History ComicBook / ElvisShrugged

-->'''''"Is Elvis alive?"'''''
-->--ArcWords

* CharacterFilibuster: Frank Zappa and Stephen Sondheim each gets one, though the big one, of course, goes to Elvis. Being a comic book and not an epic novel, Elvis' only takes two pages.

* MadScientist: Dr. Hilarious Pants.

* AllStarCast: Elvis, Music/FrankSinatra, Music/{{Madonna}}, Music/MichaelJackson, Music/{{Prince}}, Sinéad O'Connor, Creator/StephenSondheim, Creator/AndrewLloydWebber, Music/RoyOrbison, Music/JohnLennon, Music/FrankZappa, Music/ElvisCostello, Mojo Nixon, Creator/SammyDavisJr, [[Music/GunsNRoses Axl Rose]], Creator/SpikeLee, [[Creator/DavidLetterman Paul Schaffer]], Regis Philbin, Music/JamesBrown, Music/PaulSimon, Creator/JodieFoster, Creator/SeanPenn, [[Series/EntertainmentTonight Mary Hart and John Tesh]], Creator/SeanYoung, [[Series/{{Today}} Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric]]..... [[ItMakesSenseInContext And]] the disembodied, animate heads of Music/ColePorter and Col. Tom Parker.

** Also, Parker sets up for New Year's Eve a performance of a new musical titled ''[[Theatre/MadameButterfly Madame]] Film/{{SuperFly}}''.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: None of the villains (Col. Tom, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Peters/Guber, etc.) seem to find anything odd about the MadScientist being named ''Dr. Hilarious Pants.''

* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: Who goes through life named "Dr. Hilarious Pants?"

* TheGoodGuysWin[=/=]HappyEnding: James Brown conducts the double-wedding ceremony for Elvis[=/=]Madonna and Sinatra[=/=]Sinéad. Sinatra says that he has some friends in the construction business who have been hired to rebuild the StatueOfLiberty (see below under TakeThat), and they are cutting Sinatra and co. a "sweet check for the opportunity," with Madonna pointing out how that's enough to buy up 100% of Time-Warner-Sony, now that they're just about bankrupt. Elvis talks about how he had been waiting for the right time to return to the world and had never really considered the responsibility he had. Madonna says that they've stuck with him this long, and they aren't going to let him down now.

* [[BaldWomen Bald Woman]]: Sinéad O'Connor, of course, though she dons a blonde wig after her accidental HeelFaceTurn. See below under HollywoodScience.

** The MadScientist designs a chair for [[{{Brainwashed}} brainwashing]] Sinatra to make him want to "rock." Instead Sinéad gets caught in it, and finds herself singing Sinatra's "Come Fly with Me."

* XtremeKoolLetterz:
** There is a poster that has Sinatra's name as "[=Sinatraxx=]".
** Music/{{Prince}}, of course, to Sinéad after she accidentally gets converted to a Sinatra fan:

* AllStarCast: Elvis, Music/FrankSinatra, Music/{{Madonna}}, Music/MichaelJackson, Music/{{Prince}}, Sinéad O'Connor, Creator/StephenSondheim, Creator/AndrewLloydWebber, Music/RoyOrbison, Music/JohnLennon, Music/FrankZappa, Music/ElvisCostello, Mojo Nixon, Creator/SammyDavisJr, [[Music/GunsNRoses Axl Rose]], Creator/SpikeLee, [[Creator/DavidLetterman Paul Schaffer]], Regis Philbin, Music/JamesBrown, Music/PaulSimon, Creator/JodieFoster, Creator/SeanPenn, [[Series/EntertainmentTonight Mary Hart and John Tesh]], Sean Young, [[Series/{{Today}} Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric]]..... [[ItMakesSenseInContext And]] the disembodied, animate heads of Music/ColePorter and Col. Tom Parker.

* ShoutOut:

** (For the fourth one, see the bottom of this article.)

''Literature/AtlasShrugged'' [[RecycledINSPACE WITH GUITARS!]]

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Parker would never listen to Elvis's wishes about wanting to do something different.

** Elvis vs. Col. Tom.

* TheHero: Elvis, of course.

* '''ItMakesSenseInContext'''

* {{Oracular Head}}s

** Col. Tom and co. travel around in a ''Series/TheManFromUncle'' promotional blimp.

* AllStarCast: Elvis, Music/FrankSinatra, Music/{{Madonna}}, Music/MichaelJackson, Music/{{Prince}}, Sinéad O'Connor, Creator/StephenSondheim, Creator/AndrewLloydWebber, Music/RoyOrbison, Music/JohnLennon, Music/FrankZappa, Music/ElvisCostello, Mojo Nixon, Creator/SammyDavisJr, [[Music/GunsNRoses Axl Rose]], Creator/SpikeLee, [[Creator/DavidLetterman Paul Schaffer]], Regis Philbin, Music/JamesBrown, Creator/JodieFoster, Creator/SeanPenn, [[Series/EntertainmentTonight Mary Hart and John Tesh]], Sean Young, [[Series/{{Today}} Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric]]..... [[ItMakesSenseInContext And]] the disembodied, animate heads of Music/ColePorter and Col. Tom Parker.

** (For the third one, see the bottom of this article.)

* XtremeKoolLetterz: Music/{{Prince}}, of course, to Sinéad after she accidentally gets converted to a Sinatra fan:

** [[CableNewsNetwork [=CNN=]]]'s Wolf Blitzer is rendered as a wolf man named Wolf ''Blitzen.''

Patrick [=McCray=]'s 1993 three-part comic '''''Elvis Shrugged''''' is, of course, an AffectionateParody of Creator/AynRand's epic ''Literature/AtlasShrugged.'' The story targets the music industry and {{MTV}}, with the premise that the Music/ElvisPresley everyone ''thought'' had died in 1977 was actually a clone created by Presley's manager Col. Tom Parker, and that the ''real'' Elvis had gone into hiding and had convinced many other musicians to join him. Because so many quality musicians have disappeared, the recording industry, which has become a conglomerate called Time-Warner-Sony, has largely collapsed.

* TakeThat: To the music industry, which has combined into one MegaCorp, Time-Warner-Sony, and to {{MTV}}, who has transformed the StatueOfLiberty into the "Statue of Equality."

* TheBusCameBack: Sinéad essentially disappears from the story after her accidental face turn, which is explained by Creator/{{CBS}} News' Connie Chung announcing that she had escaped from her mental asylum.

* TheGoodGuysWin[=/=]HappyEnding:
** James Brown conducts the double-wedding ceremony for Elvis[=/=]Madonna and Sinatra[=/=]Sinéad. Sinatra says that he has some friends in the construction business who have been hired to rebuild the StatueOfLiberty (see below under TakeThat), and they are cutting Sinatra and co. a "sweet check for the opportunity," with Madonna pointing out how that's enough to buy up 100% of Time-Warner-Sony, now that they're just about bankrupt. Elvis talks about how he had been waiting for the right time to return to the world and had never really considered the responsibility he had. Madonna says that they've stuck with him this long, and they aren't going to let him down now.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: For the most part. Porter and Parker do both die.

* AllStarCast: Elvis, Music/FrankSinatra, Music/{{Madonna}}, Music/MichaelJackson, Music/{{Prince}}, Sinéad O'Connor, Creator/StephenSondheim, Creator/AndrewLloydWebber, Music/RoyOrbison, Music/JohnLennon, Music/FrankZappa, Music/ElvisCostello, Mojo Nixon, Creator/SammyDavisJr, [[Music/GunsNRoses Axl Rose]], Creator/SpikeLee, [[Creator/DavidLetterman Paul Schaffer]], Regis Philbin, Music/JamesBrown..... [[ItMakesSenseInContext And]] the disembodied, animate heads of Music/ColePorter and Col. Tom Parker.

** During the Sondheim-Lloyd Webber battle in the Reactor Room, with Lloyd Webber on the verge of victory, Sondheim says, "Face it Webber. This isn't [[Franchise/SherlockHolmes Richenbach Falls and you're far from being my Moriarty."]] (For the other one, see the end of this article.)

* XtremeKoolLetterz: Music/{{Prince}}'s one line, to Sinéad after she accidentally gets converted to a Sinatra fan:

* NoodleIncident: There is a page of Elvis' adventures while in hiding, which apparently included fighting space aliens.

-->--ArcWords[[note]]Also, the first line of dialogue.[[/note]]

** The chair that the MadScientist designs for [[{{Brainwashed brainwashing]] Sinatra to make him want to "rock." Instead Sinéad gets caught in it, and finds herself singing Sinatra's "Come Fly with Me."

-->--ArcWords

Patrick [=McCray=]'s 1993 three-part comic '''''Elvis Shrugged''''' is, of course, an AffectionateParody of Creator/AynRand's epic ''Literature/AtlasShrugged.'' The story targets the music industry and {{MTV}}, with the premise that the Music/ElvisPresley everyone ''thought'' had died in 1977 was actually a clone created by Presley's manager Col. Tom Parker, and that the ''real'' Elvis had gone into hiding and had convinced many other musicians to join him. Because so many quality musicians have disappeared, the recording industry, which has become a conglomerate called Time-Warner-Sony, has largely collapsed.

!!! Tropes featured in ''Elvis Shrugged'':

** TheChick: Madonna

** The chair that the MadScientist designs for {{Brainwashing}} Sinatra to make him want to "rock." Instead Sinéad gets caught in it, and finds herself singing Sinatra's "Come Fly with Me."

* ItMakesSenseInContext

** TheChick[=/=]TheHeart: Madonna