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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:

'''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.

== 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.

'''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.]]

* When ''[[The Baby Sitters Club]]'' put [[Butt Monkey|Mallory]] through a ridiculous series of training exercises in order to make her prove herself worthy of joining, she calls them out on their crap and starts her own club with her new best friend Jessi. It doesn't last, since the sitters eventually figure out that they were in fact acting like bitches and invite both girls to join the club.

* ''[[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]].

* Happens a couple times in ''[[Warrior Cats]]'':

** Some remnants of BloodClan decide to make their own Clan... in Ravenpaw and Barley's barn.

* 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:

** 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.

== 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).

 

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== Web Original ==

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'' uses this as an homage to both the ''Futurama'' joke and the ''Fosters'' joke.

'''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.

** 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:

'''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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