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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.
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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.
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** 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.
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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]] [[Play Station]] 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
*** 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.
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** 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 [[Helloween]]. The first being Kai Hansen's 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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