Elvis Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), also called the King of Rock 'n' Roll and Elvis the Pelvis, was an American rock 'n' roll, country, and gospel singer, who appears in Black Dynamite.
Description[]
Elvis as he appears in the series is morbidly obese, with an obvious double chin, and dark hair that is coiffed up with large sideburns. He's shown dressing in a white jumpsuit with an oversized collar, a large gold belt with a crown on the buckle, and copious amounts of gold jewelry. Personality wise, he's a fast-talkin', pill-poppin' hillbilly who spends his days in a hedonistic blur gorging on unhealthy food, abusing prescription drugs, and generally being a bloated parody of his slim, sexy former self.
History[]
Early Life and Career[]
Growing up in Mississippi and Tennessee, Elvis was inspired by local musicians, especially black gospel and R&B singers. He was especially influenced by Chuck Berry, a prominent early black rock 'n' roll singer. White audiences and record companies were more receptive to Elvis than his black predecessors, however, allowing him to achieve mainstream popularity and become one of the most successful musicians of all time.
As a result of his fame and fortune, he soon developed an unhealthy lifestyle filled with culinary abominations and abuse of prescription drugs. Ironically, he was strongly opposed to illegal drug culture.
Events of the Series[]
After President Richard Nixon's scheme to flood the black community with cheap cocaine and heroin backfires when they start selling all the drugs to white people, Elvis meets with the President to express his opposition to the drug epidemic ravaging white America. After seeing how unhealthy Elvis is, Nixon and Henry Kissinger come up with a plan: send Elvis into the black community, where he'll inevitably wind up dead (whether from his own health or by pissing the wrong people off), and they can wipe out the black community for good. Nixon makes Elvis an honorary DEA Agent and names him the leader of "Operation Ghetto Blaster."
Elvis and a team of DEA Agents show up at the black community's drug money-funded block party. Tasty Freeze mistakes him for a customer and offers him some drugs, prompting Elvis to pin him against the wall and perform an invasive strip-search. Black Dynamite confronts him, prompting Elvis to challenge him to a fight. However, Elvis's karate skills are no match for Black Dynamite's Kung Fu, and Black Dynamite relentlessly slaps Elvis with his own hand while chastising him for how far he's fallen. Elvis has an epiphany about how much the black community has done for him and his career, renounces his support for Tricky Dick, and pledges to make amends to the black community.
After performing a musical number of his ("All Fucked Up"), he goes to Roscoe's Spongecakes and Chitlin's and makes himself a peanut butter, bacon, pancake batter, butter, and banana sandwich, which he eats and promptly causes him to keel over and drop dead. Black Dynamite, Honeybee, Bullhorn, and Cream Corn load Elvis's body into his car and drive him back to Graceland mansion so they can make it look like they died at home. After stopping at a gas station, they bring his body into the bathroom, but when the gas station's redneck owners get suspicious, Bee and Cream Corn slide inside the back of Elvis's jumpsuit and puppet his body to make it look like he's still alive. The jumpsuit tears, revealing the ruse, and a chase scene full of hijinks ensues.
Black Dynamite and his crew break into Elvis's mansion and leave him on the toilet in his master bedroom, when Richard Nixon bursts in and catches them in the act. Elvis's body lets out an obnoxiously loud bowel movement, seemingly reviving him, and he walks out of the bathroom, confused at why there are "strange colored folk" in his house. He explains that he's previously gone through this before: eating so much that he falls into a food coma for hours or days, then shitting so hard he wakes himself.
Trivia[]
- In real life, Elvis was always very aware of the roots of his music and publicly credited the black artists who inspired him, even going as far as saying that Fats Domino was "the real king of rock 'n' roll" instead of him. Nonetheless, he is still symbolic of black rock and blues artists throughout the 20th century being passed over in favor of their white contemporaries.