I wasn't sure exactly what that did, so I tried it with my "alien"
example and here's what happened:

Before selecting anything , the Automatic Removable (AR) filter showed nothing.
After marking alien for complete removal, AR showed alien for complete removal 
as well as listed the other eight dependant packages.
I could now easily mark them all for removal.

This is closer to what I was after, but there's still that manual step
between marking alien for removal and removing it and all its otherwise
unused dependencies.

The primary goal of my wishlist bug was to create a reverse of the
regular install sequence, so that you can mark a package for
installation and it also does that for its dependencies.  Perhaps if one
were to add an option when right-clicking a package "Mark for
autoremoval" to thus have Synaptic ask what apt-get autoremove would: if
we want to mark the other eight packages for removal too...

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[Wishlist] Removing software+dependencies currently much more difficult than 
installing them
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/122064
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