Jensen Ackles page on TVtropes…
“He’s one of those actors where you can throw anything at him from an acting challenge point of view; you can shoot him, tie him up, torture him, dumb him down, make him all bloody and bruised, wring the emo from him and generally have him flung against a hard, inanimate object nearly every episode and he’ll eat it up with a spoon and knock it out of the park every damn time.”