Bad Company

Bad Company answers to Keicho Nijimura in Diamond is Unbreakable, the fourth part of the series, and it marks the first colony-type Stand the story introduces. Rather than a single figure, it is a whole miniature army: roughly sixty patchwork infantry alongside a handful of Green Berets, four gunships built on the Apache helicopter, and seven tanks patterned after the Abrams.

Every unit is shrunk to the scale of a toy soldier, plated in metallic skin and kitted out in the green uniforms of a world-war platoon, with vehicles to match. The overall impression is of sentient military figurines, small in stature yet bristling with live weaponry.

Because Bad Company is a swarm of individually weak units, its strength lies in numbers, and the firepower of the whole climbs as more of it acts together. A wound to any one soldier or machine never carries back to Keicho, though whether wiping out every last piece would kill him is left unanswered. Each infantryman totes a shrunken M16, a parachute, and a knife, the Green Berets add ropes for scaling and dropping onto foes, the helicopters mount guns and missiles, the tanks fire reduced shells, and the force can also plant land mines.

Tiny as they are, the weapons bite: the little rifles bore clean through skin, a mine can maim a leg, and a pair of helicopter missiles was enough to cripple Crazy Diamond's arm. The battalion peaks when all of it opens up at once. Held on defense, the massed rifle fire forms what Keicho calls a wall of steel that can knock any incoming shot out of the air, while on offense the combined barrage tears through solid walls. That all-out attack has a cost, however, since committing every unit to the assault leaves Keicho open, and the army once failed to intercept a missile Josuke flung back at him because it was busy firing.

The live-action film adaptation adds a further limit: once Keicho issues a command, the army locks onto that single order and cannot be redirected until it is carried out.

Keicho Nijimura commands the force with cold precision, luring Josuke Higashikata into the tight quarters of his home so the massed guns can box him in. He also turns the battalion on Koichi Hirose during the ambush, and his careful, tactical handling makes the small army a genuine threat despite the modest size of each soldier.