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== Film ==
* ''[[Revenge of the Nerds]]'' centers around the titular [[Nerd|nerdsnerd]]s creating their own fraternity chapter after being rejected by all the existing ones. Of course, being [[Hollywood Nerd|Hollywood Nerds]]s, the only one that will even give them a chance is the historically-black Lambda Lambda Lambda. This does [[Scary Black Man|come in handy]] [[Big Damn Heroes|later on]] in the movie.
* In the movie ''[[Bring It On]] Again'' the main character starts her own cheer squad to spite the [[Alpha Bitch|snobby head cheerleader]].
* In the movie ''[[Little Giants]]'', the kids not chosen to join Coach Kevin O'Shea's pee wee football team started their own team.
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* In the realm of mystery fiction, similar stories underlie the creation of both Chesterton's [[Father Brown]] and [[Isaac Asimov]]'s Black Widowers.
* When ''[[The Babysitters 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 [[Start My Own|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]].
{{quote| ''"if I can trust my hunches, if I truly understand the captain's way of life, his Nautilus isn't simply a ship. It's meant to be a refuge for people like its commander, people who have severed all ties with the shore."''}}
* Happens a couple times in ''[[Warrior Cats]]'':
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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 [[WWE]] run, to the point that, when [[WCW]] went under, neither Jeff nor Vince were at all interested in working with the other -- Vinceother—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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** Since Wikia allows anyone that wants to start a Wiki to do so, this happens quite often with those who don't like the guidelines, procedures, etc., etc. of a particular wiki. It often doesn't end well, since most of these people are neither suited to be admins nor have the ability to gather followers to their new wiki.
*** One of the most prominent examples (and far more successful than most) is the ''[[Star Wars]]'' fandom's [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Wookieepedia]], which came about when Wikipedia purged a great many ''Star Wars'' articles as "non-notable". Copies of the purged articles were part of the core of Wookieepedia in its early days. Now Wookieepedia is the 5th-largest Wiki in existence.
* TV Tropes actually has its own example of [[Start My Own]]--severalOwn—several users who were upset with the way this site was run started [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. Unlike most Start Your Owns, this one doesn't seem to be shutting down any time soon.
** 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 this wiki.
*** 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 Journal]], 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.
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