The Paradox Pearl is a cursed gemstone that plays a major antagonistic role in the eponymous 1997 segment "Awfully Lucky" of Cartoon Network's What a Cartoon!. An obnoxious man named Luther finds the Paradox Pearl, a mysterious item that worth $10 million, and that, according to legend, gives its holder good luck. However, the pearl comes with a catch, every bit of very magnificently good luck it brings, is followed by a bit of tremendously bad luck. When the pearl's former owner, an wealthy but distraught, elderly multimillionaire named Mr. Thornsworth throws it away to the ocean at the pier, the ignorant Luther, hearing the how much the Paradox Pearl worth to any city museum that is willing to pay for it's acquisition from Thornsworth's chauffeur on a phone, swam and chased after the pre