History Main / ElvisHasLeftThePlanet

* In ''Mostly Harmless'', the fifth book in the ''[=~The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy~=]'' series, Elvis (who is never explicitly identified, but it's obvious) is the bar singer at the Domain of (who else?) The King Bar & Grill. He says he wasn't actually abducted by aliens; he went of his own accord.

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-->-- ''MenInBlack''

ElvisPresley's death shocked millions of people. Many of these were so shocked that, rather than simply believe he had died, they decided that something was up -- that he was faking, like Roy Orbison, or that he had been abducted by aliens, or that he ''was'' an alien himself, or any of a million different explanations. Today, we (or at least most of us) understand that Elvis is dead (if only by the sheer passage of time), but the media continues to utilize, poke fun at and abuse the general idea.

* In [[EarthwormJim Earthworm Jim 3D]], Elvis is kidnapped by aliens ''just'' so their leader can use him as part of a burger.

* An episode of ''[=~Eek! The Cat~=]'' involving AlienAbduction featured a brief shot of Elvis among some captives in PeopleJars.

* In an episode of ''{{Animaniacs}}'', the Warner siblings are taken aboard an alien spaceship. Yakko Warner briefly sees Elvis playing cards with Amelia Earhart, Bigfoot and Jimmy Hoffa. Yakko says "A lot of people are looking for you guys!", gets kicked out by Elvis and then goes off to see the rest of the ship. It's a throwaway gag, as Elvis and company aren't seen again in that episode.
** Some of the ending {{Couch Gag}}s feature the Warners saying "good night" to each other, ''Waltons''-style. One variation ended with:

* In ''TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' - Dracula has Tupac, the real Paul [=McCartney=], and the real Michael Jackson on his moon base. Elvis is there, but Dracula laments, annoyed, that he [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p20 doesn't do shit.]]

* As ''[[BubbaHotep Bubba Ho-tep]]'' explains, the Elvis who dies wasn't the ''real'' one.

* In ''GrandTheftAutoIII'', if you examine the newspapers on the ground, you can see that the headlines read, 'Zombie Elvis Found'.

* On the other hand, ''TheSookieStackhouseMysteries'' holds that 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...

* The song ''Elvis is Everywhere'' by Mojo Nixon is based around the precept, and goes so far as to state that the cause of the mysterious phenomena attributed to the Bermuda Triangle is that "Elvis needs boats!"

* In ''TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' - Dracula has Tupac, the real Paul [=McCartney=], and the real Michael Jackson on his moon base, and they make beautiful music together. Elvis is there, but Dracula laments, annoyed, that he [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p20 doesn't do shit.]]

* In ''TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' - Dracula has Tupac, the real Paul [=McCartney=], and the real Michael Jackson on his moon base, and they make beautiful music together. Elvis is there, but Dracula laments, annoyed, that he [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p20 doesn't do ''shit.'']]

* In ''TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' - Dracula has Tupac, the real Paul [=McCartney=], and the real Michael Jackson on his moon base, and they make beautiful music together. Elvis is there, but Dracula laments, annoyed, that he [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p20]doesn't do ''shit.'']

* In ''TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' - Dracula has Tupac, the real Paul [=McCartney=], and the real Michael Jackson on his moon base, and they make beautiful music together. Elvis is there, but Dracula laments, annoyed, that he doesn't do ''shit.''

** A non-Elvis related example. In the Marvel Universe TheBeatles were replaced by Skrulls to influence Earth Pop culture but they decided they like Earth better than the Skrull empire. Amazingly all of them were alive into the 21st Century, only for three of them (except Skrull John who got killed by enemy Skrulls beforehand) to be tortured and killed by the British government at the start of ''Secret Invaison''.
* At one point in {{Preacher}}, Jesse is driving alone late at night and picks up a hitch-hiker, who is strongly implied to be Elvis, WalkingTheEarth.

* ''GoodOmens'' has a BrickJoke 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 [[FootnoteFever 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 [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse 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 [[AC:DEATH]] when the trivia game asks him "What year did Elvis Presley die in?" and he refuses to answer, saying, [[AC:I DON'T CARE WHAT IT SAYS, I NEVER LAID A FINGER ON HIM.]]

** Finally, there's a scene in which a mysterious stranger is playing an arcade trivia game. The stranger reveals himself to be [[AC:DEATH]] when the trivia game asks him "What year did Elvis Presley die in?" and he refuses to answer, saying [[AC:I DON'T CARE WHAT IT SAYS, I NEVER LAID A FINGER ON HIM.]]

* ''GoodOmens'' holds him to be working at a Burger Lord in Des Moines, Iowa.
** Doubly confirmed on the trivia machine, where [[spoiler:Death refuses to answer a question about the date of Elvis's death because 'I DON'T CARE WHAT IT SAYS, I NEVER LAID A FINGER ON HIM'.]]

--> ''MenInBlack''

{{Elvis Presley}}'s death shocked millions of people. Many of these were so shocked that, rather than simply believe he had died, they decided that something was up -- that he was faking, like Roy Orbison, or that he had been abducted by aliens, or that he ''was'' an alien himself, or any of a million different explanations. Today, we (or at least most of us) understand that Elvis is dead (if only by the sheer passage of time), but the media continues to utilize, poke fun at and abuse the general idea.

If he's still on Earth rather than in space, it's a case of ElvisLives.

* The "gonzo" sci-fi collection ''Alien Pregnant by Elvis'' is full of stories that involve this trope in various ways. The stories are all supposed to be evocative of tabloid stories, SoYeah.

* An episode of ''[=~Eek! The Cat~=]'' involving AlienAbduction featured a brief shot of Elvis among some captives in PeopleTubes.

* Robert Rankin's ''Armageddon! The Musical'' trilogy reveals that Elvis faked his death, but how and why would take a lot of explaining. (Really. Part of it involves a talking vegetable, and that's the relatively sane part.)

** Lets be clear: it's a talking, ''time travelling'' vegetable. That, if this troper remembers rightly, spends its time stuffed in his ear, and has an evil twin. Or possibly is the evil twin. He really need to reread the armageddon trilogy...

* One fantasy story [[ManCalledTrue this editor]] read (but no longer recalls the title of) had Elvis as a prince of the elves (his name was apparently ''not'' supposed to be a pun) who came to Earth so that he could indulge his musical side. The Elvis that got fat, grew addicted to drugs and died was an artificial copy fueled by magic to cover Elvis's return home.
* Elvis ''is'' dead in the StephenKing short story "Rock-and-Roll Heaven". He is, however, still on the planet in a small town off the beaten path, where he is mayor over a town full of dead musicians and a few hapless locals, who never get older, never die, and can never leave. [[spoiler: One wonders if MichaelJackson gave him a run for his money in the last election.]]