The villains of Marvel (II)

The question that arises when we think of consistency is how to apply it when we are writing. One of the easiest ways for me to do that, is going back to previous scenes and reshape them if necessary. When I write an important scene and there is some key element that appears for the first time, it is a clear signal that I must go back in the story and introduce that element so that when the reader comes to this important scene, that key element will be familiar. That's what Marvel does, villains don't just come out of nowhere. They have been introduced before, sometimes more than once. That's what we should try to do in our novels, leaving clues throughout the story so that the reader feels, when the climax arrives, that everything was there, in front of him the whole time. All those important elements were presented before and now it makes sense then that the outcome happens in the way it does.