"I NEED A HERO" from the film, Shrek 2

The thumbnail for HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO: Ultimate Level 9 CPU Tournament, featuring the Heroes: (from left to right) Eight, Erdrick, The Luminary and Solo.

### Air date

August 18th, 2019

**"I NEED A HERO" from the film, Shrek 2** is the 6th tournament of Season 4 and the 21st tournament overall of the CPUCS. The tournament video on YouTube is titled "HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO: Ultimate Level 9 CPU Tournament". It was hosted by Alpharad, Turvis, Major Duncan, and Miloni.

Four Heroes from out of town joined the tournament for the first time and dominated across the entire bracket, defeating even powerful fighters like Audible Link and Rosalina.

Major Duncan, fresh from having lost in Thug Finals to Naomi Winters, who he attacked out of jealousy over her win, took home his first tournament, personally defeating two of the Heroes, Solo and Erdrick, along the way.

However, Major was attacked in Thug Finals by all four Heroes at once, bitter at their collective defeat, and was beaten soundly. This defeat by the Heroes ended his career, with Major choosing to retire and focus on commentating instead, even hosting his own tournament, MAJOR'S PRE-MAJOR INVITATIONAL.

## Trivia

* This is the first tournament to feature more than two fighters battling in Thug Finals, instead featuring a 4v1 as Major was assaulted by all the Heroes at once.
	+ Alpharad revealed that the Thug Finals of HEIR TO THE THRONE, where Major was bitter that the Agent won a tournament before he did, was recorded after "I NEED A HERO" to provide Major with some character development and karmic justification for his brutal defeat by the Heroes.
* During Ness' Round 1 battle against Ridley, Ness performs an impressive and oppressive edge guard against his opponent, trapping Ridley near the ledge without a way to recover for eleven seconds.
	+ In that battle, Miloni, Alpharad and the other commentators take a moment to insult the Pokémon Shaymin appearing in the background of the stage for no reason, calling it a "weird dog" and a "stupid-looking dog".
* When Major wins the tournament, rather than playing the default Mii victory theme (a rendition of "Lifelight") the victory theme that plays is a portion of the Friends Without Benefits theme, referencing Major's association with the group.
* In Round 1, Major says that he is a big fan of Wario, having studied the Major-Wario matchup just in case one day he would get to fight his icon.
	+ When Major won the tournament after defeating Erdrick, he said he did so in the name of his hero Wario.

* The tournament name references the DLC release of the Hero from the Dragon Quest games.
	+ The tournament title also incorrectly references the song "Holding Out For a Hero", which featured in Shrek 2. Alpharad was apparently aware that the song title in the tournament was wrong, but chose not to change it.
* The video thumbnail references the "Me and the Boys" meme, commonly associated with the four Heroes upon their release.
	+ This makes "I NEED A HERO" the third Spider-Man meme reference thumbnail of Season 4, following the PIZZA TIME and TOP TEXT thumbnails.
* This is the first time that Zelda loses in Round 1.
* "I NEED A HERO" from the film, Shrek 2 featured 4 new fighters, thus bringing the total number of fighters who had participated in the CPUCS up to this point to 96.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/CPUCS/comments/cs819i/that\_thug\_finals\_was\_hilarious/exd4gcc/?context=3
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/alpharadtv/status/1163127653282590720