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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.
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** 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.
*** 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.
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** [[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.
** 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 ''[[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]] [[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...
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