As Prof. David Lavery pointed out in his keynote address at the "Staking A Claim: Global Buffy and Local Identities" symposium, many of the demons Buffy faces sport European-inspired accents. On the surface, this can be recognized as a dyed-in-the-wool antagonism towards the Old World and an endemic if ambiguous American xenophobia. Sunnydale's location atop a Hellmouth adds complexity, since in a sense Buffy is putting up resistance to the demons' coming "home", even as human beings themselves, we are told in the first BtVS episode, are unwelcome usurpers to the original demon inhabitants of the planet. Similarly, the Thanksgiving episode "Pangs" (4.8) depicts Buffy wrestling with indecision as the Scoobies confront a Native American spirit of retribution with guilt, empathy, anger, and final annihilation. Buffy's status as Sunnydale's resident protector further complicates matters since she herself is displaced, a recent migrant from Los Angeles; both she and the demons represent outsiders in the community (cf. Cordelia's low opinion of Buffy's arrival – shared by Sunnydale's vampires -- through much of Season 1). Such underpinnings of the Buffyverse thus display a natural resonance with various strains of post-colonial theory. This paper proposes to apply such tenets to tease out the uneasy if often latent subtexts surrounding Buffy's role and residence in Sunnydale, as well as broader post-colonial questions of identity, nationalism and place, with reference for example to Buffy's (ever waning and eventually ridiculed) identification with mall culture as emblematic of a capitalist imposition on the landscape, and Hami Bhabha's recollection of Fanon's "politics of narcissism" as a means of understanding colonial psychology.