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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, [[
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.
For the 2016 straight-to-TV movie, see ''[[Elvis Lives!]]'' (with the exclamation mark).
▲See Also: [[Elvis Has Left the Planet]], where he is ''outside'' Earth.
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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]]. Beginning with the story, ''[https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30576/ Thank Yuh Very Much]''.
== [[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.
* 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]]''.
* 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.
* 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.
* In Bush's song "Everything's Zen" contains the lyric, repeated several times, "I don't believe that Elvis is dead".
* "God Bless The UFO", [[The Capitol Steps]]' parody of "God Bless The USA", includes the line
{{quote|''Elvis lives, that's clear to me; it's [[The Beatles (band)|McCartney]] who is dead.''}}
== [[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
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [http://everything2.com/title/The+King%252C+Multidimensional "The King, Multidimensional"].
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Fairly
* ''[[Eek!
* 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 ==
* There is an Elvis-themed slot machine, simply named "ELVIS." The lights behind the name first light up in proper sequence: E-L-V-I-S. [[Stealth Pun|Then, they light up in the order: L-I-V-E-S]].
* There is an [http://www.paulandstorm.com/blog/uploaded_images/newportrestaurant-733000.jpg Elvis Lives Lane] in Ottawa, Canada - a bit of a joke, but it's the official name of the alleyway.
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