Spear Men (known as Pirate Gooms in Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3) are brown Gooms that hold spears in Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 and Wario Land II. They pace back and forth in most of the levels. Their spears are pointed forward, so Wario should avoid hitting them from the front.
Spear Men are likey a distant relative of the Goomba. In fact, because of their apparent lack of a body, they highly resemble the Super Mario World Goomba variety.
Spear Men featured a minor change in appearance when the Brown Sugar Pirates upgraded into the Black Sugar Pirates in Wario Land II. In that game, they started wearing striped bandanas and toting tridents rather than spears (despite the fact that they were renamed Spear Men from their original Pirate Goom name in this game). Also, Molasses, a giant Spear Man is seen fought several times in Wario Land II and serves as the game's "really final" boss.
Spear Men do not appear in any other Wario Land game, although relatives of Spear Men do; in Wario Land 3, the Spearhead and the Para-Goom. Similar-looking enemies also appear in Wario Land 4. In the game Wario Land: Shake It!, similar looking enemies known as Bandineros appear, but they are lead by the Shake King instead of Captain Maple Syrup.