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* One ''Manga/CaseClosed'' episode, "Computer Murder Case," contains a '''''tragic''''' failed example: [[spoiler:The SympatheticMurderer once worked for the AssholeVictim CorruptCorporateExecutive, before invoking this with a friend. Sadly - their startup was ruined by the victim's monopoly, and the friend was DrivenToSuicide. [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown Worse]] - the murderer had to work for the victim again, now in a lower position, and endure the victim's [[TheReasonYouSuchSpeech "The Reason You Suck" Speeches]] and [[SpeakIllOfTheDead mockery of the startup and the friend]]. Understandably, a RageBreakingPoint was reached.]]

* One ''Manga/CaseClosed'' episode, "Computer Murder Case," contains a '''''tragic''''' failed example: [[spoiler:The SympatheticMurderer once worked for the AssholeVictim CorruptCorporateExecutive, before invoking this with a friend. Sadly - their startup was ruined by the victim's monopoly, and the friend was DrivenToSuicide. Worse - the murderer had to work for the victim again, and hear him [[SpeakIllOfTheDead mock the startup and the friend]] repeatedly. Understandably, a RageBreakingPoint was reached.]]

* One ''Manga/CaseClosed'' episode, "Computer Murder Case," involves a TearJerker failed example: [[spoiler:The SympatheticMurderer once worked for the AssholeVictim CorruptCorporateExecutive before eventually invoking this with a friend. Sadly, their new business was soon ruined by the victim, which also drove the friend to suicide. And to add insult to injury, the murderer then had no choice but to return to working for the victim, this time in a much-lower position -- all while having to endure the latter's SpeakIllOfTheDead taunts about the friend, on top of it. Understandably, the murderer finally snapped and decided to avenge his friend.]]

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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 [[SelfMadeMan wealthier]] than his former employers.

* In Jean Merrill's ''The Toothpaste Millionaire'' ''sixth-grader'' Rufus Mayflower responds to the high cost of store-bought toothpaste by starting his own toothpaste company with the help of his best friend.

* ''Film/{{Paranoia2013}}'': Wyatt used to work for Goddard before he quit to start his own company.

* Also, [[TheWikiRule Wikis]]. Many are started because they have focused subject matter, but many others are founded because Website/{{Wikipedia}}'s standards of notability and citation somehow exclude them, or they think there's something biased about it. For instance, Conservapedia was created by a group who decried Wikipedia's "evidence" and "objectivity", and made their own online encyclopedia with their ''own'' bias. [[Website/TVTropes This very wiki]] specializes in covering the tropes of popular culture. 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 ''Franchise/StarWars'' fandom's [[PunBasedTitle 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.

* In an episode of Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody, when London and Barbara did not make the cheerleading squad at their high school, they decided to create their own squad, consisting of themselves, Cody, Nia, and two other rejects: Leslie and Haley.

** In turn we have an example from Music/GammaRay. The original frontman, Ralf Scheepers went on to form Music/PrimalFear.

->''"Yeah, well, I'm gonna go build my '''own''' theme park! With TabletopGame/{{blackjack}}! And [[TheOldestProfession hookers]]! In fact, forget the park!"''

->''"Yeah, well, I'm gonna go build my '''own''' theme park! With TabletopGame/{{blackjack}}! And hookers! In fact, forget the park!"''

* In ''LightNovel/LoveChunibyoAndOtherDelusions'', Rikka forms her own school club, 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]].

* ''Blog/BetterBonesAU'': This is how a lot of the Clans formed initially. Tall Shadow broke off and made her own Clan over Clear Sky abandoning Jagged Peak and Thunder Storm, the latter who grew up to form his own Clan, defecting over Tall Shadow's xenophobia driving her to not let Bumble into ShadowClan.

* ''Fanfic/LadyBugOut'' is kicked off when Marinette becomes frustrated enough with how Alya has been running her Ladyblog that she decides that Ladybug should start her ''own'' blog -- one where she can help straighten out some facts while working to better support and protect Paris.

* The third party ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons 3.5'' {{sourcebook}} ''Untapped Potential'' was created by a group of Psionics fans in response to quality issues (Hint: It gets called "Complete Crud" for a reason) in the Complete Psionics first party sourcebook.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'': Mario and Luigi, after having a "spiky" history with [[VideoGame/WreckingCrew Foreman Spike and his wrecking crew]], decide to start a plumbing business. This goes awfully for them, as they're too hasty in starting it and not prepared.

!!Examples:

-->'''Jessie:''' So then we're not bad!
-->'''James:''' That's good!
-->'''Meowth:''' But what if the boss finds out?
-->'''James:''' That's bad.
-->'''Jessie:''' We'll start our own team!
-->'''James:''' That's good!
-->'''Meowth:''' But we got no money!
-->'''James:''' That's bad.
-->'''Jessie:''' Then we'll just steal some!
-->'''James:''' That's good! Or is that bad?

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* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', Patti was rejected from the Honkers baseball team, because she's a girl. As a result, she forms "Patti's Pulverizers", which consists of [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits players who were rejected by the Honkers]].
* [[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.
** [=SpongeBob=] also created his own Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy movie when the big-budget movie starred muscle-bound actors instead of the elderly, retired heroes.
** 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/MissionHill'' - when Andy and his friends are kept out of a hip new nightclub in their neighborhood, they retaliate by pretending to open a new club in an unlocked boiler room, and keep out all of the hip crowd who queue up at the door.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'': When Duke Phillips can't get the daughter of the assistant to one of his most expendable employees into The Rainbow's End Preschool:
--->'''Duke Phillips:''' I've never been so insulted!\\
'''Mr. Jordell:''' So what are you going to do, build your own preschool? Ha ha, your own preschool, I'd like to see that. (Chuckles)\\
''(Cut to: "Duke Phillips' Pre-school: Built on a Dare.")''
* ''WesternAnimation/IronManArmoredAdventures'': When Justin Hammer took over Stark International, Tony decided to create his own company. Pepper suggested he named it "Circuits Maximus" but Tony had already opted for [[AlliterativeName "Stark Solutions"]]. Both names count as MythologyGag since Tony Stark did start companies with both names in separate occasions he lost control of Stark International.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'': After Eric Raymond lost his half of Starlight Music, the Misfits needed another music company to promote their albums so Pizzazz asked her father to start one.
** In "[=KJEM=]", Jem took over a radio station so the previous owner wouldn't lose it to a former employee who had started his own radio station for not liking how his former boss ran things.
** Kimber (from Jem and the Holograms) and Stormer (from the Misfits) were feeling underappreciated and temporarily became a duo.
* ''WesternAnimation/NASCARRacers'': Megan temporarily left Fastex to start her own racing team.
* In the original ''Literature/{{Franklin}}'', there were a few of these: Franklin's "Turtle Trackers" group in "Franklin Wants a Badge," the various characters' secret clubs in "Franklin's Secret Club" and Franklin's "Turtle Point" in "Franklin's Birthday Party." In "Franklin, the Planner" on the ''Franklin and Friends'' spinoff, the kids all end up doing this, pairing off and starting their own floor plans for a new treefort when it doesn't seem like there's enough room to fit each of their own ideas in the original floor plan. The problem, of course, being that only ''one'' treefort can be built and they need something that satisfies everyone. It's Franklin who comes up with the idea for compromise, they can't all have ''everything'' they want in the treefort, but each of them can use their best idea and they'll put it all together.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Hail Doofania!", Dr. Doofenshmirtz is frustrated that [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter his goody two-shoes little brother Roger]] got elected mayor of Danville, so he tries to build his own floating city in Danville Harbor. Doofania's civic anthem even boasts "[[EvilIsPetty It's founded on spite]]!"
* ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'': In "Princess Adventure Club", Princess Zooey doesn't let Amber join the titular club and Amber retaliates by starting her own adventure club.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'', after [[AlphaBitch Sandi]] tricked Quinn into volunteering to help set up the school dance, she grew frustrated over the fact that Quinn wouldn't take her advice. She decides to throw her own party with the rest of the Fashion Club. It doesn't go over very well though. Since it's the same night as the school dance, no one shows up except for Joey, Jamie and Jeffy, and they quickly leave as soon as they realize Quinn isn't coming.
* ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'': Lester Leonard left the Critter Getters to start his own monster-catching business.
* In ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', Rhonda threw a party to which she only invited kids she deemed cool enough, Arnold himself making that list. Arnold quickly got bored of listening to Rhonda prattle on about her vacation in Europe and insulting his friends and left, rejoining with his friends and suggesting they throw their own party on the roof of the boarding house. One by one, the other "cool kids" leave Rhonda's party for Arnold's, realizing that the "geeks" are having more fun. Eventually, Rhonda gave up when everyone left, and she joined them all in the end. (Though she still was going to consider herself a cool kid).
* WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle: In one Fan Club segment, Boris is disgusted by the club oath and decides to form his own fan club.
* ''WesternAnimation/BeCoolScoobyDoo'': In "Doo Not Disturb", after Jack and Josh Stanley inherited the Good Sons Inn from their mother, Josh didn't want to run the place the same way he did and, unable to convince his brother to see things his way, forfeited his share and started a rival hotel named Castaway Resort Hotel. [[spoiler:In spite of his success, Josh still wanted the now renamed Good Son Inn to the point he dressed himself as his mother's ghost to scare away Jack's guests.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', the boys start a garage band called Moop, but they're having trouble figuring out their direction and style. Cartman insists that they do Christian rock, claiming that all they have to do is take existing popular songs and replace words with "Jesus". The others think it's dumb, so Cartman leaves and starts his own Christian rock band with Butters and Token called Faith + 1, doing exactly what he said, and they become extremely popular. Naturally, Cartman ends up ruining it all by the end.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' features Scootaloo trading her obsession with Rainbow Dash for an obsession with the Washouts, an group of extreme-sports performing pegasi who "washed out" of the Wonderbolts. They're led by Rainbow's old rival Lightning Dust, who felt that the Wonderbolts' code of honor (under which she was expelled) is too restrictive and limits the stunts they're able to do.

* ''WesternAnimation/XavierRiddleAndTheSecretMuseum'': In "I Am Marie Curie", since the girls of Poland aren't allowed to go to university, they start their own university where they can learn more about science. Brad takes inspiration from this idea and starts a butterfly club for people under 10.
* A benevolent example occurs late in ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'', sometime after Karai recovers from Shredder's brainwashing. She decides to establish her own Foot Clan faction by recruiting her old friend Shinigami and some mercenary ninjas, in a bid to reclaim the former one's lost honor (due to Shredder's destructive and manipulative actions having been done solely for [[RevengeBeforeReason the sake of revenge]] at the expense of her free will).