History Main / ElvisHasLeftThePlanet

* The film ''Film/DeathBecomesHer'' holds Elvis to be an immortal who faked his own death.
* As ''[[Film/BubbaHotep Bubba Ho-tep]]'' explains, the Elvis who died wasn't the ''real'' one.

* In an interesting inversion (sort of), during the GoodTimesMontage in ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}'', an interviewer asks Ray, "How is Elvis, and have you seen him lately?"
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* In ''Literature/GoodOmens'', [[{{Death}} a mysterious stranger]] is taking an electronic pub quiz game. When the game asks when Elvis Presley died, the stranger remarks "'''[[AC:I don't care what anyone says, I never touched him.]]'''"
** He's alive and working in a "Burger Lord", probably, still singing "Hound Dog".

* ''Literature/OddThomas'': Though he ''is'' dead, Odd frequently interacted with Elvis' ''ghost'', because he was [[UnfinishedBusiness unable to move on]] until the events of ''Brother Odd''.

* An episode of ''The Chronicle'' implies that Elvis faked his death after discovering a cult of Elvis-impersonating vampires used him to further their goals and devoted his life to becoming a vampire hunter.
** Then the episode throws in a twist at the end, suggesting that the hunter isn't Elvis, but his (presumed) stillborn twin, Jesse Garon.
* In ''Series/EerieIndiana'', Elvis ran the local malt shop.
** And he's on the protagonist's paper route.
** At one point the protagonist's younger brother finds an Elvis lamp and wonders why someone would have a lamp that looks like a guy on the paper route.

* This is the premise of ''ElvisAndSlickMonty'', only Elvis escaped, wound up in AnotherDimension, befriended an anthropomorphic fly named Slick, and returned to Earth with him. [[spoiler:The finale ends with him re-captured.]]

* The Swedish series Vintergatan (The Milky Way) has an ElvisImposter named Melvis... except he takes offense at this, as he's met Elvis himself just a year ago(which would be the year 2000), and that Elvis is overweight(Melvis is not). Melvis actor was 60 years old.

* ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'': The series got close enough by giving Elvis an alien brother.

* Another Marvel example: in the final issue of ''SecretInvasion'', multiple characters who had been replaced by Skrulls were recovered and returned to Earth. And, yes, in a throw-away gag, Elvis was amongst them.

* RobotChicken did a skit where aliens replaced Music/MichaelJackson (who still had black skin) with a white look-alike to take over the world [[MissingStepsPlan somehow.]]

Playing Franchise/{{Halo}} with ET

Playing halo with ET

* On ''{{Sliders}}'' the team landed on a world where Native!Rembrandt Brown had died (and enjoyed Elvis-level popularity); Rembrandt planned to stay on that Earth, "return from the dead" and have a musical career. Then they discovered that Native!Rembrandt had faked his death, but due to the resurgent popularity ensuing from Rembrandt's activities decided to come back himself.

* ''{{Sanctuary}}'': "Elvis isn't dead, he's just... never mind."
* The Swedish series Vintergatan(The Milky Way) has an ElvisImposter named Melvis... except he takes offense at this, as he's met Elvis himself just a year ago(which would be the year 2000), and that Elvis is overweight(Melvis is not). Melvis actor was 60 years old.

* In the ''{{Outernet}}'' series of books, the main characters meet a far older, far fatter Elvis performing on an alien planet.
* RobertRankin'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.)

* ''OddThomas'': Though he ''is'' dead, Odd frequently interacted with Elvis' ''ghost'', because he was [[UnfinishedBusiness unable to move on]] until the events of ''Brother Odd''.

* In ''LegoRockBand'', it's not Elvis, but rather [[{{Queen}} Freddie Mercury]] who joins aliens in abducting your band's bassist.

* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' - Dracula has TupacShakur, the real PaulMcCartney, and the real MichaelJackson on his moon base. Elvis is there, but Dracula laments, annoyed, that he [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p20 doesn't do shit.]] He also has UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, but he doesn't sing, and [[spoiler:BruceLee]], who [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower jumped to the moon]].

* RobotChicken did a skit where aliens replaced MichaelJackson (who still had black skin) with a white look-alike to take over the world [[MissingStepsPlan somehow.]]

* Elvis ''is'' dead in the Creator/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.]]

* 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.

* 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 TheBermudaTriangle is that "Elvis needs boats!"

Music/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 The Dead}} 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 sheer passage of time; he was born in 1935), but the media continues to utilize, poke fun at and abuse the general idea.

* In ''Halloween Harry'' (a.k.a ''Alien Carnage''), Elvis is the leader of the alien fleet, and the last boss.
* Possibly poked at in ''PerfectDark'' with [[TheGreys Maian Protector One]], who insists that the humans call him Elvis.

* An episode of ''EekTheCat'' involving AlienAbduction featured a brief shot of Elvis among some captives in PeopleJars.

* Elvis shows up briefly in a talent competition in one episode of ''RexTheRunt'', and gets beamed up before he can finish his act.

** Some of the ending {{Couch Gag}}s feature the Warners saying "good night" to each other, ''TheWaltons''-style. One variation ended with:

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vrW6yJaqnM An episode]] of ''GarfieldAndFriends'' had a network asking for a photo of Bigfoot ''with Elvis'', since Bigfoot pictures are so common that are worthless. As Jon walks away, lamenting on his failed photographer career, Elvis asks him what time it us... and only after he goes do Jon and his pets realise who it was.
* In one episode of ''FairlyOddParents'' Elvis is shown to live in a secret underground kingdom at the Dimsdale beach.

* ''BikerMiceFromMars'': The series got close enough by giving Elvis an alien brother.

* Back when SaddamHussein was still at large, a common theme in political cartoons was to suggest that he was hanging out with Elvis. One cartoon threw in OsamaBinLaden:

* In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' - Dracula has TupacShakur, the real PaulMcCartney, and the real MichaelJackson on his moon base. Elvis is there, but Dracula laments, annoyed, that he [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/11p20 doesn't do shit.]] He also has AdolfHitler, but he doesn't sing, and [[spoiler:BruceLee]], who [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower jumped to the moon]].

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* RayStevens' song ''I Saw Elvis in a UFO'' centers on the concept of Elvis' abduction.

-->I hope they bring back Elvis
-->Cause how crazy would that be?
-->I know he's up there somewhere
-->Playing halo with ET
* MichaelJackson seems to have rumors like this now.

* Subverted in that it's not elvis but ''Buddy Holly Is Alive And Well On Ganymede''.

** Let's 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 needs to reread the Armageddon trilogy...

* The film ''DeathBecomesHer'' holds Elvis to be an immortal who faked his own death.

* The trope name is dropped in the Cheesecake (not [[FanService that kind]], the food!) episode of ''GoodEats''.

* Tupac seems to have rumors like this now.
** And Michael Jackson.

* RobotChicken did a skit where aliens replaced MichaelJackson (who still had black skin) with a white look-alike to take over the world [[StepThreeProfit somehow.]]

* 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, [[CameBackWrong so he isn't quite right in the head anymore]]...

* In EerieIndiana, Elvis ran the local malt shop.

** Before that it a variant was used on ''HomicideLifeOnTheStreet''. [[JustForFun/JohnMunch Munch]] asks Bolander what kind of music he likes, and Bolander grudgingly admits to liking Elvis. Munch responds, "The man's left the planet."