And Maria, of course, knew that. It's why she'd said 'Stark' and not Banner. The two were intellectually on the same level, but Banner was significantly less of a dick, despite his unfortunate tendency to turn into a big green wrecking machine. To be honest, when he wasn't causing havoc on her helicarrier (yes, it was her helicarrier even if she'd never say that to Fury), Hill actually liked the man.
"I didn't want to keep him in custody," she said. It was a simple statement, but it was clear enough from her tone what she'd wanted to do to the bastard. "They were discussing it the last I heard. I don't know that they will, even with the Avengers working out better than expected. Lots of damage, quite a few casualties." Her chest constricted a little at saying that. "Still, not much use to Phase II without the Tesseract. That went back with the Asgardians, too."