Pepe Le Pew, the controversial french skunk from Looney Tunes, will not be appearing in Space Jam: A New Legacy after his scene was cut.

Sometimes, as an artist, you lose control over your own creation, and that appears to be what happened to underground cartoonist Matt Furie, whose saw his beloved comic creation Pepe the Frog co-opted by white supremacists and used online as a grotesque political pawn. As outlined in the trailer for the colorful documentary Feels Good Man, it was November 2016, and a nasty election cycle had exposed a seismic cultural rift -- one that was even more surreal for Furie given the way Pepe was being employed on social media. Furie conceived of Pepe the Frog more than a decade …