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{{trope}}
{{quote|''{{smallcaps|I don't care what it says,}} said the tall biker in the helmet, {{smallcaps|I never laid a finger on him}}.''
|'''Death''', ''[[Good Omens]]''}}
In common fiction, and in the minds of some in reality, [[Elvis Presley]] is not dead. Whether through conspiracy, [[Elvis Has Left the Planet|alien abduction]] (and later return), or [[Bubba Ho-Tep|retirement]], he's still on Earth (or a [[Alternate Universe|variation thereof]]).
While originally an actual [[Conspiracy Theory]], it is rarely taken seriously anymore, serving to lampoon similar theories about celebrities faking death. After all, if Elvis he really did fake his death, he'd be nearly ninety years old, not an easy feat for someone notorious for having a bad diet and an addiction to prescription-strength barbiturates.
See Also: [[Elvis Has Left the Planet]], where he is ''outside'' Earth.▼
For the 2016 straight-to-TV movie, see ''[[Elvis Lives!]]'' (with the exclamation mark).
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RweXg3YMOHg&t=1s This beer commercial] shows Elvis and many other dead celebrities who fans believe are secretly alive - [[Tupac Shakur]] , [[Bruce Lee]], [[Marilyn Monroe]], [[Kurt Cobain]], and [[John Lennon]] - hiding out on an island paradise.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]'', Jesse gives a ride to someone who never gives his name, but wears blue suede shoes and looks like an older and fatter version of The King. What we hear of his life story sounds suspiciously familiar as well.
== [[
* An...aversion? In this ''[[Bleach]]'' fic titled [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3870185/1/Remember_the_bKing_b Remember the King]
* He is a combination of ''[[Bubba Ho-Tep]]'' and ''[[The Relic]]'' in the [[The Teraverse]].
== [[Film]] ==
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* ''[[The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries]]'': Presley is now a vampire. Ish.
* In ''Comeback Tour'', a novel set in Games Workshop's [[Dark Future (novel)|Dark Future]] setting, Elvis is a Sanctioned Operative - a private law-enforcement officer - working in the backwater areas of the [[Deep South]]. At the climax of the novel, he ends up {{spoiler|[[The Power of Rock|using his music to defeat]] the machinations of a [[Religion of Evil]].}}
* ''[[Time Scout]]'' has the Church of the Living Elvis, which insists he's a living Messiah.
* One of the ''[[Highlander]]'' novels, 'Scotland The Brave', said he was an immortal who 'died' because he was getting too famous, also explaining the continuing Elvis sightings through the years.
* Robert Rankin's ''Armageddon Trilogy'' has Elvis alive and bonded to Barry The Time Sprout, granting him greatly extended lifespan and the ability to travel through time. He maintains several [[Paper-Thin Disguise]] identities such as Mr. T. H. E. King and Noah Never.
* An act of the omnibus novel ''[[The Tumbleweed Dossier]]'' pays tribute to this trope. It is strongly implied that {{spoiler|Felix Faraday is Elvis Presley living under an assumed identity are being infected with the Curse of the Vampire in 1977.}}
== [[Live
* In the [[Too Good to Last|short-lived]] Sci-Fi series ''The Chronicle'', the vampire hunter the crew thought was Elvis was strongly hinted to be {{spoiler|his presumed-stillborn twin, Jessie Garon}}.
* Elvis lives on the paper route of the main character of ''[[Eerie, Indiana]]''.
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* In ''[[Married... with Children]]'', dedicated an episode around when Peggy believed she met Elvis and telling her story to a club who believe [[He's Just Hiding]].
* One episode of ''[[Boy Meets World]]'' had a one-off gag where Elvis is one of Alan Matthews' poker buddies.
* In the miniseries adaptation of ''[[Good Omens]]'', a creditable Elvis is visible in the background of several scenes set in a [[Greasy Spoon]], where he is the short-order cook.
== [[Music]] ==
* The Swedish punk band ''De Lyckliga Kompisarna'' has a song where the singer reads a newspaper explaining that ''"Elvis lever! The king is still alive!"'' and mentioning he now lives in Härnösand, a small town in northeast Sweden. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jqp69QC3rk Link]
* [[Living Colour]] wrote a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nvpRkn_R5g fantastically scathing] [[Take That]] about this.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'' - In the issue, "Punch Dracula," The king of vampires brings Dr. [[McNinja]] to his moon base, where the doctor discovers that Dracula has been collecting historical figures over the years, among them is Hitler. One room has Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson and Tupac rehearsing at a piano, where they make terrific music together. [http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p20 Elvis doesn't do shit].
* The titular character of ''[[King of the Unknown]]'' is a [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]] incarnation of Elvis. Ever since a supernatural mishap transformed him (into a fat slob) and forced him to fake his death, he dedicated his new secret life to a [[The Men in Black|Men in Black]]-like [[Government Agency of Fiction]] known as the IRSU. In the all those years since his "death," he's been protecting a [[masquerade]]d world by kicking the collective ass of every supernatural evil imaginable (because [[All Myths Are True]]). Agent H, his [[Mission Control]] at IRSU, is a similarly still-living Jimi Hendrix.
* In ''[[Sam and Fuzzy]]'', the universe's [[Captain Ersatz|thinly veiled analogue]] of Elvis is called "Elton Priestly". He was kidnapped by his recording company and dumped on a deserted tropical island to "save him before he ruined his own image" in 1977 when he wanted to pursue his ''true'' musical passion—traditional reggae. The record company claimed he "died", because [[Dead Artists Are Better]], and are trying to make him release "previously unreleased tracks recorded before his death" to make more money. He shares the island with (amongst others) similarly thinly veiled analogues of [[Kurt Cobain]], [[Tupac Shakur]] and what appears to be Christina Aguliera or Britney Spears, who're all there for the same reason as him.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [http://everything2.com/title/The+King%252C+Multidimensional "The King, Multidimensional"].
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'' plays with this trope a bit, with one notable instance being that Presley is currently residing in an underground night club underneath Dimmsdale's beach.
* ''[[Eek! The Cat]]'': In the episode "Honey I Shrunk The Cat", Elvis is alive, if overweight... but this is offset by him being of microscopic size and battling germs mano-a-mano.
* In one [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] on ''[[Captain Planet]]'', Wheeler reads a
* In ''Funky Cops'', Aaron King (a [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]] version of Elvis) faked his death so the press would stop harassing him. His family's in on it and he still lives at their mansion, though.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Over the Edge]]'' has someone who
== Other ==
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