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* A common trope for the gang in ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia''. 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, [[MisaimedMarketing an all-age drinking bar]], their own radio station, and so forth... it usually all descends into WeAreStrugglingTogether category.

* Behind the scenes (mostly) example: Wrestling/JeffJarrett and [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince [=McMahon=]]] came to foster a mutual loathing for each other during Jeff's last Wrestling/{{WWE}} run, to the point that, when Wrestling/{{WCW}} went under, neither Jeff nor Vince were at all interested in working with the other -- Vince even announced, live and simulcast on ''[[Wrestling/{{WWERaw}} WWF Raw]]'' and ''Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro'', 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 ProfessionalWrestling promotion, [=TNA=], now known as Wrestling/ImpactWrestling. 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 Wrestling/VladimirKozlov to the WWE. Also, Jeff Jarrett said that Vince was one of his biggest supporters during the death of his wife, so things have probably been patched up between the two.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': Spongebob started his own "Pretty Patty" stand after being mocked for his idea by Mr. Krabs and Squidward. He ended up having 46,853 customers. Seeing how successful the stand was, Mr. Krabs traded Spongebob the Krusty Krab for it...right before all the customers starting experiencing colorful side effects to the patties and demanded a refund.

** In "Who R Zoo", after [[HilarityInZoos being kicked out of the Bikini Bottom Zoo for messing with the animals]], Spongebob and Patrick start their own zoo, with ''bubble'' animals.

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* This 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 Website/LiveJournal, 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 Website/DeviantART, whose restrictive policies led to the creation of [=SheezyArt=] and later [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom 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.

* An infamous example is Encyclopedia Dramatica, which was originally started as a place to chronicle Website/{{Livejournal}} drama after Wikipedia purged it due to no-notability.

* ''ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders'': When the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica wouldn't let Franchise/{{Batman}} interfere in international politics by arresting a supervillain dictator, he quit and formed The Outsiders.
-->''I've had enough of your two-bit Justice League! From now on, these are my new partners!''\\
-- ''[[http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/6/67397/2755085-01_super.jpg Batman and the Outsiders #1]]''
* An old strip in ''ComicBook/TheDandy'' had a pair of eliminated wrestling champions who are kicked out for [[CheatersNeverProsper cheating]]. They decide to start a new wrestling league where everyone is allowed and no one gets eliminated.
* ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}''

* ''''ComicBook/ThePunisher'': In Creator/GregRucka'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.
* ''Franchise/StarWars: The Deadly Hands of Shon-Ju'': The eponymous character is a former Jedi initiate who quit the order after failing the knighthood trials but kept studying the Force. He runs a small order of Force Sensitive students who focus on using the Force to enhance their hands rather than fight with lightsabers. He fights against the Separatists during the Clone Wars, but mostly just to humiliate the Jedi Order in the process.

* For many years, the Memphis wrestling territory was run by promoter Nick Gulas. His head booker, Jerry Jarrett, entered an agreement with Gulas that he would eventually buy into a full partnership with Gulas. When Gulas screwed Jarrett over on the deal[[note]]He argued that the money Jarrett had already given him wasn't a down payment, but a holding fee giving Jarrett the right to buy in, in a now-expired time frame[[/note]]. A furious Jarrett[[note]]An anger already stoked by Gulas' demands that Jarrett feature his son, George Gulas, as a main eventer. George, a Southern US-flavored UpperClassTwit, was barely "enhancement talent" level in the ring and had already proved to be a detriment to Gulas' own booking efforts.[[/note]] then set about plans to start his own promotion, convincing Gulas' top talent (Wrestling/JerryLawler) and the announce team (Lance Russell and Dave Brown) to jump ship to his promotion. Several of Gulas' other wrestlers (including "Soul Man" Rocky Johnson) caught wind of the plan and signed on. Within weeks, Jarrett's promotion had fully taken over the Memphis territory and Gulas' promotion had been shut down.[[note]]This also had the side effect of altering the local TV market, as Russell was the program director of Memphis' ABC affiliate and Brown was the weatherman there. Both men quit their jobs at WHBQ. Russell quit TV news entirely and joined Jarrett full time and Brown became the weather man at the NBC affiliate, WMC, where Jarrett's show now originated.[[/note]]

* Kanna ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' has very little interest in joining any of the established dragon factions [[DadsOffFightingInTheWar due to the war being responsible for her parents' neglect]]. Instead, she started the "Kanna Faction".

* Ryuusuke and Eiji of ''[[Manga/{{BECK}} BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad]]'' initially play in the same band, Serial Mama, until personal differences and a missed opportunity with a record producer drive them apart. Both find success with their respective bands: Eiji's Belle Ame is commercially-successful, backed by influential producer Ran; while Ryuusuke with BECK have a much longer arc of struggles before gaining world-wide recognition.

* In ''VideoGame/TokyoXtremeRacer 3'', an ex-member of the racing team Unlimited forms a spinoff called Neo Limited.

--->'''Duke Phillips:''' I've never been so insulted!\\

* Michael Amott formed Music/{{Arch Enemy}} a year after his departure from Music/{{Carcass}}.

->Oh, no room for me in the trope sections, huh? [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Screw You Guys!]] I'm gonna go start my own website about tropes! With blackjack! And hookers! In fact, forget the website and the blackjack! ... [[SubvertedTrope Ahh, screw the whole thing.]]

** Then Donelly herself left The Breeders to form Music/{{Belly}} meaning The Breeders were both the result and the start of this trope.

* In Creator/GregRucka's 2011 run, ''Comicbook/ThePunisher'' 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.

* Since ''WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967'' is well known as a [[MemeticMutation meme generator]], one particularly oft-used meme is one where Spider-Man declares that he'll form his own [[Franchise/TheAvengers Avengers]] team. With [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Ninja]] [[http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/spiderman-is-going-to-start-his-own-avengers.jpg Turtles]].

** In the case of the finale of "ComicBook/GuardianDevil", this trope might as well be called "Restart Our Own." While Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson had their issue with Rosalind Sharpe, Foggy's mother, when they joined her law firm, it reached a boiling point when Sharpe decides to leave Foggy (again, ''her own son'') to rot in jail after Mysterio frames him for rape and murder rather than risk any bad PR in an attempt to clear his name, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Matt decides right then and there to quit and Foggy naturally decides he wants nothing to do with Sharpe anymore once his name]] ''[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere is]]'' [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere cleared]], so the two opt to restart their own firm, "Nelson and Murdock", at the site of the home of Matt's the Kingpin blew up in ''ComicBook/BornAgain'' with money that Karen Page to Matt in her will.

** In the case of the finale of "ComicBook/GuardianDevil", this trope might as well be called "Restart Our Own." While Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson had their issue with Rosalind Sharpe, Foggy's mother, when they joined her law firm, it reached a boiling point when Sharpe decides to leave Foggy (again, ''her own son'') to rot in jail after Mysterio frames him for rape and murder rather than risk any bad PR in an attempt to clear his name, Matt decides right then and there to quit and Foggy naturally decides he wants nothing to do with Sharpe anymore once his name ''is'' cleared, so the two opt to restart their own firm, "Nelson and Murdock", at the site of the home of Matt's the Kingpin blew up in ''ComicBook/BornAgain'' with money that Karen Page to Matt in her will.

** In the case of the finale of "ComicBook/GuardianDevil", this trope might as well be called "Restart Our Own." While Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson had their issue with Rosalind Sharpe, Foggy's mother, when they joined her law firm, it reached a boiling point when Sharpe decides to leave Foggy (again, ''her own son'') to rot in jail after Mysterio frames him for rape and murder rather than risk any bad PR in an attempt to clear his name, Matt decides right then and there to quit and Foggy naturally decides he wants nothing to do with Sharpe anymore once his name ''is'' cleared, so the two opt to restart their own firm, "Nelson and Murdock", at the site of the home of Matt's the Kingpin blew up in ''ComicBook/BornAgain'' left to Matt in Karen Page's will.

* In Ann Nocenti's final issue of her ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' run, ComicBook/TheKingpin decides that if he can't force newspapers to run or not run the stories he wants, he will start his own media empire.
-->'''Kingpin:''' What sells newspapers?\\

** In the main storyline, Trafalgar Law was once a member of the Don Quixote Pirates, even being prepared to become Doflamingo's right-hand man on the Heart seat. (Dolfamingo's top Co-Dragons have a PlayingCardMotifs). However, after Doflamingo killed the current Corazon, his own brother and Law's favorite person, Law broke away and eventually formed his own crew, the Heart Pirates, so he could eventually take revenge.

* After certain events reveal the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive corruption]] and incompetence of parts of the Hero Association from ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'', [[spoiler:various members, both heroes and staff leave to start the Neo-Hero Organization. Their reasons, however, are very different; [[AmbitionIsEvil McCoy]] seems to be doing it for the power and wealth, [[ChildProdigy Child Emperor]] actually wants to make improvements to the hero system, and other heroes like [[HotBlooded Metal Bat]] were simply offered better pay and benefits]].