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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]]).

See Also: [[Elvis Has Left the Planet]], where he is ''outside'' Earth.

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* In ''[[Bubba Ho-Tep]]'', Presley retired to a East Texas retirement home. The person who died was an Elvis impersonator whom Presley switched with when he grew tired of the lifestyle, and the paperwork that proves it was destroyed in a fire. [[Unreliable Narrator|Or so the character insisted]], anyway.

* In ''[[Death Becomes Her]]'', Elvis is shown to be one of the many who took the immortality potions but had to fake his death to play the [[The Masquerade]]. He did come back occasionally to grab a headline or two.

* As discussed in ''[[Man on the Moon]]'', [[Andy Kaufman]]'s death was thought by many to be another one of his [[Crying Wolf|elaborate hoaxes]], and played with when his alter ego [[Lounge Lizard|Tony Clifton]] put on an appearance a year after he died. In [[Real Life]], it was his friend Bob Zmuda, who took over the role from Andy long before he died; the movie twists this by having Zmuda ''watch'' the performance, thus begging the question of who's playing Clifton. On top of all this, Kaufman was reportedly Elvis's favorite impersonator!

* [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] in a roundabout way in ''[[Paul]]'': The titular alien claims his government-supplied pot is so strong that it killed [[Bob Dylan]]. The others point out that Dylan isn't dead, but Paul implies otherwise.

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== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* 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]]''.

* Elvis lives on the paper route of the main character of ''[[Eerie, Indiana]]''.

* In an episode of the short lived Canadian TV series ''[[Taking The Falls]]'', it turns out that Elvis is still alive, and hiding out at an Elvis impersonator convention.

* The 1986 ''[[Twilight Zone]]'' episode "The Once and Future King" has '''the''' most awesomely absurd theory on Elvis - he was a wannabe lame easy-listening singer who was replaced by the high-quality time traveling impersonator who accidentally killed him. Elvis is not dead simply because he never actually existed, just the music: the result of a [[Stable Time Loop]].

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== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[The Fairly ~~Odd Parents~~]]'' 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.

* ''[[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.

* ''[[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 newpaper and goes, "Elvis is back!? From the army?"

* 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.

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