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{{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''', ''[[
In common fiction, and in the minds of some in reality, [[
See Also: [[Elvis Has Left the Planet]], where he is ''outside'' Earth.
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== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Bubba
* 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
* [[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.
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[
** First, a tabloid is described by saying that a typical issue would "tell the world how Jesus' face was seen on a Big Mac bun bought by someone from Des Moines, with an artist's impression of the bun; how Elvis Presley was recently sighted working in a Burger Lord in Des Moines; how listening to Elvis records cured a Des Moines housewife's cancer; how the spate of werewolves infesting the Midwest are the offspring of noble pioneer women raped by Bigfoot; and that Elvis was taken by Space Aliens in 1976 because he was too good for this world." There's a [[Footnote Fever|footnote]] saying, "Remarkably, one of these stories is indeed true."
** Shortly after, there's a scene set in a Burger Lord in Des Moines. The Burger Lord exec who's inspecting it (who happens to be [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse|Famine]]) makes a mental note to fire the cook, because he's singing "Love Me Tender" to himself and it's clashing with the franchise-mandated canned music.
** Finally, there's a scene in which a mysterious stranger is playing an arcade trivia game. The stranger reveals himself to be {{smallcaps|DEATH}} when the trivia game asks him "What year did Elvis Presley die in?" and he refuses to answer, saying the page quote.
* ''[[The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries]]'': Presley is now a vampire. Ish.
* In ''Comeback Tour'', a novel set in Games Workshop's [[Dark Future (
* [[
* 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.
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* 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]].
* Subverted in the episode of ''[[Renegade (TV series)|Renegade]]'' called "The King and I". Remo meets a man who doesn't introduce himself as Elvis but prefers to be called the King. Remo himself starts wondering when he gets the man to sing one of Elvis's songs. In the end, however, it turns out that it was Elvis's agent who couldn't cope with his friend's death.
* In the also [[Too Good to Last|short-lived]] series ''[[Johnny Bago]]'', the titular character meets Elvis.
* In ''[[Married...
* One episode of ''[[Boy Meets World]]'' had a one-off gag where Elvis is one of Alan Matthews' poker buddies.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [[
* The titular character of ''[[
* 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.
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