History Main / StartMyOwn

* Happened with ''MisadventuresOfAwkwardBlackGirl''. Issa Rae, the creator, started the show because she was tired of the depiction of people like her as a SassyBlackWoman, a MagicalNegro, or a sexy vixen.

Starting your own will often result in an example of WeAreStrugglingTogether.

* TV Tropes actually has its own example of StartMyOwn--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.

* After having some issues with Disney, Jeffrey Katzenberg left and went on to co-found {{DreamWorks SKG}} with StevenSpielberg and DavidGeffen. The best-known, most successful part of the company turned out to be Katzenberg's, {{DreamWorks Animation}}. Spielberg's live-action portion, [=DreamWorks=] Studios, is much less active than it was in the past.

* After having some issues with Disney, Jeffrey Katzenberg left and went on to help form Creator/DreamWorksAnimation, which has been climbing on up since its founding.

* When the JusticeLeagueOfAmerica wouldn't let {{Batman}} interfere in international politics by arresting a supervillain dictator, he quit and formed [[BatmanAndTheOutsiders The Outsiders]].

* Fed up with the bureaucratic crap at the Citadel, [[MassEffect Garrus Vakarian]] traveled to [[WretchedHive Omega]] and formed a task force to antagonize the local criminals and warlords. He gained so much notoriety as "Archangel" that he forced an EnemyMine between the Blue Suns, Eclipse and Blood Pack, the three most powerful crime syndicates in the lawless Terminus Systems, and you find him just as they're gearing up to (try to) kill him.

* This was the genesis of the of both the Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation (AWA) and the WWE (originally the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) and then the World Wrestling Federation (WWF)): In the early 1950s, Verne Gagne wanted to be the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/nwa/world/nwa-h.html NWA World Heavyweight Champion]]. The heads of the NWA wanted to keep the belt on Lou Thesz, to the point where they wouldn't let Thesz wrestle Gagne anymore. Gagne and a couple of smaller promoters from the upper midwest broke away and formed the AWA in 1957, with Gagne as champion and boss. The WWWF formed under similar circumstances in the New England region in 1963: NWA champ "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers was reluctant to wrestle outside of the NE area. When the NWA had him lose the belt to Lou Thesz, he quit the NWA in protest, then joined with the regional promotion, Capitol Wrestling Corporation, to form the WWWF.

** This is also how University College London, the third university to be founded in the UK after Oxford and Cambridge, came into being. Unlike Oxford and Cambridge, it was entirely secular and allowed women in on an equal footing with men, inspired by the (then) radical philosophies of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bentham Jeremy Bentham]].

* This is Haruhi's motivation for starting the SOS Brigade in ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'' after she joins ''every single club'' at the school and quits after she gets bored.

* In ''LightNovel/ChuunibyouDemoKoiGaShitai'', Like ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' [[Creator/KyotoAnimation before her]], Rikka forms her own JapaneseSchoolClub, the "Far Eastern Magical Nap Association", which is more or less a legalized excuse to let her delusions run amuck with Yuuta, Kumin and Sanae tagging along, willing or not. Nanase-sensei approves the club as a social circle, only because she noticed Rikka's determination to see her dream come to life despite lacking the prerequisite five members. Then it becomes a full-fledged club once Shinka actually applies, [[spoiler:hinting to her past life as another deluded teen herself]].

* This is the premise of the manga ''Gothic Sports'', where, motivated by the fact that they simply would never see any play in their school's normal soccer team, a few girls (with two guys...) get together and start their own team for the school.

* One episode of ''Get Smart'' dealt with ACB, the third spy network (with KAOS and CONTROL). They were founded by a KAOS agent who got passed over for promotion too often. He first tried to defect to CONTROL, who didn't want anything to do with him. This led him to starting his own group, and the episode revolves around Max and Siegfried having to team up to stop him.

* In ''Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3'', an ex-member of the racing team Unlimited forms a spinoff called Neo Limited.

* In the realm of mystery fiction, similar stories underlie the creation of both Chesterton's FatherBrown and Creator/IsaacAsimov's Black Widowers.

* Quite a few religious sects got started because of this trope:

** Martin Luther started the Lutherans after being excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.
*** He started his own church! With beer! And wives for the clergy!
** Henry VIII wanted to divorce his wife, Catherine of Aragon. Only problem, the Catholic church considered divorce a sin, and so he had to ask the pope for an annulment. When the pope refused (Pope Clement VII was afraid of Catherine of Aragon's nephew, the Hapsburg king Charles V), Henry formed his own church, the Church of England, installed himself as its head, and divorced her anyway.
*** Also note that Catherine had been his brother's widow, meaning by the convention of the time his father had needed a special papal ruling to allow him to marry her at all, making his annulment request a bit hypocritical.

*** The Free Methodist Church's name comes from their abolitionist roots. That, and their refusal to charge for seats.

** Mormon Fundamentalists are what happens when, deciding mainstream Mormons were wrong to abandon polygamy, hardcore religious nuts start their own. This came about, mind you, after Joseph Smith did the same thing to Christianity.
*** [[UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}} Mormons]] would disagree with labeling their church as reformed.

** And, of course, the TropeMaker of religious schisms, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%E2%80%93West_Schism the Great Schism]], whereupon the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches went their separate ways.

* In the art world of [[OlderThanRadio the 1860s]], the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon_des_Refuses Salon des Refuses]] was started in Paris by a group of artists, now referred to as the Impressionists, who were infuriated at being constantly rejected by the official Salon de Paris.

* The Founding Fathers of America hated living in the colonies under Great Britain. So they started their own country. With freedom, and representation. And then muddled everything by establishing protectorates of its own (Cuba, Guam, etc.)

* Presumably, this is the reason why ImageComics exists. Others have claimed that Image was founded not for creative freedoms, but for [[MoneyDearBoy bigger paychecks.]] ([[TropesAreNotBad Not necessarily an unworthy goal]] in its own right, mind. Your typical mainstream comics creator doesn't get much in return for the profit their publisher makes...)

* Even Al Qaeda [[http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ap-exclusive-rise-al-qaida-saharan-terrorist is not immune to this]], with a former disgruntled employee starting his own terrorist group after Al Qaeda wrote him a scathing letter accusing him of failing to carry out a single operation, not filling out expense reports, and not answering his phone when they called.

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!

!!I'll add my own examples! With blackjack! And hookers!

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-->[[BreakingTheFourthWall Oh, so I'm not allowed with the other examples, am I?]] [[SelfDemonstratingArticle Fine, I'll start my own line!]] [[OverusedRunningGag With blackjack! And hookers!]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} In fact, forget the example! And the blackjack! Aww, screw the whole thing.]]

* This was the genesis of the of both the Wrestling/AmericanWrestlingAssociation (AWA) and WWE (originally the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF)): In the early 1950s, Verne Gagne wanted to be the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/nwa/world/nwa-h.html NWA World Heavyweight Champion]]. The heads of the NWA wanted to keep the belt on Lou Thesz, to the point where they wouldn't let Thesz wrestle Gagne anymore. Gagne and a couple of smaller promoters from the upper midwest broke away and formed the AWA in 1957, with Gagne as champion and boss. The WWWF formed under similar circumstances in the New England region in 1963: NWA champ "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers was reluctant to wrestle outside of the NE area. When the NWA had him lose the belt to Lou Thesz, he quit the NWA in protest, then joined with the regional promotion, Capitol Wrestling Corporation, to form the WWWF.

* Z, the BigBad of ''Manga/OnePiece Film Z'' was once a member of the Navy, but got so fed up with their corruption that he left and formed his own private army. Problem? His methods are so extreme for even Admiral ''[[GeneralRipper Sakazuki]]''.

* In ''LightNovel/ChuunibyouDemoKoiGaShitai'', Like ''LightNovels/HaruhiSuzumiya'' [[Creators/KyotoAnimation before her]], Rikka forms her own JapaneseSchoolClub, the "Far Eastern Magical Nap Association", which is more or less a legalized excuse to let her delusions run amuck with Yuuta, Kumin and Sanae tagging along, willing or not. Nanase-sensei approves the club as a social circle, only because she noticed Rikka's determination to see her dream come to life despite lacking the prerequisite five members. Then it becomes a full-fledged club once Shinka actually applies, [[spoiler:hinting to her past life as another deluded teen herself]].

** After Ted is [[spoiler: fired from his company, he decides to start his own architectural firm.]]

''LordOfTheDance'' was essentially Michael Flatley's "blackjack and hookers"-attempt after his contract re-negotiations with the ''Riverdance'' team broke down.