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A character or characters are disgruntled with the way a certain organization or group is run, and (usually after getting kicked out) decide that they will not just start their own, but it'll be ''better'' than the original. Generally either ends with the new organization actually being better or, alternately, failing miserably as [[An Aesop]] about how some things are harder than they look.
Starting your own will often result in an example of [[We ARE Struggling Together!]].
<s>Whoever wrote this page was an idiot. Geez. Who thought of that crap? In fact, I'm going to make my ''own'' page, one that's a billion times better what we had before!</s>
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== Live Action TV ==
* An episode of ''[[Are You Being Served? (TV)|Are You Being Served]]'' had the regular staff getting into a disagreement with the cafeteria staff. The cafeteria staff walks out and the regular staff are determined to do a better job than the cafeteria staff. They do - but only by sneaking out and getting expensive take-out food. Realizing that they were working extra-hard and spending themselves into a hole, they gave in and apologized.
** They weren't determined to do a better job, they had claimed that they could and the owner of the department store told them that they had to since the cafeteria staff all resigned and it was their fault.
* A [[Story Arc]] of ''[[The Office]]'' focused on Michael Scott quitting Dunder-Mifflin to start the Michael Scott Paper Company. By the second episode of the arc he was at it again: "I should leave them and start my own paper company. That'll show them." Either he's in some sort of feedback loop or it's a writer's [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade]].
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* 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.
* 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.
* On ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' Barney and Ted always wanted to start their own bar called Puzzles. On New Year's Eve 2011 they are outraged by the high cover charge at their usual bar and jokingly suggest that they should just start their own bar in Ted's apartment. The idea takes off and news of the bar goes viral. {{spoiler|However, as more and more people show up, the party turns rowdy. As their costs due to damages and other expenses rise, they have to keep raising their prices until they are almost the same as the real bar and everyone leaves. }} Also they don't actually have a liquor license.
* The basis for several episodes of ''[[The Goodies (TV)|The Goodies]]'', including "Radio Goodies" and "Hospital for Hire".
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** It's not just third parties, either. In 1824, Andrew Jackson won the popular vote in the presidential election as one of four candidates running under the banner of the Democratic-Republican Party, but the Electoral College was split. The party elite in Congress ended up awarding the presidency to Jackson's rival, John Quincy Adams. In response, Jackson founded his own party, the modern Democratic party, and ran against Adams four years later, winning in a landslide.
* This trope is credited as one of the reasons that Libertarianism (in the [[American Political System|American sense]]) has so much trouble becoming a party with any real power. There are simply too many different groups that consider themselves Libertarian to ever organize.
* In the art world of [[Older Than Radio|the 1860s]], the [
** The Secession movement in Vienna, for much the same reasons.
* Software, too, especially [http://www.gnu.org GNU] and the [http://www.fsf.org/ Free Software Foundation]. Half of the software listed on [http://sourceforge.net SourceForge] would not exist without this trope, though it's usually spurred on by avoidance of restrictive licenses. Where religions have schisms, open software has "forks".
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