Rent-A-Hero – from the Japan only game "Rent a Hero" for the Sega Mega Drive. Rent-A-Hero plays like a "Fighting Vipers" character, but he has an additional handicap, battery life, measured by battery shaped red symbols above his health meter. If they all disappear, Rent-A-Hero shuts down. He is unlocked by defeating the 'Smart Guys' section. His stage is the "Chicago" stage from "Virtua Fighter 2" (the stage the player gets if Jacky and Sarah face each other in a match). It is actually unlocked before Rent-A-Hero, with the original "Virtua Fighter 2" music, but when Rent-A-Hero fights in the stage, the Rent-A-Hero theme music plays instead. Rent-A-Hero's stage music was changed in the North American and European release. In the Japanese version his stage music is a remake of the title screen music played in the Sega Mega Drive version of "Rent-A-Hero", which is similar to that of a Japanese sentai show theme song, while the North American and European versions have an instrumental version of the song.