite him to his ''family'' reunion, Homer says he'll have his own barbecue and invite whomever he wants - "That'll show you!". However, Ned [[Politeness Judo|politely asks]] whether he can come and Homer says "Sure!" reflexively. D'oh!
** The cause of Jebediah Springfield and Shelbyville Manhattan's split:
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'''Springfield''': Then I will start my own town, based on abstinence, chastity and a flavorless mush I call root marm. }}
* An episode of ''[[Arthur]]'' revolves around the kids creating their own "[[James Bond|James Hound]]" movie, since they're not old enough to see the actual PG-13 movie themselves. They eventually discover that all the outtakes are actually [[So Bad It's Good|better than what they planned]].
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* The male unicorn decides to build [[The Great Flood|his own ark]] after missing Noah's on ''[[Robot Chicken]]''. [http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8687905da0a1166b82131930b0001010\]
* In the ''[[Care Bears|Adventures in Care-a-Lot]]'' episode, "Whose Friend is Who?" a bit of a club war gets started because Cheer, Harmony, and Love-a-Lot reject Funshine and Oopsy's help in making a "project" with their human friend McKenna. So, with Grumpy, they make their own "project" and a subsequent club to go with it. The girls retaliate by forming their own club, and a montage of the two clubs one-upping each other in their projects ensues, with McKenna stuck in the middle, not wanting to pick a side. She eventually gets the two clubs to see how silly they're being by making a club with [[Robot Buddy|Wingnut]], and calls them out when they band together to exclude her club.
* [[Don Bluth]] was a [[Disney]] employee who was disgruntled with the lack of quality work that the studio was churning out at the time. He and some other animators left to form their own studio. It lead to some great stuff (''[[The Secret of NIMH]]'', ''[[An American Tail]]'', ''[[The Land Before Time]]'', ''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven]]'') and later on, some [[Jump the Shark|much less great stuff]] (''[[Rock
* In ''[[Family Guy]]'', Peter is so jealous of Joe's home movie theater that he decides to build an addition onto his house to create an even bigger and better theater than Joe's. Of course, this plot is quickly forgotten once Peter digs up an Indian skull and the real plot of the episode starts.
* A [[Looney Tunes]] cartoon started with Daffy Duck as a janitor of an inn that belonged to Porky Pig. Daffy was feeling unappreciated and, when Porky tried to show his appreciation by giving him a new broom, Daffy decided to start his own inn. [[Failure Is the Only Option|Daffy's dishonest attempts to run his former employer out of business backfired.]] His last plan consisted of blowing up Porky's inn. {{spoiler|Daffy DID blow up Porky's inn, but accidentally revealed the presence of oil under it, allowing Porky to build an even better inn. To show Daffy he doesn't keep hard feelings, Porky hired him to work at the new inn... [[Where It All Began|as a janitor]].}}
* One episode of ''[[Dennis the Menace US]]'' portrayed Dennis and Margareth as business partners in a lemonade stand. Unsatisfied with her share of the profits, she started her own lemonade stand to compete against her now former business partner.
* A mock episode of ''[[Bird Man]]'' retconned Murko the Marauder as a F.E.A.R. agent leaving to start his own criminal organization.
* One episode of ''[[The Mask (
* ''[[King of the Hill]]'' features Thatherton Fuels, a company founded by M. F. Thatherton, a former employee of Strickland Propane.
* ''[[Taz
* In ''[[Camp Lazlo]]'', Edward starts an "I Hate Lazlo" club, inviting everyone except, of course, Lazlo. He tells Lazlo to form his own club, the "Nothing Club", which Lazlo does. Soon everyone leaves Edward's club after finding it too boring (it's all about talking about how much they hate Lazlo, which only Edward does) and head over to Lazlo's.
▲== 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]]'': "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.
▲== Sports ==
▲* Texas oil tycoon Clint Murchison, Jr. wanted to buy the then-flagging Washington Redskins in 1958, but he backed out of the deal after Redskins owner George Preston Marshall changed the terms that were unfavorable to him. As a result, Murchison formed the Dallas Cowboys in 1960, and the most-well known rivalry in NFL history was born.
▲* This is the state of boxing with four "main" sanctioning bodies(five if you count the IBO) they are:the W.B.O, I.B.F, W.B.C, and the W.B.A. This means that at any time there are four champions in any given weight class at any time. Becoming "the" champ is damn near impossible because of a set of convoluted rules that pretty much disqualifies boxers from holding all the belts at the same time. This, compounded with all of them being notoriously corrupt and numerous other organizations springing up almost daily, effectively make belts worthless.
▲* In March 1995, Tony George, head of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (home of the Indy 500), announced the formation of the Indy Racing League (IRL), ostensibly to make open-wheel racing in America less Euro-centric and give more direct control of the sport to track owners. Oh, and the Indianapolis 500 would only be open to IRL drivers. The existing sanctioning body, C.A.R.T, responded with a blanked boycott of all IRL races and scheduling the new US 500 to run at the same time as Indy. The split remained for thirteen years before the sport was reunified under the IRL banner. [[Hoist By His Own Petard|Ironically]], racing fans, confused and frustrated by the split, turned away in droves to stock car racing and NASCAR.
▲* The American Basketball Association formed in 1967 to compete against the NBA, but was actually a long-term plan to merge its teams with the NBA, which happened (for some of them) in 1976.
▲* The founder and first president of the ABA went on to form the World Hockey Association in 1972, and was the most successful challenge to the NHL's dominance in North American hockey and helped bring down the NHL's reserve clause. The WHA administration refused to incorporate the reserve clause (which allowed a club to extend a player's contract by a year when it expired and do so indefinitely, effectively binding a player to one club for his entire career) and set a then-landmark $2.7 million salary for Bobby Hull. Though the league didn't survive the Seventies, several teams merged with the NHL.
== Real Life ==
* This is how Cambridge University was formed. A bunch of students were kicked out of Oxford, made their way across the country, and started their own university.
** The University of Bristol was genuinely founded by a man whose son failed to get into Oxford. The original 'college' is now the Physics Department
* In an acrimonious divorce, the wife won ownership of the husband's family business, along with an order barring him from competing. [[Loophole Abuse|So the husband got his son to open a new store]] across the street with the same name, and all the loyal customers flocked to the new store, bankrupting the old one.
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** Christian humorist Adrian Plass, in one of his novels, mentions the concept of church groups splitting so often that some people are in danger of dissenting themselves right back to where they started...
** Mormon Fundamentalists are what happens when, deciding mainstream Mormons were wrong to abandon polygamy, hardcore religious nuts start their own. This came about, mind you, after Joseph Smith did the same thing to Christianity.
*** [[
** The Episcopal Church in the US went through this following the election of a gay divorced man as bishop of New Hampshire. This caused many conservative Episcopal parishes to separate themselves into the Anglican Church in North America. For the time being the Episcopal Church retains membership in the international Anglican Communion (though relations are strained) and the ACNA has not been granted full communion.
** The [[wikipedia:Metropolitan Community Church|Metropolitan Community Church]], as an international Protestant Christian denomination with a specific outreach to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities, was founded by [[wikipedia:Troy Perry|Rev. Troy Deroy Perry Jr.]] a few years after he was forced out of the [[wikipedia:Church of God of Prophecy|Church of God of Prophecy]] for being gay.
* As parodied in ''[[Monty
** It's not just political parties. Any organisation which tries to bring together multiple disparate groups – each of which has its own strongly-held beliefs − is prone to this. It's a wonder that the average LGBT pride parade even manages to get off the ground, as one example, given the number of diverging viewpoints among most of the organisers.
** It's not just third parties, either. In 1824, Andrew Jackson won the popular vote in the presidential election as one of four candidates running under the banner of the Democratic-Republican Party, but the Electoral College was split. The party elite in Congress ended up awarding the presidency to Jackson's rival, John Quincy Adams. In response, Jackson founded his own party, the modern Democratic party, and ran against Adams four years later, winning in a landslide.
* This trope is credited as one of the reasons that Libertarianism (in the [[American Political System|American sense]]) has so much trouble becoming a party with any real power. There are simply too many different groups that consider themselves Libertarian to ever organize.
* In the art world of [[Older Than Radio|the 1860s]], the [[wikipedia:Salon des Refuses|Salon des Refuses]] was started in Paris by a group of artists, now referred to as the Impressionists, who were infuriated at being constantly rejected by the official Salon de Paris.
** The Secession movement in Vienna, for much the same reasons.
* Software, too, especially [http://www.gnu.org GNU] and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20100115014249/http://www.fsf.org/ Free Software Foundation]. Half of the software listed on [http://sourceforge.net SourceForge] would not exist without this trope, though it's usually spurred on by avoidance of restrictive licenses. Where religions have schisms, open software has "forks".
** Granted, this trope is at the heart of FOSS software: Anyone who ''can'' do better, according to their philosophy, should be given the opportunity to prove it.
*** Sometimes some features of forked versions will be merged back into original versions. So, they can still help even in case of a large number of forks.
* Has occurred in the [[Video Game]] industry as well. While working at [[Atari]], Jay Miner (having previously developed the [[Atari 2600|2600]] console and 800 computer) designed what would become the Amiga. Frustrated that Atari wouldn't produce it, he left, starting his own company, Hi-Toro, to build it. Hi-Toro went bankrupt, but Commodore bought them and the Amiga design, eventually manufacturing it themselves.
** A handful of Atari programmers during the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Ray Kassar]] era were disgruntled that not only were they not getting credit for the games they created, but such information was treated as top secret. So they formed [[Activision]], the world's first third-party gaming company, which upon creation gave credit to the programmer who created the game right on the game box and in television commercials.
** [[Electronic Arts]] was also founded for similar reasons not too long afterward. Now look at what they've become...
** tri-Ace, developers of the ''[[Star Ocean]]'' series, was founded by the main programmer of ''[[
** A sad case is when most of the old-school developers of [[Blizzard Entertainment]] (the people responsible for ''[[
** In some cases, developers will leave a company and form their own due to [[Executive Meddling]], as in the tri-Ace example... only to find the new executives they installed are ''worse''. Ouch.
** [[Telltale Games]] is another example, founded by ex-[[
** 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 [[World Wrestling Entertainment|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 ''[[
** 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
* After Adidas was founded by Adolf "Adi" Dassler, he ran it with his brother for a while, until 1948, when a violent falling out between the two led Rudolf Dassler to move across the river and start his own sport shoe company, Puma. The city of Herzogenaurach is still fiercely split between the two brands to this day.
** The hatchet was supposedly buried with a ([[United Nations|UN]]-sponsored) soccer match, but Adidas and Puma remain independent concerns.
** The Dassler issue wasn't even a "Start My Own" issue but rather a clean-cut split. The original company was "Gebrüder Dassler OHG", read "Dassler Brothers partnership". Puma isn't an offshot of Adidas, both Adidas and Puma are split successors of the original Dassler firm. It's just the original factory that Adidas retained. And don't get me started with the [[Technician Versus Performer|original shoemakers going for Adi and the original business going for Rudi]], let alone [[Epileptic Trees|the brothers trying to denounce each other as Nazis to the American after the war etc.]], it got very nasty.
* Lamborghini supposedly entered the luxury car business for this reason. In the mid-sixties, Ferruccio Lamborghini, president of what was then primarily a tractor manufacturer, came to Enzo Ferrari to complain that his recently purchased Ferrari had a faulty clutch. He also explained that he had tried the clutch from one of his own tractors in the car and it worked fine. A fierce argument followed, and Lamborghini looked through his car some more and decided that his company already had the ability to make most of the necessary components for a luxury automobile. The extent to which spite motivated Lamborghini's decision to enter this market has probably been exaggerated by people more interested in good stories than microeconomics.
* Two examples come from the [[Power Metal]] band [[
* Garry Kasparov split from FIDE, the World Chess Federation, to form the PCA (Professional Chess Association) in 1993.
* Sean Combs was fired from Uptown records during the early 90's. Afterward he formed his own label....Bad Boy Records. The latter is more or less still thriving while Uptown folded.
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* When Brazilian movie magazine SET was sold to a different publisher, one of the editors went to start its own publication, ''Preview''. Both have a [[Fandom Rivalry]] now (it helps that said editor's boss at SET eventually returned to the magazine...).
* The Founding Fathers of America hated living in the colonies under Great Britain. So they started their own country. With freedom, and representation. And then muddled everything by establishing protectorates of its own (Cuba, Guam, etc.)
** Freedom? These folks owned <u>slaves</u>... and the long-running dispute over slavery would ultimately lead to the next Start My Own attempt, the [[American Civil War]].
* Boyd Coddington's hot rod shop, Hot Rods by Boyd, faced bankruptcy in 1998. So, president Chip Foose left to form his own company, Foose Design. The two companies endured a fierce rivalry right up until Boyd Coddington's death ten years later.
* After leaving [[After Forever]] due to [[Creative Differences]], Mark Jansen formed [[Epica]].
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* After getting fired from Gamespot for undisclosed reasons (though the most popular is for giving a mediocre review to ''[[Kane and Lynch]]: Dead Men'' while the game was advertised on the site), Jeff Gerstmann went off to start the gaming news site [[Giant Bomb]] alongside other former Gamespot journalists.
* After having some issues with Disney, Jeffrey Katzenberg left and went on to help form [[Dreamworks Animation]], which has been climbing on up since its founding.
* After Freedom Group moved Bushmaster production to New York (with disastrous consequences for quality) they left behind the old facilities and skilled workers, who promptly founded Windham Weaponry.
* World Outgames, an international athletic competition, was first held in Montréal in 2006 after that city's supposedly-successful bid to host the rival Gay Games broke down due to [[Executive Meddling]] by the parent organisation (Federation of Gay Games). The event was held in 2006 (Montréal), 2009 (Copenhagen) and 2013 (Antwerp) but went broke in 2017 (Miami).
* Zilog, a chipmaker founded by former Intel workers. made the Z80 processors for a few early desktop computers (Sinclair ZX81, Radio Shack TRS80, most of the CP/M machines). IBM's 1981 introduction of the 5150 PC soon tilted the balance back to Intel as it used Intel's 8088 processor (and its successors used Intel 80x86-series chips).
** Intel's own founders, chemist Gordon E. Moore (known for "Moore's law") and physicist Robert Noyce, left Fairchild Semiconductor to establish Intel in 1968.
** Likewise, Intel's primary rival in desktop and laptop PC chips, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), was founded by eight disgruntled Fairchild Semiconductor workers - in 1969.
* Huawei launched their own mobile services framework called Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) as a substitute for Google Play Services, as well as their own app store called AppGallery after Google stopped providing software support to Huawei due to US government sanctions; the AppGallery has existed prior to the company being sanctioned in 2019, though it was only available in China until 2018. For the remaining apps which couldn't be published to the AppGallery due to said sanctions or some other reason, they even came up with [https://www.huaweicentral.com/huawei-introduces-new-solution-to-install-third-party-apps-on-huawei-phones-with-open-source-android/ workarounds] such as directing users to download APK installation files from mirror sites such as APKPure, though compatibility may be hit-or-miss as some apps may require specific Google APIs to function correctly.
* When [https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/01/freenode_issues_help_irc_grow/ millionaire tech entrepreneur Andrew Lee bought the commercial entity behind the long-standing IRC network Freenode in early 2021 and made it his personal fiefdom] (possibly with an eye toward turning it into some manner of money-making engine), its all-volunteer staff abandoned the network ''en masse'' and started a new one called Libera.Chat.<ref>This so enraged Lee that he began banning anyone who even mentioned the new competitor and seizing control of any channel where it was mentioned, even those which said "we're not going to Libera.Chat, we're staying here", which [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|drove virtually all the remaining Freenode communities ''off'' Freenode and onto Libera.Chat anyway]] and left him with an empty IRC network devoid of both staff ''and'' users.</ref>
* [[Nikita Khrushchev]] [https://www.rbth.com/history/327869-soviet-disneyland-failed proposed building] the Soviet Union's very own [[Disney Theme Parks|Disneyland]] following a much-publicised incident where the Soviet Premier was barred from entering ostensibly due to security concerns. Wonderland, as it was called, was conceived as "the entire Soviet Union in miniature" instead of focusing on a fantasy world sprinkled with various fictional characters as is with Disneyland's, affording Soviet children the chance to appreciate the country's diversity. While the Wonderland idea never came to fruition due to Khrushchev's removal from power in 1964, the Moscow-based [https://dreamisland.ru/ Dream Island] [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/business/russia-dream-island.html picked up where Khrushchev's project left off], and offered its own takes on Disney's attractions, even adapting [[Hans Christian Andersen]]'s ''[[The Snow Queen]]'' story in an effort to evoke Elsa from ''[[Frozen (Disney film)|Frozen]]'', though a Russian mother named Nadya Soloyeva expressed her doubts as to whether the park and its takes on fairy tale characters will have the same level of brand recognition as Disneyland's.
* The author Samantha Hooker (this troper) has this mentality as an author.
** [[Dungeons & Dragons]] became too commercial with too editions, updating every few years? Let's make my own [https://www.amazon.com/New-Gaia-Earth-books/dp/B09QP3M8SH/ tabletop roleplaying game]! Just two problems. The game in question is impossible to search without having the address, and it's in [[Perpetual Beta]] due to constant rule changes.
** Couldn't find a religion that suited? [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09TRNSMPW Why not make one up]? [[Gratuitous Japanese|Aiken]] basically blends Taoism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Shintoism. But once again, it's a mess.
** Rejected the book of Revelation, but every single other Bible (besides maybe the Jefferson Bible) seems to have it? Enter the ''Aiken Abridged Bible''. Not only does it have alot of footnotes re-analyzing things from the [[Writer on Board|perspective of Aiken]], but [[Screw the Rules, I Make Them|any books of the Bible that aren't wanted get cut]].
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