The Polecats are fucking nightmares. 

They are fucking nightmares.

They will fuck you up.

Don’t argue with me, just drive faster.

Headcanon and Thoughts:

• My speculation is that the Polecats are a Gas Town specialty. You just don’t see them in the Citadel or the Bullet Farm. 
• The idea and method came out of climbing up and down the refinery towers and riding on oil derricks, among other oil-and-gas work that goes on in Gas Town.
  
• The swinging poles technique wound up being a great way to drop someone in on top of a target. Everything in this world is ground-based and on wheels or treads. Getting up above things is a challenge but an advantage. 
• It’s also an amazingly effective psychological attack: motherfuckers up on poles gonna swing down on top of you and you can’t do anything about it scream.
• They are fucking nightmares.
  
• It’s just such a crazy idea; I love it as a world-building thing
• The Polecats work in teams of two (or three): one to climb on top of the pole, the other(s) to swing it. 
• In regards to the teamwork and communication required, it’s not so unlike the Driver-Lancer teamwork among the Warboys. 
• They also work as sentries or lookouts by sitting on top of stationary poles and are sometimes loaned (with interest expected to be paid) to the other two settlements for that very purpose as well as for attacks. 
• They assemble their own masks and battle gear and weapons.
  
• The Polecats are regarded with something like respect in Gas Town. They’ve got a wild kind of skill. 
  
• They swing on the poles for fun and to show off for each other.
• They are also balls-to-the-wall out of their heads. Hence the respect, I guess. Balls-to-the-fucking-wall out of their heads. Do not mess with them.
  
• Swinging on a pole, armed with weaponized yard equipment, fully prepared to bring death from above–yeah, that’ll do it to you.
  
• Balls-to-the-wall out of their heads.
• BALLS-TO-THE-WALL OUT OF THEIR HEADS.
  
• Fucking nightmares, all of them. 
• Nightmares.
• Mutilated babydoll faces with nails hammered in them on the backs of their heads what the fuck???
• NIGHTMARES.
• So amazing. 
• But much more Generic Villain than the Warboys and their machinery death cult, despite the fact that their costuming is more overtly individualized than the Warboys gear. All their masks and gear are different; all the Warboys wear uniforms. Totally fascinating; well played, moviemakers. 
• Bonus: I hear some of the stunt performers played both Warboys and Polecats, and full-face masks would help hide that.
  
• The first time I saw a still photo of the Polecats up on their poles, my exact thought process was, “Whoa. That shit’s fucked up. … … … I gotta see this in action.”
  
• And they really did this shit. 
• That’s a real dude up on that swinging pole.
• A real dude
• On a swinging pole.
• Nightmare apocalypse Cirque du Soleil in the desert–why not???
• Shit’s fucked up.
• I have seen it in cinematic action >1x
• Rad as hell.