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In the real world, Elvis Presley died on August 16, 1977 at the age of 42. In common fiction, and in the minds of some in reality, Elvis is not dead. Whether through conspiracy, alien abduction (and later return), or retirement, he's still on Earth (or a variation thereof). See Also: Elvis Has Left the Planet, where he is outside Earth. This trope also has applied to some other musicians: for example, Tupac Shakur and hide both have rabid fans that insist both are still alive but just hiding. On the other hand, check out the story below of the folk rocker Rodriguez, with whom this actually happened! And for an inversion, contrast the "Paul is dead" conspiracy theories regarding Paul McCartney. Slowly became a Discredited Trope as the years passed into what would have been Elvis's old age, though it would persist by applying itself to more recent cases of celebrities who died in an infamously abrupt manner, including Tupac Shakur (compounded by the huge amount of recorded material he left, enough to fill quite a few posthumous albums), The Notorious B.I.G., Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston. |
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Averted in one episode of The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper, where Elvis' ghost appears in a therapy session with Dr. Harvey. | |
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Subverted in the episode of 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. | |
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A weird double-subversion in this Bleach fic titled Remember the King. Elvis is not only dead, but he's also the ruling King of Soul Society. When Aizen and his Espada try to overthrow him, Elvis gives them a Curb-Stomp Battle and seduces Harribel to his side (and the heroes'!) for good measure. | |
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While never explicitly stated, in Cromartie High School, a man very strongly implied to be Freddie Mercury is hiding in a Japanese high school. | |
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Subverted with Bossa Nova Heartstrings. He's based on Jesse Garon Presley, the stillborn older identical twin brother of Elvis Presley, so like his real-life counterpart, Bossa Nova came out stillborn while his younger brother, Blue Suede, survived. However, unlike Jesse Presley, he's raised by a Death god, allowing him to 'grow up' and play a more active role in his brother's life, which kicks off a series of events that leads to both of them Ascending to godhood. That being said, Bossa Nova becoming a Death god means that his very nature ties him to the Heaven/Hell-Realms he now watches over, so in a way he's still 'dead', though it still doesn't stop him from being active in the mortal planes, especially if it means protecting his little brother from harm. | |
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The Simpsons: Way back in the first season, one of Bart's chalkboard gags was, "I did not see Elvis". In the episode "The Debarted" Bart turns on the light in a photo developing dark room ruining pictures of things like a Flying Saucer, Nessie and Martin posing with Elvis. |
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Uncle Jesse meets Elvis on an episode of Full House. | |
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In the Sci-Fi series The Chronicle, the vampire hunter the crew thought was Elvis was strongly hinted to be his presumed-stillborn twin, Jessie Garon. | |
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The Sookie Stackhouse Mysteries has a vampire called Bubba whose strongly implied to be Elvis. Here he did die, and was brought back by a vampire who worked at the morgue where they took the body. Only they botched it, so he isn't quite right in the head anymore... | |
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In the Doctor Who Expanded Universe short story "That's Alright, Mama" by Paul Magrs, Thirteenth is shocked to realise that the fam know for an absolute fact that Elvis is still alive in 2018, he just hasn't left Graceland in years. She really shouldn't have loaned him that mobile phone. | |
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After Many Dates: Danny and Phantasma: In order to hide it from her father she's dating Danny, Phantasma tells him of a rumor about Elvis' new album. | |
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On Captain Planet, Wheeler reads a newspaper and goes, "Elvis is back!? From the army?" | |
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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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An act of the omnibus novel The Tumbleweed Dossier pays tribute to this trope. It is strongly implied that Felix Faraday is Elvis Presley living under an assumed identity are being infected with the Curse of the Vampire in 1977. | |
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One of Animaniacs's many Spoof Aesops: "Elvis lives on in our hearts, in his music, and in a trailer park outside Milwaukee." In addition, one of their end credits Couch Gags involved them spoofing the "goodnights" from The Waltons, except instead of saying goodnight to Johnboynote which was done in a separate instance of the same joke: Another episode has the Warner siblings abducted by aliens, at one point Yakko enters a room and finds Elvis together with Amelia Earhart, Bigfoot, and Jimmy Hoffa. |
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In the game Pandemonium! (1993), all of the bizarre stuff the tabloid press publishes is true. Including Elvis still being alive, and the sample adventure is finding out why the sightings of the King have suddenly stopped. | |
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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. | |
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In the series Johnny Bago, the titular character meets Elvis. | |
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Married... with Children: It dedicated an episode around when Peggy believed she met Elvis and telling her story to a club who believe He's Just Hiding. Subverted in another episode. The Grim Reaper (a rather cruel Deadpan Snarker here who takes the form of Peg) tells Al that Elvis didn't go quietly. When he asks if that means he's alive, she implies that he's pretty dumb for assuming that. (In other words, no.) |
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Elvis Presley makes a cameo in the Oh Yeah! Cartoons short "The Feelers" during the titular insect rock band's song "Drop Me Off in Hollywood". | |
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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. Elvis doesn't do shit. Bruce Lee is there as well. Dracula didn't abduct him, he just jumped to the moon one day because he's that awesome. |
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Time Scout has the Church of the Living Elvis, which insists he's a living Messiah. | |
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Good News Week brought up when Sammy J and Randy Feltface were taking about Elvis and his habit of shooting tvs. | |
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Spitting Image did a song based on this by having Elvis sing about all the things he did after he died. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1985) 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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Not Always Right has this line, from a customer insisting his guitar was played by Elvis: | |
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Some newspapers lying on the ground in Grand Theft Auto III and the PC version of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City will read "Zombie Elvis Found!". In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, every star on the Walk of Fame reads "Elvis Lives". | |
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In Sam & Fuzzy, the universe's 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 of Posthumous Popularity Potential, 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, Christina Aguilera or Britney Spears, and Tupac Shakur, who're all there for the same reason as him (polka, jazz and abstact atonal percussion collages, respectively). He becomes a mentor for new arrival Sid, a metal singer who wanted to go into folk music, and is eventually freed along with everyone else when Sam brings down Mr. Sin's record label. | |
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Defied in MAD. One song parody, "Don't Be Fooled," has Elvis singing that he is, in fact, dead, and anyone who says otherwise is a liar. | |
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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. | |
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Mulder on The X-Files either really believes this, or has a lot of fun making jokes about it. | |
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Played with in the Odd Thomas series. Elvis is dead, but his ghost hangs around for a while before finally moving on. | |
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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. | |
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Bloom County did a couple of strips about Elvis still being alive; in one, he's found working on a county road-crew, in another, he's a sort of beneficent genie, zapping around the world and bringing youth and beauty to selected loyal followers. ("Elvis fans! This is really happening! We swear!") | |
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Subverted with Moon Ray Vaughoof. He still died from a helicopter crash like Stevie Ray Vaughan did, but he slowly came to terms with it, leading to him becoming an Alicorn. Unfortunately, he became a Death god, which technically still makes him 'dead' as his nature ties him to the afterlife realms he now looks after. He didn't visit his loved ones until after they died because of this, only relenting with the now-Ascended Healing Song just to give him some closure. This didn't stop people from spreading In-Universe rumors about him surviving his fateful accident, with one rumor claiming Mag'ne herself took him with her because she needed a guitar teacher. He and his older brother, Sunny Field Vaughoof, would poke fun at this during an interview with Codex Equus researchers three Ages later. It's later zigzagged - after re-Ascending as an eldritch deity following the 'Cosmic Prophet Debacle', Moon Ray turns into a cyclic god who by nature shifts through three cycles: The Alpine cycle, the Equus cycle, and the Silicon cycle. Depending on the condition of certain planes, each cycle turns him into something living, dead, or something in-between for a certain amount of time. This represents his realization and acceptance of the cyclic nature of all things. |
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Garfield and Friends has an episode where a newspaper asks for a picture Bigfoot, which Garfield and Jon take... only to discover they missed the part where Elvis had to be on the picture as well. And as they lament the missed opportunity Elvis asks them the time, leading the two plus Odie to do a Double Take. | |
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Elvis Shrugged, an Affectionate Parody of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, reveals that the Elvis who everyone thought had died in 1977 was a clone created by Col. Tom Parker and that the real Elvis is living in "Blue Hawaii," having convinced many musicians to disappear from the scene. | |
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A popular recurring news item in the Weekly World News and other such tabloids. A typical headline is "WAX DUMMY FOUND IN ELVIS'S TOMB!" Other conspiracy theories included Elvis faking his own death, working at a supermarket in the midwest, planning a comeback tour for next summer, and having a secret long-lost twin brother. | |
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One episode of Boy Meets World had a one-off gag where Elvis is one of Alan Matthews' poker buddies. | |
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On The Spectacular Spider Man, a lot of Mysterio's "spells" are actually just ridiculous Latin phrases. One, "Credo Elvem ipsum etiam vivere," translates to "I believe that Elvis is alive." | |
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As discussed in Man on the Moon, Andy Kaufman's death was thought by many to be another one of his elaborate hoaxes, and played with when his alter ego 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 inviting the question of who's playing Clifton. On top of all this, Kaufman was reportedly Elvis's favorite impersonator! | |
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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 Men in Black-like Government Agency of Fiction known as the IRSU. In all those years since his "death," he's been holding up The Masquerade 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. | |
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Similarly, one of the telltale signs that Quinn Mallory's sliding experiment has worked. (Sliders) He drives past a billboard announcing that Elvis is playing nearby. Happens to Remy himself in a world where he is that world's version of Elvis and everyone thinks he's dead but his double of that world is just faking. |
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Good Omens has a Brick Joke to this effect. 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 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 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 a video trivia game in a pub. The stranger reveals himself to be Death when the trivia game asks him "What year did Elvis Presley die in?" and he refuses to answer, insisting I DON'T CARE WHAT IT SAYS, I NEVER LAID A FINGER ON HIM. |
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A What If? story saw Thanos transform Galactus into a powerless, amnesiac human who coincidentally resembles Elvis. He gets found by a woman who's a gigantic Elvis fan and becomes convinced that Galactus is the real deal, and gradually convinces him as well. Eventually Adam Warlock shows up and restores Galactus' memories, but he decides that he's much happier being Elvis so Warlock gladly leaves him to his new life. | |
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There was once a (now-removed) X Japan Real Person Slash fic that combined the later-mentioned hide version of this with The Reveal, Tomato Surprise, Drama Bomb, and Alternate Universe. The setting of the fic was around a drunken recluse living out the end of his life in seclusion in Los Angeles, with the story heavily implying that it was about either Yoshiki or Pata who had lost his career. Only at the end, after he has outlived Yoshiki in the alternate universe, and is found dead of a drug overdose, is it revealed that the recluse is none other than hide, who had, in the story, faked his death and gone into seclusion. | |
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In 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. | |
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Lucifer (2016): The title character claims to be the only one who knows where the still alive Elvis really is. | |
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A throwaway gag in the Mage: The Ascension convention book Progenitors explains that a common rite of passage among Progenitor students is to replicate a famous figure from history. Of course, the most popular choice is invariably Elvis - meaning that Elvis doesn't just live: he lives and dies over and over and over again every year. | |
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Elvis lives on the paper route of the main character of Eerie, Indiana. This is not a plot in the series itself, it's mentioned by the main character in the opening and the pilot episode to showcase how weird the town is. | |
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Mary Death- Death says he's never heard of Elvis when answering questions about celebrities he's met during his duites. | |
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In the NoPixel universe, Tupac Shakur not only faked his death, but casually hangs around Los Santos as a thrill-seeking criminal. | |
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Over the Edge has someone who obviously is (but is never referred to as) Elvis operating a bar in the non-Euclidian Al-Amarja Airport. | |
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Go, Mutants! is set in an Alternate History, where among other things Elvis and his stillborn twin brother, Jesse grew up to become a famous duet. | |
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In Safe Havens Elvis is said to have chosen to become a merman. | |
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In Good Omens Elvis is seen working as a frychef at Famine's fast-"food" restaurant, but the other references to him living are dropped for time. | |
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Duckman has Cornfed dealing with a massive surge of business coincidentally occurring during a period of time when Duckman is absent from the detective agency busy in the "The Germ Turns" episode. He has apparently taken a few spare moments to track down Elvis, whom he tells to go on home, as he can't stay hidden forever. Amusingly, Elvis reappears in a few crowd scenes in episodes set after this one. | |
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Elvis is never shown directly in El Goonish Shive, but the wanted poster on Mr. Verres' bulletin board lists him as "at large." | |
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Codex Equus: Blue Suede Heartstrings, known as "the King of Music", is a prominent example. Being based on Elvis Presley, Blue's life has been more or less an exact parallel to Elvis' up until he recorded the song "(You're the) Devil in Disguise", at which point he considered quitting performing music altogether due to both the deaths of his parents (especially his beloved mother) and his general disillusionment with the music/movie industry. Luminiferous found him while he was despairing, and the encounter led to Blue quitting his job and performing on his own terms, leading to not only his survival, but his Ascension to godhood. Hilariously, the fact that Blue Suede suddenly "disappeared" after holding a farewell concert for his fans has led to In-Universe rumors and conspiracy theories that he actually died and was ushered into the afterlife by Malus Manes. Needless to say, Malus Manes himself wasn't very amused. Subverted with Bossa Nova Heartstrings. He's based on Jesse Garon Presley, the stillborn older identical twin brother of Elvis Presley, so like his real-life counterpart, Bossa Nova came out stillborn while his younger brother, Blue Suede, survived. However, unlike Jesse Presley, he's raised by a Death god, allowing him to 'grow up' and play a more active role in his brother's life, which kicks off a series of events that leads to both of them Ascending to godhood. That being said, Bossa Nova becoming a Death god means that his very nature ties him to the Heaven/Hell-Realms he now watches over, so in a way he's still 'dead', though it still doesn't stop him from being active in the mortal planes, especially if it means protecting his little brother from harm. Subverted with Moon Ray Vaughoof. He still died from a helicopter crash like Stevie Ray Vaughan did, but he slowly came to terms with it, leading to him becoming an Alicorn. Unfortunately, he became a Death god, which technically still makes him 'dead' as his nature ties him to the afterlife realms he now looks after. He didn't visit his loved ones until after they died because of this, only relenting with the now-Ascended Healing Song just to give him some closure. This didn't stop people from spreading In-Universe rumors about him surviving his fateful accident, with one rumor claiming Mag'ne herself took him with her because she needed a guitar teacher. He and his older brother, Sunny Field Vaughoof, would poke fun at this during an interview with Codex Equus researchers three Ages later. It's later zigzagged - after re-Ascending as an eldritch deity following the 'Cosmic Prophet Debacle', Moon Ray turns into a cyclic god who by nature shifts through three cycles: The Alpine cycle, the Equus cycle, and the Silicon cycle. Depending on the condition of certain planes, each cycle turns him into something living, dead, or something in-between for a certain amount of time. This represents his realization and acceptance of the cyclic nature of all things. Unlike Jeff Healey, who died of terminal cancer in his forties, Prince Healing Song was saved by a last-minute Ascension thanks to a disguised Luminiferous providing the "Spark" needed while on his deathbed. Tragically, while being immortal allowed him to do everything he wanted to do, it also means that he would outlive his own bandmates instead. Fortunately, Healing Song would end up reuniting with said bandmates in the Fourth Age after the latter two chose to become Angels. |
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In Bubba Ho Tep, Presley retired to an 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. Or so he insists, anyway. | |
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Men in Black: Elvis isn't dead, he "just went home". Your guess is as good as ours on this one; it's a movie where Beethoven was almost definitely an alien immigrant and aliens gave us the microwave oven, but Kay also loves messing with Jay's head (when they're alone). | |
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The whole concept of Elvis Found Alive is that Elvis's death was faked so he could become an agent for the government. | |
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Played with on an episode of ALF. A man named Aaron King moves to the neighborhood and ALF is convinced the man is Elvis (he does look a little like him). ALF confronts him later in the episode, and the man manages to prove he isn't Elvis by picking up a guitar and singing very badly. | |
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In Bobby's World, throughout the series, Bobby's mother Martha is a firm believer that Elvis is still alive. Ine episode strongly implies that she's right: Bobby breaks his mother's prized bust of Elvis and blames it on his brother, but in the end, a man who mysteriously looks like the bust tells Bobby it's best to tell the truth. | |
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In a Superman story about Lex Luthor's legacy when he was thought dead, one of the people claiming to have seen Lex is a familiar looking guy who calls himself Aaron Preston. | |
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In Hack/Slash, a Lawyer-Friendly Cameo of Elvis was empowered by Eldritch Abominations for his talent before being whisked away to their dimension. He's dead by the end of Shout at the Devil via Ass Shove. | |
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Ghostbusters (1984): Once the Ghostbusters become a media sensation, Ray Stanz is seen on a talk show where the host asks him "How is Elvis, and have you seen him lately?". Ray is amused, but sadly, we never hear his answer. | |
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This situation actually happened for the American folk rocker Sixto Rodriguez, better known as Rodriguez. He recorded two albums in the early 1970s that got some praise but sold poorly domestically, although they sold well enough in Australia and New Zealand that Rodriguez toured there in 1979 and 1981. However, in South Africa, those albums sold spectacularly, and he was hailed as an equal of Bob Dylan. Unfortunately, given the country's international isolation because of its tyrannical Apartheid policies, this interest remained unknown outside its borders. Eventually, rumors arose in South Africa that Rodriguez had died on stage in a suicide, and his mystique grew even more there. Some fans tried to find out the circumstances of his death, and after considerable digging, they contacted Rodriguez's former manager and were stunned to learn that he was alive and well and living in Detroit. (And making a modest but comfortable living between live performances on the local nightclub circuit and some studio work as a session guitarist, contrary to rumours that he was found eking out a living as a busker.) Finally, they made contact with Rodriguez and invited him to perform in their country. With some reluctance, Rodriguez made the trip and was flabbergasted to be welcomed as a big star with concerts holding 5000+ fans at a time. As he cheerfully quipped to his first audience making his supposedly lost artistic dreams come true after decades, "Thanks for keeping me alive!" These events are covered in the Academy Award-winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man. | |
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Soul Music has a variation on the Good Omens joke — there's a Running Gag that Buddy looks Elvish. By the end of the story, Buddy has died in a crash, yet a new boy at the chip shop looks a bit Elvish.note "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis": Kirsty MacColl | |
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Lois & Clark: Elvis is elected President on the United States in an alternate timeline. Another episode ended with a Spinning Paper headlining Lex Luthor and Elvis living in hiding together in Hawaii. In "That Old Gang of Mine": |
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Subverted in Unknown Armies. The 2nd Edition core book has a chapter on "The Unexplained," which offers up scientific but undiscovered explanations for weird phenomena that show up in pop culture, such as cattle mutilations (caused by a parasite that's unidentified by humanity due to several chance factors), spontaneous human combustion (caused by a rare bacterial infection that gets consumed by the very combustion it caused, leaving no evidence of its presence), and vampires (an Eastern European family with a gene that causes the classic vampire symptoms). Then at the end of the chapter, it gets to Elvis, and the explanation is two words: "He's dead." | |
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The World of Lily Wong had played with it by saying that Elvis was alive because he was actually then paramount leader of mainland China, Deng Xiaoping. This turns into a case of Follow the Leader with other dictators claiming to be dead pop stars, like Muammar Gaddafi being Ricky Nelson and Saddam Hussein being Marvin Gaye. | |
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Eddie and the Cruisers. Eddie living is the Plot Twist, but the sequel, Eddie Lives! is a Spoiler Title. | |
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In the non-Elvis variant mentioned in the intro, there are some fans of hide that believe he didn't actually die. These fans have proclaimed he would return, alive and well, to announce a new musical act on the 13th anniversary of his death. When this didn't happen, they became somewhat quieter, but there still is a small faction of hide fandom that sincerely believes this. (There was also a famous Fan Fic, though it was removed from the internet, based on the concept, though the writer was not one of the believers in it, but simply using the idea for an Alternate Universe, mentioned above.) | |
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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 Masquerade. He did come back occasionally to grab a headline or two. | |
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