Online cartoon character Pepe the Frog, who made his debut in 2005, appears to have been killed off by its creator in a bid to stop his image being hijacked by right-wing groups. Pepe's creator, Matt Furie, over the weekend depicted the frog in a coffin, mourned by other members of his Boy's Club cartoon strip. Furie recently complained that “a chilled frog” had become a “hate” symbol. Pepe has recently been depicted as Adolf Hitler and as a member of the Ku Klux Klan. The Alt-Right has repeatedly shared Pepe memes on social media. Furie lamented in a recent article for Time magazine that it was a nightmare that his “blissfully stoned... peaceful frog-dude” in Boy's Club - who enjoyed “a simple life of snacks, soda and pulling his pants all the way down to go pee” - was now being used as a…