One could argue that, but it would be a weak one. I mean, Tony sent Bruce away. The result of that was the destruction of the peace Bruce had finally found, as well as an entire planet's inhabitants. On the other hand, Peter made a bad decision based on Tony's influence and May got shot. I'm not discounting Peter's situation, but it pretty much pales in comparison to Bruce's.
It is a "chicken or egg" thing with Hulk. He's fluctuated between peaceful and rampaging before. Cho and some of the Renegades see him through rose colored glasses, something Pak has hinted at for a while. The Hulk spent years as "the Professor" working for Pantheon and being an otherwise stable hero. But eventually it ends and he becomes more savage. He'd just busted up Vegas for whatever reason and the Illuminati acted.
That said, yeah, they were manipulative and haphazard about it. Mr. Fantastic has gone into space about a million times by now, and almost half the time, something unexpected happened that caused the ship to divert course or blow up or whatever. Surely out of all of them, he should have been the one who said, "Look, just tricking Bruce onto a rocket and waving him farewell isn't going to cut it." Of course, then we'd have no story, and then we get back to CW ground where story takes priority over what makes sense for a character to do or say.
The problem is nothing works with the Hulk. He never stays stable for long. Even if he hasn't killed anyone directly who wasn't bad, he has still caused millions if not billions in damages, lost business revenue (is there "Hulk Insurance" in Marvel?), and endangered people. Nothing seems to be able to contain or defeat the Hulk for long and so the best people have sort of managed to do is banish him and buy some time of peace. Even if you "left him alone", someone always bothers him, some enemy, some fluke of circumstance, and Hulk is unleashed. Hulk is almost like Lobo in terms of unkillability, or ability to surpass any superpower or technique with sheer brute force. He all but INVENTED that.
I'm not saying Hulk hasn't gone through the emotional crapshoot and has justification to be pissed. He does. But what I am saying is, the Illuminati were argueably more justified in shooting Hulk into space based on what had happened with him in the present and past, vs. essentially criminalizing half the superhero community out of a fear to tell the American public what it doesn't want to hear and stalling what MIGHT have happened but HADN'T in terms of harsher gov't response (if "the will of the people" was always right, we'd still have slaves and segregation. One iconic line I remember from a Stanley Ibson play I read for school:
"The majority is NEVER right."). The last time Marvel Congress passed a law amazingly similar to the SHRA during the ACTS OF VENGEANCE storyline, it was defeated. Iron Man seemed to personally befriend Peter and use both job, home, and armor as bribes to make him his obedient toad. Then he turned around and oversaw some of his worst enemies getting badges to bring him in. It feels more personal.
Remember, the explosion that destroyed Sakaar hasn't been PROVEN to have been deliberately set by the Illuminati. Even if it was a malfunction of the ship and nothing more, they were negligent, not directly responsible. The stuff that Iron Man did during CW he did of his own accord. I think that is a bit of a difference.
That said, any comic that promises a Stark beating seems to get the fans all a flutter.
