And then there's this:

19 January 2005: The Slinky betrayed us. I should have known. I never trusted him. [...] And the gentlest one of us all lost it completely. "Elmo is thinking about genocide!" he screamed, as he unleashed a hail of foam darts upon our adversaries. "Elmo is Death, destroyer of worlds!" War does awful things to toys.

(Hat tip: Instapundit)