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'''Underling:''' Crime... Tragedy... Violence...<br />
'''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.]]
* 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.
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* At the beginning of ''[[Outsourced]]'', 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
* In ''[[Glee]]'', Sugar Motta has her rich father fund a second Glee Club within the same school after New Directions refuses to let her join. It doesn't change the fact that she can't sing to save her life.
* A common trope for the gang in ''[[Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]''. Among many examples, they started their own band after seeing Dee's ambiguously retarded boyfriend being a hit rapper. They also wanted to launch their own gasoline preservation to make money for the bar. [[Cloudcuckoolander|Charlie]] at some point, writes and directs his own musical. The list just goes on and on, including a desire to start their own police force, clothing line, Dennis running for comptroller, [[Misaimed Marketing|an all-age drinking bar]], their own radio station, and so forth... it usually all descends into [[We ARE Struggling Together]] category.
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* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
{{quote| '''Kaiba:''' C'mon, Mokuba. We're going to have our own tournament. With blackjack. And hookers. In fact, forget the tournament.<br />
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{{quote| '''Shelbyville''': I will not live in a town that robs the man of the right to marry his cousin.<br />
'''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
** An earlier one involved Muffy getting fed up with Arthur's shabby clubhouse and leaving to start her own club, and Buster and Francine deciding to join her. Gradually, ''everyone'' abandons not only Arthur's never-been-official-anyway club, but each other's as well, until everyone is a one-person "club" of their own. Eventually they all realize how stupid it all turned out, and get back together.
** A later one involves Francine and a group of friends starting a band called U Stink only for Francine to quit and start her own band called We Stink with Arthur, Buster and George. Arthur and Buster end up getting mad at her and quitting and claiming they will form their own band and call it She Stinks. George doesn't mind staying but Francine gives up.
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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 (Video Game)|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
*** 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 (Music)|Helloween]]. The first being Kai Hansen's band [[Gamma Ray (Music)|Gamma Ray]], formed after he got fed up with [[Small Name, Big Ego|Michael Kiske]] and quit, the second being ''[[Masterplan (Music)|Masterplan]]'', a band formed by Uli Kusch and Roland Grapow after being kicked out of Helloween for trying to take the band in a [[Darker and Edgier]] direction.
* 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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{{quote| [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|Oh, so I'm not allowed with the other examples, am I?]] [[Self
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