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== Tabletop Games ==
* The third party ''[[Dungeons and& 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.
 
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*** 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]] (the Unofficial Tropes Mirror Wiki, for example, renamed the "[[Band of Brothers]] trope page "Nakama", and doesn't bother with a "[[True Companions]]" page, for example.
** 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 major changes made to TV Tropes' policies in 2012.
* 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 JournalLiveJournal]], 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.
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** [[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 ''[[Tales of Phantasia]]'' who was frustrated with the [[Executive Meddling]] that occurred with the games development.
** A sad case is when most of the old-school developers of [[Blizzard Entertainment]] (the people responsible for ''[[Warcraft]]'' one and two, ''[[Diablo]]'' and ''[[StarcraftStarCraft]]'') left to form their own game studio, made the Diablo-clone ''[[Hellgate:London]]'', and bankrupted.
** 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-[[Lucas ArtsLucasArts]] employees after Lucasarts all but abandoned the [[Adventure Game]] genre.
** 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.
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*** 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 [[Xbox|started their own console.]]
** 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 SoftwareCorporation]], which was originally just some former Microsoft employees... until they released [[Half Life]].
* 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.
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