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* 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 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.

 

 

== Film ==

* ''[[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 ''[[Eurotrip]]'' about the Bratislavan exchange rate involves Scott tossing a small coin to a hotel employee, who then quits and announces that he intends to buy his own fancy hotel with the coin.

 

== Literature ==

** 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 ==

* 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 ''[[The Goodies]]'', including "Radio Goodies" and "Hospital for Hire".

 

== Music ==

* 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 [[Weezer]] bassist Matt Sharp started the Rentals out of a desire to do his own take on early New Wave rock, and made it his full time job after butting heads with Rivers Cuomo.

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

* In ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', Hobbes departed (or was booted out of) [[Fun with Acronyms|G.R.O.S.S.]] and formed his own club, C.A.D. (Calvin's A Dope).

{{quote|'''Calvin:''' ''That's'' not a name for a club!}}

 

== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==

** 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 DiBiase]] creating the Million Dollar Belt and [[Zack Ryder]] creating the Internet Championship.

 

== Sports ==

* 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 & Dragons]]'' 3.5 [[Sourcebook]] Untapped Potential was created by a group of Psionics fans in response to quality issues (Hint: It gets called "Complete Crud" for a reason) in the Complete Psionics first party sourcebook.

** ''[[Pathfinder]]'' was created by D&D fans upset with the way that D&D's 4th edition turned out.

 

== Video Games ==

* 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 ''[[Electric Wonderland]]'' started her independent newspaper out of discontent with futuristic [[Cyberspace]] news outlets placing decreased emphasis on presenting harsh truths to citizens.

* [http://xkcd.com/927/ This] ''[[Xkcd]]'' strip tells it like it is.

 

== Web Original ==

* 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.

* 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|Another example]] specializes in covering the tropes of popular culture.

* [[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. According to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, however, this site seems to have shut down some time in 2013.

*** 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.

* 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 [[LiveJournal]], 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.

* 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.

 

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[Taz-Mania]]'' episode "Francis Takes a Stand" featured Francis starting a lemonade stand. Taz opened another one across the street from Francis'. The only customer who ever appeared was a tax collector who, after buying a lemonade from Francis (and hating its taste), revealed himself a tax collector and took the money he gave Francis as payment for the lemonade.

* 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.

 

== Real Life ==

*** [[Mormonism|Mormons]] would disagree with labeling their church as reformed.

** 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.

* As parodied in ''[[Monty Python's Life of Brian]]'', political groups (especially radical fringe groups) are very splinter-prone. Just for fun, try to find a list of your local political parties and see how many different leftist groups there are. Also happens on the far right.

** 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.

** 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.

* 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.

** [[Telltale Games]] is another example, founded by ex-[[LucasArts]] employees after Lucasarts all but abandoned the [[Adventure Game]] genre.

** Ditto for Petroglyph Studios, formed by former Westwood employees after EA shut down Westwood.

** The [[Sony]] [[PlayStation]] began life as a CD add-on for [[Nintendo]]'s [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|Super NES]] console. However, when Nintendo backed out of their contract with Sony during development<ref>because a buried clause would have given Sony perpetual rights to Nintendo's games</ref> and instead contracted with Philips for the add-on (which never materialized<ref>but did spawn the [[So Bad It's Good|infamous]] ''[[The Legend of Zelda CDI Games|The Legend of Zelda]]'' [[The Legend of Zelda CDI Games|CD-i Games]]</ref>), Sony turned the peripheral into a stand-alone console and entered the game market themselves, determined to teach Nintendo a lesson...which they did, displacing Nintendo's position at the top of the game industry with the [[PlayStation]], and then retaining their stranglehold on the market with the [[PlayStation 2]], forcing Nintendo to [[Take a Third Option|re-think gaming entirely]] in order to get back on top with the [[Wii]].

*** 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...

* 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.)

* 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]].

* 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.

 

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